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Basic Welding: A First Weekend With a MIG

Buy the helmet before the welder, burn a dozen practice beads on scrap, and learn to hear a good weld before you try to see one.

StoryNewsJosh Halloran23 Sept 20266 min

Operation Choke Point Ended in 2017. The Argument Didn't.

A Justice Department letter killed the program eight years ago. The fight over who banks are allowed to serve has outlasted it by a decade.

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GuideTradesAde Fisher23 Sept 20266 min

How to Land a Trade Apprenticeship and Get Paid to Learn

The application window, the aptitude test, the panel interview, and the six things that sink most candidates before they ever pick up a tool.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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Skills6 min read

Why Fences Lean, and How to Set Posts That Don't

A fence never fails at the pickets. It fails in the first eight inches of dirt below grade, and that part is decided on day one.

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GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

When your bank closes your account and won't say why

The letter gives you two months and no explanation. What to do in the first week, in the right order, before your direct debits start failing.

StoryNewsJosh Halloran23 Sept 20266 min

What the debanking record actually shows

Court rulings, regulator reports and a 40-page bank dossier tell part of the story. The scale of it is still contested — and here's why.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideSkillsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Changing your own oil without making a mess of it

The order to do it in, the two mistakes that dump five quarts on your driveway, and the parts nobody tells you to buy.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How to fight a chargeback, and when to let it go

Most merchants contest the disputes they can't win and give up on the ones they can. Fix that with a deadline calendar and one piece of arithmetic.

GuideStartupsSam Ortiz22 Sept 20266 min

The side business that survives a full-time job

Most side businesses die of exhaustion, not competition. Pick one that runs on your clock and it can outlast the job that funded it.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideSkillsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

How to hang a door so it closes with one push

Most doors that stick were hung to a crooked frame. Set the hinge side plumb first and everything downstream gets easier.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Rolling reserves, chargeback ratios and the numbers that bite

Two thresholds decide whether your processor trusts you, and one of them isn't the one you think. What the merchant agreement doesn't spell out.

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GuideStartupsSam Ortiz22 Sept 20265 min

Test your business idea for two hundred pounds or less

Most ideas don't survive contact with a paying customer. Find out in three weeks, on a small budget, before you quit anything.

GuideSkillsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Changing a tire at the roadside without getting hurt

The order matters more than the muscle. Loosen before you lift, and know the one place you should never do this at all.

Shirts.com — Design it with AI. Wear it this week.

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GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

Your high-risk processing rate isn't your processing cost

The 4.35% on the quote sheet is the smallest number in the deal. Work out the reserve, the float and the chargeback drag before you sign.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

Money5 min

How to work out your life insurance number and stop there

Skills6 min

The running toilet is a fifteen-minute fix, not a plumber call

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How long a MATCH listing follows you, and how to get off it

Your merchant account got shut down and now nobody will board you. That's a five-year clock, it's tied to your name, and here's how it actually works.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

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Money5 min read

An index fund is a list and a machine that buys the list

No jargon, no hype, just what you're actually buying, what it costs, and the arithmetic that decides how it turns out.

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