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The food is very mediocre at the massive chains. Excessive use of seed oils and frozen pre-made items; basic Sysco/US Foods products; cooking in microwave ovens. Not even "premium mediocre" all in all.

Some consumers appreciate the value they receive for what they spend at these places, in terms of portion size. This is very important for the silent generation and older Boomers.

Some are very price conscious. A meal at the Olive Garden could be what you can afford as opposed to a more high end Italian restaurant.

Sometimes a chain restaurant (located in a giant strip center) is the only sit down option in the area.

Some are creatures of habit and/or do not subscribe the the urban/suburban obsession over haute cuisine/cults of personality involving celebrity chefs/instagrammable food or locations.

It was Brenda Tracy. She and Mel Tucker allegedly had something going on (which she disputes) beyond football coach and consultant. A lot of information in the various court filings and news articles.

She's not an investigator. She's an anti-sexual assault speaker who got her start when she brought up her long-ago rape by Oregon State football players to Mike Reilly. There was some sort of reconciliation process.

She got paid handsomely by schools to give a speech, and the school would get a gold star and positive public relations.

I'd read that UCLA had done some sort of study about the possibility of converting the current track and field stadium into an on campus stadium but never took any affirmative steps towards making this a reality.

The excuse has been that the well-heeled and influential residents that live north of campus would fight it like first wife divorce-to the bitter end.

Creating a stadium there would require the relocation of multiple other sports and dorms that would in turn require the purchase of new land, construction of facilities, etc.

No one is "embracing Nazism."

The American Nazi Party and similar political organizations are irrelevant: they don't hold local or state offices and don't have a power base. Prison gangs and their outside affiliates may appropriate Nazi iconography and symbols, but they only pursue limited objectives regarding the prison yard and the narcotics trade.

Americans (Gen Z through Gen X) are not embracing a third-way economic and political system from 20th Century Europe.

Instead, what we have is political leftists referring not only to their political opposition but anyone who questions it as either "Nazis" or "fascists." Although this sort of rhetoric has been in use since post WWII, today's political left in America is using it in an attempt to "other" their political opponents (and their supporters) and prevent dissent or any sort of pushback to their preferred policies.

Even if you tried to point to heightened racial consciousness among whites, well that's the direct result of the Democrats embracing third-world racial/tribal politics since the 1960's that have culminated in today's "Radio Rwanda" atmosphere.

SNAP is supposed to supplement the family's grocery budget.

Mom can buy whatever she wants to with her own money, but SNAP should be restricted to healthy and nutritious foods.

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There's zero logical reason to let legal adults bet legally on sports

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I'm assuming you meant that there is zero logical reason to not let adults bet legally on sports.

There are a lot of logical reasons to not allowing adults who voluntarily choose to participate in professional sports or quasi professional sports (like college sports) to bet on sports.

Tons of historical examples about gambling issues in baseball (1919 World Series, Pete Rose), basketball (numerous college point-shaving scandals; Jontay Porter in the NBA); NFL (Paul Hornung). Ensuring the integrity of the game is paramount.

If someone wants to work in collegiate athletic (whether as a coach, internal support staffer, NCAA compliance, or as an athlete), they need to forgo gambling on sports. If gambling on sports is so important to them, they need to find another vocation in life.

A reasonable person would not "chimp out" over an innocent post about safari/jungle theme night for a high school supporters section. A reasonable person would give the kids the benefit of the doubt.

Now if those kids were to throw bananas on the field, make monkey noises when Pickens County has the ball like soccer ultras do, or come up with racist chants, then different story.

Its unfortunate that pretending to play the victim still carries weight in some segments of society. Pickens County's excuse is about as plausible as Justin Fields claiming to hear racial slurs directed at him from the stands when he was trying to transfer out from UGA and not have to sit out a year. Or better yet, the Duke-BYU volleyball hoax.

An appropriate punishment that the pertinent Alabama athletic governing body should administer is a post-season ban for Pickens County this season (because cancelling their season only punishes their future opponents).

That was Chubba Hubbard. OK State reduced Gundy's salary by six or seven figures and shortened the length of his contract ( I believe).

Although most members of the plaintiffs bar are heavy donors to the Democratic Party, the money that could potentially be made from detransitioner suits is too good to pass up.

In many states, there are caps on damages for medical malpractice, but not for the future damages associated with such a claim. Where I am, a lot of medical malpractice work centers around birth injury claims.

A minor who was mutilated, chemically sterilized, or was put on a regime of drugs that messed with puberty is going to require life-long medical care. The potential costs for those alone could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Add in damages for physical pain/suffering, and mental anguish, and you are looking at potential verdicts being handed down by juries that number in the billions.

Aside from a few true believers, the medical and pharmaceutical communities got into this because they cynically saw an opportunity to exploit a mentally ill person for life as a source of revenue. The minute that it becomes a risk they are out.

Once a single doctor is ruined by a judgment, and medical practices and/or hospitals are forced to seek the protections of the bankruptcy courts, its over.

Insurance companies are then going to start excluding it from their policies, if they haven't already.

Is the competition confined to actresses/entertainers popular in the US?

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This keeps getting repeated, but there’s been pretty much zero evidence of it so fa

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Emphasis on so far. Do you disagree that it: (1) will occur or (2) may occur?