Not really sure. Some stuff like the hurricane screws is something typically only for new builds. Stuff like storm shutters are fairly common add-ons in Florida. All these tweaks are added costs, adding extra insulation in colder climates adds costs too but the point is that modern construction techniques have evolved to address pretty much every scenario you can think of. Thats why things like shipping container houses are stupid.

Ebay is still the best. It sucks that local thrift stores are such garbage these days. Goodwill, Salvation Army, Knights of Columbus, they’re all pretty crummy these days. Goodwill went super corporate and became more like Big Lots (buying unsold department store stock) rather than a perpetual garage sale like it used to be. And prices for anything good are Ebay level.

Facebook marketplace seems to be a bunch of scams these days, not to say it isn’t useful for some stuff but I’ve noticed niche items are often scammers/fakes. Not sure what their goal is. Craigslist depends on location but in my area it’s shit now.

So since Ebay charges to list and sell stuff it’s still best since that weeds out most scammers and you’ll probably be paying Ebay prices wherever else you look at these days.

Texas is experiencing an influx of tech workers from India. These little houses are a major upgrade from conditions most of them are used to back home.

Shipping containers are horrible for that. They’re metal so they rust and people that convert them tend to get older ones in bad shape. They don’t breathe so you have to worry about ventilation and sealing the metal before even building otherwise they start to rust even quicker.

Theres basically no cost savings to using one compared to building the exact same space using stick-frame construction. Theres a reason why stick-frame is the reigning champion for affordable homes after millennia of evolution. It’s really the best way (in the North American climate) to build a cheap house. Things like how comfortable, energy efficient, safe are all matters of addressing the local climate and there are solutions to all those issues.

1. Cold climates get more insulation and the plumbing is ran in interior walls to protect against freezing, the foundation goes down below the frost line.
2. Stick frame is infinitely customizable and even micro homes can be made (usually its an issue of the locality prohibiting such small housing.)
3. Live in tornado alley? We can add a tornado shelter under your garage floor if you don’t want to build a full basement. Living in Florida where you can’t dig a basement cause the water table is so high but you want protection from hurricane winds? Well we can build with hurricane screws which hold everything together better and even add metal storm shutters to windows.

Never forget “Kamala will win Iowa by +14 points” and “Hillary has a 98% chance of winning” whenever you see a poll.

You’re in this shitty situation right now because lots and lots of apathetic people believed the polls and didn’t bother to vote. We know cause the day after Kamala lost you know what search term trended? “How to vote after election day.”

Maybe they should’ve stuck to their campaign promises like no new wars and addressing the cost-of-living crisis by making things affordable.

Instead they

1. Started a whole new middle-eastern forever war
2. Claim there is no cost-of-living crisis as it gets objectively worst
3. Tariffed everything so shit got way more expensive and even when they get ruled illegal the money is just refunded to the corporations who don’t pass it on back to the customers

No shit you’re unpopular with voters.

Yeah it wasn’t AI. It was the head of Google Ads (who got promoted to head of Google Search) that changed the search results so they were less accurate so users would spend more time on the results page and thus look at ads longer.

The Man Who Killed Google Search

But most people like the smell of gasoline, they’ll love being showered in when they get t-boned at an intersection.

Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.

Vance isn’t smart enough to know that either

I sure hope so

Yeah its so strange that jokes just aren’t possible

Meemaw is that you?

But they do allow bestiality now.

Vance is a baby face version borrowed from the “did you even say pwease” meme. People in the background are all real but at a way lower resolution than Vance. These are fingerprints of my shoddy photoshopping so you know its not AI.

Haha oh yeah forgot about that. Ok so they are on the same level.

Thank you.

Its cringe either way because we know he purposely said it, then lied and played it off like it was an accident, then spun it into some kind of attack on the “fake news”

Vance should change his name (again for like the 4th time) from JD to JC (Just Cringe) because thats all Vance is capable of.