“I doubt many people renting homes have a mortgage with PMI so that’s out, I’ve always had to pay my utilities so that’s out, and I’ve rented plenty of places that made me do the yard work.”

“The bank will let you buy a $500k house with 100k down. Now, maybe you dont make as much money on a house. You only make 6% annually. And you have to pay a 3% interest rate. That means at the end of year one you would have 30k appreciation - 15k interest. You made $15k on your investment, rather than $8k from just…

Yep. It’s called the Streisand effect, and it’s very real. It will actually draw people to your address to see what the big deal is.

In New York State every salary and/or pension for every public employee in the state is public information that you can file a FOIL request for. No matter the salary. Even if you’re just a teenager working as a lifeguard at the city pool for the summer.

“Cops make bank, though.”

The girls are not in danger of becoming homeless. Ms. Kelly is just dating their father, but not living with him. The parents share custody and the dad uses his girlfriend as a babysitter. So sometimes the mom just cuts out the middleman and drops the kids off at the girlfriend’s apartment.

It probably was stolen, which is why the driver was willing to risk so many more infractions to avoid the stop. As others mentioned, the smell of weed by itself is not sufficient to perform an unauthorized search, but seeing the driver smoking is enough for a stop and sobriety check. I’m assuming the driver rolled…

“Well, sometimes it’s just not feasible to put your reaction vessel directly on the scale, especially if it’s attached to a stand mixer.”

Oaks, with their acorns aren’t bad. Honestly the birds and squirrels take most of them away, and what’s left is mostly the caps that just becomes mulch for the grass. And they don’t attract bugs like fruit trees. After having two pear trees, one apple tree, and one non-bearing cherry tree in my back yard, I would…

It’s like that old joke about why Scotsmen wear kilts.

Came here for the xkcd reference.

“Because . . . cats!”

Well maybe you live in a part of the country where weather isn’t so variable. But in the warmer months my electric bill can vary wildly from one month to the next depending on how hot it was. My gas usage can also vary wildly if we have a mild January followed by deep freezes in February. Although at least my gas…

Actually most canned foods are already heated in their cans. That’s why canned foods have such a long shelf-life. Because they are sterilized by heat after being sealed. There’s no problem with cooking with - or in - a metal can, as long as it’s been thoroughly cleaned.

Aside from the really well off - who can afford to employ an actual staff - most people use a cleaning service. The service charges the customer and handles the FICA, Medicare, etc.

Well this is a great hack for when you don’t have an angel food cake pan, but that’s not really a bundt pan. Both are types of tube pans, but what sets the bundt pan apart are the bands and other designs molded into it’s bottom and sides. The purpose of that is to bake a design into the cake, which will be visible…

No. Canada mostly follows the North American standard of Aluminum. Unless someone is a transplant, or just trying to sound like one.

No, she was talking about cases where a driver was deliberately riding between the ending lane and the lane being merged into, specifically to prevent people from doing a proper zipper merge.

What you’re talking about are weave lanes. Most traffic engineers have been avoiding them for years, and trying to reconfigure existing interchanges to get rid of them. They are not bad when traffic is light, but as it gets heavier they become very dangerous because of the fact that people are merging in both…

I remember one of my friends telling me about this film. Though I thought it was well before the 2000s. Unless there was another one with a similar story?