Totally random thread

[jhawks99]

99, how satisfied are you with your stapler?

I don't have one

[BiggDick]

Whoa, seriously?

No wonder you've gone this long without setting the building on fire.

[BiggDick]

Leaving this here too cuz I mean wut

Coach K next to Ken Jeong

[Overlander]

Leaving this here too cuz I mean wut

Coach K next to Ken Jeong

Reposting for attention is pretty weak

[Sparko]

What was ratface reading? It was like a TPS report and he would hand it to his handmaid.

[KUTradition]

OnlyFans star reveals boundaries they set after marrying stepbrother

life imitates… “art”?

[Shirley]

From seekingalpha .com

More of this, please:

Australia to propose law similar to EU's DMA to fine Big Tech if they prevent competition

Australia is planning to introduce a law that could fine technology companies up to A$50M ($33M) if found guilty of stifling competition or preventing consumers from switching between services, Reuters reported Monday.

The move is the latest aimed at curbing Big Tech's influence in the country following last week's bill that effectively banned social media for everyone under 16; the proposed bill is expected to mimic Europe's Digital Markets Act.

The proposed law allows Australia's competition watchdog to oversee compliance, investigate anti-competitive practices online, and fine companies, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones reportedly said in excerpts of a speech on Monday.

"The digital economy challenges our current legal framework. The dominant platforms can charge higher costs, reduce choice, and use sneaky tactics to lock consumers into using certain products. Innovation outside of the established players becomes almost impossible," Jones reportedly said in the speech viewed by Reuters.

The consultation process for the proposed law is scheduled to end on February 14.

[Shirley]

Another Co. town for japhy to save?

Or, a career opportunity in the mountains?

[japhy]

It's an issue in rural America. Food deserts aren't just a city thing. K&J Grocery in Center is the only grocery in the 3,000 sq miles of Saguache County. It serves about 2,000 people outside of the 2,000 in town. The fact that it is there is what keeps the town economically viable. Probably the most important business in town. The nearby (25 miles) town of Sagauche has a facebook page where you can post requests for a ride to Center for groceries or ask someone to pick things up for you. There are a lot of elderly who can't drive or don't have a vehicle.

There are 4 highways and passes in and out of the San Luis Valley. If one is impassable there are usually two that are open. Silverton is one away in, and one way out. If you have driven Highway 550 you know you would not want to drive a semi in there even in the summer. It is a beautiful place if you can get there.

The grocery in Silverton seems like a perfect opportunity for a younger, altruistic individual to move to town and contract to buy the place. It's a lifetime commitment to own one of these. You can't just sell these businesses. Very few want to own them, so your market value is pretty damn low. You run it until the right person is sent by god to take it over, or until you die and the place closes.

The Skiffs ran the grocery in Center for 80 years, maybe a bit more. Skeffs sold out to the aunt and uncle of the current owner Tim maybe 15-20 years ago. Tim has worked there for a couple of decades and bought the place from them recently. He is updating it to save energy costs and to improve service.

R&R Market is the oldest continuous running business in Colorado. I think it was 150 years in the same family maybe. They just switched owners and it became a community run business. An interesting model that has become more common in the SLV.

[KUTradition]

the first town in northern New Mexico that we lived in was very similar. grocery, gas station, ranger station and school were about the only non-residential buildings

gas station was the first to go, then the grocer. when the ranger station burned down, there wasn’t enough left going on in town to justify a rebuild…so it’s died a slow and sad death since. folks still live there (it’s fucking beautiful), but it’s an economic wasteland

[Overlander]

the first town in northern New Mexico that we lived in was very similar. grocery, gas station, ranger station and school were about the only non-residential buildings

gas station was the first to go, then the grocer. when the ranger station burned down, there wasn’t enough left going on in town to justify a rebuild…so it’s died a slow and sad death since. folks still live there (it’s fucking beautiful), but it’s an economic wasteland

Its crazy to me how economically depressed New Mexico is.
Such a beautiful state.

[KUTradition]

the first town in northern New Mexico that we lived in was very similar. grocery, gas station, ranger station and school were about the only non-residential buildings

gas station was the first to go, then the grocer. when the ranger station burned down, there wasn’t enough left going on in town to justify a rebuild…so it’s died a slow and sad death since. folks still live there (it’s fucking beautiful), but it’s an economic wasteland

Its crazy to me how economically depressed New Mexico is.
Such a beautiful state.

right?!?!

that’s one of the main reasons we relocated away. from Santa Fe, north to the border is phenomenal country. my grandparents actually had a cabin near Jemez Springs a long, long time ago

[Overlander]

the first town in northern New Mexico that we lived in was very similar. grocery, gas station, ranger station and school were about the only non-residential buildings

gas station was the first to go, then the grocer. when the ranger station burned down, there wasn’t enough left going on in town to justify a rebuild…so it’s died a slow and sad death since. folks still live there (it’s fucking beautiful), but it’s an economic wasteland

Its crazy to me how economically depressed New Mexico is.
Such a beautiful state.

right?!?!

that’s one of the main reasons we relocated away. from Santa Fe, north to the border is phenomenal country. my grandparents actually had a cabin near Jemez Springs a long, long time ago

I love that area! Jeeped all over there, through Chimayo, the Carson Forest, Chama all the way up through Creede several times over the years.

[twocoach]

Today's PSA: Don't scoop up a bat to remove it from somewhere it shouldn't be without wearing gloves. Even better would be to eat the cost and hire a professional to remove them if you can. If you get bit or scratched by a bat, rodent, squirrel, rabbit or racoon, don't wait to see if anything weird happens. Go to your doctor and assume that you've been exposed to rabies.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/health/r ... index.html

"A California art teacher died from rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

Leah Seneng, 60, may have been bitten when she scooped up the bat to release it outside, according to her friend Laura Splotch.

“She got to her classroom early in the morning before the kids came in. She found a bat on the floor, so she scooped it up and she took it outside,” Splotch told CNN. “I guess it bit her, or she maybe thought it scratched her or something, and then it took off. It flew away, and she didn’t think anything of it, not thinking that it was sick or anything. So she got it out of the classroom, and then she just went about her day, and she told her daughter about it.”

[twocoach]

the first town in northern New Mexico that we lived in was very similar. grocery, gas station, ranger station and school were about the only non-residential buildings

gas station was the first to go, then the grocer. when the ranger station burned down, there wasn’t enough left going on in town to justify a rebuild…so it’s died a slow and sad death since. folks still live there (it’s fucking beautiful), but it’s an economic wasteland

Its crazy to me how economically depressed New Mexico is.
Such a beautiful state.

Shitty soil, hard to grow stuff so maybe they don't have as big of a historical base of farmers that homesteaded the state. What are they now, just over 2 million for the entire state population? And I read that about 10% of their population is Native Americans. Native Americans certainly were granted land for their reservations that you can do much with at all. But yeah, I agree with you that there are some truly beautiful places there.

[TDub]

Today's PSA: Don't scoop up a bat to remove it from somewhere it shouldn't be without wearing gloves. Even better would be to eat the cost and hire a professional to remove them if you can. If you get bit or scratched by a bat, rodent, squirrel, rabbit or racoon, don't wait to see if anything weird happens. Go to your doctor and assume that you've been exposed to rabies.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/health/r ... index.html

"A California art teacher died from rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom.

Leah Seneng, 60, may have been bitten when she scooped up the bat to release it outside, according to her friend Laura Splotch.

“She got to her classroom early in the morning before the kids came in. She found a bat on the floor, so she scooped it up and she took it outside,” Splotch told CNN. “I guess it bit her, or she maybe thought it scratched her or something, and then it took off. It flew away, and she didn’t think anything of it, not thinking that it was sick or anything. So she got it out of the classroom, and then she just went about her day, and she told her daughter about it.”

I've been bitten by a squirrel...twice..a rabbit and a mink. I've been lucky I suppose. The mink damn near took the last couple inches of my finger off....was hanging on just by a bit if skin...mean little bastard.

[BiggDick]

the other day I randomly learned that possums don't get rabies cuz their body temp is too low to carry the virus.