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- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
Ask your city clerk about it. That person can tell you what the city/county/township meeting format is and how to participate. But basically, you go to the meeting, bring some photos to support your claim, and discuss the matter like a civil human being. It’s not rocket surgery. You don’t need a lawyer either.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty easy to dodge property taxes also.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
I went and argued my taxes at my annual township tax assessment meeting. I was being assessed for a new deck and ramp. That added about $200 to my taxes. What I did do was move the wheelchair ramp out away from the house a bit for better winter time safety and repaired the steps, ramp boards, and railings.
Should I have been taxed for a whole new deck and ramp when I just did repairs and made safety changes?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
You certainly can argue about your property taxes and win concessions if you have a good reason. It’s not hard to do. You just need to get off your ass and attend the annual tax assessment meeting.
It’s why that annual meeting exists.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
I have taught math for 4 years in my local school. The iPads were used by the 3rd and 4th grade students. And they never left the classrooms and were well supervised during use.
Starting in 5th grade, they were issued Chromebooks. Google Classroom was used for assignments and other communications. And since Mommy and Daddy had to pay for them IF they were damaged, they held up quite well. The IBM Education model is very robust. Not fast, but robust.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 weeks ago:
Which businesses? Foreign companies or local ones? Do you wish to have your money shipped overseas to purchase a vacuum cleaner? Or would you rather pay a bit more and have you hard earned dollars stay here in at home to help pay wages to your neighbors?
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 weeks ago:
There is a balance to it. Yes, local manufacturing will make things more expensive. But making more durable goods tends to pay better wages for more people. And let’s be honest here, most people can’t be a doctor or write code. High paying collage degrees are beyond them. Or we can maintain low paying retail jobs for the majority of people.
But the is a balance and it can’t be done over night without causing large amounts of economic pain to many people.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
So you want to take agency away from every adult so they conform to your views only?
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 1 month ago:
I think “Patch this Bish” is kind of how we got to this point.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 1 month ago:
Think of it as a way to say you have no clue how to communicate correctly through the written word. By the time I’m forced to wade through your lack of punctuation, misspellings and the autocorrect blunders and the stupid emojis to decipher what you REALLY meant, I already have equated your IQ to be around the range of my old orange tabby cat.
If you send me a text, I will consider it of such low priority that I might get back to you in a week or so.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 1 month ago:
I absolutely detest text messaging or emails. You have a problem? Call me because I can probably solve your issue in one minute of phone call. I have been almost always been subjected to texting sessions that lasted for several hours because the dumbass on the other end lacked the spelling and vocab skills to provide an accurate written description of the problem.
Time is money and even sometimes life threatening unless the fastest method of communication is use. And fastest ain’t an email or text.
- Comment on Anon has an antique revolver 1 month ago:
Antique firearms are often fiddly to take apart, repair and reassemble. After all, they weren’t the most optimized designs and often required a lot of hand fitting to get things to work as compared to today. But they aren’t that complex nor were they designed like an iPhone to be near impossible to take apart and reassemble.
But, like most mechanical things, you really only need to be 5% smarter than the machine to actually work with it. A high bar for some I suppose.
- Comment on moms rule 2 months ago:
The French tried to impose “metric” time way back in the day. Even they learned that was a bad idea and quietly dropped it. The solar system seems to prefer it’s base12 time.
I think it maybe helped give rise the the saying: “The French follow no one. And no one follows the French.”
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 2 months ago:
I already wear a smart watch and use the vibrate reminders. It’s not particularly effective. After a lifetime in the harsh sun, there ain’t a lot of feeling left. Maybe once out of three times I might notice the vibration if I’m not distracted doing life things.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 2 months ago:
As a boomer with tinnitus, (I’ve had since maybe 4 years old), and now hearing loss, I can’t hear shit on my cell phone at 50% volume. And I have alarms set to remind me to take certain inhalers at set times during the day, (Thanks Long Covid!). So, yeah, I have the volume up enough to probably piss you off. It pisses me off too-- I hate those things and having to live like this. But it’s not like turning the volume off or down is really an option for me.
But chances are I probably forgot the damn thing at home anyway.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
There is soon a great winnowing of craft distilleries coming also. There is a glut of barrels growing in rick houses are we speak and production is dropping. MGP, (probably the largest producer of custom/aged spirits for “craft” whisk(e)y brands in the US), has announced large cut backs in their production. The market share for spirits is declining in the US as the younger customers are swinging away from spirits to other types of intoxicants.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
Mostly because they can’t be good at all of them. And there were/are a lot of bad brewers out there that don’t care about mastering the craft.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
The “craft” part got killed in the commercialization of the genre. So it’s become the modern version of Pabst. And there is a contraction of micro breweries at the moment as beer drinkers are slowly learning to pass on all the crap out there.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
It’s not that I hate IPAs, I don’t per se. I’ve home brewed IPAs for myself even though I prefer ales. The problem started with micro breweries trying to out do each other in seeing just how much hopps could be jackhammered into a beer. And it’s turned beer drinkers in pretentious snobs because they have no clue in what the reason is for IPAs to even exist in the first place or even how it’s supposed to originally taste.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
I almost always follow a new recipe the first time around to understand what the dish is generally supposed to be. After that, I start riffing off of it to make it what I want it to be. But you gotta know which general direction the dish was originally headed before you can successfully play with it if you’re a Home Gamer in the kitchen.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 months ago:
While it’s possible to special order Imperial thread standard spanners, it’s unlikely you are buying those. US Customary screw specifications are a separate thing, (have been so for over 100 years now), and have nothing to do with Imperial anything. There are some sizes that will fit, much as some metric wrench sizes will also fit US Customary and vice versa. But there are bunches of Imperial sizes that have no correlation to US Customary standards for machine screws.
Source: Old, cranky, retired toolmaker that has had to custom make screws for everything from laboratory equipment, cameras, to antique cars and tractors to 200 year old firearms. I’m familiar with more screw standards than you even know exist.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 months ago:
We don’t use “Imperial kingdom units.” We use US Customary units which are different. Just like your “metric” system is different from SI.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 months ago:
My $90US AWOW mini with Celeron J4125, 8 gigs of shared memory, 128gig SSD seems to run FreeDoom as good as any of the other potatos them GamerBoi fancy water cooled custom boxes have…
- Comment on Feel the Joy 2 months ago:
She made a great career out of playing “everyone’s mom” .
- Comment on Feel the Joy 2 months ago:
Yep. Piss jugs are a thing for truckers. Ain’t got time to stop to pee, you guys all expect your ordered shit to be across country in minutes after the order is placed.
- Comment on Looking for answers 3 months ago:
Violence is always a valid answer. It’s just not always the best answer. The problem with violence is it’s been proven time and time again to be impossible to control and hold to a limited use since there are no cool heads at that point. Nor do specific targets exist-- just collateral damage.
And no successful revolutionary has ever had a sound plan for after the victory beyond “I want the power now.” And they can either hold the power or not. But the idea of “for the good of the people” gets put to the side pretty quickly.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 3 months ago:
My money is on fusion before proper socialism.
There is always someone willing to twist the rules and game the system to get more money and power than everyone else. The 1% have always existed and so have the worker class. It will always shake out to that.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 3 months ago:
I wash my hands for nearly a minute. But most of that time is spent trying to get those stupid no touch faucets to work.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 3 months ago:
They often are partially recycled material. But recycled paper isn’t like recycling aluminum or steel. There are limits to how often and how much of the cycled material you can add back to make useful paper products.
But paper towels can and does make great compost as most gardeners know. And a properly run landfill is a compost pile. But you need to keep the nasty garbage out.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 3 months ago:
Yes you can assume all people don’t wash their hands correctly.