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It may be possible to get small positive returns from real estate over short time periods, but the opportunity cost is significant. Over the last 30 years the average return from real estate is 5.3% vs 9.6% from the S&P. Couple that with 6% transaction costs every time you exchange, and high...

I sprained my jaw this morning by sleeping with my mouth open.

That seems low by quite a lot. HVAC vendors don't even list single units that can cool a 5600 square foot house. I have a 4-ton for a 2200 sq ft place (Zone 2). https://hvacdirect.com/sizing-air-conditioner-and-heater.html

I live in CA and have shit-tier electric rates, on par with New England and better only than Hawaii and Alaska. My bill only approaches $400 in July when the AC is on 24/7 and it's 95-100 every day, and I'm cooling a 2200 sq ft house with bad insulation (I'm fixing that). $400 in IL is bananas...

$400/mo electricity in the winter? Are you running a crypto farm or something? I would in no way advise you to encourage your AC to irreparably break.

Just be glad we're not Canada?

This is the real problem: (Charts are little stale for these particular comparisons, but nothing substantive has changed. Note the first chart includes trailers, so it's really worse than that.) https://www.realtor.com/research/us-housing-supply-gap-march-2023/

You've checked the zone valve for debris, malfunctioning solenoid, or voltage/wiring problem?

What places are these? There's a profound lack of starter homes in many areas because the economics of building are unfriendly to small footprints, and if there is a place that's small and cheap it's prohibitively far from employment, in a dogshit school system, or both. What would have been...

Although the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, there's sufficient friction caused in the competition between a) its own gravity wanting to compress it into a sphere, b) its rotation wanting to make it ovoid around the equator, and c) the Earth's tidal force trying to draw it out into an ovoid...

So they're accusing him of downloading bootleg porn? If that's a problem, 99% of dudes are in trouble. No one got punished for the fappening except the hackers.

This girl is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit/Victoria's Secret model, I'm sure there were no shortage of attempts to see if she had nudes on her phone. Dillon's too dumb to hack anything, but anyone can find leaks on the internet.

My wife and I were faced with this realization in the last couple years. We'd been renting because due to a quirk of our local markets the cost of tenancy was about 30% less than the cost of owning. However, we had to move in 2022 and face a big catch-up in proportional rent. Fortunately our...

Bethesda needs to hire this guy as lead QA tester. He broke the save mechanism in the first 10 seconds.

I've seen some pretty cool shipping container pools with transparent sides, along the lines of this. Small, but neat idea and I imagine is a cost-effective way to put a pool on a slope. I'd be tempted to put two full sized containers end to end for lap swimming.

Depending on how deep modders can get under the hood and optimize, maybe there's hope for making the world have fewer seams? It looks like maybe they started out having a zoneless world and punted due to engine limitations...

Goat is OK. It's both milder and slightly gamier than beef, if that makes sense. I don't mind it but won't go out of my way to find it, but that's probably just my palate being biased towards the more traditional Western meats. My wife loves it, but she's Chinese. I'm sure it would be great...

FYI this is 30% off on steam right now.

Not so much pain, but I have an intermittent allergy to sweating (Cholinergic urticaria). It only happens after I've been doing several hours of major exercise and get deeply dehydrated. The next day, the first time I do anything that makes me perspire it's like someone injected poison ivy into...

Wow, that's fucked. If you still want the ebooks (Eddings or any others that are hard to find), I'm sure you can hoist your digital Jolly Roger and head over to:

I'm in the same boat trying to play with my kids. Minecraft is the obvious choice for collaborative base-building, with the bonus that it will run fine on a potato. If you don't want to do that, Valheim was also a good experience.

Skim the comments; there are some technical quirks with multiplayer that might or might not be annoying for you.

I should have mentioned that unless I can figure out how to leave the PC in a central location, the run is ~80 feet. AFAIK that exceeds the HDMI spec for reliable transfer. I know there are repeaters and boosters, but I've not heard good things about the latency introduced.

I know this isn't exactly the right thread, but I'm curious if knows if it's possible to set up multiple access points to a single PC. I recently moved to a new house, drew the short straw, and lost my dedicated office. I do work in my bedroom during the week but on the weekends want to game...

What'll blow your mind even more is that the market is still tight in LA/SF where these people you're complaining about are moving out of. A nice 3/2 in a good school district is $1.5M. No one paying those prices is getting paid hourly. The math doesn't work, as you say. You're almost...

You can get a jig/kit at your big box store for like $20. Edit: What he linked.

Some fuckwit the other day was trying to tell me they made a sequel to The Matrix, too. What are these people on?

Mighty Mouse enters hobbyist BJJ tournament, and in a shocking turn of events fucking smokes everyone while his opponents appear to be moving in slow motion:

Of course not, but under hyperinflation you get to pay your fixed debt with monopoly money.

Much like Twitter, the world would be better off if we pretended Twitch didn't exist.

Yes. *EER is BTU/W, assuming the unit is performing at spec.

Just skimming some reviews, this one is 15 SEER for $250. That saves just under half the electricity for the same cooling. You can do the math on how long you think it runs and figure out a payback period.

We don't get them here because they hit Jupiter instead. If our solar system didn't have Jupiter to clear out asteroids, Earth would be a very different place. Edit: Actually this may be bullshit.

This is what I wanted. I might actually go play NMS again instead.

Watch with subtitles on.

Oh man, that brings me back. My friends and I used to play tons of Trade Wars and Legend of the Red Dragon. The guy hosting the BBS was always in trouble with his parents for hogging the phone line.

Pls wipe out my mortgage!

In B4 AI enhanced dick pics. https://12ft.io/

I'd bet most people buy shitty brushes. Edging with a $2 Home Depot brush is an exercise in pain. (Ask me how I know...)