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The best food with coleslaw is the North Carolina special: pork barbecue with vinegar sauce mixed in, and coleslaw on top. A lot of “signature” or “local” foods suck, especially in America, but this dish is actually really good.

I used to be into sneakers, back at the height of that fad. I kinda got tired of that trend and while I was gone, Nike and the other companies juiced it so hard. The prices for newer sneakers are down to like half what it used to be (which was pre-inflation too). It’s kinda crazy how much they destroyed the market.

The trend also died down too, which lowered prices

Chat what is good

I am now the highest non-mod user, the 5th on the whole site, and the 3rd highest active user.

Pretty cool.

So I just found this site today and it looks like there are actually some good houses (already livable), but you have to spend like $50000 at least to get one (and they’re in the middle of nowhere). That’s still a really, really good price.

https://renovita.net

Y’all really need to stop falling for ragebait.

I like the new wasteof alpha features

When you think of Daytona Beach, you probably think of a tourist trap beach town, with nice hotels and resorts. But actually, most of the physical space and population of the city are completely different, and forgotten about.

On Tuesday, I rode 10 hours to the city to serve a church in the heart of this neglected area. We first helped this church fix up their building a little bit, because they had some damage from the hurricanes last year. But the real highlight of the trip was walking around giving out bags with cleaning supplies and gift cards and talking to people in the neighborhood. It is basically like the projects, very poor, neglected, and forgotten about. Nobody goes to Daytona to visit this neighborhood, and all the money coming into the city goes to build up the really nice tourist areas (which we stayed in).

The residents were not the class of people that I regularly interact with, and I bet most people on this site would feel the same way. There is a lot of physical need there, and people were completely willing to open their doors and even invite you into their homes. That’s the complete opposite of my town, where basically everyone is affluent, and it’s almost considered an invasion of privacy to knock on people’s doors.

The trip really gave me a new perspective on serving the people that are physically near me. The pastor at this church walks the blocks near the church on a daily basis, and knows everyone. Meanwhile, at my church we don’t do anything for the houses that are directly behind the church itself.

I really wish I could record YouTube videos

I’m back from a mission trip to Daytona beach. I’ll tell some more about what happened later.

This is interesting

Today my homeschool group class was allowed to go off-campus for lunch, so I was able to sell people drinks from chick-fil-a and I made $5

The reason I thought of this was I was thinking of my worries about college, and about my future, what job I’m going to get and such. I wanted to be sure I got a job that was well-paying and enjoyable. But I realized I wanted to get such a job only for my own pleasure and enjoyment.

Something interesting I thought about today: If I’m being honest, I could get a job as a Burger King worker making $11 an hour and get my daily needs cared for, just barely at least. But I want to live more comfortably and more enjoyably, so I worry about getting into and paying for college. I make college a priority for the wrong reasons.

My priority is on getting more opportunities so I can get more money to live more comfortably. I think everyone should agree that just living for your own comfort won’t last and is not a good long-term goal. Instead, college should be a tool to get more opportunities to serve others, make a positive impact, or something similar. And if you aren’t going to be able to do any of those things better by getting a university degree in a certain field, it’s probably not best to get that specific degree, because then you’re just seeking your own gain.

For example, the sigma grindset jobs that many influencers support in which you grind 80 hours a week with no free time just racking up more money for yourself are not very helpful to anyone else but you. In the same way a college degree that just lets you get more for yourself is not good either.

This was something I was studying and thinking about today to teach on in a couple of weeks, but I just thought it was interesting enough to share here.

Now that Syria is stable for the moment, this might be possible