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flatdawgs

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  1. I'd never heard of prayer before a game or other events - at least at non-religious schools - and had attended CFB games in probably 25-30 places around the country when I started dating my now ex, a South Carolinian. She took me to a Gamecock game and, yes, there was a pre-game prayer, which shocked me. This was about 25 years ago and it continues to this day as far as I know. Being naive and from the PNW, I was shocked that it was even allowable at a state school. I received an education on the difference between the deep South and my part of the country that day and on many others, on many different things. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Mexico's president needs to publicly start negotiations for California with Gavin Newsom

    We'll (WA state) go to Canada,  or better yet, Denmark. We're pretty hygge up here.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    Not the great lip-reader, but that looks more like "yoo" than "zhoo" to me. Thanks for the tip.

     

    No worries, and apologies for the pedantry.  The J = ZH sound is one reason somebody told me Portuguese sounded like a Russian trying to speak Spanish (to my partially trained ear that applies more to European Portuguese rather than Brazilian, due to the different cadence).

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  4. 1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

     

     

    Portugese: comment on reffing, "Injusticia", pronounced IN-YOU-STEESE-YAH

     

    *injustiça 

    the J in Portuguese is also pronounced more like "zh", so "in-zhoo-stee-sah."

    but yes, you're correct about his complaint. Of course, he could be complaining about the Jews. He complains about a lot of things.

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  5. 6 hours ago, ztejas said:

    This semifinals is honestly so fucking incredible. 

    Texas. Ohio State. Notre Dame. Penn State.

    I mean if that doesn't get your dick hard then you don't like college football.

    Again:

    TEXAS. Fucking TEXAS

    NOTRE DAME

    OHIO fuckin STATE

    PENN STATE

    bruh 

    Straight into my veins. Let's play this shit tomorrow. I'm ready. 

    I hate all those teams. Except Texas. Hook 'em!

    (no Oregon embiggens my heart)

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  6. 13 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Where it stands: California's minimum wage is rising to $16.50, with several cities going higher, including in pricey Silicon Valley spots like Mountain View ($19.20) and Cupertino ($18.20). 

    • In New York, the wage floor is rising to $16.50 in NYC and Long Island, and $15.50 upstate.
    • Washington State rises to $16.66, but large employers in Seattle's King County pay at least $20.29.
    • In some places, the minimum wage is linked to inflation, which is why the wage isn't a nice round number. 
    • Higher wages aren't just a blue state phenomenon. Pay is rising to $14.70 in Arizona, $10.55 in Montana, $13.50 in Nebraska and $10.70 in Ohio.

    • A few states are raising pay later in the year. Florida's minimum wage will go up to $14 an hour on September 30. 
    • What to watch: By 2027, nearly half of U.S. workers will live in states with at least a $15 minimum wage, left-leaning EPI recently reported.

    • That number was once considered impossibly high, but now thanks to a mix of intense worker activism (remember Fight for $15?) and sky high inflation it doesn't seem so wild.
    • Go deeper: The National Employment Law Project has a list of all the changes.

    Note that these aren't all apples-to-apples comparisons. In a handful of states (WA with an already high minimum wage, as above - also CA, OR, AK, MT*, MN, and Guam), there is no tipped wage - the state's minimum wage or higher wage per locality is the minimum wage for all jobs. In other states, several of which are listed in the quote, the tipped position minimums still apply. (*MT has some exceptions based on business size)

  7. 5 hours ago, The Dog said:

     

    In Kirkenes (northern Norway) it was fireworks, no guns, unless the Russians down the way a bit decided to fire into the air - which they'd miss.

    Otherwise, no different here than a typical small town 4th of July, except for a fuckton of snow on the ground. The entire thing was people setting off their own fireworks, including "downtown", some quite impressive. Being Norway, nothing was actually open, so by 12.15am it was back inside.

    Happy New Year, ya Surly bastids. May 2025 beat all odds and be a great year for us all. Except that guy. You know who you are.

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  8. 17 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

    So every program that fires its worst coach of all time and the next hire turns out to be average is a cesspool?  

    Yes. I mean, Washington fired Tyrone Willingham and hired Steve Sarkisian. Total cesspool move. Who could survive a hire like that?

  9. In for another season. Thanks to all of you in advance for your insights and discussion - although I've been following for decades, so many of you know a lot more than I do about the intricacies of the sport. Should be a great year of racing. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! 

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  10. The West Coast states (and British Columbia, should it go into effect in WA, OR, and CA) all adopted permanent daylight saving time 5 or so years ago. However, Congress must approve any changes to observance of standard time and they've not acted one way or another on it.

    Ending DST is possible by state action, so any state could be on solely standard time; HI, AZ and parts of IN I believe do this already. A bill to put WA on permanent standard time was introduced in the WA legislature this year but it did not get out of committee.

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  11. On 12/8/2024 at 8:35 AM, PRONG HORN said:

    That sighting is literally where I used to fish for salmon. Although I never saw one with a fish on its head, when you saw the orcas around you there was no point in fishing for the rest of that tide - the salmon were long gone. You just drifted and enjoyed the show around you. Orcas are truly majestic. 

    They'd have been more so if they'd bothered to wear a damn fish hat for us.

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