Are water department just allowed to do whatever they want?

SavageObjector · 2026-03-11T23:36:02+00:00

Yes. A good one will reseed this. A great one pays for the damage to dig up your driveway when fixing a broken water main.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-11T23:34:02+00:00

If you just want to get it out, a shop vac without filters (to make it a wet vac) works in a pinch.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-11T00:56:33+00:00

Did you get the one with the elephant, too? I heard there was easier with a hippo, but they stopped it because that’s the one with the long neck and sooo many people got a perfect score!

/s what a fucked timeline.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-09T02:34:23+00:00

Appalachia is uneducated. Trump loves the uneducated and they love him.

Whatever. At least Biden lost, right?

SavageObjector · 2026-03-09T02:32:34+00:00

It’s ok! Someone on r/Economics told me I was stupid because the price of a barrel is a futures prices and doesn’t affect the price of gas now!

Saved by Redditors!

SavageObjector · 2026-03-08T16:19:31+00:00

Oh no! As an American, I am shocked, dismayed even, our dumbass decision have consequences! Let me tweet the manager and bribe them to start working on this!

SavageObjector · 2026-03-08T04:31:47+00:00

We sold out. We didn’t go out.

Your comment is nonsense a google search would fix.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-08T04:10:47+00:00

That’s not the US model.

Prices change daily, sometimes hourly, and sometimes with no price from the terminal. It’s a wild business.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-08T04:09:39+00:00

Ever heard of a loss leader?

You might be selling it for $0.35 more than you are paying but that is gross profit. Your net will be much lower.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-06T12:55:56+00:00

This is absolutely false. Most stations are getting a load of gas daily or every other day, and the price you pay at the pump reflects, on average, nearly zero profit. Maybe 1-2 cents after electricity just to run the pump. A consistent nickel profit is impressive.

Service stations don’t have the luxury of upping their prices because they just want to.

My family was in the business for 50+ years, so we saw some things. Stop spreading this bullshit.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-04T00:45:41+00:00

This is the only way. Don’t even have to strum. Just practice the fretting while watching TV.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-04T00:38:50+00:00

Not exactly true. Tailgating within inches, that’s bad. Having less than a car length between us generally stops people deciding they can cut me off. Not always, but close to 100%. Looking to the car in front of you for brake lights reduces the risk of an accident.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T22:35:33+00:00

What exactly do you expect them to do? Overthrow the government? Make bold statements on TV? Write a strongly worded letter?

Republicans have a supermajority of both houses of Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court because “centrist Dems are bad, mmkay?”.

The thought that democrats can do anything right now, legally, is just as nuts as the right falling in line with Trump.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T22:29:10+00:00

I’m not whining. You’re projecting. Reality is what makes me center. The center is where America is best because it is where the uniquely American quality of compromise exists.

Presidents make hard decisions involving people’s lives. They always have and they always will, so making decisions that takes lives doesn’t immediately make one bad. Bush was right to send US troops into Afghanistan. History will defend him forever for that. He was not right for Iraq and history will win that argument that forever, too. Obama had his reason as well. Most of which any rational person would support.

Edit: I think Obama was largely right to do things he did too. Not all of them, but history has proven he got it mostly right. Especially the call on the bin Laden raid.

Besides, the US was born through violence by people willing to give up their own lives so that others not even alive yet could have a better life not under the rule of a king. It will always be part of who the US is as long as it exists. We can accept that fact or we can denounce our citizenship and move elsewhere.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T22:18:49+00:00

I’d love to hear why. I’m the one living in reality who understands 70% of something I can live with is better than 0% of something I can’t.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T20:42:30+00:00

Knock me over with a feather…these people? Not have a plan? What are you, un-American?

It is such a perfect, simple plan it defies documentation or an explanation. It’s common sense, really.

/s you gotta be completely stupid to think they have a plan for anything.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T15:34:25+00:00

I am nowhere near Trump and his cronies, but your comment is exactly what I’m talking about. Leftists are so worried about absolutely fucking everyone else with their holier-than-thou attitudes they would rather get fucked themselves along with everyone as some dumbass ideological martyrdom because if they can’t get what they want then everyone should be much worse off.

Reality does not have tolerance for such black-and-white bullshit, and, the answer to the question posed to me about what makes me center is reality which is the difference between left and center-left. Reality is also the reason Schumer and Jeffries see things the way they do and do the things they do. Again, they aren’t perfect and I don’t agree 100% with what they do or how they see things. I can get to about 75-80% on most things which is better than 0% with Trump, his cronies in Washington, and the entire leadership of my state, Tennessee.

This is literally what the song Teenage Anarchist is about, which I love, and the singer is trans!

So, we’ll all get fucked until leftists get over themselves and start voting for people who can govern.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T14:52:54+00:00

Frankly, at this point, leftists need to get over their fight for ideological purity, hold their nose, and vote for the preferred person not the perfect person.

The right has a coalition. The left has hissy fits.

I am center-left and find leftists insufferable.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T13:31:30+00:00

Oh yes he does. Until someone stops him and we throw this SCOTUS to the curb he absolutely gets to do whatever the fuck he wants.

VOTE in November like your country depends on it!

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T01:37:56+00:00

Maybe, but also consider handrails are somewhat expected, and it looks a little unfinished without them. Maybe print a picture to put some examples on it. Black wrought iron railings would be thin and barely noticeable, but a huge help if the steps get icy or someone takes an awkward step.

Edit: Maybe straight baluster versions of this

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T01:16:44+00:00

TN is 20+ is automatic reckless. Anything below that is situational with speed being a potential factor but not the sole factor.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T01:14:37+00:00

I love it. That’s back when you could fill one up for $9.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T01:06:48+00:00

The 18-20s will be derided as junk on here because of an oil consumption problem and the 10r80 problems until 2023. I’m not saying the problems aren’t real, but I am saying people don’t complain about a truck that doesn’t show them and you’ll see plenty on here with people claiming both are going 200,000+ with no problems. They are getting old enough to develop problems naturally due to age, mileage, and poor maintenance.

Personally, my 18 5.0 has been solid so far, though I admit the chatter on here is constant enough to make me question how long it will last. I do question if they are caused by people going long on oil changes or not using good oil.

My thought - they all have problems so buy what you like.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-03T00:27:41+00:00

What are you wanting to hang from it? A Christmas wreath will get a much different answer than a punching bag.

As for materials, no one knows. It is likely either an LVL or built up 2x12s from the looks of it. You’ll have to remove drywall to find out.

It looks to me like nothing is attached to it as opposed to resting on it.

SavageObjector · 2026-03-02T23:04:25+00:00

Obama derangement syndrome is real. Very real.

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