the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

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And your point???

[HEADING=3]THE CUSTOMER[/HEADING]
[American Standard]('https://www.americanstandard-us.com/') is a North American manufacturer of plumbing fixtures headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey. The brand has been a mainstay in the building industry for the past 150 years.

[HEADING=3]THE PROVIDER[/HEADING]
[Hercules Forwarding]('https://www.herculesfreight.com/') is an asset-based less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carrier and customs brokerage with Canadian headquarters in New Westminster, British Columbia and U.S. headquarters in Vernon, California. It specializes in U.S.-Canada shipments with a specific focus on transloading solutions.
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American Standard produces most of these units in one of four manufacturing plants it operates in [Mexico]('https://www.inboundlogistics.com/articles/nearshoring-partners-lead-the-way-in-mexico/') and then ships them to distribution centers in the United States and [Canada]('https://www.inboundlogistics.com/articles/canada-the-united-states-mapping-out-cross-border-connections/').

*Suffice it to say, there isn't a single plumbing supply corporation that manufactures all of its products in the US.

I originally picked on Kohler because years ago I visited the plant and toured the factory where all the porcelain products were HANDCASTED into molds, not automated, and they SANDCASTED the parts for their generators. Talk about a tour of Dante's Inferno...

Powered by R7I..*.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://longisland.news12.com/suffolk-state-health-officials-issue-warning-against-contact-with-water-in-port-jefferson-harbor[/URL]

[URL unfurl="true"]https://longisland.news12.com/suffolk-state-health-officials-issue-warning-against-contact-with-water-in-port-jefferson-harbor[/URL]

There’s literally a raw sewage overflow pipe at foot of T-Neck that spews shit, needles, tampon applicators, when it rains hard. They have a crude filter at the end of the pipe but doesn’t stop a lot of debris. Kept in and sheltered from reality we are.

Talk about something that will keep you up at night.... :eek:

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I'd love to know who the previous owners were....

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/177-Benedict-Rd-Staten-Island-NY-10304/32294383_zpid/?[/URL]

I'd love to know who the previous owners were....

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/177-Benedict-Rd-Staten-Island-NY-10304/32294383_zpid/?[/URL]

I’d like to know more of the assessment and prop taxes my self.

I'd love to know who the previous owners were....

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/177-Benedict-Rd-Staten-Island-NY-10304/32294383_zpid/?[/URL]

It was the “White House” gambino crime family boss Paul castellano’s home.

It was the “White House” gambino crime family boss Paul castellano’s home.

My immediate reaction to seeing the post yesterday was "Had to be owned by a Mafioso"...

My immediate reaction to seeing the post yesterday was "Had to be owned by a Mafioso"...

No such thing you had self proclaimed Good Guys 🤙 and Bad Guys 👮

Score 1 for the kids 👍
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[HEADING=2][SIZE=6]Tesla’s Falling Profit May Pressure Elon Musk to Return to Day Job[/SIZE][/HEADING]
The carmaker is expected to report a decline in quarterly earnings after Tesla’s brand suffered because of its chief executive’s role in the Trump administration.

Tesla is expected to report on Tuesday that its profits fell in the first three months of the year, which could increase the pressure on Elon Musk, the automaker’s chief executive, to curtail his work for President Trump and spend more time managing the company.

Wall Street analysts expect Tesla to say its net profit declined slightly from $1.1 billion in the first quarter of 2024.

Tesla sales have been [slumping]('https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/tesla-sales-elon-musk.html') because of intense competition from Chinese carmakers like BYD, a lack of new models and Mr. Musk’s support of far-right causes, which has turned away some liberals and centrists from buying Tesla vehicles.

Tesla remains the most valuable automaker in the world as measured by its stock price, but its shares have lost about half their value since mid-December as investors have grown more pessimistic about the company’s prospects and concerned about Mr. Musk’s role in the Trump administration.

Tesla has steadily lost market share to Chinese carmakers and more established automakers, like General Motors, Volkswagen and Hyundai, that have been offering a growing selection of electric vehicles.

Mr. Musk’s company once hoped to sell 20 million vehicles a year by the end of the decade, twice as many as Toyota. But sales have been sliding after climbing to 1.8 million in 2023. Last year, the company sold 1.7 million cars, and its [global sales fell 13 percent]('https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/tesla-sales-elon-musk.html') in the first quarter of 2025 from a year earlier.

The Cybertruck, Tesla’s newest vehicle, which consumed a lot of the company’s resources while it was being developed, is looking increasingly like a flop. Sales of the Cybertruck in the first quarter were down about 50 percent from the last three months of the year, according to Cox Automotive, a research firm.

Tesla’s website has recently [offered discounts of as much as $8,500]('https://www.tesla.com/inventory/new/ct?arrangeby=savings&zip=10536&range=200') on trucks in the company’s inventory. The Cybertruck starts at $70,000 before federal and state incentives.

The automaker had promised to begin selling a lower-cost vehicle by the end of June that would make it possible for more people to afford an electric vehicle and potentially revive sales. But the company has not displayed a prototype or provided many details about the car.

It appears increasingly unlikely that the new vehicle will be available during the next two months. It is also not clear whether the car will be a new design or simply a stripped-down version of Tesla’s Model 3 sedan or Model Y sport utility vehicle.

Mr. Musk has said the company’s future is in artificial intelligence technology that will allow Tesla vehicles to drive themselves without human intervention, enabling fleets of Tesla “Cybercabs” to make money ferrying customers.

But Tesla has not yet perfected the technology and faces competition in that nascent business from [several Chinese companies]('https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/china-driverless-cars.html') and [Waymo]('https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/technology/waymo-uber-partnership.html'), a unit of Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

Waymo’s autonomous cars have offered paid rides for several years in Phoenix and San Francisco and are expanding to more places. Last month, Waymo said it was completing about 200,000 paid rides every week in four cities and announced plans to expand to Washington. It is also testing its cars in Tokyo.

Some analysts doubt whether Tesla autonomous vehicles will ever generate the trillions of dollars in revenue that Mr. Musk has said they would. Uber, which has been offering paid rides for 15 years and is working with Waymo in Austin, Texas, reported revenue of $12 billion in 2024.

Guess y'all will have to go fishing instead of the casino...

[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Las Vegas Sands Drops Bid to Open a Casino on Long Island[/SIZE][/HEADING]
The company cited the threat that online gambling posed to its profits in its decision to bow out of the competition for one of three casino licenses around New York City.

Las Vegas Sands, the casino and resort company that has aggressively maneuvered to build a casino on Long Island in recent years, said on Wednesday that it was dropping its campaign, citing the potential threat posed to its profit margins by online gambling.

Casino companies and real estate developers have fiercely competed in recent years for [three casino licenses]('https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/nyregion/casino-sands-license-hofstra.html') to be awarded by the state in and around New York City. Las Vegas Sands, one of the largest casino companies in the world, has been a leading contender for the right to open a casino on the site of Nassau Coliseum, a large arena just outside New York City.

Its decision to drop that bid — over what it said were concerns about “the impact of the potential legalization of iGaming on the overall market opportunity and project returns” — was a major development in the cutthroat competition to bring full-fledged casinos to New York.

Other developers who have vigorously pursued bids include Steve Cohen, the owner of the New York Mets, who wants to open a casino at Citi Field in Queens with Hard Rock Entertainment; the Hudson Yards developer Related Companies, which has proposed a casino on [the Far West Side of Manhattan]('https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/nyregion/casino-hudson-yards-manhattan.html') with Wynn Resorts; SL Green Realty Corporation, which wants to open [a casino in Times Square]('https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/nyregion/casino-times-square.html') with Caesars Entertainment; and Bally’s Corporation, which seeks to open one at a site in the Bronx that once housed [the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point]('https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/nyregion/trump-links-golf-bronx-casino.html').

In a statement, Sands said it still believed that Nassau Coliseum would be the best location for a new casino. It said it would seek to transfer its right to bid for a license on that site to another company, and would use the money it might have spent on the project to buy shares of Las Vegas Sands and a subsidiary, Sands China.

The proposal to open a casino in Nassau County has been met with resistance from community groups as well as Hofstra University, which has said it believes the casino would be too close to its campus.

Allison O’Brien Silva, a spokeswoman for the Say No to the Casino Civic Association, which has campaigned against the proposal to put a casino in the county, said the group was “thrilled that Las Vegas Sands has stepped away” but was “concerned the door remains open to find a new casino partner.”

“Our group fought hard to show that dropping a mega casino in the middle of our suburban community would be a wholly destructive choice,” she said. “It was always a bad idea, and it will continue to be a bad idea, whether the county works with Las Vegas Sands or another company looking to extract wealth from our community.”

But others, including the Nassau County executive, Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, have championed the idea. On Wednesday, Chris Boyle, a spokesman for Mr. Blakeman, said the county government was optimistic that a new developer would step in and remained “committed to the development of the Coliseum site with or without a casino.”

“There is strong interest from gaming organizations which have been in confidential discussions with Nassau County in taking the place of Las Vegas Sands in the licensing application process,” Mr. Boyle said in a statement. “Nassau County will crystallize within the next 30 days whether or not to entertain a casino component or develop the site without.”

“In either event,” he added, “there will be an exciting new development that will create jobs and positive economic activity.”

Las Vegas Sands had been seen as one of the stronger competitors in the contest to bring casinos to the New York region.

It aggressively pursued public support for its $6 billion bid by showering Nassau County with perks, including sports clinics that featured star athletes like the soccer player David Beckham. It had also promised multimillion-dollar payments to both the town of Hempstead and Nassau County.

The state’s process for choosing a casino site is a slow-moving and complex one, and a series of public hearings is required before any license can be issued. The state’s five-member Gaming Facility Location Board oversees the process and will make recommendations to the state Gaming Commission, which will make the final decisions.

Oh darn. 🙁 :rolleyes:

Does not make a difference either way in my life. NYS will continue stealing my money anyway.

People are f'in brainless

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Well................

Because this is where it belongs..............................

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Well................

Because this is where it belongs..............................

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ghost-poops-heres-says-health-110030843.html[/URL]

Here you go, see if you know your shit...

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Well this one is certainly a WTF:

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