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pastor(owner) of the church my wife and daughter attend had to step down last year because it was revealed that he sexually molested a 12 year old girl a few years back, no worries, he's worth over $100 million and owns all of the property of the multi campus mega-church


Is this the one in Birmingham?
Here's an idea. If something on a tv broadcast hurts your delicate feelings, DONT frickING WATCH IT! No one is forcing you or your kids to watch the halftime show. These people are just as bad as the 20 gender/pronoun people demanding everyone else bend over to accommodate their own beliefs/desires. frick off with this commie shite.
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Probably have to take the car halfway apart to get to it.


It is 100% this. I bet the part costs $40, and the labor is the balance. Tried to help my dad change a water pump on his 2012 X5, you had to remove nearly the entire right strut assembly to get the old pump out and the new one in. There is no way you can convince me they don't design these cars with the intention of you paying for the car 2x over its lifetime getting it fixed.
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It was heavy AF also, brutal.


I have a 50 inch Visio thats pushing 18 years old or so, we moved it for the first time 3 years ago, "we" being me being used to the weight of the newer ones. My god, you could anchor the titanic with that fricking thing! What did they make those things with, Mercury??
Apparently having your mom call in to your office to tell them you aren't coming to work isn't very manly.
This is a sketchy arse crypto mining company that is in the middle of SEC charges for pump and dump schemes. Sucks that the state got bent over a table for these scum bags.
Sound waves from what? Unless the backup generators are running for some reason data centers don't make noise outside of the building.
Here's your attention you are so desperate for. Don't spend it all in one place.
I dare a British douchebag to come knock on my door....
Gotta get the swamp cleaned out to make room for the next batch of elected thieves.
Gotta get the swamp cleaned out to make room for the next batch of elected thieves.

re: Stadium design - noise level

Posted by the4thgen on 12/20/24 at 12:19 pm to
I know I have read articles dealing directly with college football stadiums, decibel levels and slopes of the stands. There is a sweet spot angle for the most sound amplification that tiger stadium happens to be about the closest too. Too shallow, and all the sound goes up and out, a la the big house (lets be honest though, those pansies don't know how to make noise anyway), and too steep actually has a muffling effect a la Neyland stadium. I could be wrong on this, not a sound engineer, but it made sense to me at the time.
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If only Bama had given him another year


***If only he had used a different CC at the strip club that night.

re: Motor City frozen pizza

Posted by the4thgen on 12/12/24 at 11:28 am to
By far the best frozen pizza going.
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For what? Facebook is dying and Instagram ain't doing much better

Meta will be bought out in the next 5 years. It's like the last days of Myspace


Tell me you don't read the quarterly reports without telling me you don't read the quarterly reports.

The company took in $40.58 Billion in the last QUARTER, a 19% increase year over year, $15.6 Billion of which was profit, a 35% increase year over year. Thats in a THREE MONTH SPAN.

I know people love to just spout off on something they think they know but come on, you can't actually be that stupid as to think a company building a $10billion data center is going to be bought out in the next five years. Maybe do a quick google search next time.


I don't think you have much of a shot at a seat in a fighter if you dont go through Air Force/Naval academy.
The CFP committee only cares about how many people will watch the playoffs. That means they will always prioritize a 3 loss bama team over a two loss miami team that cant even fill their own stadium. They have unlimited ability to explain away these choices in a football point of view with the real trump card being "the eye test". They don't give two shits about who is most deserving, they only care about the $$$.
I thought discount tire was really trying to pull one over on me when they came in and said i needed $150 in new lug nuts and was ready to tell them to kiss my arse but the guy went and got the wrench in my tire changing kit and showed me that they wouldnt fit anymore on probably 60-70% of all of the lugnuts so now I wont be stuck on the road I guess. Yes, another 16 F150.
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Automobile gas gauges have a triangle pointing to the side of the car with the gas tank. Very useful with a rental.


I used to rent cars a lot for work travel, and learned this a long time ago. Had a rental recently and forgot to look before I got out and felt like a such a dumbass for not checking first.
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Landry is an idiot


Understatement of the year. I am truly shocked at the level of unbridled stupidity this guy operates under. It makes zero sense based on a basic review of his background/history.
This is the epitome of the two faced girl episode of Seinfeld. The camera can do her many favors and the camera can be absolutely ruthless to her. Tough scene. Overall not a great score though, 3.8 range for me.
I will throw myself under the bus for one. I got a slingshot for my 10th or so birthday, and we had a side area to park a boat on made of gravel. I ran out of the little metal shots a few days in and started picking up gravel out of that parking spot and letting those fly. Then I decided to fire a few straight up into the air. With the odd shapes of the gravel, none of them ever flew very straight, and one in particular peeled away over towards the roof of the house. At that time, there were some fairly large skylights over the kitchen, and that errant vertical gravel came down right in the middle of one of them, completely spidering the tempered glass. Didn't think much of it at the moment assuming it hit the shingled area. When I went inside, my Dad had 100% assumed "act of god" and didn't even fathom the idea it was me. I could have 1000% gone with it and said "wow how did that happen" but even in that moment I knew I couldn't live with that one. Fessed up, dad took the slingshot and cut it into pieces in front of me, the belt came out, etc.
No, same one, they just announced who the owner is that is building it.
What is it rubbing on? If its only one tire its usually just the wheel well liner. It should be pretty easy to just go in an trim your wheel well liner to not rub on the tire when it is turned all the way.
I had forgotten about it in my distant core memories of that series in that era but watching the doc it brought back up how shocked I was with that move. That was peak MLB fandom for me in those years.
Can't imagine what all the thought process is to get to that point but I think the idea of talking to someone about it when you get to the point of actually taking your own life doesn't make sense to that person anymore. My godfather took his life a few years ago. He had obviously planned it long in advance, and had been depressed for much longer than that, although there was absolutely zero outward sign of an issue. He lived a couple of hours away and when my dad and I drove over the next day, the amount of planning he had done was insane. He had every single financial document labeled, packaged, and laid out in his bedroom for his wife and kids (all adults), handwritten letters to not only all of his family but to hoards of friends, gifts for many of them, detailed wishlist of what he wanted for his funeral, the list goes on. In this guy's case, I think he had settled on this long ago and found comfort in the fact that he was going to do it and was going to do his best to still try and take care of everyone. By pure happenstance, I actually called him about work stuff the morning of the day he killed himself, and it was very spooky in retrospect how upbeat and happy he was on that call that day. At certain times he was kind of hard to talk to and I wonder if that didn't coincide him feeling more or less depressed.
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Three of the first five replies are about politics, but I guess that's where we are as a country.


In this case its actually a valid point. I lived there in the mid 2000s and they were as spun up over liberal politics then as the rest of the country is now. It really caught me off guard how hard-legged those people were about politics.

re: Anyone here work in tech?

Posted by the4thgen on 11/14/24 at 10:32 am to
You need to be in data centers. Its exploding and we need all the people like you we can get.
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I'm not any sort of insider, but I would assume he's spoken to LSU about this and not just going to show up on Saturday with a Tiger unannounced.


Indeed, logic would dictate this thought process, but logic seems to be shockingly easily sidestepped by government officials these days. Landy himself seems to be devoid of logic so far.

re: Make Kitchens Great Again

Posted by the4thgen on 11/7/24 at 11:05 am to
you sound older than my dead grandmother if you actually like this nauseating design. This shite needs to stay at the bottom of the landfill where it belongs.

Now, fully agree the quality of the appliances far exceeds any of the crap made today.