I’d love to install solar panels, I have a flat rubber roof with no tree coverage that’s perfect for it. A $35,000 upfront cost is an absolute nonstarter for me. I have it, but that’s basically my entire emergency fund. If someone would pay me to have them installed, hell yeah, let’s do it.
I visited Buffalo in March on the tail-end of our Niagara Falls trip on the CA said (and went to a Sabres game and some great bars/restaurants). I really loved the feel of the neighborhoods around the city there. We live in St. Louis, in a similarly old house to what we saw in Buffalo (ours was built in 1906, they’re all brick here though). As you pointed out, there are houses on tree-lined streets here as well, and I’m within a mile’s walk of 5 or 6 large parks that often host free concerts and other events, I can walk to a fair amount of bars and restaurants, and plenty of other things. The only real thing holding it back where I live is how car-centric the construction has been. I could walk to the Soulard district easily (less than a mile) but in order to do so, I have to cross a 5-lane road called Gravois, which has bad visibility in both directions, and people tend to run red lights there often. There’s no protected pedestrian crossing and people get killed there every year by cars, so we usually just drive over there. The city is finally working on walk-ability and public transpo by extending the Metrolink commuter rail to go north/south, and by adding a protected bike lane on one of the main thoroughfares (Jefferson). We’re also seeing the construction of a lot more mixed use buildings (apartments on the upper levels, retail on the ground floor) and that has been a very welcome addition. I feel like we moved from the suburbs to the city at exactly the right time, as there’s additional (booming) growth in Midtown and Downtown West thanks to the addition of our MLS team and all the land they’ve revitalized, which has in turn attracted development to a previously fairly barren area.
One of the first things I did when joining kbin was start blocking many of the meme communities. It’s just not for me. Same reason I deleted my Facebook all those years ago. The ONE exception is LOTRmemes because come on
Same here. I’ve had mine for a few weeks and I love it. The battery life is amazing too, I charge it once a week.
Maybe r/offmychest ?
My wife loves AITA even though she’s fully aware that most of them are fake. I’m sending this list to her to see if she recognizes any lol
Hmm well it was 430 miles but yes I did drive safely.
I don’t have one within 500 miles of me so…done, I guess?
Which book? I’ve never heard of him before today but after reading a few articles I’d like to check out one of his books. Googling sends me quite a few results.
SWTOR. I did a whole new build so I could play it.
The 7 hour drive I had last week included one stop for gas, but that’s it. We usually refer to the amount of time the gps says it will take.
Pay off my mortgage, invest it and live off the interest, and spend the rest of my life traveling with my wife
I’m the opposite. I live in the midwestern US so when it’s hot, it’s also humid. If my room is above 72F I can’t even sleep, I just sweat right through the sheets. On the other hand, when it’s 40F out, I’ll open my windows and sleep in my boxers.
I’m 34 (male) and my brother is 31. He’s my best friend (besides my wife) but he moved like 10 hours away so we try to fly a couple of times a year to hang out. We text every day multiple times.
Same thing as Lemmy, just a different site but it’s federated as well. Lemmy can see kbin content and we can see Lemmy content. I’m replying from kbin right now.
I have Firefox set to automatically do all that whenever I close my browser but it’s still somewhat of an issue on kbin. Not enough to bother me but it happens.
Just kbin and discord, I have no other social media.
I decided to go with Plex because I can use it from my roku TVs and my game consoles. I let a few friends and family members log in as well to stream and they’re primarily doing it from game consoles. Most of those people don’t even have a desktop PC. Granted, I don’t know what features in that ballpark that Jellyfin may have now, I set this up a long time ago and just haven’t really given it much thought since then.
Bioware made the previous Baldur’s Gate games so that makes sense lol