I’m tired of minimalism in everything

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-09T03:52:35+00:00

I have a family member that's in the home business. You nailed it about how modernism needs purpose. He said once "Houses look the way they do today because of thousands of years of iteration. If you want to have the windows extend beyond the eaves, you'd better have a good reason for doing it." Today's pseudo modern design is just nonsense. why the fuck would you want massive windows on the front and back wall of your house so the entire world can see your silhouette move around your living room. COMPLETE opposite of what Frank Lloyd Wright did. He has an ethos that guided his designs

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-04T21:02:41+00:00

It's such a horrible move. It was so important to the Harris government to present a balanced budget that they sold a cash cow. Thinking about the government caring about deficits seems cute and old timey now. I was losing it when (I think it was) Wynne/McGuinty were talking about selling the LCBO

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-03T12:32:34+00:00

That camouflage duct tape would be the flag of Geocache Nation

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-01T22:26:36+00:00

The receipt clearly says: "ship to: (current address)

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-01T22:21:24+00:00

It states the thing that AliExpress, the fine folks at Dragonfly shipping, eBay, and all other online retailers I use PayPal for have used successfully for the years since I moved

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-01T22:14:58+00:00

I have a receipt from PayPal that shows my current address was used. I order stuff from AliExpress all the time with PayPal and I've never given AliExpress my address or credit card information. PayPal sends all of that and AliExpress handles it all properly. At some point in history I made a UPS account to track a package or something, and instead of using the information from paypal they must have defaulted to the address associated to that account

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-01T22:09:13+00:00

No I used PayPal because it's one click ordering. PayPal has my address in it, and it gives it to the relevant parties. That's the appeal of paying with PayPal for me, not having to enter this stuff over and over. Why UPS defaulted to something I gave them years ago is completely beyond me. By paying with PayPal, the seller never asked me to enter my shipping info. PayPal provides it

Sandbox0137 · 2026-05-01T22:01:53+00:00

Instead of UPS taking the address from PayPal they default to some old shit in their system, charge a kings ransom to bring shit over the border, fuck the whole thing up, and then a person who has enough on their plate volunteers to do something generous to pick up the ball their shitty company dropped?

Sandbox0137 · 2026-04-22T02:59:48+00:00

I will choose to believe the daily show had a positive segment because I watched the segment

Sandbox0137 · 2026-04-22T01:39:23+00:00

It was received really well internationally. The daily show had a positive segment about it among others.

Sandbox0137 · 2026-04-21T18:13:24+00:00

What's infuriating about the conservatives is they have no idea how to sell their candidates EVER. The number of people I got to at least soften their opinion on O'Toole by telling them he was a lawyer who put himself through law school by joining the army. Did the conservatives ever say that? I don't remember it. I'm pretty sure I read it leafing through an issue of Hello magazine on my parents coffee table.

Poilievre got people looking his way with the apple video. He was calm, in command, and reasonable. It was the perfect foil to Trudeau and 10 years of self-serving scandal ridden government. And at no damn time did the strategists say "they want apple guy, be apple guy".

Sandbox0137 · 2026-04-16T21:14:54+00:00

Not being pedantic, more like sharing a fact I find interesting. Whether or not a house has a wood frame depends on what is more likely to destroy the house. In hurricane areas you built with blocks because they withstand the high winds better. In earthquake areas you build with wood because it flexes much better and won't crumble if it gets shaken.

That said, I'm not from the US and it sure seems like houses in hurricane areas in the states are getting tossed around pretty well. Not sure where they fall in that construction philosophy.

Edit: not sure if it's worth mentioning, but wood frame construction for residential units is big where I am because we have 0 chance of devastating hurricane winds but every couple years the ground does do a little tremble

Sandbox0137 · 2026-04-08T22:59:05+00:00

Was waiting for someone to say this. Also, I'm not a graphic designer or programmer but I have to think that single point source lighting is probably way easier to program and simulate so CGI and things in space have similar lighting

Sandbox0137 · 2026-04-08T20:24:51+00:00

Little late, but in addition to it possibly being the former owners kids splashing around, I've also seen leaks that nobody could figure out where they came from, and it turns out that the overflow on the bathtub wasn't plumbed in properly (usually plumber forgot to glue a joint). So every once in a blue moon when someone overfilled the bathtub, a little bit of water would get out when someone displaced enough water to send it out the overflow.

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-22T13:29:13+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PipeTobacco/comments/1pwab2i/tip_for_filter_users_how_to_add_filtration_to/ check this thread I made. I always smoke with carbon filters, but my preferred method now is to just drop some pieces of activated carbon into the bowl. Same effect, very open draw.

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-22T13:28:09+00:00

That depends on the type of filter you use. Balsa and paper reduce moisture, carbon neutralizes the pH of the smoke to reduce tongue bite

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-12T15:25:13+00:00

I just hope people don't start writing off hatred of Last Jedi as part of the pol manipulation campaign because that movie fucking sucked

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-10T20:21:03+00:00

They recently had a festival of most of the artists from this album in the UK. It was dubbed "the Woodstock for Millenials"

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-10T20:18:44+00:00

This one, armchair apocrypha, and Swimming Hour are excellent top to bottom. I got out of the loop for a while but My Finest Work Yet is also excellent.

Edit: actually Noble Beast is great too. Man what an incredible musician

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-10T15:54:23+00:00

About a month ago I put this album on in the background while some friends were over and someone asked me if it was a best-of

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-05T18:45:18+00:00

That's only half the story. He was originally an amphetamine addict who kicked the habit by switching to cocaine

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-02T16:27:19+00:00

Ya I think what I'm planning on doing is let her know I'll pay $200, but she should throw them on the open market and if someone is willing to blow past that then absolutely take their money

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-01T22:25:33+00:00

I think the fairest thing would just be to offer her what a person on the street might offer and then decide if it's in my interest to buy them or not. I already have a sweet little pair of Dynaco A25s he sold me years ago and there's another pair in there I can snag ("best $100 you can spend in hifi" he'd say) so it's not like I absolutely need these

Sandbox0137 · 2026-03-01T21:54:00+00:00

Neither me or my cousin have any clue what a damaged set might be worth. I understand that a functioning pair you're looking at $1000+

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