When you do get that connection … go the extra step and install a ‘backwater prevention valve’ … it’s a giant one way valve that is attached to the main drain line as it leaves the house.

It allows water to always easily flow out but if it ever happens that water back flows into your house for some reason … the valve will stop any flow from entering your house.

I’ve always planned to get one but my situation is too difficult to install one.

I’m sorry but … what an absolute mess

You mentioned that your main drain is a bit higher than the floor of the basement. I have the same situation, my drain is about two feet off the floor of my concrete basement. The washing machine drain was placed to drain towards the lowest point of the main drain. Everything else in the house with a drain is in upper floors.

I’d rearrange the plumbing to build a drain as close to the four foot level as possible for the washing machine … instead of trying to build a solution 6 or 7 feet up in the air … you’re asking for trouble if you are making your washing machine drain up to a high point.

I remember once renting a place that was an old house with a brand new concrete basement … the main drain was close to ground level that went to a septic tank and field. Their solution was to install the washing machine in the basement, drain down to the floor level, then to a grey water pump unit in a big box that was 3x3x3 feet … and that pushed the water up to the main drain. I don’t think washing machines are meant to push water that high up and you will probably constantly have a bit of grey water backing down to the washing machine.

You get to lead the most powerful nation in the world

About six months of the year, you need a shovel to get through the snow and ice to find the keys

Run away, uncontrollable, unregulated and unlimited growth is known as one thing … Cancer

and it usually eventually kills the host

It’s repetition

For about ten years I locked myself out of the house on average about once a year, sometimes more.

Now, grabbing the keys on my way out is automatic … I physically can’t leave without thinking of the house key anymore.

And even if I did … I have a back up key in my wallet … and a hidden key on my garage … and a key in a lockbox under the porch … and one in my truck … and probably a few more I forgot about on my property somewhere.

Funny thing is … once I started hiding back up keys all over the place, I stopped locking myself out of the house.

Advertising is the blistering puss of an underlying Capitalist stage four cancer that has broken the surface of the body.

Never did understand it either and always just saw it and then saw it so often that it just became normal

I had to look it up myself to see where the origin of it came from

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been

Know Your Meme is always a great resource for this kind of stuff … thanks for asking because it made me look it up and find out for myself because I never knew the origin of it all.

Turnip is already an idiot … we’ve all known that for a while now

Everyone is an idiot for listening to what he has a say on anything

Same here … I started off for about four or five years on OpenOffice until it devolved into some weird open/private organization and everyone revolted and it turned into LibreOffice. I held onto OpenOffice for a while and then realized the LibreOffice was more open source system … but you’re right, whenever I look up anything as an Microsoft alternative, OpenOffice is the first to come to mind.

Whenever I’m at the grocery store frozen section I call the $2 frozen dinners ‘Airplane Food’.

At ground level at a budget grocery store it’s $2 uncooked

At 30,000 feet after being heated in a microwave, it’s $100 a plate.

The office of US president has become meaningless … it’s the people with all the money who control the inner workings of government that have the power … they just allow everyone else to elect a meaningless figurehead to throw rotten vegetables at.

While billions upon billions of us are just writing complete nonsense

Wanting to own and control so much money that you could not realistically enjoy it all during one single lifetime is a mental disorder.

Wanting to horde all that wealth and keep expanding it at the cost of millions of people’s lives is a psychotic mental disorder that will kill us all.

* robot monkeys on typewriters

Beautiful work … I wish my school had done that when I was a kid.

The great thing about it is that now you are helping to generate a new crop of kids who will learn how to use Linux. Sure, they will try to do stupid things on it like install games or figure out how to bypass things or install or uninstall … the great thing about that is that they will learn how to use the system in order to try to break it. It’s the same way I learned how to use Linux and probably the same way you learned how to use it.

You’ve advanced the computer department for those kids more than you know.

That’s one of the great things about switching to Linux … it forces you to learn something new and for kids that is a very good thing.

All those kids in the school that OP described were getting stagnant in a settled environment of living in Windows … now that they have Linux in front of them, they will go on to learn how to subvert the system under Linux. It’s not a bad thing in my opinion, it will create a whole crop of kids who now know how to fool around with Windows AND Linux.

I wish someone would have introduced me to Linux when I was kid.