H11.

If you look up what kid of low beam headlight bulb your vehicle requires, it’s most likely an H11. Since 2005 or so, I haven’t pinged down the exact year, almost every single manufacturer has their low beam bulbs as the H11.

The cheapest, longest lasting option is rated for, per the listing, 250 hours. The brightest option is rate for 150-200 hours. I don’t need to tell you that’s not a lot

In comparison, a 9003 headlight bulb is rated for about 1000 hours. Every single other bulb on my shelf has a higher hour rating than the H11.

So my question is this. And it’s not solely regarding headlight bulbs.

Why do we continue to be okay with paying more for less quality?

For reference these are Silvania bulbs.

Florida to Lose PornHub Access

PornHub is blocking website visits from Florida on the first day of 2025 in response to the state's new over-18 age verification law for access to adult websites.

On Tuesday, visitors to the pornographic video site in the state received a message saying: "You will lose access to PornHub in 14 days."

The site appeared to be saying in messaging that a requirement to provide driver's license details to gain entry will put everybody's privacy at risk.

Probably a pepsi

Saw this list on - where else - YouTube. A few good options.

10. The Poseidon Adventure - YouTube, STARZ
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3. Poltergeist - YouTube
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Login to view embedded media 1.Terminator 2 - YouTube, Paramount+, AMC+
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Just got a text that Iowa is set to host a coveted DIII defensive back.

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Badgers offered already

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Just another @Here_4_a_Derp / Ryan account.

The state of South Carolina still uses the Electric Chair for capital
punishment. They now have a cost-saving remedy concerning the
criminal's last meal.

The convicted prisoner gets a Red Baron frozen pizza as he sits
down for his last meal in the electric chair. Obviously, the frozen
pizza heats up fast as the convict is electrically warmed up himself.

Bottom Line: It is cheaper to serve a frozen pizza on the electric
chair instead of a full steak dinner in the prisoner's cell.

Wicked sound. Ts and Ps though.

I have no idea if this is legit or not -- either way, it's insane. I hope this isn't real.

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But the case will continue. Good call.

Georgia appeals court disqualifies Fani Willis but refuses to drop case against Trump​

An appeals court in Georgia disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and others for allegedly trying to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The court, however, declined to dismiss the case altogether.



In a 12-page ruling, the court said a previous ruling by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee allowing Willis to remain on the case if special prosecutor Nathan Wade withdrew did not prevent an "appearance of impropriety." Willis and Wade admitted to having a romantic relationship.

"The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring," the ruling said. "While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings."

"While this is the rare case in which DA Willis and her office must be disqualified due to a significant appearance of impropriety, we cannot conclude that the record also supports the imposition of the extreme sanction of dismissal of the indictment under the appropriate standard," the judges added.

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Two men died in Rochester, New York, after being infected with a rare fungus found in bat feces they had used or planned to use to fertilize homegrown cannabis plants, according to a report published in a medical journal.

President-elect Donald Trump has stunned lawmakers in Washington by calling for the suspension — or outright elimination — of the federal borrowing limit, introducing an explosive new demand into last-minute negotiations over averting a government shutdown this weekend.
In social media posts and interviews on Wednesday and Thursday, Trump called on congressional Republicans to lift the debt ceiling, a law that limits how much money the federal government can borrow.

I wrote up an article about some things Fran could try doing in order to get better defensive play this season. Give it a read and we can discuss it here. I'll make you a guarantee: his cryptic recent comments about Traore will become even more concerning after you read the article.

This and not testing to what extent our election guardrails will hold against a more sophisticated scheme to steal the election are some of the 'good' aspects of Trump's win:

Surveys taken since Donald Trump’s win show a resurgent faith among the president-elect’s supporters, and little Democratic appetite for conspiracy theories.

Americans are more confident in the country’s election system than they have been at any time since the 2020 election, according to a new study — a shift owed to a sea change in Republican sentiment since Donald J. Trump’s election.

The findings, which echo other post-election polling, underscore the role Mr. Trump played in encouraging Republican suspicion of unwelcome results, and reveal stark differences in how Republican and Democratic voters have handled recent losses.

“The increase is heartening,” said Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth College and a director of Bright Line Watch, which commissioned the survey from YouGov. The group is a consortium of political scientists that has conducted regular polls on democracy issues since 2017. “But there’s also bad news, which is we now have to wonder if Republicans will only trust the system if they win,” Mr. Nyhan said.

Eighty-nine percent of all respondents recognize Mr. Trump’s victory in last month’s election as legitimate, according to the Bright Line Watch survey. Only 65 percent said the same of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in 2020 in the group’s survey that November.

The shift highlights the two parties’ differing response to losses. Eighty-three percent of Democrats view the outcome of the 2024 election as legitimate, according to the survey of 2,750 Americans, which was conducted in mid- to late November and has a margin of error of about 2 points. By contrast, only 27 percent of Republicans viewed the outcome of the 2020 election as legitimate at the time.

A Pew Research Center post-election poll released this month found similar results. Eighty-four percent of Democratic respondents polled last month said they believed the 2024 election had been run “very” or “somewhat” well, a decline of only 10 percent from 2020. But the share of Republicans saying the same jumped to 93 percent from 21 percent in November 2020.

Mr. Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, which remains unsupported by any evidence, profoundly reshaped the political landscape in the years after his loss. The stolen election claim led his supporters to riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, threatening the peaceful transfer of presidential power for the first time in American history, and it became a litmus test for Republican candidates and officials at every level of the party, from county chairmanships to the U.S. Senate.

It spawned elaborate conspiracy theories and costly legal settlements for the right-wing media companies that gave them a platform. And it was at the heart of the case for election that Mr. Trump made to Republican voters from the first days of his 2024 campaign.

“We won by much more in 2020” than in 2016, Mr. Trump falsely claimed at his campaign kickoff rally in Waco, Texas, in March of last year. “But it was rigged.”

The centrality of election denialism to the post-2020 Republican Party raised concerns that mistrust of the election system had become deeply ingrained on the right, enough so that it could outlast Mr. Trump’s own presence in politics.

But the 2022 midterm elections suggested its limits, as many prominent Republican candidates who won primaries by rallying Trump supporters against the supposed theft of the 2020 election lost in their general elections. Some, like the Arizona candidate for governor, Kari Lake, tried to challenge their own losses in 2022, but failed to generate much grass-roots momentum.

“It didn’t play the same as it did in 2020,” Mr. Nyhan said.

Early results showing a sharp decline in Democratic turnout last month led to the circulation of conspiracy theories on the left claiming Mr. Trump had stolen the election, and, less intuitively, on the right, where the drop-off was taken as evidence that Mr. Biden’s numbers in 2020 were inflated.

But the Bright Line and Pew surveys suggest that Democratic suspicion did not broadly persist after Vice President Kamala Harris’s concession, underscoring the influence that candidates and other party leaders have on their supporters’ views of the system’s legitimacy.

We've been arguing about the age of the school shooter in another thread. This thread is just to get an idea of how many students start kindergarten at 6 rather than 5. Please share the age your child started school and their birth month (no need for SS numbers or their mother's maiden name ).

So I have been dealing with it for about 15 years. I have had to go to the ER for cardioversion 7-8 times during that period, most recently, yesterday. That was after one about five weeks ago too. The cardiologist I'm working with strongly recommended the ablation surgery so I am going to bite the bullet and do that on October 23rd. Curious if any of you have had it and what your experience has been? Also, any recovery time needed? I am looking forward to getting off all the medication and hopefully, no more ER visits.

TIA.

Why are they there and do you actually eat them?

Serving the Quad City area since 1940, Ross' was a great local spot for breakfast 24 hours per day.
Founded by Harold Ross, Harold's family ran the business throughout it all.
Multiple Presidential candidates and sitting presidents have eaten there including: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich.

It was the home of the magic mountain.
That culinary climb features a slice of grilled Texas toast covered in loose ground beef and piled with a mountain of French fries or hash browns and smothered with cheddar cheese sauce.

good to see people getting second chances in life

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