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5 days ago
Dear Muslims: My family and I have decided to move from the US to a Muslim country. We haven't picked which one yet—we're still comparing which one offers the best benefits package.
All my neighbors want to come too. And my neighbors' neighbors. And all their friends. And their friends' friends. Millions of us will show up with suitcases and a sense of entitlement.
As a large Christian community, we'll need a few small changes: Please start building churches immediately. Real churches, with nice loud bells, the kind that can be heard from the town square.
We'll also need for everyone to celebrate Christmas, and to close certain streets once a year for our processions. We may want to gather to pray to our Almighty God on your streets, in your parks, or on the lawns of your mosques.
We'll be an oppressed minority, so you'll have to be understanding and adapt to our way of life. Every supermarket must stock real pork, ham, chorizo, and bacon. And we're bringing all our dogs, so you'll need dog parks, and you'll have to smile tolerate them we walk them in front of your mosques. We want our women to be able to safely go out alone and wear shorts and tank tops. And when the weather's nice, we men like to go shirtless. We also want to drink alcohol, dance, and place an occasional bet at the horse races.
While we're at it, your religious holidays are a bit too much; they could offend the Christian community, so we'd appreciate it if you'd discreetly eliminate them. Thanks.
In schools and workplaces, our children and employees must be able to wear large crucifixes, say prayers, eat ham sandwiches in the cafeteria, and learn Christian principles without anyone getting criticized. We also demand chapels or Christian prayer rooms in every building, plus translators, because we have no intention of learning Arabic.
If any of this is rejected, please send a list of police station addresses so we can report you for discrimination, Christianophobia, racism, and anything we don't like.
One more thing: if my kids protest or burn your flag for any reason, please be understanding. I'll be sure to give them a very serious scolding.
Finally, we all want generous benefits, free housing, phones, free food, and pocket money while we "integrate" over the next three generations. Working is optional, obviously. Be patient with us, you'll get used to it.
We thank you in advance for your tolerance and compassion. After all, diversity is our strength!
Sincerely,
A Very Reasonable
United States of America Patriot!
All my neighbors want to come too. And my neighbors' neighbors. And all their friends. And their friends' friends. Millions of us will show up with suitcases and a sense of entitlement.
As a large Christian community, we'll need a few small changes: Please start building churches immediately. Real churches, with nice loud bells, the kind that can be heard from the town square.
We'll also need for everyone to celebrate Christmas, and to close certain streets once a year for our processions. We may want to gather to pray to our Almighty God on your streets, in your parks, or on the lawns of your mosques.
We'll be an oppressed minority, so you'll have to be understanding and adapt to our way of life. Every supermarket must stock real pork, ham, chorizo, and bacon. And we're bringing all our dogs, so you'll need dog parks, and you'll have to smile tolerate them we walk them in front of your mosques. We want our women to be able to safely go out alone and wear shorts and tank tops. And when the weather's nice, we men like to go shirtless. We also want to drink alcohol, dance, and place an occasional bet at the horse races.
While we're at it, your religious holidays are a bit too much; they could offend the Christian community, so we'd appreciate it if you'd discreetly eliminate them. Thanks.
In schools and workplaces, our children and employees must be able to wear large crucifixes, say prayers, eat ham sandwiches in the cafeteria, and learn Christian principles without anyone getting criticized. We also demand chapels or Christian prayer rooms in every building, plus translators, because we have no intention of learning Arabic.
If any of this is rejected, please send a list of police station addresses so we can report you for discrimination, Christianophobia, racism, and anything we don't like.
One more thing: if my kids protest or burn your flag for any reason, please be understanding. I'll be sure to give them a very serious scolding.
Finally, we all want generous benefits, free housing, phones, free food, and pocket money while we "integrate" over the next three generations. Working is optional, obviously. Be patient with us, you'll get used to it.
We thank you in advance for your tolerance and compassion. After all, diversity is our strength!
Sincerely,
A Very Reasonable
United States of America Patriot!
2 months ago
God has a Way!
Upset - John 14 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Weak - Psalm 18:1-29 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Lonely - Psalm 23 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Sinned - Psalm 51 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Worried - Matthew 8:18-31 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Anxious - Philippians 4:4-9 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Unhappy - Colossians 3:12-17 https://www.biblegateway.c...
In danger - Psalm 91 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Depressed - Psalm 27 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Lack of Faith - Exodus 14 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Courage - Joshua 1 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Direction - Psalm 73:21-26 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Grieving - Psalm 34:18 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Angry - Ephesians 4:26-27 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Tempted - 1 Corinthians 10:13 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Confused - Proverbs 3:5-6 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Doubting - Mark 9:23-24 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Guilty - 1 John 1:9 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Discouraged - Isaiah 41:10 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Fearful - Psalm 27:1 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Overwhelmed - Matthew 11:28-30 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Facing Change - Isaiah 43:18-19 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Financial Worry - Philippians 4:19 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Wisdom - James 1:5 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Feeling Hopeless - Romans 15:13 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Peace - John 14:27 https://www.biblegateway.c...
No matter what you're going through in life, you can always turn to God and find truth and victory in His word.
Upset - John 14 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Weak - Psalm 18:1-29 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Lonely - Psalm 23 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Sinned - Psalm 51 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Worried - Matthew 8:18-31 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Anxious - Philippians 4:4-9 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Unhappy - Colossians 3:12-17 https://www.biblegateway.c...
In danger - Psalm 91 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Depressed - Psalm 27 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Lack of Faith - Exodus 14 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Courage - Joshua 1 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Direction - Psalm 73:21-26 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Grieving - Psalm 34:18 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Angry - Ephesians 4:26-27 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Tempted - 1 Corinthians 10:13 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Confused - Proverbs 3:5-6 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Doubting - Mark 9:23-24 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Guilty - 1 John 1:9 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Discouraged - Isaiah 41:10 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Fearful - Psalm 27:1 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Overwhelmed - Matthew 11:28-30 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Facing Change - Isaiah 43:18-19 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Financial Worry - Philippians 4:19 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Wisdom - James 1:5 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Feeling Hopeless - Romans 15:13 https://www.biblegateway.c...
Need Peace - John 14:27 https://www.biblegateway.c...
No matter what you're going through in life, you can always turn to God and find truth and victory in His word.
2 months ago
Nobody’s going to make you get sober, except yourself. Addicts always look for others for help, but they don’t realize that they really need to help themselves and the only real way to help yourself is to basically hit rock bottom.
If they can miraculously do that without hitting rock bottom, congrats but history tells us that the only way that an addict a true addict gets completely sober. Is by hitting rock bottom.
You will do things you will never think of before you hit rock bottom you will relapse time and time again thinking that it’s rock bottom but it’s really not.
You will know exactly when you hit rock bottom. People talk a lot of bullshit, but you will immediately know when it’s time to change course.
Like I said history tells us that the only way to really get sober is to hit that rock bottom and only then will you understand that yes, you need help and yes, you can’t control it and yes, it’s powerful enough to play on your emotions and your behaviors are a part of that.
In the early years of sobriety, you need to be spot on with learning about recovery, but also reading the book and understanding the book. If you don’t understand that you’re gonna go back out and do exactly what you did again and then cry wolf..
So yes, when you make that decision that you’re going to get sober and stay sober, you need to learn about what it takes to be sober. There are a lot of different triggers and warnings, and the signs that you must understand about your surroundings before you go out there and go into that environment again.
Not only that, but once you get out of rehab and all that stuff, then the real test comes as to whether you can stay sober when you’re out in the environment again. Make a purpose for yourself so that you don’t do something stupid that’s gonna fuck everything up.
All that stuff in rehab and the detox places and all stuff all that’s true very true 100% true confirmed they’re not talking bullshit. They’re talking from experience.
Life is fucking boring as fuck get used to it.
Always know your surroundings know who exactly you’re talking to and always call your sponsor or a friend before you get into trouble. It will happen..
If they can miraculously do that without hitting rock bottom, congrats but history tells us that the only way that an addict a true addict gets completely sober. Is by hitting rock bottom.
You will do things you will never think of before you hit rock bottom you will relapse time and time again thinking that it’s rock bottom but it’s really not.
You will know exactly when you hit rock bottom. People talk a lot of bullshit, but you will immediately know when it’s time to change course.
Like I said history tells us that the only way to really get sober is to hit that rock bottom and only then will you understand that yes, you need help and yes, you can’t control it and yes, it’s powerful enough to play on your emotions and your behaviors are a part of that.
In the early years of sobriety, you need to be spot on with learning about recovery, but also reading the book and understanding the book. If you don’t understand that you’re gonna go back out and do exactly what you did again and then cry wolf..
So yes, when you make that decision that you’re going to get sober and stay sober, you need to learn about what it takes to be sober. There are a lot of different triggers and warnings, and the signs that you must understand about your surroundings before you go out there and go into that environment again.
Not only that, but once you get out of rehab and all that stuff, then the real test comes as to whether you can stay sober when you’re out in the environment again. Make a purpose for yourself so that you don’t do something stupid that’s gonna fuck everything up.
All that stuff in rehab and the detox places and all stuff all that’s true very true 100% true confirmed they’re not talking bullshit. They’re talking from experience.
Life is fucking boring as fuck get used to it.
Always know your surroundings know who exactly you’re talking to and always call your sponsor or a friend before you get into trouble. It will happen..
2 months ago
Apparently, I’m a Pendejo because I took out two things of chicken instead of one. Apparently, I’m the biggest idiot on the planet because of it.
— Life of being married to a Latina
— Life of being married to a Latina
3 months ago
when implementing ssh keys on servers, make sure you password protect it with a long ass password. Long enough where it will never be recovered in our lifetime. At least 100 characters.
3 months ago
The first step is admitting that you’re a fucking retard a complete idiot.
Then and only then will life start to get better.
Then and only then will life start to get better.
4 months ago
There are usage limits on Claude Code.
FML FML FML
Life of a power user.
Usage limits should be illegal.
FML FML FML
Life of a power user.
Usage limits should be illegal.
4 months ago
Today I am 20 years completely sober.
In sobriety, you must be selfish as fuck because if you’re not selfish as fuck, you’re gonna go out and do drugs again.
There will always be people that will test out the waters for you so you don’t have to.
Early in my sobriety, I created the purpose of being the designated driver for all of my drunk friends and it paid off because they respected me like you wouldn’t believe after we all go into a bar and I’m tricking cokes while they’re getting shitfaced they couldn’t believe it, but they understood it.
I cared for them as an alcoholic and knowing what people get into and I wanted to be their savior and I was for that night.
One thing an alcoholic must do to really understand themselves is to read and understand the alcoholics anonymous book I had to go through rehab in order to read and understand the book going to classes three hour a day for 7 months.
For the first couple of weeks, I wasn’t paying attention and then the house manager said if you don’t understand this now you’re gonna die early and somehow that ring a bell with me and that got me to pay attention in class how do I not done that I would’ve been dead a long time ago, so I really respect the house manager for giving me the tools to stay sober as long as I have.
So my thing is is I don’t care what you do you drink you do drugs you do whatever you wanna do but leave me out of it. I mean, I’ll be the designated driver going home or if you need a ride somewhere no big deal but really you know I can’t partake in any of that.
The reason I say that is because I am an addict. I am a real addict and if I ever do partake that I know that with it about a week or so I will be dead 100%.
I’ve told my life story so far up to about 500 times and every time I talk about my life, people are at the edge of their sheets, wanting to know more because I give them the greatest gift of all graphic details and it’s just amazing and how people love good stories and apparently I have a really good story now it does take me about four hours to tell my story, but people start asking questions there was a guy that had problems on his own as far as alcoholism, and he wanted me to help him. Try to for ways to get off of it because he would steal alcohol from 7-Eleven all the time.
He knew he was an addict, but he didn’t know how to stop
Much like me when I found myself walking to go rob a bank something clicked inside me and said hey you can’t do this not today.
So I called a friend of mine that was in the program and I told him I was going to go rob a bank because I didn’t have any money for gas because I had smoked up all the drugs smoked up all the money and ran out of gas my car was sitting at a gas station waiting to be filled up.
So I go to a meeting he picks me up at. I had to ask for money and I didn’t want to everybody was telling me not to do it but I said fuck it. I gotta do it and so for the next 40 days I was at the Alano club in Pacific Beach and I waited there until I got the call to go into rehab and thank God I did that I did work at Labor Ready just so I could be self-sufficient with all the meetings made a lot of different people really they were crazy lunatic just like me.
It was really weird because I don’t like talking to people like me. It sounds crazy, but I never really liked hanging out with other addicts because all they talk about all day is their fucking disease and how they figured it out on the on their own and I said fuck that dude like I really don’t give a shit whatever, but it was in rehab where I learned to understand that to listen and learn from other people’s mistakes
So I took it upon myself to learn from my own mistakes and to learn my own actions in the situation and how I can approve my own actions to make it a better outcome.
In sobriety, you must be selfish as fuck because if you’re not selfish as fuck, you’re gonna go out and do drugs again.
There will always be people that will test out the waters for you so you don’t have to.
Early in my sobriety, I created the purpose of being the designated driver for all of my drunk friends and it paid off because they respected me like you wouldn’t believe after we all go into a bar and I’m tricking cokes while they’re getting shitfaced they couldn’t believe it, but they understood it.
I cared for them as an alcoholic and knowing what people get into and I wanted to be their savior and I was for that night.
One thing an alcoholic must do to really understand themselves is to read and understand the alcoholics anonymous book I had to go through rehab in order to read and understand the book going to classes three hour a day for 7 months.
For the first couple of weeks, I wasn’t paying attention and then the house manager said if you don’t understand this now you’re gonna die early and somehow that ring a bell with me and that got me to pay attention in class how do I not done that I would’ve been dead a long time ago, so I really respect the house manager for giving me the tools to stay sober as long as I have.
So my thing is is I don’t care what you do you drink you do drugs you do whatever you wanna do but leave me out of it. I mean, I’ll be the designated driver going home or if you need a ride somewhere no big deal but really you know I can’t partake in any of that.
The reason I say that is because I am an addict. I am a real addict and if I ever do partake that I know that with it about a week or so I will be dead 100%.
I’ve told my life story so far up to about 500 times and every time I talk about my life, people are at the edge of their sheets, wanting to know more because I give them the greatest gift of all graphic details and it’s just amazing and how people love good stories and apparently I have a really good story now it does take me about four hours to tell my story, but people start asking questions there was a guy that had problems on his own as far as alcoholism, and he wanted me to help him. Try to for ways to get off of it because he would steal alcohol from 7-Eleven all the time.
He knew he was an addict, but he didn’t know how to stop
Much like me when I found myself walking to go rob a bank something clicked inside me and said hey you can’t do this not today.
So I called a friend of mine that was in the program and I told him I was going to go rob a bank because I didn’t have any money for gas because I had smoked up all the drugs smoked up all the money and ran out of gas my car was sitting at a gas station waiting to be filled up.
So I go to a meeting he picks me up at. I had to ask for money and I didn’t want to everybody was telling me not to do it but I said fuck it. I gotta do it and so for the next 40 days I was at the Alano club in Pacific Beach and I waited there until I got the call to go into rehab and thank God I did that I did work at Labor Ready just so I could be self-sufficient with all the meetings made a lot of different people really they were crazy lunatic just like me.
It was really weird because I don’t like talking to people like me. It sounds crazy, but I never really liked hanging out with other addicts because all they talk about all day is their fucking disease and how they figured it out on the on their own and I said fuck that dude like I really don’t give a shit whatever, but it was in rehab where I learned to understand that to listen and learn from other people’s mistakes
So I took it upon myself to learn from my own mistakes and to learn my own actions in the situation and how I can approve my own actions to make it a better outcome.
5 months ago
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My wife just rejected dancing with me this morning, oh well.
This is life of an old married man.
This is life of an old married man.
5 months ago
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6 months ago
Physical Mental Digital Security has to be your number 1 top priority.
Trust No One.
Buy 2 Yubikeys or a physical security keys. Something where you have to physically have it on you in order to login.
Add them both to your Apple Google Gmail yahoo protonmail along with turning 2 password option on.
Any account where you can add passkeys. Do it.
Do not add passkeys to your phone, those can be syncronized if hackers send malware to your phone via a text message to control entire phone.
With a physical security key, they cannot be syncronized.
There are so many breaches going on every week and our social security numbers are all public now.
Get lifelock for ssn insurance in case someone uses your ssn to commit bank or house fraud. It is real and happening every day.
Criminals don't give a fuck who you are.
Trust No One.
Buy 2 Yubikeys or a physical security keys. Something where you have to physically have it on you in order to login.
Add them both to your Apple Google Gmail yahoo protonmail along with turning 2 password option on.
Any account where you can add passkeys. Do it.
Do not add passkeys to your phone, those can be syncronized if hackers send malware to your phone via a text message to control entire phone.
With a physical security key, they cannot be syncronized.
There are so many breaches going on every week and our social security numbers are all public now.
Get lifelock for ssn insurance in case someone uses your ssn to commit bank or house fraud. It is real and happening every day.
Criminals don't give a fuck who you are.
6 months ago
The key to life is to be cool, calm and collective in whatever situation you come across as hard as it might be.
6 months ago
My recovery day is 5-16-06 or 5166 or 5+1=66
It was a shame that I couldnt wait any longer to be sober on 666 but it worked out for the better. I def wouldn't of made it.
I was walking to go rob a bank and really did not want to do it that day so i called a friend from the aa program. It saved my life.
Recovery in sobriety is selfish af cause no one going to do it for yourself but you.
The key is distracting yourself from getting to that point where you want to drink or pick up. This is why we are always in action.
We know what it was like and never want to be in that situation ever again.
And all you need is one ounce of faith that things will get better.
That's all. Not very much at all. Embrace it for everything it is.
It was a shame that I couldnt wait any longer to be sober on 666 but it worked out for the better. I def wouldn't of made it.
I was walking to go rob a bank and really did not want to do it that day so i called a friend from the aa program. It saved my life.
Recovery in sobriety is selfish af cause no one going to do it for yourself but you.
The key is distracting yourself from getting to that point where you want to drink or pick up. This is why we are always in action.
We know what it was like and never want to be in that situation ever again.
And all you need is one ounce of faith that things will get better.
That's all. Not very much at all. Embrace it for everything it is.
6 months ago
Prison four times. Armed robbery. Meth addiction. Suicidal at 38.
Today his bread is in every grocery store in America and sold for $275 million.
A four-time convicted felon who spent 15 years behind bars built the number one organic bread brand in the country.
Dave Dahl was 42 years old.
Standing at the Portland Farmers Market on a summer morning in August 2005.
Behind a folding table.
A few dozen loaves of bread nobody had ever heard of.
He'd been out of prison for eight months.
Before that, Dave had spent most of his adult life in a cell.
Four separate prison sentences. Fifteen years total.
Armed robbery. Burglary. Drug dealing. Assault.
Meth addiction that consumed everything.
He grew up in Portland, Oregon.
His father, Jim Dahl, owned a small bakery called NatureBake. Founded in 1955.
A Seventh-day Adventist family making organic, vegan, whole-grain bread before organic was even a word people used.
Dave started working in the bakery at 9 years old.
He hated it.
By his teens, he was experimenting with marijuana, cocaine, LSD, alcohol.
By his late teens, methamphetamine.
He dropped out of high school in 1980.
In 1987, at 24 years old, Dave was arrested for burglarizing a house.
His first prison sentence.
He got out in 1989.
His brother Glenn offered him a job at the family bakery.
Dave took it. Then quit. Moved to Massachusetts.
Got arrested again. Armed robbery.
More prison.
He got out. Went back to Portland. Got arrested again.
In 1997, five separate arrests across three Oregon counties. All meth-related.
Drug distribution. Property crimes to fund the habit.
He was sent to Snake River Correctional Institution near Ontario, Oregon.
By now, Dave Dahl had spent more of his adult life inside prison walls than outside of them.
Everyone said the same thing.
"He's a career criminal."
"Some people can't be saved."
"He'll die in prison or on the streets."
"Four-time loser. That's who he is."
He didn't listen.
Here's what Dave knew that everyone else missed:
Rock bottom isn't the end. It's the foundation.
At 38 years old, sitting in his cell at Snake River, Dave hit the lowest point of his life.
Suicidal. Trying to figure out a way to end it.
He wrote a request to the prison wardens. Inmates call it a "kite."
He was begging for help.
The prison psychiatrist prescribed antidepressants.
Something shifted.
For the first time in decades, the fog lifted.
Dave started thinking clearly. He picked up a guitar. Started learning faster than he ever had.
He enrolled in a vocational program for computer-aided drafting and design.
He didn't just pass the course.
He excelled so fast that he started teaching it to other inmates.
A man who had been written off as hopeless was now teaching other prisoners how to build something.
So he made a promise to himself.
He was going back to the family bakery.
Not as the screwup brother who needed a favor.
As someone who could actually contribute.
On December 27, 2004, Dave Dahl walked out of prison for the last time.
He was 41 years old.
He had $0. No resume. No reputation.
Just a brother named Glenn who was willing to give him one more chance.
Glenn hired him at $12 an hour.
Dave threw himself into the work.
Seeds. Whole grains. Organic ingredients.
Blue cornmeal crusts. Sunflower seeds. Flax. Pumpkin. Sesame.
He took what he'd learned in drafting class — precision, patience, iteration — and applied it to bread recipes.
Experimented obsessively.
He created loaves so packed with seeds they looked like they'd been rolled through a bird feeder.
He worked 100-hour weeks.
But here's the part nobody talks about.
NatureBake was a small operation.
A family bakery that had been around since 1955 but had never broken out.
Dave wasn't inheriting a goldmine.
He was inheriting a survival business in a commodity industry where Wonder Bread, Nature's Own, Sara Lee, and Pepperidge Farm dominated every shelf in every store from Safeway to Albertsons.
His brother Glenn was skeptical.
The sales manager, Richard Shymanski, who'd been with the company for decades, pushed back.
Dave wanted full production shifts dedicated to his new breads.
He wanted shelf space taken from the existing product line.
A convicted felon with zero business experience demanding that a 50-year-old bakery bet its future on his weird seed bread.
Nobody thought it would work.
Dave didn't care.
In August 2005, he brought his first four bread varieties to the Portland Farmers Market Summer Loaves Festival.
Blues Bread, rolled in organic blue cornmeal.
Good Seed, packed with flax and sunflower seeds.
Rockin' Rye.
And the original Killer Bread.
They sold out.
That's when everything changed.
Local Portland grocers started calling. They wanted to carry the bread.
Fred Meyer, the biggest grocery chain in the Pacific Northwest, said no.
Dave kept pushing.
A year later, Fred Meyer reversed course and put Dave's Killer Bread on their shelves.
By 2009, Costco picked up the brand along the I-5 corridor from Seattle to Sacramento.
By 2010, 30 employees became 190.
New Seasons Market, Whole Foods, and independent grocers across the Pacific Northwest couldn't keep it on the shelves.
By 2012, 280 employees.
Annual sales exploded from $3 million to $53 million.
But Dave wasn't done.
He did something his own marketing team told him was insane.
He put his criminal record on the packaging.
Right on the bread bag.
A cartoon of himself with long hair and a mustache, playing guitar.
And on the back, his story: "I was a four-time loser before I realized I was in the wrong game."
The marketing team tried to stop him.
Dave fired them.
He refused to hide.
Every loaf carried the story of a man who'd been in prison four times and found something worth building.
Consumers didn't just accept it.
They loved it.
The "BreadHead Nation" grew to over 100,000 passionate followers.
Then he did something else that changed the industry.
He started hiring ex-convicts.
Not as a PR stunt.
As a core business practice.
One-third of the company's 300 employees had criminal records.
Dave knew what it felt like to come out of prison with nothing.
No one willing to give you a shot.
He gave them shots.
In December 2012, New York private equity firm Goode Partners purchased a 50% stake.
They brought in CEO John Tucker to expand nationally.
Sales increased 130%.
Distribution expanded from 11 states to all 50.
Inc. Magazine named Dave's Killer Bread one of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in America.
By 2015, annual revenue hit $160 million to $170 million.
A 32% compound growth rate over three years.
Retail sales up 168% in three years.
Dave's Killer Bread had become the number one organic bread in America.
In August 2015, Flowers Foods — one of the largest bakery companies in the United States, with $3.75 billion in annual sales — acquired Dave's Killer Bread for $275 million in cash.
Dave Dahl, the four-time convicted felon who'd been suicidal in a prison cell a decade earlier, walked away a multimillionaire.
Today, Dave's Killer Bread sells over 30 product varieties in every major grocery chain in the country.
Costco. Whole Foods. Kroger. Safeway. Walmart. Target.
Every loaf USDA Certified Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified.
It remains the best-selling organic bread in America.
The company's Second Chance Employment program has helped thousands of formerly incarcerated people find work.
All because a 42-year-old ex-con who spent 15 years in prison refused to let his worst chapter be his last chapter.
He turned a meth addiction into a bread empire.
He turned a $12-an-hour bakery job into a $275 million acquisition.
He turned a criminal record into a brand story that made people believe in second chances.
He proved that your past doesn't get to decide your future.
Someone else already did.
What are YOU using as an excuse not to start?
What mistake from your past are you letting define your future?
What second chance are you too afraid to take?
Dave Dahl was a meth addict for two decades.
He was imprisoned four times.
He was suicidal at 38.
He was hired at $12 an hour at age 41.
He brought bread to a farmers market at 42.
He built the number one organic bread brand in America.
His company sold for $275 million.
Because he understood something most people don't.
Your worst chapter doesn't have to be your final chapter.
The thing that broke you can be the thing that builds you.
The people who've been through the most are often the ones willing to work the hardest.
Stop letting your past hold you hostage.
Start thinking like Dave Dahl.
Show up anyway. Build something anyway. Bet on yourself even when nobody else will.
And never let anyone tell you that your worst years disqualify you from your best ones.
Sometimes the most powerful brands are built by the most unlikely people.
Sometimes the greatest comebacks start in the places nobody would ever think to look.
Because when you've already lost everything, you've got nothing left to protect and everything left to prove.
Don't quit.
Today his bread is in every grocery store in America and sold for $275 million.
A four-time convicted felon who spent 15 years behind bars built the number one organic bread brand in the country.
Dave Dahl was 42 years old.
Standing at the Portland Farmers Market on a summer morning in August 2005.
Behind a folding table.
A few dozen loaves of bread nobody had ever heard of.
He'd been out of prison for eight months.
Before that, Dave had spent most of his adult life in a cell.
Four separate prison sentences. Fifteen years total.
Armed robbery. Burglary. Drug dealing. Assault.
Meth addiction that consumed everything.
He grew up in Portland, Oregon.
His father, Jim Dahl, owned a small bakery called NatureBake. Founded in 1955.
A Seventh-day Adventist family making organic, vegan, whole-grain bread before organic was even a word people used.
Dave started working in the bakery at 9 years old.
He hated it.
By his teens, he was experimenting with marijuana, cocaine, LSD, alcohol.
By his late teens, methamphetamine.
He dropped out of high school in 1980.
In 1987, at 24 years old, Dave was arrested for burglarizing a house.
His first prison sentence.
He got out in 1989.
His brother Glenn offered him a job at the family bakery.
Dave took it. Then quit. Moved to Massachusetts.
Got arrested again. Armed robbery.
More prison.
He got out. Went back to Portland. Got arrested again.
In 1997, five separate arrests across three Oregon counties. All meth-related.
Drug distribution. Property crimes to fund the habit.
He was sent to Snake River Correctional Institution near Ontario, Oregon.
By now, Dave Dahl had spent more of his adult life inside prison walls than outside of them.
Everyone said the same thing.
"He's a career criminal."
"Some people can't be saved."
"He'll die in prison or on the streets."
"Four-time loser. That's who he is."
He didn't listen.
Here's what Dave knew that everyone else missed:
Rock bottom isn't the end. It's the foundation.
At 38 years old, sitting in his cell at Snake River, Dave hit the lowest point of his life.
Suicidal. Trying to figure out a way to end it.
He wrote a request to the prison wardens. Inmates call it a "kite."
He was begging for help.
The prison psychiatrist prescribed antidepressants.
Something shifted.
For the first time in decades, the fog lifted.
Dave started thinking clearly. He picked up a guitar. Started learning faster than he ever had.
He enrolled in a vocational program for computer-aided drafting and design.
He didn't just pass the course.
He excelled so fast that he started teaching it to other inmates.
A man who had been written off as hopeless was now teaching other prisoners how to build something.
So he made a promise to himself.
He was going back to the family bakery.
Not as the screwup brother who needed a favor.
As someone who could actually contribute.
On December 27, 2004, Dave Dahl walked out of prison for the last time.
He was 41 years old.
He had $0. No resume. No reputation.
Just a brother named Glenn who was willing to give him one more chance.
Glenn hired him at $12 an hour.
Dave threw himself into the work.
Seeds. Whole grains. Organic ingredients.
Blue cornmeal crusts. Sunflower seeds. Flax. Pumpkin. Sesame.
He took what he'd learned in drafting class — precision, patience, iteration — and applied it to bread recipes.
Experimented obsessively.
He created loaves so packed with seeds they looked like they'd been rolled through a bird feeder.
He worked 100-hour weeks.
But here's the part nobody talks about.
NatureBake was a small operation.
A family bakery that had been around since 1955 but had never broken out.
Dave wasn't inheriting a goldmine.
He was inheriting a survival business in a commodity industry where Wonder Bread, Nature's Own, Sara Lee, and Pepperidge Farm dominated every shelf in every store from Safeway to Albertsons.
His brother Glenn was skeptical.
The sales manager, Richard Shymanski, who'd been with the company for decades, pushed back.
Dave wanted full production shifts dedicated to his new breads.
He wanted shelf space taken from the existing product line.
A convicted felon with zero business experience demanding that a 50-year-old bakery bet its future on his weird seed bread.
Nobody thought it would work.
Dave didn't care.
In August 2005, he brought his first four bread varieties to the Portland Farmers Market Summer Loaves Festival.
Blues Bread, rolled in organic blue cornmeal.
Good Seed, packed with flax and sunflower seeds.
Rockin' Rye.
And the original Killer Bread.
They sold out.
That's when everything changed.
Local Portland grocers started calling. They wanted to carry the bread.
Fred Meyer, the biggest grocery chain in the Pacific Northwest, said no.
Dave kept pushing.
A year later, Fred Meyer reversed course and put Dave's Killer Bread on their shelves.
By 2009, Costco picked up the brand along the I-5 corridor from Seattle to Sacramento.
By 2010, 30 employees became 190.
New Seasons Market, Whole Foods, and independent grocers across the Pacific Northwest couldn't keep it on the shelves.
By 2012, 280 employees.
Annual sales exploded from $3 million to $53 million.
But Dave wasn't done.
He did something his own marketing team told him was insane.
He put his criminal record on the packaging.
Right on the bread bag.
A cartoon of himself with long hair and a mustache, playing guitar.
And on the back, his story: "I was a four-time loser before I realized I was in the wrong game."
The marketing team tried to stop him.
Dave fired them.
He refused to hide.
Every loaf carried the story of a man who'd been in prison four times and found something worth building.
Consumers didn't just accept it.
They loved it.
The "BreadHead Nation" grew to over 100,000 passionate followers.
Then he did something else that changed the industry.
He started hiring ex-convicts.
Not as a PR stunt.
As a core business practice.
One-third of the company's 300 employees had criminal records.
Dave knew what it felt like to come out of prison with nothing.
No one willing to give you a shot.
He gave them shots.
In December 2012, New York private equity firm Goode Partners purchased a 50% stake.
They brought in CEO John Tucker to expand nationally.
Sales increased 130%.
Distribution expanded from 11 states to all 50.
Inc. Magazine named Dave's Killer Bread one of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in America.
By 2015, annual revenue hit $160 million to $170 million.
A 32% compound growth rate over three years.
Retail sales up 168% in three years.
Dave's Killer Bread had become the number one organic bread in America.
In August 2015, Flowers Foods — one of the largest bakery companies in the United States, with $3.75 billion in annual sales — acquired Dave's Killer Bread for $275 million in cash.
Dave Dahl, the four-time convicted felon who'd been suicidal in a prison cell a decade earlier, walked away a multimillionaire.
Today, Dave's Killer Bread sells over 30 product varieties in every major grocery chain in the country.
Costco. Whole Foods. Kroger. Safeway. Walmart. Target.
Every loaf USDA Certified Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified.
It remains the best-selling organic bread in America.
The company's Second Chance Employment program has helped thousands of formerly incarcerated people find work.
All because a 42-year-old ex-con who spent 15 years in prison refused to let his worst chapter be his last chapter.
He turned a meth addiction into a bread empire.
He turned a $12-an-hour bakery job into a $275 million acquisition.
He turned a criminal record into a brand story that made people believe in second chances.
He proved that your past doesn't get to decide your future.
Someone else already did.
What are YOU using as an excuse not to start?
What mistake from your past are you letting define your future?
What second chance are you too afraid to take?
Dave Dahl was a meth addict for two decades.
He was imprisoned four times.
He was suicidal at 38.
He was hired at $12 an hour at age 41.
He brought bread to a farmers market at 42.
He built the number one organic bread brand in America.
His company sold for $275 million.
Because he understood something most people don't.
Your worst chapter doesn't have to be your final chapter.
The thing that broke you can be the thing that builds you.
The people who've been through the most are often the ones willing to work the hardest.
Stop letting your past hold you hostage.
Start thinking like Dave Dahl.
Show up anyway. Build something anyway. Bet on yourself even when nobody else will.
And never let anyone tell you that your worst years disqualify you from your best ones.
Sometimes the most powerful brands are built by the most unlikely people.
Sometimes the greatest comebacks start in the places nobody would ever think to look.
Because when you've already lost everything, you've got nothing left to protect and everything left to prove.
Don't quit.
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