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@rossiadam I'm not surprised that you cut through all of the nonsense and got right to the crux of the issue. but still, nice work, and thanks for sharing. also, toliets are no fun to work on.

There's a romantic narrative online right now: buy a baby boomer's business, apply your digital skills, print money. The pitch usually goes something like: Old owner, fax machine, terrible website, great book of business, 30-year reputation, he needs to retire. You look at that and get this big head where you think: I could do better. Sure, you could build a nicer-looking website. Set up a CRM. Plug in some new software. Run some Google Ads. Automate the invoicing etc. You could probably do all of that in the first month. But there are a lot of aspects where that old guy is The Man, and you're not. And those are the aspects that actually keep the business alive. Every business is hard and every business is competitive. And in a lot of these companies there’s been no effort put into making the company transferable to someone else. Every operation is “Ask Jim”. There’s very few systems or documentation, usually just a network of relationships and knowledge that lives inside one person’s head. By all means, buy the boomer business. But there's typically not this simple button you can press where you upgrade some of the tech and extra business starts rolling in. A friend of mine put it simply: if you buy a roofing company, you're going to end up on the roof at some point. Another friend went from a white collar job to buying an HVAC business from a retiring owner. He said after an employee pulled a gun on him, he knew he was in over his head. Jim knew how to handle this type of employee. My friend didn’t. He was lucky to sell the business and move on. And the issue is, Jim is old and wants to retire. He is probably unwilling to give you more than a one year transition - max. I can tell you from personal experience it took me every bit of two years to transition from a Jim. I was lucky that my Jim was willing to put in that time and that we liked working together. Another humbling aspect from my experience was that a lot of my bright ideas to improve over Jim’s processes took much longer to bear fruit than I anticipated. So we were spending a lot more money and doing about the same as Jim was doing in terms of revenue. Jim was bemused. There is a lot of opportunity in the boomer businesses. Stay humble though. Jim knows a thing or two that you don’t. It’s not going to be as easy as you think. You may end up on the roof. You may have a gun pulled on you. You will definitely end up doing some dirty jobs you never imagined doing. Have fun!

@JohnSaunders86 @Gibboanxious Eeew

@Gibboanxious People like this is why film grain gets scrubbed out with DNR.

Imagine investing in a high-end OLED TV and a UHD player, then asking this.

@drealEjaySwitch @GAltringham Facts

@GAltringham Not all heroes wear capes, some wear giant T-shirts and cargo shorts

“They took me in the dead of night to a place that was more psychiatric institution than rehab when I was 13. They put a collar with shock wires on me. If you misbehaved, they’d lock you in a padded room or strap you to a gurney. I was desperate, telling the other girls: ‘Fuck this place, these people don’t care about us!’ My mom didn’t know how to deal with me. I had become a monster she created. In just a year and a half, I got 18 years of upbringing. She simply couldn’t be a mother. When I got out, I tried to rebuild my life, but I was blacklisted from the film world. I was ‘the crazy girl from the mental institution.’ But my friends lifted me up. I wanted to work with Adam Sandler and asked him to meet me at a coffee shop. He showed up in cargo shorts and a giant T-shirt. Me, in pink heels, a leopard coat, and purple hair. I told him: ‘Look beyond this. I feel like we can do something special.’ And he believed in me. He was my salvation. Today I have a family I chose, friends who taught me what it means to belong. I survived because of them. Now, I want to offer the world safety, so that anyone near me feels it: a safe place.” — Drew Barrymore on her childhood and her career revival thanks to Adam Sandler

@BigSkyCaptures Oh, nice one

I had an errand in Boulder yesterday and decided to explore the backroads on the 40 mile drive. I found this abandoned homestead that I thought would be good for #OldWoodWednesday. They sure had a nice view.

@juliaccarreon Yes, verbatim. Please also share the bots response 🤣

@FirstSquawk "in news shocking to...no one"

WHITE HOUSE PLAYS DOWN REPORTS THAT IRAN REJECTED TRUMP PEACE PROPOSAL - AXIOS

@SpecialSitsNews he prob offered to pay them in spacex stock

White House has rejected Elon Musk offer to pay TSA staff Wtf

@FirstSquawk not for nothing, but i appreciate that our commander in chief can spot a bot, especially when we're talking about global warfare

TRUMP TURNED DOWN NETANYAHU'S PROPOSAL TO CALL FOR AN IRAN UPRISING - AXIOS

@SahilBloom 💯

Nobody tells you this: Emotional control is the ultimate sign of growth. The ability to remain unshaken by the little collisions and inconveniences of life. To avoid assigning false narratives to everyday slights. That’s when you take control of your own life.

@Michaelfiore Nice work 👍

I know this isn’t impressive for real runners, but it’s a milestone for me. First time finishing a 5k under 30 minutes. I started running 8 months ago. I’m 37 and weigh 200 currently.

@juliaccarreon @FurkanGozukara Some folks really need to touch the pan to see if it's hot...

Absolute chaos. The NYT reports total confusion in the White House. Trump is desperately begging for a way out of the war to save the markets. Now Türkiye, Egypt, and Pakistan are stepping in to mediate because Trump's disastrous war is threatening the entire global economy.

@Pricemechanist @Dcpcooks 😉

@Dcpcooks That’s an option too!

Bet I can blow your mind I’ve never traded an option

@Dcpcooks Whoa

Agreed. And although it's not necessarily the future I'd like, I can appreciate they they're here to stay and I'll try and play nice with them. But the next big shift? No idea. And I say that as I'm staring out over a sea of cars in a parking lot. A couple of diesel dually's, the requisite number of 4runners, a few sedans, and a handful of Amazon delivery vans/owner-operator beaters. What one shift will power all of those use cases? Pfft, no idea

@Mike_M_Klotz Whatever the power source, the electric motor is the most likely to remain. Be it a nuclear battery or a micro-turbine engine power it. Electric motors just keep on going forever, produce huge torque and are very easy to control on multiple levels.

If EV’s in their current state are a stopgap tech, and small displacement turbocharged engines are a fad, what’s the next shift in automotive propulsion systems going to be?

@pnwprincess23 @HankFrank ☝️💯

@HankFrank You guys rock and there's many people here that agree!! Keep doing you, you're winning fr

The replies to this were some of the worst things anyone has ever said to me. I’m not exaggerating. Things I wouldn’t repeat. People coming after me, her, us, everything. Last week I posted a TikTok filming her PR her half marathon. Strangers were in tears. Women saying they wished their husbands would show up at a finish line for them even once. Same relationship. Two different apps.

@LynAldenContact @JavierBlas 💯

🤔 TRUMP: WE'VE WON THIS WAR TRUMP: I THINK WE CAN SAY THIS IS REGIME CHANGE TRUMP: IRAN LEADERS ARE ALL DIFFERENT

@SandLot84 That narrows down your location somewhat, with the endgame being figuring out your real name... 🤣

Im an American Airlines girl all day, but I will jump ship so fast if they make this happen. I will break my wallet open so fast for this.

@morganisawizard He's basically saying he just wants to eat fajitas and drink margs, and will occasionally splurge on Italian. Seems reasonable to me 🤣

okay but no mexican food without margaritas is completely valid

@SandLot84 @Citrini7 Let's be honest here, the only additional returns to be had after the 10th or 11th taco are most definitely not to the upside... 🤣

@Citrini7 Returns diminish in a maturing market lol

I can’t be the only one noticing the seeming diminishing returns of a TACO

Years ago I developed issues w/ my vision. Things in the middle of my field of view just started to go blurry. My 20/10 vision turned into pudding at any distance. It turns out my personal stress had apparently found an outlet via intraocular pressure, and my eyeballs were literally set to explode. 👀 🤣

The world is getting real scary real quick.