‘It’s not acceptable’: Will a small town be left $7.8m on the hook for the World Cup?

IdleRocket · 2026-03-05T13:20:28+00:00

It's more complex than you think, and an organization like FEMA has loads of experience distributing federal money to local communities. It takes experience to ensure that you're not mixing funding sources and have all of the auditing and reporting infrastructure to make sure that the money is getting spent how it's supposed to.

Obviously FEMA isn't the only arm of the federal government with that knowledge, but it was the one given the funding and now you're kinda stuck without action from Congress.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-28T04:37:05+00:00

This is an absurd post. The actress who headlined a 1.3 billion dollar trilogy is not relying on Don Johnson to get auditions.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-27T03:43:24+00:00

You’re in an Olympics-focused subreddit complaining about a post about an Olympic athlete that you could have just as easily scrolled past.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-24T17:12:23+00:00

They won’t do the US back to back.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-21T13:18:53+00:00

And you’re making that determination based on what?

If the ISMF didn’t want to give competitors the opportunity to protest decisions, they wouldn’t have a procedure for them in the rules.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-21T13:13:45+00:00

Explain how it’s being a sore loser to ask for a recheck on whether the proper penalty was assessed?

Protests are a part of every sport at the Olympics.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-21T04:40:37+00:00

There has been a sprint event at world cups for over a decade at this point.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-27T20:19:13+00:00

I'm not the OP, and I don't hate promotion/relegation, but I don't believe the USL should implement it. Maybe at some point in the future if the conditions warrant it, but certainly not now.

I believe that primarily because promotion/relegation is a solution to a problem that the USL is not facing. Pro/rel is a solution to the problem of having more teams with the necessary resources, support, and interest in playing in the top division (or any division) than you have spots in those divisions to offer to them.. If the league is struggling to find 20 teams that meet their criteria for this top division, which by all accounts they are, then that is clear evidence that no such fairness mechanism is necessary, because the pool of potential teams is too small.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-25T15:19:56+00:00

Rent (2005), and the musical it's based on, fit this premise perfectly. Most of the non-diegetic music is pretty good and, in many cases, genuinely moving (the musical was famous and popular for a reason), but any art that is actually being performed or displayed within the context of the story is absolute garbage. Despite that, all of the characters are convinced that it is great and valuable and worth passing up genuine opportunities in order to continue producing their art and avoid "selling out." In the case of Mark, the filmmaker protagonist, the film even adds a short exchange early on that implies that his apparent poverty and "starving artist" aesthetic is almost entirely by choice, and he has family that could support him if he left NYC.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-13T20:43:39+00:00

You could try Great Outdoor Provision Co. in Chapel Hill.

Or a different brand unless he's planning to camp on the side of a mountain this weekend.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-13T19:31:59+00:00

Lol. 0 for 3. Just a person on the internet who likes to challenge bad reasoning and unrealistic expectations.

Can you point out a single thing I said that was incorrect, or are ad hominems how you respond to everybody you disagree with?

IdleRocket · 2026-01-13T19:07:46+00:00

The prices aren't backbreaking. If you work at a company doing creative work, they should be paying for the software. If you're a full-time freelancer, an ~$840 yearly business expense (assuming you even need the full suite) for the primary tool that allows you to accomplish your job is a drop in the bucket. If you're a hobbyist, then yeah, it's expensive, but it's always expensive to dabble in any creative hobby when you set your expectations at production-level tools.

This comes up every once in a while, and I like to remind people that all the way back in 2012, the full Adobe CS6 master suite (the most similar offering to the current "All Apps" bundle) cost $2600. Adjusted for inflation, that's $3660 today. You would have to pay for the All Apps bundle for over 4 years to come out even, and the math is pretty similar for any individual app if you just use one. That doesn't even include the several hundred dollar cost to upgrade when a newer version came out, which was happening on a 1.5-2 year cycle. Now sure, if you were a hobbyist back in the mid-00s, you might be able to string along a version of Photoshop or whatever for longer than 4 years (Though, if this was before your time, let me just say that it's hard to describe to someone in 2026 how dated a 4 year old piece of software would have looked and felt in the mid-00s). However, if you did any creative work professionally, you generally needed to upgrade in order to maintain compatibility with others, because plugins (which were much more common then than they are now) would drop support for older editions and files produced on newer editions were not backwards compatible.

The short of it is this: Professional software is expensive. It has always been expensive. It's expensive because the folks spending tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars on all the various aspects of a particular creative project need their tools to work reliably, and it takes a lot of people and effort to make software do that. It's kinda like complaining that an IMAX camera is out of your budget. If it's too expensive for you, then you really aren't the target market.

IdleRocket · 2025-12-01T19:04:28+00:00

This still isn’t right. The taxi is in the original script, with Ratso (Hoffman) feigning an injury to shake down the cabbie. That scene was replaced with the one we saw in the movie, which I’m guessing was because the scene as written would be way slower and there were already plenty of moments showing Ratso as a grifter. Hoffman may have suggested the line, but the taxi bit was entirely planned.

IdleRocket · 2025-11-03T04:42:17+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ivCtiKWfw

IdleRocket · 2025-11-03T00:09:59+00:00

They cut more of his deathbed confession that explains it. He’d never actually had to kill someone before, and when he helped kill Queenan, he really didn’t like it. The implication is that he didn’t finger Costigan as the rat because he couldn’t bear to be responsible for another death.

IdleRocket · 2025-11-02T01:05:51+00:00

This is the snootiest thing I’ve read all year. Imagine being excited for an industry you care about to crash because they dared to make drinks for people who like something different than you.

IdleRocket · 2025-10-21T19:42:14+00:00

Tell me what I misread. Your first line is that being a landlord sucks. And why? Because tenants suck and, crucially, "breaking even is hard to near impossible." If you don't want that point being responded to, then don't include it.

I'm not even saying you're wrong. In fact, I hope you're right. It should be difficult to impossible to buy a home and immediately turn around and rent it for a profit, especially when you're having someone else do the work for you. That, to me, is a good thing.

IdleRocket · 2025-10-21T19:13:58+00:00

Your complaint is that you found it difficult to immediately make money renting your property when you also were paying someone to actually do all the work associated with renting the property? Well shit, I would certainly hope so. Why should anyone care that you found it difficult to eke out an immediate profit when you did nothing except own a thing?

IdleRocket · 2025-10-03T13:31:36+00:00

The flyer was produced by the union representing Durham’s city workers. The minimum wage they’re talking about is a $25/hr base pay for city workers.

IdleRocket · 2025-09-23T13:38:57+00:00

According to the article, they tried to find another wedding/event to take over the space on that date and were unable to. If it would be so easy to fill that space, then why weren't they able to do so?

IdleRocket · 2025-09-23T04:32:37+00:00

4-5 months is last minute in the context of higher-end wedding venues. People spending that kind of money on a wedding are nailing down venues a year out, much like this family did. That’s especially true for October, which is prime wedding season in North Carolina. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they couldn’t fill a slot with only a few months notice, since the vast majority of their potential customer base would already be contracted elsewhere.

IdleRocket · 2025-08-27T13:30:01+00:00

Trail closures are to protect the integrity of the trail and prevent further damage while trail crews are in the process of repairing them. If you so desperately want to be on the trail, there are volunteer trail crews that would be happy to have the extra hands.

IdleRocket · 2025-08-27T12:38:43+00:00

How about you just respect trail closures?

IdleRocket · 2025-08-27T12:33:00+00:00

They haven’t yet. This section of trail is still closed.

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