birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
20hr ago
I'm less worried about leaks than full blown collapse. I had my elementary school cafeteria roof collapse when I was a child due to four feet of snow piled up on it. It was not an experience I'd ever care to repeat.
birb_cromble
21hr ago
What was the point of building a steep roof enclosing a useless attic?
Do you live somewhere that doesn't snow? Around here those roofs are 100% necessary, and the Californian transplants who think they aren't usually end up with an expensive wake up call after a few years.
I'm going to preface this by saying that I absolutely loathe Lawrenceville. With that out of the way, it does have some great restaurants.
Morcilla is a Spanish place that does great charcuterie and has a top tier wine list.
If you're looking for something less classy, Walter's has the best barbecue in the city proper. There's a place in Wilkinsburg that does better, but Wilkinsburg is a separate municipality. The owner is Texan, so he will never create the One True Barbecue, but he accepts his limitations and does the best be can.
Allegheny wine mixer is great for a more upscale bar. Kelly's, as mentioned above, is fantastic if you want a dive bar. If you've gone to one of those bars and find yourself peckish, Condado has very good tacos and extremely forgiving hours.
I don't know if it's technically in Lawrenceville or not, but Millie's has great ice cream. The vegan chocolate might actually be better than traditional variety, and I say that as somebody who is usually deeply suspicious of vegan food.
birb_cromble
1d ago
The latest draft of this new standard (available through the "documents" link on this page) additionally defines "small residential unit" as 1200 ft2 (111 m2) or smaller.
9 residents in 1198 sq ft seems bonkers to me. That's about 133 sq ft per person. The average male takes up 8.625 sq ft laying down.
When I was young we lived in a 700sq ft rental as a family of five, and it was not a good time, despite being more square footage per person than the example dwelling above.
Is there an assumption that people are sleeping in shifts, or something?
birb_cromble
1d ago
This has been a good week for me for gaming.
- Helldivers 2 is doing a new content release.
- Darktide introduced a new game mode.
- Ready or Not released a new expansion and a friend bought it, so I've been able to experience the content.
I'm always kind of impressed at just how cheap gaming can be compared to other forms of entertainment.
birb_cromble
3d ago
In the rare instances where I'm aiming for hypertrophy rather than pure strength, my best results come from total volume.
As a rule of thumb, I multiply weight times total reps and try to maximize that final number.
birb_cromble
4d ago
Spending is $1,743.64 less than this time last year. The terrible weather has been helping with that.
Monday is the big dental appointment, which is probably going to cost about $4,000. That's going to wreck my progress for a while. I'm trying to decide if any insurance reimbursement that I get next month should be subtracted from spending or considered income.
birb_cromble
4d ago
How are the shipping stocks doing so far? I've been curious about that
birb_cromble
5d ago
I recently had sonnet make it through an entire session without mixing up VBIL and VBILX. I'm going to call the improvement.
That's something that's bothering me about this entire enterprise. I'm not the most plugged-in person when it comes to geopolitical events, but I like to think I can read and understand the news, at least.
As it stands, I don't know quite why we're there, or what we want to accomplish, or how we plan to do it, or what our win condition is.
It makes me long for the days of desert storm, when that was all clearly laid out before lead started flying.
birb_cromble
8d ago
Around 2,500 U.S. Marines are heading for the Middle East, along with a Navy amphibious warship. Their mission is not yet clear, but it signals a marked increase in U.S. forces in the region.
To my knowledge, US ground forces have not been meaningfully involved in the Iran conflict. It appears that this might be changing.
What strategic objectives would 2,500 marines be able to achieve in the context of this conflict? Are the islands in the strait important enough to capture but far enough from the Iranian mainland to actually hold? I'll admit that I am no expert in this. At the moment all I can do is hope none of my relatives get deployed and hope for the best.
birb_cromble
8d ago
Jesus. I had forgotten that she even ran
birb_cromble
8d ago
Shapiro may be short and have a lot of baggage, but he is a tireless climber and a fairly smart, ruthless one at that. I wouldn't count him out.
I think the only thing that could legitimately knock him out of the running is if the Ellen Greenberg case actually gains some traction outside the Fox news info sphere.
birb_cromble
8d ago
Black people don't like him. Older people don't like him. Progressive young people don't like him. Moderates don't care for him.
How did Harris fair in that kind of estimation? I get the impression she also lacked a natural constituency, but she ended up a presidential candidate anyway.
birb_cromble
9d ago
In the meantime, there could be a lot of unintended consequences, many of which could become permanent features of US law.
Not to be flippant, but isn't that basically always the case by the time it gets to the supreme court?
birb_cromble
10d ago
Spending this year is $1,357.12 less than this time last year.
Gas prices going up $0.50 overnight was a real kick in the balls, but I am doing my best. I am hoping to keep things low enough this month that I can handle my upcoming dental entirely through cash flow. It'll be cutting it close, but it's nice to have a goal.
birb_cromble
11d ago
So far, he's mostly focusing on maximizing the chances that he'll make it over that finish line. This has all been very sudden.
birb_cromble
12d ago
My father took me a few times when I was young, then I took it up again later in life to try and reconnect with him.
If you've never hunted before, I'd recommend starting with small game.
birb_cromble
12d ago
My favorite thing about Dredd is that Stallone refused to wear the helmet. Urban refused to take it off.
birb_cromble
12d ago
I don't know if I'd call them good, per se, but two horror movies that I've recently seen that very earnestly tried to do something new were "Glorious" and "Anything for Jackson".
In the former, a man gets trapped in a highw rest stop with an Eldritch monstrosity, and if he doesn't satisfy the monster's physical needs through a glory hole, the world will end. The monster is voiced by JK Simmons, who is having the time of his life.
In the latter, a pair of grieving grandparents draw on the power of Satan to perform a "reverse exorcism" on a pregnant woman to try and bring back their dead grandson.
birb_cromble
12d ago
I have permanent damage to one knee, one shoulder, one hip, and my neck from past injuries. I also have some pretty wicked arthritis to top it off. While I can drag a deer carcass multiple miles through the snow, it hurts more now than it did when I was in my 20s.
birb_cromble
12d ago
Are there any turkey hunters here? I'm getting old and beat up enough that deer hunting is losing its shine, but I really like having a freezer full of game.
How is turkey hunting? It always feels like it's a sea of trigger happy nut jobs out in the woods, but I've never actually done it.
birb_cromble
13d ago
His biggest concern is that he has another son that he had much later in life. He's afraid he won't see him graduate from high school.
birb_cromble
13d ago
Interesting. How complex are these contracts that they need that many lawyers to handle them?
I'm a certified country mouse. Lawrenceville's extremely dense rowhouses set my teeth on edge every time I'm there. It feels like I'm trapped in some kind of maze.
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