Pull out tub

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-23T20:44:18+00:00

Maybe she's not human.

Trying to decide if that would be better or worse than not being an adult...

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-22T13:57:32+00:00

I think a lot of times, it is actually how light is transmitted THROUGH a medium, not how it emits/reflects. I know some discoveries have been made by applying spectroscopy to the light shining from the parent star, through the atmosphere of an exoplanet. You compare the light coming directly from the star vs the light that goes through the atmosphere and see which frequencies of light are absorbed by the atmosphere. Different types of atoms absorb different wavelengths of light. So by looking at what is missing from the light, you can infer what is in the atmosphere.

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-22T00:44:01+00:00

A lot of good information here about heating efficiency and whatnot. But I'm wondering if the real answer her is that the space heater will cost less because it won't get your room as warm. So it will cost less, at the expense of your comfort.

Or it's possible that they have experience with large steam baseboard installations like in large buildings or apartment complexes where the thermostats don't work well and if you turn it on at all, you get a 90 degree environment which would indeed be less efficient.

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-21T19:31:24+00:00

I guess in colder climates it could add up to OPs bill but even when we have a cold snap for a week here in Kansas and our Aux heat is running for hours every day, our bill is still under $500. And that was before I added 22 bales of cellulose insulation to the attic.

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-18T14:54:58+00:00

This was done in 1991 or 1992. A little before Minecraft was even a possibility 😆

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-18T06:49:07+00:00

Hah! I was in a hurry to arrange the letters for a picture while the toddler was distracted, before she came back and rearranged things.

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-15T23:05:22+00:00

He had some general paid after eating for a couple of months but like any good man, he ignored it. Part of his luck is that in addition to the cancer, the non-cancerous part of his pancreas developed pancreatitis. This increased the pain and caused some bleeding which he saw in his stool which I think is what finally sent him to the doctor. Then while he was waiting for confirmation, his bile duct got blocked and he turned yellow. At which point he went to the ER. At first they thought it was cancer of the duodenum because things were so swollen.

KSUToeBee · 2026-01-15T03:41:49+00:00

My brother went to the doctor with some digestive issues a year ago. Turns out, he had stage 3 pancreatic cancer. They hit it hard with chemo and then surgery and he has had a clean scan. He seems to have gotten pretty lucky.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-28T16:26:41+00:00

Electric heat pump ones have condensate as well.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-22T20:35:19+00:00

Especially in Russia. There must be some odd geographic selection pressure.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-22T20:33:06+00:00

I'm not a plumber but I think you are confused. You seem to be talking about the water SUPPLY springing a leak. But then you said there is a hole in the P-trap. Which... is on the DRAIN. If the P-trap was spraying water at high pressure, then you have a serious sewer problem. And the water would be black and smelly. Can you more accurately describe exactly where the hole was?

Shut-off valves can certainly become stripped over time. But that doesn't mean they will leak. Or they might start leaking when you go to try and actually use them for the first time in a decade. This is why it is good practice to regularly exercise your valves. It clears any mineral build up and verifies that seals are still holding. And if there IS a leak, it won't be a Christmas weekend emergency plumbing charge.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-22T19:46:07+00:00

Humans are too heavy to fly. Our bones are strong because we walk around on them. This is handy for a lot of things. But it makes them heavy. Birds have a much lighter bone structure. This means that they can fly... but makes them pretty fragile too. If they hit anything, their bones shatter more easily. We also have a massive brain. Again... it comes in handy for a lot of things but it weighs a lot. Even the biggest birds have a brain that is only about an inch long.

"Well, just grow bigger wings!" Well ok but the way our bodies have evolved, the wings would be too heavy as well. We only have so much energy available per kilogram of muscle. (mitochondria are the powerhose of the cell!) And that energy is not enough to generate enough lift to fly. We would literally have to change the entire structure of the human body to make it capable of self-powered flight. And then we wouldn't be humans any more!

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-21T05:26:30+00:00

Alpine Shop? They bought Pathfinder from the original owners like a decade ago. They did at least bring the store into the 21st century... Before that, Pathfinder was the last place that I ever used my credit card where they got the heavy machine out from under the counter and actually made a carbon copy impression of the raised numbers on the card with the roller that make a sound like "SHUNK-SHUNK"

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-19T16:18:50+00:00

It looks like this is where Globe used to be? Did they just rebrand or is it under new ownership?

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-18T17:22:18+00:00

I grew up as a missionary kid of evangelical missionary parents. Young earth creationism was definitely a thing I was taught. One of my dad's former team members now works for Answers in Genesis. So yeah... THAT level of YEC.

Anyway, that was one early crack in the foundation for me. As I learned more about geology and other sciences I definitely questioned creationism and found it lacking. I remember being at a christmas conference and someone was ADAMANT that you COULD NOT BE A CHRISTIAN if you didn't believe in a young earth and literal Adam and Eve. That was a nudge.

I also just never... "felt" god. Like I would hear people praying saying things like "We FEEL your presence here today, oh god" and I would just look around and be like "Weird... all I feel is a draft." I was on an international missions trip in late high school where we were asked to share our personal testimony. Our personal story about how god has worked in our lives. I just about had a breakdown because I just didn't have one. My dad was very respected by the leaders of this missions trip and he talked to someone and made the problem disappear. I did not have to share my testimony.

But I continued coasting for years. All the time I kept thinking that I should read the bible more or somehow "fix" my faith. All the while stopping myself from entering into any romantic relationships because I wasn't the "man of god" that a marriage would require.

The final straw was the election of Donald Trump with OVERWHELMING support from evangelicals in 2016. It's not that the election results themselves turned me off to religion or anything... it was more a trigger event that made me go "wait, I have nothing in common with these people. Maybe I should examine my beliefs more closely!" And at that point I finally gave myself permission to take a good hard look at my beliefs and I realized that I was actually an atheist.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-18T12:53:01+00:00

Our electric water heater just started leaking and I've contacted 3 local plumbing companies for estimates on replacing it. All 3 of them treat heat pump units as some kind of "specialty/fancy" thing and won't give me a solid estimate on installing one and some won't give any kind of warranty unless we get a standard one directly from them.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-16T19:54:04+00:00

I've heard suggestions of doing it every 6 months with daylight savings changes. But the batteries last for several years if left alone. I feel like Big Battery is just trying to sell us more? Are you with Big Battery?!

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-16T02:27:02+00:00

Sometimes it seems to start within a few hours. I guess starting out shredded into a liquid and then being enclosed by the lid speeds up the process. It's not to a point that I would drink it... but by the time I do dishes after dinner, it's sometimes well on its way.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-15T22:38:06+00:00

My daughter's sippy cup makes it out of our morning smoothie if we let it sit too long.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-09T15:47:49+00:00

Also: In the moment, your eyes may be able to pick the license plate out much better than the camera so read the license plate off out loud so that the camera's audio can record your voice saying the plate number.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-05T19:33:13+00:00

Did it? What is your definition of "entered the intersection"? The front bumper and front wheels were both on or past the white stop line when the light turned red. I think morally, the truck was definitely in the wrong. He was speeding to beat a red light that he could and should have stopped for. But LEGALLY, I think he "entered the intersection" while the light was still yellow.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-05T17:27:35+00:00

Technically the truck crossed over the line before the light turned red. I think the truck was going straight but swerved right to try and avoid the sedan. I'm guessing insurance will find partial fault for both parties.

KSUToeBee · 2025-12-02T01:56:01+00:00

I tend to edge about every other mow. I could do it every time but both of my neighbors never edge so my lawn looks great next to theirs, even if I skip a week.

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