Is the chair base itself warped or damaged? The place where the cylinder sits?

IF the base itself/the hole that the cylinder sits in IS bent, warped, damaged then unless you're okay replacing both the cylinder and the base at a cost of probably $80-$90 which is getting pretty close to the cost of some budget chairs then you may have to consider whether it's better to just get a new chair.

Usually the base itself is just the 'arms' that hold the wheels plus a central hole that the hydraulic cylinder fits inside snugly (you often have to hammer it to get it out again when replacing but it can be done).

If the base is fine however you can buy a new piston which should fit 90% of office chairs (no idea about gamer chairs) online that comes with a toolkit for doing the replacement for $40 on bezos-net.

If this is not a normal office chair and I'm not sure it is from the picture (it should have levers under it for adjusting height) then I'm less sure.

Eisenstein's works are all worth seeing. Tarkovsky as well I'd say though I think Stalker is a stand-out. Agree with 'The Ascent'. I'd also recommend 'The Cranes are Flying'.

Save us? They serve empire and capital. They murder communists and sabotage leftist movements and became a more explicit thing likely because JFK they felt betrayed them by not fully backing with the might of the US military the bay of pigs operation whose failure resulted in humiliation for that community and many believe spurred them to kill him.

In this case: Institutions of power in the intelligence, military, foreign relations, etc. People and groups, institutions and interests ensconced in elephantine bureaucracies that actually make things happen and are kind of a backstop to power. They're the violence that doesn't answer to the state as liberals presume they should, they do obey orders of the state in so far as the state's interests are theirs but also slow-walk, sabotage them, avoid them, go around them, and if really necessary disobey them directly if they deem it necessary. They're the people who will kill a sitting president, the people who smuggle drugs in for off the books revenues to use on operations without pesky congressional or executive branch oversight. They are the inertia, the institutional guarantee against changing of whims among the elected congress-critters and changing seats in the white house and even in appointed offices like heads of say the CIA, FBI, joint chiefs, etc.

The deep state is everyone from career CIA, NSA, military, foreign policy managers and mid-level agents and personnel who work on the clock completely above board and who can resist any dramatic changes simply by continuing to pursue what has been deemed better, to pursue what they believe and have been led to believe is the right course to shadowy groups of intelligence adjacent types who in addition to funding in theory subject to audit in the intelligence black hole funding bag also have access to off the books funds, the types who kill people and break laws and rules, who answer to no elected persons and are in every way that matters immune to consequences save from among their own. They do things like MKUltra, run Epstein child trafficking rings to traffic victims for compromising material to leverage against government and business leaders and to gain their favor so they don't even have to use pressure.

This sprawling apparatus both the submerged "deep" parts and visible parts is why those boat dealers were able to waltz into congress on Jan 6th without resistance but a confused two people in an SUV who took the wrong highway exit to the NSA and panicked, running the checkpoints instead of stopping were shot dead with automatic weapons fire before they got anywhere close to it without asking further questions.

Failing something like diffing which is the best way you might consider a tool that enables you to print the document contents to another document, either another type of document (epub to pdf for example) or the same type and doing that should result in no metadata at all carrying over. Of course you need the right tool for it and it may result in all kinds of mishaps with shifted text and pages and other nonsense so diffing would be better while this printing to another file solution would be nuclear but likely to foil everything but very advanced methods not likely to be employed to prevent piracy and basically impossible to automate.

I'd open the files up in Calibre or another viewer and see what kind of info it shows. Try to strip that, then open the result in a hex editor and try searching for your registered email address or phone number within the file which is the low hanging fruit obviously as if I were Amazon I'd use an internally known account number in either plaintext or even better encoded in unprintable bytes. All in all I'd try the printing to/converting to another format trick or consulting people more knowledgeable about this about methods and what to do.

Imagine getting arrested in a non-eyes, non-NATO country by the US. And right on the doorstep of Vietnam and China. How does that even work? Did the Cambodian authorities for some reason agree to arrest a dude who was in all likelihood an undeclared spy in their country for the benefit of the US and just hand him over without any further questions? Did the CIA kidnap him onto a plane and drag him away? Did he agree to be arrested and cooperate? I mean it's right next door, a bus ride to Vietnam and a short plane jaunt to China and absolutely beyond the hand of the US.

Also kind of funny, I thought at the time that the leak was almost certainly done by the administration itself to try and tamp down the back and forth between Iran and the zionist colony and prevent a war they didn't want to be in.

Marco Rubio Bot eh?

I can see it now. Trump calls in gravy team 6 to break him out, they kill a ton of cops in a firefight while rescuing him, once back at the white house he drone strikes the judge and prosecutor responsible and he spends the next couple years vindictively attacking Democrats and their prosecutors and dismantling the justice department while battering the hell out of NY with federal antagonism that's not really legal further pushing the idea of a breakup of the states into the mainstream. Democrats promise to jail him after he leaves office but he dies days before the election after finishing a Big Mac for dinner and Vance issues a sweeping pardon for Trump's family and associates for all activities to which Democrats tut tut but have to respect the institutions and so go on to face-plant in the next election as well despite it being "the most important election of our lives".

Well I should point out I could easily see between high hundreds of thousands and over a million Trump people simply dying because A) a lot of them are old B) Covid which they deny and had 4 years to die from it.

I could also see a million or so being disillusioned with Trump, either Q people who thought he'd do different or people who saw something else in him that he didn't live up in his new campaigning. Also a lot easier to just check the box to re-elect the president for a certain amount of Americans who may not even be consistent Republicans but just people who thought he did a good enough job giving them free money during Covid and deserved to continue. So those numbers are if anything low and suggest IMO he probably gained some voters as well between losing people to dying and disillusionment and such.

So then the discussion must go towards those Democratic voters, they must have really alienated them, they must have really lost the enthusiasm and angered them. Sure we can discount a couple million as racists who voted for Biden because he was a white man with ties to anti-busing and crime legislation and KKK leadership but not nearly all of them. There's still a significant chunk, millions and millions you have to account for.

I really question this. Unless your food is very, very frozen (deep in the freezer for days) and dense and has enough water to keep it frozen and cold for like 8+ hours without serious risk of bacteria growth and toxins being produced leaving food in a place like that all day seems like a recipe for disaster. Certainly I wouldn't do it for frozen cut up tofu or meat. I suppose if you work in a way that allows you to come home for lunch that might allow it to work but most Americans don't. (CDC says I believe 4 hours is the maximum frozen food that needs to be cooked should be left in the danger zone above freezing/refrigeration temps but below 160+ degrees F)

Given the ideal way to use an air fryer is to expose the contents to the air to get the full benefits of convection cooking which also thaws them more quickly and lets bacteria proliferate or get in it just seems like a poor candidate for it. And if you're doing something like a side like fries that are probably safe to leave all day you still have to make the main meal and fries take like 5 minutes so I question the utility of saving yourself waiting that little time with such a function.

All in all modes like that, remote start works for things like washing machines or clothes driers or coffee machines or pre-heating a conventional oven given that unlike an air fryer can take 10+ minutes.

I think the more likely explanation is it's just more IOT connected nonsense. People buy it, it sells so it gets made and the manufacturers can off-set the costs by selling data profiles on what time people eat meals by gathering that data as well as types of modes used and how long to for example identify people who have midnight snacks or meals, those who work off hours, etc.

Timing is interesting. Have to wonder if the union saw the chance of Trump winning and decided it wasn't worth the risk given it would strengthen Boeing's position if he did and Kamala wasn't going to do much for their position if she won.

Nah. Lots of liberals like using words like imperialism and will call Russia imperialist. There's a liberal anti-warism that's for Ukraine, for Palestine but also regularly duped into supporting color revolutions like Hong Kong and calling Chinese efforts to prevent color revolutions "imperialism" because they live in this moment to moment vacuum devoid of historical context or understanding of material and historical forces.

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Are we comfortable asking farmers on another continent to sacrifice their livelihoods for the sake of other nations’ unwillingness to reduce CO2 emissions? Should we be comfortable with that? Who even is "we" here?

Would we go to war to stop this from happening? Would we go to war to make this happen, should we decide it’s in our national interest? Either way, the implications are deeply troubling.

I truthfully believe this is part of a kind of hybrid warfare against China by the US and if the modeling shows it will devastate them while hurting the US significantly less then they'll go ahead with it. The resulting famines and other issues are ripe for exploiting to overthrow the CPC or at the very least seriously injure their aspirations for surpassing the US and hobble them and set them back by a decade or more. The US is also the one most likely to believe that China won't use nukes to prevent this kind of a plan and to be willing to gamble even if they're unsure as it has a chance of ensuring another century of hegemony in their minds. Climate change in general I believe has largely been allowed to continue not just because of capitalist interests but because the models show the US will be among the most resilient to it, it represents an incredibly powerful form of hybrid warfare to wage on and destabilize the rest of humanity to allow US hegemony to continue. Your mentioning that a single actor could do this also worries me. The US would love the plausible deniability angle of using a US corporation to do this and when China threatens them they claim "wasn't us, hey you can't nuke us for the actions of one of our companies without our knowledge".

Suddenly, all that warming that they've been masking is back, only instead of seeing 4+ degrees warming spread over a century, we see it spread over 24-36 months.

I assume as do many others you mean if this were started and continued for decades, those at the end of that line would have no choice. Not that if this were started and allowed to run for say 6 years that we couldn't stop it and we'd only reap the normal amount of warming we'd have gotten anyways (not 4 degrees C over that limited span) though which could still be bad as the change in temperatures would be harmful to various ecosystems I'd imagine and the stress of going from warm to cool to even warmer again could be devastating to a lot of things.

Dick and Liz Cheney and now these ghouls too? Really making me hope for a Trump win.

Acceptance is meaningless.

Democrats accept it yet they also are trapped within the confines of what is possible in a liberal capitalist empire which means nothing is done. So they protest, they ensure that the fact it is an issue is /SEEN/ and that they are /seen/ being on the right side of it but do nothing or enact plans that were supposed to be enacted 30 years ago to actually work and are far too little, too late now.

So yes eventually even reactionaries will accept it but then they'll pull the Google CEO move which is to say well it's too late now so might as well double down on AI and other pollution and hope some technology of ours magics up a solution for us and then when that doesn't work in 20-25 years and the worst of it is hitting they'll say we had no way of knowing and blame China and various bad guys and a few token dead white people who are beyond the reach of any justice.

We're heading over the cliff, we're over the cliff and one of the drivers insists it's just a dip in the road while the other horrified is scolding them for driving off the cliff but insisting they needed to take that turn they missed when they headed over the cliff, they're insistent that they take it at the next opportunity despite that option of course being long past.

Where I live they'd own Albertsons, Food 4 Less, Ralphs, Vons, pretty much everything except Target, Walmart, Whole Foods/Amazon Fresh, and some smaller and specialty grocers like Aldi/Trader Joes.

Also, last I checked, there are two Aldi corporations (Aldi sud/Aldi nord), one of them owns Trader Joes, the other one runs US Aldi stores, they're not the same entity (though there is a history there) and though they often seen to share a fraction of product ideas I can say the same product at the two stores are often noticeably different and almost certainly made by different suppliers.

No they couldn't have. Several people quit, they cried about Bezos blocking them from endorsing Kamala, other news outlets reported it.

All Bezos could have done in that situation would have been to say nothing but people would absolutely have been the wiser about it being blocked by him and they'd probably lose as many subscriptions as from this. I doubt his statement wins or loses him any meaningful number of subscribers, it's just cover so he doesn't have to come out and say actually he'd rather stay on Trump's good side in case he wins and/or maybe he thinks Trump is better for his interests but of course would prefer associating with someone so uncouth.

Wouldn't applying any kind of dyes or paints to N95 type masks weaken their effectiveness? Isn't it possible that saturating a mask with these kinds of particles could compromise the effectiveness (I recall reading the effectiveness is compromised in very high humidity conditions I think).

Anyone have any papers or reading on this? Obviously even a compromised (K)N-95 would be better than nothing but might be better to wear something cloth that's been colored instead over it?

It's predicated on the old racist trope that Chinese steal everything and cannot invent anything of their own because both they are asiatic hordes and also communism no iphone. So it holds that if we hadn't invented them, they couldn't have stolen it and raced ahead of our plodding efforts and our existing advantage in ICE would be too great (by decades) for them to overcome from their starting position. Which is of course wrong, laughably so.