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Haifisch posted:Do you think the people making up cyberpunk dystopia settings ever just look at this stuff and realize they can't come close to that level of soul-crushing? https://twitter.com/greatdismal/status/911805263174238209?lang=en
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Oct 30, 2021 17:41
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Slanderer posted:I remembered how to quote archived stuff: -Zydeco- posted:"The cube plans to put 1 out of every 6 UCSB students next to the County of Santa Barbara Community Hazardous Waste Collection Center"
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Nov 1, 2021 12:26
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Like….how loving lazy are you?   I’m very glad I don’t have to look at that poo poo every day. The neighborhood behind ours is a cornfield converted vinyl village in every sense of the phrase.
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Nov 2, 2021 18:22
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What is it with people not staining fences? I’ve seen that a ton recently and I don’t know if it’s a new thing or if it’s because I’m just noticing etc. Did HGTV decide weathered, gross pine boards are rustic flair or something?
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Nov 2, 2021 18:53
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Derelícte, so hot right now.
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Nov 2, 2021 18:57
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Platystemon posted:
I was like "103 is pretty hot for a pool. Maybe a hot tub..."  
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Nov 2, 2021 19:08
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Cyrano4747 posted:What is it with people not staining fences? I’ve seen that a ton recently and I don’t know if it’s a new thing or if it’s because I’m just noticing etc. Because if you live in a rainy climate like where I live you have to sand and re-stain your entire fence line every 2-3 years, and gently caress that.
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Nov 2, 2021 21:25
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Natural "weathered wood" is also fairly popular.
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Nov 2, 2021 21:28
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Cyrano4747 posted:What is it with people not staining fences? I’ve seen that a ton recently and I don’t know if it’s a new thing or if it’s because I’m just noticing etc. because im lazy, op
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Nov 2, 2021 21:30
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-02/zillow-shuts-down-home-flipping-business-after-racking-up-lossesquote:The decision comes as the company’s third-quarter results showed it lost more than $380 million in the flipping operation, called Zillow Offers. The business hit a major snag in recent months as the company’s algorithms caused it to overpay for houses just as the heated U.S. market began to cool slightly, forcing it to list properties at a loss. 
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Nov 2, 2021 21:39
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GotLag posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-02/zillow-shuts-down-home-flipping-business-after-racking-up-losses Good.
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Nov 2, 2021 21:44
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drat I thought they were just burning VC money to hit market share so they could pull some nefarious scheme, I didn't realize they were actually trying to make money by flipping. What idiots.
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Nov 2, 2021 21:48
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Bots With Money: Flipping not just for Battlebots anymore. I know the answer, but did Zillow really not have any oversight on these purchases? No local realtor to double check their offer? That’s SV for you. E: Oops thought I was in the bad with money thread. Bird in a Blender fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Nov 3, 2021 02:23
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Bird in a Blender posted:Bots With Money: Flipping not just for Battlebots anymore. Blind faith in the algorithm, it can never fail.
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Nov 3, 2021 02:28
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Bird in a Blender posted:Bots With Money: Flipping not just for Battlebots anymore. That sounds like an expense that we should be able to automate away! And the goal here is to get as filthy stinking rich as possible, so we must ruthlessly cull all expenses!
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Ok I don’t know electricity on this scale and the colors seem wrong, but is that red glow photoemission from heated metal? Surely not, right?! (Last time what I thought was a heated pool turned out to be an electric pool so I’m skittish.) re Zillow: someday we will find out that most of the people losing their jobs as the result of this spent the last eight months trying to figure out how it was possible the company was making these decisions which didn’t make any sense then being told to gently caress off and keep pushing buttons by some level of management.
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Nov 3, 2021 06:25
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It is indeed glowing from getting way too hot. The camera may exaggerate the visuals by capturing some near infrared, as many cameras do. OP says it was one hundred amps load in a circuit rated for three hundred. Just a poor electrical connexion due to improper installation further degrading with time.
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Nov 3, 2021 06:56
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  The first one I get because they’re pulling a fast one on inspectors, but as to the second, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a construction. Bonus Jesus cord:  e: double bonus lamp cord used in the wall: 
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Nov 3, 2021 07:19
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Platystemon posted:It is indeed glowing from getting way too hot. The camera may exaggerate the visuals by capturing some near infrared, as many cameras do. Well a thing I do know a little about is glowing metal, how hot it needs to be to look like that (the lights-on picture shows some classic discoloration from the presumably sheet steel warming up), and why I would be running for a master cutoff or possibly just the gently caress away instead of taking a picture e: I think this thread might be finally breaking me
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Nov 3, 2021 07:39
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LonsomeSon posted:Well a thing I do know a little about is glowing metal, how hot it needs to be to look like that (the lights-on picture shows some classic discoloration from the presumably sheet steel warming up), and why I would be running for a master cutoff or possibly just the gently caress away instead of taking a picture Cherry red like that is ~1300 degrees F in steel. 
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Nov 3, 2021 09:48
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https://www.pnj.com/story/news/loca...ror/6137486001/ This just happened in my hometown, my parents were luckily a few houses past those affected 
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Nov 3, 2021 12:02
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Final Blog Entry posted:https://www.pnj.com/story/news/loca...ror/6137486001/ Okay HOW is this even possible? Like, sewage and potable water lines aren't even made of the same materials. There should be nothing there which can cross connect unless you're actively TRYING to gently caress up the potable water.
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Nov 3, 2021 13:00
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PurpleXVI posted:Okay HOW is this even possible? Like, sewage and potable water lines aren't even made of the same materials. There should be nothing there which can cross connect unless you're actively TRYING to gently caress up the potable water. Don’t worry, the private contractor that did it has already gone dark and will surely be declaring bankruptcy before reforming as a new and totally unrelated business. edit: Brown Construction, oh my god
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Bad Munki posted:edit: Brown Construction, oh my god Code Brown! PurpleXVI posted:Okay HOW is this even possible? Like, sewage and potable water lines aren't even made of the same materials. There should be nothing there which can cross connect unless you're actively TRYING to gently caress up the potable water. It had to be a pressure sewer line, coming off a lift station or something. They might potentially be similar materials to a potable water line then, but there’s still a lot that has to go wrong for that to happen.
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Nov 3, 2021 14:41
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JFC that picture in that article of the dude holding the water filter with chunks of visibly poo poo-stained TP on it. edit: here, got un-lazy for half a sec: 
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Nov 3, 2021 14:45
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Platystemon posted:Bonus Jesus cord: I mean, if that's for a generator hookup and they've got a proper transfer panel/lockout, it should never be hot. However, given the fact that they're not using the proper cord for it, that's not a given.
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Nov 3, 2021 17:15
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 Finished the kitchen, honey!
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Nov 3, 2021 18:32
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Platystemon posted:The first one I get because they’re pulling a fast one on inspectors, but as to the second, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a construction. Had a half-switched outlet or just some outlet with the tab broken off in the toolbag and used it anyway. Waste not, want not. Should probably have connected neutrals at some point, but who's bickering?
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kid sinister posted:
I think it took more effort to do it the wrong way than to do it correctly.
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Nov 3, 2021 19:04
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kid sinister posted:
That's bachelor spec. No spouse would approve.
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GotLag posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-02/zillow-shuts-down-home-flipping-business-after-racking-up-losses Yea makes sense. Zillow house buying story: My mom sold her house a few months ago and wanted to FSBO. I helped including market research that put the "just say yes FSBO/no realtor" sale price at $450k and a "if the terms are right and the market is cooling" price of $415K. I signed up for a few "we'll buy your house" offers including Zillow figuring they'd be a BATNA in negotiations. Zillow offered her $480k with $30K in total closing costs. From house listed online to money in the bank in ~40 days. They easily overpaid $30K for the house which has sat empty for 2+ months and has had no construction started yet I hear.
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kid sinister posted:
There has to be some kind of spite backstory to this. This is the kind of job you do when you're legally obligated to install cabinets for someone you hate.
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Nov 3, 2021 20:42
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No no, think crappier. They couldn't install the cabinets to the studs because there are no studs in the wall. It's just drywall sheets wedged tight in between the ceiling and the floor. The cabinet brackets are screwed into drywall screw anchors.
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Nov 3, 2021 20:50
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Well There's Your Problem did an episode on the UCSB undergrad murder cube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4grR3qoSV90 also 
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Nov 3, 2021 21:18
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For some reason, I just imagine a Matt Berry character every time I read these quotations.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:46
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Youth Decay posted:Well There's Your Problem did an episode on the UCSB undergrad murder cube Some enterprising Angelenos need to get to Hancock Park and introduce this idiot's "lots of windows" to "lots of rocks", repeatedly. As a kid I stayed briefly in the Corbusier building in Marseille and as far as I remember it it was great. Plenty windows and light (seem to recall a two storey window as one side of the lounge/sitting room bit with interior stairs to access the upper rooms), and it had a paddling pool on the roof for kids to play in.
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Vim Fuego posted:No no, think crappier. They couldn't install the cabinets to the studs because there are no studs in the wall. It's just drywall sheets wedged tight in between the ceiling and the floor. The cabinet brackets are screwed into drywall screw anchors. The way to do that IMO would be use a goodly amount of drywall screw anchors to attach a french cleat, make it two cleats, one lower and one upper. Then hang the cabinets from that. Not optimal, but then atleast the load would be spread out.
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