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Have the company deliver and unload it to an actual storage unit near your chosen domicile. Storage units are usually like 1/4 the cost of using a POD or anything else and they’re way more secure than you’d think. It would have cost us at least 65-75% less if we had done it that way.

My moving guys worked out a deal with me to work for cash at 1/5th of the price. Your renters/ home owners insurance is better than a moving company 's. Movers insurance is something like .34c per lb, ask me how I know.

Could you elaborate? Is this assuming for some reason you aren't able to get everything into your new place, and you'll require either an extra storage unit or a POD no matter what? Are you just talking about the savings between the two? How do you save money using a storage unit? Did the moving company offer lower rates for storage containers, or is it for some other reason? If you don't already have a unit to deliver to, that's going to be an additional expense to factor in. Was the price that much cheaper just because it was handled through rental/home insurance? How did that work?

If you even use a moving company in the first place, I'd assume the moving company has a hand truck, so putting heavy stuff (e.g. books, weights, pots/pans, etc.) in a box is fine, just set them aside for the hand truck. That said, I've never hired a moving company to move, myself, and we never used one growing up; rent or borrow a truck or trailer (they often come with a hand truck. Otherwise, I think hand trucks can perhaps be rented from some places, or you might have to ask around for one to borrow) and if you have some friends/family you can convince help you move, that'll speed it up immensely. Thanking your friends with donuts/OJ/coffee when they show up in the morning and pizza/soda/beer for lunch (and maybe even dinner afterward) is probably cheaper than hiring a moving company, but I guess I haven't looked at any moving rates. I don't have experience with any super long-distance moves, either, so getting people to help you for every step might not be feasible, but in that case, you could at least maybe get help loading up the truck. If you still require help unloading, perhaps you could hire a couple guys hanging outside Home Depot or off of Craigslist for a few hours? Your new neighbors might also be willing to help you carry a couple heavy or bulky things in for free if you're unable of doing it yourself.

The only other tip I have to add is that you can sometimes get free boxes from grocery stores and such. I've had better luck with places with deal with a lot of produce and places that are less corporate (some large chain stores have policies against giving away free empty boxes).

I might question the relevance of this thread in this community in the first place, though. Perhaps c/lifeprotips might be better?

Those fabrics are made of plastic, which is derived from oil, which forms over long periods of time from buried decaying plant and animal matter. 70% of the Earth's oil is from the Mesozoic Era, which encompassed the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods, so formed during a time when dinosaurs lived and jokes about oil being made of dinosaurs are common. Oil is actually made of plankton rather than dinosaurs, though.

TL;DR? It's not written like an article at all (i.e. the important information isn't what's included first like it's supposed to be). It's all one long buried lede that goes on and on.

I was curious, so I pasted it into a word processor. This article is literally thirty three pages long. It's really more of a short story than an article.

My thoughts exactly; I realized that after posting my comment, too. All it would take is for mom to put two-and-two together with the circumstances to get suspicious. It's possible there are other relatives with keys, though. It's also possible there isn't any footage available of the actual entering of the property. Still pretty screwed unless everyone else is as dumb as he is. Cops will probably have asked the aunt if anyone else has a key or otherwise had free access, since there'd be no sign of forced entry, which would greatly narrow down suspects no matter how many relatives had keys. If her nephew happens to appear on camera nearby right around when the robbery could have occurred, and he's not routinely seen walking around the neighborhood, that's not a good look. It's still circumstantial, though. With 4chan in mind again, he probably does still live with his mom and has the stolen stuff in his closet or under his bed or something. Even if he doesn't still live with her, I bet his mom could still make an excuse to visit his place to look around. Then he's really cooked once she finds the stuff. It's probably only a matter of time before it all blows up in his face. Something tells me OOP isn't exactly a criminal mastermind.

Gotta be drugs, right? I can't think of many other things that might lead someone to steal from their own relatives. Not good at all, but at least he could blame addiction. With 4chan in mind, though, I shudder to think that they might have robbed their aunt just to get enough money to buy some stupid hobby/collector's item. What's his plan now, though? Still no cash in hand. He could try selling them anonymously on craigslist, but it's risky keeping the stolen goods on you and he probably doesn't know any fences. Fortunately for OOP, cops don't give a shit about houses getting robbed and aren't going to follow-up on it by tracking down and seeing in person all the possible listings. Their aunt will never hear back from those cops. OOP just better hope his aunt doesn't see any of that footage herself and recognize him.

I think this is a pretty good representation of rams in pastry form. I can see the phallic resemblance, but honestly, I think this isn't bad at all. If you wanted to be sure they wouldn't be confused with anything other than a ram, perhaps you could get some food-grade paints and paint in eyes, nose, mouth, nostrils, etc. I think the faces being painted/frosted on would help eliminate the tendency to see a dick and make it less ambiguous.

I've had to read a few old German documents for personal genealogical research and good god, the handwritten words were hard to make out. Spent like 20 minutes just trying to read the phrase "ein und funfzig" (51, as in 1851). Someone else who'd read those documents completely misread them and listed his birthyear 20 years later than it should be, implying he was a 13 year old boy when he married a 30-something year old woman.

TL;DR: No. The half-life of hydrogen-sulfide (one of smelliest constituents of a fart) reacting with the oxygen in the jar from just your fart is 12-37 hours. The article gives an example of a particularly potent hypothetical fart that would only retain any distinguishable odor for 9 days tops.

It already exists as the intro to one of the maps in Nazi Zombies in COD: Black Ops

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zv61MWfg20&pp=ygUPamZrIGNvZCB6b21iaWVz

Not too far from the one I came up with:

Show me your feet, boys

And taste my soles

Treat my toes like a tootsie roll and lick away

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The Hong Kong protests, though... I'm not saying that's worse than American police, but I have little reason to believe they'd be much better, either. Your experience may not reflect the whole truth.

That's called a fossil word, a word that only ever gets used in a specific phrase. When was the last time you heard the word "inclement" outside of the phrase "inclement weather"?

Schizopost

"I hate hot weather. I hate that other people are allowed to live in hot places. I also hate air conditioning, which makes the temperature more bearable in whatever clothing you choose. I also hate that people in schools or businesses are allowed to wear shorter clothing that makes hot weather more tolerable and would cut down on the need for air conditioning."

Like, do you want to be too hot, or don't you? Complaining about the weather while actively refusing to do even the simplest action of putting on cooler clothing and at the same time eschewing your only other options of AC or swimming. This is the bed you've made. When hot weather rolls around, the least you could do is lie in it quietly without casting shade at other people, who have no control over the weather. They're simply doing what's necessary to not be too hot, the same way you need to do what's necessary to not be too cold in frigid weather with heaters and extra layers of winter clothing. Since before humans even existed, our hominin ancestors have had to adapt to extreme temperatures using technology and know-how. That's just how it is, whether it's hot or cold weather. To get mad at others for your failure to adapt seems silly.

I prefer cold weather over hot myself, but this is just a wild take.

That's just my opinion, though.

Japan has strawberries that can be $500+ each.

I know this is already a few days old, but it's stuck with me. Would you mind providing at least some bullet points and pointing in a direction to search if you don't feel like going into the whole thing? I always thought their raison d'être was/is to kick out (and keep out) real estate developers from taking their centuries-old communal farmlands from them, which I feel is pretty admirable. Are there major reasons to not support them, or something?

I was wondering that myself, but judging from the beach grass, where the whale rests must be the high tide line. The water pushed it as far as it could. The whole beach must be very low and flat to be so wide, though it's possible the photo was taken at a particularly low tide, which would make the beach even bigger than normal. Looks like a humpback to me (based on the appearance of the throat), anyone able to back that up?

It's true, but intelligence and counterintelligence is kind of their whole thing, isn't it? They've certainly had a long list of laughable fuckups, like their many failed assassination attempts on Castro, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Iran-Contra, etc., but they've also successfully toppled governments in South/Central America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, etc. Apparently they've made at least 70 attempts at regime change since the end of the Cold War, according to Wikipedia. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the CIA as a non-threat, personally, especially if they're going to be following the malevolent orders of a Trump loyalist. I fear the CIA will turn more inwardly to our own country and use their efforts against US citizens (more than usual, that is), specifically against those who would oppose a Trump regime.

We already saw FBI agents engaging in 60s-and-70s-style surveillance of BLM activists in 2020, where they and other feds went around in unmarked vans snatching random activists off the street and traded literal baseball cards they made about different individual activists for fun. Those feds were also sent in at the express direction of Trump. With that in mind, I have no doubts the CIA would do the same in heartbeat. I know they already conduct domestic surveillance operations, but I'd predict a substantial increase in that under the current administration, especially given the ways things have been going after only the first couple weeks with Trump demanding absolute fealty throughout the government and vilifying all opposition. It's just frightening that Trump had a ready-made intelligence org that was so easily converted to his agenda and seems poised to be his personal secret police. I think that's probably even scarier than the CIA of old. At least for right now, I might somehow prefer a CIA that says, "Sorry, Mr. President, but we don't follow orders."

CIA, too. I thought they sort of just did their own thing and aren't really beholden to the president. People think the CIA is such a rogue organization that some people have suggested they killed JFK because he sought to shrink the org and make them more accountable. Seems unlikely, though, since apparently all it takes to completely take it over is just to change around some personnel.

Like, my head cannon is that the new leaders would be figureheads only and that there'd be someone secretly chosen to keep things running behind closed doors and pulling the real CIA strings to resist such changes (and maybe have an encore, pretty please?), but that's based on nothing at all. I'm no fan of the CIA or anything, but I do fear what such a shadowy government org might do when wielded by Trump cronies even more than the stuff they usually get up to.

Imagine how thrilled the builders of the Mozart Birthplace were when they heard a lady was finally pregnant with Mozart. The builders of the Mozart death house must've looked pretty shocked when he actually died there