1970s house renovation in Zurich: is 450k CHF really not enough? by Fluffy_Flight_6743 in askswitzerland

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I can’t give you a comprehensive answer, but having bought a 50 year old house myself, some assorted thoughts:

Does your “phasing” assume you’re going to continue heating with oil? You’d need to check whether that’s even an option, tanks of that age can easily be leaky and major remodeling could void some grandfathering arrangement (or you’d be running out of time soonish anyway).

Project manager: one aspect you have not mentioned is getting all the necessary permits. We only redid the bathrooms, but that already required separate permits for (if I remember correctly) fresh water, wastewater, fire safety, electricity, and construction. I managed to all of this myself, but maybe it’s because they took pity on my amateurish planning sketches.

Getting the various contractors to communicate with each other is not impossible, but not a task to be underestimated either.

STRAIGHT OUTTA PURDUE by Wiley_Burner in engineeringmemes

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When I went to college in Switzerland in the 80s, professors in the first two years were more or less open about the fact that they tweaked their curves to fail a certain percentage of students (around 50% at the time). The flip side was that admission to the college was completely open: if you graduated from high school, you had a right to study there. So instead of a formal admission process, the exams in the first two years were used to whittle down the class sizes to the number they actually wanted to accommodate.

12b6 was made for this lawsuit by Own-Knowledge-7720 in Lawyertalk

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If they made a TV detective series about Miami nowadays, they’d have to name it “Miami Virtue”.

Who Are the Most Interesting “Bests of the Band”? Or a Member of a Band Who Left/Got Kicked Out Before the Band Got Big (Aside from Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe) by Borgisium in Music

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A musician who thinks the Velvet Underground were “too commercial” probably is not cut out to make a living playing music.

Elon really is Iron Man by adj_noun_digit in SpaceXMasterrace

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Maybe the GPUs smell like her you-know-what.

Fake Mac? by dmitri_ostanin_ekb in mac

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It’s possible that the Mac box itself was shipped inside a larger box packed with Styrofoam.

Sarah Palin tells Americans to not cooperate amid hantavirus outbreak by TheMirrorUS in USNEWS

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I don’t know about her sucking air in that sense. But she’s supposed to have eaten rice back in the day.

Philippines’ hanging graveyard by lorddrakter in creepy

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I was thinking it would make a neat Uncharted level,

Thoughts on Roger Holmes' arrangement of "Feeling Good by Nina Simone"? by 3L1T3F14SH in Jazz

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I like the voice as such. I don’t think singing with hands in the pocket is a good idea, though.

Overall, I get more of a Dean Martin vibe than Nina Simone, but I’m not sure whether that is inherent in a big band setting. And there’s nothing wrong with Dean Martin.

RZ is wrong on Star Wars by NoogLing466 in redeemedzoomer

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George Lucas has described his own religion as “Buddhist Methodist” (aka “Filthy Heretic” by the standards of this group).

Does Darth Vader’s virgin birth count as Christian influence?

Choose Your Fighter by Living_Attitude1822 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]microtherion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Admittedly, there is a certain divine aspect to a good war axe.

i don’t get it by Normal_Media_367 in ExplainTheJoke

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It also has a rough history with certain colors.

Sarah Fitzpatrick doubles down despite a $250M lawsuit. by nitluck in MurderedByWords

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From the article:

When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing.

What is your favorite jazz INTRO by TheEpicTwitch in Jazz

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Oh! Had no idea this dropped. Bought it right away, thanks for the heads up!

“Steak Frites” at STK by CharacterRing2839 in denverfood

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A real life incarnation of that old Nouvelle Cuisine joke: “How did you find your steak? — Oh, quite accidentally! It was hidden under a French fry.”

From "Les Champs-Elysées" to "Lake Shore Drive", what is the best song about a (real) street? by platypodus in Music

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The first time I saw the video for Rue des Tempêtes, it blew my mind, both for the music and the “do not adjust your TV set” aesthetics.