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Well, there you have it: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/health/wuhan-market-covid-19/index.html Seems pretty definitive that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was indeed first introduced to humans at the Hunan Seafood Market through live or recently killed animals.

Her and her new BAE are too busy committing crime.

No that was K-LIte, I believe.

That was a relatively short lived televised version of the legendary KROQ show which was running concurrently. Dr. Drew branched out on his own (while still on KROQ) starting in the mid '00s when he started his shown on VH1.

Well, hopefully you share a little bit with your closest family to keep them quiet, and go into witness protection.

That's usually not an option. Some states do allow anonymous winners, but not the ones with the big payouts and not the Mega Millions multi-state lottery. Generally speaking, if you win a multi-million dollar prize, your name will be out there for everyone to see and your phone will be ringing off the hook in short order from money grabbing relatives.

It really is the worst. From an existential standpoint, it plays on all of the worst aspects of greed and capitalism: it's a source of income not derived from an actual industrial endeavor which tends to deprive the winner from any real ownership of the winnings and also delegitimizes the winner's claim to the funds by greedy third parties seeking to take it from him or her. We hear of plenty of stories of irresponsible winners, but it's the winners with good and honorable intentions who tend to most often be victimized because of this unique situation. Furthermore, while the insistence that winners be publicly named is a necessary requirement given the potential for fraud and corruption, it also leads to those winners being exploited by the lottery itself for "free" good publicity which, in turn, makes them easy targets for thieves and murderers without the lottery taking any real responsibility for it. The lottery is quite literally an embodiment of the wish-granting monkey paw.

I don't particularly care about the downvote, but, for the record, you can also use the sad react. It similarly does not increase reputation. As for this, why does it make you sad? I'm not necessarily down on the lottery, but there is little reason to be sad for people having to pay by other means for what technically amounts to free money. Too many people buy into the fantastic imagery of lottery winnings without ever thinking about the social ramifications of it. It's even something for those people that win a relative pittance on game shows. Your problems aren't necessarily solved, you're just buying more time to address them, which people rarely do.

From the beginning. The history of the lottery is littered with the bodies of former winners who were bankrupted or, worse, murdered by friends and family.

I'm sure that part hasn't changed, but with credit cards it's difficult to tell when the manager / owners are stealing from the pot too.

That begs the question of who gets what when tips are distributed. Not only is the tip system somewhat unfair to patrons by asking them to subsidize the restraunt's payroll (instead of building the proper overhead into prices), is a completely opaque process that doesn't particularly reward good service or punish bad service.

Why don't you know about?

Why what?

I am not a mod. I've just been helping with the reorganization.

I'll bite on this one. Why exactly are you asking about the size limits? As far as consistency, I get what you're saying: the truth is, we were still operating the literal free-for-all that Luuv has originally designed. There was no consistency because nothing existed to create that consistency - there weren't any written rules, there wasn't any organization or operational structure other than the folders themselves, and there wasn't nearly enough moderation to enforce "local rules" in a reliable way. We're in the process of putting things into place that make for more uniform action, but we're almost starting from scratch.

It was way too huge. I'm sure this thread will get much of the same drama, but at least it's more manageable.

I haven't actually played baseball in forty years either, but that's not a bad idea.

Of course I know how to computer, why do you ask?

Naturally

The same way he always gets his news....

Lol. The one time I got to go to old Yankee Stadium, I was surprised how laid back it was. Of course, it might have been because they lost to the Angels.

The issue always is there are too many other dumb fucks on your team so you only get part of the rules.

I got hella bored playing pee wee. Like the ball never came my way ever.

See, now I want to go play catch with someone. Really, it was probably a dumb thing to buy, but there's something about a baseball glove that's kind of alluring. It's something that when it's on your hand you feel a sense of anticipation.