Do you suddenly feel the need to go back and test everything?

I imagine they got squirrelly or something whenever the cops went near it.

The only really relevant thing in that article is

“Generational trashing is actually eternal human behaviour,” wrote the novelist Douglas Coupland in an essay for The Guardian earlier this month. And he should know: he coined the term “Generation X”. Baby boomers, he recalls, once poured scorn on Gen-Xers like him, who themselves grew up to be sniffy about the [avocado-and-toast eating habits of “snowflake” Millennials. And now it’s the turn of Generation Z, with their TikToks and identity politics, to be judged by their elders.

There’s actually a scientific term for this: the “kids these days” effect, which can be traced all the way back to the writing of the Ancient Greeks. “Since at least 624 BC, people have lamented the decline of the present generation of youth relative to earlier generations,” according to the psychologists who named the phenomenon. “The pervasiveness of complaints about ‘kids these days’ across millennia suggests that these criticisms are neither accurate nor due to the idiosyncrasies of a particular culture or time – but rather represent a pervasive illusion of humanity.”

The rest of the article isn’t about people forgetting how to mend a fence and generally being incapable.

Again. This fence thing didn’t have to be generational. You. Went. There.

Think about that.

You literally start off with

While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. …

Your comment is inherently ageist. Full stop. And by the way, there’s plenty of boomers who never knew how to fix shit.

You didn’t have to, but you made it about entire swaths of generations.

Bro, you can grab any old saw and cut off an end it -takes practically zero knowledge.

Stop bitching about “kids these days”.

More likely, the person either didn’t have a saw or was just lazy. This isn’t a generational issue. Don’t be ageist.

So, Peter at the gates comes from a more or less literal interpretation from the passage where Jesus was making Peter the first pope. “To you I hand the keys to the kingdom of heaven….”

What Jesus was saying is that Peter got to decide who was in the Blood Ritual Cannibal Club,

Keep in mind, the books were written well after Jesus died, and the scriptures weren’t canonized until 300 years later; at the council of Nicaea- which was called specifically to “unify” the church. A lot of the choices about what was canon or not was specifically made to protect the bulk of the bishop’s authority (by drawing a straight lineage of succession from Peter.)

sounds like it wasn’t intentional.

or at least plausible deniability is a thing.

Tau. because i like pi and 2 pi is always better than one.

Anything with iron can rust, including stainless steel.

Stainless that gets scratched will rust, as well as if the mild steel (or whatever the dust is,) causes a galvanic reaction. Or any where that the stainless is exposed to lesser steel. (Which is why you can’t store stainless with mild.)(including, in point of fact to milde steel dust…)

Alternatively, exposure to corrosives- bug juice, road salt and other deicers, potentially a dozen kinds of automotive fluids.

There’s a reason the rest of the automotive industry doesn’t use exposed stainless anywhere. And that reason me is it rusts (and is difficult to work with, and is more likely to kill people in an impact.)(people at Tesla told musk this. He didn’t care. Musk is an idiot.)

A wired as a source talking about the issues in CA drivers (where there is a lot of salt in the air.)

Yup.

Edit: why do you think google bought Fitbit?

Dr. Normal, I presume.

They’re fun at parties, too. Both kids parties and adult parties.

They do that so that legally your wife can open the advertisement. They don’t and you wanted to be a loser, you could report her for tampering with your mail. I’m not sure what the postal investigator would do. “Knock it off and call a divorce lawyer” might feature somewhere in the possibilities.

In any case they’re just pulling names off a list some where. They assume you’re married and in a typical cis relationship.

Same reason they add “or current residents” as well.

They want it read, they don’t care if it’s you or your wife or the luchador that’s randomly moved in with you.

Jumping is a bad way to go.

Personally, assisted suicide should be allowed; (but also maybe mandate a few rounds of therapy?) this way people don’t have to find out what being a human shaped puddle is like, because they jumped from not-high-enough.

When it’s a private agreement, that’s not BUILDING CODE.

Read my comment again.

Building codes are regulations imposed by city, state, or federal governments. Not by HOAs or landlords. If there is a building code that restricts political speech, it’s a first amendment violation.

I disagree.

It’s not that public education makes people progressive, though.

It’s that there’s now tons of poorly educated people who completely lack critical thinking skills.

You can see that in the resurgence of conspiracy theories like Flat Earth, and some of the antivax theories. (Microchips that can’t be found?)

Conservatives believe the shit people tell them because they’re too stupid to be critical of it. Like when trump tells them immigrants are eating pets, or that a wall is going to solve all the immigration problems; or that the economy some how suffers and it’s all their fault.

They’re uncritical and unable to reason out how self-evident his lies are.

We need that back. It won’t solve our problems, no. But if we’re going to solve them, we need people that are capable of discourse beyond macros.

this election is definitely moving “fund public schools” up on my priority list of things I care about. It’s now barely second to Climate Change quite possibly the top thing, because these idiots vote and we need the votes to deal with climate change.

Can’t smoke on the balcony,

Because that smoke goes into other people’s apartments. People who may not also be smokers or may have asthma or other medical conditions in which 2nd hand smoke is bad. not actually a building choice… most states now bar smoking inside or near a multi-unit residential building.

can’t dry clothes on it,

19 states have some form of “right to dry” legislation, most of which would protect drying on patio space.

can’t cook on it,

usually a matter of firecode. where I am, it’s illegal to have wood burning fire pits or charcoal grills, but gas grills are fine. Also, turkey friers.

These rules are because people are stupid and have caused apartment fires numerous times with these things. can you use charcoal safely? sure. Also, another reason smoking is generally illegal. there’s always that one smoker that forgets to clear out the ashtray every so often and that catches fire. (or they put a tissue in it or something, and that’s not at all fire retardant.)

can’t display any thing like a flag or banner on the balcony because of some made up aesthetic code, etc.

not actually legal. if there’s a residential building code that bans political speech (banners, flags, etc) then that’s a first amendment violation. The apartment can (maybe) ban things in their contract agreement, but that’s not a building code. that’s a contract agreement, and as long as it’s not exactly graphic, it probably falls into the “unenforceable” category.

so like, even if it were a box…

They don’t really have to encase each floor. most buildings are concrete, and they could just as easily seal that floor off and leave the observation platform open. But the reality is that it gets pretty windy up that high, and most people won’t want to be out there for very long at all. And not at all if it’s at all inclement.

not to mention… jumpers.

This is funny.

I don’t think you meant it to be, but it is.

yup.

edumpster is the polite way of describing it.