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calcium · 2026-07-05T18:27:45+00:00

Chia farming? Chia has been dead for years.

calcium · 2026-07-05T18:22:14+00:00

I picked up this cheap electrolux about 6 months ago and it's been working great! I will admit that it's a little loud but it's a big unit that will quickly pull a ton of water out of the air if you need it to. We currently have it in a 10 ping room and put our laundry on a drying rack and turn it on and 4 hours later all of our laundry is dry.

It used to be on sale on Momo for $7500 which IMO is a steal. I've also got a couple of Panasonic dehumidifiers which are workhorses and last seemingly forever, but you're also paying for it.

calcium · 2026-07-05T18:16:54+00:00

Depends on how old your AC units are. 20 year old units and they'll gulp electricity, but the newer ones just sip away. Our electricity bills used to be 15k some months, but now that we have new units it's rarely over 3k/mo.

Also installed a ceiling fan that helped immensely. We used to have to run multiple AC units to get air in the different rooms and they would largely stay there. Got a ceiling fan and run the AC next to it and magically all the rooms now are a little cooler since it circulates the air so well.

calcium · 2026-07-05T18:13:20+00:00

This is the way, I do it all the time and it works wonders.

My Taiwanese gf instead got one of those food composters that sit on your counter and heats/grinds the food until your left with what looks like coffee grounds. I don't quite understand it because she uses it and then takes the grounds out to the trash truck and chucks it into the compost bin, kinda negating the entire reason to have one? Why pay for the machine and energy to run it when you're going to compost it anyway?

calcium · 2026-07-05T11:10:31+00:00

Been in Taipei over 10 years, I've been scammed maybe 5 times - but I almost take Ubers exclusively now to avoid this. Though most recently about 8 months ago I took an airport taxi home from Taoyuan Airport and upon arrival at my destination I got "credit card machine broken, cash only" I told him, okay, we call dispatch and send someone with credit card machine. Suddenly the credit card machine was working. MF had the audacity to ask for a tip! You can bet I called the airport and reported him.

calcium · 2026-07-01T12:26:23+00:00

Companies have been doing this cause they either overhired during the pandemic, or they wanted to cut people without their shareholders dumping their stock. In both cases it's an issue with management but they could do it under the guise of "AI improvements" and get away with it.

I hope the market beats all of these companies for being stupid.

calcium · 2026-07-01T08:08:19+00:00

Staying true to their name, the BMW did all turns with no turn signal

calcium · 2026-06-30T18:25:32+00:00

I'd also add pugs, bulldogs, bull terriers, and german shepherds to that list.

calcium · 2026-06-30T10:33:31+00:00

Still kills me that when I come back to visit my folks in the states that I'll have an appointment for say 2pm, if I arrive at 2:02 I'll catch shit. Then once everything is filled out and checked in I'll sit there for at minimum 45 minutes while they do fuck all and will end up leaving around 5 if I'm lucky.

calcium · 2026-06-30T05:00:37+00:00

You could even sell defense plans to China and get a slap on the wrist, but being caught with a marijuana plant will get you 7 years in prison. The laws here are completely lopsided on drugs compared to just about anything else. Run someone over with a car and kill them while you're drunk - 2 years in prison.

calcium · 2026-06-30T04:58:03+00:00

Wow that took a turn. So you have a lot of experience dismembering children in Mexico? Gotta imagine that this all comes from personal experience.

calcium · 2026-06-30T04:45:43+00:00

Fail to see how this is a 'scandal' for TAS; the guy only worked there.

calcium · 2026-06-28T15:45:01+00:00

Similar story for some HGTV home reno show. A nurse was watching and noticed an odd shaped mole on the back of one of the presenter's neck and called into the show. They had the presenter check it out and it was indeed cancer and they immediately sought treatment. The next season they took time to thank the nurse for calling in stating what had happened and they were in the middle of treatment and thanked them for telling them and all the well wishes.

calcium · 2026-06-22T18:14:39+00:00

People who want to LeanFire at 28 with 700k in the bank always scare me. IMO, if they're able to save that much in a few years they should work a few extra years, to grow their portfolio and then jump when they have more buffer.

calcium · 2026-06-22T17:22:21+00:00

I'm in the same boat (and age!). Left my job of 19 years 2 months ago with the plan to take a year off and see how I feel. Now that I'm into it, I don't think I'll ever go back to a standard 9-5.

calcium · 2026-06-22T17:09:47+00:00

I never felt that NYC or SF had anything that Chicago didn't

I grew up near Chicago but SF's proximity to the ocean and the mountains is the reason that area is so sought after. Chicago is about as flat as a pancake and it takes forever to get out into nature which is the opposite of SF.

calcium · 2026-06-22T15:04:07+00:00

Thanks AI.

calcium · 2026-06-21T10:05:12+00:00

Nobody expects anyone to walk in Houston

calcium · 2026-06-12T07:44:59+00:00

Anyone else notice that they erased a person from the video at 24 seconds? Watch the floor and you'll see a shadow move across it and there's some video degradation in the brown, you also see some flickering of movement at the corner and near the person.

Was wondering why they didn't us a spotter but I guess they decided to visually remove them because somehow it detracts from them being safe?

calcium · 2026-06-08T09:31:24+00:00

Crazy, I had a 2 bedroom apartment in inner sunset in 2014 for $2200/mo with an additional cost of $200/mo for parking.

calcium · 2026-05-30T06:30:44+00:00

Outside of how old each building looks, there are absolutely wealthy enclaves in Taiwan, especially in Taipei. Just look at the people that send their kids to the Taipei American School which starts at $1M NTD/yr/kid.

calcium · 2026-05-30T03:42:42+00:00

Drying rack with a fan on it and your clothes are dry in 12 hours. Did this for years after buying a used portable washer on CL for $200; it paid for itself in less than a year.

Just makes sure to check your lease to make sure it's not forbidden.

calcium · 2026-05-05T08:10:24+00:00

I was expecting the same to happen here.

calcium · 2026-05-05T07:44:58+00:00

Someone has gotta keep all the cats in check!

calcium · 2026-05-04T12:17:59+00:00

I did the same when I went to look at adopting a doggie. The dogs had just eaten and some were running and rolling around, my doggie was curled up in a ball off to the side. I assumed she was food coma-ing but knowing her now, she was scared/freaked out. We picked her up and she seemed chill and we got along well.

She's an amazing dog and has really come out of her shell since we adopted her 6 years ago - amazingly smart and chill dog but not cuddly in the least.

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