Man faces fines of $500 a day for front yard zombie nativity scene

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I interpreted that from the fedora, I suppose.

Regardless, he is a small business man plugging his business.

Not trying to make some show of ironic atheism.

(did you watch the video?)

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I was going for more of a redpill vibe, but I can understand.
(I did. Iā€™ve been on this thread all evening and the conclusion I think weā€™ve come to is Iā€™m less irritated at him than I am at the general climate and timbre of atheist discourse. Apologies for any offense caused.)

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Fair enough.

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Fair, fair. But also understand that not being able to let it go when other people goof on your religion reminds us of Those People who donā€™t want anyone cartooning Their Guy.

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An occasional failure of a small structure is a price of freedom. Where would you put the threshold? You can not achieve absolute safety, not even close, if you want to keep the world worth living in.

Look, if I want to have a Cat5e between point A and point B, I will take a drill and have it done in a hour. No begging for permissions, no paying wasteful fees, no time sacrificed to the altar of The Bureaucrat.

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It could. If the owner can successfully argue that this is sculpture, or a temporary decorative structure, then building codes meant for habitable structures may not apply.

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Itā€™s not the nature of the display that got us talking, itā€™s the cack-handed, Streisand-effect of the local council that brought us here.

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Thought. Dual-use art. Art piece for the bureaucrats, possibly protected by the First Amendment, functional use for the owner.

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And your Cat5 installation is subject to the same code as the gent putting up stuff in his front yard.

I canā€™t get absolute safety, but if it means cranes arenā€™t falling on my city, firefighters arenā€™t burning to death, and I literally do not have to see someone else be electrocuted on a job site Iā€™ll take a few laws.

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YOU DO NOT WANT SOUND IN CHARGE OF PROJECTIONS.

Trust me on this.

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Except that the poor sod has his stuff in plain view while my noncompliance is not so well visible.

If I want to build a subcritical reactor on a kitchen table, Iā€™ll build a subcritical reactor on the kitchen table.

There are WAY WAY too many laws and regulations, not just ā€œa fewā€. Compliance itself is a full-time job for several people, so if you want to get things done and canā€™t afford to hire paperwork help, you have to just plow through, damn the bureaucreats, full steam ahead.

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Look, Iā€™m sorry you canā€™t still get your solder, but building codes literally save lives.

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Some yes, indeed. The rest is a heap of annoyances and fee extortions that dilutes the useful ones.

I donā€™t usually do construction but I do electricity. For a lot of my antics I should theoretically have paperwork. But the wires donā€™t care and they are those who matter.

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Home Inspection Nightmares

Rub a Dub Dub, A Shock in the Tub ā€œHow ingenious is this: To reduce the chance of electrocution from the circuit breaker panel, we simply lowered the shower head!ā€ Earle Johnson AmeriSpec Home...
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Iā€™m in favor of teledildonics. We could work something out.

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Actually, isnā€™t it @funruly?

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First, they came for my giant plastic santaā€¦

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If you want to engage one of the screening rooms here on the WB lot, you have to call Post Production Services, which is largely the Post Sound department. Their projectionists are, I believe, still card-carrying union projectionists, but they are few, and they are nowhere near young.

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Would they give the same amount of grief to someone putting up a traditional Sukkot shelter?
I think they should put up a big screen TV showing this on loop:

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