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02-23-2026, 09:44 AM
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#30351 | | Los Bastardo owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes  I think I made a terrible life decision.  | That seems to have been the case since like 5-6 years ago where trades have been making a killing, but that's only if you are willing to get dirty and work.
Trades isn't easy, no two houses are built the same and you have to pull from experience and problem solve on the spot.
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02-23-2026, 10:50 AM
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02-23-2026, 11:55 AM
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Left a note on their driver window telling them they park like an asshole and to stop backing up into my space because I can't park properly. Made a point to emphasize they had a football field of space in front of their car.
The parking spots were originally meant for handicap drivers, but they repurposed them as normal spots.
Sent new pics to strata and this time they said they are going to paint a line.
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02-23-2026, 02:04 PM
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Oh damn. You went full sith on this one. 
I still think my cone idea would've peacefully solved your problem, but this does save you $7, it's true.
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02-23-2026, 02:45 PM
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Bold of you guys to assume people care about/follow the lines painted on the ground 
Doesn't stop anyone on the roads or other parking lots from doing stupid shit!
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02-23-2026, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes I think I made a terrible life decision. | Utilities are quite slow over the last year, hvac, plumbing, electrical. Install / service / maintenance
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02-23-2026, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by donk. Utilities are quite slow over the last year, hvac, plumbing, electrical. Install / service / maintenance | Help me understand this -- how can the work slow down? The downturn in construction might have make new installs slower, but the service and maintenace sector will never run out of demand.
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02-24-2026, 06:26 AM
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#30358 | | 屎忽鬼
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^you said it yourself. less new installs = less maintenance + less service.
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02-24-2026, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Traum Help me understand this -- how can the work slow down? The downturn in construction might have make new installs slower, but the service and maintenace sector will never run out of demand. | That i dont know, im just a dumb plumber
If i were to guess:
People/companies have less money to spend, less upgrades to their systems.
Stonk market isnt "as good" as it has been, more hesitation to take savings and use them.
Cities are tightening budgets.
To compare to owning a car: if your poor, you might stretch that oil change to 10,000kms instead of 5k. If your tire fails, you might DIY patch it, instead of replacing it.
We are seeing the same in hvac, stratas are not spending the money on suggested repairs. Most companies i have friends at, all say this year/last year is a fair amount slower than usual.
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02-24-2026, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes I think I made a terrible life decision.
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Originally Posted by spoon.ek9 Bold of you guys to assume people care about/follow the lines painted on the ground
Doesn't stop anyone on the roads or other parking lots from doing stupid shit! | We're frugal, asking strata to paint is the cheapest potential solution. Quote:
Originally Posted by donk. Utilities are quite slow over the last year, hvac, plumbing, electrical. Install / service / maintenance | So will a hvac guy drop their prices so I'm not paying an arm and a leg to upgrade to heat pumps?
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02-24-2026, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by SSM_DC5 At least it's not the first terrible decision you've made. | Definitely won’t be the last either
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02-24-2026, 06:36 PM
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02-24-2026, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by SSM_DC5 At least it's not the first terrible decision you've made.
We're frugal, asking strata to paint is the cheapest potential solution.
So will a hvac guy drop their prices so I'm not paying an arm and a leg to upgrade to heat pumps? | Low end / new companies, yes.
When i was working in new zealand last year doing hvac, the company i was working for, was losing bids to companies that were much further away.
Ex: company 2hrs away in auckland would bid 500$ cheaper, and customer would choose them. NZ was hit pretty good by the slowdown.
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Does anyone have a pair of 25 pounds one-inch hole for sale at a reasonable price?
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02-24-2026, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by underscore Small rocks jammed in the valve stems and then held on with the caps will deflate them all non-destructively. | One of these on your keychain go a long way for dickheads, sucks when your scheader core suddenly "falls out" of the tire 
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i hate people who sound like they smoke meth then pretend like they matter.
Originally Posted by ilovebacon
Does anyone have a pair of 25 pounds one-inch hole for sale at a reasonable price?
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Donk already looks like he's on fent
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#30366 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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seems to be a big debate on the actual population of China. i’m seeing its more like 1/2 of what its been reported as? also some strong evidence there’s no possible way it couldve grown to what it supposed to be at in the amount of time given.
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#30367 | | 屎忽鬼
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as with anything in China, take it with a grain of salt. The government will not expose any weakness or faltering on anything. Population is key to China's power (how else can they continue to make cheap shit with cheap skilled labour?) at least until their robits are capable of taking over menial tasks.
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#30368 | | Los Bastardo owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by N.V.M. seems to be a big debate on the actual population of China. i’m seeing its more like 1/2 of what its been reported as? also some strong evidence there’s no possible way it couldve grown to what it supposed to be at in the amount if tone given. | I've always thought about that. How do you have so much population growth with a 1 child policy that's been the case for 40 years. You have a whole 3 generations of decline built in.
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#30369 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by EvoFire I've always thought about that. How do you have so much population growth with a 1 child policy that's been the case for 40 years. You have a whole 3 generations of decline built in. | https://www.worldometers.info/world-...na-population/
Looks like it took a long time for the 1 child policy to really really take effect - fertility was above 2 till the early 90s and didn't hit 1 till the last 3-4 years which is when we did see reported population to be dropping. The median age of the population is skyrocketing though so people are living much longer and way less children are being born.
Maybe they're not at 1.4b like they say but India, which doesn't have any population controls, has been growing like wild and has overtaken China as the most populated country so I think it's believable that China, even with a 1 child policy in place, is near 1.4b.
Edit: India's data: https://www.worldometers.info/world-...ia-population/ - interesting that we used to say that the replacement rate was 2.1 yet we have India under 2 and they're still growing at nearly 1% a year. I assume this is all about life expectancy increasing really fast (not surprising).
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Logically, the replacement rate ought to be 2.something because we need 2 children to "replace" the 2 parents that will eventually die. And then you have to have a little more child births to account for the unfortunate but inevitable cases where the child will die before reaching adulthood. It's just that with an increasing life expectancy, the duration for the replacement has been stretched out over a somewhat longer period.
Then again, I seem to recall that since COVID and now the anti-vaccine movement as well as drug crisis, life expectancy in the US has dropped by a noticeable amount. A quick google search seems to say that in the US, it has dropped by 2.7 years compared to 2020, with it sitting at the lowest level since 1996 at 76.1 years old. https://www.unc.edu/discover/u-s-lif...than-pandemic/
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Originally Posted by donk. One of these on your keychain go a long way for dickheads, sucks when your scheader core suddenly "falls out" of the tire | PA has the regular core tools on for cheap all the time, I have them in a couple vehicles on the off chance I have a back valve stem somewhere lol.
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