Why am I posting this? Who knows. We can still make things here in NJ. From Jersey Digs:
Former New Jersey Party City Will Become One of America’s Largest Doughnut Factories
A former Party City space just a stone’s throw from one of the country’s most prominent interstate highways is slated to become a lot sweeter as a doughnut factory will be coming to a sprawling industrial property in Rockaway.
Real estate brokerage Savills recently announced that a doughnut manufacturer is set to expand into nearly 125,000 square feet at 25 Green Point Road. The operator, simply known as Rockaway Holding Group LLC, will triple its space when it moves to the property from their 40,000-square-foot location in Lodi.
With the move, the company will become one of largest doughnut manufacturing facilities in North America. The complex will produce an estimated total of more than one million doughnuts daily for their client, who was not disclosed during the announcement.
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The sprawling Rockaway property, which sold for $19.6 million in 2022, is situated on 13.7 acres. Formerly home to a Party City outpost, the single-story, flex building is situated directly off I-80 and not far from the Hiberia Diner.
Was hoping for chips, got donuts.
(This does not count as the first post)
Friskies
I’m nearing semi-retirement, I think. Oh, who knows. Anyway, when I was in my early 20s, among the myriad of jobs where I toiled, one was working part time on Sunday mornings (after doing much partying all night) in an old factory/warehouse that made cookies, mini apple pies, goppy glazed things and all sorts of pastries. I loved doing it, had no idea how or way but I said my wind-down career is going to be making shitty desserts on an industrial scale. That doughnut factory sounds like my deal.
I liked the broader discussion on AI and everyone’s take last night. It makes sense that the birth of the Golden Age of America includes the implementation of this technology which is still in infancy and will usher in other advancements. Edison and Ford didn’t succeed on every ground-breaking attempt; it was two forward, one back. Same with AI and associated development. Same with everything we do, personally and from a seat in the global stands, witnessing it all like a spectacle. O’Biden was talking about turning on your record player, Trump is surrounding himself with tech madmen willing to push limits previously undiscovered.
Taking the bus into the city for the first time since the congestion pricing. Traffics c starts slowing at the Helix. Probably half the traffic is commercial.
AI will ultimately create some great gains in society, but it is severely overhyped as far as its current capabilities. The current iterations of AI have trouble with basic science, so the idea that it’s going to detect and cure cancer for you anytime soon is far fetched. It’s no different than people in 1998 going “Internet is going to make everyone smart”….well….the opposite happened, but we did get tons of good out of it.
“And the answer is: Congestion Pricing.”
“What is, ‘extorting the muppets to prop up unfunded liabilities.'”
“Correct! Go again!”
The pure arrogance of Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde is stunning. Particularly abhorrent when people mix religion and politics. Such people act as if they have moral authority, when in reality they are the worst among us. They are the pickpockets of the human soul. Stealing from the unsuspecting. Sickening.
This whole election was based on religion and politics.