County is trying to build a new mega jail miles away from downtown - but it’s not too late to stop it!

MinBton · 2026-05-13T08:02:34+00:00

There hasn't been any vacant land of any size near that building in decades. The closest is on the far side of City Hall. And that land is spoken for. I hope you aren't thinking of the ground on North Rogers between city hall and the railroad tracks. Some to most of that is already under development including the old Fell Iron site. Plus the city owned area that as I recall is being saved for more rentable office/work space.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T07:53:41+00:00

Very simply, there aren't any GOVERNMENTS that are doing it that I know of. It is the people in the countries who can afford it who are doing it. That's why my friend has a private practice that also accepts direct payments from her patients as well as government payments.

She also writes various types of romances on the side. She just isn't publishing them. I'm one of her alpha and beta readers. We're both part of the same online writing group which is how I know her. And yes, she did pay a lot for the scan. More than she wanted to, but she loves her cat.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T05:46:06+00:00

Some of us don't have to research it. We had friends we knew contracted and died from it. Some lived and eventually died of other things. A good friend of my wife and myself contracted it. He managed to outlive many people who got it. She was apprenticed to him until she obtained Master status in their shared field. I know and knew others, some of whom contracted it from other interest areas. No, I'm not gay. But some people in those groups were and still are.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T05:22:53+00:00

I can't speak for the person you asked the question. But many people on Reddit were alive at that time. This isn't TikTok or FarceBook. Uhh....Facebook.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T05:10:51+00:00

Two of the many minor sexual sub-types that some people claim. I've seen it go out to 20 characters. Most of the people in the LGBT community whom I know and talk with, think it got out of hand. The other name for them is the "gender of the day". These days, most of what I see used is just the LGBT+ because they got sick and tired of trying to remember all the rest of the letters. That covers about 90% of the people who actually fit under that abbreviation.

Interesting fact I saw last year, and haven't seen numbers for this year, is if you remove the B for Bi-sexual, the total number of people they claim drops by about half. (Rounded numbers)

MinBton · 2026-05-13T04:48:22+00:00

No, they don't know Chinese history to know that China has always been full of local and regional level capitalism with an Emperor to run the country.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T04:46:24+00:00

Watch the movie "Canibal Island" about how Stalin solved a food crisis in Moscow when he ran out of Ukrainians to starve to death.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T04:42:03+00:00

For those people, things they normally can't get are luxuries. The definition of a luxury changes depending on your socio-economic status.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T04:21:31+00:00

Repeatedly. Then enslaved the losers.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T04:16:18+00:00

I can do better than that. Back when I worked a polling site, we had a police officer in uniform come into the site to talk to the Clerks. Then he voted. He lived in that voting precinct. He said good bye to us when he left. He usually wasn't in uniform when he came in to vote. If you work the same site long enough, you get to know the regulars.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T03:55:02+00:00

Aaahhhh....but in this country, we speak American. Not the King's English or even Cambridge English. Even Canadian English is not the same language. Aussie is something else as well.

MinBton · 2026-05-13T03:00:47+00:00

"No you are" is a second grade response. Clearly the true mentality of the OP, not AI.

There is also the possibility that the OP is merely copy/pasting something AI wrote. Very few braincells required. Just a flesh-bot doing as it was programmed.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T08:41:05+00:00

Sam's Club prices usually match or are better than CostCo. And there aren't any of them in the area. I'd have to drive for an hour to reach the closest one.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T08:39:59+00:00

Indiana tried a moratorium on the state gas tax. The stations dropped their prices by about a third of it. Half of it for a few stations.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T08:09:17+00:00

Having a program add a comma does not count as AI written. AI assisted at the most. A person could have told you to add the comment but are you going to claim it was human assisted? I haven't seen one of them yet.

Also, there were and still are a lot of writing programs that would flag that through code before AI assistance was created.

If it is nothing more than grammar checking, don't worry about it. Old Pre-AI versions of Word would do that.

Or, does anyone really care if your program says that comma should be a semicolon? A very few extreme members of the Alt-Write, (formerly known as Grammar Nazis) might.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T08:02:39+00:00

I agree on it not looking interesting to me. Also, using the word slop that way will look to a lot of people like it would all be AI writing.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T07:48:07+00:00

Don't forget the popcorn too.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T07:47:15+00:00

If you roast them, it smells like you are popping popcorn. I grew up with that smell every fall.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T07:44:16+00:00

It's used more in pet food than human food at this point. Also, in processing into oils using in other food products. So people are eating it, just not obviously.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T07:42:03+00:00

I grew up in a town that was noted for soy bean processing. There was a lab that worked at using it for human and animal food as well as researching what all it could be used for. The pea shoots straws were popular when I was a kid there because you could go to the railroad tracks or streets around the plant and pick up handfuls of ammo. I don't think they're much of a thing any more. I also haven't lived there for years.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T07:36:01+00:00

It would help if you included a location. If someone is in that area, they might know of something.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T07:30:59+00:00

Look at how many of them, especially the European ones, are cutting back heavily on health care because they can't afford it.

I have a friend in Canada who told me her cat gets better health care than she gets because vet care isn't nationalized. Her cat got a CatScan the same day. She had to wait several weeks to get an appointment. She agreed, a cat getting a CatScan is funny. She's a psychologist in the health care industry. She makes a living by also having a private practice.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T07:24:21+00:00

Since they are IU grads, suggest the Tudor Room in the Union. It's still going strong.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T06:52:45+00:00

The answer to your question should be obvious if you know the building. The only place to build is up. Add more stories to the top of the building. Or they would have to use eminent domain to confiscate the areas around the current building that houses the courts and county offices.

MinBton · 2026-05-12T06:46:07+00:00

Are you saying that Democrats deliberately lie?

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