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I signed up for it and didn’t tell my husband. Wish me luck. Haha
It's neat that that service exists, but you can also call up local arborist companies and ask, or wait until one is chipping a bunch of debris at a neighbor's house and ask the truck driver in person.
I'm not a homeowner, don't plan on being one any time soon, and have zero use for their services, but damn am I sold by their "Why CHIPDROP is probably NOT for you" promo video. That's advertising gold, right there.
The National Parks.
I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.
Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course...
I missed Trump fucking things up and I need to know now...
If I understand correctly, this one is still in progress, i.e. her hasn't quite accomplished it yet. They tried to add the selloff of public land to the big piece of shit bill, but I think that failed?
Those plastic balls for a ball pit. You order them in bags of 1000 pcs for 15 bucks on Aliexpress, they are bloody huge. A couple of those will do.
Especially if your goal is to mess with the delivery driver, you can max out available storage in the truck in no time.
I have this printed and framed next to my desk. It's a good reminder of the power we all have to live our lives how we choose and the kind of people we want to be.
Every time. It's truly stunning that there's an xkcd for everything.
It's selection bias. Instances where there isn't a relevant xkcd aren't recorded.
Considering the joke is how many years old now? I assumed the punchline was implied. You are not wrong. 🤓
Cause every conversation where there is not a relevant xkcd disappears from reality
If only. Shipping on ball pit balls is stupid expensive. I looked at filling a 6x12 office like 3 feet deep and it was going to be almost $3000 once shipping was included. Yes, I am still bitter about it. I just didn't want to deal with an office chair anymore.
A chair is less to deal with than a room full of balls
Sure, but imagine you join a meeting and the lead engineer is sitting in a ball pit. Isn't your first response going to be to laugh? Then he shifts to grab something and slowly sinks out of frame. It's 100% going to make whatever stupid meeting better.
You shouldn't think big, necessarily, you should think heavy. Postage to be paid on delivery.
Lead sheet in a return envelope is a great thank you for unsolicited application offers.
Outside of the awesome 'national parks' answer from someone else, I would have to assume the best cost-to-surface-area purchase in the world would be really cheap land in the American West, Australian outback, Russian tundra, Canadian North, etc. Assuming it doesn't have oil on it, some of those areas, land practically given away. Sometimes you can get governments to pay you to take it on and try to do something useful with it.
If you consider that ownership usually includes mineral rights for miles under the ground, this really starts to look like the obvious choice of your looking for volume, not just area.
How do you get this free or cheap land in the Canadian tundra, again?
I didn't say Canadian tundra, I say Canadian North.
Hers a listing in northern SK for $129k CAD that's nearly 12k acres. That's $10.75 CAD per acre. That's pretty cheap in my book.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1412-2nd-Ave-Edam-SK-S0M-0V0/453901932_zpid/
~~You're off by 3 orders of magnitude...~~ Retracted.
Did you miss the "k"?
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That's also just what I could find in 30 seconds on Zillow. Pretty sure you could get stuff even cheaper (no structures in property, for insurance) with a little effort
Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you're stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.
Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per m³ if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.
Plastic lawn chair. They are one of the biggest dimensional losers. Cheap, but if you’re ordering just one the packing is super inefficient.
I suppose it’s not that much of a pain in the ass in retrospect but it’s definitely a mental pain considering the incredible poor efficiency of getting one delivered. Perhaps you can find an extremely large piece of Styrofoam because they cannot be folded.
make sure to get multiple chairs, but none of the same type. not being able to stack them is super annoying : D
Whatever you end up doing, OP, you owe us a pic or video of the result!
A big fuck-off mylar balloon.
You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don't know about price there.
Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don't want to drop them because it'd make a mess.
What do they pack them in?
In themselves, of course!
I am curious what the purpose of this is
Heaps and heaps of sand?
Hay bale - or multiple.
Horse manure tends to be free around these parts
By area activated charcoal has a ton of surface area
Can't you buy stars on websites online
Can you still buy a star? Obviously dubious that you actually own it. But certainly bigger than anything on earth and a bit tricky to deliver.
This reminds me of an old Reddit writing prompt that I got a good chuckle from. Something along the lines of “humanity discovers FTL travel, and is invited to join the Galactic Federation. The federation goes out of its way to accommodate incoming species, and part of that intake process involves respecting existing legal structures and contracts… They just realized humans have been selling stars to each other for centuries.”
And they owe a lot on back property taxes.
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