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    AZ game should be a good one

    What happened in last year's game has almost nothing to do with whatever will happen in this year's game.
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    OT: another car thread...this seems like a bad move for Acura

    I feel like you probably know this but just in case... you can't store gas indefinitely. It degrades over time and becomes unusable in an engine.
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    OT: another car thread...this seems like a bad move for Acura

    Pretty sure the US government (and by extension, US tax payers) made a profit on the 2008 TARP bailout. We came out ahead by something like $10-15 billion if I remember correctly. So, no, the bailout bill wasn't paid by tax payers. It was essentially a loan that businesses paid back.
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    OT: Tipping culture

    You seem to have a narrow definition of the word "theft" that doesn't seem to be entirely accurate as it relates to labor law. You also seem to be implying that not hiring an employment lawyer means that it's not a big deal when an employer doesn't pay a worker properly and that's just not very...
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    OT: A WARNING

    This is a mischaracterization. No one on the left is trying to cancel people for not participating in Pride events. If you don't like a Pride event, by all means, stay home or go somewhere else. If anything, I think people on the left would be much happier if people who didn't like Pride events...
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    OT: Tipping culture

    Yes. Happens all the time.
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    OT: Tipping culture

    I've been tipping the full 20% on pickup orders. Usually with what we're ordering, the difference between 10%, 15% and 20% isn't more than a few dollars so it isn't really an issue for us to tip 20%. And I have noticed that at the places we order from most often, we'll get some extra stuff...
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    OT: Tipping culture

    I don't think the tip jar is just for the cashier. If I had to guess, tips through the card system probably don't make it to the people actually in the restaurant. Putting a cash tip jar there might be their way of trying to keep tips from disappearing to some regional or corporate office.
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    What is up with Entergy?...

    And that's all on top of the big round of layoffs they did back in 2013-2014. I've got a few friends in the utility industry. Power restoration is difficult, sometimes extremely dangerous work and it can take time to do safely. But there's no real excuse for not being as transparent as...
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    OT - Friendly reminder

    Sorry. This is all I could think about after reading that.
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    Matt Mitchell SEC Roll Call 2024 Schedule Chaos

    "Sounds like the Three Stooges trying to run a meth lab." That's gold.
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    Earth's Temperature

    I don't know what China and Russia are doing but we do not spend nearly as much on climate mitigation as we should. Thankfully we are increasing that spending over the next decade but we're way short of where we need to be.
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    Earth's Temperature

    Just a few follow up questions: What exact "real harm" has been done by U.S. climate policy? Who exactly has been dying as a result of U.S. climate policy? How exactly has climate policy ruined the economy? Has U.S. climate policy actually hampered our ability to field a military? If so, how?
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    Earth's Temperature

    We generally spend less than 2% of the federal budget on initiatives that propose to fight climate change. If the deficit is exploding, it isn't because of "throwing money" at climate activists. Because we aren't throwing money at climate activists.
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    Question

    I'll try to find the study but there was one done on mail in voting and it showed that republicans and democrats use mail in voting at similar levels. So the idea that it only benefits democrats isn't remotely close to a fact. ETA - This isn't the study but it's a story that references a couple...
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