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And I appreciate the fact that each viewer has his/her own viewing idiosyncrasies. And though I called out @LTbear individually, I didn't mean to call him out specifically. He has his own idiosyncrasies as someone who prioritizes regional games. But I was talking about him more as a stand-in for the generic college-football fan nationwide. And I think the scheduling and appeal to the generic college-football fan is what makes these moves so interesting. The B1G and the Big XII (and presumably soon the ACC) are going to be able to offer television inventory from 11:00 AM CT when its first games start straight through to 1:30 AM CT when the West Coast games end. More than 14 hours of football--four different time slots. That's something the SEC can't offer. And until last year, it's not something anyone even really considered. And it does kind of raise the possibility of fragmentation of the college-football audience. This year, if I'm a fan of the Big XII, I can watch only three games. If I want a late-night game, it's going to be a PAC 12 game. And let's be real honest--that 11:00 game is likely to be a dog that I don't really care about. I mean, I'm sure someone probably cares about Iowa State and UCF, but I don't. So I'd be inclined to watch the SEC or B1G 11:00 kickoff instead. But next year, with more teams across more time zones, I can (and maybe should) be more focused on the Big XII if I were still a Big XII fan. The PAC 12 will be gone; and that late-night game is going to be a Big XII conference game. And with four more schools, and consequently more inventory, there's a somewhat increased chance that the 11:00 game is one that is of interest. Point being, I could see a scenario in which the trend toward national superconferences actually (and paradoxically) makes college-football fans more narrowly focused on their conference of choice. No--they're not going to make every home game a night game. But I expect they will have USC and UCLA playing a lot more night games than they currently do. But between USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon, someone is going to be playing a late-night game every Saturday.
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I appreciate you and @LTbear expressing that sentiment. But candidly--no, you won't. Virtually every week, the B1G is going to have some late West Coast conference game featuring either USC or UCLA. And for those of you who still care about the Big XII, that conference is going to do the same thing with Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and Colorado. With four schools out west, the Big XII is virtually guaranteed to have a late West Coast game every Saturday. So are you going to watch Iowa @ USC or Kansas State @ Arizona rather than Utah State @ Oregon State? Hell yeah you are.
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Oh, shit--you're right. The bill got killed in that shitshow between the House and Senate at the end of the session. But--and this is pretty critical--nothing is going to happen before the next session. And I guarantee you there'll be another push in the Lege to kill it.
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On the upside, it'll never happen since it has to be voted on next May.
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I did go for free. My mother wanted all of her kids/grandkids on a vacation. I still wouldn't do it again. But I'll tell you--I'd definitely do a SilverSea cruise or a Crystal cruise. Crystal was just bought by the guy who started SilverSea. They're both extravagantly expensive. But they're both very nice if you have any interest in being on a ship.
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And what I'm telling you is that in Central Kyoto, there aren't a lot of places that don't take reservations, irrespective of level of fanciness. Note: by "Central Kyoto," I'm talking about the Gion and the Pontocho areas.
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We did that cruise in early July, and God was it horrible. The food was bad; the service was worse. And mind you, I was in a goddamned suite. So things should've been pretty nice. The cherry on that particular shit sundae was the captain's parting 1MC address the morning of disembarkation, which concluded "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." That pretty much gives you the tone of the entire voyage. One nice thing is that I actually lost weight on the cruise. The food was really shitty, so there wasn't much inducement to overeating. But going down to the buffet in the morning and seeing the fats load their plates with waffles and bacon works as a good appetite suppressant. Morning after morning, I went down, checked out that show, and concluded that I'd just stick with coffee.
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What about an auto-grat? Can you expense that? Or what if it's phrased as a "service charge?" My point being, can't you conspire a bit with the waiter to have him key it into the POS as an auto-grat or a service charge so as to allow you to expense it?
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I always assumed that was a dutch oven on the mascot's head. Because who doesn't want a bowl of delicious chili served out of a dutch oven that has been sitting on a steer's head for some reason?
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Thank you for finally understanding the zeitgeist of this board.
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Yeah, but it's the system we have. And the guy's an asshole if he goes out to a restaurant in the system that we have and then doesn't tip because, "oh, oops--now I don't have enough money to cover both the appetizers I ordered and the tip." I agree with your underlying point. I was just in Japan this past Spring, and it was great to go to a bar, get a drink, and not worry about tipping. Or in a taxi or the bellman or a waiter or anywhere. You just don't fucking do it anywhere. And it's actually really nice not to have the mental strain of having to ask yourself "do I need to tip in this situation".
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You keep using other service jobs, and you clearly don't know how restaurants work. In most restaurants, the servers have to tip out the bartenders, barbacks, bussers, food runners, and hostesses. And you tip out regardless of what your actual tip is. On a $100 tab, the server probably had to tip out the bartenders $5 and the bussers/food runners/hostesses another buck or two. Point being--at a lot of restaurants, if you don't leave a tip, you're actually costing your server money. And that's pretty fucking dickish. I'm sorry--is the hundred-dollar restaurant the only place in town? You act like the only choices are go to a restaurant and order enough food to run up a $100 tab or stay at home. How about just not order the fucking appetizers? Or go over to the fucking Applebee's? I can't afford to go to the Taylor Swift concert. Why are you telling me to stay at home as though I don't deserve to go out and wat? Get the fuck outta here with that shit.
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It's a damned good thing Chris Christie isn't going to get the nomination, because putting Joe Biden up against him in a debate would be a nightmare. I'm not sure debates really mean much in this third decade of the 21st Century. But Christie says enough reasonable stuff that he would attract a lot of independent voters and convince a lot of Democrats that it wouldn't be a crisis if he were elected. And given Biden's approval ratings, that would probably be enough to get Christie elected. BUUUUT, that'll never happen because Christie has approximately a 0.00000% chance of getting the nomination.
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The official How Much does Trump Weigh prediction thread?
Ghost of LL replied to horn4life's topic in Cloak Room
I'm 6'1" and have been losing weight over the past six months. I've gone down from 280 to 225, so I have a pretty decent idea what different weights look like. Assuming he's not wildly lying about his height, he's at least 290. If he doesn't take off his shoes/suit for weigh-in, I'm going to say he clocks in at 296. -
They're in Belarus in pretty large numbers. And Belarus doesn't really have a military to prevent Wagner from moving toward Russia. But the real trouble is that I don't think Wagner took any of their heavy weaponry to Belarus. At least the videos I saw showed them moving into Belarus in convoys of trucks, not tanks and IFVs.
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I don't think you ought to hold up DART as a particularly successful rail model.
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Honest question--who the fuck is paying $100K for dinner with Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani? If you have that kind of scratch, you buy your access through other (more effective) means. And anyway--who with access to that kind of money wants access to Trump right now given where he is politically and legally? The last thing you want to do is be known as a donor to this shitfest. You might as well ask for a subpoena. And at a time when Trump is pretty damned unlikely to win the presidency, there appears to be very little benefit.
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In downtown Kyoto, there were no long lines. If you didn't have a reservation somewhere, you were going to have a hard time getting into any decent place. Perhaps that's something unique to Kyoto and not something you'd see in a larger city like Osaka. But it was definitely the case in Kyoto. As to @McCroskey's query--I'm happy to answer any questions based on my experience this Spring. I don't know anything about Osaka or Nagoya, though.
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I was at a place for lunch the other day, and had this based on the pre-tax amount. I always tip based on the post-tax amount because (1) I only look at the bottom line, and I'm too lazy to track down the pre-tax amount, and (2) who honestly gives a rat's ass--we're talking about 20% of 8.25%, which by my math is around 1.5%. But I had already checked the "20%" box before figuring out that it was on the pre-tax amount. If I had realized that earlier, I would have checked the 22% box. So oops--the waiter lost out on $0.50.
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Can you imagine what Collins' trip back to Earth would've been like? From a purely technical standpoint, it would've been difficult because the lunar module was designed to be flown by three men. But from a more human standpoint, I can't imagine the mental strain of the grief of just losing your shipmates coupled with the strain of not knowing what kind of reception you could expect when you got back on Earth. And what kind of reception would he get? He'd be the corporeal reminder of the mission failure for the rest of his life. NASA probably wouldn't have sent him back to the Moon; he'd probably be out of the space program. So what, you get a job at Eastern Airlines? Yeah--I'm sure every captain would be thrilled to fly to Miami with Michael Collins.
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That's not what I'm saying. In Chicago, you don't go outside between December 1 and March 1. Kids don't go out and ride bikes or play outside. If they socialize, they do so the same way they do here in the summer--they go over to a friend's house or they talk on the phone/internet. And they've been doing that in Chicago for a very long time. So I think your concerns about child socialization are misplaced.
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You've never lived in a place like Chicago or Minneapolis, have you?
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And it's kinda risky for the employer to do that. I have some recollection that the DOL issued some guidance a few years ago that an "auto-grat" could be considered to be a service charge, and not a "tip." And in that case, a lot of "tipped employees" turn into employees who are essentially paid on a commission. And those employees need to be paid minimum wage, not the $2.13/hour tipped-employee rate. Oh, and by the way, you don't want to fuck with the Wage and Hour Division.
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So it appears that they're not petitioning for mandamus. It's just an appeal of the sanctions order. I'm not exactly sure how that is jurisdictional under Section 1291, which limits appellate jurisdiction to "final orders" of the district court. But I think it's a separate appeal from their appeal of the judgment under the collateral-order doctrine. In any event, expect some real strategic action on the part of the Fifth Circuit judges on this. They don't want this going to SCOTUS, because it's liable to make some real bad law for the Christian Nationalists. It's going to be real interesting to see how they handle this. As I said above, I'm mildly surprised they're appealing. And as I said further above, the general corporate feel on this would be just to have the lawyers go do their day of religious indoctrination, because we're in the business of flying airplanes, not fighting culture wars. But I'll also say that Southwest is a bit different from the standard corporate culture. And the Southwest GC Department has traditionally been part of that. They take very seriously the idea that "we stand up for our people." We're not going to allow a nutbar flight attendant cyberbully her coworkers, even if Jesus told her to do so. And we're not going to let a federal judge impose a plainly unconstitutional and illegal sanction on our in-house lawyers. And yeah--it costs some money to stick up for your people. But if you're loyal to your people, then they'll reciprocate. You have their back--and they know you have their back--and they'll have yours. But if you don't, then they won't. And so yeah--it costs some money. But it's an investment. And I think it's an investment that's important to make and that usually pays off.
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