@shagbark_hick Look to see if your town has a code section for "compact home" - the requirements may be less strict if you're looking for under 400 square feet.
@shagbark_hick It depends on your individual rapport with your town's code enforcement officer. Try and get to know them and help them know you're serious and intent on doing things the right way. You're going to be seeing a lot of them for the entire build period at various checkpoints.
@PolicyEngineer Natural gas is abundant, can be locally extracted, and cleaner than oil. What an excellent short term solution on the path to carbon-free.
@tomfgoodwin If you want the same type of web experience you were getting before, try the "Lite" versions of apps like Facebook built to use less bandwidth. You'll quickly understand why we have the need for speed in modern apps.
@shagbark_hick@TaglesTopGuy@TylerAmerica1st Most Americans are also uncomfortable with the below-minimum wage equivalent it takes to staff convenience stores and hotels 24x7, and they certainly aren't comfortable staffing their children in those roles.
@shagbark_hick For most, they eventually drift away and come home once at Christmas, never giving their kids a Christmas in their own home. Then there's coming to terms with the fact that your kids will never be "from" where you're from. Big reason I moved back despite the craziness of NY.
@LoyalistPa@JayAlver@dimenpsyonal Making the House a capped size and a growing population makes it easier to gerrymander. We need MegaCongress so the districts aren't large enough to mess with.
@mennoknight427@jasonc_nc They have a passcode system where homeowners can provide a code to call them off. If they're out of town or sleeping, they still come.
@MarcMolinaro If we instead gave ORES the keys to site and approve nuclear power, far less sensitive habitat would be disrupted and far more energy made available to the grid.