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Long article:
“In the pandemic, hundreds of Chinese migrants who lost their jobs moved to a remote city on the Navajo Nation Indian reservation in New Mexico, to do what they thought was legal agricultural work. Instead, they and the local Native community found themselves pitted against one another in a bizarre cautionary tale about the boom in cannabis production in the US, and the impact on Asian migrant labourers.”

“Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56835897
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If you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to?
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Um, out of my price range.... and its not even a stand alone home.OMgosh.
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neonzx wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 12:29 pm
Um, out of my price range.... and its not even a stand alone home.OMgosh.
We ate franks and beans for years so we could afford the mortgage on less than half the current asking price. This market is INSANE. But I’m not complaining.
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Maybenaut wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 12:35 pm
neonzx wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 12:29 pm
Um, out of my price range.... and its not even a stand alone home.OMgosh.
We ate franks and beans for years so we could afford the mortgage on less than half the current asking price. This market is INSANE. But I’m not complaining.
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Lovely! HGTV worthy. :lol:
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At that price does it come with a butler and maid... :biggrin:
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An animal shelter in Chicago has released 1,000 feral cats throughout the city to combat a rat crisis.

Through a program called Cats at Work, the Tree House Humane Society, a local animal shelter, releases feral felines on to city streets. The initiative places two to three cats, all spayed, neutered and vaccinated, outside of residences and businesses to sustainably deal with Chicago’s rodent problem.

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The cats are animals that “would not thrive in a shelter or home environment” and are usually subject to long stays in animal control centers or euthanization, according to the non-profit’s website.

While the deployed felines will sometimes kill rats, the mere presence of these repurposed alley cats is usually enough to scare off pests. About 1,000 cats have now been released since 2012, as reported by WGN9, a local media station.

Local homeowners or businesses can sign up for the program, as long as they cover food, water and shelter for the cats. The popular program currently has a “long waitlist”, as stated on its website.
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Very nice. Three story walk up, 2400sf, with courtyard in back, and balcony upstairs. What year was it built?

The market is nuts everywhere. Our golf pro neighbor has been scouting Phoenix, and came back sticker shocked. Like us, she got in around 1989. $29K for 1400sf ranch on a quarter acre. Now they are worth just under $200K. Taxes are assessed on the purchase price landing at $600/yr. It's paid for. The cost of utilities (water, elec, garbage, phone/internet, cable) and upkeep is minimal. We can live here for under $500/mo. We'd be foolish to move after retirement. I like zero debt.
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bill_g wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 2:32 pm
Very nice. Three story walk up, 2400sf, with courtyard in back, and balcony upstairs. What year was it built?

The market is nuts everywhere. Our golf pro neighbor has been scouting Phoenix, and came back sticker shocked. Like us, she got in around 1989. $29K for 1400sf ranch on a quarter acre. Now they are worth just under $200K. Taxes are assessed on the purchase price landing at $600/yr. It's paid for. The cost of utilities (water, elec, garbage, phone/internet, cable) and upkeep is minimal. We can live here for under $500/mo. We'd be foolish to move after retirement. I like zero debt.
Built in 1999. We are original owners. Property tax on this postage stamp is twice what we pay on 18 acres at our new house (which we bought for just over half of what we’ll get for this place). I’m with you on the zero debt. We had the townhouse paid off, then took some equity out to buy the new house. We’ll be back to zero debt when this house sells.
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bill_g wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 8:08 am
Maybenaut wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 1:30 pm
It’s so you can’t deny them access to come in and get their routers and set top boxes if you do terminate. And if you call to complain about an outage, you have to let them in so they can fix it.

And the key is reasonableness.
Correct. IANAL, but I've put clauses like that in many of our agreements. It's boiler plate. You are agreeing to give consent if access to their equipment is requested. They retain ownership of all equipment used to access their service. Customers are just renting it. By signing up for their service, you are agreeing to allow a representative that asks to be on your property, or to come into your premises, to service that equipment. You are not giving them blanket access to your home or property. Neither are you granting a right of way. Refusing them entry upon request during normal business hours can be grounds for service termination.

The language indemnifies them from providing service. There are customers that want magical repairs. Customers want their cable TV to work, but they don't want to let you inside to figure out the problem. If you refuse them at the door, the cable company can cut service, and not be worried about why your cable isn't working. They have a bazillion of those boxes. They aren't too worried about getting them back. There's a good chance they would just go to e-waste anyway. Somewhere in the agreement is a clause that allows them to charge you the replacement value should you not surrender the equipment.
Thanks for the details, bill_g. Makes sense.
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Nice place, maybenaut. I especially like the back deck. IIRC, we* “met” you while you were putting the backsplash in the kitchen!

A townhouse like that, with that beautiful deck, not to mention its own dalik, would probably be 100k+ more here in LA. I predict it won’t be on the market long. 🤗 Very colonial, reminds me of Alexandria townhouses.

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noblepa wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 11:26 am
Volkonski wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 3:45 am
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A massive, full-scale replica of the Titanic is under construction in China. The ship will offer a “five-star cruise service” once opened but will remain stationary, as it's landlocked.
Well, no worries about sinking then. :thumbsup:
Someone (an Australian, I think) is trying to build an actual, operating replica, to be called Titanic II. It will be externally very similar to the original, but will have modern mechanicals and passenger amenities. So far, they haven't, to my knowledge, begun construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II
Hah. Clive Palmer is on the nose in Australia and he wouldn't be able to get funding for a project like that.

He has sent everything he has touched into bankruptcy (like a certain cheeto we all know and love) but seems to walk away with enough dosh (by skipping out on his legal responsibilities to pay out the entitlements of the workers he that lost their jobs) to go tilting at windmills by pretending to run for Parliament (he actually got in by accident once), spending gazillions on antigovernment ads, and suing over 'oppressive' pandemic measures .
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From the Department of Narcissism comes this online AI that find all the images of You-You-You that are on the web.

I keep a very small digital footprint, but it correctly found an image of me at Classmates dot com that I uploaded eons ago in less than two seconds using a recent badge picture I submitted to the gummint. It also found a bunch of pictures of Not-Me from mugshots, Facebook, etc. They were similar. So, for people who have been lavish with their social media, here's a way to review it all.
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So #2 son Alex Bob Todd whatever his name is starts his new job at an electrical parts warehouse on Monday. The email says to "report to a gentleman who goes by K2". :?

I told him to go in there and say "I'm looking for the second highest mountain on the planet." That will fool them into thinking he's a smart guy with a sense of humor, or if they don't get the reference then they're dumb and who cares. The guy is probably 6' 9" tall, that's why he goes by the name of a tall mountain.

'Course, if he turns out to be Karl Koenigs, I'll tell him to quit and we'll find something else. :lol:
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Foggy wrote: Sat May 15, 2021 10:47 am So #2 son Alex Bob Todd whatever his name is starts his new job at an electrical parts warehouse on Monday. The email says to "report to a gentleman who goes by K2". :?
"K2" -- is this from a sci-fi flick that maybe I've seen? :?
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No.

K2 really is the second highest mountain on the planet, behind Mt. Everest.



However, Alex Bob Todd whatever his name is correctly informs me that in fact, K2 is also the name of a type of synthetic marijuana.

And he thinks they'll be much more favorably impressed, on his very first day in a new job, if he walks into an electrical parts warehouse and says "I'm looking for synthetic marijuana" rather than "I'm looking for the second highest mountain on the planet."

Kids today, I tells ya. :smoking:
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That looks like Alvin Kamara's training routine.
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The last video I saw like that had a dog in it. :cantlook:
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I like self-made obstacle courses. Sadly, my old bones could not navigate one.
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I wonder how many times he had to try before he got it all? So many places to crash and burn.
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bill_g wrote: Sat May 15, 2021 3:42 pm I wonder how many times he had to try before he got it all? So many places to crash and burn.
I'm thinking not many re-takes. That final back-flip is impressive -- he's got his moves.
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