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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

Bookmark this post and please report back so the rest of us can hear your results!

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CasuallyObservant 8 points ago +8 / -0

So give us more deets, please!

How often?

How big of a spot do you paint on?

How much DMSO do you rub in?

How long before you noticed a difference?

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's the law of Eminent Domain. It's been this way since the federal government’s right to use it was implicitly recognized when the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on December 15, 1791!

FYI: "Eminent Domain" is the legal power of the government, or its authorized delegates, to seize private property for public use without the owner's consent.

In the United States, this authority is governed by the Fifth Amendment, which requires that the taking serve a "public use" and that property owners receive "just compensation."

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

No. Read my other comments. The guy hasn't lived there for decades. He's been renting it out to tenants. He's been holding on to the tiny house on the tiny dirt lot (4,000 s.f. lot shaped like a triangle) for the Big Payout, hoping to strike it rich.

He turned down a one million dollar offer,($1,000,000.00!) claiming he wanted to move the house and it would cost $3 million to relocate it, which is B.S.

This is a MONEY GRAB struggle and nothing else. And now, he'll be forced to take a much lesser offer.

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

Except, he hasn't lived there for decades. He tried to use the 'but it's my home' victim argument. But he's been living elsewhere and renting it out to others for many years.

ASU even upped the offer to $999,999, but he wanted 3x that amount. It wasn't about the nostalgia. IT WAS about THE MONEY.

See my other comments here for additional details.

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just because something is old, doesn't mean we have to make a big deal over it. Interestingly, the owner hasn't lived there in a very long time. Reports confirm that the building has been rented out to a man named Schwartz for at least the last 8 years.

According to one article, Schwartz created a sort of museum inside the house, displaying photos and other archival material of historical Phoenix. He even built a coffee bar in the house that he opened to the public during recent 'First Fridays'.

He called it 'The Emerson Espresso Preservation Lounge'. But the business is now listed as 'temporarily closed'. The owner of the property would have had to be on board with the use of his home as a commercial business or coffee shop. There would have been health code compliance and variances obtained and zoning changes petitioned and approved. Maybe the Schwartz fellow is a relative of the owner. Who knows.

And, according to the news article, Mr. Young (the owner) lived there in the 1970s - 1990s. Nowhere does it say he lived there after that! Perhaps this whole cry of 'they are taking my home!' is a ruse to get more $$$ out of ASU.

Mr. Young can't claim victimhood over his primary residence being condemned, when it is not where he lives and is actually a rental property that has a tenant in it.

And there's this: Young said ASU bumped its offer to $999,000, but Young refused because ASU wouldn’t pay for relocating the house, which Young said would cost between $2 million and $3 million. [Now that's just ridiculous!]

See this:

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

HERE ARE THE TRUE DETAILS:

The house is small on a very tiny lot that is no longer a residential area. All has been converted to commercial except his little spot. 100 years ago, his brick home was in the middle of farmland and fields. No longer. His home fronts and sides to busy rush hour traffic and highrise commercial buildings. Whatever it was 50 years ago when he bought it is gone. Most people would have sold and gotten out long ago.

The whole piece of ground (the lot) is only 4,067 Square Feet total. The old house and decrepit outbuildings is just 1,277 sq. ft.

A couple of rundown places adjacent to him that were sold and are in the process of being torn down, with the lots cleared and turned into parking lot. He doesn't even have a paved driveway. The Zillow estimate for the house and tiny lot in its condition is $140,000, which is very low for Phoenix.

The offer of $850,000 for this tiny spot is EXTREMELY GENEROUS. The old man should be thanking his lucky stars they are willing to give him that amount. He could buy a much nicer and larger place with his profits. Sheesh. Take a look:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/623-N-4th-St-Phoenix-AZ-85004/7522336_zpid/

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CasuallyObservant 4 points ago +4 / -0

Noteworthy from the article:

“Trump’s agreement does not bind us,” Itamar Ben Gvir, Netanyahu’s minister of national security and an influential far-right leader, posted Monday morning on X. “Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign country.”

Israeli officials, including Ben Gvir, have remained consistently defiant in recent days, insisting that they will not refrain from striking Hezbollah, as Iran — and Trump — have demanded, or withdraw Israeli troops from Lebanon.

Netanyahu’s rivals have voiced similar positions, arguing that the prime minister cannot sacrifice Israel’s national security to appease Hezbollah’s patron, Iran, or for a U.S. president whose interests are increasingly incompatible with those of Israel.

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

Was this small infraction the only way to get him charged for something?

It seems trivial compared to all the other terrible things he did.

I hope some justice is served.

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

See my other comment here with more details. But to answer your question:

This happened in 2016 and went to trial in 2018. So, this is not a recent case. I'm not sure why the X poster is bringing it up in 2026 as if it is new.

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

I found more details on this story for those who are interested..:

First, the trial and sentencing was in 2018. The crime occured 2 years prior, in 2016.

17-month-old boy, Anthony Delgado was found in cardiac arrest in his apartment building on Steuben Street in the Park Hill section after being babysat by his mother's neighbor.

Authorities said the child's mother had left him on a Friday with neighbor Gloria Fields, [then aged 30] who lived in the same apartment building, for the weekend.

Two days later, on Sunday, Fields texted the boy's mother saying he fell. His grandmother came to pick him up. When she brought him home, he was bruised and unconscious. Injuries covered all of the boy's body with the exception of his feet, prosecutors said.

He was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital North, where he was pronounced dead.

Over a 48-hour span, it was alleged that Fields and her boyfriend tortured the boy, beating and shaking him and sodomizing him with a pencil. She slammed or threw him so as to impact his head on a hard surface or object, and also slammed his head into the ground while he was strapped in a stroller.

The Medical Examiner ruled he died of blunt force trauma to his head and body.

Fields had nine prior arrests, while her boyfriend had 25.

Investigators believe the mother used Fields to watch her son at least six times before this. Fields originally plead 'not guilty', but then changed her plea to 'guilty'.

CONCLUSION? She was charged with first-degree murder and sentenced to 23 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to Murder in the First Degree for torturing and killing 17-month-old Anthony Delgado.

UNKNOWN Whether the boyfriend was also charged...

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CasuallyObservant 2 points ago +2 / -0

I like the tousled hair on Barron. This particular photo makes him look older and dare I say it - somewhat buff? Has Barron been working out? That would be awesome.

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CasuallyObservant 4 points ago +4 / -0

What will Trump do to make Bibi cooperate? I mean...

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CasuallyObservant 1 point ago +1 / -0

SLIGHTLY ENHANCED TRANSLATION:

Raphaël Glucksmann stated this: “My enemy is Elon Musk.”

Let’s take Glucksmann seriously for a minute.

Let’s compare the two men's respective track records, since he’s the one initiating the debate.

On one side, we have Elon Musk. A man who, in twenty years, founded a space company that was said to be doomed to bankruptcy, but then landed rockets vertically, something entire nations considered impossible.

This man's innovations in electric vehicle manufacturing forced the entire global automotive industry to enter electric vehicle production.

This man gave internet to and connected regions no one wanted to wire, even the trenches of Ukraine, via his Starlink satellite system.

This man is building a curated AI, neural interfaces, and bought and cleaned up a world-wide social network to champion a certain idea of uncensored ​​free speech for everyone, for free.

You can hate the man. You can’t deny his work.

On the other side, we have Gluckmann, a man who in twenty years, has written op-eds, edited magazines, championed causes, and made a career out of indignation. His material legacy, the tangible and lasting impact he's had on the world, could fit on a Post-it note.

His output consists of commentary on the output of others. And the best part is, he knows it. Because this is the same man who lucidly declared: "When I go to New York or Berlin, I feel more at home culturally than when I go to Picardy. And that's precisely the problem."

He was right. That was the problem. Except he didn't learn from it: he made a career out of it. He diagnosed the disconnect between the elites and the people, identified himself as a symptom, and then spent the next decade embodying exactly what he denounced. This is the man who chooses Elon Musk as his enemy. Not because he fights him—he doesn't have the means—but because declaring oneself the adversary of someone who does something is the last refuge of someone who does nothing.

We assume a stature we lack by pointing the finger at someone greater than ourselves. A builder doesn't waste time looking for enemies. He's too busy building.

To define oneself by hatred is to admit that one has no plan to offer in its place.

And it is THIS man, more at home in Brooklyn than in Amiens, who wants to preside over France.

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