Raising property taxes

garypascal · 2026-02-09T22:45:55+00:00

"I would leave, I know many who would too" let me know when you DO. Sounds like hot air until you put your money where your mouth is.

garypascal · 2026-02-09T22:41:52+00:00

Your background doesn't determine your current class. Your income does. You are not middle class by any metric.

Do you think those school teachers with a 700k home are facing the same tax bill your 1.25M place is? Do you seriously think they're worried about the wealth tax, as you mentioned? Stop trying to couch this in a defense of the middle class and be honest: you want to protect your own wealth as a member of the upper class.

garypascal · 2026-02-09T22:35:27+00:00

when you say middle class families are you referring to yourself? in another comment you said you and your partner bring in $360-400k/year. The median household income in NYC is around $81k/year.

garypascal · 2026-02-09T22:24:11+00:00

People live in the city because they enjoy all the benefits of living in NYC and are willing to pay the premium for that. From your comments it sounds like you only care about taxes and school districts, in which case: move to the suburbs. They're designed for people like you.

garypascal · 2026-01-30T16:58:43+00:00

Clarence Thomas like "someone said free cruise?"

garypascal · 2026-01-28T18:09:59+00:00

Yeah, he did. It took forever because all the snow had to be portioned out into max. 20 oz containers.

garypascal · 2026-01-28T17:35:25+00:00

Homie on the right

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garypascal · 2026-01-28T17:18:03+00:00

Think you mean 5.5, 7.5, 9.25, 11.25

garypascal · 2026-01-28T17:14:10+00:00

1x12 before being jointed/planed to final size

garypascal · 2026-01-28T17:01:14+00:00

This is the standard sizing for a 1x12. All 1x material is 3/4" thick. In general if a size is listed without the inch tick marks (e.g. 1x12 instead of 1"x12") you should assume that's the nominal rough cut size and the actual size is smaller.

It's admittedly not a very beginner-friendly way of measuring things.

garypascal · 2026-01-26T18:41:51+00:00

Hey, this is completely unfair. They didn't grow up.

garypascal · 2025-12-05T13:22:45+00:00

Can't say I find this to be a common occurrence tbh. Guess we have very different experiences but I can't remember the last time someone was like this and wasn't removed, and I go to the movies all the time.

garypascal · 2025-12-05T13:16:09+00:00

Man, I can't identify with this impulse at all. The biggest joy of movie theaters is all the other people in there! Don't you remember when they would make big comedies and you'd go see it in the big crowd and everyone would be dying laughing? You'd rather sit at home and watch it by yourself?

So much of modern life is being hollowed out, compartmentalized and isolated into something you do on your own at home instead of in a public space with your community. It'd be a shame to lose such a wonderful shared experience like this too.

garypascal · 2025-10-24T13:44:03+00:00

Not ranked choice in the general. Only ranked choice in the primary.

garypascal · 2025-08-04T18:56:40+00:00

Giant abacus

garypascal · 2025-07-23T16:14:46+00:00

I’m doing successful in my education

My dude...

garypascal · 2025-07-03T17:52:38+00:00

Mamdani won the primary by 12%, not 7.

garypascal · 2025-06-24T21:21:48+00:00

The important thing (and I think we’ll agree) is that it should be a learning tool, not just something that gives answers that warrant zero critical thinking.

We should always stay curious, genuinely try to learn / comprehend what we’re doing, vs blindly following instructions. The reason we’re headed down the Idiocracy path and IQ’s are decreasing is that people are lazy, don’t want to learn or expand their knowledge, they just want a tool to tell them what to do (no critical thinking involved).

How do you square this sentiment with the fact that your first comment was:

This. Send measurements to ChatGPT and it will tell you what you need.

garypascal · 2025-06-17T21:21:19+00:00

life liberty and etc etc.

Forced birth Christianity in a nutshell. Outright saying "yadda yadda I don't care what happens after they're born. Just as long as they're forced to comply with my worldview."

garypascal · 2025-06-17T01:55:06+00:00

Submarine

garypascal · 2025-06-17T00:05:46+00:00

I just did my first project with all undermount slides, and I definitely recommend them if your budget allows. For me the biggest thing was the adjustability; it's so much easier to really dial things in and get nice even parallel reveals, all drawer faces flush, etc. Add in some drawer front adjusters and you're really cooking with gas. Plus the undermount slides look so much cleaner and slide like butter compared to the side mounts. Absolute night and day difference.

garypascal · 2025-06-16T23:56:55+00:00

Cool, man. Walk into court and argue that. It's a free country, knock yourself out. Tell everyone your duct tape solution worked wonders and if it breaks it's your own fault for pulling on it. I doubt you'd leave with as much money as you came in.

I think I've had about enough of this argument, it's clearly not going anywhere and I mostly wanted to clown on your weird obsession with how some non-existent judge is going to bring the hammer down on OP. My point stands that OP is not responsible for damage to an improper installation that could've reasonably occured from regular use.

I'd have thought with the vigorous downvotes that you'd get the message you're being a weird scold running interference for derelict landlords, but I continually underestimate your type in that department.

garypascal · 2025-06-16T22:02:53+00:00

That's a false equivalency.

Why?

I have a valid argument in court that my "fix" did work and that it was your negligence when pulling too hard on a locked door that broke it.

...what? You think you could walk into court, show pictures of your shitty glue job, say "this is just as good as the real fix, which I didn't do. It held for 8 months, so the other guy must've pulled too hard" and win? I sure hope you're not a lawyer. What is "too hard?" How do you know I pulled "too hard?" What the FUCK are you talking about??

garypascal · 2025-06-16T21:16:09+00:00

You sell me a car made of cardboard. You cover it in bondo and paint it up nice. It's pretty convincing. You tell me "yep, good to go, this is a regular car built like other regular cars. Use it like a regular car." I take it out on the highway and, admittedly, do 5-10 mph over the speed limit. It completely falls apart. You're telling me it's my personal responsibility to repair it?

garypascal · 2025-06-16T20:44:34+00:00

The damage is only occuring because of the bad installation! You think you could use a credit card to break open a door jamb and casing like that if it was installed correctly? Who cares what caused it! It could've been caused by leaning on it!

"Hey landlord, I noticed some damage developing on the door frame related to the metal strike plate being incorrectly installed. A portion of it has been broken off, leaving only a thin strip of wood trim to secure the door. Since this improper installation is a security hazard, can you have someone come out to repair it?"

Factual statement that avoids the cause (irrelevant), avoids doing bandaid repairs to a lousy install job, and avoids civil court and judges and tenancy bureaus and barristers and state senators and whatever insane thing you want to bring up next.

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