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  1. oblong
    Conservatives love meddling into local affairs. "Things should be local except for what we hate and that has to be federal"
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    I bet every male legislator that voted for this has some awesome lesbian porn bookmarked or on a flash drive somewhere
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    Not a single one of those names is surprising. It's the whackjob bloc.
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    It’s almost like the owners don’t really care if there’s baseball in April. They pulled a Lucy.
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    I know some mayors and other civic leaders would like more activity in urban areas. A lot of businesses that catered to people in offices are hurting. But what can you do? Capitalism. Supply and demand. it’s why I cringe when I see news of more urban development in both residential and commercial spaces. Where is the demand for it? Especially at higher prices. Young people wanted urban 2 years ago to be close to the office. But they now see freedom to work from anywhere as more beneficial. And it’s a catch 22. Part of the appeal to some to living urban was the liveliness but is that diminishing as more businesses close due to decline of office workers ?
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    What if they are reading a book and it references a parenting combo of husband/wife? That's ok? But what if it referenced a combo of husband/husband or wife/wife? Is that not ok? All three scenarios represent the reality that kids live in today. Or what if they were watching a movie or program that had a gay couple but it wasn't about them being gay, they were just representing life as we know it, like they do in commercials. It wasn't that long ago that "parenting" rights groups went ape shit because they showed interracial couples in commercials. The point is to not make gay people feel marginalized or "other". It's about inclusion. It's why Marvel has deaf superheroes. They aren't "pushing the deaf lifestyle" on people. There are students with two dads or two moms. Make them feel normal and not ostracized which is what the Florida thing does. The cruelty is the point. Ron DeSantis probably kicks puppies when nobody is looking.
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    I go by what happened, not what might have happened.
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    Maybe Chris Ilitch can afford to fix some of their shitty properties that have been rotting since they bought them in the 2000's. They have a history of holding up progress for their own self interests.
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    They are the ones who locked them out and the reason we have no baseball right now. There’s no reason they couldn’t have made them this offer 10 days ago. They didn’t have to be drama queens. Maybe they needed to see what Apple was going to do for them or Chris Ilitch’s coke supplier threatened to hold out.
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    So the offer from MLB a few weeks ago on deadline day wasn’t final even though they said it was?
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    That’s why I hate the owners. The way they squeeze every last nickel yet complain that everything is unfair.
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    Having every team within earshot of 83 wins and 14 of them making the playoffs will be a blast to watch. Everybody gets a trophy. It’s the American way. No winners or losers.
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    You act like we are going to have 4 500 million payroll teams that will each win 115 games and win every World Series and 26 129 million payroll teams that will just squeak by in poverty. The differences in figures being thrown around are basically one average 6 year player per team. It’s tip money.
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    I’m laughing hysterically at the idea that parity is going to be destroyed because a team could sign a guy like Starling Marte.
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    Tightwads like Chris Ilitch want the decision to not have to sign players made for them.
  16. oblong
    Why should the players accept lower salary potential because of that fact? The owners set up that business model, deal with it like a good capitalist would.
  17. oblong
    ssshhh.... you are ruining the narrative. Also today I learned that the Keystone XL pipeline was only 6% complete when Biden "Shut it down" Any oil from that operation would have been years away.
  18. oblong
    The owners want the players to fix the owners problems.
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    I do that too. I thinking of the ones who then go get their stuff and expect to be going somewhere. In this situation the people who get up to stretch perform a service as there’s always some knob in the back who thinks they can make their up front. what I would like to see implemented is that anyone who does not have something stored can get off first. It would take about 90 seconds to clear 1/3 of the plane. Of course couldn’t enforce it because there’s always someone who won’t play nice. “Well I’m just going to grab this right here…”
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    We got precheck this year and it is great. AMEX covered the cost with a card upgrade.
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    Nothing brings out the "I hate people" vibe in me than airports. I enjoy them to people watch. Everybody in such a hurry to get to the next step to wait. Run to the terminal so you can sit around for 45 minutes. Rush to jump up so you can wait to have your ticket scanned and stand in the corridor which is not temp regulated. Rush to stand up after landing so you can can sit there holding your crap. Run to the shuttle/tram to the luggage even though another one is coming in 3 minutes Run from the shuttle/tram to the luggage area so you can wait for your luggage.... I also say there needs to be two lines. one for people who have their shit together and one for those who don't. Line A is "no questions. Just process. No exceptions or deviations."
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    I think the hitters know how to use the whole field... they just don't want to. that's an important distinction. They want their advantage but defenses can't have theirs.
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    Vista? Forgot all about that. That was like Windows ME, some bastard stepchild that somehow made something bad worse.
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