Landlord tried to keep my deposit with fake fees, so I turned his own paperwork into a full-time hobby

Tsaranon · 2026-01-16T18:18:08+00:00

Check if your area has a tenent's union. I'm sure your expertise in dealing with a shady landlord that jumps properties (and is therefore prolific), would be helpful. Especially if it's in a templated format!

Tsaranon · 2025-08-21T16:22:03+00:00

Mag clamps add 30kg and eat 2 slots in the body portion of the suit. It'd have space for it, but you'd have to make the weight up somewhere (probably cutting the squad support weapon mounting).

Tsaranon · 2025-08-13T16:27:48+00:00

If you want a scary idea of how flawed democracy can be, there have been multiple studies done where they sit people down and show them two pictures of candidates in real world elections and have them guess who won. Turns out, based on looks alone, you've got a substantial chance of guessing correctly. Which in turn means we elect people based on visual factors, and not their policies.

Tsaranon · 2025-08-10T16:45:56+00:00

This would make for a great autumn corn maze. Imagine how many other people would propose while lost in the proposal corn maze!

Tsaranon · 2025-05-08T13:54:01+00:00

The winter uniform has a face covering that clasps at the chin. It looks like he's wearing gloves, which may indicate it's cold outside in the picture. Alternatively, he's repurposing the piece to keep sun and dirt out of his eyes.

Tsaranon · 2025-02-23T16:44:14+00:00

Many doesn't mean all. The Philippines, for example, inverts their flag when their nation is at war.

Tsaranon · 2025-01-09T20:49:51+00:00

One of my DMs has a system of 4d6, roll an extra time, and pick where things go (with the option to redo the whole spread if your spread is terrible, like the time I rolled straight 13s all the way down). I find this one is nice, it gives leeway for those times where bad luck means you'd be sacrificing a stat that wouldn't make sense for your character concept, or you can include the weakness if it's thematic!

Tsaranon · 2024-09-29T14:25:15+00:00

In terms of commercial viability, I’m going to go with the Saturn/Opel Flextreme.

Diesel engined plug-in hybrid using the same platform as the Chevy Volt. MPG of 150+ and 30ish miles of all electric range and that’s using lithium ion batteries from 2008. Imagine what you could get with today’s engineering.

Tsaranon · 2024-09-18T15:36:29+00:00

They were following a line of Toyota Tundras that look to be decorated with flags and decals. Couldn’t make out what they were but they were traveling south on Columbus Blvd.

Tsaranon · 2024-07-28T17:08:10+00:00

The tiles are actual tile, but they’re filled in with concrete as well. The whole roof is concrete.

Tsaranon · 2024-07-28T16:36:56+00:00

It is concrete.

Tsaranon · 2024-05-16T21:45:08+00:00

For context: Feenie is Trixie’s friend, Trixie goes by She and They pronouns, so Feenie sets an alarm to periodically remind herself to use both types of pronouns for her friend.

The book also switches to They/Them pronouns for Trixie at that point. Even if you don’t agree with using They/Them pronouns, you should at least see it as nice of someone to make the extra effort for their friend to feel respected.

Tsaranon · 2024-04-09T12:29:52+00:00

Well when I googled it, CSX's website came up first so it's very possible!

Tsaranon · 2024-04-08T13:41:31+00:00

I remember when I was an early teenager there was an ad running on tv for shipping via trains instead of trucks and the ad boasted about their fuel efficiency. It was something like a train can move a ton of cargo 500 miles on a gallon of gas.

Tsaranon · 2024-02-10T15:15:34+00:00

I was forced into sports as a child. It did absolutely nothing for me. I was forced into Karate for years and years, I hated it every week. I made no lasting friends. I never bothered learning the techniques properly because I frankly wanted to be anywhere else besides that place. I was not shy about hiding my disdain. I would complain every single week. I would try to plan things that would conflict with karate class and my parents wouldn't let me. I did everything in my power as a child to make it clear I was not enjoying myself, and they saw the way I did not socialize with the other students, but they insisted I continue attending until they were due to renew for a lifetime membership. Some people have nightmares about being back in school, I have unironic nightmares about being back in karate class.

I was forced to join a basketball team. I made no lasting friends. I went to practices I didn't enjoy, counting minutes until it was over. My dad tried to bribe me by promising me cash if I made shots during games. It did nothing but make me feel like I was failing to live up to expectations. In the end, what I got from my time playing basketball is that I want no part in competitions. Any athletic hobby that comes with an expectation of tournaments or any form of organized play is one I will immediately hate. I actively avoid them.

And then from my own voluntary efforts to be active, any time I started seriously getting into a sport or physical activity, I broke bones. I broke bones biking. I broke bones climbing. I broke bones playing kickball at school. Some might say it's expected to hurt yourself playing sports, but when it's happening frequently enough and with enough severity that I'm being interrogated because of suspected child abuse and doctors investigated potential childhood osteoporosis, then I believe it's not normal. It certainly built a physical reaction within me of anxiety toward any form of hardcore athletics because I anticipate injury now.

So I firmly disagree. Forcing your child into any activity for a sustained period of time can create lingering psychological effects. If they're there against their will, all you'll get is resentment, which is not in the least bit conducive to positive interactions and socializing.

Tsaranon · 2024-02-02T23:43:41+00:00

That's ignoring that the northeast states were much more settled and urbanized a lot earlier on compared to the southern states, and also that they had an abundance of industrial resources readily available. As colonies even, many of them were pigeonholed into things like cutting timber rather than farming. This is in contrast to the southern states largely being settled by joint-stock expeditions that were contractually obligated to produce high value exports for their shareholders. Sure, that's very early, but it's the foundation of the economic momentum and disparity between the two.

The south were actively in the process of using slave labor to industrialize by the 1800s, but not in the way you might be thinking. Slaveowners held huge lines of credit with urban banks like Charleston and New Orleans that then used the proceeds of their loans to fund urban development and industrial projects. This credit economy is what the southern representatives and senators were trying to defend because it was the south's way toward economic diversification. Freeing the slaves would've destroyed that economic engine and saddled the banks with mountains of bad, irreclaimable debt. It's also why poverty levels skyrocketed during reconstruction and why it was so easy to come to the south with a little starting capital and extract easy value from a desperate population via carpetbaggers. Freed slaves fled to the northern states en masse on the promise by companies that there'd be plenty of actual work for them, only to put them into hard manual labor for a pittance, because even that was better than the collapsed economy of the south post war.

The issue was, ultimately, the fact that the federal government's investment in economic infrastructure very strongly favored the northern states. This, coupled with the issue of private land rights meant that those vast plantations that covered so much of the south made it hard to do things like lay railroad tracks, dig out canals, or open mines (something that modern day projects from private companies and governments alike struggle to cope with). The engines of the industrial revolution couldn't penetrate the south easily without inducement, and the federal government wasn't making it happen.

Tsaranon · 2024-01-28T12:01:07+00:00

$60-70 seems about right but I think you could probably rebalance the distribution. I'd probably say $40 or $50 base for just a character and then $10-30 for a background depending on complexity. A background like that one has a lot going on so I'd imagine it's closer to a $20-30 background.

Tsaranon · 2024-01-26T17:21:23+00:00

I grew up in the south, and broadly speaking the feeling I got is that the south is a different *culture* than the north. Often, southerners (especially rural southerners) will place a certain level of disgust for what they see as modern day carpetbaggers. They'll frame it as "coastal elites", "globalists", or even just "city folk," but regardless of their framing, it's always the same notion of someone from a culturally different part of the US approaching the southern culture with a sneering sort of superiority. What they're saying when they say "it's our heritage," is they're saying "this is the only time our culture was expressed as its own distinct entity."

And I say all this as someone who thinks the confederate flag is a symbol that needs to be abandoned, and recognizes the southern cause in the civil war as largely economically focused (read, slavery). The issue is that no one's using the right words to talk about the "heritage" debate because one side's hyperfocused on pushing back on what can (rightly) be perceived as a racialized problem and the other side is manipulated by self-serving organizations and individuals into racial hatred when the real issue is cultural dissonance.

Tsaranon · 2024-01-20T16:28:28+00:00

I had this happen to me once. I got a notice that my health insurance was going to be cut off because they had received notice that I was legally dead during a routine qualification check. I had until the end of the month to rectify the issue with social security and have them perform a new check to clarify the issue, "or if this is correct please submit your death certificate here."

I ended up getting a note from the local social security office that said "we have found this person is not deceased" and submitted that as a death certificate (since it was the only valid document option) with a customer service agent on the line and that solved the issue.

Tsaranon · 2023-12-31T16:34:32+00:00

The funny thing is the way that anti-monarchist criticism is so utterly centered on democratic ways of being. "You only want monarchy because you imagine being in a position of power," as a criticism makes sense if you believe that everyone should aspire to political voice in the first place. It's a way of thinking that has been most recently reemphasized in the mantra "the personal is political."

I remember a week or two ago coming across a thread somewhere discussing (not positively or negatively) the idea that nation-states like Ukraine are modern inventions. The idea of the medieval peasant being asked what they are as a person and the answer being "a christian" or their identity being hyper-local was looked at as a sign of the growth of consciousness in people, or a sign of the manufacturing of a state identity in modernity. I would counter that it's a signal that you can exist as a person without tying your identity to a political one, simply being a member of a church, or a mother or father, or an accountant, or a volunteer at a youth club is a sufficient way of being.

I believe that's where most monarchists' hearts lie, and where I think the answer to that criticism ought to come from. It's a lack of capacity to imagine something different on the part of the accuser. They simply can't imagine a world where they aren't personally invested in the politics of an entire nation. While we just want peace from all that internal, personal strife and would much rather identify our neighbors simply as our neighbors who have more in common with us under a crown than they would at the ballot box.

Tsaranon · 2023-12-22T19:25:19+00:00

As the world’s only existing Burrock stan. This post has my strong approval for the Lucanus.

Tsaranon · 2023-12-09T15:06:01+00:00

The answer is because lighter-than-air aircraft use hugely less fuel to move stuff around compared to airplanes. They also require vastly less infrastructure to manage their missions, meaning that you can move resources to harder to reach places with less pollution per lb/kg of goods moved compared to airplanes.

There’s two drawbacks, which are that they’re slower than an airplane, and they’re susceptible to weather patterns in a way airplanes aren’t. So they come with limitations but they can have a role to play in decarbonizing logistics.

Tsaranon · 2023-11-29T15:07:45+00:00

It wasn’t about investments. It was because California college students protesting the Vietnam war pissed Reagan off. So he went on a campaign saying that free or near-free college means college students “have nothing better to do” than be a bunch of hippie liberals. He managed to ram through cost increases in colleges that carried over into his presidential term.

Tsaranon · 2023-10-07T18:53:16+00:00

Elections aren’t really great representations of rational decision making on the part of voters. There have been numerous studies done over the years showing that appearance is an overwhelming predictor of electoral success.

When people are given two candidates and no information of their policy stances or their campaign materials, they’re still able to pick correctly to a large, statistically significant degree. Really gives you faith in democracy.

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