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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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48 minutes ago, C-Man said:We have several large ports on the Pacific, you dumb fucking squidbilly.
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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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Ex-g/f lives in Altadena about 2 miles from that fire - we don't talk much anymore but I hope she's followed Bruin the hell out of there.
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1 hour ago, locodos said:
When Canada rules the world, you'll all be sorry!
They have for years. They just don't like to talk aboot it, eh?
Curling bonspiel oot front shoulda told ya.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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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6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
Please tell us you farted in Russia's direction.
Their general direction, yes.
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Thoughts on my visit today to the Russian-Norwegian border at Kirkenes
1) Rossiya, idi na khuy.
2) longcat follows, although for me 1 and 3 suffice.
SpoilerIn this part of the world, things are not so simple. Trade has always occurred here between all four area nations (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia) and, of course, before them the borderless, nomadic Sami people. There is little care for the war one way or another - as they say in the far North on both sides of the border "Oslo is far, Moscow is far" meaning that what the governments thousands of km away in the south decide is of little import to them. Murmansk (213km from Kirkenes) is also relatively wealthy and as such probably somewhat immune (for now) to the Great Vatnik Drafts that have gone on since the beginning in places like Buryatia.
This is one of the two open border crossings left between Russia and Europe; the other is way down in Turkey. It is a bit surreal to see a small amount of traffic going each way. It used to be a ton more; 65% of Kirkenes' economy was from Russian shoppers before the border closed for Covid; it never fully reopened due to the war. It is extremely difficult to cross now, from either side.
The border, from 1918-1944, was actually between Norway and Finland, before the Soviets confiscated the Petsamo region following the Continuation War. I did say Simo Häyhä's name loudly enough that any Russian listening might have some fear of white-clad sniper ghosts, just a wee bit. It's his country's land after all. We know Russians are all about revanchist border changes.
What struck me as odd - or better yet, what I didn't really know - is that these centuries-long ties between Russia and northern Norway have left more than a little ambivalence towards the war and Russia here, certainly compared to in most of the rest of Europe. Major street signs are still in both Norwegian and Cyrillic, as are some signs at shops and other places. The current mayor of Kirkenes a couple of months ago wanted to have the street signs removed but that was taken poorly by the citizens and it was not done.
Kirkenes was, as was the rest of Norway, occupied by the Nazis in 1940 and there was a northern front here wherein 100,000 Germans tried to take Murmansk and failed. Kirkenes was badly damaged during the war, and towards the end the Germans razed it and the other towns of the north to the ground. The Red Army was - and are - seen as liberators ever since their arrival in 1944. There is a memorial to the Soviet soldier overlooking the town and until this year the Norwegians and Russians celebrated Liberation Day together there - this year they did so two hours apart. Although the people I've spoken to here remain extremely neutral in their outlook, this does show a bit of anti-war sentiment. Mostly, however, the feeling in this remotest corner of the NATO world is the hope that the war will end, the cross-border ties going back forever will resume, and - perhaps crassly - the shoppers from Murmansk will return. I think it will be quite some time until then.
3) Putin khuylo.
Thanks for reading (or ignoring - TL;DR certainly applies) - after two+ years of reading this thread and following the war, it was more than a little surreal to stand a meter or two from Russia and to also understand the complexity that the war has engendered in this small part of a close ally.
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lol I'm in the Arctic at this moment, about 71° N in Norway, and it's 35 degrees outside. That other stuff sounds shitty.
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I had the immense pleasure of meeting President and Mrs Carter several years ago and they could not have been more generous, kind, and welcoming. He was wickedly funny and had a way of speaking that sucked you into whatever he was saying, enraptured.
Gil's post above captures the essence of why I believe history will be far kinder to his presidency than it has been, but regardless of that, he was not only a great man but a good one.
RIP, Mr. President. Thank you for the immense good you have done for the world, thank you for the time you gave to a nobody like me, and thank you for the example you set, even if today it seems as though we have gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction. I don't pretend to know what if anything comes after this life, but the thought of you and Rosalynn somehow being reunited makes me happy. May your memory continue to be an inspiration.
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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?
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1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:
In the 30s that was the French and British plan for dealing with the Germans and Soviets.
It was also the Soviet/Third International/Comintern plan for dealing with the French, British, and Germans.
The plan worked for the French and British, but at great cost. It turned out to be irrelevant to the USSR, at even greater cost.
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Feliz Natal e boas festas, seus animais nojentos!
(from the non-Portuguese town of Lillehammer)
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18 hours ago, Brisketexan said:Was grousing a bit and letting myself feel blue because this Christmas is the first when we won't get to be together with our kids. The boy is doing his college year abroad in Germany, and couldn't get his student visa (necessary to be able to leave and then re-enter Germany) in time to come home for Christmas. Fortunately, we have a family in Germany who have become family to us, and both of our kids are together and spending Christmas with them. And we'll be heading over in a week or so for a "second Christmas" all together in Germany. So, it's a good thing. But as I was grousing in my own head, I remembered the reason why -- he couldn't get his visa because the German immigration system and offices are clogged with a backlog of processing Ukrainian war refugees.
They are spending Christmas (probably not for the first time in this almost 3 year old war) away from their homeland, away from those who were left behind, under the cloud of war and death. So....our little hiccup is just that, a hiccup.
Wishing and hoping that their Christmas gift is some sort of victory, and some sort of secure peace, in the new year.
I am in Lillehammer (Norway) for Christmas, and at the restaurant i had Christmas Eve dinner last night, the young lady server told me she was Ukrainian. Offering a "Slava Ukraina!" and receiving a "Heroiam Slava!" with a huge smile in return, I told her that I had learned the words to "Chervona Kalyna" and we sang it quietly (well, she sang; I did whatever) to again a big smile. She was already in Norway prior to the war, but her family is mostly still in the Kyiv area. It was heartwarming yet with a tinge of sadness and fervent hopes that somehow, some way, this will all be over soon, and with justice and fairness for Ukraine.
(Brisket's son's visa issue reminded me that the multi-year visa processing delay I'm dealing with in Portugal is due in the main to that country's very open-armed Ukrainian refugee policy and prioritizing their visas, and as such it is something I do not mind in the least.)
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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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3 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:
Did you forget what board you are on? You say Prophylatic and you know there are a few wondering how to get her to swallow some condoms. They are just wondering if the flavored ones are better. Or Ribbed and do you add bbq sauce.
Negged for not going with "McRibbed".
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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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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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Texas will beat Oregon in Dallas, and I for one will be quite gruntled by this outcome.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
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They done got smote.