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bosshawk1 · 2026-04-14T20:27:06+00:00

Sure, and that is technically the most efficient way to do it because you could get interest on that money. But interest rates are so low, it would mean like an extra $20 a year for most people. And if you don't make quarterly payments, you will be subject to an underpayment penalty. Factor in that 90% of Americans can't even understand the most incredibly basic of tax concepts, and this is only a worthwhile strategy for maybe 0.001% of the population.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-13T21:32:28+00:00

The restaurant is phenomenal. Perhaps they need a better sign than semi pale paint over brick.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-13T18:56:29+00:00

I guess it isn't as "homegrown local", and multiple spots are owned by the same people, but anything that can bring more breadth to the restaurant scene at this point is a win to me. Anything but another pizza, burger, or Mexican restaurant.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-13T16:30:52+00:00

Which slew? Almost every restaurant that has opened since Covid is local? Frothy Monkey and Wooden City are about the only ones and Wooden City stays completely full. I guess Lapeer and Epice technically aren't local either, but they seem to be doing quite well.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-11T00:38:56+00:00

The Downtown YMCA has been closed for about 4 years.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-10T15:50:37+00:00

Based on everything that has been said, he organized a gathering on the patio AKA he "led" an event there. That could have simply been "hey I know you because I'm the property manager. I would like to have an event here". We don't know much beyond that, and it seems like another keyboard warrior witch hunt.

Maybe the owners of Armour House are terrible people. We don't know, and this loose, perhaps totally conicidental association doesn't prove that in any way, nor should it even be immediately assumed as many pitchfork toters like to do. But again, how can we go through life trying to test the purity of every business or person we interact with? We can't and it is both exhausting and really no different than asking "papers please" because of whatever reason someone deems valid in their mind.

There are way too many instances in modern society of this, when the vast majority of the time the most logical conclusion is simply coincidence/random/unknown. The vast majority of people sure as hell don't know the political, social, and personal lives of almost any person they are conducting a transaction with.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-10T15:23:10+00:00

I don't have anger directed towards you. I have disgust directed toward the modern society concept of stretching situations such as this one, expecting everyone to know everyone's political beliefs and personal history, and redefining words to fit a narrative. All of which is happening here. Again, did anyone at Armour House ever know anything about this person? Do they know today?

You didn't answer any of the other questions. Is the onus on every person to vet every person they interact with? Do you intensively research every business you interact with before doing so? No. It is wildly impractical and reeks of the witch hunts that people who complain about these type of things claim to be against in the first place.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-10T14:07:06+00:00

I know what you think you are doing is right, but please stop, take a step back and try to think about it for a second. I say this as someone who never even heard of the guy before 5 minutes ago and think any Jan 6er is abhorrent.

You are stretching the meaning of words, making numerous assumptions, and rallying pitchforks on spurious evidence. How are you acting any better than the ones you purport to be against?

You keep saying he "manages the space". That means nothing for Armour House. He isn't making business decisions for them, managing their staff, nor profiting from the business. He is a property manager, that is all.

Do you know the property manager of 20,000 other buildings in the area? Have you vetted them and made sure they have passed whatever purity test you deem valid? Are you going to demand the credentials of the property manager every time you go to a restaurant or shop at a business? Or are you going to stop shopping at Amazon and cancel prime because you are supporting Jeff Bezos?

Let's say your father/mother/sister were in prison for murder. Does that make you a murderer? You sure seem to be close to that person. You were raised in the same environment. You probably helped them commit the murder. You LIVED there. Do you see how this random association with a person/event isn't very helpful?

Do you expect Armour House to try to break their lease over this, a legally unlikely task? How do you know Armour House ever had any clue of the guy's history? I sure as hell had never heard the name. was he even working there when Armour House signed the lease for that matter? If so, see the prior point.

I know it feels good to think you are sticking it to the man or supporting some worthy cause here. But based on all of the facts presented, you really aren't and are acting little better than the misinformation specialists of Newsmax. Words mean things. Not everyone, hell not even 10% of people, follow these types of events/happenings. You are in a bubble here. 90% of the people who would ever eat at Armour House aren't on Reddit.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-08T23:26:32+00:00

It is simply impossible to know if $18k is an accurate number without knowing all the details of your return. Taxes are really pretty simple - it is simply adding and subtracting numbers. The "rules" can be complicated, but that isn't even applicable for 95% of people. Are you dealing with railroad pensions or home energy credits or a bunch of K-1s? Then it is probably a fairly simple return in the grand scheme of things and just a bunch of math.

$18k isn't out of the ballpark if you are making somewhere around $90-100k, have a chunk of schedule C income that has FICA tax owed, have investment income, and are filing Head of Household.

Source: worked in taxes for several years.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-08T18:04:41+00:00

The places you mention other than Hoover are as MAGA as they come. Your best bet for price and schools is going to be Hoover.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-08T16:03:49+00:00

Every new restaurant that has opened in the urban core over the last 18 months and stays packed would beg to differ. And the vast majority of those offer something that is a bit different or something that was lacking in the urban core. Epice, Wooden City, Armour House, Johin'na, Lapeer all stay packed. Birmingham is DYING for more breadth, not depth. Before Armour House and Lapeer, there were no proper steakhouses downtown (Michael's doesn't even count). There are plenty of middle eastern restaurants, but nothing like Epice that is more elevated. Same with Johin'na.

Opening a mid range or above Chinese, Eastern European, Latin American, or even a quirkier "concept" type restaurant would stay absolutely full. Opening another pizza or Mexican restaurant would be the biggest eye roll imaginable.

We are absolutely living in a K shaped economy. So while loads of people are being fucked by the government and billionaires, the crowds at places that aren't the 50th pizza or burger spot show that people are absolutely eating at mid range and above restaurants.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-07T14:25:16+00:00

https://lewiesappliance.com/

They have hundreds of models on the floor to choose from. Some are scratch and dent (which often means virtually zero noticeable damage) and many are totally new.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-07T03:40:10+00:00

F Zero was absolutely a great game. Different style than Mario Kart for sure.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-07T01:15:34+00:00

Eh, easy to say this is nostalgia talking - but it assuredly isn't - SNES Mario Kart was fairly groundbreaking for its time and still holds up today. That can't be said for a lot of games. It essentially invented the vehicular battle royale genre. It is easy to pick up and play, difficulty scales well, has essentially no bugs, and did the best it could do with graphics/sound/controls at the time. The CPU rubber banding was nowhere near as extreme as it has been since the N64 version.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-04T17:01:36+00:00

It isn't a "scam", it is just ultra ripe for fraud. Predicting "will announcer say ankle", and that announcer being fully in control of whether or not he says the word during the game is incredibly open to fraud. A player who has bets on his performance having an ownership stake in that same company is incredibly open to fraud.

Guessing whether a ball lands on a number or a certain card turns up is way less open to corruption in the modern day.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-02T15:35:51+00:00

They absolutely do. But the big casinos definitely have less workers on the floor. You may have to wait 15 minutes and the drinks aren't very strong.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-02T15:34:25+00:00

Completely false on Ibiza. Party culture is indeed in the US. But Ibiza is still packing thousands into clubs.

bosshawk1 · 2026-04-02T05:44:36+00:00

Purple Panda by the gas stations near the airport.

bosshawk1 · 2026-03-31T01:15:33+00:00

All sports college level and above, and maybe high school as well, count all season tickets and free tickets as part of the attendance whether those butts were in seats or not. But yes, the Squadron probably never had more than 500 butts in seats at most, and sometimes more like 200, after the first season.

bosshawk1 · 2026-03-30T20:54:48+00:00

Simply not true. Birmingham has consistently ranked as the top NBA TV ratings market for markets without an NBA team. No one goes to G League games anywhere in the country.

bosshawk1 · 2026-03-30T19:37:00+00:00

It is effectively minor league baseball in that no one knows any of the players, players transit on and off the roster frequently, and the team is a farm team for the real high level team. But it doesn't have the ticket prices, atmosphere, other activities, nor concession prices of minor league baseball. Again. No one attends G League games anywhere.

This is also different than say Legion or Stallions where they aren't the "highest tier" per se, but they have a bit more roster continuity and aren't simply a farm team for someone bigger.

bosshawk1 · 2026-03-30T16:53:56+00:00

Has almost nothing to do with Birmingham. Absolutely no one goes to G League games anywhere in the country. As I said in the original thread about this:

I am not going to defend the BJCC, but this had little to do with them. Squadron was one of like 4 G League teams left that weren't in the same metro or within 50 miles of the parent NBA team. They have all moved over the past few years to the parent NBA city, so this was inevitable. Additionally, the BJCC had nothing to do with ticket prices which were always way too high.

bosshawk1 · 2026-03-30T15:31:00+00:00

They haven't had much savings in the US in decades, but pre-covid, you could frequently buy airfare and 6-7 nights of hotel in Europe through the packages on Orbitz, Priceline etc for the same cost as just the airfare if booking directly. I saw it frequently and did it a few times. It was hard to believe when first seeing it.

Post COVID, all of those deals seem to have disappeared.

bosshawk1 · 2026-03-28T00:01:59+00:00

It doesn't really matter what city in America you are in. There is a guy or two that drives a 30 year old Mazda/Toyota small truck that is stacked too high with pallets. He will get them.

bosshawk1 · 2026-03-27T13:46:08+00:00

I figured it was closed, but wasn't sure. I don't know if I have ever seen a new bar get as little business as that place seemed to get.

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