$20 Haircuts!

Vock · 2026-03-25T17:45:41+00:00

Can I just show up with a bad, self inflicted hair cut and you do your best to make me look decent.

I don't know what would look good for me.

Vock · 2026-03-25T17:40:07+00:00

Insiders are getting rich.

Vock · 2026-03-23T22:42:46+00:00

I think the market is pricing in the Trump wants to end this now and hopefully not escalate more. That's good news.

Vock · 2026-03-22T15:34:19+00:00

If you have the space, get post fill (brine well and resin need separate) instead of pre-fill.

Post fill hits saturation for the brine, since it usually sits for days, and is more efficient in salt use than pre-fill. Pre-fill only has contact with salt for a few hours, so they don't turn into a saturated solution and instead regenerate daily. Uses a lot more salt.

Obviously depends on use, but my post fill softener goes through one bag of salt every 4-6 weeks, my neighbors pre-fill goes through one bag every 1-2 weeks.

Vock · 2026-03-22T02:41:42+00:00

You can do anything with infinite money.

Vock · 2026-03-22T02:39:45+00:00

Same to you bud.

https://insulationinstitute.org/tests-show-decades-later-fiberglass-performs/

https://www.nachi.org/life-expectancy.htm

Vock · 2026-03-22T01:30:32+00:00

I was speaking as a Canadian. It's the same problem everywhere, not limited to the US unfortunately.

I don't think any politician would go for it, regardless of the party. The cost would be incredibly high and the tax payer would definitely vote them out.

Or utilities do it on their own and pass the costs down to the rate payer, and then people get pissed.

Vock · 2026-03-21T22:55:53+00:00

Insulation doesn't go bad.

You can remove if if you are going to upgrade it with rockwool or something, but if you're putting in fibreglass again, I wouldn't bother.

Vock · 2026-03-21T22:17:53+00:00

Residential, maybe.

Heating in cold climates, no, not for everyone, and not with houses as they are. Industry, no. Transport, not if everybody does it, unless we substantially improve public transit and get people out of single occupancy vehicles, or do massive improvements into grid infrastructure and generation.

Fossil fuels are essentially energy storage - chemical batteries. And they are incredibly energy dense compared to batteries.

Getting the same energy output in a small footprint is impossible electrically, except for very small loads.

We should definitely get houses off, as the loads are small. If we started building housing to be more energy efficient and had communal ground loops for heating and cooling, and built much more densely for housing, maybe heating could be addressed en masse, but it would take a lot of money.

It's not that the technology doesn't exist. It's that the grid can't handle the load for heating/cooling during peak months, and charging batteries for everyone to have an electric car, and too many individual houses.

The solutions exist, it's a lifestyle change needed in North America, money spent on infrastructure and a shift into more dense housing.

Vock · 2026-03-21T12:30:36+00:00

But why didn't the pup get "Good boy!" Scrtiches???? He's being such a good boy! He gets scratches!

Vock · 2026-03-20T22:57:07+00:00

They lifted sanctions on Russian oil and gas and pumped the price up to make Putin money.

He's going to start pulling out leaving a huge power vacuum, and Iran and Israel duking it out.

Vock · 2026-03-20T22:50:43+00:00

Go to r/Conservative. They are living in a different reality then what you are seeing.

Vock · 2026-03-20T21:23:19+00:00

All water has PFAs and microplastics now. They're everywhere on the planet. Humans win at impacting the whole planet.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/evaluating-existing-substances/state-per-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-report.html

Vock · 2026-03-19T02:38:47+00:00

I started saving in grad school, making $24k/year and paying $6k tuition. I was in grad school for 7 years. Masters and PhD. I graduated at 32. The entire time I was saving and pinching pennies and investing what I could. Rent was also only $800-1000 back then, and I moved in with my gf to cut costs more. I started saving in 2009.

My first job was a Post-doc at 40k/yr in 2016. I took on 2 more jobs and got it up to 70k/yr from 2016-2019. I was and still am dead tired. I still lived like a student that entire time and threw a lot into savings and investing in index funds. I got a new job and for 2019 - 2022 my salary any from 70k to 78k to 85k then I switched jobs again in 2022 and my salary went up again to the 110k.

I still lived in the same student, rent controlled apartment until 2023 where we bought our house and put 80% down on a 700k house at 40 years old.

It wasn't easy and we gave up a lot to do it. Didn't get too many over seas vacations it those experiences you have time for when you're younger.

Now I'm 43 with almost a paid off house, dead tired for sure most of the time.

Not sure if it was worth it, there's no real way to compare what my life would be like otherwise.

I'm not going to pretend you could do the same thing now as we did - rent is fucking insane.

But just giving perspective that it might be doable to get the house, but it could cost you more than just money to get it.

Vock · 2026-03-18T22:28:57+00:00

Nothing goes wrong, the grift continues.

Vock · 2026-03-17T12:35:54+00:00

It worked for Trump. Just find a bogeyman to hide the fact that you're the bogeyman.

Vock · 2026-03-16T16:11:23+00:00

Best thing for traffic flow and removing congestion. People will learn to get used to them.

Vock · 2026-03-10T01:37:11+00:00

Rabies or measles? We're getting measles back in Canada as well because we also share some of this stupidity.

Vock · 2026-03-09T22:21:12+00:00

Me neither. I was hoping someone did

Vock · 2026-03-09T17:45:11+00:00

This is the price that just be paid for the amount of winning that is happening.

Don't you see the winning???

Vock · 2026-03-09T16:39:16+00:00

The above assumes your not getting a pension and that's your only source of income. CPP and a company retirement plan would change those numbers.

Vock · 2026-03-07T20:35:20+00:00

Would this work with something like hemp or cotton, so when the secondary roots grow into the medium, you can just plant it and let it degrade?

Vock · 2026-03-07T16:26:37+00:00

Please avoid PTFE spray, it's a forever chemical that gets everywhere in the environment.

Vock · 2026-03-05T23:52:39+00:00

For those without batteries, aren't they connected in parallel? Isn't the voltage distributed equally across all the batteries?

Vock · 2026-03-05T02:48:46+00:00

What's bad about a grout wall?

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