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And yeah, it might be coffee. Coffee does that to people.

Also "Simi," whatever the fuck that is.

Which one is an outright falsehood? The media has constantly resisted calling Trump what he is, a liar. And, because they have failed to do that, they have failed to connect the lies to policy failures.

The -2 means you have two setters rotating (as opposed to strategically subbing) in. The 5-2 has one setter rotate through the back row and the other rotate through the front row, but only one setter on the court at a time.. 6-2 has the two setters, but only rotating through the back row, again only one setter at a time. The more conventional 5-1 uses just one setter that rotates through all six positions. This refers to their starting positions (meaning until the serve) rather than where they actually set from. So it affects the serve-receive formation in addition to providing two setters' skill sets. Sort of a corollary to all of this is the "overlap rule." In a given rotation, there are three front court players and three back court, and a right, middle, and left. At serve, each of the front court players must be in front of the corresponding back court player, the two left side players must be to the left of corresponding middle players and right to the right of corresponding middle players, even if pretty slightly. (It's hard to state this accurately in words, a lot of sites explain this with varying clarity).

Agreed and the game threads were terrific. I think sbnation is all "community" sites (especially for fanbases that don't have surly's etc) and not at all set up for subscriptions, billing, etc. So harder to monetize, if not impossible. Hence the abandonment. It's not like sbnation ruined BC or anything.

If if was just a political position, like say Taylor Swift's political position, that would be one thing. A very bad thing, but one thing. But it's his fucking identity. He's so wrapped around the axle with authoritarianism, racism and misinformation it's absurd.

That's just staggering.

But really, it's a small broiler.

It hasn't folded, exactly. Pretty sure Scipio found himself moving from hobby sportswriting to making a living at it, and BC wasn't the vehicle to do so. A couple of the other better writers seemed to have no interest in making a job out of it, while some others did, but weren't nearly as good. So they dispersed.

No one goes in a temple with their head uncovered.

Not to mention that article is hilariously facile. I guess he's trying to illustrate the point.

It's just a resolution, not a law, so it doesn't require anyone to do anything. It has also just been introduced. Lunatic legislation like this gets introduced all the time. See, e.g. Greene, M.T., Boebert, L, and Gosar, P. So even if passed, it's a fart in the wind. But it is a pretty clear statement of intention.

Pretty much anyone not named Trump would have said "No, no, I can't accept this. You earned it, I did not."

Born in Canada, spent much of her adult life in ZA. More in the US of late. Seems like his parents and home life were a bit of a disaster.

Maye is his mother. I don't believe she's a US citizen. She also seems to be a vapid cunt.

Eh, Governor is a pretty conventional candidate. Neither Clinton nor Obama were, in my opinion, particularly "outsider" candidates other than Obama being black, and Clinton faking it pretty well.

Turkey baster and 18 years 18 years

So glad Devin stuck around.

Probably deserves its own thread, but this "Dallas HERO" thing has put some charter amendments on the ballot for November. One of the key things is hiring more cops and fixing their pension and that of the firefighters, which has been a big issue for like 20 years. But, what hides behind this is the city waiving sovereign immunity, apparently for all lawsuits. And I think this is where the rubber hits the road: Richie Richs want to be able to sue the city for zoning decisions and the like that interfere with their ability to make shitloads of money. A mixture of Citizens Council types and JWP and others have come out against it, including Laura Miller. https://www.keranews.org/news/2024-08-08/a-draconian-ballot-proposal-could-cost-dallas-millions-and-trigger-massive-cuts-to-city-services https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2024/10/the-dallas-establishment-has-aligned-to-defeat-charter-amendments/ The sovereign immunity thing is huge, but also this calls for hiring way more cops than the city can reasonably train, especially post-academy field training. The cost alone would detract from city services. Then you let anyone and their dog sue the city for any gotdam thing and fuhgeddaboutit. We need to defeat this shit.

For a shitbox car, the 2.0T is not at all boring. Certainly not compared to the other shitbox cars we're talking about. 275HP/295Tq. However, I am skeptical of the long-term, high-mileage reliability of the engine. Not so much because it's GM, but because I am skeptical of all of the current series of 2.0T. They are pretty over-engineered to get away from the no-torque and low output except at redline of say the spicier Honda four-bangers.

Correct, longer than the sequel story and a worthwhile read. I have an ebook version of Salems Lot that contains all three. And, apparently, there was an obscure series called Chapelwaite on epic that was fairly acclaimed. https://collider.com/stephen-king-salems-lot-prequel-chapelwaite/

Well Scalia, or God, took care of that for ya.

Losing your HFC, QB and a lot of other talent does that I guess.

I used to be pretty indifferent to the other UT. Between baseball and football...