I used to think my old passwords were fine until my Netflix account got hacked last week

Someone in Moscow logged into my account and changed the email, locking me out. I realized I'd been using the same password for years across a bunch of sites. I had to contact support and finally set up a password manager, which I should have done ages ago. Anyone have a good method for cleaning up old, reused passwords across a ton of accounts?

Pro tip: I used to think you could ask anything online and get a real answer

Three years ago, I posted a detailed question about fixing a specific error code on a 2007 Ford Focus on a car forum and got zero replies for a week. Last month, I tried again on a different site, but this time I posted a short video of the weird noise it made. Within two hours, a mechanic from Boise named Greg replied with the exact fix for the throttle body. I was totally wrong about how to ask for help. What's the best way you've found to get a good answer to a tricky question online?

TIL a trick for chatter on thin walls at the Detroit tool show

I was watching a demo on a Haas VF-2 at the Detroit tool show last month. The guy was running a part with a 0.06 inch wall and it was singing. He just bumped the feed rate up by 15 percent and the chatter stopped almost completely. I tried it on a similar job back at my shop and it worked way better than messing with the speeds. Has anyone else found a simple feed tweak works better than a full reprogram for vibration?

A local comic in my city got dropped from a festival after a joke from 2018 resurfaced

A friend of mine, a comic named Mike, had a spot at the Riverfront Comedy Fest here. A clip from a set he did six years ago got posted online last month. In it, he made a joke about a local politician that was pretty mean. The festival organizers got a bunch of emails and tweets about it, and they pulled him from the lineup with a week's notice. My friend argued it was old material from when he was starting out and his style has changed a lot. The festival said they have a 'zero tolerance' policy for that kind of personal attack, no matter when it was said. I'm split. On one hand, it feels unfair to judge someone's whole career on a single old joke. On the other, I get why the festival wouldn't want the bad press. Was this a fair call, or did they go too far over something from 2018?

My entire video essay channel got flagged for 'harmful misinformation' last Thursday. It was about historical media analysis.

I run a small channel, around 2k subs, where I analyze political ads and news segments from the past 30 years. Last week I uploaded a 15-minute piece comparing coverage of a 1990s policy debate to modern reporting. No conspiracy stuff, just showing how framing changed. Woke up to a total strike: channel banned, all videos gone. The automated notice just cited 'harmful misinformation' with no specific timestamp or example. I appealed, but the reply was a copy-paste of the first message. I'm at a loss. Has anyone successfully navigated a blanket ban like this? What's the actual path to a human review when the system just says no?

Showerthought: I've been using the wrong torque sequence on cylinder heads for years and only figured it out when a head gasket blew on a 6.7 Powerstroke.

I just found out how many questions get asked here every day

Honestly, I was curious and looked at the community stats page. It said over 2,500 new posts go up in this sub every 24 hours. Ngl, that blew my mind a bit. What's the weirdest question you've actually seen get a solid answer here?

Vent: Saw a cast iron fence post in Savannah that made me rethink our sprue gates

Was walking around the historic district last week. Noticed an old fence post with a perfect, clean break right at the gate. No tearing, just a smooth fracture line. Made me realize our shop's gates might be too thick, causing more stress and waste on the break-off. We use 3/8 inch on most of our gray iron jobs. Anyone else size down their gates for cleaner breaks on smaller castings?

Can we talk about requesting your data from a big tech company?

I downloaded my entire activity archive from a major social platform last month, and the sheer volume of location pings from an app I barely use was genuinely unsettling. Has anyone else done this and been surprised by what they actually collected?

My bathroom floor turned into a water park because I didn't check the toilet seal

I was putting in a new toilet in my house near Wolflin last month and thought I could skip the wax ring check. Big mistake. I turned the water back on, flushed, and watched a steady stream pour onto the subfloor. I had to shut everything off, pull the toilet again, and found the old ring was totally smashed. After three tries with a new reinforced ring, it finally sealed. Anyone else in Amarillo have a plumbing fail that made a bigger mess than you started with?