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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:40 pm
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- Topic: Politics And Current Events
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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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:35 pm
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- Topic: 5AF Parenting Thread
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5AF Parenting Thread
My momma told me not to get in white cargo vans being driven by strange men.Are you asking me on a date?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:48 pm
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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.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:37 pm
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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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:12 pm
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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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:56 pm
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- Topic: 5AF Parenting Thread
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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.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:38 pm
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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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:08 pm
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- Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
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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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:41 pm
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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:17 pm
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- Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
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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...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Fantasy Sports
- Topic: 5AF Fantasy F1 2024
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5AF Fantasy F1 2024
Yes, they include the penalty.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:41 pm
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- Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
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Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
Cars with manuals are driven. Cars with automatics are steered.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:30 pm
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- Topic: Police earning the hate
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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://...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:20 pm
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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 ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:44 am
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- Topic: Non Political Current Events Thread
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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...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:16 am
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- Topic: Non Political Current Events Thread
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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...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:00 am
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- Topic: Non Political Current Events Thread
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:08 pm
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- Topic: Police earning the hate
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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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:29 pm
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- Topic: Home Improvement Thread
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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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:15 pm
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- Topic: Travel Thread
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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.
The real divert option would be a bus. Which might get there faster than the train anyway.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:06 pm
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- Topic: Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
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Cars & Bikes, Driving & Riding
Nah, none of them come with manual transmissions.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:03 pm
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- Topic: Politics And Current Events
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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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:49 pm
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- Topic: Thread of legal hubbub
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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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:26 am
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- Topic: UFC/Boxing/Combat Sports
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UFC/Boxing/Combat Sports
A historic win at the just-completed Osaka sumo tournament:
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:52 pm
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- Topic: Police earning the hate
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