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The good news is that there is another single gay man out there for you. Several hundred to thousands depending on your area. Single straight men don't have that going for them so you have the advantage here.

Go through all your hobbies. Find every meetup related to them within an hour of your location. Attend them. Have fun doing what you are doing. Maybe you meet someone, maybe you don't, maybe you meet people that help you meet people. Either way you are out and doing the things you like and that's better for your mental health. It's win-win.

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I'm a handyman. New homes are trash.
Contractor grade fixtures that will need to be replaced. Everything is as cheap as possible. "Let's put the water heater in the attic so once it fails it will destroy everything under it." Let's use the push to shut-off water lines that will break the moment you decide you want to replace that crap faucet."

Once you live in you will want to spend upwards of 10% of the house value fixing all the crap that the builders did. Get yourself a high end inspector to go through the house with a fine tooth comb and they will find all kinds of code compliance issues that the builders will be liable for. New construction is crap. Most of them aren't built to last the length of a mortgage.

When you buy an older home you know there are things that will need expensive repairs. I bought my house knowing that 40 amps would get us by but it was going to cost $20k to get us current. The HVAC was on its last scheduled year of life. The roof was on its last scheduled year of life. Same for the water heater. The septic passed an inspection when it shouldn't have and I dropped $7k four months later to replace it because it collapsed. The AC hasn't worked in 3 years. I need to patch parts of the roof. The water heater died but I was able to replace it myself for a quarter the price of someone else doing it. But this house was 90k in 2017. I knew what I was buying. With new houses you expect things to last. But they don't. They are built to sell, not to last. And the more expensive the new house the worse the failures get. Don't even get me started on modern McMansion roof design.

You all inspired me to do some beautification in my veg garden ( lemmy.world )

When I planned these beds I spaced them far enough apart to get my lawn tractor in-between them, but getting between them and the fence involved my weed whacker. As anyone with a fence has found out, maintaining the grass at the base of a fence is a pain....

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I'm feeling a little called out right now. I have a similarly chicken proof raised bed area. The grass grows taller than the plants and I have to get in and mow it. One day I found some 1x2 ft tiles on a curb. I have to put those down to kind of help control the grass but it's not helping. I feel like I need to gravel the whole area because we get so much water.

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We are binging Chopped! right now. These just showed up in an episode with a toxic foods theme. I recognized the picture because I looked them up during the episode.

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This was definitely worth the watch. But I feel like the self promotion and app advertisement at the end detracted from the whole thing.

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I'm in Lesser Carolina. On Tuesday we had an election. Two state level offices. Each one had an incumbent Republican running against a different Republican. The results were basically known before the election happened. So I went in and voted for the non-incumbent just to have something to do. I was the only voter at my place the whole time I was there.

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There is no way the incumbents weren't going to win. All it does is show the incumbents that they aren't as secure as they think.

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The link at the top of the post works. Not sure why this comment one doesn't.

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The daily comic is available at https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff

I've just been notified that I can only post once per week by the admin of this group. So I just created !heathcliff where I will now post my edits. The originals and other people's edits.

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A lot of mammals we think of as herbivores are opportunistic carnivores.

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Handyman:
Charisma. Being personable means not going bankrupt by competing on a race to the bottom on price.

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The moment Clinton announced Al Gore as his running mate he lost my vote. I was very familiar with Tipper Gore and the PMRC and had even read her book "Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society"*

There was no way I was going to vote for anyone remotely related to her to be in the White House. It was the first election I had participated in. I do not regret this vote because Clinton still became president and things didn't work out for various reasons.

  • These days that book couldn't even get published. The page count was too small. You can't get a book that is less than 300 pages published anymore as a standalone thing through major publisher. This should make you question how much filler there is in current nonfiction books.
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"Near-complete Roman segmental armour,"

I love that type of armor but that line is full BS as it's missing at least 60% of its mass and materials.

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Old habits die hard.

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Yeah, piloting a small plane at 90 sounded sus to me.

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Can we talk about that coupon for potatoes? I could really use that coupon.

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That edit is from Hopcliff.

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New mirror test. Who dis?

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How do I feel about Gates? I'm not even sure I know. He increased productivity by leaps and bounds. He donates unfathomable sums of money to good causes. He has a problem in that his wealth grows so fast that it's almost impossible for him to donate it fast enough to actually end up with less money at the end of a year than he started out with but that's kinda the problem with having billions of dollars and trying to actually do good instead of paving a road to hell. He engaged in monopoly practices. He likes to eat the same thing over and over and over again. He is buying up farmland at an insane rate with the idea of big things. I got so many mixed feelings that I don't know how you would know when I don't know myself.

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Have you seen the Venn diagram of pey saying "if we shrink government social spending people and charities will step up to fill the void" and "billionaires are using money to control people"?

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What I really don't get is how people that believed then could say "We have seen naught progress on the last big promise. Let's go bigger" 6 years later and decided that Brexit was a good idea. "Look at all the money that will be freed up for social programs." Money created through trade. Trade that stopped. On an effing island completely dependent on trade.

Sure, my country elected a conman, got 1% wiser and fired them 4 years later. And yet here we are again going "you know, things were sure easier when we had a conman in charge. Even though that last year we thought we were going to die or that the conman was in on a conspiracy to make us think we were going to die. We should bring him back."

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Inside joke implies the existence of a joke.

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I felt bad about taking out the whole balloon but felt it made it more clear that the ambassador was MEAT.

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