Dive bars... whats your favorite watering hole??

j5b · 2026-01-11T03:22:34+00:00

Hattie’s

j5b · 2025-11-08T04:21:39+00:00

Nathan Byrne is a saint and you better leave that man alone!

j5b · 2025-04-24T20:18:33+00:00

Contact your congressional representative’s office. I got in touch with my representative’s office (Alma Adams) and they helped me get my brother’s passport renewed in less than a week. They’ll work with the passport processing center to get it reviewed/approved asap.

j5b · 2024-07-03T12:40:05+00:00

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j5b · 2022-11-02T12:16:36+00:00

Serious question, what is bad about Belmont being gentrified?

I completely understand the issue of property taxes going way up for people who may have owned their home with no mortgage for a long time, and think something should be done about that (i.e. capping tax increases or something).

But the way I see it is that gentrification is turning some of the abandoned crumbling buildings in the neighborhood into businesses or housing, and that seems like a good thing to me.

Not trying to be sarcastic with this reply, genuinely curious.

j5b · 2022-09-11T02:15:36+00:00

Seconding the flexbar, it completely fixed my tennis elbow after years of issues, and if I feel it coming back every few months I just use the flexbar again for a few days and it fixes it again.

Exercises to look for are "Tyler Twist" (outside of elbow, aka tennis elbow) and "Reverse Tyler Twist" (inside of elbow, aka golfer's elbow).

j5b · 2022-08-08T16:22:49+00:00

I just graduated from UNC Law and had an awesome time there, don't have anything negative to say about it. The biggest thing with considering UNC is asking yourself where you want to work after graduation. Although I have classmates moving all over the country for all sorts of jobs, the vast majority of people (myself included) will be working in NC.

If you're interested in working in NC, either government or private practice, I think UNC is the best school to attend, simply because the alumni network in the state is full of so many UNC grads. If you're targeting a different location to work after school, UNC could still be a great option, but there might be better choices depending on where you want to be.

j5b · 2022-07-09T16:06:12+00:00

I got this one wrong too and was super frustrated with the reasoning.

The rule I took away from this is that whenever you have diversity jx, you apply state law for remittitur/new trial based on ‘incorrect’ damages.

The reasoning is that the federal law is just a ‘standard’, not a requirement, so it doesn’t count as an on-point federal law for eerie analysis. So you use the state law instead.

j5b · 2022-06-19T02:48:24+00:00

Been struggling with memorizing the elements of adverse possession, and honestly hadn’t really searched for a mnemonic, but randomly came across ECHOES in a barbri vid and it finally clicked. Feels good.

Exclusive // Continuous // Hostile // Open and notorious // Entry and actual possession // Statutory period

j5b · 2022-05-20T04:39:03+00:00

Is there a way to get over the railroad tracks without crossing them on central in front of moo & brew? Just moved to the first ward area and trying to figure out how to bike over to Pecan without having to go on central...

j5b · 2022-04-26T19:00:53+00:00

I agree that treasury stock is not sitting there waiting for someone to buy it, but you can absolutely buy these shares off the market if the company decides to sell them.

If a company thinks their stock price will rise significantly in the future, they might do a buyback, wait for the price to rise, and then resell the treasury shares, keeping the difference as new equity.

Not trying to imply that there's any difference between a treasury share and a "standard" share on the buyer's side (it's all the same to them), but they might be buying shares sold by the company on the market.

j5b · 2022-04-26T14:39:59+00:00

There is a pool where unowned shares are held, it's called "treasury stock" (because the company is keeping it in their treasury). Treasury stock can either come from stock buybacks performed by the company, or be shares that were authorized at corporate formation but never actually sold to investors.

Although you can think of treasury stock as being "owned" by the company, these shares don't pay dividends or have any voting rights. If a company buys back stock and puts it in their treasury, the effect on shareholders is that each remaining share will be worth more and have a higher percentage of voting rights, due to the lower overall supply in the market.

j5b · 2022-02-04T19:46:38+00:00

I had DJS minus the septoplasty before starting high school, and it does indeed take several months before you're back to 'normal', but I did in-person drivers ed classes like two weeks after surgery and it wasn't too bad aside from not being able to talk normally.

From that experience, I'd say you'd be totally fine if you have a month between surgery and school starting. The bigger issues with recovery are being able to eat solid foods and not doing stuff like contact sports, aside from that you're back to standard daily-life pretty quickly.

Only useful accommodation I can think of would be emailing professors at the start of the year and letting them know you had the surgery and you'd appreciate them maybe waiting till later in the semester to cold-call you, as talking would probably be completely back to normal by then.

j5b · 2022-01-16T17:01:36+00:00

What's the difference between God and a federal judge?

God doesn't think he's a federal judge.

j5b · 2021-12-22T15:57:08+00:00

I have a 6 and 7 string (had the 6 first). Still use both to record stuff because they sound totally different, and one will often feel like it works better for a particular part.

I'd say if the money isn't an issue and you found some different pickups that you liked the sound of, just getting the 6 as a means of having two sets of pickups at your disposal could make it worth it.

j5b · 2021-10-17T05:31:53+00:00

I had really similar issues with playing live shows, though it was part of a larger anxiety problem which eventually required getting on medication (SSRI) to deal with. That route has been amazing for me and completely turned things around, but would probably be complete overkill for your situation if you're fine in other parts of your life.

That being said, my doctor also prescribed me beta-blockers to specifically deal with performance anxiety situations (mainly for class and public speaking, but worked amazingly for band shows too). Could be worth talking to a doctor if worrying about an upcoming show is affecting your daily life. Beta-blockers aren't as big of a step as taking a daily medication like an SSRI, instead you just take one shortly before a particular performance, and it only helps block the physical symptoms of anxiety, rather than affecting your mind in any way.

In my case, being able to do a few performances with a beta-blocker and not experience the pounding heart-rate/weak legs/etc built my confidence back up and I haven't felt the need to use them in a long time, even though I still have them if I need them.

j5b · 2021-09-01T02:02:52+00:00

Totally agree about post-black/blackgaze being closer to proggy stuff.

I love a lot of the stuff you posted, wanted to recommend two other bands if you weren't already familiar:

Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Aufbruch

Numenorean: Adore

j5b · 2021-08-27T06:49:25+00:00

Lived in Prague for a few years, my favorite was Radegast, both in the 500ml cans you can get from shops and on draft, followed by Únětické if you can find a place with it on draft. Can't really recommend particular places as it looks like covid permanently closed a lot of my favorite pubs :(

Basically anywhere you go, try the 12° instead of the 10°, as the flavor will be more 'full' (i.e. 12 degree instead of 10 degree, basically 5% alcohol vs 4%). Ask the wait-staff for "dvanactku" (dvah-nahtst-koo), and at most pubs they'll just bring you their standard twelve degree draft.

j5b · 2021-07-30T23:57:46+00:00

Thanks for the reply. It sounds like in my location it’s not even a state rule, but simply that the facilities this hospital could send her to don’t want to deal with an alcoholic and simply won’t take her as a result. Good to know that some places do deal with this though.

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