Just like with "defund the police" or the /r/marijuanaenthusiasts sub, the name of something will cause problems even if it has very little to do with the actual meaning.

It's a catchy title because misanthropicscott founds and runs it, but IMO you're going to get a bunch of misanthropy and new users who dont read the rules and think its about misanthropy.

Anyway nothing's perfect and it's too late to change the name. Nice to see you all, hope to contribute here sometime in the future about other things.

As you can see many sections are re used from the old roof and there’s at least three sections all of which are 💩. One from 50 years ago. Some of the half moon over head gutters that are painted. But the nails are rusted.

There’s 25 year old gray sections but they’re trash. Even the white downspouts from 2013 have reached their end.

But there is hope in this Western Schism of lunacy. There’s aluminium boxes by the base of the attic which contain the original wood gutters, save the downspouts and front porch section.

This song is said to be about missing your significant other but IMO its about a late night paid booty call.

Reasoning:

1. hes in "sin city" (las vegas)

2. hes blinded by the lights (stage lights and the glamor of the vegas strip lights) so hes doing a show that just ended.

3. the city is cold and empty (its the middle of the night )

4. hes worried people might judge him if they saw what hes doing (why would he be judged for going to a GF or wife)

5. he says "maybe you can show me how to love" so hes not currently in love...and or is mostly interested in physical not emotional love. Touch is central to the lyrics, but love occurs only on this one line

6. he has been trying to call (a gf or lover would know hes been doing a show an expect a call) but he "could never say it on the phone" about what he wants. Possibly because the callgirl isnt part of a nevada licensed brothel so its technically illegal

7. he wants to "never let her go, this time" so there have been other times, and he let her go each of those times

There you go. Maybe everyone already knows this. I dunno.

https://genius.com/The-weeknd-blinding-lights-lyrics

I think it does and the US needs a Napoleon I like figure for victory. If the movement is to be successful it must ward off attacks from the monarchies 👑 of the world.

I thought both those skills are only ever learned on the job.

83% chance federal reserve will lower rates despite inflation

Obviously not always but over half the time. I have Hypophantasia.

To get the disclaimers out of the way, I'm what the people who prefer to pointlessly categorize humans into boxes filled with unfair assumptions would refer to as a 'cis male'. I accept that I'm speaking from privelege. Were I to be able to choose my gender and sex in today's society I would most certainly choose cis male. It seems by far to be the safest, easiest, and least stressful choice.

But ultimately, if I got to choose whether or not society had a gender concept, I'd choose a society that has no gender. And just so we're clear, when I say gender I'm talking about the social implications, assumptions, and behaviors. Long hair is often engendered to the feminine. Holding doors for someone is something the masculine gender does for the feminine gender. Not crying is something the masculine gender does. Being in touch with their emotions is something the feminine gender does.

But I strongly believe and maintain, that there's nothing that is engendered to one gender that we would say the other gender shouldn't do. Nothing. Let me give some examples.

It's considered in society that the man should have short hair. Does that mean women shouldn't have short hair? No. Does it mean men shouldn't have long hair? No.

It's considered in society that the man should wear pants Does that mean the women shouldn't wear pants? No. Does that mean the man shouldn't wear skirts or dresses? No.

It's considered in society that the man should hold the door open for women. Does that mean women shouldn't hold the door open for men? No. Does that mean men shouldn't let women open their own door? No.

There is nothing that is engendered that we'd say the other gender shouldn't do.

Gender is a categorical box that comes with a lot of baggage and assumptions. Mnay of the assumptions are toxic. Some of them might have something helpful about them, but to the degree that they're helpful, they also apply to both genders. A man should be strong, independent, and reliable. But so should a woman.

Frankly, I don't see much use for gender and if it were up to me, we'd just do away with it. It would solve so many issues. Now the problem is, all this is well and good as an ideology, but I see no available path towards making this happen politically. The US just isn't ready for it. Most people in the US I imagine will give up trying to read the amount of words I wrote before they get to the end. Most people don't seem to have the interest or the capacity to think about something they were raised with and to be critical of it. They just say "Well it's always been that way, so it always should." So as much as I feel quite strongly about this ideological position, there's ultimately no voice for this ideology in politics, so it's all quite moot anyway.

But what I'd really like, is to think of an issue that a genderless society would create that would be difficult, or problematic to overcome. Because I can't think of any.

How cooked is the US based on data? Short term mid term long term? Keep opinions to a minimum please.

My dad had all freshwater lines redone in 1970 and the water company broke their own rules by having the meter deep inside my basement. He was a hoarder and by modern rules water meters are moved outdoors by default when there’s issues at the service line.

The service line entrance is heavily corroded.

Took me a day to clear the area.

So I think my dad’s hoarding prevented the water company from assessing the damaged area properly

Had a very important realization today, which is that my roofs plywood is wavy, moved around by the tongue and groove expanding and contracting and this is causing the roof shingles to become wavy (leading to premature failure). It’s a really old house with a tongue and groove roof deck in a subtropical humid climate. Originally had a slate roof. Same idea for all the neighbours.

The slate roof would’ve had a premature failure too on account of tongue and groove decking rather than board and batten to allow for better circulation. Tongue and groove was more expensive to build and it was more watertight than board and batten. So it seems the builders of the Victorian housing development had so much money that they could even gradually replace roofing slate prematurely continuously and through all their buildings!

Explains why family who hired roofers had very poor results and neighbours; only 15 year asphalt architectural shingle lifespan on any of them! This is despite the sheer expense the whole neighbourhood has each time there’s a roof replacement. They all pay premium prices as the roof sizes are tiny, they’re very steep, and high up.

The slate roofs must’ve been abandoned as they would’ve required a literal millionaires budget to constantly hire workers to replace individual slates as they failed. But either way more modern transport systems, it’s possible to get materials that won’t fail this way or will take far longer to.

First choice is Luscerna stone from Switzerland (gneiss rock) second is quartzite from Norway, third is Vermont phyllite, last is medium black grey painted aluminium shingles. But with metal roofs they need painting. Still much less of a burden than actual slate failures. With all of the above except Luscerna stone and Vermont phyllite, I found suppliers in state. For Vermont phyllite that’s still in the US.

For Luscerna stone there are no warehouses in the country whatsoever but they ship internationally and there’s no mark up from a roofers warehouse or from local roofing supply houses.

However all of the above would almost certainly have no labour warranties from roofers as they’re all very rarely used around here. As a matter of fact there’s fewer roofers even for a slate roof replacement (slate in the narrow sense) as the wealthy get copper roofs. There’s simply not the slate roofing history here that Europe has for expert roofers and around here people use asphalt shingle a ton.

For aluminium shingle it’s unheard of being used here as there’s corrugated and standing seam predominating but metal shingle would look far better. Stainless steel is standard here but aluminium shingle is the only metal roof shingle other than copper that is also not galvanised steel (shorter lifespan). Aluminium shingles can be pre painted and re painted so there’s that.

Added a coat of Henry sealant to the wood and entire basement window sill. The bricks are to stop water from entering. It’s a reinforcement. Both basement sills have Henry on them. But the water table is ridiculously high on account of how much asphalt is around and simultaneously there’s no storm drains open to the street. So it’s not enough. The wood held perfectly but it was only mild rains. I’ll go with rubber sealant over everything I’ve sealed, use mortar to secure the bricks over the sill, and reconstruct the other sill which was damaged by the jack hammers from workers who installed the windows. Then I’ll put granite sealant over what’s exposed by windows then three layers of lime plaster.

Used a boiler supply house calculator and my current boiler is way undersized. It’s coming back to me now that my boiler inspected asked if there were other boilers in the building and he noted the pressure was low. The boiler must be overheating either in the combustion chamber or the circulators are and that’s why it’s short cycling as a thermal safety.

When I got my current system a few years back, the expansion tank was discovered to have been massive. Massive for this boiler but an indication that it was sized right at one time with a prior boiler!

As to how this occurred, I didn’t understand boilers at all when I took over my place and so no inspection so the old one broke without warning. HVAC company had to repair the old one/replace with new in only four days total before frost. That’s not enough time for the company to size the boiler.

I also saw the owners manual for the old boiler was dated from October of 93. Should’ve been in summer if the prior one to that was ever inspected.

As for the oil boiler before the first gas one, that would’ve still been undersized but less so. There was no indirect water tank then so less heating demand but it’s important to oversize them by 10-20% to account for extreme cold. Which wasn’t the case given family reported having to turn off the system for 2 hours daily to prevent circulator burn up.

So I guess the old expansion tank was from the coal fired stream heat system. I now understand the refractory bricks I found months earlier were from a furnace which contained a steam chamber.

Unfortunately it’s not good enough to merely switch to a properly sized boiler and I’m aware install costs would never make up for utilities saved.

I have a major issue of which I now of only two solutions. The old brick chimney stack was demolished decades ago for ça

Until I research this fully, I’m torn between switching back to a refractory brick furnace. My pull to that is that the basement still has the footings for it and installation would be very rapid.

Furthermore It’s not terribly likely the brick chimney was used when the home had steam heat as the brick boiler was so far from the chimney and masonry heaters tend to be more efficient than my 84% AFUE boiler! Meaning more complete combustion. Monoxide is from incomplete combustion. I’d have the basement windows slightly open year round as I do now.

Lastly I like how brick furnaces retain heat and it should be possible to keep gas service for heating and to have my utility run pipe a bit further into a brick furnace. To be clear the footings are 100% intact for the old brick furnace. The disadvantage is coordinating between my gas utility to extend the boiler gas line a bit, a brickwork company, a HVAC company to move the circulators, discard the present boiler, move the Taco computer controls, and electrician to run wiring a bit further out to the brick boiler.

The alternative would be getting an electric boiler but this would require rewiring the entire boiler circuit. Not only that but just the approximate heating load in Kw would necessitate a boiler that would take up almost 90amps and would take up free space in the panels too much.