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V75V+8Q Paris, France

If you reach “v75v+ paris”, it’s less detailed than the full plus code, and “paris+8q” doesnt get you anything.

A few people not understanding expansive soil in the comments. You need to keep the soil moisture consistent. In your case, I might go for something like lava rock. Especially if you can get some that’s light in color, it can help keep the actual soil cooler so you have less evaporation. The porosity will let moisture through, though, so it won’t be too wet underneath.

I wonder if you could get a moisture meter or something to make sure you aren’t using more water than you need. Also, potentially, you could hook your soaker hose up to a smart irrigation system that can handle automated rain delays.

Soils like this aren’t mainly a problem in arid areas, they are a problem in areas with alternating dry/wet seasons. They likely live in an area that gets a decent amount of rainfall most of the year, but the hot summer causes the clay to dry out and shrink, which over time causes subsidence.

Any cracking or shrinking is temporary and inconsequential.

This really tells me you dont live where OP lives (my money is on texas). In different soils, like a big chunk of Texas, the soil is expansive. If you let it dry out, you can have the whole foundation crack, and since they often use slab-on-grade foundations, where the crack could easily result in a plumbing issue with huge repair bills.

It’s cheap to build slab on grade, but expensive after that, so needless to say, developers love it.

I would hope they minimize the use of homophones. They do use different forms of words, but the way the words are assigned, you aren’t going to have 2 really similar sounding locations in the same area. If you know someone went missing on a hike in Scotland, you’ll be able to figure out that the three words correspond to a Scottish location and not somewhere in Kenya.

There are reasonable HOAs, you just dont hear about them. Plenty of them are just entities that exist to pay for care of common grounds. I lived in a place with one that just handled trash pickup, and a community pool.

I know multiple people that have them exclusively for road maintenance through their neighborhood. If that gets expensive, it’s just direct evidence that your community has sprawled too much.

Pipepipe also has sponsorblock, right? I dont think newpipe does.

It almost seems like a different use case. It seems like the plus codes are effectively like mailing addresses for places that dont have addresses (lots of countries). They still lack the ability to do clear, analog communication (e.g., over radio or just a person’s memory in a search and rescue situation).

I will say, I’ve noticed the plus codes, but never looked into them. It’s really good that they are open source and can be generated offline. Hopefully they have some adoption in other apps/devices.

The original use case, as far as I know, is helping search and rescue. Words that are easy to communicate verbally, and easy to remember, so you dont have to worry about bad radio or phone signal garbling communication. Even if your phone dies, or you dont have pen/paper, it’s easy enough to remember the three words and communicate to search and rescue after you’ve made it out to a trailhead or whatever.

Oh dang. I haven’t actually used the app in a while. It seems like the monetization of core features is a new thing?

It’s such a simple and good idea at its core, so it seems really stupid to muck it up. I guess I will just have to go back to using decimal lat/longs. At least mapping applications seem to be able to interpret those better now. For the longest time, even Google maps would just give you no results if you typed in what was obviously lat/long if you didn’t have the ° symbol and minutes/seconds.

The idea of “whiteness” being good is a super new concept in the grand scheme of things. People like to say things like “Irish and Italians werent considered white”, which is not accurate because they’ve always been considered white.

“White” just wasn’t enough to be part of the “in group” and people nowadays dont have any other terminology to describe what the in group was other than just white. If you go back to the early 1800’s, the in group was Protestant anglo-americans. That doesnt mean people from other European countries werent white, it just means they werent part of the in group.

“White” being the defining factor of the racist top hierarchy is super new, like 1966 new. The leader of the American Nazi party realized that they could gain more power by folding in white people from outside of their traditional in group (germanic or nordic), so inspired by the black power movement, he coined the term “white power”.

Even now, just being white isnt enough to be part of the top category to racists. Maybe an Italian is considered part of the in group, but not middle easterners (who are legally white in the USA).

Since “white” as an identity of people is relatively new (and only really makes sense in a racist framework), a lot of European/Middle Eastern Americans tend not to identify as “white” but instead by whatever jumble of identities their grandparents might have had. If your grandparents tell you they had a Cherokee grandparent, how are you supposed to know any different.

Not that I think you are wrong, but DNA tests dont necessarily paint the whole picture the way they companies selling them would like you to believe.

They’ve gotten better over time, but unless you have a bunch of samples you know for a fact are 100% Blackfoot (which already inherently doesnt make sense because the Blackfoot are a confederacy of different peoples), you have to just do your best to reconstruct what you consider to be “Blackfoot DNA”. People groups are also never static the way racists think they are.

In your case, for all you know, you could have had a few different Blackfoot ancestors who had offspring with French traders in the 1700s, or an English frontiersman in the 1800s. The offspring could have just been born and raised in the tribe and considered 100% part of the tribe, even if it turns out their DNA was 25% “Blackfoot”.

The problem is many many native children were intentionally separated from their culture. Lots of people who would otherwise be able to speak a different language, engage in other cultural practices, etc, are unable to because of actions by the government.

Then you also have really messy cases like the descendents of people enslaved by certain tribes, who should be able to be members of the tribe, but aren’t able to.

Interconnectedness and sensors dont have to be privacy nightmares, they just do that intentionally.

I have a baratza model that’s effectively the predecessor to the encore, and it’s completely compatible with all the encore parts.

I bought it over 10 years ago from a thrift store, and I’ve replaced the burrs, the burr carrier, the grind adjustment, and the gearbox. I’d still be using it daily if I hadn’t started making espresso.

I feel like its unfair to put the timemores in the lowest category when there are still plenty of people buying hario grinders, or off brand equivalents.

I will say, electric isnt always loud, but electric+affordable will most likely be.

Pretty much anything electric grinder cheaper than a baratza encore (which is a great grinder and $150), works by basically spinning a burr really fast, and the impact of the burrs hitting the beans breaks them. Better burr grinders have motors with more torque, and they spin slower, and beans dont “shatter” the same way. This means the real cheapos are very loud, and grind inconsistently.

If you have an infant, though, a hand grinder is probably the way to go. There are a couple things I would look for, especially as a daily user.

1. Capacity big enough for your normal usage. I typically use over 20 grams per cup of coffee, but lots of grinders only fit 15, so I’d have to grind twice to get a cup.

2. An easy way to drive with an electric drill (e.g. mine has a hex head you can just put a socket driver on), so you can use that when you dont need to be quiet.

3. An easy way to see and adjust grind settings. If you just want to do moka pot every day, it’s fine to get one that is “set and forget”, but if you are switching to a coarser grind for French press, you dont want to have to count 43 clicks every time.

Personally, I have a kingrinder that works great for me, but I think any of the timemore or 1zpresso grinders will work great for you, too.

The Kingrinder models are affordable but seem to be pretty good quality.

Better in the bike lanes than the side walk

Probably because most people don’t think of it as a “profession”. Lots of landlords hire property managers, which is a profession, but the landlord themselves are just collecting the money. Small-time landlords that might have 1 or 2 places they rent out probably have a real job, and just landlord on the side.

It’s probably a relatively small percentage of landlords who actually do the work themselves, and do it as a full time job.