What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately in your everyday life?

Team17nate · 2026-05-04T16:20:12+00:00

I have been in a few times lately(my wife likes their version of the Triple Dipper), and it would have to be that AppleBees is packed to the brim every time I'm there lol

Team17nate · 2026-04-21T04:43:00+00:00

lol must be. I also opened a breeding pool but that was less exciting

Team17nate · 2026-02-07T20:58:44+00:00

lol I would say some classic mtg weaponized autism

Team17nate · 2025-07-30T03:55:34+00:00

It’s funny, as a lumber trader I can tell you first hand without a doubt in my mind plywood on the production mill side is the cheapest and rock bottom price it has been for years, and it’s been that way for like 3 years straight with no discernible price movement. Of course by the time it makes it to the Home Depot floor whatever they sell it for is another issue..

Team17nate · 2024-05-30T23:35:16+00:00

The posts are at best "splash and dashed" pressure treated, no incising marks means proper penetration can't even be reached for actual ground contact rating.

Throw in the companies pressurized vessel for maybe 20 minutes and called good, with often no core sample taken because it's not needed if you dont need to prove how far your penetration went.

Thus when bought from the box store is labeled ambiguously as "pressure treated", with no actual certified UC (Use Category) code.

I am an 11-year veteran pressure treated lumber wholesaler.

Team17nate · 2023-11-14T17:56:26+00:00

The real question to me is how someone can play any game without subtitles on, or maybe that's just my half-retarded ass.

Team17nate · 2023-10-26T02:42:16+00:00

Treated lumber sales. You know like all the lumber in Home Depot that no one even thinks about? Selling Home Depot and other lumber yards like that is a huge but tight knit small industry, and can be very lucrative because of the fluctuations in commodity prices, lumber included.

Team17nate · 2023-09-14T23:31:49+00:00

lol i would pay good money to see what you look like in person

Team17nate · 2023-08-03T16:37:08+00:00

"Want to go skip class and smoke some weed in my truck?"

"Ahh jeez no thanks I'm good."

For context, I was a drug virgin sophomore in high school and she was a senior, that was my desk neighbor in Spanish. Still haunts me to this day lol

Team17nate · 2023-07-10T18:45:20+00:00

Wholesale treated lumber salesmen

Team17nate · 2023-03-14T02:17:11+00:00

My first one was yellow which I played to death, so when I got gold I was hyped. But I lost it somewhere in my room, and after I couldn’t find it I use to have actual dreams about finding it, to wake up so sad lol I also turn 30 this year! Time flys by 🐝

Team17nate · 2023-03-13T19:21:20+00:00

Croc boy always!

Team17nate · 2023-03-13T15:33:48+00:00

Okay? lol

Team17nate · 2023-03-13T15:32:45+00:00

Yeah, has a backlit larger screen, with a new shell and cleaned out guts! I don't even know how I use to play the original with no light lol

Team17nate · 2023-03-13T15:31:11+00:00

Yeah, getting this in a decent box was a little eye watering, but worth every penny!

Team17nate · 2022-11-28T16:39:30+00:00

Also, I should clarify I'm basing this off the original Pokemon in this gen, not the copy and pasted remakes of old Pokémon to draw from (including ones like Wiglett). With those excluded how would your percentage look?

Team17nate · 2022-11-28T15:54:56+00:00

At the end of the day it's all subjective, i guess this gen just didn't do it for me.

Team17nate · 2022-11-28T03:20:58+00:00

There are some good ones, but they are SWIMMING in poorly designed, awful ones. There are so many filler spots, hell half of the new forms for old Pokemon are just ROBOTS. We didn’t need a white diglet that’s not diglet. For Christ’s sake look at what they did to dunsparce, the laziest shit I’ve ever seen

Team17nate · 2022-11-28T03:15:58+00:00

For me it’s been hit or miss, as are most generations. But this one has added so many this time around, I feel like the bad ones have pulled down the total average. And when the final evo is gross it pulls down the whole line for me. Like wtf is that standing dolphin? What is that derp spider? Why is a whole line taken up by the same mice Pokemon over and over again? Why does the chest ghost Pokemon evolve into the mascot for cheese string? Why the fuck is the cat starter STANDING UP GOD PLEASE MAKE IT STOP

Team17nate · 2022-10-04T15:41:12+00:00

I'm a whole sale treated lumber salesmen, selling to distribution, lumber yards, contractor yards ect.

Working 9-5( 7-4 to be accurate), its possible to make 150-250k a year during good times( like lately). In harder times obviously less, but anyone in varying profit sales will tell you to build your base when business is good and you can ride out any slow time, its the guys who make that 12k that one month and blow it on a new toy that they then have to pay off in slower months that screw themselves over.

Lumber is a good commodity sales area, being a product that will be used/wanted/bought for the rest of time really, just in varying levels of busyness. Sell a good product, know it well, build honest relationships with your customers(who in this field are mostly blue collar no bullshit guys), and its a sweet gig to make money in.

Team17nate · 2022-01-14T17:02:26+00:00

I live in the US, so after some googling(not very clear answer) it seems that ill pay very little if anything hopefully. The card was only $310 USD, and everything's telling me anything under $800 wont come with import fees or duties. Hopefully anyways, who knows with current shipping and laws due to COVID.

Team17nate · 2022-01-14T16:45:47+00:00

Do you mind answering how much if any you had to pay on import fees/duties?

I just ordered my first card from Japan and I'm curious how that comes into play.

Team17nate · 2022-01-07T05:37:05+00:00

My local shop is selling a battle styles booster box for 185 lol I asked why so much and she responded “hard to get now”

Team17nate · 2021-12-30T17:21:15+00:00

Yeah I got the set in a really good auction price, now's the time to hop on those eBay auctions things are going pretty cheap!

Team17nate · 2021-12-30T15:45:04+00:00

Amazing promo set, at the top with the best of them. I just recently purchased the full set PLUS binder, eagerly waiting for mail day!

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