Breaking bread is one of the oldest human traditions and ways of fostering community. Is your suggestion that eating at a chain restaurant is “consumerism”? Maybe it was what his grandparents could afford or chose to share with him as a young child. In what sense would it be any better or worse than a state dinner, or a meal at a country club, or eating a loaf of bread they bought from the grocery store around a camp fire? Frankly, I don’t get it.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5354386&forum_id=2#46419817)

There's a monstrously large log cabin (26 bedrooms/13 bathrooms/26,000sqft) built 100 years ago in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the shores of Lake Superior.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Granot_Loma.jpg

One of the things the dipshit Chicago trader who bought it in the 80's did to it was add on one of those fucking ugly things. It's so dated and trashy:

https://ap.rdcpix.com/1047021964/916a4d507744c59108228d30863cb38fl-m2od-w1024_h768_x2.webp

https://ap.rdcpix.com/1179935552/916a4d507744c59108228d30863cb38fl-m24od-w1024_h768_x2.webp

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5354386&forum_id=2#46418965)

Viruses, cactuses, octopuses, stadiums, solariums...

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5354386&forum_id=2#46420062)

Unfortunately, it quickly became a devastating threat to the local bird population. A local conservationist made a video exposing the deaths of hundreds of birds each day, showing bald eagles, hawks, owls, and more dying after striking the windows. Swift action was taken in response to the mounting public outcry, resulting in the removal of the solarium. McDonald's later settled a lawsuit with the Audubon Society reported to be 9 figures.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/architect-mcdonalds-horror-5c38d7bb

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5354386&forum_id=2#46419849)