Vegas64

Agree 100%, but this doesn’t explain why the poster responded to the guy asking of his post (and to an extent this take) is a joke. Am I missing the incredulity?

Curious why you asked it in that way, as I found the practicalities of the post to be what is probably most accurate. Twitter has a good legal case but doesn’t have the runway and bandwidth and appetite or tolerance for distraction and lengthy noise that Elon presumably has. It seems obvious Elon is being a goon and using his leverage to negotiate a better deal based on the market dump and/or trying to get out of it entirely for a billion dollars.

I hear this and generally do, but it’s also okay to acknowledge this new practice is an absolute money grab as well and is being enabled by disruptive fintech hardware like Toast and Clover (glorified iPads for SMB/cheap) and Stripe/iPad POS to where I can’t go to a donut store without being asked to tip 20% for what has always been an order at the counter and pay list price experience. Same for any manner of these from food trucks to taco shops and everything else in between that is not a corporate franchise using an interconnected NCR type POS machine.

Also every time Sam Neil was on the screen in a quieter scene I turned to wife and sang “Ricky Baker- Ahhhh”. It got old after the first time and im pretty sure I was the only one who thought it was funny.

Thought it was entertaining. The first 20% was horrible. But when it became James Bond with Dinosaurs in Malta it was a fun time from then on.

I feel like smoking pot should be on there.

It has been known and that's been our concern, dude. Desantis seems to be being groomed (no pun intended) to be the heir apparent to GQP idiotdom. The DNC should have been working on a succession plan to nominate their own Biden replacement for 2024 who can win, complete with whisper campaigns and whisper money and building hype and momentum in the back channels, but we seem okay with trying to ride Biden like the old gray horse until he collapses.

Have to admit, that is a funny way to resign.

My neighbor put a Let's Go Brandon sticker on his truck. This is the idiot world we still live in.

Nope. I am going to take the extra 30-60 seconds to check the order in the drive-thru at the window 100% of the time. Sorry.

Yep this is me. I will taste a sip before driving off just to be 100% sure and many times have had to hand it back.

This seems like a problem with David Dennison's post about ratings in the 20's. We need AoC to decide it's her time. No. more. geriatrics.

Agree it had nothing to do with being gay but more that Pete has the rich young bright wunderkind McKinsey stink on him. Kitchen table issues with Joe Six Pack Democrats and minorities don't trust or like someone too smarty pants for them. Story as old as time.

It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if she said F Trump or F Biden or I hate America or whatever. She is an American citizen. You bring her back home if you can and then we can all debate and politic later. The only character trait that matters is one that says she born on American soil and we have a duty to protect her. Even if we think she sucks. Maybe even especially if we think she sucks, because that is putting your money where your mouth is. Now, let her do the exact same thing again in the same way once she’s back, well, you only get one crack it with 100% tolerance. But maybe it’s just me but every American citizen deserves at least that. The same for the numb nuts who goes on a blackout binge and gets arrested. We will yell at you for being stupid when we get home but now is the time to make sure you are safe first.

Awesome. As weird as it sounds, total bucket list event for me.

Yea cool. Whatever will work and stick and see some legal culpability. I'm not a lawyer and don't pretend to be one on TV so that's why I couched it with criminal negligence or something vague enough to stick but not too prescriptive to be beaten legally or by technicality.

All I know is insurance is paying for it or I probably couldn't afford it based on how you are making it sound financially at least!

The veteran fatty (not the poster everyone hates but the person who eats drive-thru enough to know this move), is to not pull away from the drive-thru until you have put hands and eyes on all orders and cross-checked against the physical paper receipt. It takes 60 seconds tops and saves you the trouble. 50% of the time there is an issue and you get it handled immediately. 50% of the time you have wasted 30-60 seconds of the line behind you. But generally speaking, it's best for everyone's mental health to understand the dynamic we are dealing with and have tolerance for error. Staffing issues that cause shortage of workers, the workers who are there are either really young and inexperienced or not the sharpest of individuals, and lots of times they just don't care. As someone who worked drive-thru as a teenager, I get it. It's just a job, there is no pride of ownership or doing an amazing job unless you are a stellar teenaged individual of impeccable moral character and work ethic which I'm sure you are all and I was the exception.

Contrast with back in the 90's on a train in Germany when authorities rifled through a duffle bag and just confiscated a little hash. Just a different global landscape and world we live in for those of us old geezers with young kids and thinking about the world they will grow to inhabit without us. Britney Griner, while not anyone on here's favorite person, is still someone's daughter and wife and I can't help but feel for her. I hope her pleading guilty will get her home and not be a bad strategic move that makes her hole deeper, but at this point I wouldn't doubt that as an option too.

You sound like a real doctor and not a Holiday Inn tenant, so thanks for your contributions. I'm scared of side effects of IVIG but your experience of them being minimal is comforting.

For you data guys, I have linked this guy before but David Epstein (author of Range) has a concise weekly newsletter that is usually pretty good. He tackles "bad data" a lot in this posts and this week is around gun violence and gun laws and he makes some interesting points if anyone is interested in reading further: https://davidepstein.bulletin.com/why-comparing-gun-ownership-rates-across-states-shouldn-t-inform-policy

Gotcha, thanks!

I'm with Hayden on this one. On one hand, you feel for her because she's being used and there isn't much that can be done but be a political diplomatic pawn. And on the other hand, you are an adult making adult decisions and clearly didn't do a good job with the risk and reward analysis of going to Russia on the brink of war with pot.

The dad needs to have some charges drawn up on him IMO. Criminal negligence or something akin to that for you law types. I'm sure they can find something to punitively throw at him.