CouchEP

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[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@SiaNejad Ace of Bass - Saw the Sign

[Pat Mayo @ThePME]

So, Haotong is just Chinese Brooks. Way better in Majors

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@ASchatzNFL Please call this “the Pitre Category”.

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@kclairerogers Just read your post in the Skyrizi jingle and now I’m gonna have it stuck in my head all day. Ugh.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@NoLayingUp Pho is primarily a core breakfast food in Vietnam and I am here for it.

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@ClintStoerner Thoughtful and accurate response

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@SethCPayne Smart joke. Ha

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@Texans_Takeover @TexansCommenter Just subbed. Happy to support. All the best TT

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@RooshWilliams Pipe Organ Pizza!

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@TexansCommenter Very good point

[i/o music and film @iomusicandfilm]

20. Rushmore (1998)

Before Wes Anderson's films became stylistic exercises loaded up with an oppressive amount of visual detail and excruciatingly twee dialogue supporting boring vignette plot lines, he made really good movies, and this one was his best.

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@realEstateTrent @MichaelIrvin Trent c’mon - you’re inconvenienced by the 2-3” height raise of the front of your backpack where your heels will land (provided you’re not 6’+). Can’t tell you the number of 5 hr trips to Vancouver like this. Maybe fly business or first?

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@realEstateTrent @MichaelIrvin Can I flip it as an exercise. Someone puts their backpack in and you need to put your roller overhead. Backpack is taking up your space. Now you’re the proud owner of a gate check and have to go to baggage when you land. Would you want that?

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@TexansCommenter These are very funny, stress. Keep ‘em coming

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@jharrisfootball No chance we take an edge right?

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

🚨 Mock Draft 1.0 🚨

(no trades allowed version)

team needs + full logic for every pick

READ:

https://t.co/m3qUUF6gSR

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@paulyhoward If both teams that have to play the Melbourne game do not have a bye the following week (provided it’s not Week 1), gotta be looking to fade them. 20 hr flight each way across 16 or so time zones. Yikes.

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@WesReynolds1 And Berkman, who checks all the boxes on and off the field was a one and done? It’s a joke.

[CouchEP @therealpablo27]

@iBrand0n300 We’ve seen the ceiling and now the absolute floor. I think he likely caps his talent out at ~$50M in current market dollars. $31M pegs almost right in the middle, value wise. I personally do not want to middle for that length of time.