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dieucla98

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  1. I mean, no real danger with these guys. You or I, yeah, grandma is fucked.
  2. I think that's either 4 or 6 where it's an elevated tee shot par 3 and the patrons are sitting below the tee box. No real danger, even with a thinny shot.
  3. She was hit with a wave of shyness from all the cheering. My little one reacts the same. Don't think it's "odd", at least I hope not.
  4. Dude... Maybe it's not Dems. Maybe it's just we have an ignorant voter base that can't be convinced they were wrong. Surely you can understand that. Quit going out of your way to blame the wrong thing. The wrong thing here is the Republican party in its fantasy brand creation, hate spewing, bullshit argument orating culture that you can't attack back because it's all ghost and there is no actual substance to attack. THATS the fucking problem and the more you (and others like you) chose to ignore the disease and instead focus on the symptom (oh the Democrats do this and do that), the closer we all get to our national death bed.
  5. That's the literal definition of how you would go about eliminating a trade deficit. But that's not really the narrative here - it's Bibi doing to Trump what Trump does all the time. Just lie through your teeth, get what you want (acclaim, kudos, and reelection), and wait for someone with appropriate power to call you out on it (they won't or they don't exist so it doesn't matter).
  6. I do believe the idiots when they say "this isn't what we voted for", that they were truly duped by someone as intellectually equipped as Trump, that they had selective hearing and didn't pick up on what the exact details of his plan were going to be all along. That does make me feel worse that people that stupid make up the majority of our voting age adults.
  7. Live snapshot of what's about to hit our shores when we wake up (but probably worse since this shit is our fault):
  8. We have until my parents and my wife's parents pass (which, sadly, is not as long as I'd hope). If we're not a competent country again (MACA) by then, we're out. I refuse to be a citizen of the next Russia.
  9. For a bathroom, it's probably fine assuming you use a good primer and top coat. @harpercollins Are your cabinets plywood and not solid wood? "Stain grade" is a wide range. Good ply is stain grade, for example. Heck, for some, shitty ply is stain grade so long as it has some grain and a smooth finish.
  10. Are you and Satya the same person?
  11. This guy is bad ass but his content is light: https://www.youtube.com/c/PedullaStudio
  12. Except that's clearly false and we're only 2 races in.
  13. There are less douchy ways to respond. Way less. "It's a great seat, everyone wants it and claims to be ready. I've got to do better to keep it."
  14. For those in Austin looking to get into woodworking or expand their shop, check out Assmbly - it's a hacker space and they have some kick ass tools. 12" Laguna jointer, 15" powermatic planer, 2 sawzstop, a resaw, 3 band saws, drum sander, huge CNCs, etc etc... It's a bit of a process to get access but it only costs $100/month. I just went this weekend for my first squaring sessions and was able to square up a decent amount of maple in just over an hour. Using my own jointer, planer, and table saw, that would have taken 3 hours plus with all the setup time and just the inefficiency of my tools vs there's. Highly recommend it - great for beginners (tons of lessons) and seasoned woodworkers. They also have a metal shop and other tools not related to woodworking as well. https://asmbly.org/space/woodshop/
  15. They're not wrong - Walnut is really pricey these days and yes, you can get something close to the look for cheaper. What you got was not that. I'd have gone alder plus a darker tone Rubio monocoat but with two coats. Alder won't have the lovely variation Walnut has but it takes stain wonderfully and Rubio is amazing. And alder is cheap (Rubio is not...).
  16. How do you grow if not through things like product or service? Ya, you can restructure debt or reduce opex... But that's a one time lever. And no one is going to pay a multiple on a one time lever.
  17. Again, we seem to be focusing on the predatory PE firms that make more of their ROI on fees from third parties. I doubt that's the majority as it's a risky play (and I honestly don't even understand the economics of those firms). Many firms keep original owners on as share holders to some degree and most get the best ROI by improving the companies they buy in order to get maximum multiples from the next buyer. What "next buyer" is going to look at a gutted company with zero remaining culture, lack of discipline, declining assets, restructured but increasing debt loads and think "gee, I'd gladly play 10x EBITDA for that". That's just not how it works. And the due diligence process is exhaustive - if your company has been beaten down by PE and your employees are pissed to hell and ready to leave, that's gonna come out.
  18. Pretty much this - the medical industry is hopelessly complex.
  19. Currently work in PE so call me jaded. I get the viewpoint of many regarding PE firms but understand that there are a gazillion firms out there and only the shit heels are making the headlines. For whatever reason (I have my guesses), the PE firms focused on the medical industry seem to be having the most visible fuckups lately. There is also a huge difference between a two man "PE" team and a full fledge team of investors. The two man team here is more like a family office than a typical PE environment. You don't really have any checks and balances with a 2 man team but when the investment team is 50+ professionals, you're going to have a ton of discussion and opinions before making stupid decisions. Stupid decisions result in both scenarios but considerably less in the latter. I'll speak for our firm on the ethics and human side of the house - our investment philosophy is buy the people first, idea second. We require existing management to stick around for at least a year to ensure the business keep ticking, the culture stays in place, etc... Because ultimately, that's what we bought. We don't have strict playbooks for every investment, everything is tailored for each individual company. During COVID, when a lot of competitors to our companies were laying off people, we did not ask for layoffs at any one of our 20+ companies - we injected more capital to ensure everyone could make payroll. We aren't unique in this approach either. Many firms behave like this, we all, mostly, just don't make headlines.
  20. Re-staining is a bitch - damn near impossible to get all of it removed and then it acts as the foundation for the new stain so you never really know what the final "mixed" color looks like, not to mention it will mix different on different parts of the wood depending on the level of stain you left there. Basically, it ends up splotchy and more grainy looking. Only option I'd do sand, prime, sand, prime, sand, paint which is a fuckton of work in and of itself and would waste the oak (you may as well have used pine or alder). I say you get your money back or have them remake it. It looks like they use the minwax walnut stain - I recognize it from my early days of woodworking when I was too cheap for anything good. Feel for ya, man - hope they make it right b/c they goofed bad. Thinking a bit more about this... That level of splotchyness makes me think this is pine where they didn't use any pre-conditioner prior to staining. Oak is usually way kinder to stains than that.
  21. Great race, but holy shit the coverage was awful. You'd see these big shakeups in the top 10 and get to see the action two laps later.
  22. Russia can't march through Kiev. They sure as shit ain't marching through Europe.
  23. Rhum agricoles are my fave. Speaking my language.
  24. Plenty of great liquors out there. I'm not going to miss bourbon.
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