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They really need to rip all the EIFS out and put some windows back in like the building originally had. And right now the back is the front and the front is the back - which should probably be fixed as well.

They weren't testing it though - some folks found a back door to the in-development version. They were, in essence, hackers - not users. They are were no more of a user than a bank robber is a customer. And all we have as evidence that there was indeed a back door are a couple of screenshots - all of which were posted by left-wing political advocates. This whole thing reeks. And between the billions of dollars to be made via social media and the political repercussions of Trump having his own network, I suspect foul play on the part of the folks with the most to lose.

They aren't being sued, the founder of the open source platform just has Trump Derangement Syndrome. In the article I read, his ire is almost palpable. To summarize: They claim Truth Social is using their (open source) software, based only on a couple screenshots posted to Twitter by left-wing political accounts. (Doubt) They claim it is a violation of the license to use the code but not make the source code available to users. (Understood) But - the platform isn't even available yet, and isn't planned to be released until 2022. There are no users, so no users need access to the source code. Once Truth Social is published, they could comply with the license and make the code available. Seems like no big deal.

I think what Facbeook does is more like Verizon screening spam calls. Facebook is currently set up to give people what they want to read. It's really no different than Spotify giving people a playlist they think they'll like. What people at Facebook want to do is use that concept of curation as a means to censor political speech they disagree with. It's dangerous territory - so far Facebook's leadership has exercised a degree of restraint with what they censor. The c-suite knows they could quickly alienate their userbase and cause an exodus. And with "Truth Social" on the horizon (anybody else get into DWAC in time to clean up last week?) - Facebook might already see the writing on the wall.

I think this sort of behavior is nonsensical and immature - people use cell phones and texting to do bad stuff all the time, do Verizon employees work themselves into a tizzy over it? Do Ford employees fume when someone uses a Ford as a getaway car?

Everyone hated this previous iteration of the Ohio license plate - I was made fun of on more than one occasion over this plate: I think it only lasted a couple years before Ohio came out with the current simple plate. Instead of sticking with the current one - someone, for some reason - decided to revamp the old plate that everyone hated. The new plate is just an update of this one, and it's just as bad.

I've never been to the casino before, but I might swing by now to get a "Hard Rock Cincinnati" tee shirt. Gotta get one before it changes names again.

They might just go with "Meta" which would be super lame, IMO. But Zuckerberg has always seemed to me like a pretty lame dude with no taste, so I wouldn't be shocked if it's a watered down, cringey name like that.

For $20 million, they should open up the Liberty Street subway station and a stretch of the subway tunnels. Build a couple new stairs and an elevator for access. Cut the top off the tunnels and build a sunken plaza/feature stair that leads down into it. That would make it an actual tourist destination year-round, as opposed to turning a mostly empty giant street into a mostly empty giant plaza. And I've heard the water main/fiber optic cable excuses 1000 times. There are creative solutions. Here's a cheap one: only provide access to one tunnel, and seal the other side off with plexi-glass in the openings. If this project actually happens and doesn't incorporate the subway, it will be a giant missed opportunity, IMO.

The Bearcats started strong against conference rival UCF - jumping out to a 35-0 lead in the 2nd quarter. They had more points at that mark than UCF had total offensive yardage (29). UC is now ranked #2, thanks to Purdue's upset of previously #2 Iowa: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll?week=8 Next up is Navy. UC is currently a 28 point favorite.

It's the same owner, so it's basically a rebranding of the space. I'd bet it's mostly due to staff shortages and wages. It's easier to have one kitchen and 40 tables vs. 2 kitchens with 20 tables each.

The answer is pretty obvious here - Gabbert is a better, more well rounded quarterback that can fill a variety of roles. I think almost everyone would agree with me if not for their political bias. I'm not dismissing Kapernick's baggage outright. There's a valid reason he wasn't picked up in 2016 - he stinks and would have eaten up a lot of salary cap to ride the pine. He's since made a big deal out of it and complained incessantly and publicly about it, which has almost certainly made it less likely that anyone would want him. But the thing to remember is - no one wanted him, anyways.

It is true - the guy wasn't playing well in his final two seasons and spent them battling Blaine Gabbert for a starting position on a weekly basis. Even if your anecdotes are true, that doesn't negate the fact that his career had peaked and he was on his way out. The 49ers were terrible in his last two years. In 2016, the final year of his career, they won 2 games and had the second worst offense in the league, edging out only the Rams, who were in their first year in LA.

Yeah Kapernick masquerades as someone who was "cancelled" but the reality is he wasn't good enough to make the cut. Only a few teams have any interest in running that style of offense, and there are far better choices out there than him if that's your strategy. If anything, the NFL did all they could to try and get someone to take one for the team and hire him as a virtue signal - remember when the NFL gave him an unprecedented league-wide public tryout that almost every team came to see? He cancelled it himself like an hour before the event, which was the last straw for most of the teams who were considering him.

At a minimum, they care about "DEI" more than they care about domestic violence, assault, murder, etc. The results speak volumes - Gruden is gone, and guys who have done far worse were permitted to play on.

He's "hostile" because didn't hire Kapernick? Neither did anyone else. He once cut a black punter? That's the meat of the accusations in that article. I know I have thicker skin than most, but are these the sorts of things that people really consider "hostile" these days? As I said, it doesn't appear he has a racist bone in his body given what the general public knows about him at this time.

In the screenshot, it looks like most of the buildings on the east side of Vine already have off street parking. There's one full lot and one empty lot. On the west side of Vine, between the attached row houses, there's an empty lot that could probably serve those homes. If the lot at the old school could be converted to public parking, you could likely lose street parking on Vine without having to add any new lots at all.

Ray Rice punched his fiancée in the face, knocked her out, and dragged her down the hallway - and the NFL didn't care until the video leaked. Antonio Brown has sexually assaulted how many people now? And while I do enjoy watching Pacman Jones play - he should probably be in jail. Do I need to mention Ray Lewis' posse stabbing a guy to death and covering it up - right before he won player of the year? The NFL has a history of letting everyone off the hook, not just white guys. All those guys played in the league after their crimes. If anything, Gruden is facing more consequences for writing mean emails than players have received for significantly worse behavior.

Meh. The guy has been a coach for how long? If he were actually racist it would have come out a long time ago. It doesn't seem like he's ever treated anyone any differently because of their skin color or sexual status. This is yet another example that the age old adage about "sticks and stones" has been officially cancelled.

Bearcats are now ranked #3 - their highest AP ranking ever (they were #3 in the BCS in 2009, but #4 in the AP): https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll ESPN's experts have unanimously picked them to make the playoffs as well: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/playoffpredictions100921/college-football-playoff-picks-week-6

I suspect that the "whistleblower" is really more of a stooge, wittingly or not. Facebook wants to censor a lot of the content that is on their network, but they don't want to be responsible for it and lose their mostly conservative base to a competitor. If they can get the government to force them to do what they want to do anyway, they can point the finger back at the feds and avoid taking the blunt of the blame. They can also ensure their competitors have to delete the same sort of content. I agree with you to an extent here. But isn't this a very big concern? That unfettered free speech might just be the end of democracy? Has the American experiment failed? The glaring problem here is that inevitably, the folks making the decision of what is/isn't misinformation or a valid societal woe will abuse the power to drive towards their version of society. We're already seeing it happen, but placing the power in the hands of the feds - likely in a bureaucratic body buried so deep so as to not be beholden to the executive, legislature, nor the People - seems like a mistake. One thing we could do is simply make websites responsible for any public facing content they have. If we revoke Section 230, I'd wager a lot of this would sort itself out pretty quickly.

I'm highly suspicious of the Facebook "whistleblower." I watched most of the testimony and something about it felt off. It seems like a ploy to get support for government censorship of social media via agreements and/or "understandings" between the feds and social media giants.

I've read that work-from-home perpetuated Facebook's problems. At some point, Facebook staffers realized they needed to physically work on their servers, but offices at the data centers were empty. What could have been a quick fix took hours because people struggled remotely, realized they needed to come in, spent hours commuting, and then finally got started on their work. It will be interesting to see if this changes any remote work policies in the tech industry.

It's rather tart with lots of lemon and vinegar, and the consistency is thick and consistent, I imagine due to the combo of boiled eggs mixed in with beef hearts. One might say... it's hearty.

There's always a couple cans of this on reserve in my pantry for when I need a quick lunch. I was well into adulthood before I realized Cincinnati is really the only place this soup survives today: