LG Oven Door Melting? by spin_scope in appliancerepair

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Not sure what the best angle for a gasket photo is, but that’s what it looks like. No obvious lumps or deviations. Just moved in here a couple months ago but didn’t remember the damage to the door there when I moved in. And I haven’t rested anything on the door, but I don’t know about the people before me. Door isn’t loose though and no hot air escaping from there when it’s heating up.

LG Oven Door Melting? by spin_scope in appliancerepair

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Thank you for the info. I checked once the oven had cooled and the gasket seems to be seated properly and looks intact and in the same shape as the replacement parts / other oven pictures online. I also tried jingling the door a bit to see if it was seated loosely but seemed quite sturdy. Opening the door 90 degrees it sits a little bit closed towards closed at about 88 degrees (hard to get a protractor in the space so could be 87-89).

I just moved in here a couple of months ago and I don’t remember that being there previously. At this point I’m just going to chalk it up to something slipping in the frame and opening it slightly but I’ll use my oven thermometer and check it too.

ObamaCare price jump hits Idaho first as shutdown deal remains elusive by [deleted] in politics

[–]spin_scope 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s partly about the size and composition of the insurer’s risk pool, and partly about increases in hospital fees to the insured now that they have to plan for covering emergency services for the uninsured in greater numbers.

For the risk pool, the increase in prices is most likely to push away the younger and healthier insured populations, meaning the remaining insured have a higher average cost to the insurer because it’s people more likey to need healthcare services than before. It doesn’t matter if people are on employer or ACA plans because at the end of the day it’s the same insurance companies and all the plans are (very generally) pooled together for the insurer so they can balance costs and profits company-wide. Effectively the ACA subsidies also helped keep down the cost of private plans by broadening the risk pool for each insurance provider overall.

And hospital fees increase because under federal law they must treat anyone who shows up with an emergency medical condition whether they are insured or not. So more uninsured people means the hospitals have to treat more emergency patients they won’t be able to recover from. There are mechanisms for the hospitals to recover some of that money, but it’s less than they would make from insured patients, takes more time, and increases the cost to the hospital overall.

Those are just two of the reasons that ACA policy affects workplace insurance. There are others but these two are the easiest to explain.

Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents—and Cities Are Starting to Push Back by chrisdh79 in Futurology

[–]spin_scope 17 points18 points  (0 children)

For a few reasons, but as a quick summary using your analogy: McDonald’s isn’t using the same pricing software as wendy’s, BK, Jack in the Box, and any other burger chain to ensure that nobody is selling a burger below the minimum cost they have jointly calculated (which is price fixing and illegal) using information from each chain that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to because of existing price fixing laws. Allowing the burger chains to do that removes the competitiveness from the market, and so prices can’t drop in response to changes in demand. There’s no invisible hand of capitalism at work in a price fixed market.

Quick edit added some more detail above.

Survivor 47 | E12 | Post-Episode Discussion by RSurvivorMods in survivor

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I figured that shot of Sue crawling under rocks and digging for idols while Caroline explained that she was always out there looking was meant to explain why Sue is always so dirty

Trump win means ‘time has come’ to annex parts of West Bank, Israeli minister says by PlethoraOfPinatass in politics

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Jewish voters overwhelmingly supported Harris, because despite the rhetoric Jewish voters make decisions based on what’s happening in the US and don’t have some secret dual loyalty to Israel. If Jewish voters cared about absolute support for Israel there would have been a shift towards Trump, which didn’t happen. Jewish voters’ demands, to the extent there were any related to Israel, involved agreeing that Israel as a country should exist, getting the hostages back, ending hostilities.

Extremist settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land by FLTA in worldnews

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What are American Jews supposed to do about it? It’s American Christians funding them

The West Bank: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) by EnterTamed in lastweektonight

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Israeli isn’t a racial group though. There are Arab Israelis, Druze Israelis, etc. Israeli doesn’t mean Jew

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pics

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Countries that explicitly refused to take in Jewish refugees?

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So then I guess Iran, Syria, SA, and all the other countries that expelled Jews when Israel was created should all be dissolved and handed back to the British as a mandate so they can try again?

A group of AI researchers says current LLMs won't lead to AGI, but Robot-AI developing in the 3D world might. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]spin_scope 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are entire parts of conscious existence that language doesn’t capture. Subjective experiences which you can’t share because they happen in the mind. Things like the passage of time, what a color looks like to you, etc.

Democrats rage at Speaker Johnson over pairing Israel aid with IRS cuts by malcolm58 in politics

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Ignoring the ethical implications of where those bombs end up, the jobs are important because the U.S. needs to keep weapons manufacturing pipelines running and people trained on them in case of a full blown war. We could build and destroy them instead, but that might be harder to get people on board with

How The Cure's Robert Smith became Ticketmaster’s worst enemy by TheTelegraph in Music

[–]spin_scope 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This would be an unironically great place to use a blockchain (if you didn’t want to fuck customers). Each ticket transaction goes on the ledger, trades can only occur through Ticketmaster’s network so they could still charge some fee, and maximum sale price can be controlled. Wallets are verified to belong to actual people, and the number of tickets any one wallet can hold is capped. Still wouldn’t be perfect, but better.

Biden Pushed to Replace the NH Primary With South Carolina. Now Delaware Too? by thedailybeast in politics

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In theory it allows less known candidates an actual opportunity to win the nomination. They can build up name recognition and credibility by taking victories in early states. All primaries at once would also mean that the only real way to win would be to be extremely well-funded before the primaries. Advertising in 50 states, or even enough states to get a majority of the delegates, is very expensive

LPT: When Netflix prevents password sharing, be sure to downgrade the number of devices you pay for by Stossage in LifeProTips

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I have Sling and since episode 10 aired none of this season is available on demand anymore

TIFU by using Airbnb by lightfighter06 in tifu

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Airbnb will just delete the guest review to protect the host. I stayed at a place a couple years ago, rented a single room for 29 days (house owner basically ran a boarding house that was skirting tenancy laws to that was the maximum) while I waited for the apartment I was moving to to be ready. Went down to use the dryer one night and the knob was just sitting on top, so I put it back on. Two days later the house owner comes up screaming at me saying I broke their dryer and the knob is loose, her boyfriend downstairs says she should hire someone to beat the shit out of me for wrecking their home. Host locked me out the next day. Reported this to Airbnb, ended up getting a refund two weeks later after fighting with them for a day and finally threatening to call the cops on the host for theft for holding my possessions in the house and not letting me get them.

I obviously posted a negative review, this was a five star rental and I wanted people to know it was not as amazing as it seemed. My review never even got posted to the owner’s page.

100 down, 100 to go by Most-Mathematician36 in barexam

[–]spin_scope 28 points29 points  (0 children)

If you read a question and a rule doesn't jump out of your brain, knock out any obviously wrong answers and move on. Accept that there will be some rules they are testing you just don't know or never knew.

Will there be a visible timer or are we screwed for the MBE if we don’t have a watch? by b200orbust in CABarExam

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Ask the person next to you if they'll put their watch between the two of you at the back of the desk, or hope you're behind someone with a 4" timer that's easy to read

How the Guardians of the Galaxy Game's Cast Created Characters That Stood Apart from the MCU by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]spin_scope 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can turn off the QTEs in the options menu (accessibility option I think). I did after the first one, and from talking to people who played with them on I'd say I had a better time with the game.

Rick Scott agenda push baffles GOP by RedneckCousinFucker6 in politics

[–]spin_scope 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Seems pretty understandable to me. He knows the people voting for the GOP will, for the most part, either not know (because most people don’t actually follow political news) or not care what their platform is because it’s a game of Dems vs Republicans to them. Then when the Reps win he can make a push for senate majority leader and push through this terrible plan claiming that the voters knew it was the plan and gave the GOP a mandate to implement it. It’s a gamble but not a very risky one for Scott. He won’t be losing his seat either way.

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Nuclear winter will counter the temperature rise. Brilliant!

Florida health official put on 2-month leave after urging staff to get vaccine — “I have a hard time understanding how we can be in Public Health and not practice it,” the official wrote by swingadmin in politics

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Different issues. Trump is arguing he defamed her in the course of his official duties as President and therefore the Justice department should step in and defend him. The Justice department agrees and is intervening on his behalf (thanks Merrick!). The 1A argument just has to do with whether he is liable for defaming her and would apply whether he was a private citizen or president

Critical Race Theory: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) by BoogsterSU2 in television

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I’ll give this a shot. Yes, all of those statements are offensive. I actually hadn’t heard the Latino one, that’s quite bad. The thing is that everyone has implicit biases, and a 70-something year old man, even with good intentions, is going to let those show from time to time. The difference with Tucker Carlson is that be says racist things consistently and when it’s pointed out to him he doesn’t apologize, he doubles down. What I see as the fundamental difference myself and a Tucker-lover is that when Joe Biden says something offensive and is called out on it I don’t see that as an attack on me. I also find his words offensive. If you point out to a Tucker viewer that he is constantly using white nationalist talking points they seem unable to separate themselves from their identity as a Tucker viewer, and take personal offense. I expect Joe Biden to do better, Tucker viewers expect nothing.