Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[The Ugly One]

Every year, I get some retard coming by trying to sell solar panels. I point to the trees shading my entire lot, and explain the thermodynamics behind why
HAVING
SOME
FUCKING
TREES
is literally the most effective possible way to reduce your house's total energy consumption. Then I show him my summer power bill. It's practically nothing, because trees gobble up so much solar energy to manufacture sugars.

I guess having trees doesn't make Chinese solar cell manufacturers any money though, so environmentalists aren't really as interested in PLANTING TREES as they are in belching industrial waste into the Yellow River.

 

[Sped Xing]

I definitely had Rich Peepo HOA shitholes in mind when I referred to Suburbia.

That someone has 150 grand to sling down on a down payment for a house, and chooses a tenth of an acre with an eyesore of a tract-built house nestled among scores of its exact copies, with a set of lunatic rules requiring among other things the waste of water and fertilizer on useless lawns and denying the right to paint one's own house the color one pleases-- this is what I find utterly baffling.

I get why people don't want to live in an apartment block, but can't afford to live in a rural villa.

 

[JustSomeDong]

I now feel like seeing if The 'Burbs is on any of the streaming platforms. I think that should be my evening movie tonight...

 

[DavidS877]

I agree completely. I honestly only know of a few HOAs in my area, none in my town, but in some rich neighborhoods of nearby cities, and some of the larger towns have bulldozed woods and forests to build McMansion eyesore burbs, and several of them have HOAs.

I live in a place with an HOA. Dues: $100/yr. What they do: sweep the streets sometimes, pay for a nightly security patrol drive through. Horrible rules: don't cut down large trees without permission, no unregistered cars visible from the street. They do regulate improvements, but as long as you're not a moron they don't seem to care much.

 

[Never Scored]

don't cut down large trees without permission, no unregistered cars visible from the street.

If either of these is not a dealbreaker for you, we are very different people, especially the tree one. I had like 40 trees when I bought my place. I cut down around 15.

 

[DavidS877]

If either of these is not a dealbreaker for you, we are very different people, especially the tree one. I had like 40 trees when I bought my place. I cut down around 15.

It's a heavily forested semi-rural area. The trees are great for privacy. The one house without them looks totally exposed and out of place.

 

[The Ugly One]

I definitely had Rich Peepo HOA shitholes in mind when I referred to Suburbia.

That someone has 150 grand to sling down on a down payment for a house, and chooses a tenth of an acre with an eyesore of a tract-built house nestled among scores of its exact copies, with a set of lunatic rules requiring among other things the waste of water and fertilizer on useless lawns and denying the right to paint one's own house the color one pleases-- this is what I find utterly baffling.

Because when you put $150K down on a $750K+ house, you don't want the guy across the street to destroy the value of your single most valuable asset because he decided to stop cutting his grass and rent out to Section 8.

I get why people don't want to live in an apartment block, but can't afford to live in a rural villa.

Do you get why people would want to not have to drive for 90 minutes to get to a city, or drive 20 minutes to a shopping area?

 

[Never Scored]

It's a heavily forested semi-rural area. The trees are great for privacy. The one house without them looks totally exposed and out of place.

What's semi-rural where you're from? Where I'm from semi-rural is a town with like 1,500-3,000 people. Even the one city with around 100,000 people does not have bylaws stating you need any kind of permission or permit to cut down a tree on your property. I cannot fathom and area I'd consider semi-rural having any rules around cutting down trees on your property whatsoever.

From my perspective this is a totally foreign concept that sounds like it was written by lunitics. Cutting down a tree is basic yardwork. You need permission to do basic yardwork.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

You need permission to do basic yardwork.

I would say this is a matter of the city not wanting some retard to cut down a tree and have it land in someone else's house, or power lines..or some other thing like that.

Like remember, the average person is butt ass stupid, imagine DSP or Ralph cutting down a tree.

 

[Never Scored]

I would say this is a matter of the city not wanting some retard to cut down a tree and have it land in someone else's house, or power lines..or some other thing like that.

Like remember, the average person is butt ass stupid, imagine DSP or Ralph cutting down a tree.

Oi mate! You got a loicense for that bucksaw?

 

[DavidS877]

What's semi-rural where you're from? Where I'm from semi-rural is a town with like 1,500-3,000 people. Even the one city with around 100,000 people does not have bylaws stating you need any kind of permission or permit to cut down a tree on your property. You have to understand that from my perspective this is a totally foreign concept that sounds like it was written by lunitics. Cutting down a tree is basic yardwork. You need permission to do basic yardwork.

As far as I'm aware it's not uncommon to have private property tree removal restrictions here in the western US in cities. Obviously I'm not in a city but the HOA decided to adopt similar rules. They vary considerably in the minimum size, from 4" diameter to 24" diameter depending on the cities I've found.

 

[Sanshain]

Every year, I get some retard coming by trying to sell solar panels. I point to the trees shading my entire lot, and explain the thermodynamics behind why
HAVING
SOME
FUCKING
TREES
is literally the most effective possible way to reduce your house's total energy consumption. Then I show him my summer power bill. It's practically nothing, because trees gobble up so much solar energy to manufacture sugars.

I guess having trees doesn't make Chinese solar cell manufacturers any money though, so environmentalists aren't really as interested in PLANTING TREES as they are in belching industrial waste into the Yellow River.

Can you explain this? I'm curious how it works.

 

[Hippopatumus]

Can you explain this? I'm curious how it works.

Trees block sun. Sun heats house. Air conditioner cools house.

 

[Sanshain]

Trees block sun. Sun heats house. Air conditioner cools house.

Fair. I live somewhere it's more often cold than hot, so trees are actually worse for me.

 

[The Ugly One]

Can you explain this? I'm curious how it works.

Conservation of energy.

Your home heats up due to energy input from the sun. You must then spend energy via the A/C to cool it down. Plants have a dual need. They need to absorb as much energy from the sun as they can, but they need to stay cool enough that they don't burn up in the heat. They also need to absorb a wide spectrum of light so that there aren't wild fluctuations in their internal processes. It turns out that reflecting/emitting the green part of the spectrum is at the optimal point to absorb energy at a stable rate and stay cool. Trees are, in other words, evolved to an optimal point to keep things underneath them cool all day long. So the benefit of trees is your home just doesn't get very hot to begin with. And since trees trap CO2 and require zero fossil energy inputs, they are far and away the most efficient way to reduce the energy it takes to cool your home.

Solar panels, by contrast, require a shadeless environment (increasing cooling demands), get really hot themselves (increasing cooling demands even higher), and require enormously high energy & raw materials inputs to manufacture. They'll never beat trees.

Fair. I live somewhere it's more often cold than hot, so trees are actually worse for me.

In the winter, trees don't filter much light out due to dropping their leaves. During this time, they're also your friend, since convection is an efficient cooling process. Reducing the velocity of the wind near your house means you lose less heat to the environment. Of course, insulation matters a lot more than tree cover during the winter, but it's easier to stay warm in a forest than on a plain.

 

[Balr0g]

Biden is succeeding in turning the US inbto a third world country

 

[feral cat #6385]

I definitely had Rich Peepo HOA shitholes in mind when I referred to Suburbia.

That someone has 150 grand to sling down on a down payment for a house, and chooses a tenth of an acre with an eyesore of a tract-built house nestled among scores of its exact copies, with a set of lunatic rules requiring among other things the waste of water and fertilizer on useless lawns and denying the right to paint one's own house the color one pleases-- this is what I find utterly baffling.

I get why people don't want to live in an apartment block, but can't afford to live in a rural villa.

They plow in the winter, cut the grass, do the landscaping, cover trash removal, cover water, take care of exterior maintenance and paving. I don't want to do any of that shit. I am happy paying someone else to do that bullshit. I'm more than happy to let some other assholes handle the exterior shit while I handle the interior shit. It also keeps out the niggers. And next to the development is conservation land with coyotes and shit. Mating season is absolutely delightful.

 

[Hippopatumus]

You realize people live in neighborhoods without HOAs and their roads still get plowed and salted and their trash picked up? Cope harder for your bad decisions that led you to living in a neighborhood where you pay for the "privilege" of being told what color your shingles are required to be. You people are like proto-bugmen.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Its possible to have a good HOA in the same way its possible to have a good government. Just because there are some that aren't actively fucking with the people they hold power over, doesn't mean it will stay that way forever. To give others power over you now for their benevolence is to guarantee someone abuses it in the future. Never give up power that someone malicious could use against you in the future.

 

[wopirish]

Thats been a thing for awhile. Even last year I saw some places had signs up saying they no longer have change.

Even more places with no hard money or exact change only. coffee shops, gas stations, grocery stores alot of places now hav ethose signs.