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kreeningsons posted:on the east coast it's basically impossible to find nice used things at thrift stores anymore unless you are picking full time. post pandemic, every urban store has a team of people that rotate picking through the new carts/racks when they're rolled out from the back, and on top of that there are a lot of deals being made with employees to buy things before they're even wheeled out. every rural thrift store is completely picked clean by dozens of small time resellers. everywhere, people are fiercely competitive and cut throat about it that you will get shoved for getting in the wrong person's way. what about estate sales, or do all the people that an executor would hire to run an estate sale pick over everything to grab the good stuff for themselves first? (or let an associate do it for a finders fee) Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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kreeningsons posted:thrifting is fuckin dead Goodwill picks all the nice stuff out and puts it online
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Australia. 2nd day of being eligible for my booster, I walked into my booking at the public hospital vaccination centre. I assumed it would be outside as it's basically just nurses giving shots, but it was inside through the main hospital entrance. I weighed up even going in for a bit but I did and I was immediately told by the security guard doing covid check (asking "have you been feeling symptoms or in close contact" etc) that I wasn't allowed to wear my headband p2 (n95 equiv) respirator. After some questioning, where he got increasingly aggressive seemingly anticipating conflict, I had to take OFF my medical grade fitted respirator and put on the provided surgical mask. I couldn't wear their surgical mask over the top. I couldn't ask for a second opinion. He was about to throw me out of there. To be IN THE HOSPITAL here you have to wear nothing but a loosely fitted surgical mask. Of course it's hard to blame the guard for being defensive when he's in there all day wearing nothing but a loosely fitted surgical mask Edit: I walked the gently caress outta there Hashy fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Shear Modulus posted:i dunno about every person but going forward yes, everyone normal who acts as society expects them to and will go to bars, restaurants, and events like it's 2019, stop masking, not get another booster past the one, etc etc can probably expect to catch it multiple times this year with how much omicron doesn't give a poo poo about prior infections Yup I know multiple people at work who are going to the gym maskless and coincidentally have had covid twice. I assume it's just a matter of time before long covid (what a dumb loving name) starts showing up. Idiots.
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Shear Modulus posted:what about estate sales, or do all the people that an executor would hire to run an estate sale pick over everything to grab the good stuff for themselves first? had a coworker who retired to run as full time his side hustle of appraising art objects from estate sales afaict at least in NYC, wringing the value out of an unsorted estate requires both skills and labor to the point where it's just a job. If somebody has a reasonably sized house and not a lot of storage and kept things in good order then it's going to be trivial to figure out what's valuable and what's not, but if it's some rich person who lost their mind 20 years ago and has a sprawling mess of junk where old newspapers are stacked next to hudson school originals, if you're at the level of the executor or auctioneer or whatever you just try to sell the whole lot to somebody who has the patience and skill to actually separate wheat from chaff
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AppleNippleBOB posted:same account: https://twitter.com/richardkeppler1/status/1488683104084627465?s=12 this guy seems cool
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mycomancy posted:Oh hey thanks buddy for wrecking this delusion I didn't even know I had until it shattered like hot glass dunked in cold water By official numbers, 20% of Americans have had it. In Slovenia, 35% of people have officially tested positive, the worst for any large country.
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Louisgod posted:hellworld oh ffs
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Louisgod posted:hellworld Ah fomite spread the bane of the covid thread
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AppleNippleBOB posted:same account: https://twitter.com/richardkeppler1/status/1488683104084627465?s=12 what's your point?
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Shear Modulus posted:what about estate sales, or do all the people that an executor would hire to run an estate sale pick over everything to grab the good stuff for themselves first? (or let an associate do it for a finders fee) i only visit the occasional thrift store anymore, but might start hitting estates again this year. pre pandemic you had to show up at 4 or 5 a.m. to even a mediocre estate sale to get a good place in line. for the primo sales, you will absolutely be camping out in line the day before the sale. all the good stuff usually gets sold within the first few minutes, so you might be leaving empty handed if you take a wrong turn into a lovely room inside the residence. i imagine it's much worse now. that said, it's still possible to get perfectly serviceable furniture, clothes, tools and housewares at estate sales for cheap or sometimes even free. i'm just a design nerd that shops for extremely specific vintage clothes and furniture but refuses to pay fair market value -- that's the stuff that's pretty much unattainable for me now vs before the pandemic.
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kreeningsons posted:you're not really out there unless you see one of these signs dude buying horses on sight
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Tzen posted:hahah what the gently caress dont look a grift horse in the mouth
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Lacrosse posted:I like to travel to the Washington State coast to explore so I end up stopping for gas at a lot of dead or dying rural towns out there, many of them look like they're less than a decade away from just falling into the slough/Straight of Juan de Fuca/Pacific Ocean. I was in a place called Clallam Bay in 2019, the only businesses in town were the general store and a car shop and the car shop went out of business and had a for sale sign up. Once the general store there goes it's going to be like an hour to the next town for groceries assuming the highway hasn't been taken out by a landslide again. I heard The Goonies town of Astoria, Oregon was encountering this sort of collapse, along with a meth/opioid epidemic. I'm eventually moving near parents in a 'town' that consists of a rail crossing and post-office, and a lot of farms selling as their owners die off, but this is in canada where there is at least an attempt by the government in maintaining aspects of civilization (so long as you aren't on a native reserve). it's eye opening seeing stuff like Appalachia or stories of people hunting game in Detroit. there is a level of destitution and lawlessness in parts of america that are unbelievable. Durf fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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mycomancy posted:Serious question from a dumbass North American who hasn't been able to get off this landmass: are other rural areas decaying as badly as they are here? Like if I travel to the deep west of Ireland, or the middle of Italy, or central France, wherever in Europe away from a big city, is poo poo falling apart there too? Japan has the most interesting for my money, where you'll have like an entire network of towns that are serviced by the same general store that is in the back of a truck, because all the people who live there are so old they can't commute to the next town over and can't work a store in their own town. It's genuinely fascinating to see a whole geographic region literally and figuratively senesce. China's big enough that it's hard to talk about it in generalities but many rural areas have been imploding for a while now, but to me it evokes more of an old west thing where a snake oil salesman comes in and sells some big project and then bails out right before it could possibly benefit the people living there. And of course rural areas are deeply dependent on remittances from the big cities in some pretty brutal ways, I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing a similar type of strangling aging as in Japan. And of course, India's rural areas are...I mean they just literally had nationwide agricultural strikes because the oppression of farmers got so advanced that subsistence farmers couldn't justify showing up. Debts for farmers are increasing at double the rate of incomes, leading to what is at this point a 50 year running suicide epidemic, which has been exacerbated by some truly insane financial bullshit like "the government wiping out rural savings by fiat."
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AppleNippleBOB posted:same account: https://twitter.com/richardkeppler1/status/1488683104084627465?s=12 So what
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Tulip posted:Japan has the most interesting for my money, where you'll have like an entire network of towns that are serviced by the same general store that is in the back of a truck, because all the people who live there are so old they can't commute to the next town over and can't work a store in their own town. It's genuinely fascinating to see a whole geographic region literally and figuratively senesce. there's this old wordpress blog i found called Spike Japan that goes WAY into depth on all this, with great pictures and writing. Highly recommend https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/ tldr, every old industry town in Japan is dying (literally, all the people are old and no one young is coming) and full of decaying buildings and stuff
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Tulip posted:Japan has the most interesting for my money, where you'll have like an entire network of towns that are serviced by the same general store that is in the back of a truck, because all the people who live there are so old they can't commute to the next town over and can't work a store in their own town. It's genuinely fascinating to see a whole geographic region literally and figuratively senesce. my wife already cares for the elderly and we were briefly considering moving to Tokushima after seeing it on a Prime travel show. stunningly beautiful Miyasaki-style forest towns full of old people but i'm not sure if immigration has gotten any easier or if they'd even want gaijin there
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:the signs here specifically say USED test strips though? probably those people are looking to buy used test strips for the tiny amount of gold used as electrical contacts on the strip. it's a lot of work and exposure to strong acids (nitric, sulfuric, &c) to get a pretty small amount of low quality gold. there used to be a lot more gold in test strips made less than a decade ago, but most modern test strips that i've encountered don't seem to have any gold on the contacts. oh and btw don't throw out those old Pentium CPUs or other older (20 years+) chips/RAM because people on eBay buy that stuff in bulk so they can recover the gold. scrappers, man.
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WampaLord posted:there's this old wordpress blog i found called Spike Japan that goes WAY into depth on all this, with great pictures and writing. Highly recommend I loved this and followed it when it was still updating. Oddly, I don't think the author, who is a professional writer and writes for IIRC the financial times, ever wrote anything long form again.
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Throatwarbler posted:I loved this and followed it when it was still updating. Oddly, I don't think the author, who is a professional writer and writes for IIRC the financial times, ever wrote anything long form again. drat, what a shame, i would read an entire book of this kind of stuff, he captures the feeling of a time gone by so well the way he writes
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Durf posted:I heard The Goonies town of Aurora, Oregon was encountering this sort of collapse, along with a meth/opioid epidemic. it's called Astoria Aurora is the town from Wayne's World.
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WampaLord posted:there's this old wordpress blog i found called Spike Japan that goes WAY into depth on all this, with great pictures and writing. Highly recommend thanks for this we used to watch these walking videos. most are maintained heritage/tourist sites like this neat fishing village, but there are some in rural areas that look a bit gone to seed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEIHRjFYNw DR FRASIER KRANG posted:it's called Astoria whoops
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Louisgod posted:for staff only: please check the box most applicable. Patient is here for: why do people usually go to British Columbia
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WampaLord posted:there's this old wordpress blog i found called Spike Japan that goes WAY into depth on all this, with great pictures and writing. Highly recommend I found the difference between decaying Japan and decaying America quote:Best of all, the state has not abdicated or shirked its responsibilities: there are still at least a dozen post offices, the fire engines are spit-polished and ready to respond to the monthly fire, and the public payphones, should you need one, are immaculate. Nor is the state rapacious: if you qualify, two-bedroom apartments in newish public blocks rent for around £150 a month, there are forty sheltered housing units for the elderly that rent for less than £30 a month, and if you’re old and poor enough, someone will come and shovel your snow away for nothing.
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