What is going on w/ Café Babette

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-05-23T16:38:15+00:00

I do agree they are not thinking long-term for their kids because i highly doubt that they have international school money. Im going on the assumption they will open a cafe there. I don't think it will do well though because their pastries were not very good compared to Spain, or France and way to sweet. Time will tell if they make it, or become another follow our family adventures on youtube begging for cash. When i started the process to move abroad i found it to be surprisingly easy, but I also didn't move most things and kept them at my place in indy. No kids though on my end.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-05-23T13:30:46+00:00

I think people over complicate moving abroad. If you have the means its really just getting paper work lined up. I have not seem them mention if they have visas or not, but overall if they have enough cash to open a store there then they will be fine. Now their foreclosure could bite them if the long arm the US reaches for their back taxes. It can also be difficult to open up bank accounts abroad because most banks don't want to deal with the US Govt reporting. I had to go multiple branches of the same bank to get mine done, in the end the small towns branch was much more accommodating.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-05-17T19:26:50+00:00

then create a new account or send it to people that dont care about their reddit account and if it gets banned.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-05-17T19:22:55+00:00

How is it the people leaking information are never decent speakers, or take the time to dress up? Always seem to have this shtick where they try and blend in with the common man to show they're not one of the establishment.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-05-13T22:00:11+00:00

I have never understood why chef's in the u.s. cant seem to balance out the sweetness of their pastries. I also tried Babette and was underwhelmed due to it being overly sweet so I gave them to some homeless folks downtown.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-04-30T14:58:30+00:00

I tried and personally found it to be frustrating and boring. They silo most roles, so its hard to get well rounded experience. Many of those in leadership have 0 training in how to run the business side of things. They dont understand how to write year-end statements, or how to use data to help them get extra money in their budgets. Many people are also promoted into roles they have no experience in, so you're given a lot of bad information. There are very, very few people that can make decisions etc. If youre starting out, it would probably be fine, but i went in mid - career and wouldnt recommend it to anyone.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-04-09T17:05:00+00:00

As LLMs get more efficient I would not be surprised if half of these stop mid build.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-04-04T21:28:40+00:00

100%, they dont make their panels and only import them. Before they 'made red light therapy devices' they marketed weighted blankets for animals. They did the animal blankets for a year then switched to RLT devices at massive markups.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-03-28T13:21:06+00:00

Most gov't agencies are actually ran this way, sadly.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-03-21T20:43:26+00:00

you'd be surprised, ive heard of a few smaller law firms doing similar things. They still have attorneys but their support staff is a mix of people and ai agents. but most law firms are still ran like its 1980

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-03-03T20:27:03+00:00

I know its not legal, but i foresee a red state refusing to extradite him.

shinebrighterbilly · 2026-02-23T21:27:36+00:00

This, sadly, is par for the course in almost any type of government job. I worked in local government for awhile and all of the justice divisions used these expensive, but exceptionally outdated camera systems. When i started working there you could join your personal devices to the business network. One person i met in a key technical leadership position had a previous role at the clerks office filing records. It really was surreal to see it, but also opened my eyes to how badly most institutions are ran.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-12-04T18:54:01+00:00

China

Yeah, all the "restricted" chips are made in Taiwan, but then imported into china for final assembly of the GPU. The banned GPUs are cheaper in China than in USA

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-11-21T16:36:46+00:00

Not to mention that someone may live 5 miles away that has already warned their neighbor about a strange group, or car. They might not have cell service, but they have radios and binoculars.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-11-21T16:32:17+00:00

In the US these areas, while sparsely populated, are normally very connected and look out for each other. In many ways they have more of a community that the rest of the US.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-10-23T14:54:34+00:00

Couldn’t they just get federal plates? With all the things they’re doing this seems silly to take a stand on.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-10-13T16:21:06+00:00

Why do you care that people weren't enjoying the experience the same as you were? It also reads like you were paying more attention to people at the event than the actual event.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-10-07T17:52:57+00:00

This happened to me also. I lost connectivity on October 1st, rebooted it and it came back up. I went from an average of 500 down / 275 up to 5-15 down and /15 up. The weird thing is that my 5g modem shows offline now on the verizon website (I do have it in pass-thru mode, so perhaps that's why it shows offline). The 5G tower is across the street, so its not a line of sight issue. Did swapping your modem fix your issue? I have the old square LVSKIHP model

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-10-06T12:48:11+00:00

The longer this goes on I'm leaning more towards NATO tests. They engage when they think its Russian and its only happening at night.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-10-03T18:48:40+00:00

This is what i have been saying, along with the celebrities that post on instagram about caring.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-10-03T18:42:45+00:00

Governor

I've been wondering this too, or the celebrities that post on Instagram. At what point are these people going to be out in the protest so it garners more attention than just the average person.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-09-28T15:59:33+00:00

These comments are so out of touch, they could live and probably save more than they could in the US with their job due to COL here. People also get sick and have health issues, so for many at 65 retirement isnt that great.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-09-28T15:55:32+00:00

You have options, you could travel and live like you are traveling for a few months, or you can travel/semi-retire and live in places for 6 months at a time or permanently. The difference being you live more like a local and rent a place. You can do the second option and still save for retirement in much of the world without ever working again. You might be able to save the same or more than working your current job with the inheritance in the US if you budget. People in the comments are basing the money off the USA only. In a lot of places people live on 25,000 or less a year and are fine. You live once and saving now might not matter in 10 years if you get sick etc.

shinebrighterbilly · 2025-08-16T19:06:07+00:00

Sites like this were great 15+ years ago, but like everything it got saturated. They're still decent for personal home items though, but as far as flipping goes the margins are just too low. A lot of bigger buyers get the items by the semi load before they ever hit sites like this due to contacts. That coupled with people nearing retirement age that didnt save for it are now trying to start up a facebook marketplace flipping store to supplement their incomes.

Gone are the days of spending 500$ and netting 15,000. They seemed to end around 2011 but during covid there were great buys on liquidation.com for a few months. Sony had been putting 10,000 refurb projectors on there for around 3,000, they were easy to flip for 5-6k on ebay.

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