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Yep, once they figured out a way to raise the price of TVs, repairing them came back into vogue.  Repair dude said mine was reparable, however the part was unavailable right now.  I don't care one way or the other as long as I get the warranty I paid for and have a TV that works. Fix it, replace it, send me a check, whatever.
The new fancy washers are the worst, seems they all need a new board within a month or two__service people arrive quickly but the board takes some time __same goes for those high end LG multi door refers.

I have an old stack unit stored out in the garage that I paid around $500 for new 20 years back just in case.


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Take it the flea market and sell it to a mooch

Give it to the VoTech school maybe?
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The new fancy washers are the worst, seems they all need a new board within a month or two__service people arrive quickly but the board takes some time __same goes for those high end LG multi door refers.

I have an old stack unit stored out in the garage that I paid around $500 for new 20 years back just in case.

Yep, My mother has a high dollar one that no one has been able to repair so far, but we can force it to work. I had a cheaper one and it died long before it should have.  The one I had before that was second hand old school and we abused it for 12 years after we got it. If I had known, I would have rebuilt it instead of replacing.
The one I have now, I went looking for the most basic model I could find. So far so good but I doubt it will last trouble free for more than a few years.
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"...Texas snowstorm death toll double what was originally reported — and could be even higher: officials..."
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"...‘My predecessor … Oh God, I miss him’: Biden laughs at Trump during first press conference..."
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"...Texas snowstorm death toll double what was originally reported — and could be even higher: officials..."

I just seen that headline elsewhere...
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"...'Heresy!' Franklin Graham's followers revolt after the evangelical leader says Jesus would get the COVID vaccine..."
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The new fancy washers are the worst, seems they all need a new board within a month or two__service people arrive quickly but the board takes some time __same goes for those high end LG multi door refers.

I have an old stack unit stored out in the garage that I paid around $500 for new 20 years back just in case.
That irritates the sht out of me when they make something low tech high tech just for the sake of doing so.
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For those with real problems...a good friend of ours is hooked up to a tube in her stomach...expected to die in the next few hours...her husband....also a friend....fell in love with her in Jr.High school.....I don't know if he's going to get through this. I am praying for them both. Not because I'm a holy roller.
Just because I want their pain to end.
I wish them both the very best with many more happy years.

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"...Republicans Aim to Seize More Power Over How Elections Are Run: G.O.P. lawmakers in at least eight states controlled by the party are trying to gain broad influence over the mechanics of voting, in an effort that could further undermine the country’s democratic norms...."

It is like watching Pinky and the Brain, GI Joe vs Cobra, James Bond vs Smersh/Spectre, Homes vs Moriarty there is always another evil plot afoot. They just don't know when to quit.  I am perilously close to advocating that the GOP be declared a terrorist org and hunted down to the last man.
I agree. Hoping they are forced to obey the rules, or it’s out the door with them.
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"...Trump schedules Fox News phone interview to rant about Biden's first press conference..."

and no one cares....
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"...Dear Republican voter:

When Ted Nugent, the NRA and the GOP told you that more guns would make America a less violent society, what did you expect? Did you really think that suddenly every American would become a fast-draw marksman and vigilante justice would take us back to some happy Wild West movie fantasy?

When Trump said Covid was "just like the flu" at the same time he was telling Bob Woodward it was a killer, what did you expect? When he pushed refusing to wear a mask as if it were some sort of declaration of masculinity, and openly encouraged states and cities to remain open to produce "herd…er…thinking" did you really believe that would keep a half-million Americans from dying?


When Trump sent thousands of modern-day brownshirts to storm the US Capitol and try to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi so Trump could become the nation's strongman dictator, what did you expect? Did you believe that American democracy was outdated, and our country would run better if a billionaire oligarch and his cronies just took everything over regardless of the will of the voters?..."
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"...When five Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court, in 2010 in Citizens United, ruled that billionaires and big corporations secretly bribing politicians was just "First Amendment-protected Free Speech," what did you expect? Did you believe that was going to work out well for democracy in America? That it had, in any country, ever?

When Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist, along with Reagan, both Bushes and Trump warned you about the dangers of "big government" and said it should be shrunk down small enough to be "drowned in the bathtub," what did you expect? Did you really think that gutting environmental and banking protections; letting corporations dump more pollution into our air and water, poisoning our children; and restricting access to Medicaid, unemployment benefits and disability assistance was going to improve this country?..."
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"...When Donald Trump (and Reagan & both Bushes) told you that if America just showered trillions in tax cuts and and subsidies on our largest corporations and richest people that it would all "trickle down" to the rest of us, what did you expect? Did you really think those billionaires were going to happily pass their tax cuts along to you as a pay raise?

When Republican governors across the country told you that only private, for-profit electric companies could provide you with cheap, reliable electricity and that state or municipal utilities with no profit motive were a bad idea, what did you expect? Did you think Enron ripping people off & PG&E burning down part of California was an anomaly? That what just happened with the privatized Texas power grid when it was faced — again — with a winter storm was just a fluke?..."
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"...When Ronald Reagan — and every Republican politician since him — told you that destroying labor unions would be a good thing and would help American workers, what did you expect? Did you really think that no longer having solidarity and representation against organized capital would lift up American workers and cause CEO's to keep their own pay reasonable?

When George HW Bush told you the nation needed to double down on Nixon's "War on Drugs" and put more people in prison, particularly Black people who were "selling crack cocaine in the park across the street from the White House" (a sale Bush set up), what did you expect? Did you really think that putting millions of Black people in prison for decades like Bush pitched with his "Willie Horton" ad campaign was somehow going to make America a better place to live?..."
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"...When Donald Trump tried to cut off food stamps to over a million people in the middle of a pandemic, what did you expect? Did you really think it was going to "force" people to get a job in the face of a disease that could kill them? When over 10 million jobs had just vanished from the economy?

When former oil industry CEOs George W. Bush and Dick Cheney told you that Iraq's Saddam Hussein, coincidentally sitting on the world's second-largest oil reserve, was plotting to attack America, even as the United Nations and our own American weapons inspectors were saying it was a lie, what did you expect? Did you really think America could conquer a country, sell off its natural resources, and its people would just happily go along with it? How'd that work out in Vietnam?..."
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