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6d ago
inUpdate: my neighborhood Facebook group voted to replace our block party with a 47 question Google Form and now nobody can agree on anything
Maybe the form is fine and you're the problem.
7d ago
inI finally admit that swamp coolers beat refrigerated air here
Tramway swamp cooler gang, 74 all July. Keep both though.
12d ago
inFound a 2003 Nokia brick with a 30 minute porn video still on it
Bought a flip phone off a guy at a flea market and it still had his whole life on it. Photos of his kids, texts to his girlfriend, even his banking app was logged in. My move was to call him before I wiped anything and he drove back an hour to grab it, turns out his kid had swiped it and sold it for cash. He gave me 40 bucks for saving his butt. Point is, hit up the seller first before you nuke anything, some of that stuff might actually matter to the guy and you never know what you'll get out of it.
20d ago
inPower grid flickers got worse after the smart meters went in
Had the same thing in my area a couple years back, and what finally got the utility to move was logging it. I wrote down the date and time every single time the lights pulsed, took a video of it happening, and sent the whole list to the public utility commission in my state, not just the utility. Their own guys kept telling me it was nothing, but once the commission had a paper trail they sent someone out to check the connections at the transformer. Turns out a few of the new meters were wired in loose and it was causing voltage swings on our stretch of line. Took about a month but the flickering stopped after they came back through and fixed the connections. Get your neighbors to log it too, one complaint is easy to ignore, twenty is not.