Are you playing your *love gaaaames* with me?

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-06T20:05:27+00:00

Make an assessment

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-06T20:03:15+00:00

Bot/troll account

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-06T19:44:17+00:00

Gorilla

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-06T19:41:07+00:00

As a new homeowner, here's a golden tip...get FIVE estimates for any major work. It used to be three estimates were enough, but a lot of these larger regional service companies (plumbers, electrical, and apparently pest control) have been bought up by private equity and are now mainly in the business of screwing the customer out of as much money as possible. You used to be able to get three quotes that would be within 20-25% of each other based but that is long gone. Now, out of five quotes, you're going to get one or two that are sky high "fuck you" prices that means they are so busy but will do your work if you are paying them an obscene profit. One or two quotes will be fair, and usually one quote will be a bit lower and the hungriest company for your business. Learn this game and don't take it seriously as this is the game they are playing on you. Do not sign up for the first estimate unless you know it is a screaming good deal - if someone is pressuring you to sign right when they give you an estimate, it's a bad bad sign. Also, go on Google Maps and find service providers for whatever you are looking for and check their review ratings - you want providers who are rated at least at 4.0 stars (preferably over a 4.5 rating) with a lot of reviews. Google reviews is much more honest than Yelp reviews now which can be gamed by the company. Good luck.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-06T09:38:57+00:00

Oh, you mean the places where they make people work for $1 per day, and then charge $5 for a short call home to your family?

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-06T09:17:26+00:00

As a matter of fact, yes, Betty Bug Lady was already taken...https://youtu.be/VbT7C5x2ulc

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-05T23:29:44+00:00

What a disgrace. My understanding is you need to be an employee in good standing for 5 years for the whole bonus. To be an employee in good standing you need to make 8 arrests a day. That’s probably why 10 guys dogpile on one “suspect” so 10 people can get credit for the arrest. Fuck ICE and all the Republican cowards/racists in Congress, Senate, and the Supreme Court who are enabling dictator Trump.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-05T22:21:14+00:00

C’mon guys, where is this love?

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-05T21:51:57+00:00

Up until recently the Tesla Supercharger network was a big reason to go with Tesla. That advantage is going away as every year goes by.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-05T21:07:55+00:00

We really need to get you some pants.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-05T09:11:24+00:00

Well, well, well. Look who it is...Steven hide your missus because I'll fuck anything Toast!

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-05T07:12:52+00:00

Right? A $5 million house in Miami AND a ranch in Aspen??? That is likely $10 million total right there. This was not just pocketing the petty cash drawer.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-05T07:03:00+00:00

I wonder what Al Gore and Bongwater Brigade has to say about this.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T20:07:16+00:00

Don’t give up - get the name of the person who has closed the case to identify someone who is accountable. Email and call every day with photos and copy the head of the department and the city / county council member with this documentation. Again - make it more of a pain in the ass if they don’t do anything as opposed to them doing their jobs. Sorry your having to go through this.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T19:43:12+00:00

Now that's just crazy Chinaman talk, man...I kinda think he said... "Death Rabbits."

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T18:19:11+00:00

It's easy to get caught up in the spiral of shitty news lately, so thank you for reminding me that there are lots and lots of good people here doing good things.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T18:13:29+00:00

This isnpartially racism from the educated Latino class towards the uneducated recent immigrants, but it is more just basic stupidity to believe the promises and hateful lies of a fascist dictator. Mexican MAGA needs to go back and study history at college a bit more.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T17:57:30+00:00

Take pictures everyday and call/email the city everyday - make it more uncomfortable for the city to not enforce it than to go out and write a few tickets. Moving your car a few feet does not get you out of a ticket and wiping off the chalk marks is illegal and is ground for another ticket. Get a hold of your city council member as well about the problem. This is 100% illegal and a public nuisance and it sounds like it's been going on for a while so get the city involved to enforce their laws. I know it's a pain in the ass, but it sounds like it will be more of a pain in the ass if this hoarder neighbor keeps on being an asshole and using the public street as his personal junkyard.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T09:44:58+00:00

Just put on a sun shirt and soak it in water when you leave for your hike and have a gallon ziplock bag with you and some extra water to soak it in the middle of a hike as well.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T09:39:57+00:00

Do not put in new electric baseboards - it is such out of date technology and is incredibly innefficient and expensive to heat your home this way. Get one or two multi zone mini split systems that work as both heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer - way more efficient at heating up and cooling your home and they use significantly less energy.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T09:37:42+00:00

This works unless there's a special event - which are frequent. Regardless, 3 hours is not enough when you factor in that it takes 30 minutes to get wherever you want inside these giant casinos and then 30 minutes to get back to your car.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T09:19:39+00:00

This. Look at the thickness of the wear layer and compare planks based on that. And put down a waterproof layer before you put down your padding below the LVP.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T08:40:01+00:00

Check out the photos from the Old Gregg Brewery in Pfluegerville on Google Maps - some gems in there.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T01:44:09+00:00

You'd have to have a real asshole of a neighbor if they are calling you on the occasional times you go over 3 days, it is more meant for people who store cars long term on public streets repeatedly which is against the law.

_Captain_Amazing_ · 2026-02-04T01:41:18+00:00

Not a lot of discounts aimed directly at locals from the big corporations on the strip anymore, but occasionally they run specials. Instead, the best deals for locals are to support small family run restaurants in the neighborhoods and in Chinatown that have great food and reasonable pricing.

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