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pics@lemmy.world•These are tiny homes in Texas. Young people love them. Parking has become an issue though
4·1 day agoNot 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.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats best second hand market in your opinion?
42·1 day agoEbay 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.
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pics@lemmy.world•These are tiny homes in Texas. Young people love them. Parking has become an issue though
12·1 day agoTexas 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.
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pics@lemmy.world•These are tiny homes in Texas. Young people love them. Parking has become an issue though
10·1 day agoShipping 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.
- 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.
- Stick frame is infinitely customizable and even micro homes can be made (usually its an issue of the locality prohibiting such small housing.)
- 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.
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politics @lemmy.world•Republicans fear North Carolina and Georgia Senate races are slipping from their grasp
101·1 day agoNever 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.”
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politics @lemmy.world•Republicans fear North Carolina and Georgia Senate races are slipping from their grasp
29·1 day agoMaybe 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
- Started a whole new middle-eastern forever war
- Claim there is no cost-of-living crisis as it gets objectively worst
- 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.
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Technology@lemmy.world•‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AIEnglish
15·4 days agoYeah 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

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is the far-left so disorganised?
93·4 days agoDemocrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.
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Technology@lemmy.world•‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI EmployeesEnglish
391·6 days agoBut they do allow bestiality now.

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politics @lemmy.world•Katie Miller fears legal bills from potential Democratic investigations of Trump
2·7 days agoBut then how will they make money?
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politics @lemmy.world•More voters sour on Trump's defiant populism
13·8 days agoYeah skyrocketing costs and new forever-wars will do that to ya

Kash has been in a happy relationship for 6 years now
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
12·9 days agoStephen Miller has been a psychopath his whole life. Listen to the speech he gave in high school:
Stephen Millers Psychotic Speech

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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera
34·12 days agoMeta glasses without camera
So just normal glasses?
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Technology@lemmy.world•[US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwideEnglish
92·12 days agoAll the real hipsters use amplitude modulation. Posers use frequency modulation.













Not it I’m afraid. Even tried the similar songs google recommended. It could be a waltz but I suspect its actually based on a polka.