Josh LaBella

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According to owners, the fourth generation family-owned business is one of the oldest in the United States. It first opened in 1934.

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When I was about 12 I became a Foreman on a Minecraft server that was building a 1-to-1 scale replica of Middle Earth. They gave me a team of corvée laborers and I’d have them dig ditches, redirect canals etc. This was something you did in the Qing Dynasty in like 1895

Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and beat them with a cane until they bleed. We don't have nice things because we aren't willing to do what is required to maintain them.

I would like to hear your happiest childhood memories of your father. It doesn't have to be something big, probably isn't. Maybe you and he painted a deck one summer. Maybe you'd go fishing on weekends. I don't have those kind of memories, but would like to give them to my kids

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