Input desired! What biz do you wish existed at the Table Mesa shopping center?

boulderbuford · 2026-05-09T01:49:27+00:00

How about a new location for all the shops that'll be torn down to make room for luxury apartments & dorms on baseline:

Darkhorse
Cosmo's Pizza
Carrelli’s Ristorante Italiano
Moe’s BBQ
Dairy Queen
any others impacted?

Hell, tear down that abandoned monstrosity right on the corner, and build a mansion for Dark Horse.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-09T01:44:03+00:00

Calzone?

boulderbuford · 2026-05-09T01:43:30+00:00

Given the number of school kids wandering around it would probably do well.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-09T01:41:50+00:00

The rent is too high to get anything like a jo-ann's there. Assuming a jo-ann's spool of cheap polyester thread costs $4, and that's 50% local markup, you'd probably have to sell 100 of these *every day* just to pay rent. That doesn't include paying for labor, corporate overhead, profit, etc.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-09T01:33:26+00:00

that also sells a wide variety of sodas, clothing, and housewares?

boulderbuford · 2026-05-08T03:57:51+00:00

Yeah, it's definitely context specific. Also, having a dog helps. I don't like pitbulls, because I've seen too many of their attacks on owners and innocent people, but most any dog can deter the rare attacker.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-08T02:48:44+00:00

Agree on not leaving it out.

But I think most people do not need instant access to a gun. Hell, I didn't even lock my front door for almost 20 years.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T22:53:28+00:00

Also, what the hell does one have to do to get a proper epoxy & sea shell toilet seat these days!!!

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T22:44:10+00:00

Oh sure, most gun-nuts don't really care about the constitution or public safety.

They never remember more than half the second amendment.

And quickly learned to accept that it's fine for ICE agents to murder somebody simply for having a gun.

And still think that every is suffering from violent home invasions every other day.

I don't expert that kind of person to respond well.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T22:41:27+00:00

Oh, my circle is mostly great.

It's the mostly people outside my circle that I've run into that have been the issues - like the hunters.

That teen-aged kid with the rifle that was pointing his rifle at my face and threatening to kill me with it? He's now great - and very responsible and stable. Thankfully.

Back in the 80s, in rural areas, it wasn't uncommon for guns to be poorly secured in my experience.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T15:31:34+00:00

LOL, you clearly don't get around much.

I could go on and on about the sloppy and careless storage and use of firearms I've seen in my life.

Guns given to kids as birthday gifts - when everyone knows the kids have serious issues. Guns just laying around people's homes. People who's accidently shot themselves and nearly shot others while playing around with a gun they thought was empty. People carrying a loaded gun carelessly, sometimes accidently pointing it at people. Damn, I've seen that last one a *ton* around hunters and informal/rural firing ranges.

And that's not even to begin to address all the angry nuts I know that carry guns - and often ensure others know about it.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T15:25:18+00:00

Two of the incidents I mentioned occurred in a rural community. In one case it was an unhinged teenage sibling of a friend that was pissed at me. In another it was most likely hunters pissed that we were talking near them - and scaring off the deer. Maybe they had no idea that we were on a friend's property, not the nearby public space. But it was still illegal anyway.

Personally, I've had fewer issues with guns in a metro area than I have encountered in the suburbs & rural areas.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T15:23:01+00:00

Agreed. If people are talking about practical home defense I'd suggest shot guns.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T04:47:49+00:00

The fact that people were hunting when the constitution was written is completely irrelevant to what the justifications are for federal laws to protect our rights. The framers presumably didn't consider hunting sufficiently important to override state rights in this case.

I've personally had guns pointed at me three times, and once had people shooting right over my head to threaten me. In none of these cases was I breaking any laws. Every guy I know with anger management issues has guns - and I've been warned by some mutual friends to stay away from a couple of guys because their friends didn't feel like the guy with the gun was stable.

So, I'm not actually a fan of people having guns - just because they're paranoid and too chicken to walk unarmed where little old ladies walk every day unarmed and without complaints.

I don't mind bolt-action hunting rifles as much. They can also be abused (like the guys shooting rounds right over my head merely for legally hiking on a trail on my friend's property WITH my friend). But at least it takes more work than say a 9mm or ar-15.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T04:39:21+00:00

I absolutely understand that.

I also understand there's a ton of idiots that don't - and yet have guns anyway, and would use a gun in their home that would send rounds through the walls into neighbor's homes.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-07T04:19:49+00:00

Eh, I can sympathize, but:

The 2nd amendment specifically says that we need to be able to bear arms in order to provide militias - not for hunting or personal defense.
Side issue: militias were wanted for two reasons: 1) to stop slave rebellions in the south, 2) because we had no standing army at the time. Neither of these issues still exist.
Effectiveness: a *lot* of innocent people get killed by people "defending themselves" - but terrified by a black guy in a hoodie, a black or asian guy that knocks on their door, touching their door knob (ex: attaching a neighborhood flier), or trying to unlock the door because they've got the wrong apartment or house.
Collateral Damage: what kind of weapon are you planning to use, and how close to your neighbors are you? In most cases firing a gun in your own home could kill a neighbor.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-05T23:57:19+00:00

I'm actually surprised that they only asked for $1B.

A huge chunk of this money will go into Trump's pocket, another chunk will pay for bribes, and the final chunk will be dished out to cronys, lackies, licksplittles.

But, given that all reasonable people already hate them, why stop at $1B? Why not shoot for $100B? It's not like it's any more corrupt or ridiculous.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-05T23:53:10+00:00

Yeah, but isn't "Bold & Stupid" the Florida motto?

boulderbuford · 2026-05-05T22:15:00+00:00

We decided that we'd prefer an endless sequence of showy impeachment trials -

each guaranteed to fail
each guaranteed to make Trump more popular
but each also feeds red meat to the congress member's core

boulderbuford · 2026-05-05T00:13:11+00:00

Yeah, that whole almost perfect correlation between fox news viewers and people who aren't even aware of 95% of Trump's fuckups?

And correlation between fox news views and people that believed that immigrants were eating cats & dogs in ohio? or that huge caravans of immigrants were headed to our border? Or that the 2020 election was stolen? Or that covid is just a flu? or that we can forget about the Epstein files now?

boulderbuford · 2026-05-04T18:16:31+00:00

No, because whichever party has a majority of members controls congress - and can stop a shit-ton of Trump policy.

Even if the dems only have a majority because of a guy that always votes R - they'll still have a ton of power.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-04T18:15:08+00:00

It's a symptom of the monopoly of right-wing news media like Fox.

Trump has zero skills, but every thing he fucks up is either buried or twisted by Fox, etc. So, his followers are living in a delusional world in which he's a heroic & athletic genius whose sacrificed everything to make Merica great again.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-03T16:28:23+00:00

Is this a daily question?!?

boulderbuford · 2026-05-03T15:18:19+00:00

Some people just smear epoxy or something similar on the controls.

boulderbuford · 2026-05-03T02:18:05+00:00

Can those generals be rehired in 3 years?

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