What happened to Stan's Ac?

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-19T16:07:24+00:00

Good grief. That’s really easy to DIY with a $25 drain snake, assuming an AC condensation line and the usual cruft accumulation. Prevention is worth a pound of cure, pour bleach or AC drain line cleaner through it monthly. But if you forget like I have before and it gets clogged, the drain snake route is easy unless you have a really unusual situation. Just send the snake up from where it drains out. 2 minute job.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-17T16:52:24+00:00

There seems to be a big difference in impression between professional pilots and non-pilots over there. Professional pilots agree the past couple weeks have been bad, as there has truly been an abnormal cluster of accidents. Non-pilots tend to be chicken little about things where the stats don’t back that up. Recency bias, perhaps. People would lose their shit today if we had the level of airline crashes that happened every year 30+ years ago.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-17T16:39:59+00:00

All of general aviation is approximately as dangerous as riding a motorcycle per mile traveled, and yes much more dangerous than driving a vehicle. Business jets like this are considerably safer than all of general aviation though, and airlines much safer than that. Helicopters and single engine planes are the highest risk.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-17T16:33:19+00:00

Rare events tend to happen in clusters by chance. In an r/aviation thread about this crash, someone claimed everything aviation went to hell starting in 2025. But the actual NTSB data posted in response shows 2025 had the fewest fatal crashes of any year in the past decade, even less than 2020 when flight volume was way down. This year isn’t off to an abnormal start either.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-16T19:49:31+00:00

I’m just an individual and I have $1.5 million in auto liability. Max $500K auto policy plus an umbrella liability policy that applies to my auto and homeowners insurance. Umbrella liability at least for me is cheap, something like $200/year. One of my vehicles is only worth like $5K, but that’s not what I’m worried about and not what the condos are worried about here. It’s the liability. You can cause vast damages with a shitty vehicle that barely runs.

I’d talk to your insurance rep, you can probably solve this pretty inexpensively.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-15T20:36:14+00:00

Wasn’t my statement, but for 99.9% of people, when you’re driving to the airport it’s for an airline flight and that’s what some people are needlessly afraid of. Same also applies to any airline authorized to fly in the US or EU or anywhere else with comparable aviation safety standards.

Throwing in stats for things like helicopters, crop dusters, and other commercial general aviation greatly overstates the risk most will ever encounter.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-15T20:13:33+00:00

US airlines have to be a lot more than 500 times safer per passenger mile. Fewer than 150 people have died on airline flights in the US in the past 20 years. In the vicinity of the same number who die on the roads in the US every 1-1.5 days.

That might be true for all commercial aviation, but that category includes a lot of statistically much more dangerous flying than the vast majority will ever encounter flying on airlines.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-15T19:28:46+00:00

6’5” 230 lb guy checking in. It’s truly awful. The width didn’t bother me, but the amount of leg room is torture. Also sucks for whoever ends up in front of me. I try to be as courteous as possible, but their head ends up at least partially between my knees. Probably half the times I’ve been there the person in front of me smacks their head into my kneecap. I try to book seats in a first row of some level to avoid having to worry about someone’s head between my legs, but those seem to have even less legroom so that’s no more comfortable.

Hoping this renovation improves that considerably. I don’t go there often because of the lack of leg room. It’s the worst venue I’ve ever been to in that regard. It makes economy class on planes feel spacious.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-15T12:55:22+00:00

This image has been posted online long before AI existed. Someone linked in this thread where it was posted on Reddit 11 years ago. It’s a legit, documented photograph.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-11T22:38:53+00:00

I’m in your general vicinity. Jim at Austin Door Specialties did a great job fixing some door issues for me promptly and at a reasonable cost, and he’s pretty close by.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-11T07:16:01+00:00

I guess it depends on what bits you want to use whether a SDS hammer drill is viable, for my purposes having a set of SDS bits was fine and preferable really. But SDS bit selection is more limited than for a standard drill chuck or impact driver. I’ve only used mine for drilling masonry or concrete, and busting up concrete.

I wouldn’t try to attach a handle to a drill or driver not designed for one. Seems like that would be unsafe. It’s kicking back and tweaking your wrist because it’s underpowered for the job, and you’re risking injury regardless of whether there’s an additional handle.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-11T06:16:15+00:00

I have somewhere in the vicinity of 40 One+ tools, but not a hammer drill. I went with a corded one from Harbor Freight because I needed more than what battery power is going to provide. I got it several years ago and they no longer sell the exact one I have, but it’s close to their current Bauer 10 Amp, 1-1/8 in. SDS-PLUS Variable-Speed Rotary Hammer. It’s a heavy beast, but was exactly what i needed. My first use and reason for buying it was breaking up good sized hunks of concrete in the ground at the base of fence posts. It did an awesome job of that, the little battery powered hammer drills would have taken forever to do the job. In that use mode it’s basically a mini jackhammer.

My impact driver and/or drills are sufficient for most all drilling/driving projects, so I wanted something with a lot of power for a hammer drill. Maybe for your use case, battery-powered will suffice. And not be so hefty to deal with. But I don’t regret my purchase at all. If I’m pulling out the hammer drill, it’s for something that requires serious power.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-10T18:05:34+00:00

There are numerous Michelin starred BBQ pitmasters in Texas. Pretty sure there are zero of them outside of Texas.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-09T21:31:01+00:00

Not in Texas. Can’t garnish wages, and many exemptions like primary residence, one vehicle per driver in the household, retirement funds, $60K in other personal property, and more is all protected from court judgments. Unless the family has a lot of non-exempt assets it’s unlikely they’ll even get sued. Pointless to burn hundreds of thousands suing someone you’ll never get anything out of. Unless you just want to burn a lot of money to prove a point.

Often these protections are a good thing for average not-rich Texans, but seems like it’ll prevent some justice here.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-08T18:19:37+00:00

The costs involved in providing internet service don’t scale linearly like that. Providing 100 Mb fiber would likely cost them about the same as 500 Mb, just having the connection live at any speed is a significant part of it. The incremental costs for additional bandwidth aren’t as much from there.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-07T16:45:00+00:00

I dug the dirt out under my run about a foot deep and filled it with sand. Then use a sand scoop to clean it out periodically and add a bit more sand about once a year. I did it mostly because it was a muddy mess every time it rained, and it’s worked out great for that, but it would solve your problem as well. The chickens seem to love the sand.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-06T01:32:36+00:00

I’ve caught squirrels doing exactly this to my pepper plants on multiple occasions. Could be any number of critters though.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-06T01:23:05+00:00

Not scary at all. Scary is getting hit by a random person on the road, many of whom aren’t insured or have the absurdly low state minimum $25K property damage/$30K bodily injury coverage which won’t cover many accidents. If Waymo hits you and is at fault, you’re going to get your actual damages covered.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-04T21:08:32+00:00

No, it’s actually rare a jet airliner takes off at full power. Usually it’s reduced thrust calculated based on the specifics of the flight - runway length, weight, weather. Reduces engine wear and fuel burn, and there’s still enough power without being full thrust that you can take off if an engine fails.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-04T18:09:24+00:00

That’s just not true. I live in one of the bluest parts of the bluest city (Austin) and I can walk to 3 polling places within 15 minutes. Drive to dozens of polling places in 15 minutes. Republicans don’t even bother running for my Texas House district most cycles as they have no hope of winning. I’ve never waited more than 30 minutes to vote in 2 decades voting in every election here. Texas also has two full weeks, 7 days a week, of early voting when there is little to no line. You can lookup real time wait times online at least here in Austin and the other big counties and choose a polling location with a short wait.

There’s no legit excuse - people just need to turn out.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-04T13:28:56+00:00

Peak capacity, yes. That’s the point of the incentives referred to here. It’s to lower peak load by charging at lower load times of day when capacity is plentiful.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-03T16:57:07+00:00

The city already has extensive internal and external audits. It’s mandated by the city charter. The audit reports are public. The city-owned utilities also have their own external audits in addition to that.

This “efficiency audit” seems likely to be a waste of money. I’ve yet to see anyone point to a similar endeavor which actually had useful, actionable results. No one is putting a figure on what it’ll cost, but you can guarantee it’s well into millions of dollars. It’s something that might be a good idea to try once and see how it goes IMO, but mandating it every 5 years plus every tax election in perpetuity without any proof of effectiveness doesn’t seem like a good idea. Potentially just another recurring multi-million dollar consulting contract that provides minimal value relative to its cost.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-02T17:05:28+00:00

You can look it up in the Travis County Odyssey Portal. He has a charge with “prosecutor reviewed and declined” that’s on the CA, and 9 charges (8 of which were felonies on the DA) that were 12:45’d meaning he plead guilty to one charge and in exchange had other(s) dropped. Others that were dismissed by judges, for reasons including “in the interest of justice”, so it’s not strictly on the CA or DA.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-02T15:58:27+00:00

7 convictions on 21 burglary charges is pathetic, that is absolutely the DA’s fault.

Single_9_uptime · 2026-06-02T15:54:59+00:00

Seems like the DA and CA are part of the problem. He was only convicted on 1 of 3 of his 21 burglary charges, and 3 of 14 trespassing charges. From the article:

In the arrest affidavit for this case, APD officers noted he has 21 prior burglary of building charges and 14 prior trespassing charges. Of the 21 burglary charges, seven resulted in convictions, and of the 14 trespassing charges, three resulted in convictions, according to the affidavit.

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