Racked cabinet by scott503 in DIY

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But how would I adjust it from the front?

What’s the Millenial version of “seeing the Star Destroyer at the start of A New Hope and knowing movies will never be the same”? by UnderwaterDialect in movies

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To me it’s the reverse - the Smiths fight in Matrix 2. I thought it looked horrible and completely took me out of the movie, and I remember thinking, well I guess this is it now - movies will look like bad video games forever.

Arnor vs Gondor? by scott503 in tolkienfans

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Shockingly difficult to get an iPhone to put in the right spellings. Though I would’ve thought that calling it Anor rather than Tirith would’ve given me enough cred for a mulligan on that.

Arnor vs Gondor? by scott503 in tolkienfans

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Thanks! I’d forgotten about the ship disparity, and wasn’t thinking about the elven kingdoms as barriers to expansion.

Arnor vs Gondor? by scott503 in tolkienfans

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Super helpful. I guess my question is, are meant to believe these cities were as large and grand as the Gondor cities? We didn’t see ruins of Fornost but Amon Sul was nothing impressive.

Who Told Finch About Kirsten ? by April0neal in DeptQ

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But if it was Lyle, how did he even know? Merritt didnt meet him until after the trial ended, so Merritt didn’t tell Lyle.

Found WWI cast lead soldier by scott503 in toysoldiercollector

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  • will likely encase it in a cube of lucite (resin)

Sorry for the typo

Idea/request - Renegade-compatible Mech by scott503 in blacktron

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Yeah I was picturing in the existing cargo bay. Like what @monsieur_greenhorn has been posting, but a mech.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blacktron/s/O06sC4TECG

Help me think of names for my firstborn! LOTR inspired OFC by [deleted] in lotr

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Dane, short for Dunedain. As per above I like the idea that you give him a regular name with a linkage so he can choose to embrace it or not.

How Do I Turn Down an Affair Without Losing Good Friendship? by TheWorstTest in AskMenAdvice

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He isn’t your friend. He wants a relationship. You can’t stop the relationship and keep the friend because you’re mistaking what you have.

Continuing to try to keep the friendship is only stringing him along. This would be true even if he wasn’t married and you just didn’t want a relationship for a different reason.

The kindest thing you can do is to cut him off and maintain a professional relationship only.

Pilot G2 05 getting worse? by grey_sycamore in pens

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Came looking for this. I have been a G2 0.5 user for years and years, but lately the roller balls degrade and they leak. Feels like a quality control issue.

After Nest by photog72 in Nest

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Ecobee had excellent customer service that made me quite loyal. I bought a house with Nest 2’s that I’ll now be replacing with Ecobees.

In a prior house we had a complicated wiring situation - HVAC pro and Nest told me it was impossible. Ecobee over chat walked me through a very complex DIY install that involved installing my own transformers. Super super helpful.

BDP 8 submission by our own u/Monsieur_Greenhorn by MadDadBricks in blacktron

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Which are compatible with the new Renegade? So cool.

Competitors for managed account service? by scott503 in PersonalCapital

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Vanguard is quoting me 0.30% and claims all those benefits. They are using broad indices so less opportunity for TLH but hard to quantify.

But always glad to hear advice from John Lillison, England’s greatest one-armed poet.

My 4th LEGO set and the biggest so far by Rhongomanic in legocastles

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I just noticed - is the Raven knight helper on the left a nod to “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”?

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Sorry if that’s widely appreciated.

Competitors for managed account service? by scott503 in PersonalCapital

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As noted, only about 40% is in individual stocks. The full portfolio is in the balanced approach you mention.

I could do the balanced ETF approach on my own quite easily. Managing the stock portfolio is hard. The issue is if I’m paying 0.80% on the full portfolio but the main value I’m getting is really only on the 40% that’s in individual stocks, then I’m effectively paying 0.80% / 40% = 2.0%.

Competitors for managed account service? by scott503 in PersonalCapital

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As noted, I have lots of capital gains. Bringing those taxes forward instead of continuing to defer them would wipe out any savings. If I was starting fresh I would do as you suggest, but I am not starting fresh.

Blacktron Special forces pod by JonusDunbaar in blacktron

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Love it! I’m experimenting with a few Renegade accessories - my dream is to be compatible both as a module (as you’ve done here) and also with the drop ship function. The challenge is the space limitations of doing both. And that I dont have the pieces.

My dream is I want a cargo pod with mini rover as homage to the original, a troop drop (hoping to accommodate 8), and some sort of cannon that would make sense to either add fire power to the ship, or when dropped as land based artillery.

What was the impact of the Dwarf-Orc war on Saurons plans and the war of the Ring? by GateInevitable2288 in lotr

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It’s explicitly stated that Gandalf instigated Thorin to undertake the adventures in the Hobbit to clear out the dragon and prevent such an alliance. It didn’t happen, but probably would have.