- missing your spot by 6” or more and creating a tiny shard that goes flying - the log you’re aiming at falling as you are in your backswing - getting your maul stuck halfway down the split

Thank you

With big retail, you get the smallest possible wages and all the profit sucked out to somewhere else.

Grow revenues without substantially increasing costs (i.e running a loss)

Hope you can turn up the profit dial later.

Seems like the modern way?

Funny complaint coming from a site called "Naked Capitalism".

1. Dimmer lighting 2. Door sensors 3. Relays to customize radiant flooring better than thermostats 4. Seasonal lighting (outdoor string lights/Christmas tree) 5. Thermostat

Overall it's been a good experience, however I think the SmartThings app is a pain in the butt and should be a much better experience.

It was a great choice, and we've been net negative since installation.

We also get a lot of passive solar via low angle sun through large windows. I think passive solar in winter is a completely under-appreciated benefit. On sunny days in winter we do not need heat for ~10 hours of the day.

We supplement our heat with a wood stove in very cold weather (< 20ºF). It's not necessary, but brings a cozy warmth.

Quality doesn't matter -- money matters. And with AI you can save a lot of money without sacrificing a lot of quality.

HOA is a whole different ballgame, not the same as zoning.

It seems like you folks have never read zoning bylaws which a municipalities use to say what can and can't be done in certain areas. Believe it or not, city planning is incredibly important to ensure that a town can efficiently tax its inhabitants to fund the services that have become an expectation of normal life.

If you don't like your zoning laws, you should get involved in local politics and try to change the things you don't like.

In fact Long Lake Township has a 238 page document that lays this out.

https://longlaketownship.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Zoni...

With many people who push the boundaries, one thing often leads to another, which leads to more costly measures of getting violators back into compliance.

Yes, often the first violation doesn't seem too big, but those violations are often indications of more to come.

For anyone that doesn't know what a "stroad" is, I hope you look into it. You'll never see the world the same again.

But the issue has been that municipal taxes are a zero-sum game. People expect taxes to stay at a constant level unless they are getting additional services. So allocating more taxes in one place pulls taxes from another.

By not funding retirement immediately, you can keep taxes constant and not diminish current services.

But most importantly, the single-most-explanative reason why we services have gotten more expensive is because of this ignored tsunami of additional costs caused by the proliferation of the automobile.

If that infrastructure costs were not so high, there would be sufficient money to pay people what they deserved.