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  • doc@fedia.iotopolitics •Democrat Eric Swalwell faces federal criminal inquiry for alleged mortgage fraud
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    1 个月前

    Every instance I’ve seen with actual details has been improper use of real property tax exemptions. In many states you get a discounted tax rate by declaring your home as your primary residence. If you own several properties you only get the discount on one, which is supposed be the one you live at the most (ie primary residence).

    The “fraud” part comes in play if you claim multiple properties as your primary. It’s harder to do that if the properties are in the same state, but it’s easy if they’re in different states since states don’t talk with one another. It’s so easy that it’s often accidental.

    We’re talking a few grand a year in tax savings. It’s ripping off your state by under paying and people in these positions should know better so it’s harder to give them sympathy, but elevating what may be an accident to a supposed major scandal is a silly headline making exercise.

    And why is this happening? Retribution, of course: first person I recall being attacked in the manner recently was MTG.

  • doc@fedia.iotoToday I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•TIL why you're not supposed to cook or drink hot tap water - it's the lead (and other heavy metals)
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    1 个月前

    Nobody in the last century+ has lead freshwater pipes.

    That said, some of our underground infrastructure is very old, and those old iron pipes had fittings sealed with lead and oakum.

    Water flowing through such pipes have pH and chemicals carefully controlled to avoid that lead corroding or dissolving. The Flint, Michigan disaster was a direct result of not managing water chemistry correctly, but there are hundreds if not thousands of communities at similar risk who are kept safe by water scientists and engineers doing their job correctly.

    That said, hot water tanks do accumulate minute quantities of undesirable metals over time, and depending on a wide variety of variables between the water source and your tap it could result in unhealthy levels of things you don’t want to consume.

    So yeah, don’t cook or drink from the hot water tap.

  • doc@fedia.iotoBuy it for Life@slrpnk.net•(E-waste) Sonicare 4100 battery access
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    2 个月前

    The models with the oval bottom just have that cap pressed into the end with two small clips on the long side of the oval. Deforming the oval into a circle and using a small flat blade screwdriver to pry it out is usually all it takes.

    I’ve successfully desoldered the battery for recharging before. We had one go so completely flat the wireless charging wouldn’t work. Putting the battery in an external charger brought it back to life. It was in service for another couple years till a drop in the brush end ruined it.