After Fallout 76 and Starfield, I can’t say I’m eager for Todd Howard’s next RPG.

But let’s go back in time 10 or 15 years. Back then people were buying stuff that was around 12 to 14% efficient. Now people are buying stuff that is 19% to 22% efficient. That’s a big ass jump in efficiency over a decade.

The tech is rolling out, it just takes time to move stuff from R&D to manufacturing at scale and at a reasonable cost.

There is often a long lead time between the breakthrough science, new industrial applications, and when you can buy something at HomeDepot. It’s always going to be that way.

Just saying that, with energy and medical scientific advancements, you’re often looking at decade long lead times before something is available for the masses. And humans famously suck at contextualizing things over long periods of time.

It’s normal to hear about R&D that is a decade or more from commercialization. It often takes a long time to secure investment for consumer applications, invent new mass manufacturing processes for a new technology, etc.

Cue Lemmy comments complaining about this being RND and people can’t buy 35% efficiency panels from Costco this weekend.

They always get ya with the damn sauces.

Not if you’re in the US with a 30 year fixed.

How does is comparison to Apple Beef Pro Max?

It’s like Coke’s navy, but a little sweeter.

School night?

The high end of millennials have grey hair and mortgages now.

Tenpenny owes a total of $646,929.82

More specially, investment groups.

When a monthly mortgage and monthly rent are about the same in a market, then your average Joe Schmoe, will only make money if they’re speculating on a neighborhood. Buy low, let the renter cover the mortgage, sell when the neighborhood comes up.

Wall Street doesn’t need to speculate. Investment groups can buy with cash and the rent coming in is all additive.

I wonder how many 1-2 bedroom homes are being gobbled up by baby boomers. I was often out bid by boomers who were downsizing, and had all cash from a 3 to 4 bedroom home sale.

The two groups of people that want small 2 bedroom homes are new home owners and downsizing retired people. And one of those groups has a shit load of equity that they can cash in on.

The sealant is supposed to be that way. You’re supposed to bend the aluminum to the match the roof, put a bead of caulk under the boot, put screws at the major fold lines, and put a bead of caulk around the edge for extra protection.

I don’t know if the installer put the first bead on, but the screws are basically in the right places and the that finishing bead is there.

The problem might be because the installer installed this at a 45 degree angle. That’s not something I normally see. That forces the big bend to be on a corner.

I’d probably start by looking

For something like this, if probably hit up YouTube and search metal roof + roof boot or pipe flashing

Two potential options.

Option 1. More caulk. It’s possible that the roofer did put caulk under the boot. Perhaps they only put calk on the perimeter. https://youtu.be/eidzG74VT5U

Option 2, put another panel on top of it and create a big ass shingle. https://youtu.be/mwOdoaX0ZXw

And that said, when I’ve had problems with flashing and my roof, the best thing to do is to get into the attic while someone pours water in specific areas. That’s the fastest way to know what specifically needs to be fixed.

That is the right boot for that job. That said, the install is not the most attractive I’ve seen.

If you want to put another boot on top of that, look for “ag panel roof boot” on Google. There are some larger boots that could sit on top of that thing.

For the curious.

The boots have two layers. This boot is the inner layer.

His bio at 8:48pdt

Canva is very much trying to become another juggernaut that dominates a space, but I don’t quite get how this is an example of EEE.

They are trying to dominate the market through the good ‘ol acquisition and consolidation strategy. AKA, buy up my current and would be competitors. Is there a standard that they are actually embracing and trying to extend? Example: Meta embracing and contributing to Activity Pub.

Fuck Elon Musk and all, but that was pretty fucking good.