Franklin Oregon

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I mentioned that my garage door was making a sound.

An American immediately said, "I got a guy."

He did not ask what the sound was. He did not ask what kind of door. He produced a guy on the basis of the word garage.

I asked who the guy was.

He said, "Just a guy."

He did not have a company name. He had a first name and a phone number in his phone saved as "Mike Garage."

That is the contact name. Mike Garage. As though Garage is his surname. As though there is a family.

I asked how he found this guy.

"My brother-in-law used him."

I asked if the brother-in-law was satisfied.

He thought about it. Then he said, "He's still standing."

The house is still standing. That is the entire review.

Inside I said: THEY DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. THEY KEEP LOYALTIES.

I called Mike Garage. He answered from inside a vehicle. There was wind. He said he could come Tuesday between eleven and four.

Between eleven and four. A window of five hours. In my country this would be a scandal. Here it is generous. He gave me a window at all. Some guys do not give you a window. Some guys say "Tuesday" and that is the whole appointment.

He came at 1:40.

He fixed it in twenty minutes. He charged me less than I expected and he did not take a card, only cash or an app I had never heard of.

Before leaving he looked at my water heater, which I had not mentioned, and said, "That's gonna go."

I asked when.

"Couple years."

I asked what I should do.

He said, "I'll give you a guy."

He gave me a guy. Mike Garage has a guy. The guy has a guy. There is a network beneath this country made entirely of men named after their function, and none of them advertise, and all of them are busy.

Inside I said: THERE IS A SECOND NATION HERE. IT HAS NO SIGNS. IT IS ENTERED ONLY BY INTRODUCTION.

I have been given four guys since.

I have a guy for trees.

I did not know I needed a guy for trees.

I have trees now, apparently. They are my responsibility. A man named Rick told me so and then left.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

The plan is to erase physical knowledge so they can monetize it.

[Camryn @dancingofpens]

this graph from the AP stunned me into silence

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

The U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Grocery prices have risen 2.7% in the past year, and are up nearly 32% from pre-pandemic levels, per YF

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

"a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody.

He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day."

https://t.co/CwhLqOMwvz

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The average US home is now more unaffordable to the average American than at any point in history, per CBS

[Franklin Oregon @_wish_720]

@ConorRyan_93 How about both? Sharks say yay

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Look at this.

The day before Trump paused tariffs, triggering a historic 10% market rally, his accounts purchased 327 stocks worth up to $12.8 million.

The trades were disclosed more than a year late, resulting in a $200 penalty.

Unusual.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Trump: I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Workers are now taking home the smallest percent of America's economic output since records began in 1947," per MorePerfectUnion

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Look at this.

$DELL just won a five-year $9.7 billion Pentagon software agreement for the US military.

But Trump also bought $DELL.

He bought multiple times since February 10th, up to more than $5,000,000.

On May 8th, he said: "Go out and buy a Dell."

Unusual.

[Franklin Oregon @_wish_720]

@JFreshHockey Only bad take here is Colorados dark blue alternate being in D class. That thing is 🔥

[Franklin Oregon @_wish_720]

@atrupar

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is art

[call me cismale @clamatoes]

Coordinated attack on introspection by the tech oligarchs is pretty interesting

[Franklin Oregon @_wish_720]

@ConorRyan_93 Is hampus washed??????

[Franklin Oregon @_wish_720]

@smclaughlin9 No coverage on Mantha for the Pens 4th goal too…