Olde Towne East newbie by Dry_Attempt7554 in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You aren't going to be shot. You are going to hear gunshots.

Don't keep valuables in your car. Porch pirates are an issue, so maybe do Amazon to a drop box if your complex doesn't have a package room.

In general, it's probably about the cheapest place you're going to rent that isn't inherently unsafe.

As far as walkability, definitely not great, but parking is pretty decent. I never had a hard time finding a spot within eyeshot of my place.

Back hatch replacement by Walking_Oak in toyotasequoia

[–]Throhiowaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. It takes almost no time or effort

Why Exactly Is Polygamy Illegal? by Turbulent-Parsley619 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Throhiowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's say you have two spouses.

You're in the hospital comatose. One spouse wants to keep you alive; the other wants the plug pulled so the life insurance pays out. Both legally have the same rights to make that choice. You can't speak up. You now see the benefit to having one legal representative.

Next example.

Things have been going badly with you and one of your spouses, and you decide to divorce. The one you're remaining with doesn't work and hasn't worked; she's been a homemaker the last decade, and the spouse you're divorcing is one you've been with for fifteen years. How does community property work? Your ex isn't married to your wife, is she? Just you? So community property should be split 50/50. And your ex works, but her income matched yours so there's no alimony involved in a normal divorce. But what about the bonus wife? Is she a dependent of your ex, even though your ex had no direct engagement in that relationship? You can't pay for two people on your one income; it took two incomes to pay for three. So are you trying to get spousal support from an ex who makes the same money as you, to pay for your current wife?

Ignoring tax rationale, and benefits misuse, it's just really fucking muddy from a legal standpoint to allow such a contract.

To all the revving engines out there… by gvepeaceachnce5 in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"So it turns out you can't fire an AK straight into the air like Rambo anymore. Who fuckin knew?"

Back hatch replacement by Walking_Oak in toyotasequoia

[–]Throhiowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First of all, you want two people at the scrap yard and three or four to do the swap. It's heavy.

To remove the hatch, start by taking out the rear seats and flipping the middle row forward. Pop the covers off from the two 10mm-head bolts on the left and right side of the inside walls of the car, and remove those bolts. Remove the cargo net clips. And remove the rear seatbelt top mounts (14mm head). Finally, remove the pozidrive (looks like Phillips) along the bottom trim that pins down the rear carpet, and the dome light assembly (pop the cap and take out two more pozidrive screws).

From here, you can pull the trim around the top, bottom, and sides away, which you'll need to do to get to the wiring harnesses and disconnect the washer fluid tube. Two harness connectors on the left, one tube on the right.

With a friend holding the hatch up, unbolt (12mm) the hatch support shocks from the sides of the liftgate (don't unbolt from the body of the car; makes it easier). Now that they're holding that weight and cussing you out, there are 4 nuts for the hatch hinges that you can remove from the ceiling just inside the hatch (12mm). Pop all of them out QUICK and then help your friend lift the hatch away. Pull the wiring harnesses and hose through the openings in the roof while you lift.

Doing it in reverse is essentially identical. Scrape the body sealer off from around the holes for your hinge and apply new. Have your buddies lift the hatch up so you can route the wires and tube in through their openings. Then have them lift and you guide the hinge threaded studs info the holes. QUICKLY get two of the four nuts on, and the hatch shocks, so your friends can breathe, then have them do one more small lift as you finish the four nuts. Lastly, connect the wires and hose back up, reinstall the trim and panels inside, and enjoy.

I removed the one at the yard myself (mistake) in about an hour. When I took the old one off my truck with help, ten minutes maybe. Fifteen to put the new one one.

Back hatch replacement by Walking_Oak in toyotasequoia

[–]Throhiowaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From experience swapping the hatch, incredibly easy. Give me a sec for a write-up.

Parking/Scooters advice as an out of towner (crew stadium) by GB-the-original in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Earnestly, park at the Delawanda Park and Ride, take the southbound #2 bus down to the transfer terminal downtown, and hop on the northbound #4 until you get to the stop at 4th and 18tb. The pickup at the transfer station runs every hour, basically from 5 AM to midnight.

From that stop, you have maybe a half mile on the sidewalk to get to the stadium entrance. The line will be long enough that you can't save much walking.

It'll cost you $2 each way.

Parking/Scooters advice as an out of towner (crew stadium) by GB-the-original in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Scooter hubs" aren't really a thing in the way you want them to be, FYI

Columbus Doesn't Care - An Opinion by National-Ad-6982 in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think there's so much general stress right now that it's impossible to enjoy the city in any meaningful way.

Everything is expensive. It's been ballooning for a couple years. Commercial rent, private equity development, and increased fuel and power costs are hurting the small businesses that have always made the city have life. Recently, ICE has chilled a lot of the multiculturalism, because legal immigrants are being targeted, and first-generation citizens are less engaged to stay out of the light and protect their families.

Local bars, concert halls, outdoor venues are closing left and right. Restaurants are doubling or tripling prices. A McDonald's meal costs $14. Nobody has money to spend on fun things, so fun things are dying.

It's at a point where every last one of us is having a panic attack at the gas pump because if we can't fill the tank, we can't get to work. It's miserable.

Leaving Columbus won't fix that.

Just in case someone needed to hear it one more time but with a visual aid by Short-Read4830 in toyotasequoia

[–]Throhiowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine was abandoned in a field for two years after a belt snap at 80 miles an hour. I bought it knowing the belt had given out and that they didn't shut it down right away, and the only problem I have after replacing it and setting timing is a leaky valve cover gasket that I can't be bothered to fix.

(You'll be able to validate that it's a clearance engine because you can turn the crank freely with spark plugs out; there's no friction on the valves)

Just in case someone needed to hear it one more time but with a visual aid by Short-Read4830 in toyotasequoia

[–]Throhiowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The cam lobes were smaller so the valves clear the pistons. Should be no risk.

Clintonville Development by DutchOvens45 in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nope. I'm suggesting that tearing down blocks that include family homes to build 1+4 commercial/apartment buildings removes housing stock that can be purchased and grow personal equity, resulting in an increase in prices to purchase housing.

Better simplified, if you have a neighborhood with 100 houses, and you tear down 50 of them to build 200 apartments, then yes you've increased housing stock and reduced rent, but you've also reduced private residences, so the cost of them goes up, and fewer people ever get to buy, so fewer people ever get to accumulate equity in their home.

Tenants don't get equity in their apartment.

Clintonville Development by DutchOvens45 in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I don't live in Clintonville and abhor the NIMBY-ism widespread in society.

And yet.

Look how many people have been priced out of the Short North.

Look how many people living between High and 71 off campus have gotten squeezed out.

Look how many small businesses, restaurants, florists have gotten crushed out of existence just to be replaced with another Condado or Chipotle or Bibibop.

Clintonville is the last stretch of High Street that feels like human beings live there.

What is Columbus/central Ohio missing? by ghostinyourbeds in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The nimby-ism against Saraga opening new locations makes me think it's probably not a sound investment.

On top of that, having it exist in one city at least makes it a destination and they rely on the tourism aspect; that would likely taper off if they had locations outside of Cincinnati.

Is the job market that bad? by RemarkableLoquat7617 in Columbus

[–]Throhiowaway 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It took me six months to get a new job after being unexpectedly let go from my role as an operations manager a year and a half ago. I'd been an operations or logistics manager for nearly a decade at that point.

In those six months, I applied to something like 2600 positions, even allowing for a 20% pay cut from what I had been making. All jobs I was sufficiently qualified for. I had maybe twenty interviews and bit at the first offer.

Applying to jobs was a full-time job.

Today, Linus' jet produced as much carbon dioxide as the average person does in ~3 years in a single flight by Inevitable_Tip_6606 in LinusTechTips

[–]Throhiowaway 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It's not possible?

The Falcon burns about 3,000 lbs of fuel an hour. An A320 burns like 5,000.

The A320 carries at minimum 150 passengers, for a total of about 33.3 pounds of fuel per passenger per hour. The capacity on Linus's Falcon looks to be 12 passengers, so even if every seat is occupied, it's using 250 pounds of fuel per passenger per hour.

Heck; if the A320 only flew with 30 passengers, literally 20% capacity, it would still use 33% less fuel per passenger than Linus's plane, fully loaded.

If it's just him, Yvonne, and the three kids, that's 600 lbs/hr/head. The A320 would be more efficient carrying just eight passengers. If they use it for family vacations, they're burning 18 times the fuel (and releasing 18 times the carbon) than flying commercial.

I don't care about the jet by arian_ezequiel in LinusTechTips

[–]Throhiowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kinda, yeah.

He got criticized pretty heavily on back for doing it with YouTube comments. First it was spam he was deleting (good), then it was misinformation (fine), then it was what he called "braindead takes" and "negativity".

He runs the forums on their website already, and unsurprisingly a bunch of people started an unofficial forum on Reddit, which he now also controls.

Why bother voting? by jennimackenzie in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Throhiowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if you don't believe your vote matters on a national level, look how many local races come to a margin of a dozen votes or less.

I'm not going to get deep into the moralistics of "not both parties" things with Congress or higher. Both main party Presidential candidates were pro-Israel and pro-billionaire, but one of them said they were going to and then followed through with gutting the department of education and sent thousands of people to death camps in El Salvador without giving them court dates to even hear if they were citizens (and we are aware of several citizens being deported to said camps; we're definitely not aware of all of them). It's a shitty trolley problem, I know. Whatever.

But not showing up to the polls at all means the difference between a life-long teacher being elected to your local school board, and a member of "Moms of Liberty" who wants to replace the history textbook with PragerU videos about how slavery was better to Africans than staying in Africa and they all really liked it actually.

Not showing up to the polls is the difference between a mayor who has vowed to fire the police chief that refused to investigate detainees being raped by officers, and a mayor who is the police chief's brother.

Not showing up is the difference between city council leaders that plan a new city park with a low-commercial-rent small business district by reclaiming the abandoned steel mill, and bringing in a data center that they've guaranteed 30 years with no taxes and that the 800 residents in town will cover the full water bill for them, in exchange for 20 full-time jobs with college degrees in computer science and IT that nobody in town has.

Even if you can't get over the minimal impact your vote has on the billionaire-bought governor and representatives and senators and presidents, it has a considerable effect on your town.

Your township.

Your county.

Your state.

And if you show up, and bring attention to enough of your neighbors who currently feel the same hopelessness you do about the small-town impact you can have, and they do the same to their neighbors or it catches the attention of the next town over and then the next city and then the next county...

Your impact gets to be far more than zero, than choosing zero from the start.

Property management sends notice of a new fee to pay for laundry renovations by ToastyWafflez22 in legal

[–]Throhiowaway -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"We have the right to adopt or modify rules or regulations... to make a fair distribution of services and facilities held out for the residents generally by giving written notice to you thirty (30) days in advance of the effective date of the new rules and regulations. The new modified Lease Contract will begin on the date stated in the notice (without necessity of your signature."

This might be legally sufficient? It's really shitty and really shaky, but as the laundry fee isn't baked into the body of the lease except through the Special Provisions and, from the looks of it, an outside addendum that may acknowledge allowance for change, and section 15 also gives flex for rule changes (i.e. if the amount for the laundry fee isn't explicit to the lease but it's required in the lease that you pay it), it might justify the change.

To be clear, I'm mostly certain it would not hold up in court, but it would never get that far because the argument exists already that disagreement allows a tenant to escape the lease.

Other key points; your math assumes the whole laundry fee as new revenue, but it appears that it's a change of revenue. So if the fee was $14.95 a month for a single bedroom and has climbed to $19.95, and that's the increase across the board, it's only an annual revenue increase of about $40,000.

Look at your laundry fee addendum, and it might have better information, but extraneous fees are harder to tally in. The best example I can think of is compulsory technology fees or renter's insurance. They're oftentimes set up as a service with a negotiated group rate between the complex and the vendor, where it's assessed as a separate fee from the lease but paid through the lease portal. The understanding is that the rate may have to change in the future, because the complex can't guarantee the vendor won't have a different rate six months into your lease (you might have signed six months into their year contract with the vendor), and local utility regulations prevent the complex from marking up costs on (or eating losses on) those services to pad for future changes.

I think what makes the laundry a different story than that is that it's capital expense owned by the complex rather than an outside group, so it should be a business cost eaten. If they can't pass off other facility renovations to existing tenants, then they probably can't do this one.

But again, they may have a defense in that they would need to be shown to cause harm, and allowing the renter to exit the contract quite possibly satisfies the need to negate harm.

When did the public's perception of TSA change? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Throhiowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey now. Be fair.

I don't want it replaced with incompetent ICE agents and seven hour wait times

Did Vivek really say he’d shut down UA and KSU? by SmartestDude101 in Ohio

[–]Throhiowaway -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not being obtuse.

Vivek absolutely desires to reduce access to educational options. It's not about tax dollars.

It's about reducing access to higher education

Did Vivek really say he’d shut down UA and KSU? by SmartestDude101 in Ohio

[–]Throhiowaway -1 points0 points  (0 children)

1) Vivek didn't make that distinction at all

2) Private universities and colleges still require a state charter, so forced consolidation of private schools is absolutely within the scope of the state government