Oh yeah, WaWa's sandwich and salad station is usually quite decent.

Btw Strasburg played it right. Started great, had some injuries, peaked in time to help with the World Series, signs a guaranteed $210 million (or something) contract in which he made $600,000 per PITCH (including balls!) before he retired.

Dr Pepper hits the spot sometimes. As does a good rootbeer (Barqs or 1918), or sprite. I normally will drink a small Coke Zero (or Pepsi zero), and at night instead of snacking/boozing I’ll just have a Fresca or diet Ginger Ale, those also hit the spot. Btw I almost only drink the smaller cans these days, what are they, 8oz I think?

Good thing we have drones, that’s all I’ll say.

mental illness

Hmmm, this is a tough one. NOt sure I agree. Seems like it is going down the slope. It could backfire for President Trump if he is on undeclared drugs also.

I have my doubt, good for them to try. But the owners of the new stock exchange seem to focus on the fact on where it is located. Does that really make a difference and does anybody really care? Seems like stock trading is pretty independent of geography. I dont even know where NASDAQ is located. I assume New York, but maybe not.

Won't have to wait long.

Littering.

@Axtremus said in Stealing FIre Hydrants - Whats Next?: @jon-nyc said in Stealing FIre Hydrants - Whats Next?: What ever happened to just getting a fucking job? I heard @Doctor-Phibes' benevolent employer is hiring; the jobs pay 6 figures too! Also full pension and great benefits. We've had a total of 5 applicants, 2 of whom were only willing to work remotely.

Wow!

@taiwan_girl Interesting video. Sauerkraut soup is quite good, especially in the dead of winter.

@Axtremus said in Meanwhile, in Florida...: @89th said in Meanwhile, in Florida...: We have a 400-house community here, the HOA does a decent job. You have to get approval before you put up a playset or repaint your house exterior, or put up a fence... and I get why, without such review your community can quickly turn into a place with broken RVs in driveways, grass that is 2 feet high, and purple houses, and weird fences. All depends on the HOA and people running it, as you said. I'd much rather live in an HOA-managed neighborhood, personally. But don't you love freedom and liberty? "Broken RVs in driveways, grass that is 2 feet high, and purple houses, and weird fences" are the price and the beauty of freedom and liberty, no? You have the freedom to choose which type of neighborhood to move in to. Every homeowner is made aware of HOA rules before they buy their house.

@Copper said in 71 Most Beautiful Streets in the World: My HOA could find multiple flaws in every one of those. Any HOA worth its salt can.

[image: 1717682475463-screenshot-2024-06-06-at-9.01.02-am.png] THere's two of them in the package, so it's good for 2 meals.

Cool freakin' animal. Maybe if it learned to fly it wouldn't go extinct... what a dummy.

I'm no advocate of illegal immigration - America should choose who comes in. But on the larger timescale the U.S.'s growing population base over the next few decades, while much of the rest of the developed world is declining, will be a big advantage.

@89th said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?: Isn't Gaetz married? Shirley he wouldn't commit adultery. Most of Congress is married. What do you think interns are for?

@Jolly said in The Bald Eagles of the Book World: So... There's talent out there. Why doesn't a major create a small brand for new authors? Personally, I think it's the data disease and coveting numbers more than storytelling. The biggest movie production companies, music labels and book publishers are relatively old. The American cycle of business is usually something like this: there was probably a real, bona fide entrepreneur who founded these companies at some point, but over time the creative thinking that built the company moves on to new uncharted waters and leaves behind the efficiency experts. These efficiency experts are great at optimizing systems but they're terrible at helping those systems evolve, because they hate risk more than anything else, which is what built the business in the first place. The internet has sold them on the false promise that data is a risk workaround. Businesses now have access to information their founders would have considered science fiction. Surely all this data can tell us how to evolve a business, right? Relying on data destroyed Borders. And put Barnes & Noble in a death spiral. The only thing that pulled them out was replacing their leadership with an actual lover of books who had a track record reviving UK stores. Publishers haven't yet learned their lesson, and they're still being led by data. The idea isn't to foster new talent, it's to minimize the risk involved when deciding to spend money on publishing. And so celebrities and those with a massive social media following are slam dunks—they already have a built-in audience. They've basically lost their taste for the risk of developing unproven talent, which is particularly ridiculous considering how little it costs them. That's okay though, because there are still plenty of writers out there, and they're finding other venues.