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** spoiler omitted **Somehow I feel duty-bound to grump about politics every morning; FaWtLers have started expecting it.
Anyhoo, this morning's my concerns about the ** spoiler omitted **
Thing is ** spoiler omitted **
*grabs newspaper in pajamas and bathrobe, and shakes it menacingly* now get off my lawn!
Still incredibly short-sighted though for all the reasons you mention.
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Hey, do you like sweet potato pie? If so, any tips on making one?I only like *underripe fruit*. If its hard and sour, I love it.
When they are sweet and soft, I dont like them at all.
I taste kinda like me.
Yeah, get my sister Eve to make it for me.
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Also freehold come save me.
Its 95 degrees F inside the house.Is it at least cooling off at night?
Cheap grad student air conditioning: The moment the outside temperature drops below the inside temperature, open every window in the house. If your animals/neighborhood permit it, open the doors as well. Leave the whole thing open until you're going to bed. Even then, if the neighborhood permits it, leave as much as possible open.
In the morning, the moment the sun starts peeking up (20-30 minutes before sunrise) close everything up. The doors, the windows, the curtains. Seal yourself up like an albino vampire.
In Davis I dropped my summer electricity bill from $300/month to $30/month doing just that, and it kept the house under 80°F for virtually the entire summer, even during the 100°F+ heat waves. Here in Albany, the insulation is much worse, but it still keeps the house under 80°F for at least 3-4 days after a heat wave starts.
We've been doing that, but its been more then a week of 90+ temps and by now all the walls and the concrete of the house has been 'warmed trough'. Plus last evening there was the threat of thunder, but it did no happen. So a cloud night, so barely any cooldown. So even though the sun is gone, the stone radiates a lot of heat.
I'm hoping for a clear night, that will cool things down a bit.
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Also freehold come save me.
Its 95 degrees F inside the house.Is it at least cooling off at night?
Cheap grad student air conditioning: The moment the outside temperature drops below the inside temperature, open every window in the house. If your animals/neighborhood permit it, open the doors as well. Leave the whole thing open until you're going to bed. Even then, if the neighborhood permits it, leave as much as possible open.
In the morning, the moment the sun starts peeking up (20-30 minutes before sunrise) close everything up. The doors, the windows, the curtains. Seal yourself up like an albino vampire.
In Davis I dropped my summer electricity bill from $300/month to $30/month doing just that, and it kept the house under 80°F for virtually the entire summer, even during the 100°F+ heat waves. Here in Albany, the insulation is much worse, but it still keeps the house under 80°F for at least 3-4 days after a heat wave starts.
We've been doing that, but its been more then a week of 90+ temps and by now all the walls and the concrete of the house has been 'warmed trough'. Plus last evening there was the threat of thunder, but it did no happen. So a cloud night, so barely any cooldown. So even though the sun is gone, the stone radiates a lot of heat.
I'm hoping for a clear night, that will cool things down a bit.
Eergh. Concrete and brick are the worst for hot weather.
They also happen to be the worst for earthquake country, so we're fortunate in that no one uses them in home construction...
EDIT: For people who say, "But I've been to California, and there are all those brick storefronts!", those are mostly brick facades over reinforced concrete. Running a bunch of steel rebar through your concrete does wonders for its earthquake survivability, and then you just glue a brick facade to it and it looks cool while being almost totally unrelated to real bricks...
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Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
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Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
So, you're being paid to watch people play games?
That's even better than being paid to play them.
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** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **Somehow I feel duty-bound to grump about politics every morning; FaWtLers have started expecting it.
Anyhoo, this morning's my concerns about the ** spoiler omitted **
Thing is ** spoiler omitted **
*grabs newspaper in pajamas and bathrobe, and shakes it menacingly* now get off my lawn!
"So one of the biggest problems is the employer is responsible for it. So what happens if the employee leaves before it comes due if the employer hasn't been collecting it?
Even if the employer remains employed, it's just a balloon payment. Let's give people an extra $40 on their paychecks now but then require it all back in 3 months as a lump sum
It goes along with Trump saying look if you reelect me I'll make the cut permanent and you won't have to repay. Note that "cut the payroll tax" is synonymous with defund Social Security.
Also, it's a total nightmare for payroll, but sometimes accountants and associated professions must suffer and I try not to think of decisions on how much harder they make my work
Professional groups I belong to are advising accounts to advise their clients to continue to withhold and not defer as there's only downside for the employer and a ton of extra work"
When accounting is telling you to ignore the executive order, you know it's bad.
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Also freehold come save me.
Its 95 degrees F inside the house.Is it at least cooling off at night?
Cheap grad student air conditioning: The moment the outside temperature drops below the inside temperature, open every window in the house. If your animals/neighborhood permit it, open the doors as well. Leave the whole thing open until you're going to bed. Even then, if the neighborhood permits it, leave as much as possible open.
In the morning, the moment the sun starts peeking up (20-30 minutes before sunrise) close everything up. The doors, the windows, the curtains. Seal yourself up like an albino vampire.
In Davis I dropped my summer electricity bill from $300/month to $30/month doing just that, and it kept the house under 80°F for virtually the entire summer, even during the 100°F+ heat waves. Here in Albany, the insulation is much worse, but it still keeps the house under 80°F for at least 3-4 days after a heat wave starts.
We've been doing that, but its been more then a week of 90+ temps and by now all the walls and the concrete of the house has been 'warmed trough'. Plus last evening there was the threat of thunder, but it did no happen. So a cloud night, so barely any cooldown. So even though the sun is gone, the stone radiates a lot of heat.
I'm hoping for a clear night, that will cool things down a bit.
Eergh. Concrete and brick are the worst for hot weather.
They also happen to be the worst for earthquake country, so we're fortunate in that no one uses them in home construction...
EDIT: For people who say, "But I've been to California, and there are all those brick storefronts!", those are mostly brick facades over reinforced concrete. Running a bunch of steel rebar through your concrete does wonders for its earthquake survivability, and then you just glue a brick facade to it and it looks cool while being almost totally unrelated to real bricks...
Yeah. Solid brick houses used to be just perfect here with the standard weather. Lots of rain. Lots of humidity. So good insulation to keep the damp out.
Also solid against the storms and slanted roofs for the snow we *used* to have.As I said, 80F used to be *HOT* for our summers. But the last few years we've been easily topping 90, 95 degrees, and last summer we even went over a 100 degrees.
A 100F. In the Netherlands.
Climate change has been f!@+ing us. Our housing styles were very suited to our weather and temperatures. But now its just *bad*.
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Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
So, you're being paid to watch people play games?
That's even better than being paid to play them.
Well, stuff like video poker and slots, but yeah. I shmooze and make payouts and customer service.
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Well, stuff like video poker and slots, but yeah. I shmooze and make payouts and customer service.Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
So, you're being paid to watch people play games?
That's even better than being paid to play them.
I may be strange for this, but I find that watching others play games is either a terrible cock-tease (if I like the game) or an awful bore (if I don't).
The Homunculi love watching streamers play, and I don't get it.
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Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
What’s your timeline on an apartment, given these employment opportunities arising? Is there a lag before the jobs start that will require you to stay at the in-laws a bit longer, or can you start apartment hunting immediately?
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Conversations with Teenagers:
Impus Major: I'm getting dressed, and I may be going out.
NobodysHome: So, are you going to a social event, or are you just getting out of the house?
Impus Major: What? No; I'm just getting dressed!
NobodysHome: You specifically said, "I may be going out," and I was just curious.
Impus Major: No; I'm just getting dressed. I don't have any plans to go out.
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What’s your timeline on an apartment, given these employment opportunities arising? Is there a lag before the jobs start that will require you to stay at the in-laws a bit longer, or can you start apartment hunting immediately?Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
Depends on how much they need down. But we started looking even before. We hope to rent a house to avoid pet fees for the dogs
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Hey, do you like sweet potato pie? If so, any tips on making one?I only like *underripe fruit*. If its hard and sour, I love it.
When they are sweet and soft, I dont like them at all.
I taste kinda like me.
When you do make it, I hope you enjoy the results as much as this cove
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Hey, do you like sweet potato pie? If so, any tips on making one?I only like *underripe fruit*. If its hard and sour, I love it.
When they are sweet and soft, I dont like them at all.
I taste kinda like me.
actually no, I am not a huge fan, although I will eat one if offered. I prefer pumpkin pie, which is smoother, and less...active in my tummy.
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This is happening where Tac lives, forty miles from where I went to high school.
I'd like to say this is a freakish anomaly, but sadly, central Florida is rife with this mentality.
I particularly love how Sheriff Wood laid the blame for his directive at the feet of the "Defund the Police" movement.
Dumbf**k is begging for his Darwin award.
I don't object to that, I'm just worried about how many other people he's going to take with him.
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Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
Congratulations!
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Probably too late for the Darwin Award. I suspect he's already replicated.
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Also freehold come save me.
Its 95 degrees F inside the house.
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Can attest - Freehold is soft and sweet.I only like *underripe fruit*. If its hard and sour, I love it.
When they are sweet and soft, I dont like them at all.
I taste kinda like me.
Hey!
Well, I guess I better get in the gym...
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Post-Handoff Entertainment:
After spending 45 minutes chatting with a co-worker, trying to think of a way to politely tell her that I need to get back to work or my manager will be unhappy with me...
...then remembering that she *IS* my manager!
(We're having fun griping about the appalling writing in a public cert exam, so we've been sending each other silly examples of the incomprehensible English on the exam, then I thought, "Well, gee. I should get back to work. How do I politely tell her I need to get to work? Use my manager as an excuse? Oh, wait...")
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Also freehold come save me.
Its 95 degrees F inside the house.
If Weather Underground is any indicator, you seem to be sending that heat wave our way.
Except it's August in the Bay Area, more powerful than any weather dominator.
We barely managed to break 70°F today... even *I* don't think that's a "heat wave".
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I would like to taste that at some point.I only like *underripe fruit*. If its hard and sour, I love it.
When they are sweet and soft, I dont like them at all.
I taste kinda like me.
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It was a hard day, very sunny, surprisingly hot in an oppressive sort of way.
Or at least that's how it felt because I decided I'd wear pants today for some reason.
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Hey, do you like sweet potato pie? If so, any tips on making one?actually no, I am not a huge fan, although I will eat one if offered. I prefer pumpkin pie, which is smoother, and less...active in my tummy.
Oh, I can make a darn good pumpkin pie from Mom's Mom's recipe. I just have a beaucoup de sweet potatoes to use up and this recipe (with this) sounded really good.
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The boss's cousin from Florida is working with the company for the next month, something about his parents sending him up north to "escape this s~@+ show".
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Oh, I can make a darn good pumpkin pie from Mom's Mom's recipe. I just have a beaucoup de sweet potatoes to use up and this recipe (with this) sounded really good.Hey, do you like sweet potato pie? If so, any tips on making one?actually no, I am not a huge fan, although I will eat one if offered. I prefer pumpkin pie, which is smoother, and less...active in my tummy.
A pie off it is then.
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A Perfect Circle's cover of Imagine isn't as hopeful sounding as the original.
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So we had partial cloud cover during the night, so it barely cooled down at all. :(
I've luckily been able to get to the office this week and the aircon there isnt the best, but its been able to keep it at about 79F
I love MrT, but the whole 'keep the windows open untill outside and inside reach the same temp then close everything up' does not work with him. I dont know if he just cant easily feel the difference, just forgets it or something else......... but its been a pain to get him to close everything up while ive been at the office. And that is defenitely not helping the inside temperatures.
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I'm working by myself today. It won't be easy by any means, but at least I won't have someone trying to tell me what needs to happen three steps into the future or someone asking me every 5-10 minutes "What else should I do now?".
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I'm working by myself today. It won't be easy by any means, but at least I won't have someone trying to tell me what needs to happen three steps into the future or someone asking me every 5-10 minutes "What else should I do now?".
If it helps, I can text you every five minutes with stupid questions.
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...and to top off my luck, my laptop broke. It's either the screen or connecting wire, as the screen has ugly rainbow stripes that temporarily go away if you move the screen around a bit, and sometimes it's black or white screen, and will temporarily work.
My Chromebook is still in perfect condition, fortunately. Though I swear, the charger wires break at the drop of a hat. I'm on my fourth cable.
If a certain someone's global megacorporation happens to be what I'm guessing it is, even though he denies it, just let them know to make less flimsy charger prongs.
(My reasons for suspecting are that you've never chimed in with your opinion of Android, despite doing so for just about every other operating system, including praising Linux, which is the base system for Chromebooks underneath the Android veneer, IIRC)
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While I normally avoid confirming or denying my employment at a particular global megacorporation, there are a few I'll happily deny. I don't work for Apple, Google, Microsoft, nor Facebook.
I'd make a lot more money at Google or Facebook, but I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror every morning. (Which I don't do, but I could if I wanted to...)
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My car died yesterday. Weirdly, in over 4 decades of being alive I've never had to actually deal with a dead car myself; someone else always handled this very adult chore. Ever realize you're a grown person with an adult task in front of you and you have no idea what you're doing?
LOL. Our first "OK, we have to get rid of this" car died back around 1994, so I would have been 27. And it was just, "Call a tow company, have them tow it to the dealership, then get trade-in value while getting a new car."
And I'll never forget that purchase because the list price of the Celica was something like $26,000, and the dealer saw a couple of young rubes and wheeled and dealed his way all the way down to $19,500. While I was fully expecting to pay the whole $26k.
I'll never understand car salesmen.
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...and to top off my luck, my laptop broke. It's either the screen or connecting wire, as the screen has ugly rainbow stripes that temporarily go away if you move the screen around a bit, and sometimes it's black or white screen, and will temporarily work.
My Chromebook is still in perfect condition, fortunately. Though I swear, the charger wires break at the drop of a hat. I'm on my fourth cable.
If a certain someone's global megacorporation happens to be what I'm guessing it is, even though he denies it, just let them know to make less flimsy charger prongs.
(My reasons for suspecting are that you've never chimed in with your opinion of Android, despite doing so for just about every other operating system, including praising Linux, which is the base system for Chromebooks underneath the Android veneer, IIRC)
Chromebook lover here. The wires do indeed go quickly. On my second set.
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My car died yesterday. Weirdly, in over 4 decades of being alive I've never had to actually deal with a dead car myself; someone else always handled this very adult chore. Ever realize you're a grown person with an adult task in front of you and you have no idea what you're doing?LOL. Our first "OK, we have to get rid of this" car died back around 1994, so I would have been 27.
how could one man be so old?
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EDIT: for clarity, this is about friends from a Discord server I am a part of, and is not aimed towards anyone here at Paizo; I am venting after having literally been stonewalled out of a conversation by people I’ve known for literal decades explicitly either ignoring actual things I’ve said while intentionally passive-aggressively sniping about me and those like me, or else being so baffled at my existence that they cannot actualkynfigure how to engage with or otherwise interact with anything I was saying or contributing because they’re too busy angrily fussing about <things that don’t actually matter, here>
... that time you're accidentally erased by your friends because "conservatives are violently opposed to everything fun" and "Christians hate everyone" and "cis gendered white men don't get to have opinions" and "moderate Republicans don't exist" ...
ANYway.
Love you guys! Hope things are going well for you!
Sorry about your car, Mark. That sucks haaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrd.
Just got a job! Indoors, air conditioned, daily pay, and tips.
Attendant at a video "arcade" pseudo-casino.
So, you're being paid to watch people play games?
That's even better than being paid to play them.
It's like you're describing my dream life!
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Also freehold come save me.
Its 95 degrees F inside the house.Is it at least cooling off at night?
Cheap grad student air conditioning: The moment the outside temperature drops below the inside temperature, open every window in the house. If your animals/neighborhood permit it, open the doors as well. Leave the whole thing open until you're going to bed. Even then, if the neighborhood permits it, leave as much as possible open.
In the morning, the moment the sun starts peeking up (20-30 minutes before sunrise) close everything up. The doors, the windows, the curtains. Seal yourself up like an albino vampire.
In Davis I dropped my summer electricity bill from $300/month to $30/month doing just that, and it kept the house under 80°F for virtually the entire summer, even during the 100°F+ heat waves. Here in Albany, the insulation is much worse, but it still keeps the house under 80°F for at least 3-4 days after a heat wave starts.
We've been doing that, but its been more then a week of 90+ temps and by now all the walls and the concrete of the house has been 'warmed trough'. Plus last evening there was the threat of thunder, but it did no happen. So a cloud night, so barely any cooldown. So even though the sun is gone, the stone radiates a lot of heat.
I'm hoping for a clear night, that will cool things down a bit.
Eergh. Concrete and brick are the worst for hot weather.
They also happen to be the worst for earthquake country, so we're fortunate in that no one uses them in home construction...
But I've been to Calif-
EDIT: For people who say, "But I've been to California, and there are all those brick storefronts!", those are mostly brick facades over reinforced concrete. Running a bunch of steel rebar through your concrete does wonders for its earthquake survivability, and then you just glue a brick facade to it and it looks cool while being almost totally unrelated to real bricks...
Dang it, NH!
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Living here, that is... remarkably disappointing. Shockingly so, considering a major portion of his campaign is built around the idea of increasing safety and accountability (mostly by gear).
I can very definitely understand some of the reasoning and safety concerns behind mandating the removal of a mask when entering a law enforcement office or dealing with them.
I do not understand the refusal of them for your own employees (after they have definitively signed in).
Ah, well.