lemillionsocks @ lemillionsocks @beehaw.org

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I had a feeling Rick would mention Sbarro it is our good contribution to pizza. If he really wanted to do research and get people mad and delight a chunk of the state he should have selected a pizzeria style from a part of the state that doesnt do NY style pizza.

I won a bid on a house, finally WON a bid, and signed the paperwork and house went into pending.

But then because the seller realtor made a "mistake" and they managed to get another bid before we could get attorney approval letters filled out. So suddenly another offer came through and the seller realtor had a responsibility "in the interest of fairness" to present this offer even though contracts were already signed. In the interest of fairness they gave us the opportunity to outbid this offer, but of course they wouldnt tell us what that offer was to get an opportunity to potentially match it or just give up.

And in 3 fun days I got the ups and downs of anticipation of getting an answer, the emotional high of finally winning a bid and getting a house, the hype from planning inspection dates and imaging where I can go from house and how I can make it my own, the excitement and joy in telling the people, then the dread of not knowing if I'll be able to keep the house, and finally the anger and sadness from having this fucking shark take my house away right out of my hands.

I'm staying positive I know we'll find something, but this market is killing me.

I know that the jump to chrom was aided by a number of factors, with one of the bigger ones being how fluid technology use was at the time. Everything was new and anything could become number 1.

Still it's so frustrating that when firefox had the memory leak and "took a long time to launch" the web was flooded with complaints and people jumping to chrome and congratulating google on what a modern browser they built.

Meanwhile everytime chrome gets caught with high memory usage, pushing their own web standards, or destroying adblock and a free web as we know it, the internet as a whole shrugs as if there isnt anything that can be done.

I got a side loader and it generally is spinning at least a little slowly until right before the timer goes off. Generally I can push the pause button at any point during the wash and after a few seconds it will unlock. My top loaders i used to be able to open at any time during the wash.

I imagine they have a buffer period to let the load stop spinning but you probably can override for earlier if you really want.

Upstate wouldnt have to be a city at all. Could be a town, hamlet village, unincorporated land, state park. Archer was young enough to have been around while earth was still rebuilding in theory.

Upstate itself is also a very general location for the state. It's most commonly used by people from the NYC metro area to refer to pretty much anything north of the bronx. This means upstate could in theory refer to anything from Westchester or Rockland county, to Watertown, to Niagara falls(though dont tell a western new yorker theyre from upstate they'll throw a fit).

We're a long way from the silly rubber suit. They're terrifying and the way they reproduce and use that tale screams xenomorph.

Ah butts. Until I read your post I forgot that a writers strike is going to make the outcome of this episode up in the air.

Pay your writers big corpos and stop trying to figure out how to reanimate actors corpses with Ai so you can use them forever !

It's a game that kinda sprung up out of nowhere and exploded in popularity, but the popularity was well deserved it is a pretty good game. The younger fanbase being a bunch of over excited and obsessed turned off a lot of people, but I feel like it's a little silly to hate something because kids were acting like children.

I am pro-opensource when possible. I use linux on desktop and laptop, I use foss android apps where available, and am happy to keep that trend alive.

That said, I am not a foss purist. There are things in my life where you gotta do what you gotta do. I have google'd android(a pixel even), I make use of steam and other proprietary game stores, I of course bank using bank things. Sometimes I waste time looking for an alternative only to find I've wasted my pre-bed time and Ive stayed up late chasing my tail. It's just easier to live well.

One thing about FOSS ui is that as frustrating as it is to be forced into someone's esoteric workflow, it isnt always counter intuitive, just different from how the mainstream does it. There have been a few foss programs where once it clicks I kinda get where they were coming from(and of course many others where I feel the devs are intentionally out there spreading chaos)

My headcanon regarding the federations seemingly impossibly rosey outlook on psychological trauma is that they genuinely have good mental health treatments. That we have the ship's counselor as a member of bridge crew in TNG is indicative of how important and useful they are.

Between that and psychics existing, the federation is pretty good at dealing with trauma at least in a way that keeps things functional.

In the case of inner light however I suspect the device was designed to have a dreamlike quality to it since it wouldnt be helpful for your knowledge spreading device to cause trauma to whoever it comes into contact with. You remember the important bits and major pieces of historical information but a lot of it kinda fades as just a dream.

It really is kind of neat that she wound up becoming such an essential part of star trek.

Remove a few of those steps on the spec ladder and you got me.

Gorn dont have a lot of chewing teeth so it's important for these to be easy on the pallet.

It's kind of wild how terrifying this species has become as the series progresses. Like Enterprise mirror universe had some badass showings and then Strange New Worlds has them go all hr iger on us

Hmmm being his grandma and former lover is quite the flexibility.

Yeah, I don’t think that I enjoyed any shoehorned romance with Picard especially…

I didnt mind inner light but I guess since that involved him living an entire life in this kinda simulation thing that it wasnt quite shoehorned.

The realtors in the area Im looking at sure as heck arent representing the 1.1 million dollar homes and 3% out of that 10% or more increase can get you close to or over an extra $1,000.

In addition to that its not even just about a 10% increase it's about creating a sense of urgency and scarcity and as a result inflating prices above 10%. It's can't just be coincidence that the fully renovated modernized variants of the house in an area seem to only pop up once a week after the other one goes off market.

Maybe I'm assigning more credit to them than they deserve, but they do control the rate of listings and even if they arent working together if you see something that you know will be off market by monday afternoon, it's just good strategy to wait until then to do it.

Of course the supply cant be that big to begin with for this strategy to make sense, but it is a way of making the issue worse.

Its such a great ship design. elegant and round. Not unlike a duck.

, you put in offers, sight-unseen, on any and all homes that meet your general criteria

yeah this is absolutely a nogo for me. They all have deadlines anyway and I live around here so it's not like it costs me anything to schedule an appointment to see the place or pop over during an open house. Also offers are all accepted at the same time so they'll just pass if theres a 10 day spiff on it, and in my state you have to sign some formal paperwork to make a deal. This implies a covenant of good faith, so I dont really know the legality of singing and sending out a bunch at once but I suspect it's dubious(which sucks because they get the option to choose from multiples)

Housing stock in my area is old for the US and these 100 year old homes can range from exactly what you see in the pictures to dangerously obsolete or just bad. The charming woodwork and hardwood floors photograph well and then IRL they areslanted, broken, there's mysterious smells, and the basement is a disaster zone.

Theres also just the issue of, I'm not trying to fall in love with "the perfect house". I will make it a home and update, and paint, and replace cabinets and plant gardens, I know I can make it my own. But I also plan on living here and raising a family for the next few years and there dealbreakers. It's a lot like taking a car for a test drive before buying it. You dont really know how it feels to drive or how enjoyable it is or how comfortable it is, or how the plastics on the dash feel until you actually get inside of it.

But yeah otherwise I will never waive inspection.

Only contingency I offer is inspection and I'd rather spend an eternity looking than risk not having an inspection done. I'm handier than average, but there are some construction/contractor level things that I am just not capable of handling. Thankfully the number of people waiving inspections has dropped quite a bit, but theyre still out there ruining it for the rest of us.