@JoshDance @kittycatcurie Get a full home energy audit. They'll use an infrared camera to expose any missing insulation.
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Family, focus, optimism, and a lot of coffee.
California, USA Katılım Temmuz 2008
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@kittycatcurie love insulation! What types of walls can you insulate?
We are just visiting but I need to look at my home in the US to see if I should insulate my walls :)
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We are currently in England. Lovely country.
It is super hot. No one has air conditioners.
Every single household just needs to get a heat pump (hot in the winter, cold in the summer) and a balcony solar panel to power it.
This kind of heat wave isn’t going away. Just get the heat pump.
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@infantrydort Had just moved to rainy burb and it was pouring and cold and saw an old lady casually walking her little dog through the deluge in just a light canvas jacket, totally soaked, not a care in the world.
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It is kind of like Infantry training. I don't know if I ever told you this, but a U.K. Sergeant Major laid this out profoundly to me once. He said:
"I can take a random idiot, put him in the rain overnight with no prep, and he'll survive. He'll be miserable, but he'll live. But a disciplined Infantryman should be able to be in that same situation and not just survive but THRIVE in relative comfort."
That hit me with deep with those fieldcraft feels.
We should literally be able to be where he is and be living the dream with equipment and training.
Until like, we get REALLY soaked anyway. IYKYK.
The Buddy CSM@TheBuddyCSM
Infantry training. They already have the “if you move it just makes it feel worse” mindset down.
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@feelsdesperate The methed homeless know or will be taught to say precisely the talking points that get them more of what they want.
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I think, paradoxically, there has to be a modicum of respect for West Coast homeless people where they are treated as adults who have agency, and if you ask them, ‘Have you made the adult life choice to live in a tent and gobble meth and howl at the moon, is that what you want?’ and they say, ‘yes,’ you just have to accept that, and then all of the paternalistic homelessness industry stuff can be treated as the charade that it is, and you’re left with the naked political decision of whether or not you let a small number of adults engage in extremely selfish and unsafe and disruptive and antisocial behavior that has broad negative externalities for everyone else. I think that’s what Pratt is actually doing here - he’s providing these people with a degree of respect they don’t often get by acknowledging their adult choices and agency and then following through on the logical consequences those choices entail.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline
The level of disdain Spencer Pratt has for the unhoused is disgusting. And if you’re fine with this kind of talk, I don’t want to know you. Josh Haskell: “What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless people in Los Angeles?” Spencer Pratt: “Well, they’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts. Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth… They are choosing to be on the streets because they want to do drugs. They don’t want rules. They don’t want to listen. They want to have animals to abuse.”
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Yesterday when I was watching my son play football from my car another car pulled up beside me and its occupants stood in front of my car blocking my view (it was cold and drizzle so getting out of the car wasn’t ideal). I popped my head out and asked if they could please move over just a little bit so I could see. Within seconds an angry man was waving his finger in my face telling me not to tell his family what to do. I thought he was going to hit me. Another man told him to calm down and step away from me. I didn’t let him see my fear but my heart was beating so fast I felt like I was going to have a heart attack. It took about an hour for my body to stop being in fight or flight mode.
When a man claims women haven’t objected to their presence in female spaces this is why..
Cassie@cassiemoans_
As a trans girl, I use the woman's bathroom when I'm out & about. I have for a bit over three years now.. I thought id take the time to share a list of all the times other woman have had a problem with me being there, 1. They havent.. not once.
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@NonyasBees @TheCinesthetic Yes always thought he was gesturing that she didn't have to jump, he would kill her with the knife and it would be quick and easy. A killer's idea of mercy.
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@TheCinesthetic The other thing I find so interesting is when Mauga lowers his knife when he sees what Alice is about to do. Almost shows compassion. Or was it so he didn’t lose his prize? It looks like compassion in his eyes and motion.
Just interesting.
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The finale of The Last of the Mohicans (1992) are basically Michael Mann saying dialogue is optional once cinema becomes this locked in. The way the score keeps accelerating while the editing cuts cleaner & cleaner with every death is unreal craftsmanship.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What’s a scene where every technical aspect came together perfectly?
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@jenvanlaar And a ridiculous argument: "it's always been terrible, what's the problem?"
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No, it hasn't always been like that. Certain blocks, yes. But not the whole damn thing the way it is now.
I lived in Inglewood as a baby, my family has been in LA since 1928, and my uncle worked LAPD vice from 1975-1994. So, yeah, I have experience knowing what it's been like over the years.
Sandy Dandy@SDandy20055
@Millerita Where are you? Hollywood? Its always been like that. DTLA near skid row? Also... always been like that. Or are you just making shit up cause you dont actually know anything about LA?
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@StarvelingBard Thorogood is top tier right now under $300. There's a YT channel called "Rose Anvil" that cuts them all in half.
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@avidseries @JeremiahDJohns Do you believe uni admissions should be purely meritocratic, and if yes, based solely on test scores/gpa?
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This guy is exactly what I was talking about the other day about how stupid the Ivy discourse is.
This kid got into Duke, an absolutely elite institution, but goes on national TV to cry and moan he didn't get into Harvard and Yale
Buddy, you weren't good enough.
Redd@ReddCinema
He had a GPA score of 97.3%, SAT score is 1560, enrolled in a top high school, and does lots of extracurricular work. He got rejected by multiple colleges. They call this equity and inclusion.
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I usually get flowers from the local Whole Foods. They wrap it in nice paper with some fancy straw thing.
Today I decided to support a small local business and buy the same flowers, same wrapping and they charged me 6x the price.
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@feelsdesperate People stopped reading past the first line of emails about a decade ago. TLDR
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I’ve noticed that AI lets administrative people send long and complex emails that take a lot of time to respond to.
This is a huge asymmetry that at some point will have to be addressed.
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@Architectolder Add a drive through "carriage house" on the right side?
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What’s the nicest, most reliable luxury SUV I can buy for $30k or less?
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@mistressdivy Monkeyradio.org A few streams of chill electronica.
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What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today?
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@TannerBuilds @AnswerIsLibrty Didn't the bronco II have light duty transmission issues?
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@AnswerIsLibrty Preferably the Eddie Bauer bronco II
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@cremieuxrecueil Keep hammering this-- food mojaves are still frequently discussed.
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"Food deserts" are an example of social scientists getting causality backwards
They saw poor people eating unhealthy foods and blamed local supply
They should have blamed demand!
Using data from 13 years of supermarket entries, there's basically no effects on healthy eating🧵
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@_jameslincoln Being in a position to reject a client is a sign of success--congrats.
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I just refunded a client mid-engagement.
Some clients are just not worth it.
I want my team to go home to their families the same way I go home to mine.
This client was hard to reach. Didn't want to give us the time of day. And then complaint we hadn't been doing anything.
That's when customer success goes into hyperdrive trying to retain someone who doesn't want to be retained.
A bad client doesn't just cost you money. It costs your team their peace of mind.
So we refunded them.
We're not going to stress out our team over one client that's just a headache.
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@girlmeetsNG @yokoumeda It's a form of search for perfection through craft.
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アメリカ人の芝生への情熱はマジ異常。大概のことは雑なのに芝刈りだけはマメ。私が一時帰国で1ヶ月間アメリカを離れる際、アメリカ人同僚から仕事の心配の話は一切なかったが「１ヶ月間、家の芝生の手入れはどうするんだ!?」と芝生の心配だけはされたw。私が「日本から戻ったら頑張って芝刈りするよ」と言ったら「1ヶ月も芝生を放置するなんてダメだ！分かった、家も近いし俺がお前の庭の芝刈りもついでにやっておいてやるよ」と申し出てくれて、ありがたく依頼し、私はアメリカ人の芝生への情熱に感動すら覚えました…。まあ1ヶ月後アメリカに戻ったら庭の芝生は見たことないくらいボーボーだったけど。
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@theblessedsalt @StuffForSisters "You're all crazy," is an insufficient rejoinder.
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@StuffForSisters The fact that your Swiftian bargain got (so far) 100% support is all the affirmation I need that the mob is insane.
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This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory.
Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies.
(Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)
My moms caregiver@mymomcare
People who have lived in the country understand this!
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@sourceryy @PatrickMcGee_ And the result is huge profits, and a capable product lineup that has ZERO magic. The thrill is gone.
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"Tim Cook is known as 'Mr. Spreadsheets.'"
— @PatrickMcGee_, author of Apple in China
"The first time he took over a meeting (which usually spent two hours going through the weekly data), it went for 13 hours."
"He had this mind of an insatiable demand for detail."
"Not everybody on his team had glasses. When Tim Cook arrived in 1998, within a few years, everybody had glasses."
"There's a thousand components in the iPhone, and they would just go through all of it to master the global supply chain."
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@_DOGPOOL_ Or he was dumb as hell and just kept smelling meat and getting trapped.
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