ElJamoquio

ElJamoquio t1_j6eb8ag wrote

Reply to Opinions on potential rent: is 4500 before utilities too much for new construction, 3b 1.5ba, 1 car garage, quiet st in great neighborhood (central Lawrenceville) too much? What is your estimate on utilities (heat and electricity) for such a size? New to town here, would love your input. by prenzlauerallee3

I pay $4200 for Los Gatos, CA (think more expensive than San Jose).

I have a 2 car garage and 2 bathrooms on a quiet street in a great neighborhood.

I'd randomly purchase a house in Pittsburgh before I'd pay $4500 a month.

Heck for 12 months of $4500 = $54,000 you could purchase a beater house in a worse neighborhood while you're trying to find your actual house, and you can burn it to the ground when you're done and still come out ahead.

Buy something for $200k that you know or strongly suspect is a stopgap and then start looking at your own pace.

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ElJamoquio t1_j467s8a wrote

Reply to comment by kalod9 in How do giraffes breathe? by NimishApte

>I would imagine the main reason for their higher blood pressure is so blood is able to reach their heads, you need roughly 23mmHg per foot in height.

It's a closed loop system, so as long as it's primed you don't need much pressure to pump it from an engineering point of view, as long as you replace the blood vessels with non-compliant tubes.

Just throw a 12v centrifugal pump on there and you should be OK.

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ElJamoquio t1_j0nfmld wrote

Reply to comment by Vencaslac in World’s first net-zero transatlantic flight: Fly London to New York on used cooking oil. Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines will power the airline's flagship Boeing 787s as they fly from London to New York in 2023. by Zee2A

Enormous amounts of diesel are used in the production of fertilizer alone.

There's no way it's 'net zero', and they're insulting our intelligence when they lie to us about it.

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ElJamoquio t1_j0nfdeq wrote

Reply to comment by billy_tables in World’s first net-zero transatlantic flight: Fly London to New York on used cooking oil. Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines will power the airline's flagship Boeing 787s as they fly from London to New York in 2023. by Zee2A

Your line of questioning really moves the goalposts. It's not net zero, even if it's a 50% reduction in CO2. It's taking in 100 units of CO2, along with 50 units of CO2 in transportation, fertilizer, etc. So it's a net of -50 thus far. It then outputs 100 units of CO2. So we're still worse off.

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ElJamoquio t1_j0nesrq wrote

Reply to comment by Cesum-Pec in World’s first net-zero transatlantic flight: Fly London to New York on used cooking oil. Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines will power the airline's flagship Boeing 787s as they fly from London to New York in 2023. by Zee2A

> Well if the plants are planted, grown, harvested, transported, processed, transported, used as fryer oil, stored, transported, reprocessed, transported, stored, and then used to fuel the plane without fossil fuels, it's net zero. So...

So... ...not a flocking chance.

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ElJamoquio t1_iwf23iz wrote

Reply to comment by takoyaki_museum in To the random man by the children’s hospital bus stop who asked me to fuck off back to my country because that’s what Donald Trump would want me to do.. by stickittothe

> I’ve been back in Pittsburgh for 3 days after moving south and I’ve already heard the N word with the hard R.

Raised in Pittsburgh, but I've lived in Pittsburgh, Detroit, New Jersey, Norfolk, North Carolina, and California.

I'm not some expert on racism and I'm sure that I'm missing a lot of it, but it seems like the further North I am, the more racism I see.

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