For materials cost alone, mind you – not including any labor you hire out in constructing it, and not including the land to put it on.

These were typically put together by farming communities, kinda like a barn raising. Even if you had one of these put together for you, it’s not like labour was a huge expense back then.

And I’m guessing that 25k doesn’t include any electrical, certainly not any HVAC, and maybe not even any indoor plumbing…)

It’s hard to make out, but in the link I posted you can see the add one that includes things like heating, electrical, plumbing, or different roofing materials. The additions are pretty affordable as well.

Still, building codes and inspections aside, I think it could be a decent idea even in modern times to have mass-produced, mail-order house construction kits available.

It was a pretty lucrative business for sears until the great depression hit. Unfortunately it was their mortgage side of the operation that forced them under. It would be interesting to see how they would operate today. The quality is great, I live in one from the early 30s and the bones are still rock solid.

I actually live in one that was built in the 30s. They’re actually really well built since they used truss plates for all the framing, plus the quality of the wood from back then is night and day compared to the stuff you can get now.

The UK isn’t even in the top 15 European countries based on liters consumed per capita. You are higher when it comes to alcoholism per capita, but still not in the top ten.

You used to be able to buy similar homes from a sears catalog and put it together yourself. Maybe not quite as much detail, but still a lot more than you’d find anything on the market in the last 40 years.

Btw $753 adjusted from 1913 is only around 25k.

Well, that’s a bit pedantic.

That’s why I said it didn’t really take off until 2010… As in people started to actually trade it for actual goods.

That hasn’t been my experience working for Mom and pop companies. A lot of claims that everyone here is family, mean the fail son or daughter in a do nothing position for the company is getting paid more for doing less.

Yep… Bitcoin didn’t really take off until 2010. I had a buddy who was an early adopter and had mined/bought hundreds of thousands of coins at one point. Spent it all on the silk road, he always used to say it was just a way to turn electricity into drugs.

Working hard just makes you seen as a dependable asset for a single position. Managers see that as one thing they don’t have to worry about anymore. By moving you to a higher position they could be risking a dependable asset for an asset that could be potentially out of their depth.

People move up the chain mostly by interpersonal relationships and by being generally competent, but not being irreplaceable. In corporate America it’s always been who you know, not what you know.

Lots of small businesses are super dependent on a small number of employees.

Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason.

My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.

We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later… We ended up redoing the whole system.

Worse… Oklahoma. Though Nashville does have its own flavour of fucked up.

Same. There’s one not overtly right winged indoor range near me, but I dislike indoor ranges in general. This one is particularly lax when it comes to gun safety, and you can tell by the plethora of bullet holes in the ceiling and lane dividers. Last time I went I got barrel swept like three times just walking by the store counter.

I unfortunately live in one of the most conservative states in the union, and people are just idiots when it comes to firearms down here.

I was really lucky finding mine, got it from a dude that bought a sealed barrel full of them in the early 90s. It took like a gallon of mineral spirits to clean all the cosmoline off and out of it.

I still have a couple ammo cans full of 7.62, but it’s getting harder to find for a decent price, so I’m kind of hesitant to fire them off willy nilly. It used to be my primary caliber, so I have a mini-30 that i usually save it for.

I’ve been putting 5.56 together for a while now, but the ar just isn’t my favorite platform so ive been lacking the motivation to finish it. Plus, I don’t really get to hit the range very often either. Most of the outdoor ones around me are full of right winged chuds, and they make you sign up with the nra to become a member.

Kinda figured that was the case since the article didn’t list an author and the website lacked any affiliations or information about the company. Some crazy takes on there.

Same, my yugo is what I used to use to train friends who are new to rifles. Just wish 7.62 was cheap and easy to find as it used to be.

Yet the regime is unwilling to seize this “golden opportunity.” The reason must be sought in the fundamental nature of the Islamic Republic itself. It is a totalitarian system of religious fascism that neither can nor wants to guide society toward growth and development. Its survival is defined through the creation and maintenance of continuous external crises.

What? The golden opportunity they previously had with a country that’s currently bombing them? The country who unilaterally ended the previous deal so they could bomb them… That deal?

This article is devoid of good faith arguments or anything seemingly close to logic. Not only did the US unilaterally end the last deal they made, they murdered anyone in the country who would have been willing to negotiate a new one. Of course they aren’t going to fall over themselves to negotiate with someone whose guarantees are completely meaningless. They can’t even control their rabid attack dog from attacking their neighbors for more than a week.

helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

Nowadays helicopter pilots seem to just be riding the copium that is autorotation.

Thousands of moving parts on an air vehicle that doesn’t have any glide capacity, being flown by a pilot that’s significantly younger than the airframe… What could possibly go wrong? I guess at least it’s not an osprey?

Helicopters naturally understand that army personnel belong on the ground, and their natural instinct is to get them there in the fastest possible way.