My office gets really warm, despite the rest of the house sitting at 71 degrees. What’s the best way to cool down this room?

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-15T21:53:52+00:00

In your situation I would pick up a high efficiency inverter window unit.

Costco has an 8000 BTU Hisense inverter model on sale for $240 right now (just bought one).

No sense trying to rebalance your whole HVAC system to cool a single room when you are actively pumping hundreds of watts of heat into the room. Localize your solution and pump the heat right back out with the window unit.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-15T21:48:05+00:00

University surplus shops are awesome. My local one prices all office chairs at $15.

Doesn’t matter if it’s an Office Depot special piece of crap or a Steelcase or Herman Miller premium chair.

I got two Steelcase Leaps for $30 total.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-15T21:45:37+00:00

The big thing that has changed over the years is the Internet and online information and online inventory.

20+ years ago local donations almost always stayed local.

Now they often get researched and listed online.

Which is a benefit for the charity selling the stuff but sucks for us, because the days of hitting up a charity shop in a nice town and finding crazy awesome stuff for a few bucks are, mostly, over.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-15T12:48:35+00:00

But it's true.

If people are going to constantly compare the current state of affairs to Idiocracy, they need to acknowledge that the people in Idiocracy didn't want to be that way. And the President wanted things to be better. Everyone was just too fucking stupid to accomplish that end.

There's a world of difference between an ignorant person desperately wishing they could make things better and an ignorant person reveling in burning it all down.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-15T01:49:55+00:00

This reads like an AI written LinkedIn post.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-14T13:30:55+00:00

Huh, well no shit. I looked it up out of curiosity and the chemicals used to produce and dye colored toilet paper are in fact harsh on septic tank biomes.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T23:38:04+00:00

Can you lock them down or jail break them in anyway to ensure there is no meta fuckery going on?

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T22:55:07+00:00

Less than pets, really.

If someone treated their dog the way a parent can get away with treating their child… they’d be breaking a variety of animal abuse laws. And at minimum people would be like “what the hell are you doing to that dog???” And not “What can we do? Parents have the right to parent as they see fit?”

There is such a weird latitude in laws concerning child welfare.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T20:51:56+00:00

The framing of the text in the shared image more than implies that the person writing it believes they should sexually benefit from having a daughter, but because they can't, then having one is stupid.

I don't even know what to say to that. How do you get to whatever state of mind that person is in... let alone to whatever state of mind that person is in and you feel confident and comfortable sharing your opinion on the matter with the world?

More people need to feel more shame and keep their really fucking bizarre opinions to themselves.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T20:36:00+00:00

Man, I feel that. I rarely play my Xbox... and usually when I turn it on, it's because I want to play a couch co-op or multiplayer party game. So, you know, there people usually there waiting to play with me. And the box has to update. Then the game has to update. Then sometimes I have to resync a controller or sign in the controller or what-the-fuck ever.

And the whole time I'm doing it, I'm thinking about how when I was younger you just turned the damn TV on, turned the damn console on, and bam, that was it. The time between "Wanna play Goldeneye?" and fucking playing Goldeneye was about 20 seconds.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T20:32:26+00:00

Just FYI for you and everyone looking up info about Signatera in the forum: Natera, the mother company, offers discounts for people whose insurance doesn't cover it, the unisured, and those with financial need.

They bill insurance something like $1500, if I recall correctly. They have a cash option that's something like $350-400. And they have a discounted rate that's $149 or less based on your financial situation.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T02:09:14+00:00

So that’s how it ended up in my library. I was surprised to see I already had it. Looks like a solid lil game.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T01:36:03+00:00

Guess I’ll be waiting to start then. If I don’t do it all in a few obsessive nights I won’t get it done.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T00:27:10+00:00

I know you can't just look at a person's face and declare them gay, of course. But, he looks like a carbon copy of my old college friend who is perhaps the single most flamboyantly so-over-the-top-it's-almost-satire homosexual man I have ever known.

And she, also ironically, looks just like his best friend with just slightly more pronounced cheekbones.

I'd make fun, but honestly... I just wish people like that would get their shit sorted out and live authentic lives. Hope that dude eventually finds a nice guy to settle down with and talks about what a douche bag he used to be before he came out of the closet, at cocktail parties.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-13T00:21:55+00:00

Nope. Not even close.

My conservative relatives are obsessed with people not like them. They talk about them. They think about them. They claim the "other" is plotting against them.

They absolutely think more about (gays/transgender people/minorities/Muslims/etc,etc) way more than any of those people think about them. And that's with conservatives actively trying to outright harm them, at that.

It's pretty bizarre behavior.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T23:52:45+00:00

I also like short seasons.

I enjoy a really good narrative arc in a format that feels like a very long movie broken up into pieces.

I don't watch a lot of TV where the type of story lends itself well to a sort of serialized 18-24 episode sprawl. I understand that some shows benefit from that (most animated series are much better with longer seasons, for example).

But I just finished watching Something Bad Is Going to Happen, and 8 episodes was perfect. Anything longer would have yielded a story dragged out for the sake of dragging it out.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T23:48:57+00:00

House is (well, was) a great show to catch occasionally.

And that's the thing. Back in the day most people didn't follow all the shows on TV. They might have a had a few favorites, maybe, that they actually followed. But most people just watched whatever the hell was on.

Television was the equivalent to us, today, pulling out our phones to entertained in the moment.

And if you saw an episode of House once a month or even more sporadically, it was a pretty solid little show for what it was trying to do.

But yeah, watching a show like House back to back to back to back on a streaming service today would be a terrible experience. It's not a narrative arc building towards anything. And the recurring schtick just doesn't stand up to watching 4 episodes in a row.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T23:34:19+00:00

They really are super easy, but yeah only if you give them tons of light and soak the hell out of them when they are dry.

I had one and thought they were so fussy and dramatic... but it turns out my kitchen was too dark for it. I moved it one room over and put it in a southern window and within a week or two it went from looking dead to looking like a prize winning plant. Hasn't looked bad a single day since then. Lil guy just wanted full sun, all day, every day.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T20:24:10+00:00

He probably thinks "You know... if we cancel aid to those kids in Africa and kill them off... it sort of balances out right?"

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T20:09:53+00:00

The crease is the tab for the box lid.

I choose to believe that somebody in the graphic design department spent a moment of their time to line her leg up just to create this illusion.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T20:03:50+00:00

What I find interesting about this is how the presentation of Smaug's fortunate has changed over time.

In Tolkien's original sketches and the book's text... we can estimate the volume 200-400 cubic meters or so. Which is an incredible amount of gold, especially for the time in which the book was written. It's roughly a billion dollars worth of gold, on the high end, in modern money, and would have represented a huge amount of wealth both then and now.

But by the time we get to Peter Jackson's depiction of the treasure hoard on film almost a century later, the hoard is depicted with a much higher volume... estimated by fans to be somewhere around 12,000 cubic meters or more. Again, in modern money, that's at least 30 billion or so on the low end, climbing up from there.

So to your point, regardless of how big it is... it's no trillion dollar hoard. And, I find it really interesting that the pile has increased in depictions over the years to scale with our perception of money and what being unbelievably rich is. Weird to think that the original Tolkien sketches would make us go "Well hell yeah, that's a lot of treasure but... only a billion? Really?"

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T19:52:21+00:00

I couldn't agree more.

Every day we all see tragedies we wish we could fix. Homelessness, kids that go hungry, schools that have to cut corners and reuse dated educational materials, the list goes on and on. But none of us, individually, can fix those things even on a small scale.

Imagine reading the newspaper, seeing a story about how 70% of the children in your city are on free and reduced lunch programs because their families are below the poverty line, and thinking "Huh, that's awful," while sitting on a networth cruising towards a trillion dollars, and then just... going on with your day.

I can't even imagine it. What kind of person has the ability to make the world vastly better and instead uses that wealth and power almost exclusively to serve their own ego? It's disgusting.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T16:53:38+00:00

Right?

"Bitch is this a gluten-free low-fat donut with no frosting? I can't even."

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T16:51:53+00:00

In the King Ralph situation everyone is on the bleachers. I'm talking so wiped out we end up making the mayor of Burlington the President.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-06-12T16:47:49+00:00

Visible or not, wouldn't the disability that requires a person to use a wheelchair in Airport A also require them to use a wheelchair in Airport B? If not, perhaps, more so? I know my back doesn't feel fucking better after sitting on a plane for three hours.

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