What first world problem did you have today?

[sdifox]

Then I have to walk my ass up to the tree to swap them out. Most straightforward is a remote solar panel, but that tree won't be up there long. Probably fours years tops. It's white pine, and will rot away to nothing. It was most interesting when it was hang a lantern up and forget it. I was hoping for at least 4hr runtime, but I'm only at half that in a best case scenario.

If you don't need to walk up there why do you need a light?

 

[Chaotic42]

The used car market is insane right now. I just looked at vehicle listings and the used car I bought in 2020 has roughly the same asking price today.

I bought a used truck in 2019 and sold it in 2022 for $1,000 more than I paid for it. Sucks that small pickups don't exist anymore. I could really go for an old MT Ranger with an 8 foot bed.

 

[lxskllr]

If you don't need to walk up there why do you need a light?

I don't need a light. It's decorative, and it's only there for the chosen few that venture within eyesight.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Furnace broke. $280 to fix and the parts come Tuesday.

I had to buy a couple space heaters for the interim. $16 each. They cost like $3/day per unit to keep running so my utility bill is going to suuuuuck.

Oh and I live in Minnesota and it’s going to be like -5F tonight. So yeah.

Oh and I’ve been unemployed since November.

 

[lxskllr]

:^(

 

[Red Squirrel]

I dealt with that last year, not fun. Was the heat exchanger and it was not economically feasible to repair so got it replaced was not expecting to have to spend that kind of money. Worse part? My wood stove was right there, but it was not usable yet at the time! That was a kick in the face lol. Racked up a huge hydro bill that month running space heaters for a few days until they replaced the furnace.

I had inquired about a heat pump but they really didn't recommend it here. In hindsight maybe I should have at least got a quote on one at least. They are expensive to run when it's very cold out, but we don't even get extreme cold that much anymore. And on those days I would just run the wood stove anyway. Did end up getting a heat pump based water heater though. Between that, and the wood stove I dropped my gas bill down to about $100/mo.

 

[sdifox]

Air source heat pump is not viable in Timmins.

 

[Chaotic42]

Yeah, my power bill will be stupid this winter with all these 0F / -18C nights, but it's better than paying $3.89 per gallon of propane.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

$1.99 here, just got 200 gallons.

 

[Red Squirrel]

A local drug dispensary is on fire. Price of meth and fentanyl is going to go up.

 

[sdifox]

A local drug dispensary is on fire. Price of meth and fentanyl is going to go up.

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There goes Timmins GDP.

 

[Indus]

eBay keeps logging me out and I keep having to re-sign in every 5 seconds.. can't even get track an item to work properly!

 

[QueBert]

I drive a female friend around a lot who can no longer drive, and this has came up from her like a dozen times, according to her she doesn't understand how my brain can think the route I always take makes any sense.

I used MSPAINT to make a diagram of her mental madness. The black lines are the streets, the red circle's the car and the blue circle's where we're going. I take the red line, the blue line is the way she always tell's me I should have gone. And without fail, every time I do this she asks "why we're going this long route? We're going in circles" Apparently, going a mile east and then a mile north's the smart way, but going a mile north then a mile east's the idiot way. In these cases we're going straight down a single road and making 1 turn down a single road to end up at the destination. I know a street isn't perfectly straight, so in some instances, her route might be slight shorter. But she acts like I'm going miles out of my way and I can't understand lol.

I tried about 10 times to use logic and explain there's no difference, but I stopped because she'll just say I don't make any sense. I honestly make sure I take this route on purpose now because I know it annoys her, and her logic annoys the shit out of me lol. And I can't help but think about this every day, I really want to decipher her brain thinking her over and up route is somehow magically much shorter than going up and over.

 

[Chaotic42]

A local drug dispensary is on fire. Price of meth and fentanyl is going to go up.

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Hide your methylamine and watch out for 80s RVs!

 

[IronWing]

I drive a female friend around a lot who can no longer drive, and this has came up from her like a dozen times, according to her she doesn't understand how my brain can think the route I always take makes any sense.

I used MSPAINT to make a diagram of her mental madness. The black lines are the streets, the red circle's the car and the blue circle's where we're going. I take the red line, the blue line is the way she always tell's me I should have gone. And without fail, every time I do this she asks "why we're going this long route? We're going in circles" Apparently, going a mile east and then a mile north's the smart way, but going a mile north then a mile east's the idiot way. In these cases we're going straight down a single road and making 1 turn down a single road to end up at the destination. I know a street isn't perfectly straight, so in some instances, her route might be slight shorter. But she acts like I'm going miles out of my way and I can't understand lol.

I tried about 10 times to use logic and explain there's no difference, but I stopped because she'll just say I don't make any sense. I honestly make sure I take this route on purpose now because I know it annoys her, and her logic annoys the shit out of me lol. And I can't help but think about this every day, I really want to decipher her brain thinking her over and up route is somehow magically much shorter than going up and over.


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The correct route depends upon which side of the street the starting point and ending point are located. Whichever yields fewer left turns is the better route.

 

[IronWing]

A local drug dispensary is on fire. Price of meth and fentanyl is going to go up.

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What's the building in the picture? Timmons has nine dispensaries (1 per every 5,000 people, LOL) and none of them look like that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What's the building in the picture? Timmons has nine dispensaries (1 per every 5,000 people, LOL) and none of them look like that.

This is an illegal one, not a pot shop. This one serves crack, fentanyl, meth etc. I think there may also be a meth lab inside. It's disguised as a clothing store but the windows are all covered. Used to walk by it all the time and see crackheads lining up at the side door.

 

[MrSquished]

You could probably pick a random five crackheads out of 10 of them in a line in Timmins, and they'd be better for humanity overall than squirrel.

 

[Chaotic42]

Pre-fire pic. Pretty public looking place for a drug house.

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[igor_kavinski]

I drive a female friend around a lot who can no longer drive, and this has came up from her like a dozen times, according to her she doesn't understand how my brain can think the route I always take makes any sense.

I didn't know about this issue until recently but seems to be a common one. A taxi driver complained to me that he hates females that tell him which route he should take. Like he hasn't the slightest idea where he should be going after years and years of driving around in the same city. And he said that age has nothing to do with it. Even those in 20s gave him the route crap.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pre-fire pic. Pretty public looking place for a drug house.

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The jewelry store is legit, it's the one with the plywood that's the drug place. Although I'm not sure if it was still active, some people are saying it was squatters that did it, so that tells me it was completely abandoned. When I worked down town I used to walk by there a lot and see people lining up for drugs.

Downtown could use more parking though, so guess they're getting another parking lot lol.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I didn't know about this issue until recently but seems to be a common one. A taxi driver complained to me that he hates females that tell him which route he should take. Like he hasn't the slightest idea where he should be going after years and years of driving around in the same city. And he said that age has nothing to do with it. Even those in 20s gave him the route crap.

Drivers taking longer routes to pad fares is a thing. Telling the driver which route to take is how you avoid it, but you also end up losing any benefit from a well intentioned driver who knows a shortcut.

It’s also the response to the “and then my uber driver took me to his trailer and raped me” stories.

 

[conspireagainst]

A local drug dispensary is on fire. Price of meth and fentanyl is going to go up.

And, you're... upset by this?

 

[KLin]

Did the jewelry store go up in flames too? That would suck for the owners. Hope their insurance is up to date.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think the jewelry store is fine. They're about to get more room for customer parking and not going to have druggies loitering in the area anymore so that's a plus. That's kind of the going joke around here every time a downtown building burns down. They'll level it if it's not fit to be repaired and it just ends up being public parking space.