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Good overview, and makes a lot of sense. Family Video was sort of the downscale/small-town pre-Redbox version of Blockbuster. I interviewed for the digital marketing director job at their HQ here. They told me during the interview that they did not see themselves as an entertainment delivery vehicle. Their core business model was real estate acquisition and management. They would buy the land to build the store on and use the revenue from renting videos to pay the mortgage and get free and clear on it. Then, were the rental business to go upside down somehow, they would still be sitting on nine figures worth of land and buildings they could rent out to other chains like pizza and fast food and still be a going concern. I didn't end up working for them. Three reasons: (1) the idea of the video business going upside down suggested to me I wouldn't be there long even if i wanted to be, since that's what they wanted me to manage the digital marketing for; (2) they told me they run their business "like a family", complete with paternalistic aspects like funding college educations for some employees' children. Sounds good, right? I see that as a huge red flag—I wouldn't want to work for a family where such paternalism obligates me to them beyond my job, and where work culture is malleable and subject to owner fiat, and where I'm expected to let things slide as you are expected to with family members; and (3) I got an offer for a better job for more money with a major company before I could get the offer from FV, anyway.

And here it is in case anyone is interested: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnPS2bK2eU3YbHzvnKqIyOMTagFyD5-hB

They’re working on it! 👍🏼

I don’t doubt it could have come from outside. In regions comprising millions of people and even more guns, I could see someone taking a shot from outside any open air stadium for jollies. In the case of Sox park, all they have to do is stand on the other side of the Ryan and fire at the correct direction and angle. There are a bunch of open areas, especially over by IIT, they could stand and shoot from. Given that the victims were in sections 161 or 162, which is in the right field home run area, and the way the stadium is configured, that hypothesis totally checks out.

I feel the same way with Silicon Valley on HBO. I have a whole playlist of closing credits songs.

Since it’s the libtard MSM that’s reporting these stories, I’m guessing a good chunk of their congregations dismiss these as fake news hit jobs, and the rest of them never heard a thing about them.

I think it might be related to shutting off immigration, which is already affecting the ability to fill jobs. Someone’s gotta flip those burgers or put up that drywall or drive those Ubers. Might as well be the olds.

It's richly ironic how right wingers defend the Electoral College by saying that without it, the east and "left" coasts would decide all the presidential elections and make their votes irrelevant, when of course with the Electoral College only a few states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, and maybe North Carolina will decide the presidential elections and make the rest of our votes just as irrelevant.

I have been twice, once in the 90s and once in the 2010s, and each time I was in just after 9, took my time looking at things, and was out around 4 or 5. There is a lot to see and take in, plus you’ll want a lunch break.

Also more guys with better skill sets in the system.

They still gotta throw guys out onto the mound for the rest of the season.

If Hinch were given three healthy everyday guys in the outfield with a solid healthy fourth guy, and he still ended up mixing and matching so that he would rotate seven or eight different guys out there while giving some of those solid guys a few dozen reps in the infield, then I would call for his head, too.

It might be the brand of cheese I'm getting, too. the local Krogerized supermarket has exactly one single solitary SKU of pre-grated Swiss cheese. (George Carlin would be pleased.) I would be surprised if the pancake house I'd been getting omelets from grates their own cheese, but I might be wrong on that.

If I had to name one feeling Trump does not generate, I would answer apathy. If apathy truly means "lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern", I don't think any of that applies to Trump. But I do believe the Dems need to be super aggressive and keep the choice issue front and center, although I think they will have plenty of help from the ground.

Some will refuse to believe it.

They will definitely try that. At this point, I don't think we can be certain they didn't already do that in either 2020 or 2016.

I am just now learning how to make a decent veggie and Swiss omelet, and I'm hoping for some advice on how to make the cheese gooey. I am adding pre-grated Swiss to it and I want to know when and/or how to add it to get the gooey result I want?

I don’t care how tall he is or how much he weighs, but I do care if they are treating him preferentially, and deferentially, on the little things. I get that he has to be treated differently on certain very big things. He’s the ex-president, so he needs a visible security detail around him, and he has to be escorted through a special entrance, and everything around the courthouse has to be sealed off for blocks around, that kind of thing. That makes sense, because he affects the general peace around him just by his very presence, so they have to manage that. But I don’t think they should let him slide on all the little procedures that every detainee, defendant, etc., must themselves go through, simply because they deem him to be too important to make him bother to do so. I think allowing him to submit his own vital statistics, whereas literally nobody else gets to, would be one example of that. Some folks might be like, big whoop, so what, who cares, right? But I believe if he gets preferential and deferential treatment at that level, they will likely give him such treatment on more and more things, and then he will demand even more special treatment, until he gets across the idea he should be treated especially and visibly well. I think it’s possible if the system is seen to be treating him with obvious deference, that may affect the way the judge and jury see him as well, which may taint how they try him. I think he should be made to go through the same processes that everyone does in exactly the same way, and it should be made clear to the world that’s what’s happening. Justice for all.

I don’t know, I just don’t see people flocking back to Trump after having left him disgusted. He might get some people back who left him because they like his ideas but his style rubbed them wrong—I could see where time might heal that wound. I don’t think in enough numbers to swing the election, though, not with so many more people now energized by the abortion issue as well as his can’t-ignore-how-obvious-it-is-anymore criminality. I also don’t think there are so many undecideds on the sidelines anymore. I think he got most of those off their butts in 2020, also at a time there were so many more who came off the sidelines against him. I was wrong in 2016 about him, mainly because I mistakenly assumed that everyone knew all about him the way we know about him now.

PARKER MEADOWS!!! First big league homer is a walkoff!!!

Javy! What was Presley thinking!!

As things stand now, I don’t think he has such a good chance to win. He would have to motivate the many people who left him in disgust to come back to him. Plus, Trump is motivating many millions more people to come out just to vote against him. I don’t think Biden has quite either of those.

Is that what drivers in Michigan normally do, or did they let you slide on that?

I think it sets a bad precedent to allow him to submit his own vital statistics. What other detainee would be allowed to do that? But more than that, he’s testing them: if they let him slide on the little things to start with, he’ll start sliding on successively bigger things. Before long he basically becomes the one calling the shots. That’s the strategy, anyway. They have to put a stop to that now before it gets away from them.