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Never saw that movie, though I know of the scene.

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My point was illustrating that the position that nobody should have an input on what you do on your own property is ultimately untenable in the context of a community. Yes, governments (at all levels) do have those powers and more. But details matter. Houston is the 4th largest city in the...

My teeny-tiny college had a terrible football team when I attended. It was so bad, they sold off some of the bleachers to a local HS. We were a tennis power, not football. (Or baseball or basketball…) Decades later, I was watching some small sports channel, and they were airing the...

Why would the city get involved? The property owners were doing what they wanted with their land. Even from the environmental impact standpoint, at most the city might be able to enforce a minimum number of trees remain on each plot or within a given square acreage within the new subdivision.

In my experience, local governments can’t be bothered. They have bigger fish to fry. And sometimes, they don’t bother with those. There’s a neighborhood here in D/FW that had to fight a property owner for years about their permitting illegal dumping on an undeveloped plot, and that case...

In our subdivision, nearly all of the tree removal was done by the original builder/developers. The HOA didn’t have a hand in those decisions. (They can, however, nix certain replacements plants.)

Not missing that. Not at all. I’m including “within a community”. Every right comes with a corresponding responsibility or limitation. The non-bigotry based limitations on what you can/can’t do with your home within a community are generally applications of Wheaton’s Law. For example, you...

My love of flexible PCs is one of the reasons the vast majority of my D&D characters going back to AD&D are multiclassed- usually with some kind of spellcasting class. I have definitely played “Mr. 2nd Fiddle” in a campaign. As you might expect, there were very few times that PC was truly the...

Yes. As I recall, usually in the form of campaign limitations on a power’s active points. For me, it was all situational. In some campaigns or for certain heroes, I’d spend points almost as fast as I got them, usually boosting a skill or two, or buying off a Disadvantage. For others, though...

Probably an unspoken reason why HERO resonated with me so well is that it can do broad and tall advancement simultaneously. It’s literally up to the player which path they want to take, and they can change with every time they expend XP for improvement.

Re: the garish house, etc. That kind of aesthetic can and does affect resale values. In addition, without done kind of external (city, HOA, etc.) rules regarding decorative aesthetics, materials & horticultural decisions, you could have homes with truly objectionable or even dangerous...

As I recall, most of the big lotteries have a 120-180 day window to claim your winnings. So yes, there’s plenty of time to think before acting.

I agree in principle. But OTOH, some neighbors are truly miserable people to deal with. There a house in a neighborhood not far from where I used to live that was painted in a garish combination of white, lemon yellow, Kelly green, and brick red. The entire yard (semi-obscured by an 8’ fence)...

Good advice, but some jurisdictions have mandatory publicity rules for lottery winners. There’s ways around it- I’ve seen some people accept their winnings in costumes- but even those may be thwarted if they publish the names.

I get the hate HOAs generate. I know their roots. I’ve seen how petty they can be. OTOH, I’ve also seen times when their rules had positive impacts on the neighborhoods…IF they’re not being run by total knobs. Ours, for instance, has some rules that would normally be part of city code...

“Je ne suis pas enfermé ici avec vous. Vous êtes enfermé ici avec moi.“ - Quebec (probably)

I’d divide the net jackpot into distinct categories: selected established charities, mad money, altruistic donations, futureproofing and potential handouts to friends and family 1) the established charities would be made into co-owners of the ticket, with their share measured in %. That means...

That’s almost a song from a Disney movie.

TIL stand up comedian Erica Clark is Mr. T’s daughter. I’d post something, but…language.