Previously on H3
Part 1: Introduction, Caveat, and Stakeout
Part B: Permits and Foundations
Part III: Do’h, Stumps, Rodan!!!, and Framing
Part The Fourth: Rough-in, Decks, and Inspection
The Penultimate Part: Drywall, Insulation, Siding, The Big Finish, and More.
TL/DR
A six-part series? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Peppers
A quick synopsis for newcomers or those who haven’t kept up or those have who smoked and/or drank away all their long-term memory cells. In 1988 I helped my father build a home, since then we’ve built on average two homes per year. All but one in the same development, a gated lake community run by a Home Owners Association. Over those thirty years, building codes were adopted and updated, the HOA’s rules and requirements were expanded, technology improved the tools of the trade, products, and materials. In the previous articles, I examined these changes by comparing the building of that first house and the one we started this spring. Here I attempt to relate what all this has to do with libertarianism, or at least how it has influenced my libertarianism, otherwise known as the only true libertarianism.
What Did You Learn?
Aside from the specifics, probably not much, the recurring themes were likely no surprise to most Gliberati, being the heartless greedy anarchistic greasepaint-mustachioed aginners that you lot are.
⦁ Market driven improvements in tools and materials save time and money or add value through better products.
⦁ The regulatory changes be they from the HOA or the building codes they adopted do little if anything to add value to the homes, and cost the builders and owners time and money.
⦁ Codes and regulations create a false sense of security. Why exercise due diligence when the Government/HOA says everything’s cool?
⦁ Top Men® are rarely competent or particularly knowledgeable, and even the good ones are subject to human nature, i.e. power corrupts…etc.
⦁ Paperwork, red tape, and other bureaucratic nonsense are at best a ‘cover your ass’ legality for the HOA and at worst a ‘process as punishment’ deterrent.
What Did I Learn?
WTF Cukes?
That writing is hard; I can install crown moulding like it grew there, but stringing together a few sentences takes far more skill. You get drunk and bang out a few paragraphs then the next morning you delete all but a few phrases, rinse and repeat until you have something resembling a coherent thought. Luckily, I also learned that I can absolutely butcher the language and waterboard syntax for the sole purpose of shoehorning Elvis Costello album titles into my posts and not a single one of you will notice. I mean I can see how ‘This Year’s Model’ kind of worked but who says ‘Punch the Clock’ or ‘Imperial Bedroom’? C’mon people, work with me here.
What Does This Have To Do With True libertarianism?
After all the bitching it may surprise some of you that I have absolutely no problem with the concept of HOAs. Some of you may recall that I even defend HOAs when we get the occasional link about a resident breaking some stupid rule and getting into a fight with their HOA. I may not want to live under the rules of one, but it’s not up to me to tell others that they can’t. As I tell Commies and So-cons alike, if I had my way they would still be able to go off and live in some free-loving-malnourished-dog-filled-smelly-hippie commune or some stick-up-their-ass-WASP-only-country-club community, just don’t force anyone to join who doesn’t want to. That’s how I see HOAs.
Red Sauce Walking!
Some argue that this is a violation of basic property rights, that you don’t ‘truly’ own your land if you can’t do whatever you want with it. That may be true; it’s just not a big deal, if people want to buy land that comes with strings attached, who am I to stop them? If I want to sell some excess property but don’t want a pig farm next door, there is nothing un-libertarian about having a ‘no pig farm’ clause in the contract. I also have no problem with an ‘if you sell you have to include a ‘no pig farm clause” and an ‘if you sell you have to include an ‘if you sell you have to include a ‘no pig farm clause”’ and so on and so on and scooby doobie doo. You want un-stringed land? proclaim yourself King, Chief, or Big Kahuna then raise an army, conquer some land, and hold it. That’s the only way you’re going to truly own your land.
That said, all rules are not created equal. Most people join HOAs because they want to live in a community with certain shared aesthetics. They don’t want a doublewide next to their half-million dollar manse, they don’t want chain link fences or front yards filled with cars on blocks. What they do not particularly care about is if their neighbor’s great room has natural lighting equal to or greater than 8% of the floor area. However once you set up a system to make and enforce rules you get people using it to make and enforce rules, and they don’t stop at the ones that ‘most people’ want, they use the system to push their agenda.
Like the discussion had in the comments of Desk Jockey’s excellent ‘Hillbillies can Maths Two’ post, governing bodies govern. Mini anarchism is an impossibility. Even in this small rural community, the HOA has grown year after year infringing on more and more of the freedoms the people who voluntarily joined once enjoyed. Most of these people don’t care, they are content to live their lives… going fishing or boating or just sitting in their home and reading self-affirming blog posts. It’s human nature and the inevitable lure of power that ensures governments will only attract those that want something to be done!!
Dealing with the arbitrary rules of both the HOA and the building code that they adopted led me to realize that all rules, not most, but all rules are subjective. For a while, I accepted that we needed electrical and plumbing and structural codes: egress windows and smoke detectors just make sense. These were objectively obvious necessities. Then they changed the rules about attaching deck ledger boards to the house. The laws of physics hadn’t changed, and the way we had always done it was structurally sound, decks weren’t falling off of homes left and right and yet some far off panel of ‘experts’ had decided that we now had to do things differently. This got me thinking about the other ‘obvious’ codes. Why is a railing required to be 36″, why not 35″ or 37″. Why should smoke detectors be required in every bedroom but not the living room or den? Oh, I see, bedrooms are ‘sleeping areas.’ I’m sure not one of you reading this has ever fallen asleep on the couch in your living room or office or den. Hell, I’ve woken up (okay ‘come to’) in my bathtub a time or three.
Lastly
Trust all this useless beauty, the King of America may spike the brutal youth with secret(s) profane and sugarcane. When I was cruel yet mighty, like a rose, blood and chocolate brought national ransom by the delivery man with the Juliet letters. North!! Il Sogno, Momofuku…Momofuku’s
Huh, so that’s how Agile Cyborg did it. I’ll be damned.
I forgot to thank all of you for making this series the huge, huge success that it has been, Many people have said great things, very good thing, the smartest people, high IQ’s. Previous series weren’t doing so good, sad, but I met with the Glib leaders, great, great people, they say very nice thing about me, and I like them. I told them ‘no more weak series, no more Romanian vampires, America has the best monsters, our monsters lead the most interesting lives they meet the most interesting people, my stars..We had a good talk, very productive. Now the series’s are winning again, Suthenboy.. his series is doing very well, not as well as this one but It’s good, the best. Yufus is putting a good series together, needs work so I am going to send my guys, the best guys really and we’ll get Yufus’s series in shape it’ll be much stronger, no more weak series. ‘Footnote’ Eddie had weak series, we’re gonna have strong series again, the strongest, very strongly. #QITCHHUNT #FAKEBOOBS
Thanks for putting this series together. I haven’t surveyed the Glibs but I think a slim majority of us live inside, so this stuff is mostly useful. Mostly.
STEVE SMITH disagrees.
It was a great series and I enjoyed it other than you talking about installing pre-fab cabinets which is both lazy and gay and you sounded like a fag.
MGGA!
Hell, I’ve woken up (okay ‘come to’) in my bathtub a time or three.
You started off with four kidneys?
My dad’s last career was as a building inspector. He basically got fired by the one town because his expectation that the laws be followed ticked off the town board once too often.
I remember being at the town hall once and noticing that the fire extinguisher hadn’t been checked in something like three years, instead of the every six months like it was supposed to.
It is kinda funny, but that kinda thing sticks with you. After being on two ships for a total of about 4 years, any time I wander through a building (roving inspections when I was in the school house or when I have time to kill on a new base, etc), I just check the tags on fire extinguishers and “politely inform” the local chain of command if I notice things out of place. I’ve had too many cold nights in the Fort Drum winter sitting outside the barracks waiting for the firefighters to tell me that there’s no fire, it was just some drunk jackass lighting off a CO2 extinguisher next to a smoke detector or burning up his microwave, etc. On the ship, you get even more safety conscious, because if you have a fire underway….nobody’s coming to help you out (most of the time).
GREAT NEWS!
Burger King mom that pulled the dual OD-baby delivery in the shitter is in rehab !
Bet this time its gonna stick!
/sarc
As far as safety oriented regs are concerned, accidents will happen, there’s no preventing everything.
Antifragile. You need some accidents to figure out a cost benefit analysis. Friedman educating a young Michael Moore on Donahue about car safety.
Bah, imagine if there were no regs in ship building, they’d all sink!
Now I know you’re looking at me like my IQ is less than zero, but you shouldn’t look at me that way. I want peace, love, and understanding.
That’s funny.
At least somebody got it
Being indoctrinated into NEBOSH and holding an IGC, (with distinction I might add) I can say you may be right but we must try to prevent all. What eye protection are you wearing right now? Don’t make me write you up.
Railroading is a very rigid, rule bound work. There’s a saying that rules are written in blood, meaning that all of those rules were added because something or someone fucked up once.
Moral hazards. The bullshit the rating agencies like Moody’s and S&P engaged in during the various bubbles should’ve been proof that quasi non govt regs don’t work. 20 trillion in debt shows govt won’t reg itself. UL used to be a trustworthy example of how the market could monitor itself. Buyer beware has been replaced with “I’m too stupid or lazy to figure out what’s best for me.”
I did not know you were writing a series, but now I can go back and catch up. I liked this!
Also, Elvis Costello ruined Diana Krall.
Roger Waters ruined Elvis Costello.
Elvis Costello came pre-ruined.
“Unfriended! Democrat drives to man’s house and shoots him after heated political disagreement on Facebook
Brian Sebring, 44, of Tampa, Florida, was arrested for shooting Alex Stephens, 46, also of Tampa, in the thigh and buttocks after their online disagreement.
Police say the row began when the two men disagreed over politics on Facebook, and Stephens reportedly began sending Sebring ‘explicit messages and threats’.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6039385/Democrat-drives-mans-house-shoots-heated-political-disagreement-Facebook.html
I keep seeing these reports of leftists attacking people they disagree with, are there any such incidents from the right? Or it just a giant media conspiracy to suppress such stories?
Are you sure this story wasn’t about some deranged Trump lover shooting an enemy of the people journalist?
OT: Maybe it has been discussed already, but Welch, Woods and Malice walked into a bar…
Awwwwkward. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qvRk2CYVzx4
And this was the song playing.
Tom’s wife could do a nasty twerk to that.
Regarding HOAs
I kinda suspect that local governments have a tendency to force HOAs upon the land seller.
No doubt, as well as a hundred other requirements to pursue a development including the width of a driveway and how they have to pave the road.
They certainly do in the Boise area. Try to build houses without one.
That’s because Boise sucks.
Yes it does. If it’s not frozen, it’s on fire.
That’s because if shifts the burden of responsibility off the cities. They will defer to the HOAs, of course until they don’t. I do approve of the law past a couple of years ago to prevent yahoo HOAs going off the rails. And I’ve been on an HOA board for four years now.
…the sole purpose of shoehorning Elvis Costello album titles into my posts…
Goddamit! And I have every one of the records.
Loved the series. Learned a lot.
“If you don’t 100% support antifa, fuck off. They are the most unambiguously good guys in American politics right now.”
https://twitter.com/ElSandifer/status/1025944215182893058
*fucks off*
I don’t know or care who that crazy person is, but I do feel it’s appropriate to point out that the entirety of America’s “literal fucking Nazis” could probably fit inside my living room, unlike her bike-lock-weilding heroes.
I’ve pretty much reached the point that anytime some calls someone a Nazi, I’m just going to politely ask, “Like Bernie Sanders? He said he was a National Socialist in an interview.”
“Card-carrying druid. Feminine chaos dragon. She/Her.”
Yeah. That about sums it up for me.
I hope thats Godfrey Elfwick’s new thing
Says a lot that she makes sure we all know she’s a Dr. Of what? I’m guessing it’s not physics/
That….is not a convincing female pretender.
Oh and I have tickets to his upcoming show here in November.
Unless of course he dies.
I saw a show here some time back that is still one of the best I’ve ever seen. He’s an amazing guy who should be in everyone’s playlist.
Whoa. Hope he gets better. Might have to do some heavy Elvis Costello listening this weekend. He’s always in the mix, but might do a long stroll through the discography this weekend.
Damn.
I went to a David Bowie show and thoroughly enjoyed it. Probably the best live show I’d been to. I kept checking year after year to see when he was going on tour next. And then he died. ☹️
One of my favorite bands recorded a song a few years ago, which they thought sounded like an Elvis Costello song. So they called him up and recorded it again with him singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0Sb8YVO3U
So why is it so hard to find good trades people…persons? I’m doing a home remodel and it’s like pulling teeth to get people to work. I work with a fairly large group of people and no one has a contractor they’d recommend. Why is that?
Florida?
Maybe. It’s the only state I’ve tried to hire contractors.
FIL had a lake place up in the wilds of MN. We often had to bring guys from the Twin Cities up because the local dudes were such fuckheads.
That was before the internet though.
Because nobody wants to pay for good trades people so all the trades people they know arn’t any good.
and aren’t good spellers either.
I could understand if I was tight fisted, but I’ll contact 5 different contractors and be lucky to hear back from 1.
Flip the proposition around – what kind of customer are you, and how does the contractor know that? Contractors all have horror stories of people they’ve worked for, so I think referrals are going to be preferred over cold callers.
Florida Man – my cousin is a gen contractor. I’m not sure if he’s booked right now, but I could ask.
Lack of supply, may be local but around here not many kids are picking up trades, the old guys are retiring and dying off and there are no replacements, the few that are around get snapped up by the ‘big’ construction firms. I hope it’s a cyclical thing, the big firm only has an edge if they keep the costs reasonable. Once it starts costing $$$ to build a deck, install a garbage disposal etc, we will start seeing smart young Kids thinking fuck I’ll do that for $$ and still make bank! at least I hope so.
My kids’ high school this year, for the first time ever, held a trade fair in addition to a college fair. I spoke with a number of Spawn 1’s pals who are off to be a sparky, carp or plumber.
It will be cool.
My oldest has a business degree and operates a food truck – he recently picked-up a CDL and drives long-haul with flexibility to operate the food truck for events.
Nice. How’s the food?
All good. He custom sources sausages/topping and my husband makes all the bread/pretzel products.
Yum. Wood.
I had a friend from high school (got kicked out my junior year) who’s a plumber now. He explained his job simply, “Shit always goes downhill. I just have to make sure it’s going down the right hill.”
Pretty sure my plumber makes more than my lawyer.
Lol. Both have to deal with a lot of shit though!
I had a client with an HVAC business. He had all the shit people think lawyers have: money, boats, cara, women. He pretty much did what he wanted when he wanted. Of course, his flashiness came back to bite him in the ass at the child support hearing.
*cars
For small handyman types stuff, also thank Youtube & the Internet. Used to be I don’t know how to do XXX, go hire someone. Now you can often learn how to do it yourself and actually do it yourself for whole lot less and often better quality.
Because all the people that would have made good trades-people (punctual, contentious, problem solvers) in another universe have been funneled into college.
I think this might be the case. I’m pretty sure I could be a millionaire if I’d gone into the trades with my novel service of “showing up” and “doing the job”.
It works for me. I’m a long ways off from having a money bin though.
Perhaps b/c those who would have previously pursued a trade are pushed into the college-for-all scenario, and many are 1-2 generations removed from exposure to trade professions? Also, community colleges became the training ground for trade industries, but are now simply spawning areas for four-year institutions, and create two-year degrees where 8-weeks was previously appropriate.
Maybe try Tradesmen International?
I know a few people who’ve found decent contractors in the Midwest through them.
https://www.tradesmeninternational.com/staffing-florida/tampa-craftsmen/
Not sure where you’re at in Florida but I believe they have multiple locations.
They have an office in Orlando. I’ll try them next time I need something. I’m in the middle of a remodel now and it’s moving at a snails pace. The only thing keeping me sane is they’ve only got 1/2 the money, so if they want the rest they’ll have to finish some day.
Because most remodeling contractors aren’t trustworthy. There’s nobody to hold their feet to the fire except the customer, who doesn’t know what’s supposed to be done. Anybody can claim to be an expert, and I’d you don’t check references you’re going to hire either a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing, a guy who does know what he’s doing but has a meth habit, or a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing and has a meth habit.
Look for the guy who can’t get to you for 6 months, and pay what he asks.
Umm….re: Galaga
Zaxxon is far superior, and Defender is a close 2nd.
Zaxxon had the best stick. Not a flying spaceship, but I loved Tempest.
Yeah, and Tempest had an amazing atmosphere – music, sound effects, etc. I loved Robotron for the same reason.
I’m certain Mr. Cash would request you not use his image as an avatar if he knew you were so wrong about video games.
Temptest was my jam too. And to show my age, Battlezone.
This is true. Dude shot a man in outer space, just to watch him go Bleedle-Bleedle-Bleedle-Bleedle-Bleep-Wonk-Wonk.
Erroneous. I have a Centipede and Ms. Pac Man (both originals, by the way) in my basement. Galaga is next (and best).
I’m more of a Ninja Baseball Bat Man, myself.
Never played that.
And get off my lawn!
Superior version of Ms. Pac Man. I wonder why they didn’t go with Pac Woman.
Tekken 2 and Marvel Vs. Capcom in mine.
We also have this.
So funny. The kids’ friends, especially the hardcore gamers, are fascinated by the standup games.
The girlfriend wanted a pinball machine, until she learned that she would need to maintain it. It also doesn’t help that the finished portion of our basement is fairly narrow. There was no way to put a pool table down there, I measured every way I could (and I wasn’t going to get a smaller size, that’s just wrong).
The ones who love the standup games at my place are the kids (usually younger then 12), who have never really seen a cabinet before. Eventually one gets cocky, and challenges me at one of the games. I’ll let them pick my character, and it usually doesn’t go well for them. I mean, it’s not like I’ll let them win. And those who have won have felt that swell of pride at a well earned victory.
Gyruss was my favorite. I mean, the Bach soundtrack – come on. I sucked so hard at Defender.
The gravity in Defender, I never got the hang of it. I sucked too.
Sinistar was my go to for the best sound of the day. All Willams games were the loudest and best sounding.
I was going to mention Sinistar too. Damn that was a hard one but…. “I HUNGER!” Wonderful.
I liked how the game goaded you, called you a coward, and told you to run
1. Robotron
2. Ms. Pacman
3. Galaga
4. Dig Dug
5. Zaxxon
I never liked any of the Pac Man games.
I think my favorite was Q-bert. I liked that the little bastard swore when he got killed.
Heyo
That podcast with Malice, Welch, and Woods is now live on Youtube
Dude…
The funniest part is a gave Gilmore the click instead of you.
yeah main, i have not been glibbing this week. busy bee. i dont’ really read stuff, i just post 1-2 things and go back to biz
Late night music. Why would you want to destroy this man?
I have no prior exposure to AJ. This is the proper way to be introduced.
HOAs suck. Covenants are the right way to do things. That way, if you become such a nuisance to your neighbors that they are moved to act, they can take you to court. There’s no board of power hungry busy bodies itching for a fight. Set the incentives for “mind your own fucking business” and most people mind their own fucking business. Set the incentives for “meddle excessively” and you empower Stalin Jr., the neighbor with a God complex.
BTW, fuck IT. The internet has been down at the office since Tuesday, and I had to manually design my own website because the webdev team is so hampered by IT rules.
I used to serve on an HOA board, even as the president for a term. Some busybody would show up at the quarterly meeting to propose such and such a new rule. My rejoinder was always, “Look everyone bought in this community knowing the rules. Now you want to change the rules.
That’s not fair to all those who bought with the understanding that such and such was permitted. If we change the rules, are you o.k with your
monthly homeowners assoc. fee going up to pay for a lawyer to try to defend the HOA’s new rule?” Invariably, the rest of the attendees would then jump on the busybody for proposing some shit that would cause the HOA to lay out more money. Lesson: join your HOA and fight against all the nonsense.
I’m the president of mine. I don’t do shit. I haven’t even appointed new board members to fill three vacancies. People in the hood have never been happier.
Also, when people call me to bitch about their neighbors I tell them to go talk to their neighbor first before I get involved. If they can’t do that I tell them we have nothing to discuss and hang up.
Couldn’t agree more. When I first moved into my neighborhood the HOA was full of busybodies. We rallied a bunch of newcomers and squared everything away.
Runs beautifully now.
Thankfully the covenants in my neighborhood have expired and the lawyer that wrote than will probably expire within ten years a well.
Spawn and I are digging this tonight.
I love Sly. He got it.
The trolling will continue until the left improves.
/expects this to be in the AM links.
Wow. The council voted unanimously to imperson him? Even at the height of Reagan hate, i don’t recall ever hearing about removing his star from the walk of fame.
OMG I love it.
Gus, the city council of a neighboring locality – West Hollywood – voted so. The stars are located in Los Angeles. It’s just an exercise in signaling.
Ah, thanks. I thought they had control of the walk.
Sabo, likely. That’s something he’d come up with. Love him.
Read the WHOLE article before posting, Mojeaux.
In case anyone forgot for a moment that the media thrive on ridiculously hyperbolic DOOM AND GLOOM stories.
LOL okay – and yet somehow I managed to get to work on time almost every day. More often than my car-commuting NJ cowokers, even.
“Won’t someone think of the temporarily-inconvenienced hipsters?!”
I said it before, but loved the series TH, and then pulling back the curtain on building your wrtiting work as it were too, bravo!
Definitely a strong contender for a Glibby in the home improvement/homebuilding series category.
Dear Glibs,
I have been asked to go to a conference next Wednesday. It’s with the Arkansas economic development institute.
My employer is sending me, and paying me for my time.
What they want me to do, is to talk to a group of people who work for the state about what colleges need to teach in order to produce people who have my skill set.
I’m conflicted.
Why? This is exactly what needs to happen. They won’t listen to you, but it still needs to be said.
Alternatively, offer to create a program. Just get a shit ton of funding and we’ll all come siren and work for you!
Mostly because it’s a state institution that will listen to me say that in order to create competent industrial electricians, that you need to teach (x)
My advice will be totally ignored and I swear to God if I get hit with a bunch of bullshit about political considerations for whom should be admitted instead of the curriculum to be taught, I will not be able to continue.
Seriously, I know how to make machines work. I know what young people need to learn to be able to do the same. I’m not willing to get into nonsense about the topic.
I looked at their website today, and the first thing I saw was some bullshit about diversity inclusion.
Learning a trade has nothing to do with that.
Then tell them that in your speech.
They want you to talk to bureaucrats?! That sounds like a rock and a hard place – sorry.
Not only that, they want me to explain to beurocrats what they should be doing.
Jesus. If beurocrats did what they should be doing then I probably wouldn’t be an anarchist.
Set out a ground rule up front – introduction of any political consideration means that person has nothing to contribute to this effort.
If asked I would tell them fewer English classes, fewer required electives, don’t force students to read a book in addition to the text book that will be tested in (my old college started requiring us to read novels and making questions from them 5-15% of our grade, I quit he school in large partnover that). Fire more professors.
I have a list in head that I can pop off at any time. I have no worries about coming up with content. It’s the setting that bothers me.
I doubt these people genuinely want to improve curriculum in classes to tailor young people to what is a niche in the job market that is not being filled.
Proper English classes are useful. You maybe mean literature classes?
Proper English has nothing to do with being able to tell if a silicone controlled rectifier is properly functioning or not.
One of the smartest guys I have ever worked with had a southern drawl that would make a banjo blush, and the vocabulary of someone who quit school in 8th grade.
Technical knowledge is what it is, and it exists outside of high society.
I’m saying there are much more cut worthy classes than English. But, I do understand that English departments in Unis are breeding grounds of post modernist thought. (Despite my horrible grammar, it was one of my degrees). My guess is the ideology is bleeding down to high school English classes. The three “R’s” were a thing for a reason. Ability to express yourself succinctly and properly is a benefit to everyone.
Depends on whether you think college is for making someone “well-rounded” or not. What you’re describing really should have been accomplished by the time someone finishes HS IMHO.
I absolutely agree that producing “well-rounded” students the way the modern uni means it should not be the goal. I’m talking about priorities. Nuke the whole system and I’m fine with that. Just sayin’ that English wouldn’t be on the top of my list of crap that should be cut. I would eliminate the requirement for people that don’t want or need those classes, so I am being a bit nit picky.
Correct. What it has to do with is being able to tell someone else if it is properly functioning.
That’s why God invented technical writers.
That’s also why jesus gave us illiterate technicians who know what to do about it.
What do you mean, “us”?
Humans who benefit from the ability of men to keep the factories running.
That’s the “us” I was referring to.
It’s not quite everybody on earth, but it’s a large percentage of “us”
It was a Jewish joke.
Shit. I thought I knew all the jew jokes.
Go and do it and argue you points forcefully.
What you’ll do is catch shit from 70%, but then the remainder will speak to you afterward and say, “this is what i’ve always wanted to do but was scared that no one agreed w/ me”
I am going to do it. I somewhat look forward to it. I do expect to leave disappointed though. I think I’m going to be given a platform to speak on what I am most knowledgable about, only to be speaking to people who dont have any interest in what I’m talking about.
Beurocracy 101
Good. The experience will help you refine your message and there may possibly be someone in the audience who gets it.
Best of luck!
“I’m conflicted.”
Just say something about diversity and they’ll perk up for a moment before going back to staring at their phones. If you want them t really pay attention, I’m afraid you’ll have to ramble on about empowering women and getting woke the entire time.
Not up to the authors standards, but here’s the work I have done since early this year.
https://imgur.com/a/uRIz1d4
I have put a new roof on, built a deck, and put new siding on casa lachowsky. It’s been a ton of work, but my 70 year old house is constantly improving.
It looks great! My wife would suggest a porch swing…
Thanks tundra. I have put a shit ton of work into that. I’m happy with it and so is the misses. Win win
Mostly I like the Super Soakers on the deck.
Your boy has his priorities straight!
Terrific work, Lachowsky!
I second Tundra’s wife’s suggestion of a porch swing. One of my favorite things ever.
If people thought it was just the nut bag Alex Jones types they’re becoming for. They couldn’t be more wrong. Now they’re coming for John Stossel. A video Stossel has on YouTube about global warming alarmism has been hit with the misinformation tag. YouTube now tags “misinformation” with links to the “truth” on Wikipedia.
https://youtu.be/m3hHi4sylxE
“the “truth” on Wikipedia”
To entries likely written by the same people who marked the video as “misinformation”. Nice little incestuous logic circle they’ve got.
OT: In the wake of the absurd plea bargain for the bike lock guy (in case you hadn’t heard, he plead down to some BS misdemeanor with time served and 3 years probation), I got to thinking (a dangerous proposition in itself). You have a prosecutor who is elected by the constituency and is, by definition, a politician. Now this prosecutor probably knew that the deal was BS but he is beholden to his constituents and certainly doesn’t want to lose re-election for locking up the Nazi punching hero of Berkeley.
What happens when a constituency becomes so hopelessly slanted that the prosecutors allow and encourage miscarriages of justice to save their electoral chances? Let’s say bumfuck county USA decides that Asians are to blame for everything wrong in the world, so they go lynch the few Asians living in the county. The prosecutor either declines to bring charges or lets the perpetrators plead to misdemeanor disorderly conduct or something. Does the state and/or the feds get involved? We’ve already seen with the Shrillary email debacle that this kind of rot goes all the way to the top.
I guess my big question is: how do the due process Amendments 4-7 deal with something like this? What are the Constitutional protections against this kind of mob rule by proxy?
We went through something similar to a small extent see the civil rights era and the showdown between south and the feds over Little Rock. The national guard gets called out to force the issue.
My grandfather stood on the steps of little rock central with a rifle in order to enforce desegregation.
He was a ww2 enlisted man who exited the war as a major.
The prosecutor probably didn’t want to prosecute in the first place.
>Nagasaki survivor visits the U.S. town that fueled his city’s destruction
Maybe they can rename their HS mascot to the Bayonetees as a WWII serviceman getting gutted , no?
“How DARE you be so brutal in response to our brutality?!?”
/yeah, yeah, not so cut-and-dried as that…
Of course, the wishy washy intro to the segment:
How about “one of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan that ended World War II”?
It’s not that freaking unique, there’s another museum in Los Alamos devoted to the exact same thing, for the exact same reason.
And I should add as someone who grew up in Los Alamos, I am hella jealous that Hanford got to have a cool mascot, though. When we got the chance to rename one of ours, administration wouldn’t let us pick Bombers, or anything fun like that.
I hope the students asked if he visited Pearl Harbor.
Or Nanking.
Ima skip the comments for now and then go read them. But I wanted to just say that many building codes are put in for the benefit of contractors. It’s rent seeking. However, many many budding codes are there for very good reasons. Go climb a flight of too steep stairs. The biggest reason is fire. Modern buildings are so less prone to bursting into flame that we could probably get rid of 2/3 of an average city’s firehouses, whose number are determined by fire rates from a hundred years ago. And in a city, if your crappy electrical work causes your house to catch fire, then that’s a threat to my house.
HOAs are BS, I wouldn’t live in one, but to each his own. Building codes are different, and change as we learn more and develope better materials, and as contractors try to game the system so that insurance companies have to actually pay fair compensation.
Also, I would point out that extra expenses are better to put into the intial cost of the home, because mortgage and percent of cost, rather than after sale expenses (think egress basement windows)
So here’s a little wrinkle in the Gab “go make your own platform” free market: BREAKING: Gab’s hosting provider, Microsoft Azure, has given us 48 hours to take action on two posts or they will pull our service and Gab will go down for weeks/months..
And here I thought they were untouchable because they built their own platform…
This is getting wet and wild. I’d donate my kidneys after I die, but I need to be reassured they aren’t going to Nazis.
You know which other Nazi could have used cadaver organs?
Good point. Next step, Gab hosts its own website and then the government goes after it based on some bullshit pretext going back to ARPANET.
Doesn’t need to have government do it overtly. Just as the MS Azure is doing, network providers decide not to provide service to Gab (or whoever). Next stop is to pressure water & electric companies to turn off service to the undesirables.
Oh sure. Point being, there is always a next step. Round and round she goes. This ought to be interesting.
They’re making it harder and harder to deny that making all this shit a “utility” is the way to go. Damn, I really don’t want to go down that road.
And once it’s an utility, government must step in to provide rules. Like the Fairness Doctrine or the Equal TIme Rule.
I just had a great idea of what to do with my apartment: I don’t have hardly anything on my walls, so I’ll hang a fake Wall of Crazy. Should be fun.
I would go for some type of shrine to something kooky like a bottle of brill cream and a comb.
The Hyperbole, I just wanted to thank you again for this series. I really enjoyed it.
Obnoxious customer flinging racist slurs retaliates against food cart co-owner. Food cart co-owner admits faults in struggle session, pleads for forgiveness.
Well, the food cart does use the word ‘guns’ *triggered*
This should turn out well