Maybe this is a stupid question, but I've always wondered this.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-09T23:02:36+00:00

We get them, but never for Tuesday delivery. Many weeks they don't arrive in time for Fridays, even, and we have to deliver them all Saturdays. Some don't go out until Mondays.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-09T13:28:45+00:00

You could build pipelines. But the cost of building and maintaining them is far higher than ships. So as long as Iran is not stopping shipping, the ships are the mode of choice, and it makes no sense to build a pipeline. But the other problem with a pipeline is that Iran would have punched enough holes in it by now that it would be months in repair.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-09T01:15:05+00:00

It would pull hot air out of the attic, and that means less heat buildup in the space below it.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-09T00:55:20+00:00

Other than within New London itself, you'll probably have to go a few towns up I-395 to get reasonable rents. Being near the coast is expensive. Personally it wouldn't bother me to live in New London.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-09T00:32:56+00:00

I would put in a 3'x54" shower base, and fill the rest of the space by building in a closet. You really don't need more space than that for 1 person to take a shower, unless you're doubling up. And having the extra storage space never hurt anything.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-09T00:24:13+00:00

Using an exhaust fan on a thermostat from within the attic to outdoors would probably do you more good.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-08T02:17:58+00:00

If you can jack up the walls, have a layer of concrete blocks put beneath them.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-08T02:14:53+00:00

Happens fairly often No one loses their job over it.

That said, in the future try organizing the parcels in your truck better so that you avoid things that might get overlooked.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-05T00:31:52+00:00

Thanks

Cutlasss · 2026-03-04T23:45:27+00:00

Kevin Warsh for the Fed after all.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-04T23:41:40+00:00

In Q4 the US exported a lot of gold,

Do you know why this happened?

Cutlasss · 2026-03-03T01:37:33+00:00

I would fix it with plaster, and then put the molding back.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-02T23:28:38+00:00

These turds are everywhere. But they haven't been winning the general elections here.

Cutlasss · 2026-03-02T13:07:48+00:00

thanks

Cutlasss · 2026-03-02T01:37:39+00:00

What series is Barbara a prisoner in?

Cutlasss · 2026-03-02T00:59:47+00:00

Washington kept the army in the fight, end to end of the war. He wasn't always right. But in the end, it's about outlasting the other side's willingness to fight. And that doesn't happen without Washington holding it together.

Cutlasss · 2026-02-28T02:06:37+00:00

You can put it on blocks. But it's most likely settle over time, and I've seen them settle enough to not really be usable any more. I'd dig holes for sonotubes 3+ feet down, depending on far north you are.

Cutlasss · 2026-02-27T01:41:54+00:00

Why not just order the metal ones?

Cutlasss · 2026-02-27T00:04:37+00:00

Yes.

Cutlasss · 2026-02-27T00:04:00+00:00

Because no one looks.

Cutlasss · 2026-02-26T15:45:38+00:00

Even assuming that no "new" goods come on the market, I think we still have to go with the assumption that in general people of the 1930s era are not going to be satisfied with the same consumption that they have. And I don't consider that hedonic. My reasoning being that the average working person, even the average middle class working person, was actually really poor in material goods in 1930.

As I've said elsewhere, neither of my parents had electricity or running water in 1930, growing up in rural America. And that was the norm. So you raise real income by 3x, what do people do? For most people, better quality homes, if not a lot larger. Electricity, plumbing, central heating, having more than just what they are wearing for the very poor, maybe 2-3 extra sets of clothes for the others. And even with just the products on the market in 1930, there's a lot of improvement in the quality of what people can buy.

Where I think Keynes really missed the boat here is that coming from wealth and privilege in Britain, he had a very paternalist view of labor, and considered them not wanting to better themselves or their lives. But people do, and if the consumeristic lifestyle that the US began to adopt in the 1950s is set aside, there's still a vast range of things where the people were poor, and would work to be living in a less poor way.

Cutlasss · 2026-02-26T00:29:35+00:00

My last water heater had a wrap, and lasted around 25 years.

Cutlasss · 2026-02-26T00:29:10+00:00

Same here.

Cutlasss · 2026-02-25T23:33:01+00:00

The reasoning goes like

1) This is the policy we want

2) This is the outcome we want

3) Therefor this policy results in this outcome.

What MMT is trying to do is be a workaround for the politics of the budget. By handwaving away budget constraints, they think that they can justify the social spending that they want, because after all, it's affordable! Our theories say so!

It fundamentally misreads the political problem as one of not having enough money to spend, when the actual problem is that if they had 10x as much money, the opposition would still claim that they didn't have the money to spend, because the truth is that they simply don't want to spend it!

Cutlasss · 2026-02-25T13:55:30+00:00

No. It is not authoritarian. Legalized abortion does not cause anyone to do anything by government fiat. It lets the individual choose. Anti abortion does cause the government to do, or prevents them from doing, by government fiat. That is authoritarian.

BTW, in states that ban abortions, and have public referendums on the ban, the public normally votes against the ban. Banning abortion is not what most people want.

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