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Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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Holy fuck, the avacodos I bought three days ago for two bucks a pop are 3.25 now!!


Shit, do I cash out or enjoy the dip?

*white people fidgety motions*

Wait until tomorrow's personal capital report before you make any hasty decisions.

In other news my mortgage payment is the same as it was last month but I think my taxes are going up again for some bullshit like free community college. I had to pay for my own damn college (at least the 15% that scholarships didn't cover), fucking free loaders.
 

jstuhlman

bagpipe wanker
Dec 3, 2009
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welding class here I come!

thanks!
i always feel glad that in middle school i had the opportunity to take electives ranging from wood and metal shop (who in their right mind lets a 7th grader weld???) to small engine repair, home ec, and "aerodynamics and flight" (paper airplanes and model rockets).
 

Westy

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I learned to weld by swiping bits of scrap metal like bed frames when people put their garbage out and just tried to stick shit together. I still swipe bedframes, some good angle iron there.
 
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Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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I'm totally down with incentivizing education. I've seen americans.






I legit took all kinds of home eco and theater classes because chicks. True story.
Manimal thought his GI bill funded community college humanity class was too liberal. Totally off topic but I feel this needs to be repeated whenever possible. Sadly I received no leftist indoctrination in engineering courses, unless you consider critical thought, cause and effect and logic part of socialist ideology.

I just hung out on the side of the town with the big state school that focused on liberal arts. Teaching majors are freaks.
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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I can run a glue gun and make some stick splatters, but nothing I'd trust my own safety to.

(includes bed frames)




I want to fuck with snowmobile and dirtbike stuff. That involves like f=ma and all that jazz.
I couldn't do shit until I actually tried TIG. I could slow down the whole process and see how the puddle would form and move. Once I got that MIG and stick wasn't too hard once I got the settings right.
 

kidwoo

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I forgot about manimal's bitching about things he liked to project in "college"

When I was in college my dad was being educated by rush limbaugh and that new fox news shit.

I just remember coming home, listening to my dad rant about liberal college shit and I'm just sitting there like "dude.....energy balance equations, that's pretty much it" :rofl:

floooo iddddd die naaamicks, not commmmmmyoooonism
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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I forgot about manimal's bitching about things he liked to project in "college"

When I was in college my dad was being educated by rush limbaugh and that new fox news shit.

I just remember coming home, listening to my dad rant about liberal college shit and I'm just sitting there like "dude.....energy balance equations, that's pretty much it" :rofl:

Yeah, my father blames my ideology on my education. Funny thing is the only class I ever had whose subject matter wasn't verfiable by mathematical proof were my two "literature" classes freshmen year where we had to read the old and new tesaments. But he is right, I probably would be a conservative shit head like him if I never received an education.
 

Westy

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I can only do tig...in a mediocre fashion. :busted: I have a three process welder, and have never used the mig. It sure would be a lot faster if I mastered that for structural shit.
Stick is the way to go for thick structural stuff, fuck preparation.
 

kidwoo

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Yeah, my father blames my ideology on my education.
same

the grand irony of course being that my world view was FAR more shaped by his bullshit :rofl:



I had a car in highschool that my folks handed down to me (get the thing running again and it's yours kind of deal). It got stolen out from in front of our house one night because someone found the hide-a-key. My dad gave me his car keys and told me to cruise certain neighborhoods and look for it. All broke as shit black neighborhoods.


The thing shows up a few days later inside a gated community, rekt to hell, obviously joy ridden. My dad blamed "the help" :rofl:

Outside of course material, the most beneficial thing about college and high school was putting me around rich kids. A certain pattern emerges....
 
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Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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same

the grand irony of course being that my world view was FAR more shaped by his bullshit :rofl:



I had a car in highschool that my folks handed down to me (get the thing running again and it's yours kind of deal). It got stolen out from in front of our house one night because someone found the hide-a-key. My dad gave me his car keys and told me to cruise certain neighborhoods and look for it. All broke as shit black neighborhoods.


The thing shows up a few days later inside a gated community, rekt to hell, obviously joy ridden. My dad blamed "the help" :rofl:

Outside of course material, the most beneficial thing about college and high school was putting me around rich kids. A certain pattern emerges....

My father was career airforce, he had access to military grade dog whistles. It took 20 years before I could hear it.
 

DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
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Holy fuck, the avacodos I bought three days ago for two bucks a pop are 3.25 now!!


Shit, do I cash out or enjoy the dip?

*white people fidgety motions*
In your case I'd recommend you smear them over your body and hire yourself out to boomers to lick it off.
You'll make a fortune!
Also, you can thank me later for your dreams tonight. :rofl: :popcorn:
 

Pesqueeb

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Feb 2, 2007
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Riding past the morgue.
Just got cold-called from someone who claimed to know that I was the owner of my home, as in, knew my name and where I lived. Public Record I assume. Asked if I was interested in selling. I declined, but if that isn't a sign of stage 3 hysteria.............
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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Just got cold-called from someone who claimed to know that I was the owner of my home, as in, knew my name and where I lived. Public Record I assume. Asked if I was interested in selling. I declined, but if that isn't a sign of stage 3 hysteria.............
The only way I remember my neighbors names is by looking them up on the city GIS site.
 

mandown

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Jun 1, 2004
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Dayum. Even early 1800s alabama built shacks for their slave labor

Explains why I haven't seen any activity here in my office pipeline...
Several speakers at the meeting pointed the finger at wealthy, lawyered-up residents who fight to choke out any attempts at building affordable apartment complexes or homes in the City of Ketchum. The mayor admitted that "neighborhoods rose up and resisted" prior planned projects, effectively halting them from going forward. Tax credit applications - designed to incentivize private investors to build lower-cost housing - repeatedly died on the vine.
 

kidwoo

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Oh make no mistake, the rich fuck owners referenced certainly do not want to see "those eyesores" that not mansions create. 10 whiney part time resident/third home owners voices dwarf 100 voices of the poors.

Same shit here. They want slave labor and don't give a shit about providing basic necessities for an actual life. Sun valley/ketchum was the early template for what aspen and jackson became.

The tax incentive for affordable housing narrative is such bullshit. There's greater profit margins in building mcmansions so that's what gets built, and yes that dwarfs any tax incentive. It's fucking idaho, removing a nickle doesn't do squat.

They straight up don't approve new developments in a town just north of here unless there's a small percentage of "affordable" homes. Guess what never gets built and enforced........ Building empty mcmansions is so lucrative, potentially paying fines is just added to the cost of doing bidness.
 
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jonKranked

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Nov 10, 2005
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Just got cold-called from someone who claimed to know that I was the owner of my home, as in, knew my name and where I lived. Public Record I assume. Asked if I was interested in selling. I declined, but if that isn't a sign of stage 3 hysteria.............
next time...... "yes but not to you"
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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An apartment building with 300 sq ft studios was recently built in my neighborhood. It was a big deal as it got permitted despite not meeting a number of local building codes: no parking, no public spaces, no standoff from neighboring houses. It all went through because it was "affordable" housing. Well it turns out they were "luxury" studio apartments with rents higher than standard apartments in the area in older buildings. All the residents are hipster tech bros. I guess people who feared poor people moving in are happy. I'm guessing the family with a brick wall 2' from the west side of their house is not.

At the end of the day the developer just made bank building cheap units with high rents.
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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Alternately:
They are not trying to negotiate a fair price for your home, they are trying to find suckers who don't understand the market. The lady who lived across the street from me sold her place without putting it on the market. Based on the sale price I assume someone made her a private offer and she was blown away by the price not realizing it probably would have sold for an additional $100K.
 

kidwoo

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An apartment building with 300 sq ft studios was recently built in my neighborhood. It was a big deal as it got permitted despite not meeting a number of local building codes: no parking, no public spaces, no standoff from neighboring houses. It all went through because it was "affordable" housing. Well it turns out they were "luxury" studio apartments with rents higher than standard apartments in the area in older buildings. All the residents are hipster tech bros. I guess people who feared poor people moving in are happy. I'm guessing the family with a brick wall 2' from the west side of their house is not.

At the end of the day the developer just made bank building cheap units with high rents.
LOL

One of those in my neighborhood and one in the town north. Reclaimed busted railyard land that sits on a river. "affordable community housing" became the "prestigious riverside project" :rofl:


Half assed measures and permitting enforcement leads to half assed results. Who knew?