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by p3rls 3y ago
The plumbing company I work for charges $240 per truck for the first hour in labor and $160 after that. For those prices it's definitely worth trying to google it first.
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More or less. Pliny speaks of the "noxious and deadly vapour" (sulfur dioxide) of the lead furnace (XXXIV.l.167; there was, in fact, a four-fold increase in atmospheric Pb pollution during the Greco-Roman period); red lead (minium
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by p3rls 3y ago
Eventually everyone in the trades is going to have to wear these things.
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It's the same if you're not an elite anywhere. I once had an ex-girlfriend use my debit card to buy $18,000 worth of stuff over a few weeks on Amazon before I noticed. Amazon said there was nothing they could do because I had purc
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by p3rls 3y ago
Because you are fixing symptoms (w/ another failure point) with local solutions and not the disease (high pressure, bad or unsupported pipes) and good plumbers do not do that because A) ethics B) liability If your question is can those
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by p3rls 3y ago
He's also writing in English and using paragraphs on a computer! Great content!
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To me what I hear: your pipes weren't supported and your pressure is too high if it can be described as violent. I can hear my old office's script telling me to sell you a PRV or two.
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by p3rls 3y ago
I am a plumber and sprinkler tech (nyc) and literally have never seen a broken pipe that could reliably be traced to water hammer damage. Really would only be concerned if you are building fire safety systems. Now those sudden GPMs need som
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by p3rls 3y ago
A good deal worse than google for results in my niche (Korean entertainment). Oh well.
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by p3rls 3y ago
Suckers. I do NFPA25 fire protection inspections throughout NYC and let them know they will be getting a visit from the fire department if they do not let me use their bathroom. I have an entire map of private luxury bathrooms in NYC I can
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by p3rls 3y ago
It's because of SEO. SEO is why you can't quit it. I run a similar platform and google has basically broken the internet over the past five years with SEO. Wordpress garbage is everywhere. Oh well, the correction is coming but who
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At least it's not ostrogothgenic it could always be worse
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Where Grant was known as a lazy alcoholic with mediocre grades-- if not a natural equestrian he would had nothing going for him at the school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsemanship_of_Ulysses_S._Gra...
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Laozi would see it as fulfillment of his final mission to the western gates. Let us remember, the old master wasn't even going to leave any writings for you at all until he was kidnapped during his final attempt to emigrate from the or
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It should be noted this will render you unable to commit suicide via peanut butter in an emergency
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by p3rls 3y ago
Perhaps it's the same reason that in the Yudkowsky vs Hotz podcast yesterday, Hotz didn't know what a gelding was despite being incredibly smart -- zero farm experience.
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by p3rls 3y ago
In English we have the term potable to designate drinkable water, which comes from an old PIEish verb meaning to drink that no one uses anymore and so it's often confused with "pottable" i.e., to be put into a pot, as in a ga
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by p3rls 3y ago
The language is pretty descriptive of the phenomenon going on I thought but looks as though others disagree.
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I imagined myself getting dragged through New York's legal system and that was all it took for me
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I personally suspect inequality in social status among such victims to be rising as well. Before times, you had propaganda of the deed, serial killers, political violence etc. keeping elites on their toes. Now the Columbine meta has solidif
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by p3rls 3y ago
I have a platform for kpop at kpopping.com The top domain for almost every result in my niche is a shitty wordpress with centered text on a purple background. It makes about $10-15k a month even with its lackluster content. It's had sp
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by p3rls 3y ago
UNLESS you're on a Japanese game show and it smells of chocolate
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by p3rls 3y ago
There is no alternative. People talk about alternatives but everyone I've checked is even worse. Bing, DDG etc. All give complete garbage results. Perhaps not as gamified, but usually that just means you're going to a wordpress of
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by p3rls 3y ago
Plus, looking girly is totally different than looking small. They look like utility vehicles to me, but then again I had a miata and a grom...
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by p3rls 3y ago
As long as we're throwing out stupid triadic models of humanity -- [Pythagoras said that] human life seemed to him comparable with the festival to which people flocked form all over Greece in order to see those magnificent [Olympic] Ga
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by p3rls 3y ago
This is why I always tell people the confederacy actually abolished slavery in 1833.
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It's too early to say whether the French Revolution was positive or not
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Dreamcast was just too ahead of for its time is what I tell myself
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I just got offered a "refund" to do a review where I got to keep the item a few days ago. The seller sent me the money in hours and it was easily the best customer service experience I've had on Amazon. Keep it up, you'r
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I have been complaining about this for years and years as someone who builds these types of platforms. It's the same for thousands of niches across google. The top result is camped by some SEO garbage. For instance, I run a kpop platfo

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