[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

What I am learning is that I am not in the correct tax bracket to pay for contractors unless messing up means the house burning down. So probably gonna be DIY this one.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Oof yeah if it is coming out to 4k+ then I probably am gonna be a DIYer.

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New home owner who has never had to hire a contractor before. Want to have chain link fence replaced and want to have put in white vinyl fence to match connected town home.

It is just a 40 foot length I need replaced and will need to have one gate. As I get quotes, what kind of price should I expect to pay? What's considered fair and what's considered a rip off?

EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback! I think I'm not in the right tax bracket to hire people to do this, so probably going to try to do it myself.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

How dare you post it exactly when I know I should go to sleep but don't wanna.

Work is after sleep. If I delay sleep, I delay work!

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Hahaha yeah it felt a bit on the nose.

I'll let you guess how often I completely forget to do an important task.

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So I went to my doctor and was like "yeah my counselor said I should ask about the process to get tested for ADHD because of XYZ"...

He then had to gently explain that a year ago he had referred me to a local pysch for testing because I already took the ADHD assessment.

Anyway, long story short, after doing testing (which I showed up for on the wrong day the first time) I got an official ADHD diagnosis.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

I actually went to a science/nature camp as a kid where a pig part was we would catch pot guts (ground squirrels)!

Almost every animal there had been caught dozens of times. Because they would go in, get peanut butter, be shown to a counselor that would mark that they were caught, then let go. So pretty sure all of them were trap happy since a 100 traps were out in a field 4 months out of the year, every single year.

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Stolen from Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1ftmkwt/oc_foods_cost_vs_caloric_density/

But I loved it. Also this has Shrimp removed, because it was on the OG chart due to an error and this is an updated version.

EDIT: Here is one for protein! https://www.reddit.com/r/budgetfood/comments/1fp2ytb/foods_cost_per_gram_of_protein_vs_protein_density/#lightbox

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After months of reminders in team meetings on how to do this properly, supervisors have sicced me on the department.

I have been informed that if the issues continue, supervisors will start pulling people in for chats on why they can't follow directions that were laid out.

Pray I am the only monster you meet, for I am the kindest.

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[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 105 points 1 month ago

Some days, you need a reminder that eating anything is better than eating nothing.

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Eating the proper amount is hard. Eating when you have low time, money, mental energy, or education on cooking is even harder.

This book assumes nothing. Do you know how to turn on your stove? You are properly prepared to use this cookbook.

Just want to share it with more folks!

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Game goes into full release in less then a day, so why not learn build orders to be the ultimate try hard??

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My two are:

Making sourdough. I personally always heard like this weird almost mysticism around making it. But I bought a $7 starter from a bakery store, and using just stuff in my kitchen and cheap bread flour I've been eating fresh sourdough every day and been super happy with it. Some loafs aren't super consistent because I don't have like temperature controlled box or anything. But they've all been tasty.

Drawing. I'm by no means an artist, but I always felt like people who were good at drawing were like on a different level. But I buckled down and every day for a month I tried drawing my favorite anime character following an online guide. So just 30 minutes every day. The first one was so bad I almost gave up, but I was in love with the last one and made me realize that like... yeah it really is just practice. Years and years of it to be good at drawing things consistently, quickly, and a variety of things. But I had fun and got something I enjoyed much faster than I expected. So if you want to learn to draw, I would recommend just trying to draw something you really like following a guide and just try it once a day until you are happy with the result.

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I just think this little youtuber is cool, his best videos are reviewing free steam games.

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Since gasoline because unusable after awhile, most cars will become obstacles and block up roads.

So we of course want something that can zip around the roads!

The main advantages I see are:

  1. Peddle when out of juice

  2. Peddling charges the batteries, so in an emergency you can turn on the battery

  3. The batteries can reasonably be charged by solar panels that a lot of houses have.

  4. Gets around all the blocked roads.

  5. Generally easier to repair.

  6. The distance travelled on a full battery is absurd

I don't expect any movies to put their heroes on an eBike, but they should!

IDK just thought you'd appreciate my dumb thought XD Any other reasons why during an apocalypse you should find an ebike?

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 85 points 4 months ago

Bikes are the rides of libertarians.

No license

No registration

No taxes through gas

Just hard work and freedom!

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 117 points 6 months ago

Most undocumented immigrants in the US enter legally then never leave.

The idea that most cross the border on foot isn't supported by data.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 113 points 9 months ago

Honestly... the idea that they do this work, and the money goes to a school instead of them, makes it even worse to me?

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 79 points 9 months ago

30 and uhh... half elf. Not full elf. Totally half.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 120 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We use datediff in sql and let God handle the rest.

"Oh but they're in different time zones" "Oh did you account for if one is in day light savings and other isn't" "Aren't some of these dates stored in UTC and some local?"

Are all problems I do not care about.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't worry, medical care is now government funded in the real world! The taxes you paid prior to falling into a coma covered you.

This is in no way a ploy to get you to wake up so we can put you in the medical work camp because you owe us 17 million dollars.

With love, Kind and gentle Medical industries inc*

*A fully owned subsidy of Nestlé

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