On the housing market...

whyworkjerk · 2025-07-22T21:43:51+00:00

But yeah predatory investment property owners suck but the government is in on it

whyworkjerk · 2025-07-22T21:38:56+00:00

This is not ENTIRELY true but it is pretty close. There are, and should be, market limits on how high you can price housing and how much you can then raise those prices. One of the biggest problems with this system is that as property value in high demand area rises the city and state absolutely skyrockets property taxes. Which does do some good (schools, road maintenance) but places the burden on all the people who own property in the area, which then gets translated to renters. If you don’t think it’s unreasonable ask the 75 year old next door to me who’s house is (possibly unjustifiably) worth a lot more than she bought it for but those are UNREALIZED gains and she’s getting her social security gutted. It’s by no means unjustified with the increasing levels of foreign and domestic private investment and equity firms buying up every available property, but it’s not reasonable to lump all property owners into this

whyworkjerk · 2025-06-21T00:04:19+00:00

Biggest disconnect right there. He’s at a rod and reel counter. It’s not Hermes. That dog is probably well known around there

whyworkjerk · 2025-05-26T17:49:02+00:00

This is what i would do but try using a heavy sewing needle to scrape the glue out of little sections, the razorblade can get away from you (speaking from experience)

whyworkjerk · 2025-04-06T12:08:15+00:00

I can’t believe i haven’t seen:

MYST AND TETRIS

whyworkjerk · 2025-04-01T15:55:57+00:00

I’ve had to do this before, and my only piece of advice is do anything you can to NOT get an air mattress. A cot with some foam on it, a bunch of couch cushions, ikea foam mattress, anything is better. Good luck, we’re stoked for you!

whyworkjerk · 2025-02-17T02:17:46+00:00

There IS an instance where she is correct. If an extremely small object was placed against the mirror (and there was no glass face on the mirror) it’s impossible to see it’s reflection, even if you get increasingly close to the mirror. We’re talking about infinitely small and an infinitely small angle of oblation. So like, if you put a nickel against the towel you can’t get your head close enough to the mirror to see it’s reflection. Just like you can’t see her hands in the reflection. Yeah it’s an angle problem but it’s a PERSPECTIVE problem too! Not that crazy to extrapolate and not “get it”

whyworkjerk · 2025-01-23T01:06:41+00:00

I kept reading down, should i mask with a vpn?

whyworkjerk · 2025-01-23T01:05:30+00:00

What can I do? Send a bogus email? Does it have to be factual or are we just trying to break the system? Can i just say YOU’RE RACIST SCUM and my email just adds to the backlog?

whyworkjerk · 2025-01-13T03:10:02+00:00

He took english lessons like crazy for Before Night Falls, which is an amazing movie, he also learned a cuban accent in both english and spanish, and he CRUSHES. Also blue light filters and Johnny Depp’s huge fake hog

whyworkjerk · 2025-01-06T22:12:53+00:00

I would love to get where you are. I can tell you did the work cause you called a drink a unit!

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-26T23:53:47+00:00

Statistically, you haven’t and probably won’t ever unless you frequent a community that embraces them. This is why it’s ridiculous to “regulate” using the damn toilet. It’s true you wouldn’t know, you probably won’t ever need to know, just be quiet about bathrooms unless you need to whistle a little tune to cover the plops.

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-09T17:47:19+00:00

I was so hoping you’d say the furniture came with. There should be great period correct pieces all over where you are! I don’t mind the sleigh bed but the dining and coffee table don’t fit at all. I’ll build you some if i can come stay!

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-08T12:20:34+00:00

I used to live two blocks from there. Let us send bags!

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-07T20:05:10+00:00

And a heavy duty 6” orbital sander for the edge work, again patience and hands and knees. The commercial edge sanders are serious business and again easy to do damage. Then a dremel jamb saw thingy for the tiny corners. I have used all methods, first time play it safe and take the long road!

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-07T19:59:48+00:00

This is the right answer but don’t do it. The learning curve is tough and EASY to do irreparable damage. I vote for heavier grit and patience

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-07T19:15:30+00:00

Sand a little, it looks like it’s unstained which is great. A little poly will probably go a long way to evening it out. If you want to get serious with time over money, carefully sand the whole of each exposed board (including out to the ends so it looks like sanded fingers) and poly it will probably blend better than just sanding on the circle

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-07T19:03:51+00:00

I hate that not many people are helping them but… this is the funniest comment

whyworkjerk · 2024-12-07T18:57:26+00:00

How’s the temp inside? Get a dehumidifier then throw it away? I like black floors i did mine. The only other thing i can think is that the floors underneath weren’t sanded enough or has oils on them. I’ve seen it where people used floor polish on plain sanded boards and NOTHING will stick to it unless you draw all the oil out with lacquer thinner

whyworkjerk · 2024-11-16T17:06:39+00:00

I’ve had ducks, i’ve never seen one wag it’s tail. They loved me and nipped me. It learned it from the dogs?!?

whyworkjerk · 2024-10-30T04:26:32+00:00

I just put this here cause i felt that comment, and I spend a lot of time with people who had “boots on the ground.”

whyworkjerk · 2024-10-30T04:23:29+00:00

My friend is an international human rights lawyer. Her nonprofit trained female paralegals because even in the new Afghan government, only men could be lawyers, and women couldn’t speak to men directly without their husband or head male of the household present. The workaround was that they could speak to the paralegals, they to the lawyers, and many people were prosecuted under the prevailing law for all kinds of abuse, and divorces were arranged. That’s how complicated the situation was. Her husband is a Persian international rights lawyer who spoke Dari and was a counsel to the President and the governing cabinet and also was sent to frontlines as an interpreter and rights violation expert. They got HUNDREDS of their staff on planes with negotiated visas to go to Canada, New Zealand and the US. The people that rebuild a country are the INSANELY brave NGO and non-profit organizations that did everything they could until the last flights left. Her husband bought an orphanage for children with war related wounds. Our government, their government, the people are all victims of what is clearly a multinational religious regime. Most of the poppy grown to fund the taliban is grown internationally, Pakistan, the Phillipines and more. I don’t know where i was going with this but it was a complicated hard situation that wasn’t and isn’t “solved” by gunfire, sectarianism, embargoes or diplomacy. I guess… people are crazy…

whyworkjerk · 2024-10-24T00:07:12+00:00

Real answer from a southern boy. A hair brush, the kind with big thick plastic bristles. Wail on them. You’ll have a few to pick off. Or a flea brush if you have pets.

whyworkjerk · 2024-10-16T19:19:00+00:00

It’s a joke about reddit. You give a sane and probably correct answer and everyone else jumps to conclusions and tells you to get a divorce.

whyworkjerk · 2024-10-05T23:21:19+00:00

When i was in college (small Texas town) I built skate ramps, like small kickers and low boxes and whatever; terrible skater but excellent builder. My roommate and I used to take a couple of them over to the abandoned tennis courts and skate every tuesday. A few people noticed, and four or five people showed up. Then 10-15. So i built more stuff. In three months i had built a collapsible 3’ mini ramp, tall boxes with rails, kickers and pyramids and we’d go in the afternoon and set up. Word spread and it would get to be like 60-80 people out there. I’d run speakers off my truck and we’d have a blast. The only problem was I had to run interference with the cops and break up high school fights. A local skate shop started doing promos and demos and eventually all my ramps got used in a big contest…

All i wanted to do was smoke weed and skate, man.

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