Probably because it is, they don’t like you, or they don’t want the job.

I’m not trying to be mean, but contractors will price it outrageously or say “this will be a big job” because they don’t want the job, so you say no.

Ehhh some of this is great advice about sales tactics, but you should definitely get a contractor to come out and look over the place again.

Reason being is if there is something that was missed in your initial inspection that another contractor found, you can go back to the realtor and demand them to be fixed. Especially for new builds.

However you only have a small window for this, because if you wait too long the realtor and or contractors can say it was you and it’s not their responsibility.

Also you should always get multiple bids from several contractors. If someone is going to do the job at a really low price, that means that contractor will cut corners, and do more harm than good. If someone is giving you an astronomical price that is completely unreasonable that means the contractor doesn’t want the job.

There is also this other “tactic” that construction companies know very well. That is if the company is trying to give you a deal, you as a customer are going to nitpick every little thing. Flip side, if they mark it up the customer will always believe it’s the best job that was ever done.

Source: my step father owned a large legit construction company, that I worked for, and my bio father owned a small shady construction company, that I also worked for.

And music, TV, Movies, Books, thoughts

Macroeconomics 101 would tell you no, prices won’t go down because prices are sticky. Like your salary for example, just because a business is doing poorly your wage won’t go down.

I won’t get into the weeds about it, but if Ukraine was magically restored tomorrow, prices wouldn’t go down but it would help prices from going up faster.

If we see prices go down that’s a bad thing, and we are in for a rough time.

Whenever I see something like this I feel I must defend my friend who’s a cop.

Before being a cop he was a lifeguard at a beach and my bassist.

Baywatch may tell you differently, but being a lifeguard is a seasonal job, and not a career. The next level of being a lifeguard is becoming a cop, so he did, and he has only beaten one black man so far.

And hospitals. Don’t forget those.

And it should’ve stayed in Canada

Ok, so you are saying what is the difference of an act of expression/protest vs an act of oppression then?

So where do you draw the line between the two then?

Genuinely asking, not trying to start an argument.

Thank you for semantics.

I’m sorry you live in a place that makes that difference.

No books should be burnt just because you don’t like them or are “controversial”.

Burning Mein Kampf because it’s controversial, is the same as burning To Kill A Mockingbird.

Oof the thought of this made me physically squirm

Coming from a band member from The Strokes, that would make sense.

You can do that?

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Who? Na I’m speaking about the Madison girl, and the workplace environment. You can go to the Linus Tech Tips instance and find out more about what’s up. It’s all over there.

https://lemmy.ml/c/linustechtips

I’ll help ya out since I felt the same way and spent too much time on something I don’t really care about, though I do care for the person who was impacted.

They are a tech YouTube channel that tests components for computers and the like.

Basically, a former female employee (can’t remember her name) who was the social media manager, made a post of her tenure there, and it was horrible. Sexual harassment, belittled, ridiculous standards for work. At one point she felt she needed to gash herself and go to the ER, just so she can take a day off because she was ridiculed for taking a sick day previously. There is whole shit ton more. I’d link the post but sorry I’m a little lazy rn.

The guy who is “de-friending” this Linus guy, is another YouTuber who does the same thing.

This was a hyper TL;DR, and I’m missing other things, but that’s pretty much the jist of it.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but that’s because a good amount of the time it’s true…

Relationships are a lot of work, but shouldn’t be hard. If your relationship is getting so difficult that you feel the need to post your issues on the Internet to get advice from strangers, your relationship is more or less done and haven’t really noticed it yet.

If it’s a one off issue that you need some outside help to see another perspective, than breaking up is probably not the solution; however, if it’s habitual then yeah breaking up is probably for the best.

We tend to have loss aversion and get trapped in the sunken cost fallacy with relationships and can’t see that it needs to end.

That said, giving advice for a bad relationship is like seeing a person who has an addiction problem. That person needs to realize what it is, and no amount of advice can help.

You know it! There’s some gems that they give out. Games I wouldn’t know of otherwise.

Twisted Metal and Merchant of The Skies.

Which isn’t actually all that far off from what the Twisted Metal show is? So, not really much of a change? I guess just with planes instead of cars I guess…