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#340,503
JIO said:
We've been punked on fb! (April Fools!) I got it, but I don't think I'm keen on Meta AI being 'funny'... :cautious:

No Sean Connery impersonators, no Vesper martini's (unfortunately) and the only thing shaken not stirred will be our 1hr set!

Weather is holding, chance of rain % keeps falling (now at 50%) and the show must go on! :bassist:

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YouTube is horrible these days. AI info vids are all over--and wildly incorrect, not to mention videos of people singing a song that is not them and doesn't even sound like them. Then people comment on how much the like the song, etc. I virtually never comment on YT, but on a fake one I do and call it out.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
That is EXACTLY what I'd expect a Sean Connery impersonator to say!
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dagrev said:
YouTube is horrible these days. AI info vids are all over--and wildly incorrect, not to mention videos of people singing a song that is not them and doesn't even sound like them. Then people comment on how much the like the song, etc. I virtually never comment on YT, but on a fake one I do and call it out.
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They are easy to spot.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
I can't say if other counties have inspection requirements when doing work on a house, but the counties where we've owned homes in GA and TX did not. Only the cities had them. Still, I only do basic electrical or plumbing; I know my limits and make sure I know code before I do anything. That wasn't true with the former owners of either house here in TX, or of the builder back in GA.
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Unfortunately the "inspectors" are often worse than the incompetent contractors.
I'm convinced you could have three inspectors and at times get very different findings.

But let's just blame it all on architects since Will isn't on right now. :laugh:
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
I can't say if other counties have inspection requirements when doing work on a house, but the counties where we've owned homes in GA and TX did not. Only the cities had them. Still, I only do basic electrical or plumbing; I know my limits and make sure I know code before I do anything. That wasn't true with the former owners of either house here in TX, or of the builder back in GA.
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When we built the house in Bako, we didn’t have a choice of the contractor. The contractor owned most of the lots on the street. Come to find out the city inspector hated him. After the entire staircase bannister was installed and finished, the inspector wouldn’t pass it because the hand rail was a quarter inch too narrow. So it had to be completely redone.
 
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MCF said:
When we built the house in Bako, we didn’t have a choice of the contractor. The contractor owned most of the lots on the street. Come to find out the city inspector hated him. After the entire staircase bannister was installed and finished, the inspector wouldn’t pass it because the hand rail was a quarter inch too narrow. So it had to be completely redone.
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Our city inspector was called 3/4'' Glem Kadiddlehopper, ''3/4's of an inch is 3/4's of an inch''. Made some of my journeymen move an already wired 42 space panel over 3/4''. There is a 30'' width x 36'' in front of extending up 6 1/2' minimum clearance required for an electrical panel. He was a stickler, but he was right.
 
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dagrev said:
Unfortunately the "inspectors" are often worse than the incompetent contractors.
I'm convinced you could have three inspectors and at times get very different findings.

But let's just blame it all on architects since Will isn't on right now. :laugh:
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We had inspectors because of getting mortgages to buy the houses. The inspector back in GA was in the builder's pocket. Thankfully a friend of ours, a master builder, had offered to check things out for us. He caught a number of problems. Both inspectors out here were good and caught problems for us, although a couple of lesser ones slipped by.
 
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dagrev said:
So true, sadly. You nailed the time frame for cars we all want to forget in many ways. Unfortunately, a good bit of it likely goes to 1970 and after when the regulations for car manufactures (manufacturing in general), began to take off like a funny-car. Many were obviously well intentioned and good--but even good things can have unintended consequences and create new kinks that then have to be worked out. Growing pains it seems.

My uncle was for a time one of International Harvester's go-to trouble shooting engineers worldwide. Retired ~'79/80. Ended up being offered their main plant but he wanted to stay here. Anyway, I remember him saying back then even for them some of the ways they had to begin to do things simply didn't work. Often things as "simple" cleaning parts for paint to not only look good, but to prevent rust had to be reinvented. Fixing one problem (getting rid of harmful stuff), ended up causing others. Seems some things were easy to say on paper but implementation was another matter. New and often unproven ways of doing things had to be rushed into production because a person in an office who never built anything set an arbitrary date on when it needed to happen. It all made sense, because older cars before early 70s were not the rust buckets that they were right after that. Mid to late 70s cars could easily begin rusting out in a few years. Some was design (GM pickups and their bed fender wells), but much of if was related to prepping the metal for paint. And that's just the things that could be seen!
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As a person involved in building a late '60s pony car into a competent machine, i can say that muscle cars were not all that great without a lot of work. There were cars that would run rings around them as soon as they had to turn or stop.
 
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Big Wiggs said:
Our city inspector was called 3/4'' Glem Kadiddlehopper, ''3/4's of an inch is 3/4's of an inch''. Made some of my journeymen move an already wired 42 space panel over 3/4''. There is a 30'' width x 36'' in front of extending up 6 1/2' minimum clearance required for an electrical panel. He was a stickler, but he was right.
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A friend of ine made his living at various construction-related jobs. For a while he was a plumber's assistant. They redid a bathroom for a retired navy master machinist who had lost the use of his legs. The customer was precisioning them to death. John said the guy literally made them tear out new shower tile and move pipes 1/64" so they were "properly centered". John didn't care; he got paid either way, but the plumber / business owner was not amused because the redo had to be free since it "clearly wasn't right the first time".
 
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