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thar she blows

Jealous of Fortress Obetz I guess

Major construction cost inflation in the U.S. is much higher than general inflation and has been since at least the 1960s. So it is a thing but not something the industry isn't used to.

20 years of explaining the RTC to out-of-towners when Reds games let out

Terms he uses like "congested" and "easy to get in and out of" are aimed at people who are not going to be active enough to go to an NFL game before long. Street grids are far better for vacating areas than the one or two points of egress that you see in sprawl.

I'm surprised there aren't a bunch of skidmarks in the parking lot from autocross racing. A lot of these sad parking-surrounded stadiums have it in the summer like FedEx Field and even the Meadowlands.

We probably won't so much in growing areas.

COSI?

Yeah it's just gotta be in cheaper places rather than up there where land is $500K an acre.

All those lines. I'm not into it enough to stand outside waiting a long time.

Interested to see what goes on. It's already a feature-packed software as compared to some of the other forums I go to where it might as well be 2007.

There was more to the short-lived 93X format than meets the eye. A lot more effort went into it than it seemed but again, with that much obscure music there had to be more than just a computer playing "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Hotel California" over and over like some stations. There's even a lawsuit brewing -- not WWCD suing to keep its trademarks from going to the new/old 92.9 or even that few weeks where IHeartRadio "stole" the WWCD call letters and used them on Alt105.7 -- but a lawsuit saying 93X shouldn't have been flipped to the Oldies My 92.9 either. The short life and sudden death of alternative radio station 93X Ian Graham tried to chart a course for ‘a better alternative,’ only to have station execs pull the plug five weeks into the experiment amid a dust-up with WWCD that appears destined for the courts. ... This is how Graham approached the task when he said Casagrande and Litton first came to him with a work order around November, asking him to build out a playlist for a prospective alternative station that Graham described as “a contingency plan” should the pair’s negotiations with Malloy unravel. Gradually, Graham amassed a playlist of nearly 1,600 songs, envisioning 93X not as an alternative music station but rather as “an alternative to what you normally hear on the radio,” he said. The playlist drew heavily from labels and artists that rarely receive attention from terrestrial stations, including Cincinnati-based Feel It Records, home to the likes of Vacation, the Follies and Sweeping Promises, among others... ...“And that kind of leads into how [93X] ended so quickly, and Mark [Litton] will tell you the same thing, but the well was pre-poisoned, and they were not at all confident there would be anybody left to advertise on the new station,” said Graham, who was told about the oldies pivot roughly an hour before it took place, though he long suspected a format change could be looming... https://matternews.org/culture/the-short-life-and-sudden-death-of-alternative-radio-station-93x/

They don't want cities to have anything nice. They want it all in suburbs and rural areas.

These endless Boomer power plays of wanting to drag everything important out to the suburbs get so old. They are literally the only ones that want stuff out there and most of them won't even be around in 15 years.

^On that map Worthington is mislabeled as Dublin.

Everlasting jobstoppers: How an AI bot-war destroyed the online job market While commentators were singing the praises of America’s labor resiliency, the first stage of the job-hunting meltdown was already showing. That stage came in the form of “ghost jobs,” posts by employers soliciting applications for positions that had already been filled, were never truly intended to be filled or had never really existed at all. While this practice had been expanding for years, its true severity was not well understood until Clarify Capital released a September 2022 survey of 1,045 hiring managers that was the first to focus specifically on the topic of ghost jobs. Half the managers in question said that one emphatically ambiguous reason they would keep such job listings open indefinitely was because “The company was always open to new people.” That was actually one of the better answers on a list of very bad ones. A tie, at 43%, went to the next most-common responses, “To give the impression that the company is growing” and “To keep current employees motivated.” Perhaps the most infuriating replies came in at 39% and 33%, respectively: “The job was filled” (but the post was left online anyway to keep gathering résumés), and “No reason in particular.” That’s right, all you go-getters out there: When you scream your 87th cover letter into the ghost-job void, there’s a one in three chance that your time was wasted for “no reason in particular.”... ... "Like so many others, I’d missed the news that online thieves have not only leveled up their game, but they’ve put The Unemployed directly in their crosshairs. Armed with AI-driven interactive voice emulators, domain name spoofing, Python-powered web crawlers, the ability to post a fake job while posing as a real company, and some basic 3rd-grade distraction skills, scammers are winning in ways that would’ve seemed like science fiction just a few years ago. In less than two weeks, I’d applied to, interviewed for, and succeeded in landing a job that didn’t actually exist. In less than two seconds, I gave scammers everything they needed to secure loans, open utilities, get credit cards, score a Florida driver’s license, and gain access to my bank account."... ... "Politicians are just talking about how the economy’s so great. I just wanna scream from the rooftops, "Then how come no one can find a job?" It’s over sixty applications within fourteen days." "You know how many companies got back to me? [Three.] You know how many interviews I’ve done so far? Just [one] … I do my interview, they said they had a couple more interviews to conduct and then they’ll call Monday or Tuesday and let me know. That was almost two weeks ago… I’ve been ghosted. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been ghosted." https://www.salon.com/2024/07/28/everlasting-jobstoppers-how-an-ai-bot-destroyed-the-online-job-market/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us Unfortunately this hammers home how Sysephian it can be try to get a private sector white-collar job through online job listings without knowing anyone that already works there. It's not just ghost jobs but also scams and AI lockouts. That's how companies get the reputation of being full of sub-optimal nepo babies. Meanwhile blue-collar jobs have to try and pull people in off the street with shepherd's canes.

Leisure time in general is far more fragmented and specialized. Used to be baseball, woodworking and drag racing were all males were into.

I'm sure it was a popular passenger line before the '60s.

Is dancing also forbidden?

The existing rail line runs parallel to US-33 and is lightly used. It would need upgrades for light rail due to its condition. As far as a station goes the old station is still there but it was condemned the last time I visited in 2021. It is not really in a premier part of town these days.

The hospital obliterated tons of housing, businesses and even forced a U.S. Route to move.

So the games are going to get longer. American sport is incredibly disrespectful of people's time. Soccer pretty much can't reach two hours total. F1 has a 2-hour time limit. Meanwhile college football games routinely go 4+ hours and NASCAR hits 5 all the time.

Pretty sure it wasn't immigrants that destroyed Portsmouth.

I actually think the Wolfes selling the Dispatch and WBNS helped eliminate a lot of pushback. There were a lot of complaints back in the '70s to 2000s that the private sector held all the power in this town and that slowly faded as those individuals sold out to out-of-town interests or retired/stepped back.

Yes. Add dope smoking to the Games. Epic rematch between Snoop and Willie Nelson. Willie is 1-0 last I heard.