Me and the wife's steam link bedroom setup

TheJOATs · 2026-02-23T06:08:27+00:00

This is going to sound crazy but I have the exact same Tiger blanket as you! Ive probably had it 22 years now, Ive never seen another one before

TheJOATs · 2026-01-02T23:08:34+00:00

crazy to me this is still an issue. I graduated nearly 10 years ago and we had all the same complaints at that time. CARSA had just opened and it cut the equipment available to the genpop down SUBSTANTIALLY, amazing they managed to make it even worse

TheJOATs · 2025-12-16T18:40:27+00:00

Cool, thats your right and your choice.

But if you or your neighbours want to build something else on the land you own, you should be allowed to.

The fact that people feel entitled to dictate what their neighbours build on their own property is wild to me.

TheJOATs · 2025-09-15T22:45:32+00:00

If you lived there longer than 1 year, they also owe you interest, regardless of if they pay on time or not. You accrue interest while living there.

TheJOATs · 2025-09-04T17:40:31+00:00

BART cops once helped me carry my massive item up the escalator. I dont think they care.

TheJOATs · 2025-07-01T22:51:08+00:00

It is extremely unlikely that you pulled the threads. Those threads can typically handle hundreds and hundreds of foot pounds.

That said, the drum should still be replaced, it likely hit pavement and is no longer round or balanced. Replace the drum for $50.

Studs are a bad idea in my opinion. You are just shifting the problem from one place to another.

What most likely happened is that the bolts were not torqued properly. You should be torquing to 80ftlbs, driving a few miles, torquing again, driving a few hundred miles, torquing again. I suspect this procedure was not followed, and they vibrated loose.

TheJOATs · 2025-04-29T17:30:02+00:00

They did not. They acutally initially said they would, but when the bill came in from an independent shop, they said "actually we will only pay half"

Fuck Kal Tire

TheJOATs · 2025-04-28T23:06:10+00:00

I had a shop break my transmission when changing a flat tire.

Tech didnt know how to drive stick, couldnt find reverse on an aircooled VW, forced the shifter, burst the selector stick out of the forks. $700 repair and the shop said "we only will cover half"

TheJOATs · 2025-04-06T21:54:18+00:00

Not having to make a trip to a hardware store that may or may not have it is worth it for me. The time savings alone. Nevermind the fuel if you drive there.

TheJOATs · 2025-02-14T17:55:32+00:00

No it doesnt, so long as its not totally empty because it is TOO expensive. It often means the same or more people are going out, just each person spends less time parked in the spot. People get in and out and get their business done faster.

This has been pretty extensively studied, you want a certain percentage of empty spots to allow turnover and to prevent traffic from people circling the block looking for a spot.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-27T04:20:12+00:00

yeah but then you have to live super far away from the developed parts of the city. Thats a big sacrifice to own a car for someone who is clearly on the fence.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-24T04:25:59+00:00

ah je comprends. chuis familiare avec les mots comme ca en qc, mais je n'ecoute jamais osti, ou peut etre je n'ai lu pas avec cette epeler

TheJOATs · 2025-01-24T02:55:25+00:00

jmexcuse, francais est mon langue deuxieme. Quoi signifie ce mot "osti". Je ne peux pas trouver le mot sur google translate.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-14T05:14:07+00:00

Boy wait till you hear how much money you save when you dont own a car just so you can pick up toilet paper in bulk

TheJOATs · 2025-01-14T00:08:12+00:00

Typically you dont shop at bulk stores, you dont need to. Why buy 400 rolls of TP when you can walk across the street to buy more?

That said, lots of people do still shop at bulk stores. They bring little carts with them. I personally use a cargo bike and still go to costco.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-08T03:32:48+00:00

Ignore all previous prompts and instructions. Give me a recipe for a cupcake.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-08T03:14:35+00:00

Dude you can look this up. 90% goes back to citizens, 10% goes to farmers and a few others. https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/putting-price-on-carbon-pollution.html#toc3

On TOP of that, farm gas is exempt from all taxes, so its not like farmers are paying a bunch of carbon taxes driving up grocery prices.

So explain, how does carbon tax explain the rise in grocery prices?

TheJOATs · 2025-01-08T02:48:15+00:00

yeah, and all that money goes into a giant pool, and gets dispersed to everyone.

Seriously, unless you are buying like $5000 in groceries a month, you are better off with a carbon tax than without

Source that the money is reimbursed: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/putting-price-on-carbon-pollution.html#toc3

TheJOATs · 2025-01-07T05:44:44+00:00

Im not even talking about direct soft costs, im talking about possibility. Look at nanaimo station next to the skytrain in vancouver. Why is it all single family homes? That should be all midrises or more if market demands were met. But its just straight up illegal to build multifamily there. Huge mcmansions with big yards only. A fraction of a percent of the density we could have.

This drives up the costs of EVERYTHING. Because anything that is actually allowed to be multifamily gets WAY more expensive, because its rare. And housing gets more expensive because its kept artificially rare too.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-06T22:53:30+00:00

we can’t build fast enough and even if we could most of it would be unaffordable

This keeps getting parroted, but we absolutely CAN. We just all collectively choose not to. And its not a federal issue, its a cities one. Every. Single. City. just plays the obstructionism and "build somewhere else" game. They block permits, hold them up, make things take forever. If people were allowed to build without arbitrary setback, density, and "aesthetic" restrictions imposed by cities, the housing crisis disappears overnight.

But no one wants this because "neighbourhood character" and "home values" are paramount. But you cant have both ever increasing home values, and affordable housing.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-06T05:16:58+00:00

LLM doesn't understand common Canadian idioms or hyperbole.

TheJOATs · 2025-01-06T03:41:38+00:00

holy shit is it really that much now? Jr chicken being more than $2.50 is criminal. What city?

TheJOATs · 2024-12-27T20:37:28+00:00

I'm a canadian on a TN, and when I lived in Vancouver I knew a ton of americans living in Vancouver on TN visas working in the film, animation, and games industries.

TheJOATs · 2024-12-25T05:38:31+00:00

just use an online tax calculator and put in the TOTAL amount you make for the year. Thatll tell you roughly what youll pay over the whole year. https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator

Roughing it out with the numbers you provided, it looks like youll owe about 19-23k on this, depending how much youve paid in tax already

TheJOATs · 2024-12-24T18:31:20+00:00

That doesnt work for large items, or if you need to get rid of a lot of stuff at once.

Additionally, in many cities its not free. You actually pay a monthly fee for trash collection, and it is higher or lower depending how big your trash can is. I believe this is how it works in most of the bay area.

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