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bluGill

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A programmer with an interest in transit, making music, and building things of all types.

I have dysgraphia which makes writing difficult for me. I hope you can figure out what I mean despite my issues.

  • Over 80,000 Illinois people banned from owning guns still keep them, report shows

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  • There are lots of ways to hide guns. One person who is a legal gun owner who doesn't approve of the law can hide them for his friends. Do not assume Illinois is united on this, enough voters are to pass a law, but gun owners consider this a tyranny of the majority and are sticking together

    In a lot of rural areas where guns are most common the police don't approve of the law. They won't ask for a warrant in the first place. If someone else asks for one they will give plenty of warning to the person to be searched - or they will just take the warrant and throw it away without searching. If forced to search they will ignore you moving guns past the front door when they knock, then when the door opens find no guns in plane sight in the front room and leave.

  • Fewer people in the US plan to buy EVs this year, study shows

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  • If you can't get to work during a cold snap than either you are not charging your battery (that is your stupid fault), or live a lot farther from work than the average person and really need to move anyway.

  • Fewer people in the US plan to buy EVs this year, study shows

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  • I've wanted one for many years - but so far there is still no EV minivan for sale, and that is what my family needs right now.

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  • Which is true only in the rare case you only have one office that everyone is in. As soom as you don't have everyone in the same room teams is better. So once you have more than 50 people

  • US home prices have soared 47% so far this decade, outpacing all of the growth seen in the 1990s and 2010s

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  • Yes you can. Banks do loans for this kind of thing all the time. They prefer experience though, and so if you don't have that you will need to prove you have enough on the line that you will lose if you don't complete the deal.

    Many condos are built by small companies. They build a few every month and it is enough to pay their employees and make a nice living. It is hard to break into this as the banks want to see experience, but it can be done.

  • FTC bans most noncompete agreements between employers and workers

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  • While they have been around forever, courts tend to take kindly to the argument that you need to be able to earn a living doing what you are an expert in, and so unless very narrow they tend to be struck down. You need a good lawyer though to get far in court which often makes the fight not worth it.

  • Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming.

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  • If I'm the only conservetive you know then your circle has a serious lack of diversity.

  • Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming.

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  • As much as the claim all conservetives only act in their best interest.

  • Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming.

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  • All humans act in what they think is there self-interest. Nothing to do with any political leaning.

  • Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens

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  • They hope to scare enough people to get a change. don't let it work.

  • How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

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  • Only if there is a monoboly in place. If there is a market then when they raise rents you just go elsewhere. Since these are items rented by the day it isn't hard to go elslwhere in the city.

  • How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

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  • drive the retail areas of town and look for the rental signs. yellow pages. They want to be found by locals so look in the places locals might. hardware stores either rent stuff or will tell you if you ask.

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    Colorado Senate Rejects Bill Barring Rent-Setting Algorithms

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  • Details matter and there are often subtile details that make an otherwise good thing aweful.

  • How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

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  • There are pros and cons to both. Sometimes you should rent, others buy. If you use it every day then buying is often best. If you need it once a decade then rent.

  • How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

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  • There always have been some around. Not all diy stores have one but there is always one near from what I've seen. People keep discovering them and thinking they are new.

  • Why gas bikes just can't compete with electric motorcycles in the summer

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  • The new ones are quiet enough that you won't notice them in the rest of traffic. Of course almost all of them are modified to be illegally loud.

  • Majority of Americans over 50 worry they won't have enough money for retirement: Study

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  • More than 50% of americans in this age group have a 401k. 34% of all americans have one. There are also iras and the like.

  • Ukraine wiped out 100 Russian troops at once in a strike showcasing the range and power of its new US ATACMS

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  • I don't think these reach any refinery so that isn't an option. What is best is anything that sows confusion.

  • EPA earmarks $3 billion to replace lead pipes nationwide

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  • They don't have to be dug up. The first step is chemistry - Flint was fine with lead pipes until they switch water sources to something with a different composition (ph I think - but there are other factors and we should get expert chemists to speak here not laypeople like us). Anywhere that lead pipes exist we need monitoring to ensure that the water doesn't dissolve lead, once we have that in place the pipes don't leach much lead and we can do a slower replacement when the pipes need to be replaced anyway.

    We also have technology to put a plastic liner in existing pipes for much less than digging the pipes up. It doesn't work for all situations, but when it does is a lot cheaper and should be investigated for any pipe that is expected to last a long time.