BigMoose9000
BigMoose9000 t1_jcfu130 wrote
Reply to comment by jadedlens00 in My “luxury” apartment buildings trash compactor is next to our apartment, wakes me up all hours of the night, and the building refuses to do anything. What should I do? by CCIRMAJOR26
It's not "bootlicking" to accept the reality that they're not going to do anything about it and OP has no realistic way to make them.
BigMoose9000 t1_jcftbhg wrote
Reply to comment by LeoMarius in My “luxury” apartment buildings trash compactor is next to our apartment, wakes me up all hours of the night, and the building refuses to do anything. What should I do? by CCIRMAJOR26
No way, renting an apartment where this will wake you up is pretty fucking unreasonable on their part. Never being able to sleep past 7 am? Who would accept that??
Most people wouldn't live there for free.
BigMoose9000 t1_ja9cjfb wrote
Reply to comment by kiklion in Midtown Owners Hedge on Costly Office-to-Home Conversions by psychothumbs
Yea, commercial leases are typically for longer terms. My company has a couple offices they've been trying to sublease for years now that are basically abandoned. When the leases expire it's hard to imagine the landlords will have any more luck.
BigMoose9000 t1_ja8lp8n wrote
Reply to comment by sirzoop in Midtown Owners Hedge on Costly Office-to-Home Conversions by psychothumbs
Honestly surprised it's that low
If there was a way to measure "under lease but effectively vacant" it'd probably be a lot higher
BigMoose9000 t1_j9liuv9 wrote
Reply to comment by APigNamedLucy in Republican Doug Mastriano told supporters he didn't get any money from Ohio derailment train operator Norfolk Southern. Records show he took $1,000. by Pennzingers
He got $1,000 (not a memorable amount in this context) from "the Good Government Fund". Nobody would know off the top of their head that's a PAC run by Norfolk Southern.
BigMoose9000 t1_j8a7fft wrote
Reply to comment by Finrodsrod in Voting Rights Victory in Pennsylvania by susinpgh
Nah we can shift money around from elsewhere - maybe blow up a few less kids in the Middle East and use the money we save on missiles.
BigMoose9000 t1_j87gns1 wrote
Reply to comment by Flimsy-Lie-1471 in Voting Rights Victory in Pennsylvania by susinpgh
BigMoose9000 t1_j85yvxg wrote
Reply to comment by Flimsy-Lie-1471 in Voting Rights Victory in Pennsylvania by susinpgh
Most of Europe, not to mention Canada, require an ID to vote - not "make it easier with an ID", it's a hard requirement.
How is that requirement fascist here, but nowhere else?
BigMoose9000 t1_j85npe4 wrote
Reply to comment by susinpgh in Voting Rights Victory in Pennsylvania by susinpgh
Then why won't the Democrats support free IDs? Life without an ID is next to impossible, the election security aspect is like the least of the problems it would fix.
BigMoose9000 t1_j07yz92 wrote
Reply to comment by Advanced-Guard-4468 in Baristas of the World Unite! Starbucks Workers in Whitehall Unionize by Open_Veins_8
Nobody at Starbucks is ordering drip coffee
BigMoose9000 t1_j07yvi9 wrote
Reply to comment by Dredly in Baristas of the World Unite! Starbucks Workers in Whitehall Unionize by Open_Veins_8
Yes. They wait a year-ish so that they can blame it on something else but they're not letting any of them operate long term.
BigMoose9000 t1_iys2a9o wrote
Reply to comment by suestrong315 in Pitt students facing abuse of corpse charges for alleged class incident by WookieeSteakIsChewie
An owl pellet, which is literally a turd, I think it's OK to have a little fun with.
BigMoose9000 t1_ixbwdj7 wrote
Reply to comment by mandyaffogato in New car failed inspection. Was pressured to pay about $1k in repairs to pass. I took my car to the dealership instead and it passed inspection by mandyaffogato
The balls that mechanic has are something else
I was going to post that shocks are a hard thing to argue because there's no clear pass/fail criteria, it's all kind of a gray area, but there's no way 1 year old shocks would be failing.
BigMoose9000 t1_ixbw7cv wrote
Reply to comment by festerwl in New car failed inspection. Was pressured to pay about $1k in repairs to pass. I took my car to the dealership instead and it passed inspection by mandyaffogato
There's a lot of posts of sketchy cars, but have you ever seen even 1 post of an accident one of them caused with a mechanical failure?
It just. Does. Not. Happen. This has been studied repeatedly, states that require inspection aren't safer to drive in or have fewer accidents. It's all just a racket.
BigMoose9000 t1_iv8jhge wrote
Reply to comment by BarnabyWoods in New dwellings in Washington state must be warmed by heat pumps, rather than furnaces, beginning in July, state board rules Friday by BarnabyWoods
That warranty's worth about the paper it's printed on. If they hold up - great. If they don't - the company goes bankrupt from warranty claims. They win either way.
>I bought mine 6 months ago, with no delay in promised delivery date.
You bought panels that were in stock, great. Most companies stop selling when they don't have in-stock panels because the lead times are too unpredictable to take pre-orders.
>And I don't know what you mean by "look at how that's working out" in California. California's power costs are about triple those of Washington's, so the typical payback period of home solar is only about 6 or 7 years. You'd be stupid not to buy a house with solar in California.
The problem is where it's required. Bill Maher made national news when he made it public he'd been waiting for over 3 years for his solar installation to be approved. If his house had been a new build that required solar to be occupied, it would've been sitting vacant for over 3 years.
BigMoose9000 t1_iv7davx wrote
Reply to comment by sg3niner in New dwellings in Washington state must be warmed by heat pumps, rather than furnaces, beginning in July, state board rules Friday by BarnabyWoods
-
Residential solar is still very expensive, and adding to cost makes the housing crisis worse. Parts of CA require solar and look how that's working out.
-
There's still a shortage of raw materials to make solar panels even at the current demand level, requiring them would create a years-long backlog of building projects that can't be completed because they're waiting for solar panels to be manufactured. Again making the housing crisis even worse.
-
Current solar panels have a useful lifespan of around 20 years, after which they're hazardous waste. We don't have a way to recycle them. Starting to require them today means creating a hazardous waste crisis 20 years from now.
BigMoose9000 t1_jcg5tlh wrote
Reply to comment by drewskimoon in My “luxury” apartment buildings trash compactor is next to our apartment, wakes me up all hours of the night, and the building refuses to do anything. What should I do? by CCIRMAJOR26
It's one thing that noise is permitted after 7, it's another that it's constant immediately at 7 (which would be the case if the compactor has been filling up all night unable to run).