mattdiersen.bsky.social
Dad. Architect. Pittsburgh Ward 10 Precinct 11 Democratic Committee Member - Male.
I guess in that order at this point.
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Fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole recently when I learned that the pirate captain from Disney's 1960s Swiss Family Robinson was a silent movie heartthrob.
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Lot more appealing job prospects for bigots right now, sad to say.
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Bummer
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That’s an unfair challenge, the last dollar dog night I went to Silver Star seemed to have engineered a special dog about the diameter of a number two pencil for the occasion.
Never woulda happened back in the Kahn’s days, just sayin’
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"I was happy in the haze of some Special K..."
Best I could manage.
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If it makes you feel better (it won’t I know) our theoretically bluish state of PA never has had universal Pre-K, and we paid for it in our public school because it was significantly cheaper than daycare.
It is only covered via Headstart for the neediest, & the feds’ll probably take that away.
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As an early season public pool is meant to be!
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Also, every car I’ve ever junked or totaled had at least two new tires on it. Murphy’s law of tires.
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I’m sorry to hear it, yours lasted a good bit more miles than mine. FWIW what it actually was was a planetary gear welded to a plate that broke off. The transmission shop bought a new part and reassembled it. Of course they’re like plumbers and charge the quote regardless of whether it was easier…
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We’ve got them and Family Dollars in the city now, though not in the numbers you see as you get further out of town. We’re just about to have the simultaneous loss of a ton of neighborhood-convenience shopping with Rite Aid’s bankruptcy, and they’re definitely going to swoop in.
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Now, I'm no super-fan, but I had honestly forgotten that he existed.
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So I don't know if the TCM damaged the rebuild, the TCM needed to be programmed and wasn't, or if I'm just crazy and the car is fine, but I've drawn the conclusion that it'll last long enough.
It's criminal that no one makes a hybrid or EV on that model, such a useful little car.
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The TCM failed like six weeks after I rebuilt the transmission! On the highway with with 4 people in the car!
I swear it's never shifted the same since. The transmission guy sent me to the dealer because he said the TCM needed to be programmed, but they said it was "plug and play."
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There were no new options with third row seating, and my mini-minivan is our 6 passenger option.
I also want to get a plug-in hybrid eventually and they're basically not sold in PA. Very niche for someone w/o a garage parking on a one-way street, but the Korean options have more driver side plugs.
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I just put ~$4,000 into rebuilding the transmission (followed closely by $1,000 for a transmission control module whose failure may shortened the life of my brand-new tranny) in a 2013 Mazda 5 with 120K miles, so I'm probably the wrong person ask, but...
Fix the car you own outright, at any cost!
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I can’t remember whether it was, “Say Nothing” or an essay in Fintan O’Toole’s “We don’t know ourselves” that went into how devoutly religious that generation of the IRA were, but I found that to be surprising. But I guess that was all of Ireland.
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You'd think the former Nazis would be a feature of the program, rather than a bug to JD...
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The only “third way” I recognize:
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Or that last world series win when I was 1 year old.
(I am 46 years old).
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As a Pirates fan, I find these long-suffering fans totally relatable.
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Why were they fed from tanks? Isn’t that usually to add pressure? Wouldn’t low pressure within the building be an issue for the cold water as well?
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Knowing is half the battle.
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I'm a few years older than you so mine is Casablanca. Yikes.
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Zoomed in on this expecting to find something explicitly racist, so I’m relieved!
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As someone who has an old bell trap basement floor drain in my 100-year-old house, you don't have to tell me about evaporation risk!
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Thanks for explaining this clearly.
Is there a perception that the "bladders" and "moving parts" are prone to failure or require maintenance in some way as well? Are/do they?
U.S. codes tend to assume something is installed and then forever forgotten...
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Only the foolish were thinking schadenfruede when Trump got Covid. Anyone paying attention knew that A. He'd get the best care possible and be fine, and B. Dude is undoubtedly going to live almost forever.
I seriously expect to be reading something stupid he said in the news when he's like 104.
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I’m on the Democratic Committee and the way the old heads reacted to Dugan made it clear that many of them were still voting for Zappala in the general. It’s much the same dynamic as Gainey-O’Connor as I’m sure you’ve found.
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I think it’ll be a few years before the county’s (mostly wealthy, college-ed) progressive and minority bloc of voters that would back criminal justice reform, can match the older, whiter Democrats (and the 30% of the county registered GOP) who vote on name-recognition and “law and order.”
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If the data is available, the subsequent 2023 election where Zappala lost the Democratic nomination to the head of the Public Defender’s office running on a reform platform, but then ran on the Republican ticket after a coordinated write-in effort, and won.
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Always thought (without a lot of basis, admittedly) that this was called a “shirtfront” and that dickies were more commonly applied to fake turtlenecks (which seem extra silly).
Am I mistaken or are they interchangeable?
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But is the implication that as Americans, we all know that we are to keep our mouths shut about the president while abroad?
I definitely missed that lesson in civics!
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I don't even understand what is meant by that phrase?
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Not a high bar in this lineup.
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I think I could hear those sirens in Morningside. Sadly could not smell the chicken.
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And if you played for Charles Comiskey under the reserve clause, you wouldn’t be in any hurry to narc either.