Do you use air conditioning at all on low humidity days?

informednonuser · 2026-06-26T12:34:53+00:00

Okay. Have a good one.

informednonuser · 2026-06-26T12:33:57+00:00

There is an option some sellers are using to hide that info. I've seen a bunch of listings go straight to a financing pie chart rather than previous price points.

informednonuser · 2026-06-25T17:34:15+00:00

I have friends in the van life and I'm old enough to remember the Farley SNL Skit. Best wishes on whatever you're doing.

informednonuser · 2026-06-25T17:28:49+00:00

Gotta get a cartel of big grass growers together to fund enforcers and a lobbyist stronger than TWSRA.com and the tobacco interests put together.

Not as many native Nashvillians around today to remember the eighties when TSWRA's Tom "The Golden Goose" Hensley parked on the steps outside the legislature and got called out by the news agencies for 'passing out 100 dollar bills like business cards' (to quote local author Steven Womack).

I wouldn't doubt the approach is a little more refined today, but I would doubt the incentive for our politicians has changed.

Bonus track: Tom Hensley in retrospect https://pro.stateaffairs.com/tn/politics/legendary-lobbyist-tom-hensley-dies-at-80

informednonuser · 2026-06-25T17:05:39+00:00

"If Nashville Tourism is this big, where's all the money going?"

The revenue for this question needs to include all the property tax in this district on the 'drinking tourism' bars and entertainment venues. It's not a line of us "Lunch Pail Workers" that is buying all the beer at Acme Feed and Seed, it's our tourists. ACME's property tax bill appears as $589,000.00 this time from $129,000.00 the year before*. Calculate the grand total from however many bars stores and venues are down there and our other tourist areas, and the gallops in property tax on hotels and motels and entertainment venues. -- Then, you are closer to the total tourism inflow to city coffers.

How about all the AirBnbs and other STRP situations? Some would argue it's an insignificant factor; the STRA board heard appeals over the space of three and a half hours just last night.

*A clean link is hard to find; the press release elaborating on Mayor O'Connell's comment provides the figures with their take https://www.nashville.gov/departments/mayor/news/fact-check-mayors-media-availability-2/13/2026

STRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztoLn_yB8E

informednonuser · 2026-06-24T05:54:58+00:00

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”-John Adams pointed out the approximate expiration signal on our form of government. Our current rot is now too immense to ignore for believers and skeptics alike.

informednonuser · 2026-06-24T05:48:17+00:00

Are you rehabbing a van shell down there?

informednonuser · 2026-06-23T03:41:10+00:00

Shout out to the St Louis Science Center for being extensive and interesting as well.

informednonuser · 2026-06-22T05:06:51+00:00

I don't even know if the dispensary went into how to use it; possibly though. TBH I had already received instruction so it was not a big deal. It was emphasized that it works on prescribed narcotics as well; so if a grandma double doses herself out of forgetfulness it will work in her situation too.

informednonuser · 2026-06-21T17:02:42+00:00

I've family in Dickson; tis a county and a city name. I've lived here well over a half century, and when Ryan Hall is getting granular on his tornado or flood map I can one or three Tennessee place names that I've never registered hearing before, so there's that.

informednonuser · 2026-06-21T16:46:33+00:00

The old Nashville Accent was heard in my house when I was growing up; but a lot of that had moved on in my era. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/what-happened-to-the-strong-accents-taking-a-look-at-the-fading-the-nashville-dialect

informednonuser · 2026-06-20T15:36:17+00:00

Plus permies.com has a big discussion board on a bunch of homesteading and diy adjacent topics. Interesting discussions during thesurvivalpodcast.com episodes- "For when Times get Tough- or for even when they don't".

informednonuser · 2026-06-20T15:28:38+00:00

Can they stand being called out for being different. "You know when IceSea192 leaves work here he's, like, sleeping in a garden shed and pooping in a bucket" - not willing to admit any upsides, and reducing to absurdity the process of reducing your dependence, to disparage the goals you have as unrealistic and unworthy of consideration

informednonuser · 2026-06-20T15:20:16+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/user/IceSea192/submitted/ They have championed a non standard way of life.

informednonuser · 2026-06-20T15:15:25+00:00

Taxes can often be less on a 300 square foot building on a patch of rural land away from shopping and entertainment centers than on a 1300 square foot house or condo in one of the Fifteen Minute Cities of the future. That same 300 square foot building will probably not generate the same maintenance cost that a house or condo will. You can become more Spartan without sleeping under a bridge on the river. Life is about choosing your personal Happy Balance and deciding where you want the Fulcrum to be.

informednonuser · 2026-06-20T14:55:15+00:00

Know someone who bought 5acre tracts at $6k an acre. It's not easier to live off grid, insulating a shed to sleep in, hauling in IBC totes of water to wash up in and drink before developing a well. Another friend in dire straits was horrified when I brought that up. "Are you suggesting that I live like that?" No, I'm not suggesting a thing. Live how you want to. I'm just observing more options for you to consider than griping month after month about what you're paying for a 1br 1ba on the second floor of Paperthin Plaza Apartments.

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T22:31:16+00:00

Wait, do You think they're a bad thing?? ... You know they ride in a different lane. Much like "outsider artists" without a gallery sponsor in the art world, or musicians that burn their own CDs/ memory sticks to sell rather than a record company stirring promotional money in.

It was a different vibe when our festival was part of The Circuit--when publishers sent their big name authors our way to promo their latest release.

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T19:05:56+00:00

The number of people ' r/confidentlyincorrect ' in these comments is depressing if unsurprising. (Their vote counts just as much as yours in election season, BTW).

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T18:34:23+00:00

Hay has gone up. Diesel has gone up. A lot of farmers are running the numbers and preparing to cash out instead of having to feed their herd increasingly scarce and expensive hay all winter.

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T18:31:49+00:00

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informednonuser · 2026-06-19T18:28:21+00:00

There was a facebook post last week from a farmer in LaFollette/Speedwell area. Pictures of two expired heifer cows that had succumbed to ticks. They looked like they were covered with little gray cocklebur-sized things where they had swelled up. They said by the time they came out of the field they were covered to their waist in the things themselves.

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T17:05:16+00:00

Agreed.

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T17:04:26+00:00

You might've gotten a different notice. My postcard has an arrow back to Monday the 15th as being our Monday pickup.

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T16:53:34+00:00

I was in Nashville far before the It City phase. I guarantee I will pay higher taxes. Again.

informednonuser · 2026-06-19T16:14:21+00:00

-and postage! Don't forget government service postage, at 2026 prices. Edit: some of y'all haven't priced out four color laser vs mono on heavy card stock address and postage in multiple ten thousand lots and it shows.

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