By FedEx now so it’s much more affordable!

They still don’t offer everything for delivery, though, so this might be one of those pickup-only items.

Sweet! Can’t wait to try it out!

Woof at the thought that there are still people out there that spend $500+/mo. just to get to/from work for their employer. That’s multiple utility bills!

Securis has several locations and does a monthly drop-off e-recycling event.

I dropped off an above-the-range microwave at their Glazebrook Ave. location (off Hermitage and Staples Mill across from Lidl) two Saturdays ago. You just drive up and they take it out of your car for you. Easy!

As a young gay growing up in south Florida, I always found it interesting that poppers were reliably hidden at gay adult stores and you had to use codewords to get them, but they were always out in plain sight at any straight adult store I visited.

I'd put Taboo solidly in "everybody adult store" category but appreciated that they had them on display or at least a sign at the register. Makes me happy that the police don't harass them for that.

I think you're conflating the problems Richmond is having with policing and its public image overall with one specific policing event out of many that happened that same day—Except the two murders this article is referring to happened in a completely different week and time of day than the Happy Trees bust.

By saying "appropriate amount of resources," it sounds like you're thinking a majority of RPD's time that day and the days that led up to it were spent on this single bust, when in reality, the resources used likely totaled a small portion of one precinct's staffing.

It's the same type of argument people use on "why spend time and money on removing monuments than our schools?" when there are separate budgets and funds and teams for multiple things.

As shameful as RPD's public image has been these past few years, they are able to do multiple things at once because they have several precincts, units, and investigations going on at the same time.

They were terrible growing up in south Florida. Didn’t miss them at all and I’m dreading the fact that they’re moving into VA 😑

This post doesn't really have the traditional "shaking fist at sky" generally-yell-at-everyone vibe we normally look for when applying the same-named flair, but I felt this time it was appropriate to be inclusive.

Sky gods, make sense!

Don't forget these gems:

• the mosquitos come out for brief spurts mid-winter and earlier in the spring and stay out later in the early fall
• the trees and plants start blooming mid-winter just before a freeze and stunt their growth
• the grass starts to wake up before having to go dormant again
• spring pollen season starts early, then stops, then starts again, then stops, then it's really pollen season.

Oh, and invasive fire ants continue their march north from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and North Carolina.

Aaaaaaahh, transitionary climates are so chaotic!

🤦‍♂️ Now I see it. I blame the unfiltered tequila and pot.

Indeed! Like running wine or coffee through a Brita filter 🫢

Watched the first episode of the new season of Star Trek: Picard. The recent shows have all felt like season-long movies, but this is really feeling like a movie so far.

And they brought back the First Contact theme 😭

Filters are a must, regardless of whether the municipal water supply is perfectly safe and clear. Anything can happen in the neighborhood's supply line from tree roots, construction, accidents, or even the line between your building's water meter and your faucet/spigots. They're too cheap and easy to replace to neglect setting at least one up.

You can even buy reusable personal water bottles with built-in filtering built right into the cap. A 3-pack of filters can last you 6 months.

While we're on this topic, a PSA for folks to check on and replace the filter in their refrigerator water dispenser/ice maker!

Soda machines have water filters on them because brands (and distributors) require crystal-clear water to be supplied to the soda machines so that colored sodas aren't off-color and clear sodas (Sprite, 7-Up, tonic water, soda water, etc.) remains crystal-clear before it makes its way to the customers.

The water filters are designed to remove rust (iron) particles from water, so as long as the color is from rust particles, those won't make it to the customer's glass.

The restaurant, however, will be going through water filters more quickly the longer this goes on. That'll clog them up and cause the water to flow more slowly while the syrup ratio continues unchanged and really throws the taste of the soda off.

Yes, this can cause the water mains and pipes to vibrate from the sudden change in water pressure and shake some rust (iron) particles loose. This happened often when I lived in Fort Lauderdale and usually resolved within an hour or two.

After that, the water would be cloudy from the extra-fine air bubbles (you can hear the fizzing and see the water clear up after a moment) that was pushed into the water.

The water that goes into soda taps/machines almost certainly has a filter on it, so it's clear when it comes out and goes into glasses. Guaranteed they are not serving brown water to customers. If they are, then customers are definitely going to complain.

If anything, their filters are going to start to get clogged much faster and they're going to be moving through them more quickly. The mix from carbonated water to syrup will be thrown off and everything will taste sweeter or "more chemically" for diet sodas and customers will also complain.

ETA: Source is that I've watched distributors and inspectors test and inspect soda machines, test the water to syrup ratio, and we would get dinged if the soda mix was off, which may have been because of clogged filters that weren't performing as expected (water flowed slower and the syrup mix was left as-is). If we received more than a handful of points, the distributor or brand (Coca-Cola at the time) would fine us and threaten pulling their products. It was usually fixed by simply replacing the filter, restoring the water pressure and returning the water-to-syrup ratio back to the intended mix.

Driver must have read this article about how common cars crashing into 7-Eleven locations are and that they just paid $91M (!!!) to someone who lost both legs from being pinned between the store and a car.

The water intake does come from the James, but it is absolutely treated and is clear before it leaves the facility. The yellow coloring isn’t normal, but also isn’t an indication that it is unsafe to drink; it could just be from extra iron in the water.

The color coming and going is definitely an sign that there is either frequent water main issues near your building or something is shaking the pipes and causing it to mix particles in it.

Water filters that attach to the sink or spigot, or the Brita water pitchers with the filter cartridges, clear this right up.

If the water smells, though, probably best to skip drinking it.

City water isn’t normally yellow and is generally perfectly safe to drink. Yellow water is an indication of a leak elsewhere in the water supply line or rust. It typically clears up once the leak is fixed.

Check the news for any water main leak and boil water announcements. If neighbors aren’t experiencing that same color water, then the leak may be on your side of the water meter.

Fuck, I don't know what it is, but my mouth is watering right now just reading the name "The Burger Den."

Still won't try it tho cause I know what Denny's burgers taste like. Of all the burgers I've had, they're definitely burgers.

Our back yard—which is on a slope towards the back that sheds the surface water off our yard—is also heavy on clay soil and would make the spongy sound when you walked on it a day or two after a rain shower.

Once we started having it aerated every fall, that reduced most of the spongy sound since the water got deeper into the ground and more loose leaf/grass cuttings got into it.

That might be the cheapest/fastest route you could take. If you’re physically able to do it yourself, rent an aerator from HD and give it a pass. Otherwise, a lawn maintenance person/company can do this for you for a fee.

Regardless of who does it, make sure to walk around your yard and mark any solid things on or near the surface (exposed roots, trunks, sprinklers, rocks, etc.) in the ground that you’re aware of otherwise the aerator will buck on you if it hits it.

Thanks 🙂

In a comment OP made in r/nova 5 days ago on a related question there, OP said they were considering Richmond if they were going to stay in Virginia. Doesn’t look like they’re trolling.

That was a joke? I couldn’t tell by the typo in the first sentence. For all I know, you were typing while driving and got into an accident.

Also, posting that comment wouldn’t have worked if the connection dropped. Partial comments don’t work if the full contents of the message weren’t sent to the server yet.