The Marvels had a boring villain and absurdly imbalanced stakes during the obliteration of two different plants and their native species. Also, a musical contrivance that I enjoyed more than most normal people.

I enjoyed the Ms Marvel TV show for what it was, and the Kamala Khan character (and actor) getting a big screen appearance I thought was a good path. What irked me about the movie was that Ms Marvel was prevented from using her powers for 85% of the movie, only really being able to have a good showing in the final act. Further, we were told the MacGuffin bangle that let her amplify her powers from the TV show would give her godlike powers if she ever got the other one. Well she got the other one and it was barely a bump up.

There was also the contrived plot point about one race stealing air and water from other inhabited planets. Like, there are millions of other planets with air and water. Why doesn’t Captain Marvel simply find one and help the antagonists pull air and water from those leaving the inhabited planets alone?

It wasn’t the worst comic book movie I’ve seen though. I gave up watching Black Adam halfway through shortly after the “heroes” showed up and wanted to put the beatdown on the one entity pushing back against the oppressive mafia gang.

But going against the fed in a way that is considered “illegal” could be seen as declaring civil war. And while the fed can’t live without it’s taxes it can bomb you to hell if provoked

Not making a payment is seen as civil war? If its already at that point we’re already done.

However, realistically not making a payment won’t earn you bombs. It might earn guns though. What would that look like if a state withheld payment? Would a fed law enforcer with a gun go into an office, up to some state employee sitting an a cube responsible for making money transfers as part of their work, and have the gun in their face or threatening arrest if they don’t make the payment to the fed? Would it instead be indictments of state government officials, and perhaps jailing them? Who would they jail? The Governor that signed the bill into law? The state legislature for putting the measure forward?

When high level state officials or low level state office workers start getting arrested, that moves the game to a different level. That escalation may have knock on effects on the citizenry. This would be especially true if the reason the state would be withholding the payment from the fed would be for cutting of services from the fed.

and legal experts said they would face obstacles.

Do they? Those at the top of government aren’t following the rules anymore. Why should states still be bound to do so?

This isn’t the same thing with tankless.

That code was only added in 2020 though. So unless your house is only 5 years old, its very possible you don’t have a 110v receptacle close to your water heater.

Eye Doctor <> Optometrist

Perfect example of why that is a bad approach. An Optometrist can measure your eyes for basic vision problems and monitor your retina issues, but you’d need an Ophthalmologist if you need surgery on those eyes for something the Optometrist finds.

I was going to go with “well, you just learned what it is just now. Open wide, buttercup, this is what you wanted”.

Librewolf +Noscript + uBlock Origin showed the whole text of the article on first click. I didn’t even have to use reader mode (which is another option around many paywalls. I don’t expect everyone to go to this amount of effort, but wanted to pass the info on for those that would want to.

That salmon still sounds more healthy than deep fried anything or something drowning in a bowl of melted cheese.

Have you tried doing a full BIOS update? As in, download from the manufacturer. I wonder if that would overwrite the passwords.

The enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend.

This is pretty cool, I didn’t know they existed. I’m wondering why they make it run off a separate 120v wall wart instead of 240v that could be run to the same power supply as the water heater (assuming its an electric water heater).

I’m still trying to decide between one of those or a tankless unit.

I’m easily on team “heat pump water heater”, not only for the energy efficiency but for the low maintenance. Before you go tankless, research how often you have to flush it or descale it. In some areas its every 12-18 months. Thats way more interaction than I would like with my water heater.

The other drawbacks to heat pump style is that they require a lot more ventilation and they cool the air around them (which is great in the summer, but could be a nightmare in the winter). I think maybe they also dry the air too, which again could be nice in the summer and rough in the winter.

Besides a fairly new tangential generation of 120v Heat Pump Water Heaters, all the other 240v can act like a traditional electric hot water heater using just its built in resistive elements. So in the very cold winter time when there is no heat to efficiently capture of of the air, you just switch it “Electric Only” mode and it operations no different that a regular electric water heater. It doesn’t engage the heat pump at all in this mode. Another neat trick is that you can set it to a different mode called “High Demand”. This is where you might have extra families staying with you during holidays and you’re going through much more hot water than normal. In this mode the unit uses both the heat pump and the electric elements to produce as much hot water as fast as possible. In this mode the heater creates more hot water than even a gas or traditional electric can.

Only the 120v versions can’t do either of theseas they typically don’t have electric elements.

I doubt it was anything that insidious. I’m thinking its more the carelessness of taking a household resource and removing it to a private space making it unavailable to the rest of the house. Someone that doesn’t think of others would do that, and it was likely simply the most recent example of him doing that.

We once did a side-by-side comparison of KitKats (we live right on the border) and the difference was stunning.

Bad comparison on that one. KitKat brand in the USA is an entirely different company that the rest of the world. So they aren’t even the pretending to be the same recipe.

I tried to like the Aldi chocolate bars but they leave this strange fatty coating in my mouth after eating them. I don’t experience that with other brands.

No doubt. Has she been reading up on trump’s attacks on Birthright Citizenship?

“Look at the silver lining! You were always worried she was cheating on you, now you know for sure she is so you don’t have to worry about that anymore!”

Several people have told me I should sue the builder, and I probably should, but I’d have to pay for a lawyer, and it would probably take months and months.

IANAL, but I’m wondering if for your situation you’d have more success with a whole string of Small Claims court. A quick Google search for your area says this:

“You can ask for up to $25,000 in most small claims actions in the Tennessee General Sessions Court.”

I’m betting nearly every one of your findings and fixes you had to pay for would be under that. There’s no lawyer needed to file them, as you can do them yourself, and for the builder to have to defend it, they’ll have to send their expensive lawyer to each court proceeding. If they don’t show, you could get a default judgment and just win outright with no battle for the legal judgment. Now, collecting may be a different problem though. You could keep one claim going all the time so you don’t have to do them all at once (and make it worth it for them to put a billable lawyer on it".

June:

TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract “missing attic insulation” claim of $12,485

August:

TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract “missing main drain connection” claim of $7,434

etc.

If you string this out long enough, one of two things will happen:

• You’ll eventually get paid for all the fixes you needed to begin with that you paid out-of-pocket
• DR Horton will actually show back up and say “fine, show us what’s actually broken and we’ll give you one single large check to go away”