That’s fun.

And I assume the line branches before it travels up into the walls? Or is there a chance it branches after it leaves the crawl space, in which case you could consider opening a wall for the valve.

I can’t imagine it would be more than a couple hundred bucks assuming they can find an accessible point for it. Mine is in an unfinished room at the corner of the basement where the main line comes in and replacing it took the plumber life twenty minutes.

You can ask the plumber about coordinating with the city for shutoff. Maybe they’d know a guy?

But definitely don’t mess with it if. In my case I couldn’t find my external shutoff when I needed that internal one replaced so I had the city come locate it for me. They uncovered the plate, tested the valve and it broke immediately. Fixing it was a major excavation. The city guy told me how lucky I was that I hadn’t found it and tested it myself.

One key to happiness for me is to start from the assumption that I’ve been unclear.

This feels like reading a language that you only kinda know.

Ok so in defense of dumbasses, we don’t always understand the question. Eg, whose left? In those cases we don’t want to make your clarify the question and drag things out, so we give you what we hope is an unequivocally clear response. It comes from a deep-seeded fear of miscommunication resulting in too many mailboxes with their flags on the wrong side or whatever. We apologize for the pedantry, though. I get that it’s annoying.

Lol. That one makes me strip a gear.

Although completely reasonable, I fear that your conclusion is inaccessible for most folks.

And as a pedestrian, I’m all for a system that’s capable of reducing distracted driving.

Agreed. I’m just pointing out that people need to focus on the latter rather than the former.

That’s the part that I don’t think is a strong argument though. They were crying fraud long before the election, e.g., saying that mail-in ballots were illegal, claiming people were stuffing drop-off, etc. None of it was valid, but their argument was well established before election day.

When the time comes to study further, Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart is an incredibly useful and approachable resource. It is basically a glossary of common emotions, but they’re grouped by similarities and described with her charm and wisdom.

Ah ok. Thank you. I think I was getting stuck on the timing, which did not seem particularly relevant.

Except weren’t they were claiming that mail-in ballots were potentially fraudulent for months before the election? This video doesn’t disprove anything if they claimed that ballots that had already been cast were illegal.

I switched from from beer to flavored carbonated water. This was 18 years ago though and the options were pretty limited back then. Mostly it was just artificially sweetened garbage. I’d rather just have a club soda and add my own fruit or juice to taste. But these days it’s just easier to buy Polar or whatever.

Sometimes I wonder if the people who work at Reddit have ever heard of Reddit.

I really dislike the cooking mechanics, so I try to avoid it as much as possible. It means I also avoid fights, though, or else try to get really good at dodging. But 20 temp hearts? That’s incredible. I didn’t even know such a big buff was possible.

Wait WHAT!? Cooking during the blood moon buffs the meal!? Where were we supposed to learn that?

In the latest Legend of Zelda games there’s a regular event that takes place every in-game month called the Blood Moon. When it happens all of the enemies that the player had previously defeated come back to life. The joke here is the the dirty dishes were cleaned, but the blood moon reincarnated them.

How did you like the show? I read the books when the came out and just remember snippets of them. I sure enjoyed them, though.

Malazan Book of the Fallen is one of the best brick walls I’ve ever put my head through.