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Absolutely do NOT recommend. Also avoid Home advisor or whatever it is, the WORST contractors are from there.

No idea. I get ecstatic over mediocre contractors who barely gouge. We’ve genuinely just started DIYing almost everything because if it looks “okay, I guess” then at least it didn’t cost $8000 and I semi-learned a new skill.

Edit: our best contractor was from a random Google maps search for handy person. I picked a relatively new business with few reviews entirely because they were the only ones to call back. But they worked out great and I was happy with the work.

I think it is honestly trial and error.

Edit edit: the vibes you get from the in home estimate are helpful. If they don’t try to upsell you at all, hire them.

In fact, the aforementioned best contractor we ever hired told me not to contract them to do something because it was a really simple to DIY. They showed me the exact kit to buy and told me how to do it. Theoretically he could have screwed himself out of money but we decided to do a bigger job than originally planned because of that move.

Am summer fae. Hard disagree. The worst part of summer is indoors where they abuse air conditioning to create a dry frigid wasteland.

And wildfire smoke which didn’t use to be a thing where I live.

Hm. I think we’d just have to specify our special and unique process only works with water-based paints and primers. Could get away with the hybrid paints though and I think there’s good enough hybrid primers to make it work.

One thing I would do is use my water bending powers to open a house painting business (interior/exterior and cabinets). I would promise completely perfect results in 1 day or less with the caveat that the customer cannot be home for ‘safety’ reasons. Oh! I could partner with an air bender and we could have places completely painted, not a drop spilled, and completely dry in 1 hour or less. Without even over charging people we could do so much volume we’d make bank!

I may or may not be painting right now and hating reality.

Jokes on them, they made me take off my glasses that hide aspects of my wonky face but I wear glasses 100% of the time out in the world. You’ll never catch me, copper!

(I know. I just like to think it can’t figure out crooked nose vs glasses. )

Fuck prom. I lost it at prom my junior year because I was managing the logistics and social momentum for our entire group despite way too much petty high school drama, childish behavior, and real life drama (car breaking down). After basically pulling a damn miracle to make it happen we got there and the group was still bitching/snotty so I snapped, yelled loudly in front of teachers, and walked the fuck out. My date, who I had recently started semi-dating/hooking up with, went home with another dude. In hindsight I don’t blame her but we were supposed to be friends first and I thought she would be there emotionally for me instead of piling it on.

The next year I went but also had a shit ton of stress because I was getting everyone else ready and then no one would help me/gave a shit. My other friend started pouting at like noon that day because a different friend hadn’t finished sewing her prom dress as promised. So I literally (this was before YouTube) took her fabric and figured out to make a skirt and hand sewed it on the spot to make her happy (it looked great btw) but then I ended up looking like crap with terrible hair.

I wasn’t mature enough to not let everyone put their bullshit on me.

Overall it was stressful and lackluster. Other dances (esp. Halloween dance or sadie-hawkins) were much more fun because there was way less pressure. You could just show up and vibe.

I wanted to learn outdoor skills so bad. We did learn a bunch of things in Girl Scouts, but a lot of our time was spent preparing for and then selling cookies.

I dunno, I kinda like the unexploded partially cooked kernels. I eat 'em anyway.

I have to agree with the other commenters. It’s not perfect but professionals do the same thing. I paid 10x what you did and got the same result so you honestly win.

Also you can still fix it with joint compound but you’d have to retexture and paint.

The conspiracy theory, which I must again say is not my opinion, states the reluctance of the purchase was either: (A) A show put on to obfuscate “the truth”, or (B) An internal power struggle between the ruling elites and Musk

Just explaining, not advocating. Please don’t @ me.

Kinda like the not-so-unsupported conspiracy theory that musk bought Twitter to silence protest coordination. That Twitter was too useful to the ‘masses’ and the “sinister cabal” (not my words) said it needed to be taken out.

To reiterate: this is not my position but it is one I’ve heard that matches the sentiment expressed in the parent comment

What is the selection area for the random people? Is it random from all around the world? Country? State?

I’d choose my profession because it’s kinda niche-ish. It’s only 0.03% of the workforce of my state BUT the major metropolitan areas have a ton of us in clusters so it really depends on how the random people get chosen that would give me my best shot.

That is cooler than expected

When you use 3 accounts to troll people you should change up your writing style. Makes it more believable.

Are you a baby cow? No? Well, stop behaving like one.

To someone drinking milk comes off pretty aggressive.

Gender-neutral dude, you have got to learn not to fall for these traps and not present yourself as the “angry vegan” in the world. Nobody likes a militant of anything and no one will listen to a snarky message.

I understand you’re passionate, and you are free to educate people on your beliefs if organically prompted in conversation, but you need to de-escalate the judgment and harshness to be taken seriously.

If you’re not a troll, ai, or a Russian bot, please take this comment with gentle kindness.

Oh for sure. But that’s a man’s sport so ya gotta protect it over wherever “nerd stuff” is doing on.