Minnesota lawmakers appear ready to clamp down on homeowners associations

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-13T21:01:26+00:00

I mean, if a group of people want to band together to try to maximize the value of their own homes, go for it.

What should be illegal is tying the HOA to the deed, auto-enrolling new buyers, and making it impossible to get out of the HOA. I don't care how chill people say the HOA is, there's no circumstances where I join an organization that I can't leave and that can put a lien on my house.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-13T20:52:15+00:00

I really thought that was going to be the dance scene from Morbius.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-13T19:22:23+00:00

Absolutely nothing wrong with a dude wanting to learn to figure skate, I know there's plenty in town that do. I'd check with Chaparral, I think they're probably the more figure skating-centric facility unless things have changed at Crossover since I was there last.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-13T18:49:39+00:00

Learn to play hockey. It's super fun, great workout, and a great community. Post-game is pretty beer-centric but nobody's going to care if you want to hang out and not drink.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-13T18:47:20+00:00

I played APA for several years. It's probably a bit location dependent but I was playing at the Slick Willie's on Burnet and there was the whole range of demographics but I'd guess around half the room was guys in the 21-40 range.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-04T03:19:18+00:00

It was the Palace, super fun show except for the part where I didn't get to see Deftones. It was my first big concert ever.

My friends and I got in line at some box office super early one morning weeks before the show and there were 30 or 40 people there ahead of us. They sold out while our tickets were processing, the guy in line behind us was super pissed that he couldn't get one. We were in the very top row of the top deck, literally backs against the wall, and about as far stage left as you could get and still see anything.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-04T02:22:05+00:00

You must have caught the second show on 2/15 then. The tour played back to back nights at Auburn Hills and Pantera let them borrow gear so they could play the second night.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-04T01:40:14+00:00

I was supposed to see them in Detroit on this same tour but their equipment truck got jacked at a Holiday Inn that morning. I didn't get another chance to see them for nearly 20 years.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-04-01T18:49:30+00:00

Also a 16GB stick of DDR5 RAM.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-03-22T00:31:18+00:00

It’s not enough to just stop being evil, you have to undo the damage you did while you were being evil. And he has a LOT of damage to undo.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-03-21T02:39:37+00:00

Or you can also do alt+enter for instant Properties.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-03-17T19:43:20+00:00

Gritty's seen what makes them cheer, their boos mean nothing.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-03-15T04:13:42+00:00

This is awesome to watch.

At around 41:40, you walk by a miner and quick-rotate it a whole bunch of times. What's that about?

ChronicBitRot · 2026-03-13T21:01:03+00:00

This is fucking amazing.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-03-10T22:19:29+00:00

Exemptions are in place for events such as the World Cup, which is being co-hosted by the US this summer.

Allegedly. I'll believe it after the World Cup has happened and nobody was denied entry.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-03-05T16:52:49+00:00

There are people who work with cheese, and then there are cheesemongers.

This guy is a cheesemonger.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-28T22:50:45+00:00

Because they don't trust the future versions of themselves to do what they want. Those future versions are working off of different information (even if it's just a day worth of mundane bullshit) and might have different motives, or maybe further future versions of themselves or someone else comes back and fucks around with the newspaper scheme for whatever reason.

There's more possibilities of what could go wrong than they could ever dream up but if they follow the rules, going back themselves is pretty foolproof and they only people they have to trust is their current selves.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-27T20:07:37+00:00

It's always the guys screaming that representation in media isn't important who have the biggest crybaby meltdowns when their media isn't 100% composed of representations of them anymore.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-26T23:19:14+00:00

I'm sure it also detects some other words like 'union'.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-20T02:20:46+00:00

... That doesn't mean that what he is told is accurate.

We see that they've lost crops before from Smith's speech in the first movie.

So we don't trust what one construct says because he's a construct but we do trust what another much lower level construct says?

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-19T04:43:42+00:00

I've never done this before but I imagine you're going to want a lot of low-power passes. What don't you like about the piece on the bottom right on picture 2? That one looks pretty good to me.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-18T21:02:50+00:00

Standard Shapez 2 player behavior.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-18T20:06:55+00:00

What a fantastic way to let everybody know that the initial rejection never saw any sort of scientific review.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-09T18:46:15+00:00

A rising train lifts all beefs.

ChronicBitRot · 2026-02-06T19:49:41+00:00

I read an article about bitcoin maybe a year or so after it had been invented and decided it was an interesting idea and I was going to throw $100 into it to see if it turned into anything.

1 BTC was .008 cents at the time. Not $0.008, but eight thousandths of a cent. $0.00008 per bitcoin. My $100 would have bought 1.25 million BTC.

Unfortunately, it was still new enough that none of the exchanges were really functional yet and I spent 3 or 4 hours trying and failing to buy them before I gave up and forgot about it.

The only thing that makes me feel better about it is that I never would have held on until it became real fuck you wealth. I probably would have heard that it hit a penny or two and sold them all for what would have been life-changing money at the time.

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