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The Murphman
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The Murphman
@_murphman29
Tech Nerd, Chef Extraordinaire, Worst Fisherman Alive, Aspiring Thor Lookalike, Aspiring Tony Stark Think-Alike
Xenia, OH Katılım Ekim 2018
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I was this 🤏 close to buying this shirt yesterday, but apparently @NineLineApparel uses mostly polyester in their shirts.
Ever since I heard the story about why the military doesn't allow polyester in deployed soldiers, I'm weary to buy new shirts with it.
The Murphman@_murphman29
I didn't even mind seeing this @NineLineApparel ad earlier today.
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I was thinking about ways that someone could tell a story in a song that hasnt been told in 1000 other ways, and one recipe would be hypotheticals. Like "what would you do if X"
For example, "Bounce Man" by Twenty One Pilots is a hypothetical of "What would I do if my best friend was wanted for a crime?"
Or 1000 ways to say goodbye by Train would be "What if me and my girlfriend broke up?"
Or "Buy me a boat" by Chris Janson would be "What if I won the lottery?"
Or "Oney" by Johnny Cash would be "What would I do if I was under the same stupid boss for 30 years and finally retired?"
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Episode 3 of the Tiller Chronicles:
@HarborFreight had a 15% off any single item coupon start today, so I picked up a Predator 212 engine and got it swapped onto my tiller body.
What NOBODY TOLD ME was that I would need to supply my own mounting bolts and shaft collar. I made two trips to @ruralkingsupply today to get hardware and I still wasn't able to get the shaft collar, so I'm having Amazon deliver that tomorrow.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have a fully functional tiller.

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Yesterday I declared defeat against Sir Tillington.
Despite my best efforts, I couldn't find a way to circumvent the terrible design of this 5HP Briggs engine that had the carburetor using a fuel bowl that was A PART OF, like a physical built-in part of the tank that had rusted away before I purchased the tiller.
The design was such a huge non-success that it is literally impossible to find a new reproduction of the fuel tank. Used ones exist, but you might be running the same risk.
Until @HarborFreight has a 15% off any single item coupon come up, I guess this cursed tiller is just going to have to hang out in the shed.

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Yesterday I saw a Marketplace post offering to paint the address and an American flag on the curb for $20.
For one, I love seeing this kind of entrepreneurship.
For two, I didn't think about just how lucrative of a gig something this simple would be. The guy selling this service lives in my neighborhood and just walked to all the houses with a backpack, some stencils, paint cans, and some paint pens. Each one took him about 10 minutes to finish between all the cleaning and different layers of paint. Out of about 25 houses near me, he got hired for about half of them. That's $240 in 2 hours and maybe $30 in materials. That's a pretty solid gig.
For Three, if you do venture to do something like this, I would recommend not harping on the fact that "Tips are accepted, but not required" multiple times.

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3 years ago, East Palestine, Ohio was covered in toxic fallout. They hoped you’d forget. Here’s an update:
-Settlement money is finally trickling out
-Residents had to fight to challenge federal case
-Independent tests still don’t match official claims
-Norfolk Southern is funding community rebuilds
The story didn’t end. It just faded from your feed.

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Put up some posters in the office today!
From left to right on the wall,
@Adele
@twentyonepilots
@AintGottaDollar


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@aakashgupta Not only are trees useful, but they're also nice to look at!
I live in a neighborhood like the second picture, but the sad part is that most of the people who live here do not attempt to take care of their trees.
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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.
bitfloorsghost@bitfloorsghost
we ruined such a good thing
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