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Had there not been so much demo on Spring and north it wouldn't be so damn prominent.

The owners don't like that since they can't claim depreciation on contractors.

I know they skipped for the holidays but I should be getting new ones by now dagnabbit

So 0 N High would mean that they aren't planning on using the existing address of the site and that it's going to be a new parcel when they're done (I think). Perhaps combining parcels. The most common use of 0 addresses is on raw land such as farmland or fallow.

"Sup someone on a SUP today." Is supping still a verb or is that in 1997 only?

I haven't been getting my papers in the mail since XMas. Going to have to go pick them up from businesses I guess.

They are some of the few rich people that get paid in "wages" so they get actually get taxed at that 39.6% rate talk radio goes on about endlessly that for almost everyone else is pure fiction.

So Ohio overall has gotten worse at everything since 2010 except Drove Alone and WFH. And WFH is solely responsible for drops in Drove Alone since all other ways of commuting such as walking and biking have also dropped. Is this a correct interpretation or spurious? And why has Bowling Green lost its mojo so badly? Large apartment complexes too far from campus for walking and biking vacuuming the students out of town? Renting SFH out of town getting big?

Scheduled to close Feb. 19: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/12/04/american-girl-closing-its-easton-town-center-store.html edit: whoops. CDM beat me by mere seconds.

The costs for all that square footage are brutal if not filled. That's probably why so many turned up in non-prime locations such as '80s industrial parks next to the local bagged ice and motor oil distributors.

I'm not really in to bar fights but one thing those did do was keep narcissists in check. Back in the old bar days those guys would get all smooth with every girl in there and of course they got their asses kicked enough times to beat it out of them. Now narcissists can run free because the only consequences are sad emojis and getting blocked.

People are clearly becoming bored with the taproom concept. It was bound to happen since it's been 15 years. Think about how short all those '90s concepts lasted: The Cocktail Lounge. The warehouse club with burn barrels and chainlink fencing. The mirrors, tile and jade green marble dance clubs with bars with brass railings. The NASCAR Bar (peaked in 2000).

Is that a B-2 Stealth Bomber flying over the city in the second pic? edit: It is! I clicked on the pic and it said so

Who else was counting the words until the letters "GOP" or -R appeared?

"One by One the Glass Blocks Were Lain..."

I wonder if that's the only MCL with a 5-story building next to it.

Problem in Oakley currently is if you're into cars you're stuck with a one-car garage that's probably super old, super tiny and leaky. Really sucks to actually work on a car in.

It would be super easy for something like that to happen to a new building too. Like everybody has to park in the same lot for some reason one night and some phenomenon occurs that nobody thought about. Sometimes it takes a ton of iterations.

One thing that slows this down a little today is that demolition costs are sky-high as compared to in the not-so-distant past.

People today don't care about visuals. Visuals come from memes.

I hate what all this M&A activity has done to the middle class by concentrating all the white-collar jobs in only a few cities while making everywhere else just work in the companies' warehouses.

Boy has this changed since this post was made in 2019. I was just in there today and you're back to not saving much at all for buying used from them. From about 2014-2015 until COVID used gear prices there were indeed super low. I'm talking 75% off of MSRP and 50% off new street price. It was hard to get a read on their used gear prices during COVID because they became depleted very quickly. Stock is back up to more normal levels but not the glut they were facing in the mid-late 2010s. The other thing is that everyone isn't getting rid of their rock gear for banjos and mandolins like they were 10 years ago. I remember the new section was a bunch of Appalachian acoustic string instruments which depressed values of everything else because of all the Stomp Clap Hey, Bluegrass and Americana bands that were extremely popular at the time. I saw a bass that new from them at $199 marked used (in 5-day trade hold mind you) for $189. The Appalachian (well, African, really) instrument section was back to its ordinary small size.

"Train Travels To Toronto" Am I the only one who was told to say that as a kid to work on pronouncing "T"?

The most significant. I mean it's gotten a little better about these towns not just being a funeral home, flower shop and antiques store but I just don't want a tiny alumni network when I want to work in an office in the city for a company and don't know anybody.