What plastic duct? It’s a standard foil one, but had a break in a couple of spots and since we’re replacing it by a new one next week, we have a piece of tape on it… Am i referring to the wrong thing?

UPDATE thanks all for the comments, just a few clarifications and updates:

• all electrical work is work-in-progress, we’re finishing it up tomorrow, it’s still an active worksite. The old outlet and old bx wiring is being removed, we’ll only have the newer wiring (and of course all outletd will be in their gangboxes and covers will be on)

• the dryer vent will be changed and installed without sag when we finalize

• the 4" abs drain connects to the old one with a rubber fernco gasket, those do require hose clamps and they’re up to code (though the top clamp could be straightened!)

• the water lines are pex, they’re all good

• we don’t have a choice but to push the water up with the washer pump - the drain evacuates to the city sewer around hip level in that basement

The worries for me are really the 90° out of the sump pump and the other 90° into the drain column, shouldn’t that be a downward Y? And the double S p-trap, is it creating some risk?

The top one, where the washer drain comes in? Or further down?

For the record he also connected the sump pump pipe like this, with a 90° - shouldn’t it be a downward Y instead?

“in a move that infuriates conservatives…”

Oh that’s the most vile and gut wrenchingly nauseating comment i read all year. Well done and well said.

So you’re saying the “male gaze” is a bunch of horny male racoons staring at girls?

That was surprisingly insightful for a video i went in randomly and without any preexisting knowledge of that creator. Some rare nuances in the expressed perspectives, and a very well articulate essay…

“ow! Ok ok, i will work!”

This is a phenomenal way of illustrating what is meant by the “moving of the Overton window”

Sure - the story is built around 4 characters - 4 teens, basically miniaturized to an ant’s size, must navigate a backyard filled with dangers, craft tools, and find a way to return to normal size.

The multiplayer element is integrated by allowing up to four players to team up and work together in real-time to explore, fight enemies, and complete story objectives, fostering cooperation in survival and discovery.

When you connect to the game you select one of the 4 teens as your avatar - only esthetics and voice impact, no material change - and the game is well balanced so it’s feasible whether you’re 1, 2, 3 or 4 players joining…

I hope they use the Grounded formula for multiplayer and bases, that was super well integrated!

But does it whip the Lama’s ass?

Make sure the virtual packaging is never opened!! The moment that “hours played” marker isn’t 0 anymore, it looses all collectability value

Note they just say record, not record high…

These are great tricks!! I’d add one that’s always worked for me: if you can’t get your mind to go still in pt#3 above, think back of the story in a book or show you like, and let your mind wander about the characters, the story, the background, the intrigue etc. Focusing on fiction and story helps me drift back, vs focusing on real life things…

You’re right that they’re off-center from a first “symmetry line” you have to draw.

So: you place them on your cutting board. Trace an imaginary vertical bird’s eye view that passes by the center of both. Now based on that imaginary line, move both apples so they’re offset 2/3-1/3 from that line in each direction.

Align the two apples so they’re off center to one another. One has 2/3 on the outside to the left, 1/3 to the right, the other 2/3 to the outside to the right, 1/3 to the left.

Bird’s eye view, the single line cutting both apples will leave us with the left 2/3 of the first apple and the right 2/3 of the second, and a third portions made of 2 thirds, or another 2/3 of an apple.

One cut, 2 apples, 3 equal portions.

Yes but if it’s anything like office chairs casters, there are 2 standard sizes (of course), the 10 and the 11 mm