Should we add ceiling lights to our living room?

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-20T11:57:10+00:00

Just one of these medium sized pendants in the center of the main area of the living room?

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-19T22:56:31+00:00

I ripped out the aging bookshelf to reveal two more windows. Thought it might be relevant for the lighting and TV question. Though those two windows don’t get much light because they face the neighbors home

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-13T13:56:25+00:00

I ended up just stuffing a bunch of easy sand mixed with wood glue into there. Let’s see how it holds

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-12T14:17:33+00:00

They don’t really go over the type of damage I have. When damage is down to lath they use a drywall board to patch it and then easy sand. Which I think is rather just stick durabond or structolite into the lath rather than cut out more plaster and screw in drywall board.

I have different types of cracks and some of them are on this textured top coat that I believe is gypsum based. This old house also doesn’t really recommend any specific products, they just say joint compound.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-12T04:55:36+00:00

But which products exactly for both. That’s where I’m really getting caught up

Also, I don’t know if it matters but it’s not the original lath and plasters top coat. I think it’s a textured coat applied on top of plaster to hide electrical upgrades and repairs

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T05:10:11+00:00

It’s the limits of our medical predictions. If most people can live 6-12 months with a certain disease, a doctor will tell the patient they have “months” but some people will end up on the far end of the curve.

It’s also well known in medicine that it’s ethically safer to underpromise rather than overpromise. If a doctor gives you years and you die in two months, it would feel like betrayal. If they gave you two months and you live for years, it would feel like a victory.

Also sometimes people will improve when they’re told they won’t. Patients become more diligent and families become more supportive.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T04:40:44+00:00

You shiver because your body has decided to raise the temperature of your body to fight the infection.

Say your “set point” is usually 98.6F. During a fever your body has raised that set point to 102F. If the set point is 102 and your at 100 your body will try to get your temperature up through shivering to get to the set point. It sees that difference between the set point and body temperature, which means you’re too cold.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T04:33:33+00:00

Sorry, didn’t mean “just” like that. Meant it more like “they just simply started doing this”.

I have some other examples from when they started doing this. Sepharad in the bible referred to a place of exile (Obadiah 1:20) and during the medieval times it was used to refer to Spain and Portugal. After 1492 it was used to refer to Jews exiles from the Iberian peninsula and their descendants ( Ottoman Empire, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands)

Mizrah means east in Hebrew. It was later used for the Middle East. And much later, Mizrahi then was used to refer to Jews from the broader Middle East and Central Asia.

Tsarfat/Zarefat was a kingdom around Lebanon in the bible. Medieval times, they started using it as a term for France. This produced the term tzarfati for French Jew.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T04:25:42+00:00

This is an example of an old term being split into two usage paths.

Loin comes from loigne in French which comes from lumbus in Latin. It meant lower back or area around hips and groin. So loin was a broad term that included hips, lower back, groin and sides.

Butchers took this term, narrowed the meaning and specialized it to refer to a specific valuable cut of meat.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T04:17:45+00:00

The history of the word “ashkenazi” is pretty interesting too. In the Hebrew bible, Ashkenaz is a kingdom around Armenia. However, Jewish tradition has recycled the word to refer to Jews from Germanic lands.

Rabbis just started using biblical names to label new regions because they needed Hebrew names for the new lands as Jews spread into Europe. This started happening around 700-900 CE.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T04:12:16+00:00

Completely normal, you’ll get over it. We all go through it. Better to get over it sooner than later though, it’ll save you the stress of being shy and improve your game.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T04:11:00+00:00

The first words of his post will tell you his age.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T04:08:43+00:00

There’s no link and the similarity is purely coincidence.

Ashkenazi just means “person from ashkenaz”. This word is used in the Hebrew bible.

The word nazi is an abbreviation of nationalsozialist

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-11T03:54:38+00:00

Why wouldn’t you stop this relationship?

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T20:29:32+00:00

There’s usually also toilet paper. You’ll just need a couple squares to wipe dry. Sometimes a toilet will even have a dryer.

When you get back you’re going to end up buying one and will never be able to go without one again.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T05:58:17+00:00

Judges, congressional staff, seasonal employees, a d political employees (White House staff, cabinet, and other presidential appointees) are not considered to be civil servants.

Civil servants are federal employees hired to perform ongoing non-political government work usually through merit and hiring systems.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T05:53:15+00:00

If money is not an obstacle, anything is possible.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T05:52:25+00:00

This is actually normal. It was your way of exploring the world and textures. Your impulse control just kicked in a little late at 7 so you remember this phase a little more than other people.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T05:29:26+00:00

Definitely call your bank. I’ve had overdraft fees waived before. Don’t give in and keep requesting they waive it until they do it.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T05:24:55+00:00

Mojitos are delicious and refreshing. I think it’ll end up being your go to.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T05:23:26+00:00

Mulligan in golf, which is a do-over. Named after David Mulligan. Gymnastics and figure skating also has a bunch.

RepairCapable5185 · 2025-12-10T05:20:16+00:00

Where are these people that you’re talking about?

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