I can’t believe people were buying into their “franchise”. They approached me in 2020 when they were trying to expand into the town I live and I had a downtown warehouse to operate out of. After they got done explaining everything, I laughed until they hung up.

You had to buy the scooters from them at around $600 each, you were responsible for all the recovery/batteries/maintenance/damage/theft caused by customers, warranty was non-existent (“call our chinese supplier and they will totally hook you up”), and after that they took 20% off the top. Some quick math put it at over 6 months before each scooter became profitable IF nothing happened to it in that time. Someone throws it in the canal just to be a dick? Sucks to be you, you’re out $600 + whatever else you’ve put into it every time it happens.

Really came off to me that they were making their money selling to suckers who thought they were going to be entrepreneurs.

Edit: They did apparently did get someone here into it because I saw them around for a few months before disappearing completely.

Looking at what Ozzys put out in the last few years; I would have sworn his singing was already AI-generated. And Sharon’s just puppeting him around à la Weekend at Bernies.

Just as an update, everything went swimmingly. He came back from the vet neutered, vaxed, and a clean bill of health. Awesome pal to have at work. Doesn’t mind noises (air tools, loud engines), or water (loves wading around in puddles; that’s odd but cute), and has never met a stranger; customers love him.

https://piped.video/watch?v=DmVkkkuZLeU The music video makes it even better. But may trigger epilepsy.

Thank you! I’m probably overthinking it as usual. The vets here are hard to get into, so I wanted to make sure all my ducks were in a row.

Thank you. Love the username.

Thank you. The age is more for getting him fixed and the flea medicine I have (Frontline) says at least 4 months. I had a bad experience with Hartz flea & tick on a kitten years ago so now I’m super careful.

I doubt he’s broke. Far more likely that he’s just a bigot.

RIP Alexi Laiho, you guitar god.

With the assets already there, the mod opportunities are endless.

I think Nexus should be able to ultimately decide what they do/don’t host on their platform. Regardless what it is. They have many mods that aren’t my taste. I don’t install them.

Still on a space game kick. Finished up Freelancer and started playing No Man’s Sky’s recent “Voyagers” expedition. It’s still got over a month left so I highly recommend checking it out if you haven’t played the game in a while. Just to see whats new; It’s come a long way.

And picked up Hardspace: Shipbreaker on sale for when NMS starts getting monotonous.

95% of VCR repair is changing belts and cleaning heads/pinch rollers. I should hit up my local library. Those are the causes I like donating my time to.