I do everything myself, and it's led to being able to handyman if I need some cash. Contractor pricing is insane for something that's never as difficult as it seems. Hell last night I installed a side door on my garage because I had an extra door I ripped out of the house last year. It took three boards, a nailgun, a shim, and an hour.

The job you listed? A wrench, Teflon tape, some valves, putty, and a diamond hole saw. So like 70$ assuming you don't already have those things.

Most maintenance, installs, or upgrades are the same way, and the next time you do it, you already have the tools. Get a rolling toolbox, a belt, a basic battery tool set, and pick up all the specialty tools as you need them, and you're a handyman.

Only on expensives items or antiques. I don't like it, but it seems to be expected on marketplace. I'm so used to people haggling I post everything 25% higher than the amount I actually want or expect.

That being said, I always think it's funny when someone posts obo on their item. If the price is 700 obo, why the hell would I offer you 700?

Amother organism or person needs to be predictable to be trusted.someone or something acting in an unpredictable manner means it may suddenly decide you're a threat. We evolved in a world before science and medicine, where any injury could mean death. Even the most unstoppable animals, bears, elephants, moose, will bluff charge a threat rather than immediately attack, because fighting risks injury, regardless of how unbalanced the fight is. I can't win a fight against any of those animals, but I can bite it while it's killing me. A full thickness bite wound is all but guaranteed to cause an infection, which may kill or disable.

Humans are also social creatures, and we run on cultural norms that make it easier to trust that the person next to you in a restaurant won't suddenly stab you, even though he is holding a knife.

A major cultural difference can make others seem dangerous in a primal way. We know through interaction that other cultures are not more dangerous, but that primal unease of being surrounded by people from a different tribe is still in there somewhere.

In my opinion, this is why racism is so hard to root out. A lot of it is taught by others, but it's not a negligible amount tied to fear of anything different.

Click bait title aside, I legit wouldn't have thought that was illegal. Certainly not arrested and in jail illegal.

There are beaches where bones wash ashore regularly, from old shipwrecks, battles, failed immigrations, or drug runners, and nobody cares.

Most Americans could probably use metric easily if they just remember a meter is about 180 5.56 NATO rounds wide. A kilometer is 111,111 9mm rounds.

Easy.

I really feel like freedom units should be hotdogs per second.

It's cheating to use footlongs, btw.

Unfortunately, I don't live in the free world, I live in the "freedom" world. I have to convert km/h to as hell and km/s to as fuck.

I had a long conversation with an owl once while camping. I couldn't see it, but it sounded exactly like that Beedle guy from Zelda when you do something he likes, "Aaaaaa-OOOOOOH!"

In freedom units that's fast as fuck

Odd that there's so much hate for the image generation. I hate AI, but not for the images. I have an image generator myself and it's funny as hell. I hate AI for ruining the internet. After August of 2023, every search engine became borderline useless, and every "informative" website became auto generated dogshit.

By my father's sardines, what a savings

I don't know at what point in the mythos it was added, but i recall being told by someone more into the fandom that the sabers could be set to different power levels, so when sparring, rather than kill and cut they would just shock the shit out of you or burn.

Yes. I really can't understand why anyone watching the rise of fascists would still be anti gun.

You know, as I was typing that out, I was thinking "why would anyone believe me".

The complete events that unfolded sound like a story where everyone clapped for me, so instead of sounding like a kid making shit up, I'll just say, it smelled like bananas, I told someone the bees thing, and a week later the place shut down for a few days while a massive honeycomb/hive was removed from the ceiling.

I read about the smell on cracked in like 2008 and just parroted the info later, which turned out to be true, at least in this case.

Yeah. There was a restaurant near me that had a hive in their ceiling, and the whole store smelled like banana

With all the over militarized equipment they've deemed necessary to give out traffic tickets, I would assume those have ballot proof windshields

That's funny there's only one in my town, and it's facing the Lowes parking lot.

It's burnout. They see the headlines everyday, and the flowers just don't seem as bright as they used to.

It's one of my favorites, it's very unique. The main character contracted the illness that killed most people, and although he didn't die, the fever fried his brain, so he narrates in a weird broken stream of conciousness.

Mindhunter should be higher just for it's stellar use of Gary numan