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Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll definitely give them consideration as I peruse.

Looks like many systems are going to lower profile wallmount types rather than the full on floorstyle cabinets. I’m warming up to the idea of that and leave some more leeway for flexibility of use.

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I agree. We need a functional government. The parties are self serving rather than having the better interest of the country.

That point is distinct and different however – there is a better man between the two. My vote was strictly on character this time as it has to start with that. Before we can address anything else.

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Trumps actions in the last week epitomizes why he is unworthy and a failure.

No matter if I believed in any of his policies.

Lies, deceit, treachery. Qualities unbecoming of any leader let alone a sitting President. It’s been a sad time for the people of this nation, particularly the children, to witness such behavior. Even worse with many reflecting it in their own conduct.

Good riddance.

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Not disagreeing.

But there is a big difference between moderating and controlling the rate at which this takes place

versus

let’s all throw caution to the wind because we’re all going to get it and party up.

Difference is time. Time provides humanity opportunity to better understand the virus and mitigate its impacts. Time will show us more effective strategies for prophylactics, treatments, and potentially cures.

I would rather my vulnerable family members or myself get sick, when there are more options.

Unfortunately, its a community decision with the lowest common denominator dictating the primary trajectory.

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Water that’s too pure has a strong affinity to dissolving and/or leaching anything.

In the human body, this can mean that it could pull out nutrients and minerals. Resulting in things like osteoporosis or magnesium deficiencies among other things. For a young and healthy body, probably not an issue. For older or those on the threshold, could be more significant.

There’s no strong better answer here. Is it better to filter out all potential contaminants or risk some of the other potential impacts?

As we have relatively hard water here in SD, I primarily use my RO water source for, coffee makers, clothes iron, steam cleaners, etc. Or if I’m cooking and adding in ingredients anyways. For a glass of water, I generally just use my fridges basic filtered water.

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In the chase for “designer” or “better” water, there’s some real concerns in systemically drinking too pure of water, i.e. little total dissolved solids. Pure water in these forms will leach metals and solids from the water transports, from containers, and from your body.

I’d encourage you to do a little research on RO water and the potential health impacts.

That said, I do own an RO system in my house. And use it selectively versus the simple whirlpool cartridge filter system built into my fridge.

I have a system from Costco. They sell various models but they seem to be from the Watts brand. These filters are all readily available from Amazon.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]i was just discussing with my kid how every time you acquire a possession it’s kind of got a n accompanying maintenance/insurance/care factor. there is nothing you can get that is not a pain in some way to keep. he kind of got it, although i suppose he is thinking more along the line of consumables which aren’t really keeping things.

what is there one can get that is not a chore to keep?

good health? not a “thing”…

we did yesteday buy some very old industrial style styeel and wood pallets from an old envelope factory, heavy and very beat up, for a coffee table, which ianticipate will have a very low maintenance factor.

kind of the opposite of the fancy new european car my wife acquired.

even a rental home just seem s like a pain in the ass[/quote]

What about the acquired wife? I assume the european car was maintenance for said wife.

Of course, I’m realizing this for my own situation…

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This. The baby-boomers are sitting pretty, after setting themselves up unilaterally to steal from future generations. What happened to taking care of the future generations? They’ve raped earths resources, financially burdened the next generations, and justify it as they’ve worked hard for their just dues. I’ve seen it enough times, done under the thin veil of “legitimate” policy, that they go home feeling good about themselves that they’ve brought value to society. Sad.

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So am I understanding correctly that if I used a HELOC from the existing rental property, as down payment to buy another rental property, that I can deduct the interest as it’s a business expense?

So which banks out there are offering HELOCs on rentals?

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I’m looking into this currently with Tesla directly. Going through initial site survey with them. My goal was to preemptively invest ahead of the peak TOU hour changes. I currently have solar along with EV, and we’re just about a wash end of the year for settle-up. With the TOU changes, that will no longer be the case as my PV production is no longer leveraged by producing at peak rates.

In regards to batts, SGIP incentives are practically no longer available. If getting this with solar, or adding it along with existing solar as is my case, the federal ~30% tax incentive still applies.

The cost is still significant and ROI is much longer than I would like.

I’m considering steering my investment back to adding more solar. And making the add on west facing to align with the new TOU peak hours. I believe this would net much better ROI than a battery could.

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I truly do believe we’ve taken a step back to true hifi listening.

When the general population is use to listening to “music” from tiny/tinny little speakers on their mobile device, a dock/soundbar/BT/Alexa all starts sounding good.

To me, as someone who considers himself an audiophile, I personally can’t stand listening to these types of systems. Digitized, EQ’d and processed to the hilt, without significant air coupling (small drivers), practically no amp power, and no soundstage, let alone imaging from mono speakers, no thank you. And wireless music that’s gone through how many DACs/ADC. Hrmph! It’s a facade of real music.

Don’t even get me started on 5.1 from sound processing via a sound bar. YUK! The masses in this digital generation don’t know real music.

Yet for the audiophile, there is so much technology and products to serve that group if they seek it out. Hi-bit rate encodings and transports, super high quality DACs, clean amplification, big or exotic driver technology. At price points that are reachable by the average consumer (who are not drawn to the “processed sound” tech above). Marry the convenience of music from the cloud or blue-ray, back it up with a high quality external DAC, with real amplification and speakers…absolutely blissful!

I bet your audio setup sounds great…because it starts with clean (hopefully high bit-rate) digital source, decoded on a high quality DAC onboard the prof soundcard, to a solid analog receiver/amplifier with real power, to backup larger speakers that can ultimately move far more air to get legitimate linear stereo audio output.

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If you’re truly $500, your tenants are probably wondering why you aren’t raising rents.

No reason you shouldn’t raise the rent. Also, be ready to support your position to help them understand that you are not taking advantage of them, and that your price is still more than fair.

You property taxes, insurance, etc…aren’t getting any cheaper either.

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This one’s easy.

They just get up and do a round of cropdusting on the passengers. Maybe even on the stewardesses. It’s a favorite past time of the flight crew.

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The deed is done.

We choose to let her know when we paid for the month, that this will be our last month. And that we’ll do 2 more lessons, and she can have the last week as good faith.

We told her that we really appreciated her time and effort. That we were mixing it up and looking for a different perspective to keep our daughter growing. She seemed to take it very well.

Our relationship is good enough that I trust that this teacher will come back the next two weeks and keep things fun and have closure. We’ll have our daughter maker her some token of appreciation on the last lesson.

Really looking forward to the next teacher. She’s just simply a cut above with more resourcefulness and poise to motivate my daughter at another level. I may even take up lessons myself.

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All great advice thanks.

My wife is thinking about giving her notice in that we’ll be giving her this months check, and letting her know this will be the last month with her. Letting her know that we are just looking for a different perspective.

Though I’m thinking this may make for an awkward next couple lessons?

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