I mean, that’s one of the downsides to home ownership. If it’s not yard work, there’s always some sort of maintenance that needs doing.

You can either put it off until it becomes an emergency, pay someone out the ass to do it, or you can find some way to force yourself to do it.

I say this as I’m taking a break from climbing in my attic to replace the AC condensate pump line that I’ve been putting off for 3 months, so I don’t have to keep dumping 5 gallon buckets of water out twice a day. The quote to have a pro do it was $750

Try Usenet

One thing to keep in mind is that the used car market is fucked right now because of the tariffs. You’re going to pay a premium for any used car from a dealership for the next long while.

My advice? Get a gray title on the car and sell it to someone who will fix it up. I hit a deer with my old 99 contour, and the insurance adjuster totaled it because my back seat was messy (I wouldn’t have believed it if he hadn’t said it to my face; the whole story is a trip). They gave us $2400 for it, we kept the car, and sold it to a family friend for $1200 because it just needed new headlight assemblies. We only paid $1200 for it in the first place, but my step dad knew the dealer and got it for what he paid.

That’s only liability insurance, though.

It might be worth it if you have a Jeep for the glass replacement alone, though

Remember, the only difference between a cult and a religion is membership levels.

Opportunity - Noun:

a favorable juncture of circumstances

• Merriam Webster

I suppose people dying is favorable if you want to push your cult on their grieving families.

At this point the Epstein files are the distraction

Even if I hadn’t seen them live and loved it, I’d still upvote on principle.

Maybe it’ll help to think about it in terms of an experiment. God is the scientist and humans are the test subjects. If the scientist interferes with the test subjects, the data loses meaning, but if the test subjects interfere with each other it’s just part of the experiment.

Basically: supreme authority interfering = bad.

Yes, but they think that once they’re born, they should die

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Looking up camping tents, the vast majority have the classic pitched rain fly.

But regardless, that style of rain fly is pretty new, so it’s irrelevant to the reason they were named flies in the first place. I doubt it was common for tents to even have zippers when the term rain fly was coined.

Edit: Looking into it further, the term rain fly was coined before the term fly was used to describe the fabric covering the zipper. It looks like calling the fabric covering the zipper a fly came from using fly to describe the fabric covering a tent.

The piece of fabric covering the zipper.

They’re probably paid trolls. Russia did it with every other social media platform, so it would be naive to think they didn’t do it here

The Republicans want those kids to die, so this is a win for them.

If I wasn’t dressing for others I’d be naked like 90% of the time.

I’ve known a few jingle writers, and yeah, it was always a side gig.

Yup. Climate change will get us close, but this will push us over the edge. Can’t survive a genetic bottleneck if you can’t make babies.

Most rain flies don’t have zippers, though. They’re basically the tent’s umbrella.

Did you miss what community you’re in?