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@Mik said in George is glad he doesn't live in Chicago city limits:

Typo on my part. It's 2.74.

And I misread the article. The $amounts listed are the expected increases, not the actual levies. I think the article could have been written a little clearer.

Do not use the self cleaning feature. Nothing kills an oven sooner. Do it by hand. Heck, it’s ultimately cheaper to pay someone to hand clean it than it is to just self clean it…

I know it's some online game, but I'm not big on computer games anyway.

The militarization of civilian police equipment and tactics is quite concerning.

@Catseye3 said in My Word for the Day:

He sounds like a sweetie.

D2 has always had a great relationship with our birds. She has the calm temperament and patience to pull them (dare I say?) out of their shells.

We got Peanuts, on a whim, at a pet shop. After we got him, he was absolutely terrible. We couldn't get him out of his cage. He would bite and scream if we did get him out. It took about a year, but finally, he became more and more tame.

We were all devastated when he died.

Here he is with our other bird, "Max." Max was an obnoxious nanday conure who spent hours screaming.

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I don't remember what episode this was, but I was struck by the choice of vehicle used by the protagonist, Al Ruddy.

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Interesting.

Remember when the "Nighthawk," the first publicly-acknowledged "stealth" fighter was revealed in 1989 or so?

My thought at the time was, "OK, if they're telling us about this now, what aren't they telling us about?"

@Copper said in GM Reveals Nationwide Fast Charging Plans:

@taiwan_girl said in GM Reveals Nationwide Fast Charging Plans:

When they discharged, you would go to a "battery station" (like a gas station) and replace the battery pack.

Is this "battery station" some kind of charitable organization? Wouldn't they just inherit the problem that the car owner would have?

No, it would be the equivalent of a current gas station. They would have to have an initial stock of battery packs, and would charge USD$X when someone came in for a battery pack swap. Maybe it would be so many USD$ per % charge on the battery pack or something like that. Since the new car would come without a battery pack, it would be cheaper, but each "fill up" would be more expensive since you are spreading out the cost of the batteries over the lifetime, rather than at the initial purchase.

Yes, I think so. Even if they're from you to you.

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@Catseye3 said in Sesame Street gets woked:

@89th Then we know who's responsible, yes? And it makes no sense to blame the providers of the clicks when all they're doing is throwing the meat into the cage.

Presuming there are no ethics remaining in journalism corporate media outlets, yes it's just a profit game.

Correlation is not causation, but do ya think that the plummeting arrest rate might have something to do as to why crime is rising?

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That was quite interesting.

Has anybody here ever read the book? I have obviously heard of it but never have read it.

I believe that she is tying it off or pinning it off in the back. I dont think that the clothes would fit her "out of the box" like that. Definitely some tailoring she is doing.

@George-K said in Portland Homicides:

driven by a very small percentage of our population

That is a big step forward

He is blaming people, not the guns

@taiwan_girl said in Rise & Fall of the double-wide.:

That is a interesting article.

At least for me, my stereotype for a mobile home (not for camping) in the US is somebody who is very poor and does not take care of it very well.

I am not sure I have ever seen a mobile home outside of the US

Yes, the stereotype.

My best friend has crews traveling the country installing infrastructure projects for water and sewage in the manufactured housing industry.

Manufactured housing communities range from what you describe all the way up to very nice, gated, HOA communities, with security, golf courses, fitness centers, gathering places, activity centers, parks, and some of the nicest looking homes you will find anywhere with people that do take care of their stuff. Florida and Arizona and even places like Louisville, MO have a lot of these communities. Some of the communities are occupant owned. They are all partners in the ownership and management of their community.

So, yes the stereotype exists and it exists for a good reason. In the past they have always been vilified as "less than" a site built house and they were by a large margin. They are always featured on the news when a Tornado rips through a community. You never hear, A site built house community was destroyed by a tornado" on the news, yet it actually happens with much more frequency. The manufactured housing industry is still struggling with the reputation of the past.

Modern manufactured housing has evolved over the years and is a range of techniques to build the actual building. Some are 90% assembled at the factory, and some are shipped in sections while others are only shipping the pre-made walls complete with wiring, plumbing and insulation, some just bare walls that are finished on site.

I have seen some manufactured homes, and this was 25+ years ago, that were so nice looking from the exterior with very well appointed interiors, that you would never have known, they were manufactured homes.