Basements are stupidly expensive to retrofit, and there are loads of hidden variables that can make the job even harder. Guys tend to quote 40-60k sight unseen.
For example, when you work on someone's basement you have no idea of the drainage situation, and that makes everything else precarious.
One of my friends has a finished basement that flooded twice. Not fun, not easy to fix, very frustrating for both the contractor and home owner who each can't tell if the other is retarded or trying to scam them.
"Looting as praxis to demolish late stage capitalism" is centrist now?
I am beyond frustrated at dealing with "nothing is ever leftist" deflections. It never seems to matter how far an institution falls into embracing leftist dogma, you will always be told "that land acknowledgement where they called you a settler colonist of Turtle Island whose whiteness is violence isn't real leftism according to this week's redefinition."
NPR has objectively moved so far to the left that its current editorial positions would look like cringe parody to its 2014 listeners. It doesn't matter that whatever progressives you hang out with have gone even more mask-off re. "settler children get the bullet too" (see Ian Golash and the hezbollah-flag waving demos); a fringe demographic of online leftists is not allowed to dictate where the center is.
I like this idea because you actually do see a lot of scrawny guy-fat chick couples (every meme about "polycules" features them), but rarely muscular guy-fat chick.
But imo the most important thing for women is having a friend group of healthy women. The deep fried crab bucket effect is real, and a circle of fat friends will actively undermine a woman trying to stay fit.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Same here. And I stand to benefit massively from cost basis step up if they don't patch it in time.
I'm surprised none of them were willing to bite the bullet. Were you specifically asking how the state is supposed to go from 50% nonwhite to 0% nonwhite? They might be a bit more cagey about that part, since nearly any answer would get them banned from Reddit.
The strange thing is that I found the opposite watching white nationalists debate neoreactionaries, where they mocked each other for being overly focused on practical/final solutions and airy theorizing, respectively.
The white nationalists were more likely to say "stop trying to muddy the blood quantum by asking about octoroons and italians, we know there's a point where it becomes arbitrary and theory doesn't need to account for every possible detail."
Not that their "practical" debates were much to write home about, but they did attempt it.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Good luck, but last year those people said it was racist to think 2+2=4 (can't remember the hashtag for it right now).
It's just not possible to engage without tripping those alarms. Even tracingwoodgrains is on those lists.
Would it be a waste of time to do an anonymous review you couldn't publish?
And in an era when even whites are desperately fleeing whiteness on every official form, hence the "native American" population exploding.
It's the eternal contradiction of
"this is a satire of evil fascism and all the characters are evil white fascists, chuds can't media literacy!"
vs
"Representation matters! More queer trans space marines of colour stomping the faces of screaming children who misgendered us!"
"If it's queer, you're in the clear" isn't recognized as much as it should be.
People mock them for being simultaneously incredibly prudish and repressed while engaging in performatively extreme sexual depravity, but it's actually an effective recruiting tactic.
It's the same thing as "nobody is allowed outside except to join a leftist riot." Repress natural desires and redirect their expression through party-controlled spaces and systems.
"No fucking outside the state, all fucking within the state, no fucking against the state"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
What do you make of the videos of screaming Ukrainian men being dragged into the backs of vans by "recruiters"?
A case study in why it's foolish to say "it's safe to tolerate they/thems here because we have community norms that prevent their usual disruption and colonization tactics."
Your community norms pale before your server host's wife getting a 2AM phone call from Liz Fong-Jones wanting to have a "girl chat" about how awful it would be for something to hurt her family.
They have infinite will and capacity to escalate over the most trivial of disagreements.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Passport broing in Canada might be a little harder with a 109/100 sex ratio. The competition isn't high quality, but there's a lot of it.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
The black male/white female divorce rate is astronomically higher than any other pairing.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Why could someone use it to disqualify you? The Wikipedia summary makes it sound like a milquetoast critique of the Overton window manipulation around immigration
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I think Claude would have a robo aneurysm at kulak's topics, but it's not hard to just learn these grammar rules! It's totally worth it if you're writing several articles a week!
SteveKirk
2yr ago
If you don't get how leftist "non-profits" make so much profit out of intentionally destructive government policy, there's not much point explaining. Especially when I suspect you actually do know and approve of it.
https://mil.wa.gov/extreme-weather-grant-program
Cause outages, ban solutions, hire another thousand sociology grads to oversee a grant program for Public Warming Centers serving Multiplicitly Vulnerable Populations.
https://mil.wa.gov/extreme-weather-grant-program
Multiply by a hundred thousand and you have our modern economy run by these people https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7388150/diversity-matters-day-brings-together-military-department-employees-learn-and-reflect
The kind who get excited at the thought of joining "a trend promoted by organizations such as Common Ground to piggyback vulnerability indexes and site data onto HUD-mandated enumeration studies", because it means more grants to study the need to make more power point presentations calling for more grants.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Did they explain the original BG plan in the books? They were going to marry Paula off to Fred to breed back to the harkonnen bloodline, but would the emperor not have joined the conspiracy if Atredes only had a daughter?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
"handwaving infrastructure costs" strikes again, a good example of what I meant in that other subthread.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I'm glad you replied quickly because he had me searching "minoxidil side effects does it make your dick small 5 years use oh God oh fuck"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
A lot of the girlfriends did though, through straw purchases that are triple-illegal but never prosecuted, because the women are usually black college educated professionals with scumbag bfs.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Lots. Employing regulators and enforcers from your party, using the law to prevent competition from better products, exploiting the pain your policies caused to generate demand for relief and subsidies... Which your party will control and profit from.
That all of this is negative sum wrecking and looting doesn't stop it being extremely profitable for the perpetrators.
I would happily eliminate it as part of a deal giving us inflation-adjusted capital gains. IIRC step-up on death is less of a policy choice than a remnant of "who knows what grandpa paid for that stuff," which matters less now it's all on a 1099-B or whatever.
Two lots of stock that were bought for $100 and sold for $1100 can pay capital gains on $1000 or $0 depending on nothing but when the owner died.
I structure my entire income around not giving anything to the state, and it annoys me because you can't schedule people dying for tax optimization (except in Canada)
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