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The Locator posted:Indeed. I live alone, and on non-telecommute days I leave the house about 7:30 and don't get home until about 7, sometimes later. I just don't think it would be very cool to get a doggy and leave him/her alone 12 hours straight every day I go to work. Same thing that stops me. I'd love to have a dog, but being stuck in an apartment 14 hours at a stretch four days a week isn't an environment for a pup.
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Some wastes of genetic material were shooting them off in the bean field outside my apartment last night about that time. Didn't bother me, since I'm up those hours anyway, but I'm surprised none of my neighbors decided to shoot back.
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Jul 4, 2017 08:56
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:Houses here range from free to $70k in the "up and coming" neighbourhoods to $500k in the nice neighbourhoods 1978 is 'older' there? Jesus, a good bit of the housing stock out here was built in the 1910's.
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Jul 6, 2017 07:08
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Guess Des Moines got lucky, it was easier to buy up a mile or so of farmland off the west side to stick all the McMansions in rather than tear down the surviving hundred year old houses on small city lots and redevelop them. Of course, 10 years later those McMansions are aging like poo poo while the older houses generally seem to get an internal remodel and rewire then go back on the market.
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Jul 6, 2017 09:34
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The Locator posted:poo poo like this is why, if you have to live in an HOA community (and sometimes it can be very difficult to avoid in some areas), then you should take the few hours per month needed to be actively involved in the HOA or even get on the board, so that the HOA doesn't turn into a group of old grouchy retired people who love to have power over everyone's lives. Or too busy. Once those 7 retired guys get on the board, they tend to do stuff like move the meetings to 2pm Thursdays and start trying to change the rules for electing the board.
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Jul 7, 2017 01:47
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cursedshitbox posted:I think it's official enough to post. The wife and I are moving to Ukraine. it is not open for debate or renegotiation. Good luck, don't get yourself loving murdered.  Bad time to be openly gay in that part of the world. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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Jul 7, 2017 21:33
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So you got tired of Bay area crazies and decided to go full eastern bloc because that somehow seemed more reasonable? Your life man, hope it works out well.
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Jul 8, 2017 07:50
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I could see it as an inevitable result of nursing homes being nightmarish charnel houses, too.
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Jul 11, 2017 10:01
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CommieGIR posted:Ah yes, DARE, another ineffective waste of money. My DARE officer back in high school: "James Trimble, the fired Urbandale police officer who stole $20,000 worth of methamphetamine from his department, was spared prison Thursday for his felony drug conviction. Judge Leo Oxberger sentenced Trimble to two years' probation, a $1,000 fine and 100 hours of community service. 'I'm convinced this is a one-time incident for you,' the judge said. The sentence angered prosecutors, who along with presentence investigators recommended up to 10 years in prison for the crime." "About 4 a.m. on New Year's Day, Trimble was arrested driving his mother's van in an inner-city Des Moines neighborhood. Police say they found about 7 ounces - $20,000 worth - of methamphetamine, in addition to marijuana, LSD and cocaine." ... "Authorities said numerous sexually explicit videotapes and pictures were found in the van, including photos of Trimble. He had a battery-operated sexual device inserted in his body when arrested, police said." ... "The 18-year veteran headed Urbandale's Drug Abuse Resistance Education program and acted as liaison officer between police and the suburb's schools." He had also coached ninth-grade girls' basketball and volleyball. "We don't just teach kids what drugs look like," Trimble said in a 1992 interview. "We teach life skills needed to say no to drugs, alcohol and tobacco." ... "Trimble, 44, is required to spend his community-service time giving anti-drug speeches to students. He conducted such talks as a police officer in Urbandale schools."
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Jul 13, 2017 11:41
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rdb posted:Now your username makes sense and yeah I feel you on the height thing. gently caress regional jets. I can barely loving walk after a short trip in them.
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Jul 13, 2017 23:29
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Applebees Appetizer posted:What makes you say that? Besides it won't stop people from smoking it even if it did happen. Our current AG has a hateboner six miles high for drug offenses, and loves mandatory minimums in sentencing. One of his first policy memos was to instruct federal prosecutors to pursue charges that carry a mandatory minimum sentence preferentially. As a Congressman he worked to oppose sentencing reform for non-violent drug crimes for just that reason. All it takes to make the state laws not matter when pot's still illegal federally is the DOJ putting enough pressure on, say by refusing to distribute funds to state and local police agencies unless they agree to turn over info to the feds so that they can try and prosecute legal pot sellers on such things as violating anti-terrorism banking laws by not keeping their profits in banks where the feds can seize them. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 14, 2017 |
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Jul 14, 2017 21:42
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Seminal Flu posted:Yup. Short of locking him up in a residential rehab facility, or the inevitable jail trip that's coming, there's nothing you can do. It blows.
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Jul 15, 2017 13:23
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:My laptop is under a DDOS from four cats If only you could somehow catch them before they reached the laptop, maybe with a device. 
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Jul 21, 2017 10:01
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Summer can bite my hairy rear end. AC went out in the Vic on Friday night. Spent most of Saturday sweating through 101 degrees and 80% humidity to trace and troubleshoot, ended up being a blower fan and resistor. Fun times.
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Jul 24, 2017 08:05
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Darchangel posted:I'd forgotten that there was a Kingsman sequel coming. Thank you. God, don't read it. I have read worse books, but I'd be hard pressed to determine when. The whole thing is just a nostalgia wankfest of 80's pop culture in a terrible, pandering way.
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Jul 25, 2017 09:51
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:US goons: Cap One. Well Fargo is a neverending source of financial dickery.
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Jul 26, 2017 09:32
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Sinestro posted:This is one of the few things Trump's done I'm not finding the ability to get angry about. I'm cool with not being able to be drafted to die in our next pointless quagmire in the Middle East or elsewhere. Yeah, less cool with the implication that any and all of the active military members who are transgender have relaxed their caution in the last year might end up with a dishonorable discharge that'll ruin their lives for the near future because our President is a orange manchild. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Jul 27, 2017 |
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Jul 27, 2017 08:03
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:
The hottest of takes.
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Jul 27, 2017 08:55
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I joined the largest, meanest, most unified military group in history and they're mean, terrible, nasty people who don't understand my individual personal identity
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Adiabatic posted:And on the left you have radical requirements of the right to completely change their behaviors immediately to the left's views, with calls to fascism and racism if they don't fall in line. I personally mostly agree with the left's rhetoric but their delivery is divisive. It's hard not to call to racism when one of the major GOP planks is that they should be allowed to be openly racist against anyone browner than them, be they latino, middle eastern, or African american. Not to mention the calls to persecute Muslims and lgbt people and remove their civil rights. The truth is in the middle is bullshit when the right is nodding approvingly at literal fascism.
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Jul 28, 2017 00:00
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Sinestro posted:Congratulations for reading someone else's post I guess? I'm not exactly a Trump supporter. The Dems are in no way 'in the grip' of an extremist movement, unless it is to the right. They are as 'business as usual' as humanly possible, still questing to move far enough right to appease the GOP voters while wondering why they can't seem to motivate the left to show up to vote.
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Jul 28, 2017 00:43
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Sinestro posted:Okay, to be fair, that perspective is somewhat colored by the bubble that I am stuck in and would like to get out of. They aren't in the grips of them yet, but there is certainly a building tide in that direction. I bet you're actively terrified of Sanders' revolutionary leftist positions like 'maybe we shouldn't actively push the poor deeper into poverty to extract gains for the investor class' and 'hey, wouldn't it be nice if our healtcare industry was more focused on results than extracting profit from death and suffering'.
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Jul 28, 2017 01:11
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Adiabatic posted:Do you really think 100% of the people who voted for Trump are part of the Southern Strategy and are racists? You're doing the exact thing I said the left was doing. 100%? Probably not. Did going from dogwhistle to outright 'screw those browns' hurt Trump's support in the slightest? Nope. Continuing to support racists when they are being openly and unabashedly racist really hurts the 'but I'm one of the good ones!' argument.
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Jul 28, 2017 02:45
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The worst, the absolute worst, that we could have gotten out of Clinton was 4 more years of the same thing we had for the last 8. Now we live in low-key terror because our President loses his poo poo over day to day office politics, if an actual international crisis occurs there is no way to tell what he will do, other then that it will probably be impulsive and terrible. 
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Jul 28, 2017 03:07
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cursedshitbox posted:David tried this. he started failing at work and school. Same here. I've discovered I can do ~6 credit hours a semester without losing my ability to push at work or tanking my grades. Luckily my current position doesn't need a degree. cursedshitbox posted:robotics engineering. Biomechatronics? Fascinating poo poo in that discipline, wish I'd decided to work towards it ten years ago. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jul 29, 2017 |
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Leperflesh posted:I think it depends somewhat on what you're selling, too. I would not sell used parts - for cars, or computers, or anything else. It's just too easy for the buyer to break it and then insist you sold a broken part, or to be too stupid to read the description that the part is used. Yeah, only thing I'll bother flipping on ebay anymore is OOP tabletop gaming stuff like warhams, because they make enough money and nobody bitches so long as you have pics and state the condition.
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