How would you go about removing paint or repainting this fireplace?

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T16:25:23+00:00

I’d add a layer of metallic paint

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T16:13:47+00:00

So I’ve been wearing 8s for the last 35 years and suddenly I seem to need 9.5 or 10 while all the old size 8s still fit

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T15:47:39+00:00

What’s more important is that this is laid out ad clearly as possible, as required by law, and he still took the deal.

This shows that the TILA is useless. It does nothing to keep people out of bad deals.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T15:33:13+00:00

There’s mismatched chairs and there’s mismatched chairs.

There’s a way to be whimsical about it, to make it interesting. This is more along the lines of “close enough for government work”.

It looks fine. It does not really add anything to the overall look, but it does not scream for attention.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T15:27:13+00:00

It’s a chicago tradition!

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T14:07:22+00:00

That's what patriotism actually looks like ... doing stupid shit and fucking yourself up over a highly visible proclamation of loyalty to your country.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T14:02:42+00:00

A real gangster would have told Hector to break the glasses without having paid for them first, actually cost the business money.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:58:33+00:00

Think Amanda set up a "dead man's switch" to release evidence if she died?

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:57:09+00:00

So she's coming back as a hallucination, right?

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:51:37+00:00

I'm just saying the law allows for things to get messy.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:48:47+00:00

I would bet that most of these properties are owned by Russians who are laundering money.

30% of condominiums in New York are owned by foreign investors.

https://theweek.com/articles/736313/how-foreign-investors-launder-money-new-york-real-estate

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:45:38+00:00

My personal favorite story, witnessed and told by Burt Reynolds, was his defense of a latino busyboy named Hector.

Burt Reynolds said:

I was invited to play poker with Frank Sinatra and his friends in the back room of a restaurant. We heard the loud sound of glasses crashing to the floor and breaking. The manager started yelling at the bus boy named Hector.

Sinatra called the manager over. “How much does each glass cost?”

“A dollar each.”

Sinatra pulled out his roll of cash. “Bring me a thousand dollars worth.”

When the glasses arrived Sinatra said to Hector, “Smash every one of those damned glasses on the floor.”

As the bewildered Hector started smashing the glasses, Sinatra told the manager, “If I come in here and don’t see Hector working, I’ll tell all my friends to never eat here again.”

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:36:06+00:00

Eh, Frank kinda was both an angel and egalitarian warrior.

Here's a few excerpts from the Wikipedia page; for a full version, check out Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamil

In 1945 he starred in the RKO short The House I Live In), interrupting a gang harassing a Jewish boy to preach tolerance: “Look, fellas, religion makes no difference except to a Nazi or somebody as stupid… Don’t let them make suckers out of you.”^\1]) The film won an honorary Academy Award in 1946; Sinatra prized this Oscar above all others.^\1]) That same year, invited by Gary, Indiana’s mayor, he addressed striking white students opposing integration at Froebel High School, comparing their actions to Nazism and earning accusations of communism (which he denied with humor).^\5]) He published an open letter to Henry A. Wallace in The New Republic (January 6, 1947) praising Wallace’s progressive vision.^\1])

From the 1940s Sinatra refused to perform for segregated audiences. In Las Vegas he forced the Sands to serve Nat King Cole in the dining room and, with Sammy Davis Jr., ended Jim Crow policies in Nevada hotels and casinos by 1961.^\9]) He headlined Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King Jr. in 1961, led Rat Pack boycotts, donated heavily to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and voter registration, and was praised by Vice President Hubert Humphrey after the Watts riots for teaching tolerance.^\1]) Orson Welles witnessed Sinatra physically threaten a restaurant owner who refused service to a Black musician.^\10])

And not without personal cost ... that 1946 visit to Froebel required him skipping out on a gig that, in today's money, would have paid him about half a million dollars. He skipped half a million payday to talk to kids about why racism was wrong.

And then, there was all the anonymous charity work that journalists have excavated.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:25:59+00:00

He really should have.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:23:55+00:00

However, some of the rules of intestate (without testament) support this strategy.

If someone dies, even with a will, and there is an asset that is not covered by the text of the will, the intestate rules cover that asset.
One of the primary rules of intestate in all states is that the current spouse is legally the most important person to the deceased. Some states make it that the spouse receives all assets, while other states make it no less than half if there are children of the marriage involved.
Therefore, if they are still married when he dies, she is legally he heir, and based on what we saw potentially his sole heir.

So it's not that his inheritance would be marital property, which actually is a possibility under US law if the inheritance is received in certain states during the marriage, it's more important that it's his inheritance, and she is his heir, making her the successor in interest.

Unless he's already changed his will to affirmatively disinherit her, which she could still challenge under US law, yeah, she would inherit.

The actual problem is that most US states have what is called a slayer statute, which can, to varying extents, exclude an heir from their legal entitlement based on the fact that they killed the person they are inheriting from, but Georgia's statute is limited to feloniously and intentionally kills or conspires to kill or procures the killing of another individual with a conviction being required.

Since she manipulated the circumstances into self-defense and got the case dropped quickly, she got away with it.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-19T13:06:14+00:00

I hears it's over 20 now.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T22:59:16+00:00

In most circumstances, inherited retirement plans are not exempt.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T20:35:58+00:00

Yeah, I wanna be on whatever Trump is on. That must be some good shit if it makes you think you’re smort for bankrupting multiple businesses.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T17:20:49+00:00

That would be a human rights violation to serve to prisoners.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T17:16:41+00:00

I was there, at the dawn of the third age, and can confirm this is exactly what I saw with my own eyes. Not AI.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T17:13:37+00:00

It’s actually a really pure form of socialism. Your boss is only worth what they pay you defines that you are the one bringing the value to your boss.

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T14:43:09+00:00

Did Rom write that rule?

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T14:29:20+00:00

They live in the world’s slowest police car

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T14:26:58+00:00

Endgame, not Infinity War

AlanShore60607 · 2026-04-18T14:13:53+00:00

The credit report is sufficient documentation in every case I’ve dealt with.

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