People

Hiring this moron is going to get someone sued or get the moron killed. I’m sure there are ways to do self help evictions of squatters, but I am betting that sending over a dude with a katana isn’t one of them. However, that isn’t the worst thing about this article. No, the worst part is this:

“The only reason why businesses like this could exist,” said Tobias Damm-Luhr, staff attorney at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, is because “people hoard land and housing. They create these artificial scarcities such that people who don’t have a home or any other option are forced to try to live in places where they have no legal right to live.”

Don’t you see? The fact that some people own more than their fair share of things is the reason why others have to steal and vandalize their property! You rich people are the ones who caused all of this! This is your fault! Look what you made me do!

This article is a great illustration of the differences between Gen X and thier kids: 9 social rules Gen X learned as kids that completely confuse Gen Z today. Here they are:

1. You must answer the phone—every single time it rings
2. You never call someone after 9 p.m.
3. You show up exactly when you said you would
4. You don’t interrupt adults—ever
5. If you borrowed something, you returned it in better condition
6. You don’t talk about money, politics, or personal problems in public
7. You respect the privacy of others (even if it’s inconvenient)
8. You keep your problems to yourself and “tough it out”
9. You don’t question authority publicly

Let’s talk about those: Rule 1 was because there was no such thing as caller ID. You answered the phone because people generally called because it was important, and you didn’t want to miss a call.

Rule 2 is about courtesy. My ass is in bed at some point just after nine. I don’t want some ass calling me at 2345, asking me what potato chips to buy. In fact, my phone is in “Do Not Disturb” mode at 9, and it doesn’t come out until 8 the next morning. Use a trick to bust through my DND mode for stupid shit and find yourself on the block list, because you are an inconsiderate ass.

Rule 3. Punctuality. That’s a sign that you respect (or don’t) the person’s time. If you tell me that you are going to meet me somewhere at 4 and you don’t show up on time, what you are saying is that your time is valuable but mine is not. Wasting my time is a guarantee that I won’t want to have anything to do with you- in a professional or personal capacity.

Rule 4: Children shouldn’t involve themselves in adult conversations. It’s unlikely that you have anything meaningful to contribute. You’re a child, and your life experience is exactly zero. That’s just a fact. However, as adults, we shouldn’t even be HAVING adult conversations in your presence. To this day, I don’t know how much money my father made, or even how much they paid for their house. It wasn’t my business to know. This concept also ties in to rules 6, 7, and 8. Mind your own business. If I want your opinion, I will ask you for it. Running around offering unwanted advice, or crying like a little bitch is a sure way to find yourself without any friends.

Circling back to rule 5: If I loan you something, it had better come back in the same condition that I loaned it to you. If it doesn’t, I expect you to make it right. If you don’t, don’t ever come back and ask to borrow anything, because I won’t loan you anything, not even a stick of gum.

Rule 9: There is a way to question authority, and screaming about it while you stamp your feet and shout about how things aren’t fair isn’t the way to do it. The person who wrote this article obviously doesn’t know that, which means he is still a tactless child who likely doesn’t get his way very often.

Gen Z needs to learn what manners are.

Let me start by saying that I don’t hunt. The last time I went hunting, it was for lobster (Florida has a lobster season, but I haven’t been in about 8 years or so). Still, I understand the important role played by hunting in the preservation of animal populations.

Florida, like every other state, has used hunting as a way to control populations of animals. For the first time in a few years, the state announced a lottery where 172 black bear tags would be issued to cull some of the animals, who are becoming overpopulated in the state. The tags would be given out through a random lottery system, with each ticket costing $5. Winners must then buy a $100 hunting license to harvest the bear, with nonresidents having to pay $300.

Animal rights groups bought thousands of tickets, pledging to not use them. The groups managed to win about a quarter of the available tags. They claim this will save the lives of bears.

They are also wrong.

Hunting is a way of controlling populations to sustainable levels, but nature has its own way of doing it. Overpopulated animals starve, die of disease, or are hit by cars. In the meantime, the overpopulated bears ravage other populations like deer, pets, your trashcans, and even people (although rare).

Still, to me there is a way to derail those plans for sabotaging the system: Make a rule saying anyone who wins a bear tag has 14 days to purchase the hunting license. If they fail to do so, the tag goes to someone else. If the cost goes from $5 to $305, you will see people less likely to try and game the system.

A housewife didn’t work for the 15 years she was married. Instead, she supported her husband in his career, following him across the country as his job took him from one city to another. He divorced her and was ordered to pay alimony. Five months later, she won the lottery. Now her husband thinks that he should no longer pay alimony. Men are calling her a deadbeat because she sponged off of him for nearly 20 years.

What would women say about that?

What if the genders were reversed? What if it was the man who was dumped and then won the lottery? Would women still defend the stay at home spouse, or would they call him a sponging free loader?

It turns out that those women are mercenary harpies, because that is exactly what has happened.

When we recently built our pool, we were intending to care for it ourselves. The contractor that built it paid for the first month of pool servicing to get it started off on the right foot. At the end of the month, the pool servicing company came out and gave us a one hour lesson on the proper care of the pool and equipment. Of course, it was also a sales pitch.

It worked. They offered to take care of cleaning and servicing the pool, as well as keeping the chemicals in balance for $160 per month. That seemed economical to me, so we hired them. It went well for the first couple of weeks. The pool girl that came out did a good job, until she brought along a new trainee who would be taking over the route.

The new girl, Shamiqua, screwed things up from the start. The first week, she left the control panel open for the pool equipment and left it in service mode. It stormed that afternoon, and we were lucky that the electronic controls for the pool didn’t get water damaged. We complained, and they told us how she was new and they would talk to her.

The next week, she came out and didn’t bother cleaning the water filter. She left her filter cleaning tools next to the pool until she came back the following week, which indicates to me that she went a week without using them on anyone else’s pool, either.

The fourth week of her being on the route, and I watched her visit on the security cameras. She didn’t do ANYTHING but sit there on her phone for 10 minutes before leaving. The only thing that she did was retrieve her tools from the previous week.

We fired the company the next day. I received calls and emails from more than one person, asking us to give them another chance and saying they would retrain the woman. I told them that it wasn’t a case of substandard training. This woman was lazy and had no work ethic, and no amount of training can fix that.

The district manager offered to put another person on the route. I said no, we were just going to use a robot to clean our pool from now on. I spent $2,000 on remote monitoring equipment and a robot that automatically scrubs the pool.

The monitoring equipment tells me what chemicals to add, the robot cleans the pool. All I have to do is add the chemicals and empty the filter and skimmer basket.

When I am buying services or labor saving devices, my first and only consideration is value. That is, how much money would I make if I went to work for the same number of hours it will take to do the chore myself. If the cost of paying someone or buying a labor saver is less than half of what I would make, then I buy the product or service.

For example, mowing the lawn was taking me about 2 hours. You have to do it once a week most of the year, except winter, when you have to do it once a month. In total, I would spend about 90 hours per year having to mow the lawn. My choices are:

• Hire someone. Lawn companies gave me quotes of $2400 per year to mow it for me.
• A Husqvarna Automower that can mow my 3/4 acre costs just over $2000. All I need to do then is run a string trimmer around the edges of the house and blow off the driveway, which only takes about 8 hours per year.

I went with the robot. The same sort of choice was made with the pool. I can pay someone two grand a year to not clean my pool, or I can get a robot to do it. My lawn robot cost me a bit up front, but now that I have had it for over a year, it’s already paid for itself. Now I get free lawn mowing. The only thing I need to do now is replace the razor blades that it uses once a year.

So this is what minimum wage labor is facing- I can get a robot to mow the lawn or clean my pool for less than what it cost me to hire a lazy moron who won’t do a good job. The only barrier to automating these jobs is the large upfront cost, but once that is paid off, things get much cheaper. The bonus is fewer workers eyeing up the stuff in my house, and considering that the person most likely to burglarize your home is a worker who has been in it before, that’s a big bonus. Lazy morons need to watch out- they are about to lose their jobs.

Check it out, if you are interested. The robot is pretty cool:

71 year old Pam Hemphill has been making headlines. She was among the Trump supporters who were convicted for their actions on January 6, 2021 when she entered the Capitol while videotaping.

She pled guilty to one count of demonstrating, picketing or parading in a Capitol building in federal court in 2022 and was sentenced to two months in jail, 3 years of probation, and $500 restitution, serving 60 days in Federal prison in Dublin, California. Her time has been served, and her probation is nearly complete.

Since that time, she has become rich and famous by opposing Trump and supporting the Harris/Walz campaign. Before then, she had gained a bit of fame as a Social Media figure by attending various right wing functions like the Bundy movement. She was somewhat famous in certain circles for being the videographer for various events involving the right.

Now the left has made her even more famous. She is the darling of the left, and there are stories all over the MSM about the former MAGA granny who has seen the light and now hates DJT. Since she announced her change to the other side, she has amassed tens of thousands of dollars in donations. She has been flown all over the nation and received money from a news media eager to portray a MAGA supporter who was there at the J6 event and is willing to say that they were trying to overthrow the government. “Next week CNN is flying me to New York!” she posted on Facebook Aug. 30. She raised so much money that she bought a new Mustang online.

With the issuance of the J6 pardons, her money train is about to be derailed. She is now saying that she will refuse to accept her pardon. Of course she will. The jail sentence and probation have been served, and she is now cashing in on her fame. If she accepts the pardon, that all stops and she will fade back into obscurity, her 15 minutes of fame will be over.