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Ricofoley

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  1. Occasionally I watch my local city council's meetings online, which are very often as boring as you'd expect, but I like to try and have some sort of an informed opinion when I have to vote on them every two years. Anyway, there was one meeting recently where there was a zoning thing where one of these med spa places was trying to open up in a downtown building that'd usually only be for retail stuff. They gave this whole powerpoint presentation where they kept emphasizing the "medical" part of med spa claiming their treatments were basically a panacea for a whole bunch of different conditions. After they were done multiple people on the council made clear that they were absolutely not going to approve anything that would count as a medical building in that location, and so in response they abruptly shifted to, "Oh no, 'medical' is just a name really. We don't do medical procedures, we're just a spa with treatments like any other spa." Anyway, I'm glad to report that the city council unanimously told them to go eat shit.
  2. Fun fact, I've been to the hotel where he confronts Tilda Swinton's character. It's actually in St. Charles, IL.
  3. Update: Tested negative this morning, so got out of COVID jail and was able to have a more-or-less normal Christmas with short stops at both sets of parents.
  4. I've been positive since Tuesday. Symptoms are almost gone, but I've still got a faint line on a test, so I'm currently a home watching a bad and meaningless Bears football game instead of at my parents'.
  5. It's actually wild how clear cut this is. You don't have to bring up anything about racial demographics in districts at all, it just says in plain terms in the Constitution that they're supposed to be contiguous and they draw non-contiguous ones. I'd been assuming this whole time that they'd at least maintained a veneer of following the rules.
  6. It's insane that this article has a whole section about the "synergies" this would create and one of them is just "they would have cop dramas AND cop true crime shows!" It's like the article is cribbed from David Zaslav's powerpoint slides.
  7. Rudy Giuliani hit with $148M verdict for defaming two Georgia election workers WWW.NBCNEWS.COM An attorney for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, had urged the eight-person jury to “send a message” with its verdict. Ya hate to see it
  8. I'm starting to rethink my opinions on the importance of the US Senate dress code.
  9. If you're an old salty basketball coach who believes the game was better when the 3-point line didn't exist, you're still gonna have your team shoot 3s so long as the line is there. Gerrymandering shouldn't be allowed, but the way to get rid of it is through national legislation, something that the Democrats tried to pass and had it blocked by Republicans. As long as gerrymandering exists you should absolutely maximally gerrymander every state where your party has control.
  10. Elon is currently hosting a Twitter Spaces with both Jones and Andrew Tate in it.
  11. Tesla Autopilot crashes on cross traffic - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM A Post analysis reveals that people have died or been gravely injured in crashes where Tesla’s software should not have been enabled in the first place. Pretty damning story about Autopilot's ability to work on backroads where there aren't obvious lane markings, and the government's ability or willingness to do anything about it.
  12. I'm guessing he reinstated his account, because that was the speculation out there for the past few days.
  13. Honestly, I hope whoever is left working on the dev team at Twitter are true believers in whatever Elon's mission is supposed to be, because you just know that when he demands something like this be put in place he's sending out mass emails every five minutes like Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Block GTA Any updates yet?
  14. I kind of hate the 12 team format the more I think about it, because it means that a lot of the late season rivalry games that are usually absolutely seismic in importance, like most recent OSU-Michigan games, kind of don't matter as much, and might not even be the only time the two teams play each other in the same season. That said, putting Bama in over an undefeated FSU in a 4 team playoff is absurd and I guess you might as well expand the field as much as possible if you can't trust them not to do shit like this.
  15. Ceasefire's over, apparently. https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-12-1-23/h_743cf718f497f9bed76b29c8c1c1b4e5
  16. I don't think I've ever seen one of these state-by-state maps that I haven't been at least a little bit skeptical of.
  17. They're also selling a range extender that brings the battery range up to about what it was supposed to be when they first announced this thing, but it means that you have even less space in the bed which, if that one picture from a couple of weeks ago can be believed, already struggles to fit a bike properly. The Tesla Cybertruck's Range Extender Is Something Very Different INSIDEEVS.COM A bed-mounted optional range extender battery will add 130+ miles to the Cybertruck All-Wheel Drive and 120+ miles to the tri-motor Cyberbeast.
  18. Yeah, I deleted it off my phone and I'm keeping myself logged off on my PC. I've found enough accounts on Bluesky of people I followed on Twitter who have switched over at least part time that it's good enough without any of the baggage. I made exactly one allowance for myself to log back in briefly, and that was to get as much Kissinger is Dead content last night as possible.
  19. Is it normal to have a "release event" for a product at which you announce that the product is actually going to be released in another 1 to 2 years? Tesla Cybertruck delivery event: Elon Musk hands over the first trucks to customers - The Verge WWW.THEVERGE.COM The Cybertruck is finally here.
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