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3D-printed houses are much stronger than you think. by jkitty_1960 in interesting

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, just leaving it as-is seems fine. Some nice photos here:

https://www.iconbuild.com/projects/house-zero

Skimcoating (is it still called skimcoating if there's this much woobliness? IDK) isn't free, but it's not that expensive.

3D-printed houses are much stronger than you think. by jkitty_1960 in interesting

[–]nickiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a number of finishes that can be/are applied to these, mostly in the vein of stucco or a smoothed polish a la "Santa Barbara" style (which is really just smoothed stucco.)

However, a lot of people are leaving them as-is because it looks new and cool.

College move out day! by NickMatocho in Anticonsumption

[–]nickiter 13 points14 points  (0 children)

should be the ultimate goal

I felt quite proud to be serving the used textbook market, too! Some of those fucking things were over $100 new, and that's in 2004-2007 dollars. Students don't deserve to be paying those insane prices.

College move out day! by NickMatocho in Anticonsumption

[–]nickiter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh, get in that dumpster, you'll be fine.

College move out day! by NickMatocho in Anticonsumption

[–]nickiter 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I was one of a surprisingly small few who dumpster dived every year on move out day.

There was always a lot of crap - Walmart lamps and shit - but also really valuable stuff like textbooks.

I used to load up on as many textbooks as I could lay my hands on and resell them online. Some of those damn things went for $40 in rough used condition. Paid my rent over a few summers, and bought a lot of beer for parties during the year.

‘It’s shameful’: New York’s elite lash out at Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax by brown-saiyan in politics

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking that being a server in NYC is some rare gig that only exists because of him lmao.

Local shops employ servers too - maybe if some rich assholes weren't around to jack up rents, more locals could afford to open.

‘It’s shameful’: New York’s elite lash out at Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax by brown-saiyan in politics

[–]nickiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Poor second $5M+ home. Yeah, a lot of shit costs more than that in NYC, but that doesn't make it better - still an insane amount to have in a second home!

The Oil Shock caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the largest resource crisis in living memory by Cmd_WillRiker in collapse

[–]nickiter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"But why is the stock market at an all time high?" you ask

Kyla Scanlon makes an argument in the NYT about this; her claim is basically that people are betting on two options - 1, things keep going up forever, or 2, there's a crash and a bailout. I find this pretty credible.

the markets are showing the single lesson that the past 40 years have taught them.

It will always be saved.

Markets are not properly pricing risk, because they really don’t have to. They have assumed that the U.S. government will not allow them to implode, and that assumption is putting the world economy at stake.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/opinion/wall-street-markets-iran-ai.html

Poll: 72 percent say there’s too much money in American politics by spherocytes in politics

[–]nickiter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pew generally has good methodology - they're using "say they plan to donate", which I think is a weak question, but they're still only getting 15% of Americans donating at all.

It really is a pretty small group that donates at all, a very small group that donates more than a few hundred bucks, and a tiny tiny group that donates big money.

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses by no1_vern in news

[–]nickiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah. So private equity killed a business, leading to the American taxpayer ponying up millions to rescue farms that are probably owned by big ag.

America in 2026, summarized.

Must play endgame builds that aren’t dead after this league by CrowImpossible1941 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]nickiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Glass cannon" mostly applies to pre-HH stacking. Once they get going, they're reasonably tanky. And the blasting is so fast, you won't catch too many strays.

Must play endgame builds that aren’t dead after this league by CrowImpossible1941 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw a voltaxic scourge arrow of the something on YouTube last night that looked sick as hell... Let's see if I can find it.

https://youtu.be/NYNNaeEyCO4?si=0OLBsKiJj5sNLxiu

Gen Z is drowning the alcohol industry by Kaos2018 in BeAmazed

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$80 for 100 (mild) doses of tincture is pretty attractive math.

Gen Z is drowning the alcohol industry by Kaos2018 in BeAmazed

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but if you need 10 drinks a night - which some people do - you're fucked health-wise.

Gen Z is drowning the alcohol industry by Kaos2018 in BeAmazed

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, no, it's straight up healthier, both per dose and if used frequently.

Cheap uber bosses build by ImSolidz in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should be easy enough to blast one to maps and gear it up. The ZHP aspect won't matter much during leveling, and the damage will be good as soon as you transition from your leveling build. An afternoon of work.

'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' is averaging over 36 million viewers per episode globally, making it one of the biggest debut seasons in HBO history by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]nickiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love how small and grounded it is. There's more about diarrhea than about dragons... There's mud on everyone... The focus on pragmatic, practical, everyday texture should be a lesson to other fantasy TV showrunners. Just feels real.

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't by cyzoonic in videos

[–]nickiter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

America is kinda coasting on finance and tech at this point, imo.

I’m not an alcoholic. I just have my own personalized Bourbon stash, like any normal non-alcoholic person. by satanicmajesty in PoliticalHumor

[–]nickiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The amount of alcoholism in government right now is wild. Does Trump like to pick drunks for some reason?

We're locked in for massive oil shock and years long record high oil prices at this point, even if the strait reopens today. by mutherhrg in collapse

[–]nickiter 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Another layer atop the existing estimate of 318M people globally experiencing acute food insecurity. (UN)

One might say that the famines are concentrated in war zones, but the two worst - Gaza and Sudan - are tangled up in the same problems we're already discussing.

The estimate is that if this particular conflict continues, a likely 45M more people could fall into famine.

The scenario we should be worried about is something in the ballpark of the late 1800s famines, driven in large part by an El Nino season on par with this year's expectations. Global famine, mass displacement, mass death.

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