Because the giant iron mass in the artic pulls a compass point that way, and you align your map to the compass when navigating.

Be sure you're comparing like for like. At Home Depot right now, 2 3.0ah Milwaukee M18 batteries are $179 ($149 on sale) and 2 3.0ah Dewalt 20v max are $189.

The standard deduction is what the government expects someone making the median income to have as legitimate non-taxable expenses. If you're making >$300k, your legitimate deductions are likely multiple times that amount. Talk to a tax lawyer (not an accountant). It hurts to see someone just voluntarily forking over their rightful income to the government. If you're doing it out of benevolence, there are likely charities that directed contributions to can provide far more efficient use of the funds.

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Think of it like this... If a pipeline runs to an east coast port to fill up ships to export to Europe, and another pipeline is set up in Los Angeles to distribute product from the Persian Gulf to gas stations, it's easier to keep doing that than to send a super tanker that doesn't fit through the Panama Canal from that east coast port, around South America, to get it to the port of LA. That's just a hypothetical example, but most of our petro infrastructure was developed before we discovered fracking and started producing enough to cover our needs, and it's expensive to redo everything.

Yes, self-sufficiency would mean we can cut ourselves off from the global market. We can't. Just because we pump enough crude doesn't mean we're able to refine that crude and distribute its products internally. That's why we import about as much as we export. The infrastructure that is in place isn't structured to allow us to use what we're pumping, and too much infrastructure that is in place is structured around imports. There's no financial incentive for companies to tear apart what exists and rebuild it for self-sufficiency.

Negative net imports doesn't mean self-sufficient. If we're continuously importing just as much, or more, than we're exporting, we're not relying on our own supply, and don't have the infrastructure in place to use our domestic product. Self-sufficiency would mean we can stop importing oil and separate ourselves from OPEC's pricing monopoly. We cannot.

We use our house email address for all of the stuff house related. Amazon, our power company, the phone company, internet provider, etc all already know where we live. Think about how much junk mail you get... your home address is not private. In fact, if you own the home it's public record.

If it's available, buy the domain for your street, and use your address as the email address...

1234@MyStreet.com

You can sell the other addresses to neighbors.

You can do all of that, and it still may have zero effect over genetics. Live your life to the fullest and try to enjoy every moment.

This was my thought. Reframing that wall may be a higher priority than hanging a tv on it.

Or train your cats not to jump on the counters.