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I think the difference here is between people who are working their jobs for the opportunity to work with technology versus the people who merely deal with technology the minimum amount in order to get their work done.

The shrinkage is too high on self-checkout. They were actually more expensive than human cashiers -- at least at 2010s labor costs. Not sure if that has changed due to today's higher wage rates.

I think that "Centre" business is a relic of the metric system conversion days

Austin I could see because Texans raise money very easily but Indy I don't know. Might just be that all the money and effort in Indiana funnels into Indy.

For something as big as that it won't be a standardized deal for sure.

It is. The amount of acreage old big box stores and car dealerships take up is incredible.

Are they even pulling up the good topsoil to sell or just going right into it? Obviously that speeds up the project.

In this Now & Then you can see what I was talking about with the acid rain and pollution damage by looking at the old, Old Post Office in the middle left of the top picture. It looks almost as bad as the Cologne Germany Cathedral!

Uh, that's kinda what they said about Tall Stacks

Columbus has an enormous amount of residential not broken up by commercial and industrial. And it's almost all full.

It's uncanny how similar Capital is to Marshall in some spots visually.

During my early years of college one older professor said he felt professors should rate other professors rather than students. That always stuck with me since students are always going to gravitate towards the professors that are most like Free Ice Cream Fridays.

^That Ethiopian Seasoning!

Here is the book: https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C2058454 There is a lot more detail in it about the Biggies such as the Deshler, the Neil House, the Southern and the Hartman.

The book doesn't mention any structural issues but it does mention that the court ordered repairs to exposed wiring, leaky pipes, removal of rodents and fire system upgrades which were moving along well enough to get extensions by the court until the end when presumably work had not been completed to its satisfaction. Then tenants were ordered out and it was subsequently bought by Grant.

I'm not seeing how atothek is on "the other side of the issue" though by pointing out one reason why birthrates are lower.

A lot of it was pollution and acid rain damage. Looking back to when I was a kid a lot of old stuff around town looked like that such as the old Columbus Amphitheater which became the Lazarus appliance Annex and the Lazarus parking garage #2. Asthecially to WWII Gen and Silent Gen a typical Columbus surface lot or 1988 Brutalist building with bronze window tinting looked way better. Notice that the rebuilt arch at McFerson Commons is hodgepodge in its reassembly since they were unable to reassemble it with even pollution and acid rain damage. I'm not sure how it was done, but we've really managed to cut down on that kind of wear or else the Borden Building would look the same by now.

And that goes back to the fact that immigration and automation are the answer since women attaining education is a positive development.

I've got a book from the library that has that hotel. Basically at the end it was turned into tenement housing and we can't have that in '90s Columbus. If it could have made it only a few more years it would have been renovated into apartments or a boutique hotel.

This topic made me think about how 5 elementary busses and 5 middle/high school stop at the trailer park across from our farm. I didn't really notice it when I was working a regular job and wasn't there during the day especially since I don't live at the farm. It made me think though, "Do they have all those kids because they live in they trailer park or do they live in the trailer park because they have all those kids?"

There's room to get our infant mortality rate down.

It freaks me out a little when people just stop after being really prolific like that. Slowly tapering off is one thing but just stopping like that is something else.

Attention UO Data Bros: Partying With the New YIMBYs on the Block The data bros, jaded brokers, and occasional lefty ready to build, baby, build. Our too-damn-high rent is creating more “pro-housing” activists by the day — whether they’re lifelong New Yorkers being priced out of their neighborhoods or Morgan Stanley interns griping about commuting from Sunset Park — and Open New York thinks they’re all members in the making. They could be right. As the night’s mingling kicked off, a guy in a rugby shirt surveyed the crowd approvingly: “This is definitely the most people I’ve seen at a happy hour!” https://www.curbed.com/2023/02/open-new-york-yimbys.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

That camera, Cbus!

Those prison guys that aren't in for weed or DUIs or some other little crap think about themselves and themselves only. F everyone else. F it all and F'n no regrets.