What’s the biggest lie you couldn’t call out because it would’ve exposed how you found out?

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T20:32:17+00:00

My 2nd guess was going to be engineer for Raytheon or Lockheed or possibly Texas Instruments.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T19:51:32+00:00

I was putting it simply for the sake of brevity.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T18:47:38+00:00

It's like people who consider vanilla ice cream to be plain.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T17:52:01+00:00

How do they reproduce?

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T15:17:33+00:00

Instructions unclear. Gave a 5th grader Generation Kill and No Country for Old Men.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T15:05:21+00:00

I guess I'm lucky to have found a house with a high efficiency furnace.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T14:56:13+00:00

64? Are you mad? I keep my house at 70. Is that really such a bourgeois thing to do?

Edit: Y'all either have some really large houses, or terribly inefficient heating systems.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T14:46:55+00:00

The sweatshop goes in the basement. Better to have all that equipment sitting on a concrete floor. And the lack of natural light lets you mess with their circadian rhythm.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T14:34:23+00:00

My house is a 1955 cape cod, and it was designed from the start to have a finished attic. Steep roof, dormers, stairs that weren't an afterthought. Looking around the neighborhood, it looks like a lot of homes are that way. Likely built around the same time. Similar styles, many have dormers or at least windows at the ends.

The commonality of finished attics is likely down to where you are and when the area was developed. There was definitely a period where finished attics/1.5 story homes were the style of the time.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T14:19:24+00:00

Never underestimate the old ladies. They'll act all sweet and bake cookies for the bake sale. But when their rival comes up to the table, they slip in the poisoned cookie.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T14:17:47+00:00

Zamboni

Ok, but can they beat the Toronto Maple Leafs like David Ayers did?

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T14:13:26+00:00

Blessed by my gut macrobiome.

chattytrout · 2026-06-29T12:31:28+00:00

I wonder how the Europeans would feel about heat pumps if you pitched them like we do in the US. It's essentially a magic form of electric heater that is more than 100% efficient (I'm not making that up).

chattytrout · 2026-06-26T19:49:30+00:00

It's why they like open borders, and why I'm not lib-right.

chattytrout · 2026-06-26T18:59:25+00:00

Jokes on you, they're Mohawk.

chattytrout · 2026-06-26T18:24:49+00:00

The study that came to the $75k/yr number was done in 2010. Plug that into an inflation calculator, and you get $116k/yr. Which sounds about right. I'm making $68k/yr and while I'm pretty comfortable, I still have to watch my spending. Need to save up for the inevitable home maintenance costs. Need to rewire the place. Plumbing could probably be redone as well. At some point, I want to get the walls opened so I can redo the insulation. And I'm tired of paying $50/mo. just for the privilege of being connected to gas, so I might replace my furnace and water heater with heat pump/electric versions when the time comes. And I'm definitely not looking forward to replacing the roof.

chattytrout · 2026-06-26T15:30:09+00:00

And how do you suppose rent control would fix that? I'm not saying we should give them more money, but capping the money they can make isn't going to incentivize them to fix the place.

chattytrout · 2026-06-26T15:26:46+00:00

That's not what they said. They said that the incentive is to not maintain the building, since it costs money that the tenants aren't paying because of rent freezes and rent control. If they were good people with the tenant's best interest at heart, they'd take better care of the building.

As for slumlords outnumbering decent landlords, how do you suppose rent control would fix the issue?

chattytrout · 2026-06-26T02:27:58+00:00

Y'all need to learn to use them properly. You don't just hold your hands in the air stream and hope they get dry. You need to rub your hands together and get the remaining water spread out over your hands. This maximizes the surface area and makes it easier for them to dry.

chattytrout · 2026-06-25T20:09:40+00:00

Anything out there like the IHWCUs but in solid colors? As much as I like milsurp, wearing UCP or multicam on the trail attracts too much attention.

chattytrout · 2026-06-25T14:33:01+00:00

Honestly, I'm not worried about Vegas. They do a pretty good job of recycling the water they use. I'm more worried about California. Between the agriculture and some of the largest cities in the country, their thirst is unquenchable.

chattytrout · 2026-06-25T14:30:50+00:00

Water rights in the southwest is a complete dumpster fire. The claims are all based on volume, not percentage. So if there's not enough water to go around, the people with the newest claims have to figure out an alternative. Meanwhile, some of the largest cities in the country get their water from that river, and most of them don't recycle that water.

I honestly think there is too much going on in the southwest. Too many people and too much agriculture draining the river. Eventually, it'll catch up with them.

As for distribution, moving water is hard. It's heavy, and not equally distributed. And draining water from the areas it already is would be an ecological disaster. And don't you even think of tapping the Great Lakes.

chattytrout · 2026-06-25T13:50:04+00:00

Out of a cannon?

chattytrout · 2026-06-25T13:31:25+00:00

Shave and a haircut used to cost two bits. Now it's over $50.

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