A cheap method would be to leave the brush head soak overnight in a saline solution. Use tap water or COLD water from boiled kettle plus small amount salt.
I miss when Facebook Messenger let you connect to it with XMPP back in the day so you could have it together with your other msging services on Adium/Pidgin
Housing construction quality is generally poor in the USA and Canada.
xUSSR countries (Russia, Estonia, etc ) have harsher climate and yet concrete building there are fine.
New York’s climate is pretty harsh: you have annual freeze/thaw cycles, lots of rain and ice, plus high winds and an annual hurricane season.
The problem here is not a general one with urban building quality in the US, but the fact that this specific piece is a part of a many-headed scam: the developers themselves built it quickly and cheaply because they knew that their clients are using it as a (foreign) asset, and not as a living space. The tenants in turn are doing exactly that, and they knew exactly what they were getting into; the reason they’re suing is to protect the value of their asset for the next sucker. Normal buildings in the US, including new builds, do not have this particular dynamic.
> New York’s climate is pretty harsh: you have annual freeze/thaw cycles, lots of rain and ice, plus high winds and an annual hurricane season.
In terms of freeze/thaw cycles, it's not really about having annual cycles that makes a climate harsh, but rather having persistent daily cycles. A climate where the winter daily high sits comfortably above freezing and the winter daily low sits comfortably below freezing is going to be much harsher on buildings than one where the weather goes below freezing in fall and stays below freezing all winter--you're seeing like 10× the freeze/thaw cycles per year.
Between climate change and urban heat island effect, Manhattan is probably moving into the winter-daily-freeze/thaw-cycle climate zone.
Sure. But that's due to low unit build + immigration creating demand combined with builders mainly building 2500 sq ft houses. Back in the 70s it would have been 1,500 sq ft. But also people want amenities like central air, game rooms, big kitchens, etc. It's like making sedans vs SUVs. MFGs make money on S/CUVs and larger houses. Small units don't have the same unit profit.
> While some major markets — Winnipeg, Regina, and Toronto — saw home resales go up from August to September, most markets remained tepid.
> Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax saw slight declines, “suggesting the recovery is still uneven and fragile,” RBC economist Robert Hogue said in the report.
I know that out here on the west coast my property valuation has dropped from the peak. Not much, but it’s clear from talking to realtors that you just can’t buy a house and flip it a year later anymore.
