@LionBlogosphere It seems that the Central American ones have all been replaced by Africans now, who are even worse. While they all ignore the rules, the African ones also don’t seem to ride with any sense of self preservation.
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Adam
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Delivery bicyclists (probably most of them ILLEGAL aliens) have been a MENACE to New Yorkers since de Blasio, and now even worse with e-bikes.
But the only time I ever saw a bicyclist get a ticket, the recpient was a middle-aged upper-middle-class white woman.
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@LionBlogosphere Everyone else was there for stuff like vandalism, public urination, public consumption, and minor drug offenses. The city had the genius idea that bike traffic violations should be treated as crimes and not traffic violations. They even had a public defender there to help me.
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@LionBlogosphere I got a summons for driving through a stoplight on a citibike during Bloomberg. I couldn’t even just pay it. Had to take a day off work to appear in court. Besides myself and another guy with the same ticket, we were the only white guys in the room.
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@UrbanCourtyard The clubs and premier CCs have gotten really stingy on letting kids on through. I almost never do it anymore because it’s not worth it to spend $150 on guest fees unless we’re delayed for hours.
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The airline clubs are so wonderful for families traveling with young kids because 1) you can leave your luggage and stuff around while you take little kids to bathroom etc, and 2) you spend $0 for all you can eat buffet of decent food instead of hundreds of dollars on junk food in airport restaurants/shops
This never happens in any other space that I can think of—where having kids with you don’t multiply the expense at every step
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@Empty_America Speciality trades are so wild. I have a slate roof and had some repairs for which the estimates ranged from $1400 to $40K.
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Stone masonry has become an almost dead trade, so it can be unreasonably expensive to get very basic work done (unless you live near me).
Back in the day those foundations cost effectively nothing, just a little labor which was cheap then.
The raw materials for stone masonry are still much cheaper than pouring concrete today if you have any kind of stone on site, which you generally do.
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One reason that construction costs more today is we are far more anxious about foundations, we pour way more concrete.
For utility structures, they used to just build a very minimal foundation from stones found on site, leave the crawlspace dirt.
Usually lasted 100 years.
Adam, Anthropocene Megafauna@AnthropoceneMe1
I’m planning on renovating the “summer kitchen” of my farmhouse (small building pictured) It has a t&g pine floor over a 2ft crawlspace with packed dirt. I’m wondering if I should do something with the crawlspace… pour a rat slab? Spread a vapor barrier?
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@lymanstoneky Isn’t the variation here statistically insignificant for dads? Also, how much of this is a small percentage of dads that are dealing with “problem” teenagers.
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What age is HARDEST as a parent?
Well... it depends.
For moms, it's as your kids start going to school.
For dads, it's when they start preparing to leave your home.
The hardest part of parenting is letting them go.
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@wyqtor @LionBlogosphere "You know, we can't let Iran have nuclear weapons. And who knows better about nuclear weapons than Japan?"
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I can't think of anything more undiplomatic that Trump could have said.
Trump is a lot better at dealing with crappy third-world countries like Iran, but he is ruining our relationships with our allies and trading partners.,
Eric Trump@EricTrump
🤣🤣 One of the great responses to a reporter in history! JAPANESE REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Why didn't you tell ME about PEARL HARBOR?!" "You believe in surprise much more-so than US!"
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@the_transit_guy My favorite transit cost statistic is that Copenhagen built a new, 10 mile, 100% underground, 17 station (11 completely new), for less than it is projected it will take Newark Airport to refubish their existing, above ground, 3 mile Airtrain.
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At Finnish costs, you could build 782 miles of subway and 725 stations for $200 billion. Currently, the U.S. has only about 22 miles of subway planned or under construction.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The Pentagon seeks $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war, AP source says. apnews.com/article/iran-w…
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@uncledoomer The larger 2x4 uses 34% more wood. It wouldn't change anything about construction. You couldn't magically space studs at 24" to compensate, etc. Sure, your walls would be marginally thicker and stronger, but that's probably not worth 34% more wood.
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people always say it's because the wood is 2x4 before its dried and planed, but thats retarded, the industry should have standardized on a cut that ended up a true 2x4 inches AFTER drying and planing. so yeah its a bullshit ripoff but our entire economy is all just like this
Michael Arrington 🏴☠️@arrington
Something I've learned the hard way is that a 2x4 isn't actually 2 inches by 4 inches. It used to be, but not anymore because of course.
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i understand how it works but it's still unsettling
Computer ♥ Records@ComputerLove_
Numberless Soviet-era phones
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Why are you, as a man, not putting copper gutter, downspout, and flashing on your house?
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@Empty_America Other than maybe SLC, OKC and Tulsa, isn’t every city a Blue City?
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I've said it before, people love "Blue City in a Red State."
Red state laws tend to protect stuff like parental rights, deters schools from getting too crazy, usually pro-growth in general.
But the Blue local governments often invest more into urban amenity than Reds would.
Ancora Imparando@AudeIdScire
Red states not only grow faster than the richest blue states, they also outperform blue states with similar catch-up dynamics going for them California became a 'rich, innovative economy' as a red state. Democrats turned it into what it is today: the state people flee the most
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@Empty_America There are some notable exceptions like cannabis (if you can get the permits) and thoroughbred stud farms, or if you are close enough to a city where you can basically cover all your costs with hayrides, etc.
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I'm normally on the lunatic fringe of "you can just do stuff" but bootstrapping a new farm to the point of producing a normal American income is *the hardest* thing.
Successful cases tend to be small, near urban areas, usually high value vegetables with lots of hand labor.
Pamela@PamelaBies
Advice to the younger generation: Skip the degree. Buy land. Become a farmer.
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@steppestones @archi_tradition Volterra, Forte dei Marmi, Positano, and Ravenna, IT
Gordes, FR
Gudhjem, DK
Bled, Slovenia
Bourton-on-the-Water, UK
Soller, ES
Muerren, CH
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@SPFCCMT @archi_tradition What would be the villages/towns?
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What are the best small cities in Europe you’ve visited?
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@moorehn As someone who went to a private school with many very successful people, including a US Senator, I can assure you that not a single one of them leveraged their HS network to do so.
Did it help them go to better colleges and leverage those networks? Almost certainly.
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This is a common, very bourgeois error about the purpose of private school. The purpose of private school is not academic achievement. It is to establish a child within a social network of contacts that will help their career and marriage prospects for life.
Nick Maggiulli@dollarsanddata
Private schools are the most expensive placebo in America. Nowhere else will you pay $250k+ for something that has so little impact on school achievement. My latest on why private school isn't worth the cost: ofdollarsanddata.com/why-private-sc…
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@simonsarris The first one was particularly hilarious because he went out and looked in the onboard tool kits of his BMW 7 and Porsche 911 and was like “Sorry boys, don’t have those tools”
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@simonsarris Common with lawyers. Did a school project with my friend whose dad was a biglaw atty. Needed a flathead and a hammer and he had neither.
Other friends of ours, both lawyers, regularly hire handymen to hang pictures & build simple flatpack furniture (like putting legs on chairs).
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This just sounds so impossible but I've heard 2 anecdotes from teachers that suggest the same thing. Kids who never ever picked up a drill or a screwdriver before graduating high school.
Andrew A.Abbott@realAAAbbott
First thing we skills test for is "can you run a cordless drill". 98% of guys under 35 in fact cannot. They can't run a cordless drill properly, safely. You aren't going to learn to be a plumber or electrician in 2 years because you don't even know enough to change a tire.
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