It's not a bad business. Problem comes when you have people who get behind in their rent or who abandon their belongings. But there are ways to screw them over...

I remember when this happened to Treacher. This is why I wont shed a tear either. https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/heres-why-i-hate-media-matters

That's great. In 2023 there were 128.4 million households in the US, plus businesses. So we'd need about 200 of those.

https://forward.com/news/476055/after-25-years-iconic-hebrew-beer-shuts-off-the-tap/

The taxes on that here would be 200-250k per year.

No apologies. That's good. Link to video

As a touring classical pianist, I can vouch for this. My most recent gig in Dallas paid literally nothing.

Lol

@Doctor-Phibes said in "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm...": The thought of me cutting down my own tree is so ridiculous it’s not even something I’d contemplate. We had three taken down when we moved and watching them at work emphasized this point quite strongly. It all depends...If you're working with a tree that's not a problem (clear area to fall, symmetrical limbs) and you're just trying to get it on the ground, it's not too hard. Just don't try it on a windy day. I do keep a 100' cable out in the shop, just in case we have to pull one. You do that for pulling through limbs on other trees or when you really want one to fall in a small, designated spot. You tie your cable up the trunk fifteen feet or so, then pull with a winch, come-along or with a tractor, as the cut is being made. Depending on the tree, I may have to add one or two 25' chains to the cable for length. But tight corners around the house? Having to top one out and take it in pieces? I grit my teeth and let the guys with the equipment do the work. Last big pine took a crane and cost me $1800.

I have no problem with this. Some of the congregation should have helped the priest.

For me it was none of those ages. It was the 90s. Economy was going gangbusters, the Cold War was over, no real challenges to the world order were present, and Islam hadn’t really reared its foul head yet. Domestic politics were tame. Hell, Dole ran to the left of Clinton on a couple of issues. Those things seem objectively true and demonstrably superior to what we faced in prior decades and the decades since.

@taiwan_girl said in Maybe it's just me...: Wow! Sounds very sad. Also slightly odd that "royal sources" and her "friends" apparently only spoke to The Daily Beast.

TCM.

Shucks, I thought this was going to be a morning after thread...

More sad news from that messed up country. Three people, a Haitian man and an American couple who all worked for a Christian mission organization, were killed by gang members near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday night (May 23). The group had reportedly been kidnapped earlier in the evening after leaving a youth event hosted at a church. Natalie and Davy Lloyd moved from Oklahoma to Haiti in 2022 to work for Missions in Haiti, Inc. The third person killed was the Haitian director of the organization, Jude Montis. Davy’s parents, David and Alicia Lloyd, who founded the organization in 2000, shared the news of their death in a Facebook post around 2 a.m. Friday, saying the couple had been shot by gang members around 9 p.m. https://religionnews.com/2024/05/24/american-missionary-couple-haitian-mission-director-killed-by-gangs-in-haiti/

As long as he isn’t Biden/Harris, that’s good enough for me.

I've seen a few like these, my son was supercharged when he was small. The most memorable one was hearing him falling down the quite steep stairs and seeing him face-planting hard right onto the tiled entrance at the bottom. We were both horrified and wondering about a potential hospital visit - he took a second, then got up and shouted "THAT WAS GREAT!!!!". We had to stop him from doing it again.