I’m writing this post as I’m waiting for the M60 at 31st St along with at least 15 other people and the next bus isn’t for 14 minutes.
I take the M60 into Manhattan around once a week, normally between 8:30/9:30. It takes between 10-40 minutes to get from the last stop in Queens and the first stop in Manhattan. When it’s fast, it’s either because the driver in crazy and they switch into the Bronx lanes only to change back to Manhattan at the last chance, or because everyone else is on vacation. When it’s slow, it’s excruciating. The bus is often packed, lurches forward and stops short, and everyone inside is unhappy.
I know the subway is very unreliable, and a lot of people bought cars during the pandemic. But there are so many people who drive into Manhattan on the Triboro/RFK, and a lot of them are solo. Has there ever been discussion of adding a bus lane or a HOV lane to the RFK/Triboro bridge between Manhattan and Queens? I know congestion pricing will theoretically help out with the traffic congestion in the city overall, but this feels like it would be an easy way to increase flow?
Anyway, just musing as I’m waiting forever for a bus I may not fit on and that will take me 3-4x longer than it should.

Whenever I complain to my ISP about not getting anywhere close to the speed that I'm paying for, they blame it on my setup and that I'm using my own router. I have a 1000 Mbps fiber up/down plan. Speedtest is usually between 750-850 Mbps down. Faster on wired connection, slower with wi-fi. And during the bad times it's around 500.
My network signal flow is:
ISP's fIber modemGoogle Mesh routerEthernet switch PC I run hardwired speed test on.
In terms of my wifi, I have 4 additional Google mesh nodes, and quite a few smart home devices (lights, locks, doorbells, thermostats, etc...) totalling 65 devices that I assume use mostly minimal bandwidth.
First question is how much is the ethernet switch slowing down my wired connection speed to my PC? And then how much of an effect is my router setup and connected devices affecting my wi-fi speed? Seems like any ISP will always point to you using your own router as the reason, and absolve themselves of any responsibility for slow speeds if you don't use their own router.

I'm facing a significant challenge and could use your advice. Implementing a CICD pipeline in enterprise environments with Zero Trust policies and air-gapped networks seems nearly impossible. Here’s the dilemma:
🔒 Challenges:

• Zero Trust policies prevent trust by default, complicating access.
• Air-gapped networks restrict internet access, limiting tool use.
• No admin privileges in the cluster.
• Many open-source tools need internet connectivity and dependencies not allowed in air-gapped setups.
• Tools often depend on Operators or CRDs, requiring cluster-admin permissions, which are off-limits in our environment.

🚧 What We Need:

• A tool designed for air-gapped networks and Zero Trust policies.
• No internet dependency.
• No unapproved dependencies.
• No reliance on Operators or CRDs.
• Doesn't need cluster-admin permissions for installation.

💡 Possible Solution:
I'm considering a CICD pipeline based on GitHub Actions but implemented (from scratch) with bash scripts running with Jobs and CronJobs within the air-gapped network. I wrote about the idea here.
The scripts would:

• Access the source code repository (intra-cluster).
• Handle building, testing, and deploying the application.

❓ Questions for the Community:

1. Are there any tools that fit these stringent requirements?
2. Has anyone successfully implemented a similar CICD setup?
3. Any tips or best practices for managing CICD in such restricted environments?

Your experiences and suggestions would be invaluable! Let’s discuss how we can overcome these challenges together.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi, all. I live in a condo that only has street parking. I'm purchasing my first car (my hand me down finally gave up the ghost). Because it has a nice white paint job I want to keep tree crud from eating away at the coat and I was going to get a fitted car cover. Does anyone know the rules for this kind of thing? Googling has been giving me a lot of unrelated junk.

So I currently have a 3.5 inch rough country lift kit and it has costed me thousands of dollars in broken parts and work (least now I’m well versed in fixing shit I never thought I’d be capable of due to lack of funds for mechanic). I want to switch to 2.5 inch bilstein 5100s all around. I bought the rough country kit with the leaf pack and control arms. Could I just swap springs, tires, and get an alignment? Or would I have to brake down my leaf pack a little? It is starting to sag a little in the rear. Looking for the most economical route. Bit of a financial crisis with bills and what not but I can’t afford to have a bunch of shit break again. Need to get this setup reliable. Thanks!

My three year old australian shepherd is 95 percent perfect - except ONE thing: is is very reactive to other dogs.
If he sees a dog on TV, hears a dog out the window, sees a dog up the sidewalk/ across the street, he loses his mind and starts barking his head off.
He has never been aggressive towards other dogs and when we go to the park or a large outdoor space, he barely pays attention to other dogs. He is very focused on just playing fetch or smelling the grass. But when we are walking on the leash, he sees a dog out the apartment or car window etc he is crazy.
I would love to be able to walk calmly down the street or - in a dream of dreams - watch a tv show without worrying there might be a dog or even a dog barking background track (either sparks a barking fit).
The TV thing I can live with but I am at my wits end with not being able to enjoy taking him for a walk, and dread even taking him out to the bathroom. (To be clear I absolutely still do these things, he gets at minimum an hour of outdoor time every day - if not two+. It is just miserable experience for both of us).
Can anyone recommend a dog trainer to help with this, or at least offer a glimmer of hope with a personal anecdote of their dog overcoming such behavior?
Thank you in advance.

So I currently have Homelab with machines as below:

1. NAS - Microserver G8 with:
   • Xeon E3-1265L V2
   • 16GiB ECC DDR3
   • LSI 9207-4i4e IT mode
   • 8x SATA HDD (4 internal, 4 external) + 2x SATA SSD (internal)
   • TrueNAS Scale on top of it
2. 5x Dell Optiples 7040, each with:
   • i5 6500T
   • 16GiB DDR4
   • M2 SSD for system
   • SATA SSD for Ceph
   • Proxmox cluster w/ mentioned Ceph on top of it
3. Raspi 3B with HomeAssistant
4. Raspi 4B with PiKVM + 8 to 1 KVM

As the Microserver starts showing it's age, I'm done with clustering experiments and I also have problems with passing through iGPUs to VMs I started to think about a little revolution. But there are some constraints:

1. I'm looking for something rather new, but being able to save some $ with used gear would be good
2. As I mentioned, I'm done with clustering, so single system to kill'em all
3. I want something "server grade", just because next level of experiments
4. Rack I have is pretty short (600mm x 600mm), in reality anything longer than 500mm won't fit and that kills most of the shelf solutions

After little lurking I guess I've found "The Setup":

1. Mobo: Supermicro MBD-X12SPL
2. CPU: Xeon Silver 4310
3. RAM: 2x 32GiB ECC DDR4
4. PSU: Corsair RM850x
5. Chassis: JMCD 12S4 (chinesium, it fits ATX board with high profile cards and also 12x 3,5/2,5 inch bays, all of that in 300mm depth)
6. HBA: LSI 9300-16i IT mode
7. Disks: Almost all (exactly 6) SATA SSDs will be reused as one of them is dying anyway, HDDs gonna be reduced to 4 or maybe even 2 - depends what I'll find on the market

Later on I might add some 10G networking (ConnectX3 I guess), will see.
What it's gonna run:

1. Proxmox as hypervisor
2. TrueNAS Scale VM - mostly as media storage
3. "stable" K3S VM - running pretty much standard Homelab stack + few custom images
4. "experimental" K3S VM - for, well, experiments
5. HomeAssistant VM
6. Automatic Ripping Machine VM
7. (maybe) some gaming VM w/ Windows, but rather for older games, 2000-2010 era

So, finally questions time:

1. Does the build make sense?
2. Which GPU(s) should I choose? Currently I have three things that might make use of it, it is: Jellyfin, Automatic Ripping Machine and ancient gaming VM. Yes, I know that Core i5/i7 with iGPU exists, but as mentioned, I want server grade gear this time.

My 2018 Ford Focus SE is at 67k miles. The spark plug wires (or plugs if you want to call them that) are original. I replaced the original spark plugs with E3 spark plugs back in 2021 at 40k. They definitely made my Focus run better. I've been doing some basic maintenance on it like a coolant flush that was just done, new brakes, new cabin air filter, etc. Should I replace the spark plug wires and spark plugs as well since I'm doing all this maintenance? Or should I wait until symptoms start appearing to replace those? My car runs great, other than the occasional transmission shudder that literally everyone has. Even that shudder isn't that bad.

Hello all!
I have a question regarding how to correctly wire my 120v circuit in my unfinished detached garage.
Summary of setup:
6/4 running through conduit from main panel to sub panel(spa panel). Sub panel is on outer wall of the detached garage and my current plan is to use the rear knockout on this panel to run the 120v circuit.
If I just put a 1 inch PVC male adapter out the rear of the panel, through the wall, and run romex through this, up the stud to a junction box, does this work? Maybe need weatherproof romex?
Easier to put the panel inside the garage and then just use a normal romex terminal adapter?
Any ideas or information is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

My phone vibrated. As did my smartwatch. I glimpsed up from my laptop, which was sitting in my lap so I could go over my presentation again. I was in the car, my boss was driving and we were headed to a conference, where both of us were supposed to speak. We were traveling for more than 7 hours now due to numerous traffic jams on our way.
Looking at my watch, I saw, it was the doorbell which caused the vibration. Already distracted from my presentation I pulled out my phone. Opening the doorbell app, I just so see, that my wife asks Becky, our young black dogsitter with her DD boobs into the house. "Curious" I thought, my wife hadn't told me, she wanted to go out that evening. It was a Tuesday, so it was her usual day for her Zumba class, but that would have meant leaving the dogs alone for about 1 and a half hours, so no need for a dogsitter. However, judging from what little I had seen, Becky was wearing an extremely short black latex skirt and a minimalist latex crop top, the full outfit barely covering her tits, ass and pussy. In addition to a black leather collar, it looked like my wife had ordered her in with other stuff in mind than just watching the dogs, even if there was the possibility, Becky's outfit was just due to the 30+ degree heatwave we were having.
A few minutes later, my phone vibrated again. It was a text from my wife. "Heading out to Zumba". She followed it up with a picture of her in her sports dress. Due to the heat she only wore tight short pants, a very tight revealing top and her sports bra. So her petite size combined with her chubby figure and her big tits were easy to spot. "Looking great" I answered. "Have fun, love you". "You have any plans later?" She asked. "No" I answered. "I won't be able to make it to swimming today. I'm not even at the hotel yet. So just dinner with my boss and then I will head for the bed." I replied. "Ok" was the only answer I got.
My boss and I checked into the hotel and found a place to eat, when I got another message from my wife. It was a shower selfie from the gym, showing her having her tits soaped up. I had to make sure, nobody saw my developing boner below a napkin. And this was also unusual, as my wife normally prefers to shower at home. What did she have planned. "Going out?" I asked her. I didn't get an answer for a while. Then I got another selfie. My wife was now wearing a long, tight, black PU skirt, and a black leather corsage, which was barely able to keep her G-Cups inside. She also had makeup on and her black hair with a tint of red worked perfectly with her black lipstick. A second picture showed, that she did not wear panties, but a buttplug. "Gonna surprise Becky" was her answer to my previous question. "Let's check whether she obeyed" was the next text I got, before I had an incoming videocall from the group my wife had created for the three of us. I excused myself from the table and left the table, while keeping the lid of my phone case closed. I took a Bluetooth headset out of my pocket and went outside to take the call. As soon as I did, I had to hold my breath. My wife held up her phone in her car in a way, that Becky and I had perfect view of her cleavage, while Becky was clearly sitting on our terrace, wearing the earlier described outfit, her legs spread apart and her camera clearly showing that she also had inserted a buttplug and additionally a vibrator in her pussy, pleasuring herself. From her position I could see, that there was a very slim, but not zero chance she could be seen by a passing neighbor. "Good girl" I heard my wife's voice. "Expect me home in 20 minutes. Keep going with the vibrator but do not come before I'm home or you will regret it". "Yes Madam" was Becky's answer. "Now put on a show for my husband" my wife again commanded. I watched the vibrator going in and out her pink pussy, which contrasted nicely with her chocolate skin, before commanding her, to take down her top, revealing her double D's to the camera (and potentially the neighbors). She was hesitant at first. "I will tell my wife of your disobedience" was all I had to say. However, as much as I loved the show, I could not watch it till the end, as my boss now also came out of the restaurant, having paid the bill. So I cut the connection and we went on our way to the hotel.
When we arrived at the hotel, my boss asked, whether we wanted to go for a drink at the bar. At the same time, my wife had already sent me a selfie with our car on the garage and her playing on her pussy, presumably watching Becky somehow. "Are you ready to watch" was the caption. So I thanked my boss again for the dinner and excused myself to my hotel room. "Give me a couple of minutes" was my answer to my wife. "Hurry up" she wrote, accompanied by a picture below her skirt, showing her pink pussy and her fluids already flowing down her legs. I quickly setup my tablet and connected it to the WIFI. While I was doing this I received several messages from my wife. The first one was a picture, showing a top view into her corsage, showing clearly, that it was unable to really tame her tits, with her areolas already visible. If a neighbor saw her on the way from the car to the house, he would have quite a look. I was secretly hoping for that to happen. I know some of the neighbors had already checked out Becky or other visitors to our house when they arrived in playtime "clothes" but my wife so far had mostly gone unnoticed by the neighbors. The second picture was a screenshot from one of our bedroom cameras on my wife's phone, showing Becky, lying on her back, her tits once again hidden by her latex top, her legs spread wide open towards the camera. Her skirt had moved upwards and was lying on her hips. The buttplug was replaced by a vibrator, and she also had a vibrator inserted into her pussy. I admired once again the contrast of her pink flesh to the dark chocolate color of her body. "I have the remotes" my wife wrote with a winking emoji. "Hurry up, I'm horny". "Me too" I thought, "and it's not helping that you send me these pictures". Finally I had an internet connection ready and connected onto our home VPN to access the cameras. "I'm in" I wrote to my wife. "Going in" was her answer.
While I waited for my wife to appear, I watched Becky on the tablet. She was still pretty much in the same pose as before and I could only imagine, that she was in this pose, because my wife had ordered her so. She really loved to submit herself to both of us, what made the evenings with her fun. Suddenly I could see her shiver and heard hear moans getting louder. I could see her fighting, but ultimately losing the fight against her orgasm, induced by the two vibrators in her pussy and ass, controlled by my wife. Only a few seconds later I hear high heels coming up the stairs and my wife entering the room. She had added black, knee high leather boots to her already seducing outfit and held a small whip in her hand. I saw Becky's eyes widen, it was a mixture of lust and fear. "You know you can tell me to stop at any time if it is too much," my wife said ."It is fine, I dreamed about playing with a whip, just haven't done it yet. But please be gentle, "was Becky's answer. "Did I stutter, when I told you not to come?" My wife now said in a fake angry voice. She followed it up with a lash onto her top and the boob below. I could hear the sound and I saw Becky flinch for a split-second. But her eyes told, that she was okay with what happened. "Sorry Madam. It was just to much pleasure you gave me with the vibrators," Becky whispered. "So now this is my fault you cannot control yourself?" My wife asked while still faking anger, followed by a lash onto the other boob. "No Madam, I did not obey your orders. What can I do to make it up?" "That will be up to me, I already have some ideas." My wife said to her, while she positioned a few whiplashes around Becky's pussy. You could already see the mixture of pain and lust in Becky's eyes.
From the messages before, and the show I got on camera my cock was already more than rock hard and I hurried to get rid off my pants and boxers, to release the pain this was causing me. That was when I realized, the blinds were still open, so I corrected this mistake quickly. No need to be seen masturbating in a conference hotel.
On my screen the action now got more intense. "Why are you still dressed?" My wife asked. I laughed out, because the short top and the extremely short skirt that was already hanging on Becky's hips could barely be counted as dressed, as she didn't even wear any underwear. "Get these skimpy clothes of your body" was the next command. To reinforce this statement two whiplashes onto each boob were added. Becky quickly got up, robbing me of the view between her legs and wanted to pull her top over her head, her back to my wife and the camera. She was interrupted by a whiplash onto her ass, as the skirt still was hanging on her hips. This time my wife seemingly had put more force into it, as for a short time you could see the impact on Becky's chocolate skin. "No need to hide. Make it a show for me and the camera". Becky obeyed. She turned around and started pulling up her top above her DD tits, covering them with her hands, playing a little bit by pushing them left right and up and down before performing a boob drop and finally pushing her top over her head. She let it turn around one of her fingers before throwing it on the general direction of my wife. While her boobs are a lot smaller than my wife's G-Cups, due to her taller but skinnier stature and chocolate color, those were my second favorite boobs. Her areolas were forward facing and she had quite a gap in between them. And they looked incredibly sexy in the current lighting, bouncing with every of Becky's movements. My wife nodded approvingly. Afterwards Becky started pulling down her skirt while moving laszivly. Her boobs and her hips moving while she slowly hid her pussy before revealing it again. She got down on her knees, spreading her legs for my wife and me before she got out of the skirt, pushed it aside and got up again. Unfortunately for her, the vibrator fell out of her pussy during this movement. A second later she got another whiplash on her pussy. "Did I tell you to loose the vibrator?" My wife said in a harsh voice. "No Madam." Becky said, lowering her head. "Well, then pick it up and put it where it belongs again. Becky started bending her knees and lowering her back, when she was once again interrupted by a whiplash targeted at her right tit. "Not like that. Turn around and bend over, we want to see your ass." I think I caught a short grin on Becky's face. She definitely did not mind what my wife did to her. She turned around, spread her legs so I would be able to see her face and upper body between them, bent over, wiggled with her ass, which of course also caused her tits to wiggle in front of her face. This of course also revealed the vibrator in her butt. Just when Becky had her fingers on the vibrator on the floor I could hear her moan and saw her legs shaking. My wife now stood besides her, facing the camera holding the remote in the hand that did not hold the whip. With shaking hands from arousal Becky tried to take up the vibrator again, and just when her fingers were there, my wife increased the intensity with the remote again, leading to Becky losing control and collapsing on the floor. As soon as her body hit the floor another whiplash hit her ass. "Am I talking incomprehensibly? You are not to come without my permission and you are asked to get this vibrator into your worthless pussy while showing your fucking ass. What is so hard about that?" While talking, my wife added additional whiplashes onto her ass with a couple of them also hitting the pussy area. "I'm sick of this, now get your worthless body onto the bed and open your legs to the camera". "Yes Madam" was the only answer from Becky. When she got up I glimpsed a look in her face and saw it was pure lust, despite the pain.
Up until now I had started playing with myself. The view and sound on my tablet were just to arousing. I realized, that I was already close to cumming, but there would be more action for me to watch. Nevertheless I couldn't stop, and a few quick strokes and I came in 3 high squirts over my upper body. In the meanwhile the action on the screen continued.
As ordered, Becky lay down as she had been before only now her tits were also clearly visible on camera. My wife bent down herself, making sure I got a good show and picked up the vibrator Becky had failed to pick up twice. She shoved it into Becky's pussy again, before she used the remote again to set both vibrators in Becky's ass an pussy to their lowest setting again. Becky's pelvis moved, as the overstimulation was to much again. My wife once again addressed her: "This should be about me, not you! Time you put your body to some use. Now get me out of my skirt." She ordered, standing next to the bed, with her ass to the camera. Becky sat up, her open pussy still facing the camera and giving me a prime look at her tits. She undid my wife's belt and started pulling down the skirt. My wife supported this with very erotic moves and just a few seconds later I had the perfect view onto the greatest ass in the galaxy. The right roundness, perfect size, perfect shape and feel and just overall perfect for me. My wife pushed Becky back onto the bed, while at the same time bending over, revealing the buttplug and vibrator she had in herself. This movement was also to much for her corsage and her tits fell out. "Make yourself useful and suck on my tits!" was her next command, to which Becky promptly obeyed while my wife made quite a show out of removing the vibrator from her pussy. She spread her legs, shaking that great ass and slowly pulled out the vibrator millimeter by millimeter and pushing it in 5 millimeters in again for every 10 millimeters she had pulled it out. When she was done, she climbed onto the bed sat up and pushed Becky's upper body down. She then climbed over Becky's face and began riding on her face. Becky understood what to do and gave her best to luck my wife's pussy. My wife's boobs jumped around on her chest, which made her abandon her whip and she started massaging and playing with them, while leaning slightly backwards. This gave me a great view and made me hard again in an instant. Also due to my wife's movements on the bed, Becky's tits started to wiggle, but she needed her hands to ensure my wife's thighs had sufficient space in between for her not to suffocate. This got more and more difficult, as my wife quickly approached her orgasm. It took her less than 2 minutes before she collapsed forward, her face more or less falling onto Becky's pussy. My wife catched her breath for half a minute or so, before she pulled herself up again, grabbed her whip and climbed down from Becky. Becky's face was covered in my wife's fluids, it almost looked like my wife had squirted onto Becky's face. Becky also sat up and catched her breath.
My wife held up Becky's face by placing her whip below her chin. "Good girl, seems like you are good for something. I think you have earned some reward." She said and gave Becky two gentle whiplashes onto her nipples, which made Becky moan again. My wife bent down beside the bed, showing me her great ass with the buttplug again and opened our toy drawer. She grabbed a blindfold and tossed it to Becky. "Put that on, and get on your knees, face to the camera." Becky went on her knees and elbows, what resulted in a harsh whiplash on her ass. "On your hands, not your elbows" and as Becky took to long for her liking, a second whiplash followed. Now Becky obeyed and stayed more upright. Next my wife went, and repositioned the camera, so now the camera was low enough to look between Becky's legs. Next, my wife pulls out a dual vibrator we had bought recently. She inserted the short part as advertised into her vagina and went behind Becky. She then removed the vibrators from Becky's pussy and ass and slowly started to insert the long part of the double vibrator into Becky's pussy. I was able to see Becky's surprised look through the blindfold, as my wife's pelvis touched Becky's ass and she realized, what was happening. The next surprise came, when my wife activated the vibrations and started fucking her Doggystyle. I was almost in heaven. Seeing a pair of DD tits bouncing in the big picture, and my wife's G-Cups also bouncing in the background while my wife grabbed Becky by the hips and gave her a pounding was an absolutely fantastic view. This went on for about 10 minutes, with me wanking of in my hotel bed, my wife pounding the dogsitter Doggystyle and the dogsitter moaning loudly. It seemed, the double vibrator had some kind of burst mode, as both women increased and decreased their volume in regular intervals. After 10 minutes the two women collapsed over each other from their orgasm and I also came again.
After everyone had catched their breath again, my wife told Becky she could go home now, she would still make the last train even with some time to wash herself. After Becky was gone, my wife and myself had video call under our showers. After that we said goodnight. My wife told me, to have fun on the conference reception the next day, but to not forget my camera...

Items celebrate Welsh football team's recent promotion to League One and continued surge in global popularity with the Emmy award-winning show "FX's Welcome to Wrexham" now streaming on Hulu
Amenity kits include travel essentials like an eye mask, toothbrush and toothpaste plus exclusive Therabody products and pajamas designed to resemble the team's uniforms
Starting June 1, new items available complimentary in premium cabins on select flights – part of United Airlines' broader Wrexham AFC sponsorship
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United Airlines today debuted new, limited-edition Wrexham AFC amenity kits and pajamas to celebrate the football team's recent promotion to League One and continued surge in global popularity with the Emmy® award-winning show "FX's Welcome to Wrexham" now streaming on Hulu.
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These items are part of the airline's broader Wrexham AFC sponsorship.
Starting June 1, travelers flying in United's premium cabins on long-haul international routes will receive the complimentary Wrexham AFC-inspired amenity kits filled with travel essentials like an eye mask, toothbrush and toothpaste as well as exclusive Therabody skincare products. United Polaris® customers on flights 14 hours or longer will also receive pajamas designed to resemble the team's uniforms, of which United is a front-of-jersey sponsor, including a long-sleeve Wrexham red shirt and gray pants.
United and Wrexham AFC collaborated to design the amenity kits and pajamas, which can be viewed above and at the bottom of this post, drawing inspiration from the team crest, jerseys and overall look and feel. The offerings include:

• United x Wrexham AFC Amenity Case: For United Polaris business class travelers, the reusable toiletry case features the Wrexham crest and is available in red, black or white. The case includes a top handle, wrap-around zipper and loop to hang the bag on a hook for convenience.
• United x Wrexham AFC Amenity Pouch: For United Premium Plus® travelers, the reusable zippered pouch also features the Wrexham crest and is available in red, black or white. The slim pouch fits easily into a carry-on bag.
• United x Wrexham AFC Pajamas: Available to United Polaris business class travelers on flights 14 hours or more, the lightweight pajama set includes a red, long-sleeve shirt with the Wrexham AFC and United logos on the front, designed to resemble the team jersey, plus gray pants with the United logo on the hip.

Inside every amenity kit, passengers will find a United-exclusive Therabody hand cream, lip balm and cleansing towelette plus travel essentials including a bamboo toothbrush, toothpaste, eye mask, ear plugs and socks. In addition, inside every United Polaris kit, passengers will also find a Therabody eye serum, face spray, tissues and a United pen.
"With our amenity kits, we always aim to provide customers with products that make their travel journey more comfortable as well as create one-of-a-kind keepsakes for them to enjoy well beyond their flight," said Peter Wolkowski, Director of Onboard Product Design at United. "Wrexham's story is one that has been documented and celebrated these last few years, so we're thrilled to now give United customers team-branded gear they won't be able to find anywhere else."
United is giving fans more access to Wrexham AFC during the club's 2024-2025 season – its second year partnering with the team. As the front-of-jersey sponsor for the men's and women's teams, the United name and logo emblazons the front of the Wrexham AFC shirts during games. The airline will also sponsor the club's North American summer tour including flying the teams to games and providing MileagePlus members exclusive offerings.
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United x Wrexham Premium Plus Amenity Kit
United x Wrexham Polaris Amenity Kit
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Recently purchased a transmission servicing kit from FCP Euro that came with a new pan, new bolts, and 7 liters of zf 8 fluid.
Drained the old fluid and changed the pan/filter, but now I can't seem to get the new fluid to pump back into the fill hole. Every time I try it just spill back out the fill hole. I can't figure out why. Car is not tilted to one side or anything. What am I doing wrong?
Stupid question I know, but I'd rather not have it towed anywhere to be filled.

I know that T3 supports 60fps wireless CarPlay. With that said, does it also support wired CarPlay via the top USB data port? I don't mind the extra cable, and in my experience the last few years, I've always preferred wired CarPlay over wireless across various rentals (and my own prior cars) since no one has been able to completely eliminate the input lag, only reduce it.
I looked at the product review of the T3 online, and while the screen looks very nice, it does still seem to have a bit of that same lag. I really don't mind it when stationary, but for whatever reason it really messes with my head when driving.
Alternately, is there any possibility of this being added in a firmware release? If so, that would make it an immediate buy for me based on everything else that I'm seeing.

Looking for ideas if it’s possible to install an automatic trunk lift kit on the Scion xb to modernize it more haven’t found anything on it yet and what year shock absorbers would work for the car from the rav 4 thank you!!!

I might have stumbled onto a solution that fixes the problem for some people. For me, the issue seems correlated with when recirculate is off. When recirculate is on, there seems to be no issue for me.
I'd like to do much more extensive testing, but Tesla takes it upon themselves to open and close the fresh air intake hatch as they see fit, precluding experimentation on my part.
Any idea how I might semi-permanently seal the fresh air intake hatch shut? I'd prefer not to damage the car but am open to all ideas.
Also, is this sufficient to force recirculation? Or what issues might it cause?

I have devised this thread as some guidance for those people who have visited this forum and are concerned about specific symptoms that are effecting them and, in particular, those who are worried that these symptoms are an indication of neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) & Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
The first thing that must be realised is that NOBODY on an internet forum can ever diagnose you or truly give you any reassurance that you do not have these conditions. Should anybody experience any signs or symptoms that are new to them they should ALWAYS approach their doctor in the first instance in order for these to be examined. In the vast majority of cases a GP will be able to advise you that these symptoms are benign but some doctors will often refer you to a neurologist for their opinion, if this should happen it is not value laden as regarding a possible diagnosis but rather would be the standard format for how you present to the doctor.
This thread is good news, it is good news because it has had to be written, it is good news because hundreds, maybe thousands of people have logged onto this board and countless other anxiety forums totally convinced that they are suffering from a neurological condition despite being told by health care profesionals that this is not the case. All these people ask the same questions and all these people have the exact same worries as you are having now. If this is you, if you have been to the doctor, maybe even a neuro, maybe even two neuro’s, maybe even had an MRI, maybe even two MRI’s, well, you get the picture, if you have been told by your health care profesional that you are healthy but you are struggling to believe this you may find some help from this thread.
So, you have come to an anxiety board. I guess that is because your doctor has told you that you are suffering from anxiety. Actually, my guess would be that your doctor has told you that you are suffering from ‘just’ anxiety and, if you are lucky, you may have been given some leaflets, you may have had some books recommended and you may even have been given some medication.
So, what took you to the doctor? Was it the tingling? The pins & needles? That damned annoying twitching eyelid that just won’t let up? Was it that weird thing when you keep seeing the flashing in your periphiral vision? The strange sensation in your throat where you just can’t swallow? The constant muscle aches and cramps? The constant small joint aches and cramps? Do you have that weird internal vibrating feeling? Was it the percieved weakness in all your major limbs? What about the foot drop you have been noticing, the clumsiness, finding the car keys in the fridge? Was it the chronic constant fatigue, that feeling when you wake in the morning like you haven’t actually gone to bed? What about the myclonic jerking, that bizarre moment when your whole body jerks like you have had an electric shock? Was it that constant twitching in your calf muscles that looks like you have a bag of worms under your skin? It could have been the parathesia, the feeling on your skin where one moment it feels sunburnt and the next minute it feels soaking wet? Maybe it was the atrophy, you know, the muscle loss in your bicep, your thigh that is so obvious to you but what frustratingly nobody else can see? What about………are you bored? I’m bored!
So, you have had some of those right? Maybe like me you are unlucky enough to have had every one of them…not much fun is it! When you first started getting these weird and wonderful symptoms cropping up I bet one of the first things you did was run off to the all powerful internet and consult that all knowing oracle, the good lord GOOGLE. If you did this, if you searched for your symptoms on a search engine on the internet, congratualtions, you have taken the first step on developing this weird and wonderful anxiety disorder known as Health Anxiety. The reason we Google is because of a basic human need at a time of stress, we are scared and we want reassurance, the problem is nothing you ever read on the internet will give you the reassurance you need, you will unwittingly discard the plethora of evidence that tells you that you do not have a neurological illness and instead will latch onto and inflate those things which seem ambigous, why would you do this? I suggest that at this point it may be adavantagous for you to look in the Genaralized Anxiety Disorder folder on this forum and see the negative thought processes and over generalization and catastrophising that defines GAD, it just may ring some bells for you.
So, by the time you have gone to the doctor you are pretty much resigned to the fact that it is MS or if you are really unlucky ALS. You picture yourself in a wheelchair, the kids looking at you with pity as you can’t play sports in the park with them anymore, you picture your partner standing by you and caring for you but all the while you feel the resentment, they never signed up for this, you picture the scene in four years time, confined to a hospital bed with your family and friends round you with the fruit and flowers…..BUT WAIT!
Oh joyous news, the doctor has said you don’t have MS, you don’t have ALS, what you have is anxiety, well, just anxiety….oh believe me there is a BIG difference. You have got out of jail free! The doctor has examind you thoroughly, he has taken your history, he knows the patterns, he has seen people with MS and ALS and you are not one of those. With a skip and a step you are on your way, same time next year doctor, yep, no worries…so with a happy heart and an increased vigour you are off out of the surgery door to continue with your life that had been on hold up to then. MS, ALS how could you be so silly eh?
…and then it begins! Right, the doctor said this is anxiety, I’m not anxious though, why do I still have these symptoms if I’m not anxious….something just isn’t right here. The more you think about it the more it seems obvious, hold on, I saw the doctor on Friday afternoon, I bet he was just thinking about the weekend and wanted to get rid of me. I’m sure that the doctor should have done more tests than he did you know, crikey, I’m sure when I told him the numbness was down just the one side he didn’t listen to that, that bit is crucial and he never heard it. Hold on, this freakin eye twitch is getting even worse and I’m not even anxious, where is the telephone? What is that doctors number?……welcome to the loop!
If any of the above seems familier to you, believe me, you are not alone…as strange as it may seem the fixation on being convinced you have a neurological condition after being told that you are in actual fact suffering from anxiety in very common.
Firstly, you need to realise that both MS and ALS are rare disease’s. Not only are they both rare disease’s but they also tend to effect spefic groups based on ethnicity, age and sex so we are talking about rare disease with partial excluding factors. In contrast, anxiety is an incredibly common and debilitating condtion that effects people both physically and mentally.
Anxiety is generally percieved to be a mental condition, when we are anxious we are anxious in our head and this can kick in the flight or fight syndrome which in turn causes the physical reactions. These reactions are generally thought to be a racing heart and palpitations, sweating, increased adrenaline etc etc. Now, this is all well and good but how does this fit in with those symptoms that mirror MS etc so effectivly.
I personally believe that the reason most people fail to be believe that their symptoms are being genrated by anxiety is because the concept of anxiety is never actually expalined sufficently. A large number of doctors will often expalin to you that you are suffering from ‘just’ anxety and this usage of the term ‘just’ is supposed to make us somehow feel reassured. The problem is that this has the opposite effect, how can a ‘just’ something cause all these real physical symptoms. If anxiety is effecting me mentally how can it make me twitch, buzz and go numb?
For some people anxiety will surface in the tradional panic attack, much seems to be written on this side of anxiety and this is not what we are concerned with here. For a sizable group of people when anxiety starts to manifest itself physically it is through physical sesnations that effect various aspects of our nervous system. This is why the sensations of this physical anxiety so closely mirror the symptoms of a condition such as MS, they actually effect the same part of the body, now, here is the crucial and all important difference, the symptoms of MS are caused by an organic condition which whilst treatable is irreversable and the physical sensations of anxiety are caused by the mind and are of course reversable. In short, you have to understand and accept that the mind can actually generate these physical sensations.
Whilst for many people physical anxiety can strike out of the blue, I am of the opinion that for the vast majority of people anxiety starts to become physical after whay could be many years of bad stress and anxiety management. You may not have even noticed this. We all have an anxiety threshold and the majority of people will probably never approach the blow off point, yes, a sudden and severe stressor could take someone right over the point from the baseline (think Post Traumatic Stress Disorder & Conversion Disorder etc) but most of us operate at an anxiety level that our bodies can handle. The problem is that if we stress ourselves constantly over a period of time, we do not allow our thermostat to reset and one sunny day something will happen, some stressor which can be a bad or even a good event and which we may not even realise the significance of will push us over the limit and it is at this point that our anxiety will effect us physically and more often than not impact on our nervous system.
This also happens to bring us to another crucial factor and what for many is the paradox that holds us back form accepting the anxiety diagniosis, how the hell can this be anxiety when I am not anxious? It makes no sense to me! What we need to realise is that once we have crossed the anxiety threshold no matter what we do we have to surrender ourselves to our mind and body and accept that we are now operating to a timescale that WE CANNOT CONTROL! We can think we are being as cool as Fonzie but we need to accept that the damage whilst reversible has been done and it is just a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Our body is now in control of us and the physical sensations will only stop when our body and mind are sufficently recovered.
It is at this point where we commit the ultimate folly, do we do as the experts suggest and sit back and realx and float through this stage? Of course not, we do the total opposite, we monitor our body for every twitch and interpret this as a sign of a misdiagnosis, we become hypervigilant, paranoid, self absorbed…this behaviour just creates more and more anxiety and we do not allow our body and mind the time necessary to recover….we are, in effect, pouring gasoline on the fire and expecting it to go out.
If you read this forum you will find a variety of posts that will offer you suggestions as to why you are suffering from the physical sensations of anxiety. Some people will advocate medication, some Cognitive Behaviour Therapy etc etc but what you will realise is that there is no one right way. I am truly of the belief that recovery is all about acceptance and learning to respond to fear correctly but how we do this is very much an indvidual thing. It could well be that you have issues with GAD and you can see how patterns realting to that disorder resonate with how you currently feel about your health, for example, note how both MS and ALS are diseases with which we lose control of our bodies. It could also be that you have issues with OCD, traits such as reassurance seeking and body and symptom monitoring could suggest this. There may well be suggestions that you could be sufferring from elements of depression, there is as school of thought that believes that the mind will somatise physical sensations when there are aspects of your life that your unconcious is unhappy with etc.
I hope this has helped if you have just visited here convinced you have MS etc and you are feeling scared and confused. You may have noticed I have not mentioned anything specific about MS or ALS and that is because there is no reason to...you do not have those. Your doctor has told you you are suffering from anxiety and therefore you are in the right place. Refrain from researching about diseases you do not have and instead concentrate on dealing with what you have today. Of course, what you have today doesn’t guarantee you won’t have MS or ALS tomorrow and if that thought fills you with fear use your time here wisely and believe me, it becomes a lot more bearable.

I'm thinking of ending a friendship.
I don't have a lot of friends, and most of them are now my partner's friend's girlfriends. She is one of them. My boyfriend is also the godfather of their child.
Before this trip, there were a few thing I was not okay with. They were always late to everything, The way they treat their dog, their relationship, and their pregnancy.. but it wasn't affecting me so I let it go.
This last weekend we went on a canoe portage trip. It was a first for me, we didn't have a canoe, but we had planned to rent one out. The friend, we'll call him Kyle, had agreed to come with my BF get the canoe and it had to be done before 1pm. Kyle didn't wake up until 1:30pm and laughed it off, saying he would bring his row boat instead. I was already so mad, because for the entire week prior I had been reminding Kyle and BF that it had to be done before 1PM. On the last day before leaving, Kyle's GF, Jenny decided she was also coming. it took me months to find a reasonable sitter for my dog, who is very calm and well trained. She was not going to find one in less than 24h, so she decided they were bringing it. The morning of, they were supposed to pick us up at 9am, they didn't show up until 9:40 because they misplaced the pin for their boat trailer. The dog didn't have his lead, he just had paracord that was extremely short and hard to grab. They told me the lead was at the bottom of their backpack. We get there, unload all the boats, and they decide without talking to anyone that they will take their canoe, and that my BF and I, with another guy, will take the row boat and the dog. They didn't take the lead out of their bag and the paracord was too short to tie to the boat.
It took 3x as long to row the boat to where we were going. The dog decided to leap in the water and took down an expensive fishing rod. On land he was running around, while we were trying to haul the kits and the boat through portage points.
I'm NGL I complained the entire day. I should have made the best of a shitty situation but I was so mad. I just complained and bitched the whole time. Once we had settled at the campground, she told me I had to stop being a bitch about the situation, because they were kind enough to drive us up and lend us their boat. That the dog is a package deal, so if I wanted her to come, the dog came too. I told her the problem was that Kyle was the one who didn't wake up to go get the canoe, that they made the decision for BF and I to take the boat without asking us first, and didn't take care of their dog that they decided to bring. She said they were leaving the next morning with the boat and their canoe and told us good luck getting back. Well there was no way for them to do it, it took at least 4 to lift the boat, but still I didn't want the whole trip to be ruined on the first day, so I apologized for being a bitch (which in fairness made it even worse and I'm glad she called me out for that), and asked her to stay.
Throughout the weekend, they left the dog tied to a tree and went about their business. They never came to check on it, so we refilled it's water.
On the way back, we once again had to take the row boat, but with my positive attitude and practice on our side, it went much smoother, the dog was tired and slept the whole way. They made it back much faster than we did. All the other canoews were already loaded, but theirs was still on the water with all their kit inside. BF and I unloaded our boat and their boat, loaded up their car and then helped load their canoe and the boat. Throughout the whole weekend, they never thanked us for sucking it up with the boat, or carrying their stuff, or taking care of their dog. They just expected it. It pissed me off so much. I didn't thank them when they dropped us home, I just went straight in. After some time, I talked to my BF and cried. It was still fun but it was nothing close to what I was expecting.
Now my question.
Is this worth ending a friendship over and how should I approach this? What would you do?

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