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by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events

I'm more just dunking on all of the internet lawyers who thought that of course Disney would win. And I do think this should be a lesson for all of the lefties who hate those big nasty rich corporations but love it when the government does stuff. All of the Mouse's billions of dollars and elite lawy...
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 5AF Parenting Thread
Replies: 8978
Views: 593567

5AF Parenting Thread

Are you asking me on a date?
My momma told me not to get in white cargo vans being driven by strange men.
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:48 pm
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Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events

It sounds like Disney did get some minor concessions, such as the new board agreeing not to “prohibit or impede” long-term environmental permits that had previously been granted to Disney, but this was mostly a Flordia / DeSantis win and a Disney loss.
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:37 pm
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Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events

So they settled? Disney got what it wanted while keeping the board? What are the details of the settlement? Disney did not get what it wanted. It wanted its "King Charles" contract to hold up where the new, DeSantis-appointed board basically had no power. The "King Charles" contract is null and voi...
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:12 pm
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Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events

I need a TL:DR of this whole Disney thing. Seems like a whole bunch of time/money/energy wasted and nothing really changes. The DeSantis administration in Florida got mad at Disney for being woke and for opposing the law that opponents have very inaccurately labeled the "Don't Say Gay" law. So Flor...
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 5AF Parenting Thread
Replies: 8978
Views: 593567

5AF Parenting Thread

Does anyone have any concrete plans for a viewing location? My plan is pretty much to drive up 79, get off maybe somewhere around Edinboro or so, and head out into the country to find a road where I can just pull over.
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:38 pm
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Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events

Did Disney get to keep control of Reedy Creek? Did it get to keep that last-minute "Development Agreement" it pushed through that neutered the new board "until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England, living as of the date of this declara...
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
Replies: 9930
Views: 718535

Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding

The manual transmission was a tremendous technological improvement over its predecessor, which would have been "no transmission." Because manuals predated automatics by decades. The first mass-produced automatic (GM's Hydramatic) didn't come along until 1939. Huh, TIL that Ford bought Hydramatic tra...
by Shyster
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events



by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:17 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
Replies: 9930
Views: 718535

Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding

Sort of a back in my day, yes, because I learned on a manual (taught by my mother, who like my grandma also drove only manuals, ya nancy boys), and the first car I drove was a manual. Also, the second car I drove was a manual, the first car I bought myself was a manual, and the second car I bought m...
by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:52 pm
Forum: Fantasy Sports
Topic: 5AF Fantasy F1 2024
Replies: 43
Views: 1078

5AF Fantasy F1 2024

Yes, they include the penalty.
by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
Replies: 9930
Views: 718535

Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding

Cars with manuals are driven. Cars with automatics are steered.
by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Police earning the hate
Replies: 1486
Views: 207060

Police earning the hate

More on an article posted above. Five Albuquerque cops have now resigned in connection with an alleged conspiracy under which officers in the DUI unit allegedly took payoffs to make drunk driving cases disappear by failing to show up for court, which resulted in the charges being dismissed. https://...
by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:20 pm
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Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events

https://x.com/peterbakernyt/status/1772622475446161909?s=46 More evidence that the Atlantic is a garbage publication. Just a whiny turd student complaining about pro Palestine, anti-Israel sentiment on campus. Who just happens to the son of a nytimes national reporter Are you saying that Jews have ...
by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:44 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Non Political Current Events Thread
Replies: 3615
Views: 302153

Non Political Current Events Thread

Listen, I'm being told on Twitter that Mayor Pete should have prevented this. Not Mayor Pete, but I'm going to call this a failure of government, specifically the Maryland Transportation Authority. The lesson from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster was that a bridge over a major commercial waterwa...
by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:16 am
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Topic: Non Political Current Events Thread
Replies: 3615
Views: 302153

Non Political Current Events Thread

Live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQSf93KnQ0 TIL that a piling used to protect a bridge or similar structure, or to mark a navigational channel, is called a "dolphin," and a protective bulwark surrounding the piers of a bridge is called a "starling." Looking at the video and at Google sat...
by Shyster
Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:00 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Non Political Current Events Thread
Replies: 3615
Views: 302153

Non Political Current Events Thread



by Shyster
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Police earning the hate
Replies: 1486
Views: 207060

Police earning the hate

After more than 30 minutes of ransacking the family's home, the AirPods—which had been stolen in a carjacking earlier that day—were found on the street outside the family's home, where they had almost certainly landed after being tossed out the window of the stolen car. https://twitter.com/Riverfron...
by Shyster
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Home Improvement Thread
Replies: 7405
Views: 533293

Home Improvement Thread

I bought this bookcase a couple years ago. Brand is "Concepts In Wood." I believe it's still veneered wood of some sort, but it's much sturdier and made of thicker materials of notably higher quality than all of the stuff I looked at from Ikea and local department stores and the like. I think they a...
by Shyster
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Travel Thread
Replies: 8632
Views: 581072

Travel Thread

There probably are alternative routes, but they're probably something like going out in a big loop through like Denver and Phoenix to get back to SoCal, and it would take like three days to get there.

The real divert option would be a bus. Which might get there faster than the train anyway.
by Shyster
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
Replies: 9930
Views: 718535

Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding

Nah, none of them come with manual transmissions.
by Shyster
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:03 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231190
Views: 12728517

Politics And Current Events

Trump is basically "house poor." His wealth (the amount of which is subject to much debate, and has likely dropped precipitously given the current commercial-real-estate market) is mostly in the form of real estate, which is illiquid. Bonds on appeal are for the purpose of making sure that if the ap...
by Shyster
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Thread of legal hubbub
Replies: 788
Views: 94197

Thread of legal hubbub

The PA Supreme Court just granted an appeal to answer the question of whether nudity requires visible nipple : Whether, in addressing an issue of first impression, the Superior Court panel erred as a matter of law in affirming Petitioner’s adjudication of delinquency for transmission of sexually ex...
by Shyster
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:26 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: UFC/Boxing/Combat Sports
Replies: 780
Views: 83863

UFC/Boxing/Combat Sports

A historic win at the just-completed Osaka sumo tournament:

by Shyster
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:52 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Police earning the hate
Replies: 1486
Views: 207060

Police earning the hate