MILFMAN

Good ridden. When he became Admin he just became a raging shitbag.

2 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

are there no fixer-uppers in undesirable areas? 

two things ruined that market imo, house flippers and the 'youth' don't know how to fix anything themselves.  

dealing with renters in a multifamily complexes it's easy to quickly identify people who should be renters as many don't have a f'ng clue about maintenance, repair, remodeling, etc. of a home.

IDK if it's the same where you are but we've raised a society of people incapable of doing very little for themselves.

Agreed. Blue collar and getting dirty was looked down upon for too long. Schools told everyone they needed to go to college.....Look how that has turned out. Taxpayers are now having to pay the loans..

Now it is coming back the other way. Blue collar is starting to kill it now!

I have been eyeballing one of these for myself.

1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

You’re driving inflation up…….stop buying shit.

Ok. You first.

So what is your contribution to the topic?

Do you disagree inflation is that much?

I know what some of our power plants PAID for gas this week and it definitely wasn't zero or less than.

I am not finding a lot of specific information on this.

I think there is a very localized issue as maybe the producers want to get rid of the gas to quickly shift focus to the more lucrative oil. Take a quick loss for bigger profits. Natural gas in the country is still far from free.

5 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Maybe you are? Stop buying things.

 

 

see what I did there?

No I don't. What are you trying to "do"? Please explain.

I have definitely cut back on my discretionary spending as I am saving up to turn my camp into my retirement house.

https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/weekly/

Doesn't look negative to me.

I must be missing something.

Justice served

Both Biden and Trump are responsible for this inflation.

14 hours ago, Steve753 said:

No heel spurs either.

or asthma......Remember, Biden and Trump both had 5 deferments each. Then Trump had heel spurs and the college athlete Biden has asthma. The both deserve our Disrespect for that.

3 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

that's a fuckload of steak and lobster... cuz it ain't macncheese

sounds like a lot of expenses by choice 

Not at all. Healthy food is expensive. $100 a week just on fruit.

I have an 18 year old son that eats half of our groceries himself.....

A family size box of cereal last 2 days.

3 dozen eggs a week.

We pack all our work lunches.

Home cooked family meals 6 nights a week.

I don't buy a lot of steak, but my moose meat and venison is almost depleted.

I live in Maine so lobster is not much more expensive than sandwich meat. (not that I eat it more than a few times in the summer)

I buy what I can in bulk at Sam's Club.

The grocery bill is up around $75 a week on average the past few years.

54 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

 

I am talking about my own personal experience for my household that I am not responsible for and not per person.

We spend at least $400 - 500 per week on groceries. That is my biggest monthly expense.

I also forgot the annual increases to my property tax which averages an increase of 400 - 600 per year, mainly due to the school budget.

I spend a fair amount of gas from driving 3 hours each to the lake house, especially during snowmobile season because I am towing. i don't include that, because that is all on me.

Anything recreational has skyrocketed. Ticket prices, etc..

15 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

would love to see the breakdown of this additional $1k per month...  

 

I doubt I am at $12000 per year, but could be close to it.

#100 a month extra for auto insurance. (that pisses me off...)

Electric rates.

Groceries.

Going out to eat or for drinks has increased at lot...I'll guess 20% and more some places.

The price of almost all goods.

The price of purchasing or maintaining and auto has gone through the roof.

Helping my kids with college.

OK, I retract my first statement...I am over 12K a year.

12 hours ago, Mainecat said:

Here’s a question?

”when does a boat become a ship”?

Great question. It seems the definition has changed over the years. I had to google and not even sure if that is correct.

When it surpasses 500 tons of displacement or greater than 197 feet long.

There are ships that certainly will fit on other ships now....

40 minutes ago, Jerry 976 said:

Why does my gut tell me they will be making changes all around the US, any cargo ship over X size and X Tonnage will have to have X amount of Tugs along side while navigating with in a certain distance of any bridge. 

Sounds like we need to gets into the tug business.

2 hours ago, Kivalo said:

No its not harder. We are required to have the anchor ready for immediate deployment specificaly for such a case of loss of power or control of the vessel. The anchor would be made ready in all respects for freewheeling.

I haven't worked on ships in 25 years, but what I spoke of was my personal experience on ships internationally, and on tugs and barges in this country, including Baltimore. We did not have anchors ready to drop when maneuvering. Not that it isn't a bad idea though. Either it is a newer requirement since I was a Merchant Marine, or it is a best practice you are doing.

12 hours ago, Kivalo said:

You absolutely can drop the anchor without power. We are required to have our anchor ready for immediate deployment when manuvering for just such a reason.

It could, yes. Backing down hard, which now seems likely, would also have a profound effect on ships yaw.

Sometimes it is a lot harder to drop the anchor without power. Often there is a riding pawl that locks the chain in. In that case it needs to be brought in a touch to release, or with more difficulty and dangerous, needing to be pried out.

I found out I have a college classmate that is in charge of the NTSB investigation of this. 

It won't take long to figure out what happened. There are event recorders in the engine room as well as the bridge. The bridge likely has voice recorders also.

Terrible accident.

I am not a trump fan, but he is not wrong.

WTF Steve.... Time to step back and evaluate yourself

39 minutes ago, HSR said:

We had a 9 bank hydrogen storage facility where I worked and had tanker trucks deliver it about every 2 months depending on how much the plant operated.

Generator cooling.

Yes. The power plants I have worked at all have hydrogen cooled generators. That has been around a longggg time.

There are a few GE 7FA gas turbines in hydrogen fuel burning trials now. One is in Texas. I forget where the other is. That is much more likely feasible then setting up hydrogen fuel stations for residential autos.

1 hour ago, HSR said:

For you I would think Trumps balls would be at the top of the list 

Classy. It was a simple question....

I don't consider most rednecks the sneaker wearing folks.... They usually wear steel toed work boots when it is 90 degrees.

1996 Dodge Ram 1500 new off the lot after I graduated college and worked 6 months. paid cash.

34 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

one person can't shut a place down so i'd call it blowing off steam and making a joke of his reputation as a site destroyer.  

Agreed.

Every claim I have heard of has been dismissed. One of the schools the hoax originated from near Bangor Maine was proven to be untrue. Now there are definitely a lot of furies that I have seen over the past year. Kids wearing a fucking cat costume.....

Meanwhile my son had to put a sweatshirt on over a Maine Moose hunting T-shirt....