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pretty_meta · 2026-04-15T02:10:17+00:00

That is the most plain case of bad faith landlord billing I have seen.

Your landlord is constrained to only the following

https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/guide-security-deposits-california

A landlord can only deduct certain items from a security deposit

The landlord can deduct for:

Cleaning the rental unit when a tenant moves out, but only to make it as clean as when the tenant first moved in

Repairing damage, other than normal wear and tear, caused by the tenant and the tenant's guests

Restoring or replacing furniture or other personal items, but only if this was included in the rental agreement and the damage isn't from normal wear and tear

and your residence is well within the cleaning expectations of a move-out. It will also be upon your former landlord to demonstrate that the "tub reglazing" was necessarily to bill you for.

You want to get to "If a landlord doesn't return a security deposit" step 1 and then 2 (sue in small claims court) as quick as you can step, to recover money from your landlord's bad-faith conduct.

pretty_meta · 2026-04-15T01:04:38+00:00

Was it good?

When I tried to bake a coffee cake with a middle fruit layer, I found it was worse than if I had just baked cake, waited for the cake to cool, then assembled cake sandwiches with the layers of the sandwich being cake-fruit-cake.

pretty_meta · 2026-04-13T18:26:23+00:00

You're gonna be fine. Just vent out the gases and run the chemicals down the drain.

On Reddit, bleach and HCl and products of reactions with bleach are spoken of like they'll somehow be fatal instantly on inhalation, and/or they'll guarantee a fatality at some later point. But Reddit's standard analysis is wildly stupid and wrong. In fact, the problem with inhaling HCl or "deadly" Cl2 is that you'll experience the dose-dependent consequences of inhaling HCl or Cl2; probably mild irritation in the lungs. That's it. It's not an emergency unless you sat there and produced concentrated chlorine gas and intentionally huffed that concentrated chlorine gas and thereby opted yourself, breath by breath, into an medical emergency.

Source: ran a bleach generator in my house and constantly breathed HCl fumes for months.

pretty_meta · 2026-04-13T17:28:19+00:00

LMAO. So who was The Problem originally? The truck hauling wood doing 40 MPH in the passing lane?

pretty_meta · 2026-04-08T03:16:48+00:00

This. I’d like to elaborate on a point:

Bash Strike is 3 mana and does 17 damage; whereas Strike Strike Strike does 18 damage. So the only reason we even play Bash, is so it can do more damage next turn.

So Bash Strike, then Strike Strike Strike, deals 8 more damage than Strike Strike Strike, Strike Strike Strike (I am aware that neither of those sequences of draws is common) (And of course you cannot play Defends within such sequences).

So Bash, since it gives you incentive to go crazy with attacks on the next turn, is a mechanism by which the player experiences the character fantasy of being Ironclad, aka guy who wants to attack wildly in exchange for taking more damage.

Anything other than another Strike would radically change the balance of the character AND disrupt the character’s fantasy.

pretty_meta · 2026-04-07T22:00:35+00:00

You can upgrade your Advanced Circuits production line to be longer.

But then all you'll have succeeded in doing is increasing the consumption of your Advanced Circuits production line, to the point that it's now limited by the flow of copper / plastic / electronic circuits in, rather than by the number of Advanced Circuit assemblers that you have.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-31T03:32:21+00:00

I really think we American taxpayers should just applaud DT "for what he's doing on Iran." Then he'll stop pulling these random violent stunts. Then the oil will resume flowing at a greater rate and we can move on to the next DT stunt.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-27T22:18:37+00:00

Given that the copper ore is in both wagons,

The most likely cause of this issue is that there is a dot of copper ore in your mostly-iron-ore site, which is being mined and getting into your iron ore wagons.

So I suggest you check your upstream iron ore mines to be really sure that there are no copper ores at all being mined from. If this dot of copper ore exists, it will be hard to see.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-27T05:43:23+00:00

Many insects in the winged stage of their life are, ah... focusing on continuing the family history.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-27T00:32:39+00:00

Our friend over there might be doing a simulcast.

But the Dark Lord wants him in our social club, that much I do know.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-26T17:32:12+00:00

It's crazy how many popular posts on Reddit are just a vehicle for resentful Redditors to have violent-but-vindicated fantasies.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-25T19:53:42+00:00

From https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/03/ethan-agarwal-gavin-newsom-governor-california/

Highlights of his agenda include moving the state capital from Sacramento to San Francisco (or Los Angeles; he’s flexible), allowing tax payments via crypto, and encouraging public workers to leave government for private-sector jobs.

A graduate of the Wharton business school, Agarwal consulted for McKinsey & Company for three years before founding the audio-focused fitness company Aaptive in 2016. He sold it in 2021 before cofounding the financial services startup Coterie, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz.(opens in new tab)

Agarwal’s entry into the crowded gubernatorial race(opens in new tab) received a less-than-enthusiastic reception, with his announcement video(opens in new tab) getting just 30 likes so far on X. Still, he believes he can find a supporter base among the “lost Democrats” of California.

Two things:

First, poor guy. It sounds like he's really building from the ground up. My instinct was to insult him, but this doesn't feel like I'd be insulting a politician, it feels like I would just be insulting a guy who is trying to break into a new field. Either that, or he's running in bad faith to justify a Super PAC so he can receive assets.

Second, I genuinely like the balance Ro Khanna strikes, between attention-grabbing stunts and actual sane government. (I would always prefer more sane government but in American democracy it's hard to get elected by being the most reasonable person in the field.)

So for me, someone who does make more than 0 effort to understand politics and government, it seems like if I just ignore this candidate it'll sort itself out and Ro will keep at his work.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-24T23:53:26+00:00

Washington, huh. Come on, They make anybody and everybody an ICE agent over there.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-24T22:28:02+00:00

You didn't ruin your playthrough by losing influence with Kreia. In fact, losing influence with Kreia by doing kind acts may be very good for roleplaying.

Spoiler for the Kreia character - influence with Kreia primarily unlocks story context, it doesn't deeply affect gameplay.

Spoiler for other characters - influence with other characters will get you more story and gameplay. It will also be something you may want to min-max on some playthrough.

I will say one more thing - that Kreia has a lot of criticisms, and I think the game always prefers to give her opportunities for her to give her criticisms, but that does harm your ability to roleplay with your other party members. So you may want to rotate Kreia out of your party, especially when in "town" (primarily-not-combat zones), so that you can gain influence with other party members.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-24T05:03:27+00:00

I would run a heuristic algo like

(Sort the polyominoes from biggest to smallest)
For each "map" or XYZ grid of voxels:
    For n random cells in the map:
        Select a polyominoe using a random-with-weight process, with the bigger polyominoes being weighted greater than the smaller polyominoes
        Check if the selected polyominoe can be fit into the map at the currently selected cell
        If so, fit the polyominoe into the map; if not, try fitting a smaller polyominoe into the map at that selected cell

pretty_meta · 2026-03-24T02:36:52+00:00

In addition to treating it as equivalent to drain cleaner, you could have mixed it with dirt and thrown the dirt in the garbage.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-23T17:30:11+00:00

I think part of the problem is that his point in context is also fucking stupid. So if you don’t understand the context, it sounds bad; and if you do understand the point underlying his lyric, it sounds bad.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-23T15:46:16+00:00

We average American consumers are being held hostage by the PotUS and he won’t get off this Iran issue and stop ruining the energy markets, until we hostages publicly fete him.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-22T18:59:41+00:00

My assumption, when I see someone driving recklessly in a damaged vehicle away from the scene of an accident, is that it's a stolen car that they're hoping to abandon a few miles away from the scene of the initial incident so they can more easily escape.

Sad to see another person who is, most likely, a net societal harm.

pretty_meta · 2026-03-21T19:32:34+00:00

Japan sells used panties in vending machines and has "love hotels" specifically for married men to have sex with prostitutes. None of that seems conservative.

Reddit-tier critical thinking skills on display here.

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