chooky
3d ago
I had bad drywall subs, so I am not sure. Theoretically, a high quality drywall crew would work faster (so not a big cost increase) and cleaner, but drywall is considered shitty entry level work so it is very hard to find a high quality crew.
But basically what happens is that the painters blame the trim (who blame the drywall) or drywall people who blame the framing (which cannot be redone), counting on you and GC to just run out of patience. GCs dont think drywall is real work, so they sub it out without much quality control. Also, at this stage the GC is counting money and will probably try to get some margin by cheaping out on drywall. Results are probably a lot better with new construction than remodel.
chooky
4d ago
On building or remodelling, what I will say is that one of the absolute most visible parts of the work is the drywall/trim finishing. Most GCs sub this out, and most subs are horrible. Since this is close to the final stage of construction, it is hard to have the patience to make them do it right, but it is what you will notice every day even if the rest of the work is great. If a remodel, the drywall stage is an absolute nightmare due to the obscene amount of dust that low quality contractors create. I recommend stressing to GC that professional drywall finishers are a must.
chooky
5d ago
I think the idea of pregnancy "really fucking up" one's life is more for when your daughter is 16-22. Starting a family at 25 sounds like an okay recipe for success, but the person in the article was not pregnant.
chooky
10d ago
But people also use it to re-load for parties, go from the store to their event, enjoy their new beer when they get home, etc.
chooky
13d ago
What does the existence of no fault divorce have to do with all of this? Your point seems like a slam dunk with just 1, 2 and 4.
chooky
13d ago
One obvious move is to just get rid of the marriage penalty on taxes. But... here we are seriously looking at getting rid of taxes on tips.
Didn't both Romney and Obama stake a claim on the technocrat lane? Wasn't the argument for Hillary supposed to be her competence? Biden's first term was initially supposed to be a return to the technocracy of Obama even though he [by which I mean Biden] turned out to not be that at all.
chooky
14d ago
Let's say you are the shadow dictator of the Dems. How exactly do you message that you are going back to the "Hey let's be competent technocrats" strategy.
chooky
14d ago
I would say Buttigieg'a initial rise was more that he was a young mayor in a midwestern state. It would have been a nice story, but it is also the case that everyone realized that a gay candidate would be unelectable in the general even if they never said it.
chooky
14d ago
Yeah, but finding that ideal (or a pretty good one with whom you form an emotional bond or simply have some hot experiences) sexual partner is a pretty key part of the human experience. Continuing to look even while failing is too!
chooky
17d ago
This is not the first time I have seen the idea that HD porn obviates sex. While ceding that people have limitless access to porn these days, it still doesnt come close to the real thing!
chooky
18d ago
Trump had a bigger popular margin than in 2016, but my point is that it was still quite narrow, and this is basically true of all post-Clinton elections. For Dems or Reps to claim the other side to be a minority faction rather than one of two more or less evenly matched contenders seems wrong, and this was true four years ago too.
chooky
18d ago
How far left are we drawing the line to get to this "minority faction"? If mainstream Dems, then I would argue that it is quite clearly not a minority and essentially equivalent with Republicans as the dominant political force. Presidential elections are won by a few percentage points at the widest margin, for example.
chooky
20d ago
The rationale on hotels would most obviously seem to be that Trump owns hotels. Whether this means he is self-dealing or is simply more sympathetic to labor supply complaints for hotels is perhaps up for debate.
chooky
25d ago
I personally prefer Brotherhood (the continually building climax of the final dozen episodes is just very compelling for me), though I do like both and can see preferring either one. I think I recall liking the Brotherhood dub a lot more than 2003. One great thing about FMA is that both are very good so you can always go back for more by watching the remix.
chooky
25d ago
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood is excellent - I have no idea on sub vs dub, but dub seemed fine. If you havent watched Avatar TLA, its original version is English. I adored Baccano!!
chooky
28d ago
Why, then, is it that so many abortion bans do not have exceptions for rape? Falsely claiming that one was raped to get an abortion is not something I hear of very often. It seems like nothing but red meat for pro-choice people.
chooky
28d ago
I completely agree that the general support for abortion stems mostly from both men and women wanting pregnancies to be optional; I think calling this desire an "accountability problem" is a pointlessly obtuse way of framing the issue except that it attempts to build consensus. Fwiw, both of my children were from unexpected pregnancies (birth control ain't got shit on me) that we actively elected to keep, which seems far better than having unexpected pregnancies that we were forced to keep and never got to consider "wanted".
However, I think you dismissing the extremely rare cases too easily. Having your daughter/self forced to carry a child of rape is a completely horrific scenario that you can except essentially no chance of. Having your wife (or worse, mother of your children) die because they were forced to carry a life-threatening pregnancy is another absolute nightmare. These are things that, from my perspective, need to just have a zero probability.
chooky
28d ago
I mean, it is a pretty reasonable expectation that whatever method of birth control used will just work. Unexpected pregnancies certainly exist outside of rape!
chooky
30d ago
It also seems like in times of peace you would just get protection rackets rather than legititimate security.
chooky
1mo ago
Was the failure of DOGE really due to red tape? It seems more like the team was out of its depth given the amount of exaggeration and inaccuracies about the level of savings. Most importantly, Musk and his team seemed not allowed or not inclined to pursue savings in the areas in which they could have had a material impact.
Though doesn't this belong in a different thread?
chooky
1mo ago
No, I do not think there are a great deal of high earning women who get married young, and your link is not saying that this occurs - only that it is common for medical professionals to marry other medical professionals. If you think that you should exclude various professionals for having too high a degree of sorting, using debt as a proxy for high level degree is a deranged way to carry this out.
chooky
1mo ago
Yeah but your algorithm is explicitly excluding high ability, very much marriage material doctors, lawyers, etc. This criteria is badly thought out; you would at minimum have to make it a combination of high debt and a "bad" degree.
You would be much better off doing some function of credit score and age.
Hard to say without the quote, but it wouldnt be surprising if Levine is just making fun of Elizabeth Holmes.
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