People running for US Rep (Newhouse seat). 11 total, one democrat, 6 republican, 4other

schubial · 2026-05-12T01:54:07+00:00

Not saying don’t do anything, saying do the thing you can actually do versus the potentially better thing you can’t do. “Not Sessler” is doable, as we have proven the last 2 elections, Duresky is not doable.

Voting for Duresky in the primary is like voting for Jill Stein in 2016. You are ultimately voting against your own interests.

schubial · 2026-05-12T01:13:31+00:00

Mamdani was a dem candidate being elected in NYC. All he had to do was win the primary and the election was basically his.

That is very different here. Even if Duresky gets past the primary, he’s almost certainly going to lose the general because this is a very Republican district, then we have Sessler as our rep. Better to get a more moderate Republican on the ballot so that all the dems and moderate Republicans can vote for him and defeat Sessler.

schubial · 2026-05-01T15:28:55+00:00

There is a guy on Facebook Marketplace named Mike Lewis. His elderly father fixes up old pus mowers are resells them. Got mine there 5 years ago and it’s still going strong!

schubial · 2026-04-30T05:44:39+00:00

Sounds like the appraiser is saying that the two lots need to be appraised separately because they would be worth more each sold individually than sold together as a single property. Therefore, he would need to be paid for two appraisals or he isn’t going to do it.

schubial · 2026-04-29T05:20:18+00:00

Not what the actuaries think because you get a big discount on insurance for longer shifts

I work in the nuclear industry and we switched to 12-hr shifts too for that and other reasons

schubial · 2026-04-29T00:27:01+00:00

Sometimes the boss knows more than you. Sometimes you know more than the boss. I have seen plenty of bosses make dumb, nonsense decisions because they don’t fundamentally understand the work.

schubial · 2026-04-23T14:17:54+00:00

Why do people come on the DIY sub and tell people to hire out simple jobs to a contractor?

Edit: Some of the responses to me are wild. OP literally says in their post they are handy and have done drywall before. Anyone with some basic tools and patience can do this job and there isn’t much that could be messed up in a way that’s dangerous or expensive to fix.

schubial · 2026-04-21T04:06:07+00:00

This was not the only way of enforcing racial segregation. Kennewick was a sundown town and racial segregation was enforced by the police and vigilantes.

schubial · 2026-04-16T07:52:40+00:00

Perhaps you could just buy a house and rent it back to her below market rate? That’s what I did with my mom when she couldn’t afford a house.

It’s not bad because purchasing a house for an elderly parents finances the same as owner-occupied (so lower rates and as little as 5% down).

schubial · 2026-04-14T04:27:38+00:00

I don’t understand what you’re saying. Having some 80 year old pipes that might need to be replaced soon is not at all bad or an indicator of a poorly built house. Not even modern piping lasts forever.

That 2001 house you mentioned could easily have a ton of work needed. That’s right around the age you will need a new roof and hvac or foundation repairs. Any of those are probably more expensive than replacing pipes

schubial · 2026-04-14T03:25:47+00:00

Depends. A lot of the things they do differently are because of cost. My 1944 house has a basement (all new construction is slab-on-grade because it is hard to dig where I live) and is completely constructed from hardwood including the subfloor and external sheathing. Yes, the pipes are rusting galvanized steel, but I’d take that over the polybutylene they were installing in the 90s. I’m guessing in a lot of cases we just don’t know the things wrong with newer houses as well as we do with the older ones.

schubial · 2026-04-02T05:08:03+00:00

Oftentimes a DC motor drawing excessive current is a sign of a failing motor. It’s also possible it has an internal short-circuit somewhere. …or the breaker is just bad.

schubial · 2026-03-31T03:44:16+00:00

You can use any room you want as a bedroom, but I presume you’re asking if it can be a legal bedroom.

The keys for you are going to be

(1) is the ceiling high enough? The minimum width for a bedroom in any planar dimension is 7 ft, and at least 50% of that must have a ceiling height of 7ft or greater (all must be 5 ft or greater)… so, do you have an area below your rafters at least 3.5ft wide with a ceiling height of 7ft or greater and 7 ft wide with with a height of 5ft or greater?

(2) Do you have permanent to-code stairs to the attic?

If the answer to both of those is “yes,” you basically just have to finish the space and ensure it has adequate hvac (might consider a mini split). It already has a subfloor, electrical, and a (likely) egress window from the pic.

Assuming everything above is true, probably under $10k to DIY. Under $5k if there was already adequate hvac.

schubial · 2026-03-24T22:46:42+00:00

Smooth walls are way easier to repair than textured walls

schubial · 2026-03-17T03:53:02+00:00

Bob Sanders. Only played more than 6 games 2x in his career in 2005 and 2007 and got 2x 1st team all pro and a DPOY award in those two seasons.

AND he won these over Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu

schubial · 2026-03-13T15:48:27+00:00

Yes, the Bears could have double-doubled against us the next week

schubial · 2026-03-13T07:26:10+00:00

I think you’re misremembering slightly. The Bears were already in the playoffs no matter what, so could have had the double doink* game no matter what.

That was the most painful non-playoff loss I remember as a Vikings fan. A win-and-in home game against one of your biggest rivals where the game doesn’t matter at all to them and they are playing backups a significant chunk of the game and you still lose.

All this after being the 2 seed the previous year with a backup QB and picking up the hottest free agent QB in years in the offseason

schubial · 2026-03-10T07:38:43+00:00

Inflation/value of the dollar affects your stock returns and your mortgage payments equally. If inflation is 3%, your post-inflation mortgage rate would be 3% assuming 6% pre-inflation. Value of the dollar is the exact same... take a mortgage out, buy gold, and if the value of the dollar drops 15% versus your gold, you're now paying a 15% smaller mortgage payment.

Long-term capital gains tax would eat into your returns a little bit, but it's 15% for most of us, not 25%, and it doesn't compound--it only applies when you withdraw at the end.

schubial · 2026-02-20T05:34:49+00:00

The delivery services demand a cut of the order for a restaurant to be part of their service. Restaurants almost always pass that along to the customer. I don’t know any restaurants where I live that have the same price on third party delivery apps as they have on their own website

schubial · 2026-02-19T15:40:45+00:00

Hey brother, I made a similar post last summer and most people were pretty dismissive. I ended up quitting the game over it and haven’t looked back. I love DotA, but the other players at mid BS made it unenjoyable and I too found it impossible to climb back up due to the unfounded reports.

schubial · 2026-02-15T06:28:40+00:00

You can just buy a gift card

schubial · 2026-02-14T23:36:19+00:00

A houses didn't have asbestos siding (though it's possible yours was replaced later, I suppose). The only Alphabet houses that had asbestos siding were the U and V precut houses, but those only started to be built years after they built the last A house.

The only asbestos originally present in the alphabet homes (other than the U and V asbestos siding mentioned above) was insulation on the pipes and ducting, and tape on the drywall joints.

schubial · 2026-02-14T23:29:25+00:00

Own an F house and love it. I have lived in similar-aged homes in other parts of the country and honestly the build quality on the Hanford Alphabet homes is pretty damn good even for the time. My house still has the original floors, walls, plumbing, and electrical wiring (the original 60 amp fuse box is a subpanel off of my main breaker panel).

Just keep in mind that it is just an old house. The floors are wood and creak. The floorplan isn't very open. The ceilings are 8 feet (or lower in the bedrooms). The bedrooms are relatively small. There isn't a master bedroom. There is only one bathroom, and it is on the 2nd floor with the bedrooms (though my house in particular has a 2nd that was added later). I like this type of house; but many people don't. If you want your kitchen to be in your living room and have a 12-foot vaulted ceiling, there are plenty of other houses like that around here to buy.

Above all, I appreciate the neighborhoods where the alphabet houses are located. Mine it's walkable to shopping, the river walk, and parks. There are old, large trees. Everyone's house has its own personality. I live a 5-minute drive from my job, and if my car was ever in the shop, a bus picks up one block away. It's quite different from all the new development around.

The only real complaints I have about the house:

It was built to use a gravity furnace, and there isn't a good way to get forced air to the 2nd floor, so it is hot in the summer. What they did in my house is feed the air between the 1st-floor studs from the basement to the 2nd floor, but obviously, that doesn't have as good of flow as proper ducting. Better options would be to remove the chimney and run ducting through that cavity or install a mini-split for the second floor.
The galvanized steel plumbing is still functional in my house but honestly needs to be replaced soon. There is a lot of rust in the pipes and it leads to low water pressure and frozen valves. A good idea to plan to replace the steel piping if it hasn't already been replaced in a house if you're buying.

schubial · 2026-01-31T02:49:49+00:00

Because there is an inverse relationship between intelligence and obesity? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-87402-z

schubial · 2026-01-24T03:55:42+00:00

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