Deep cut there. I love it!

Right? Dude, we don’t all live in a city. I’ve got four horses that need to be hauled on a regular basis. Your minivan or van isn’t pulling a gooseneck 4-horse trailer.

Genghis Khan would like a word. So would Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Hirohito. Those are just the ones I can name off the top of my head.

Sometimes there’s shit on the outside of the uriness.

Sometimes there’s shit on the outside of the uriness.

Yeah they’re still technically $700/mo in the negative.

$1400 mortgage + $1600 apartment is $3000 in expenses. $2300 income from the rent gives them an outlay of $700 they still have to come up with for the apartment.

So for strictly housing costs, they pay $700/mo. That likely doesn’t include all of the other things they need: food, transportation, medical, utilities, etc.

I’ll have a Puppers

The world would be a much nicer place if everyone lived like this.

I did the same with guitar. Stopped playing nearly 20 years ago and picked up again during Covid. Probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It gives me an outlet I didn’t have before, and I’ve put so much into it with practice and lessons that I’m better than I’d ever have thought I’d be.

Like you, I know enough to entertain myself and that’s perfect. Sometimes I’ll just pick it up and play along with new songs I hear and it still surprises me when I can do that well.

I disagree. I have a modern American 3/4 ton diesel pickup. It’s not a crossover. I’m not in construction or maintenance, I work in tech.

I have four horses and a gooseneck trailer for the horses that the truck hauls once or twice a week. I also have a flatbed for hauling hay or moving the tractor.

For literally everything else i have a small car, because that truck is awful to drive in traffic or urban areas.

You realize that data comes from the same place, right?

Oh you grew up near Atlanta. I, too, am a Sid Williams commercial survivor.

Who’s chopper is this?

Same. 14kW system on the roof, 2800 gallons of water storage refilled from well with electric pump. 4xPowerwall batteries for storage/backup, all electric appliances/hvac.

We can theoretically go for weeks as well, assuming moderate sun.

Central Texas, 260+ days of sun here.

So this is a bit of a personal peeve of mine, so please don’t take it as an attack or argumentative, I’m just offering a perspective.

Generally speaking, gamey is a misnomer. Unless, if by gamey you mean “doesn’t taste like domesticated beef”, in which case you’re right on, but gamey itself isn’t a flavor.

Every meat has its own distinct flavor and calling something gamey just indicates that it’s not culturally normal for you.

Tie it to the federal retirement age, which is currently 67.

TCEQ is a fucking joke. They’re a rubber stamp for anything industry wants, and they don’t care where.

Burnet county TX residents are currently trying to fight the installation of (another) rock crusher/quarry in an area with limited water and where three other similar plants already exist.

TCEQ rubber stamped their air quality permit after admitting they have ZERO air quality monitors in the entire county. But I’m sure it’s fine.

If that’s their approach, I’ll just refrain from doing business with a company whose default position is that their customers are intending to commit fraud.

Yeah… that should be tied to the product, not a person. And it doesn’t need a unique serial number. Take the old one back, verify it’s not a fraud, send the replacement. If it’s a fraud, destroy it and let the customer know why, then offer them credit on a genuine piece.

A backpack company doesn’t need to know who I am.

No one is wondering why a backpack has a serial number to begin with? Vehicles, sure. Electronics, ok. But a backpack? Why does it even need a serial number?

It’s essentially a clothing item. My t-shirts don’t have serial numbers. I’m just finding it a bit insane that a backpack would have a unique serial.