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Shocking development! After (politely) explaining to the tax board that they were incompetent, a "new investigation" has revealed that my $9k outstanding bill is actually a $300 refund! 6-0, confirmed. I bet they do this to people because a non-zero percentage don't bother to fight and just...

This reminds me of my wife. I'll fully own that I'm a little OCD about cutting symmetric slices out of cakes, pies, etc. It bugs the shit out of me when someone cuts out a lopsided chunk that leaves the next person with the wrong ratio of frosting:cake, or crust:filling. One of of her birthdays...

If cash doesn't work I'd just set up a bank account in their name, which should come with a debit card. With a little research you should be able to find one with no minimum balance or fees. Let them get used to keeping track of their own money.

Yeah, for sure that guy practices Iaido. One of the great missed opportunities of my life is that having spent over a decade in TMAs doing swordwork I wasn't present at my BJJ gym the night a drunk walked in off the street and assaulted the instructor with a replica katana.

If it's well built to modern code you'll be fine. My dad built a house on Boca Grande a few years ago. He looked at insurance costs ($30-40k / yr) and said, "Nah, I'll just overbuild and self-insure." It took a direct hit from the eyewall of Hurricane Ian last year and didn't have so much as a...

In addition to what everyone else said, it's worth keeping in mind the nature of investements. House prices have tripled in the last five years, the markets have basically doubled in the last 10 and quintupled in the last 20. They could very easily not have had what feels like a significant...

Did you run water and check showers, sinks, toilets, backsplashes, etc. for leaks? My experience with other people's waterproofing jobs has been very poor.

That was... not a good strategy.

I see lots of people like this and get a peek in their overflowing bins when I walk the dogs. A surprising percentage of people appear to be unwilling to wash dishes and thus eat on disposable plates 7 days a week (and that's if they cook at all and aren't just eating pre-packaged meals). And...

My username is both ironic and irrelevant, and I'm not the one shitting up a technology thread with incoherent babbling. Edit: I guess you win? My ignore list grows. Seek help.

Yes, I'm familiar. I was referring not to your username but the bizarre content of your posts, which is plenty enough implication of drug use. Whatever you're doing isn't as clever as you think it is.

Whatever drugs you're on, dude, you need to taper back.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23/

That's suspiciously close to 1.5x the target time. Someone fucked up code.

Your wife is clearly of the (correct) opinion that there will be no housing crash.

Watching him use the jointer legit made me nervous. I guess he's got all his fingers, so he's careful enough.

This guy's got a fun channel. Interesting to see a different tradition of woodworking, more from a Japanese carpentry background than fine furniture.

It CAN happen. The testing thresholds are well below the doses where you'd see any performance change, and the supplement production industry is incredibly unreliable. Labs making different batches of product without cleaning the equipment in between, etc. For sure most of the athletes are...

I did a little googling - apparently you can play the originals as an add-on scenario in the EV: Nova engine? Escape Velocity

I fucking LOVED those games. Nova doesn't quite scratch the itch like the originals.

That's standard fire blocking to delay flames getting to the attic/upper stories, but not what I meant. My understanding is interior garage walls need to be made of a material than can delay, say, a vehicle fire, from infiltrating the main structure, and be free of even small compromises...

Yeah, you can't do this in most places I've lived in because the wall between the garage and the main house needs to be a fire break. I guess you might be able to put in a special door?

Wut? I just said two things - LK-99 would be valuable as a liquid N-temp superconductor and what you said was dumb with regard to the nature of progress. I'm not invested in this outcome at all.

Same! I was recently lucky enough to be given one of these by my brother in law's mom who had to give up woodworking due to finger arthritis. (1970's edition, but same idea.)