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I'm fine with that. We were able to do away with titles and hierarchy completely at my business once the Karen stereotype made it embarrassing to ask for the manager.

Like the old "Hyde Park Near" for the Oakley neighborhood in Cincinnati.

In much of Ohio at least, people who didn't go to college -- especially men -- do better financially than those who did in the post-2000 economy. They told everyone not to go into the trades for so long that they didn't. Ones who made the decision to go into them anyway during the '80s and '90s found themselves with little competition. Automotive is the most extreme example if you ask me. In the '60s and '70s so many men wanted to be car mechanics that it didn't pay crap. Everybody already knew how to do it on their own from being hobbyists (being on the hobbyist level was fine to start since cars were so simple and far more similar to each other back then) and didn't want to do anything else. Therefore the market was oversupplied and shops didn't have to pay anything. And most auto tech jobs were non-union so there wasn't any of that kind of support or collective bargaining. So by the '80s they were telling everyone not to do it. And people didn't for years except for the most hard-headed ones, the most tech-savvy that knew how to use an Engine Analyzer and other computer-related diagnostic machines that could handle the fuel injection/computerized ignition advance that the old carburetor guys wouldn't touch and finally the old heads that were the most experienced at running shops so that their lack of new skills didn't matter as much as their grasp of the fundamentals. And, like many other technical positions, tons of required certifications started popping up so you had to start studying for tests and sitting though instructional meetings. Anyway, now all of a sudden there weren't nearly enough auto techs that were good with fuel injection and computers. Wages and the cost of doing business skyrocketed. Sure you could find some young guys and show them how to do brakes, suspension and tires but even that became harder especially as things shifted to trucks/SUVs and those parts became 2-3X heavier and older workers struggled with them. Since it had been so long since they started telling people not to do this there weren't enough leadership positions like shop foreman, fleet manager and service manager the ones who did started making way more money than expected, like $125K-160K. These are your Trump Monsters in their boats and $80K pickup trucks. Almost none of them went to college. They are the few but many and may be modest in the shop but are extra out-of-hand politically and have zero sympathy for those who didn't do the exact same thing they did with their lives. And the first place their mind goes is "where's my handout?" so Vance's rhetoric hits right where he wants it as it is broadcast all over these shops. Today's analogue for the prospective '70s auto tech with "no future" is video game design since everyone wants to do it, colleges are spitting out way, way too many graduates in it, the pitiful amount of jobs pay total crap, they treat people even worse and are concentrated in too few cities. So even worse than being a '70s auto tech since you didn't have to pay to learn it and it went on in every locale in the nation. Colleges don't care that the people don't find jobs since if they couldn't study that major they wouldn't go to college at all and the schools justify it that way as "at least they went to college instead of just making pizzas 12 hours a week and playing games all day for the rest of their lives". We have no idea if what we've seen with auto tech managers whipping around 30 years later and becoming gods will happen with game design majors but I'd say chances are slimmer at best. Game design can always whip back to Asia like it did from 1985-2000. I mean, would you rather play an NES or SNES game developed by Konami or LJN? And that degree does about as little for helping people understand the world around them as learning how to rejet a carburetor does. The world is a cruel place and you as the one who is 30-60 years older than a bunch of teenagers can't feed them inaccurate projections for so long without admitting that you were wrong and not blaming them since you were the ones who gave them that information. And it might come with a bill.

Like the arch lighting in the SN or the Goodale Park fountain

You used to need SEOH very badly to win, but even since 2010 there has been significant population loss in the region despite its higher birthrate than the rest of the state. And the cities of size in Appalachia such as Chillicothe have gotten bluer. The existing electorate on both sides has become more set in their ways though.

I'm surprised there haven't been more teacher strikes nationally. As things are right now, the public sector can't keep up with rapid wage increases necessitated by inflation like the private sector can due to existing contracts and and rules about how much of a raise workers can see in one year.

That is so Overt

Has anyone else noticed high-speed internet lines being ran along all of the rural roads between this site and the also u/c Lancaster Google data center? Every east/west road from Groveport Road all the way down to South Bloomfield-Royalton Road is getting them. And I don't think they are for the public's use since there is no publicity whatsoever.

Maybe if they add a drive-thru

When Rickenbacker expanded crash zones in the 90s three of the houses got moved. One got moved 5 miles away.

The reason we can't get anywhere height wise is because of all this land all over town.

Bin the Bin!

They already have a transfer station from COTA to GREAT back behind the Groveport Police station at that intersection so maybe it goes there? You can't see it from the road.

I didn't have any heart or soul left, haha. I knew back in 2018 that industry trends were making it not worthwhile and was going to wrap it up in 2020. Then COVID happened which made me stay open for 2 more years. Most people think of businesses closing down because of COVID but in my case it forced me to stay open because of PPP forgiveness rules, lease timing and increased product demand.

We have closed Super Game Team in River Valley Mall. The video game industry's switch to digital downloads and away from physical media was too much for us to stay in business. That's all folks!

One-ways are death to retail.

I was at a zoning meeting where their study said that 90% of the space near Rickenbacker is E-commerce. I don't know if this is considered "near" Rickenbacker though. Some of these places have a sign out front that is literally 12"X18" and has a bush growing in front of it.

It almost look like they took the signs from the signpost and put them on the trolleypole which if I'm not mistaken is a MUTCD violation.

Most of the people who stop me and insist on having random conversations have gray hair so it's most likely a generational thing. Younger people know that can be intrusive so they don't do that to each other.

So they plan on taking out the train tracks? I realize the line doesn't get used much currently but those tracks might be important for rail transit in the future. And once they get taken out it's really hard to get them put back.

How many times has this trick been used here in Columbus to keep us from getting rail? At least three: '80s monorail, SMRT and Hyperloop itself.

Universal Couchlock

How many cops around here actually know how to use a lasso?

I'll make a prediction: crime is going to tank again once we get into a full year of regular school. The crime is almost all kids and full in-person school didn't start up again until March of this year then stopped again only two months later for summer. It's already better in 2022 as compared to 2021 in most cities.

The rich white guys will win on immigration and that means more of it, not less. They'll just trick the middle-class-and-under white guys that didn't go to college into thinking that we're being "tough" on immigration because they'll show agents with machine guns on the Texas border getting out of F-150s on Fox News. It doesn't matter who the President is. The immigration "crisis" was actually far worse for white-collar jobs than blue-collar since most of this country has an almost unlimited amount of blue-collar jobs available of all types. It doesn't mean they pay well enough at the low end and they have crap working hours. So we actually need to have a "beyond unlimited" amount of blue-collar jobs to bring pay and working hours back in line instead of saying "Hey you can work during a weekday for $12 OR you can make $25 at 3AM!" Or if you work nights and weekends for only 10 years you can make night money during the day! Realistic is $20 during the day. The old motivator of "You need this money to pay for your kids" doesn't work when jobs have terrible hours and people can't have kids because you don't meet potential mates when you work all those nights and weekends with a bunch of people the same sex as you.