I live in an area with lots of pollen and high humidity and I just rinse the house off every so often. A pressure washer absolutely isn’t a requirement.

No, it’s nothing like renting because you’re financially responsible for literally everything. Need a new roof? Better be prepared to shell out $20k minimum. Need a new HVAC system? Yeah, it’s not much cheaper.

You don’t necessarily build as much equity in a home as people seem to think. With the costs of maintenance, insurance, property taxes, etc. it’s entirely possible to lose money with a house.

Sure, if you’re only looking at the purchase price vs selling price it looks nice, but there’s tons of costs that only serve to keep the selling price from dropping.

I mean, that’s one of the downsides to home ownership. If it’s not yard work, there’s always some sort of maintenance that needs doing.

You can either put it off until it becomes an emergency, pay someone out the ass to do it, or you can find some way to force yourself to do it.

I say this as I’m taking a break from climbing in my attic to replace the AC condensate pump line that I’ve been putting off for 3 months, so I don’t have to keep dumping 5 gallon buckets of water out twice a day. The quote to have a pro do it was $750

Remember, the only difference between a cult and a religion is membership levels.

Opportunity - Noun:

a favorable juncture of circumstances

• Merriam Webster

I suppose people dying is favorable if you want to push your cult on their grieving families.

At this point the Epstein files are the distraction

Yes, but they think that once they’re born, they should die

They’re probably paid trolls. Russia did it with every other social media platform, so it would be naive to think they didn’t do it here

The Republicans want those kids to die, so this is a win for them.

I’ve known a few jingle writers, and yeah, it was always a side gig.

Yup. Climate change will get us close, but this will push us over the edge. Can’t survive a genetic bottleneck if you can’t make babies.

He’d enjoy it too much

Yup

I don’t think him talking about child genitalia is much of a distraction.

I’m wondering if this is because of regulations like, “it has to have X amount of peanuts to legally be called peanut butter.”

It still doesn’t matter. Unless you specifically set up a separate network, everything will be in the same network.

Especially if you don’t statically assign your IPs.

Your stated use case doesn’t really require any special routing.

Alrighty, I’m going to go burn a flag in the movie theater in protest tomorrow. Surely the judge will throw out the charge.

Because best practices for connecting an unsupported operating system to the Internet are to not do it.

Even if the OS is safe on the day support ends, a critical vulnerability might be found just a few days later. It’s also possible that an exploit has already been found that the bad actor is sitting on it until support ends.

Even if that doesn’t happen, software developers are going to drop support for the OS and vulnerabilities found in those applications could be used to gain ingress.

No amount of “being careful using the Internet” is going to prevent hacking if the system has exploits. If you context a fresh install of XP to the Internet, your system will be compromised in a matter of minutes.

You can absolutely separate the two. Things don’t suddenly stop being a crime just because the flag is involved. If he had done this anywhere else other than property where it’s specifically illegal to start fires, this would be a different conversation.

Like, I can’t go into the California woods and start a fire whenever I want, regardless of whether the thing that’s burning is the flag.

All that being said, this is absolutely the trump administration punishing him for burning the flag, because any other president would have just ignored it.

All of mine are sequestered to their own vlan that can only talk to Home Assistant. But they do have ones that use matter now.