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Vietnamese EV manufacturer VinFast is currently worth more than Ford and GM combined.

It became a problem in Groveport about 5 years ago because the tennis courts were always full of pickleball and people couldn't play tennis.

I now spend my weekdays at a farm where everything is the old hard way. My productivity is terrible due to the enormous complexity of having to do things the old hard way. I have to help someone who never learned use the internet. There is no internet there and my cell phone barely works. Everything is snail mail, house phones and newspapers. I am not allowed to speak during weather reports. Only the main house has AC and downstairs only. It is impossible to stay properly hydrated 5 months a year. I owned another business for years and this place turned into a total dump in the meantime. Food is a major hassle. Have I become smarter because of this?

Between wireless internet and mini-splits that if those old schools could have just made it through the 2000s they wouldn't have had to be torn down. But apparently the open floor plans of 1970s schools are "a school shooter's dream" so those have to come down too.

I did not like that job. Or blowing my nose afterward. After a while I got put on jerking corn cobs from stalks that had been knocked over by cars running off the road and wind.

The flip side of that is that nobody wants to deal with melodies and riffs since most of them have already been come up with and when they run the songs through the copyright algo they come up with violations. Meanwhile before subdivided beats there were technically only 128 different drumbeats so drums are uncopywriteable. So people can do all the drums they want and not have to send a bunch of money to somebody else because of a song they never heard before. That's part of everything is so drum-oriented now.

Most businesses cannot live in a world of pennies like they could even 10 years ago. One reason I shut my stores down is the average price of an item in the store was in the 3 dollar range. People would bring in a giant pile of stuff and there wouldn't be a single thing in there that sold for more than 10 dollars. You can't do that anymore unless you have Dollar in the name and have some unincorporated hamlet by the balls.

$9.99 is a big price barrier there.

Never recovered from the Pepsi switch

We've had a lot of big plans for this city that never panned out so I fold.

Just saw on the Columbus local news that they now can put mini-splits in each room to cover the HVAC needs of older schools. That's what's going to be done at Columbus Alternative, the last CCS school with no A/C.

So I guess when we cross 33 to get some Sheetz we're "visitors"

Which means they can't blame outgroups and know things have to be done systematically. Instead of blaming drivers they blame design or policy. No saying "If people would just... (slow down) (read signs) (not be so nuts) etc.

I called Anime "That '80s Stuff" because I thought they stopped making it after the '80s.

Gòooooooood mooooooooood fooooooooooood

Here we go Buc-ee's, here we go!

Everything SE Asian is big with gamers.

Or they did that thing where they rub other bricks against some of the bricks to give it a pattern then seal it. That's what they do at SSU to give all the brick buildings the same look.

I've always considered Lubbock a "Weather Channel City" -- one you only ever heard about on the Weather Channel

The animal welfare bill was in California. It set standards for raising hogs. If we didn't pass issue 1 the Republican's threat is that the bill would immediately surface here and go straight through because of "crazy voters"

Their representative on Fox 28 was nonsensical tonight. They literally can't believe they lost. They are stuck with confirmation bias because they only talk to their own. Unlike Ohio Democrats who are always being told they are wrong by their personal network.

I hope this shows the gerrymandered Statehouse that they can't just listen to their Appalachian river counties and Amish Country that they all represent (due to said gerrymandering) then force their will on the entire rest of the state. Their decisions were unpopular. Face it.

Very interesting. I figured pretty much all farm counties scored low in Catholic -- at least in Ohio.

All of the big roads are set up to get people to the East Side or that "Middle Side" with The Dales.