Gaffer’s tape is better, it doesn’t dissolve into a sticky mess.

I’ve been using New Pipe, but they seem to have broken every 3rd party front-end within the last week or so.

He didn’t accept the 2016 results, so I wouldn’t count on it.

Pretty sure you could still get away with this - if the drop is less than 30" no railing is required.

I find the premade mixes from Birdseye (sold basically everywhere that has frozen food) to be a pretty good lazy way to get a big meal. Usually a decent mix of meat, veggies, and grain, but the whole bag (3 servings) is only like 600-900 kcal. Sometimes it feels like an obscene amount of food for the calorie count.

Not bad for what’s basically a microwave dinner.

I just used an online calculator. It said something like 1500 kcal a day for my activity level to maintain weight.

I don’t really count calories, but I do look to get a general idea of what a meal or a snack is. Sometimes I’m way over, sometimes I’m way under, it’s all about balance and being in the ballpark.

And specifically falls back to a very small mms, something like 100kb instead of 3mb for images.

That’s why you always hear crap about androids having terrible cameras - most people only experience them through excessive apple compression.

A lot of the FICO scores (there are different scores for different things) don’t ding you for it, but most of the monitoring apps use Vantage.

I find the difference between my FICO 8 and Vantage 3 to be as much as 100 points. Most people seem to have higher Vantage scores, but my FICO tends to be higher. They’re different companies that use different systems.

They can/do include rent, but landlords tend to only report it if you’re delinquent.

Tesla is getting hit hard and fast. I watch car news and it’s still mostly manufacturers announcing new model years that are significantly more expensive than before.

Housing really became an investment in the late 80s to 90s, that’s part of what drove the McMansion boom. Not for corporations but individuals, who are actually the largest driver of prices not adjusting. Don’t get me wrong, corporations are buying an increasingly large chuck and this will be a problem, but right now it’s not the big one. In my area there are an absurd number of houses for sale compared to normal. All of them are overpriced, almost none of them are selling, and yet they increase the list price every month like clockwork. These are individuals, not corporations. Until these individuals accept that the house they bought for $50k isn’t worth $1.5m, prices will not go down.

I mean neither of those is a problem, the problem is that prices aren’t adjusting to match.

But housing won’t go down because it’s become an investment, and cars won’t go down because during covid manufacturers learned only selling expensive models increases profit margins.

If anything, high rates are good. They encourage saving and curb consumerism, which are both things Americans at large can use help with.

My understanding is most of the antennas on the Asus routers are dummies, just there for the look. Most have 2 actual antennas, some have 4.

Would also match nomenclature with Mineral Wool Insulation.

I think 150k (ish) in my city would be solidly middle class. You could buy a house/car/retire on that.

I’m in a super weird spot, because I make good enough money that I have savings to support me after job loss, and I make enough money that I don’t really have to worry about my grocery bill (within reason). Heck, there’s even a chance that I’ll be able to have a decent retirement.

But a house? Not happening. New car? No chance. Even eating out every week isn’t viable. And even what I have is only because I have a pretty sweet rent situation.

It’ll never happen, even if there was the will to do it the city doesn’t have the money (or the tax base to bring in that kind of money).

That’s what I’m saying though, we got rid of those regulations, and it still doesn’t matter. Banks want parking. Banks limit height. Banks limit unit counts. Developers routinely propose some pretty decent housing products, where they’ve run the numbers and they work, then go to get it financed and it very rapidly gets cut in half and turned to shit.

The only solution is for the city to finance and build themselves.

I mean whoever she ends up running against in the primaries (or general) will have a field day with “she represented her district so poorly she had to change to ours”.

1: change zoning laws to allow more multifamily construction

Our city did this and it hasn’t helped at all, because banks won’t finance it. No minimum parking, no height limit, no maximum FAR, no maximum unit count.

this shortage is entirely caused by cities preventing construction of everything but single family homes

So I work in a field closely related to this, and the issue is less cities and more banks. The regulations in my city are basically: “if it’s housing, no regulations”. No minimum parking, no maximum density, no height limit, etc etc. But the banks? Won’t finance over ~22 stories. Or over ~200 units. Or parked less than 2:1. So we end up with only these short towers that are 50% parking podiums, where units are expensive AF because they have to pay for $100,000+ of parking per unit, not to mention the astronomical land prices being less diluted.

The only solution is for the city itself to start financing construction (and realistically doing the development themselves too), but that’s never going to happen.

Most real estate is owned by “123 street LLC”, meaning each LLC owns a single house/building. I’m not even sure how you would get around that realistically, and it’s not just companies that do that. If I ever get to the position of buying a house (…yeah right lol), I intend to do the same thing.

On top of that it gets weird with multiple houses because they’re in different locations with different tax rates and AHJs. Even within the same city you can be paying taxes to different counties. I’d like to see something like owning 2 houses = 2x taxes, 3 = 3x, etc. But then people could game it based on different tax rates, so you’d have to have a system to apply it to each AHJ equally.