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What do you mean by 'you people'? Ours is gas, and about 13 years old, and is a massive tank. I think there is a new permit system in California, but we are renters, so I am letting our landlord handle all that with the plumber. Sounds like they will install it Sunday.

Water heater started to leak last night, so hopefully I'll be able to get that replaced in a timely manner. I rode my bike to work today. 28 miles in 90 minutes, which is only about 30 minutes slower than my typical drive lately. Yay!

I bought these 60 second games where you run around and then try to survive the apocalypse. The space one is pretty fun. I was in the mood for a chill casual game and it fit the bill. I also grabbed Galactic Civilization III for a few bucks, which has been on my radar forever.

Whoa whoa, physique 4? I think the Obsidian average is better than that! We even had a workout thread for awhile.

The supposed deranged teenager, as Skarpie called her, is a teenager with aspergers. She is also not pushing a specific agenda, but rather imploring people to listen to the vast majority of scientists on the issues. But hey, gotta dig around until you find a few folks who reinforce your chosen narrative, I suppose.

Great. The victim complex stuff is annoying, but seems like a good choice to just air it out.

Best thing I've seen in awhile: https://www.yahoo.com/sports/unlike-agholor-hero-eagles-fan-negged-nelson-agholor-after-catching-kids-dropped-from-burning-building-135600906.html

That's just an opinion. They are giving out free games like candy. I got the entire Batman Arkham and Lego Batman collection the other day when I did my once a month log in. Someday I may even play them. It's just a game launcher. It plays games. Just like every other launcher.

Not quite sure how it would be apples to oranges. More like Granny Smith Apples to Fuji Apples. I mean, they are all just content delivery platforms with various pros and cons, and content.

Are you 30 yet? That's middle aged. I mean, when you think about it, 30-40 is halfway through your typical lifespan. So yay. 👍

We've also got a pretty silly State versus Federal government war going on, GD. 👍

You need to give more information here. What time are you eating dinner? What time are you winding down for the night? Are you doing any exercise during the day? You can definitely change that rhythm. It really only takes a couple days to adjust. 4 hour sleep nights is not sustainable for your health.

Carnival Row was strange. Really good acting, interesting setting, but I'd almost say it was trying too hard to be the next GoT. The ending of the season left me cold, and people seemed to make a lot of bad decisions all the time. I don't know, I'm pretty lukewarm on it.

I actually think you've really made it as an icon if people see you in the same light as Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur. They are fictional characters, sure, but they also hold up over the generations and are constantly being reinvented. It's also not necessarily a bad thing when a fictional character crosses the line of reality, because they often represent a period of time, and I'd argue that it is a lot easier to correct someone on Robin Hood being fictional than it is to teach someone about the setting in which the fictional character lived.

The Australia pips are really rich. There are two of them! I mean, I'm not sure that US students really do much Ukrainian mapping during their K-12 years, but they definitely learn the continents.

No thanks. Maybe you are just lousy at expressing yourself.

It would be a curious comparison to see how many Ukrainians can pick out Arkansas on a map.

Skarpie calls it a hoax, then blames rich people for having a bigger carbon footprint. 🤔

It's a bit of an ethical grey area to tip teachers. I mean, are you paying for higher marks? Special treatment? The intent may be perfectly noble and innocent, but the optics of the situation can go sideways quickly.

I don't wish death on anyone, of course, but there is a very real possibility that future generations will look at these guys as worse than tyrants and mass murderers. They made billions with little regard to environmental impact, then used those billions to stifle any actual investigations that were being attempted. They committed major environmental crimes, then used the profits from those crimes to buy politicians and influence. Their carbon footprint is the size of a dinosaur killing asteroid. They have jeopardized future generations. None of that has to do with thought or speech. They physically damaged the planet. We all do, but they did it best. For that they are held up as pioneers of business, and I just don't think that will hold up in a couple generation when we can't breath the air. You are making me sound like a raving environmentalist GD.

They seem to have spent $127 billion dollars funding climate change denial stuff. That's more apocalyptical than political.

Gfted having 17 other adults living under his roof explains a lot about him. edit: Ok, he fixed his math, but I still like my massive Gfted clan theory.

The house we are renting sold to a friend of ours last year for just under $800k. It was a fixer upper. We have been keeping an eye on the condo and townhome market, and most of them are $700k and up. It would be much better to own, as our tax liability would drop enough to make up for any extra we pay on the mortgage, plus we would hopefully earn equity. But the down payment is considerably hard to generate on a $700k property. Most of the people I know around my age and younger who do own either got in right after the market dropped in 2008, or their parents gave them enough to cover the down payment. We do like the town we live in, so moving isn't an option. I don't know, we did make a bunch of changes in the last year to adjust our budget, so hopefully we will be clear of debt and have a bit saved up in a couple years. We would also need favorable market conditions, so we will see. I also don't want to say no to my kids all the time when it comes to competitive sports and family trips. They grow up fast.

Not too much more complicated. Rent eats 35% of our income, we are taxed 22% from the fed (bit more complicated than that, but close enough) and 9% from the state. I mean, I think about leaving the Bay Area sometimes, but we also make that salary because we live in the Bay Area. Teachers make half as much in most of the country. At least my retirement rate will be nice if I stick it out and the retirement fund doesn't collapse. 👍

I am a two income family and we are barely staying ahead of debts and expenses, so it's not like the current administration is working for us. We made $160k last year. We can't afford to buy a house and struggle not to take on debt every month.