Called a guy to remove a tree from my yard
He charged $750
Asked how many he does per week
“Oh God, are you one of those morons who post about how easy it is to make six figures in the trades by assuming I’m fully booked and have zero costs? You know what, I’m actually going to charge you $1,750 for this job or I’ll just let the tree fall into your roof.”
Incredible.
$1,750 for just a few minutes of work.
Imagine if he does just 10 other jobs a week.
That’s $70k+ per month. Almost a million a year.
I need to get into tree trimming!
Using flock cameras to watch a man drive from Wisconsin to a Michigan dispensary only to pull him over for possession when he got back home is so interesting to me when an estimated 460,000-600,000 children go missing in the US every year.
BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."
YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."
BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"
YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."
BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."
YOU: "That's the whole point."
BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."
YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."
BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."
YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."
BOOMER: "That was normal back then."
YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."
BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"
YOU: "I want what was normal."
BOOMER: *silent*
You didn't outwork us.
You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.
if y’all dedicated half this energy to real problems that people in this country are actually facing instead of weird hypothetical straw-man bigoted arguments we’d be in a lot better shape all around
@Chris_Broussard * Gas prices out of this world
* anything you eat could give you the runs
* data centers sucking up drinking water
* flock cameras doing illegal surveillance
But sure let's push this trans athlete conversation about a league that has never had one play right before midterms
Biggest issue: If you're being drafted, people are saying "we want you around for 4 years" & I can't imagine anybody wants Enes Kanter or Royce White around them for even 4 minutes.
We've seen this illustrated whenever Enes is near Turkey or Royce comes close to logic/reality.
something that every basketball player (current and former) who is attempting to use this topic for relevance has in common is that they need a grift to be relevant because they suck comparatively at basketball compared to their professional peers
Royce White and Enes Kanter declaring for the WNBA draft reminds me of that episode of The Office where Michael Scott shouted I declare bankruptcy in the middle of the office because he thought that’s what the phrase meant.
can you imagine a world where msnbc , cnn and fox news all complained about charlie kirk stumping for republican candidates & how this would hurt the republican party with moderate voters?