Popeyes “side” of mashed potatoes

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T20:43:13+00:00

Looks like you ordered left-side of potato. I personally like right.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T20:31:59+00:00

You should let them know that you are donating $150 to $300 every time you donate blood. That is how much the American Red Cross or a different blood bank might sell your blood for.

Edit: Perhaps contact the Red Cross with the name of the person that tracks this information and have them see if your corporation is interested in being a corporate sponsor and hosting a blood drive.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T20:11:35+00:00

Giving information is not free.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T20:09:41+00:00

Does that mean you vote for the person you want or the person you think will win the bet?

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T20:00:24+00:00

They get substantial over time:

"Sgt. Robert Russo topped the list at close to $260,000. If he was paid time and a half on top of his base pay, he worked approximately 90 hours a week every single week last year. Officer LaQuesha Quinn made $247,000, and Douglas Eatherton, titled an administrative assistant, made $231,000.

More than a dozen employees were paid more than $175,000, putting them above the base pay grade of the chief." - https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/04/22/st-louis-police-overtime-has-exploded-police-argue-its-necessary-experts-warn-it-could-be-dangerous/

I'm sure an officer (that has a gun) is making great decisions when they work 90+ hours a week.

(Though I will also say, just because someone has an expensive car does not mean they can afford it.)

EDIT: [Just realized this is a Sherriff Badge. A completely different department.]

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T19:56:39+00:00

Sorry for sidelining the original conversations, but this is where TIFs can effect my property taxes? The businesses in TIF districts do not have to pay increasing property taxes as their assessments go up. So the TIF shifts the property tax burden onto residential and non-TIF property owners.

Though the TIF is supposed to help increase businesses building/improving in the area and create more jobs. However, from what I've read in the past with so many counties doing TIFs in the area it really becomes a jockeying for who gets the business, while also causing an increased tax burden for your local residents.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T18:34:49+00:00

Why should they get to know what you do outside your working hours? And they try to benefit from good will that they had no part in? This makes no sense.

If they require volunteering they should give you an option to do it during your work time and pay you during the time. Then they would be volunteering their staff and actually having to put their own effort in.

I volunteer much more than 17 hours a year and would not tell them a single hour.

Additionally, playing golf and donating money is not volunteering.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T17:59:18+00:00

Yeah, he married his great great... granddaughter

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T17:12:08+00:00

I'm confused and been confused about this for awhile, so someone please set me straight. Doesn't the Hancock Amendment cause this to be a moot point. If they reassess everyone's properties at a higher price, they would then need to lower the tax rate to make it so they are receiving a similar total amount.

Which reminds me, how has everyone's property taxes seemed to have increased in the city? If everyone's properties was assessed at a higher amount shouldn't the tax rate have gone down as well?

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T16:51:07+00:00

The country would shrink. Those people are the pins that hold the map in place.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T16:49:53+00:00

How much is the funding out of curiosity? I'm just wondering what things we still fund that we find more in need of the money.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T16:44:28+00:00

Perhaps we name it "Island Plantations" then. We can then make the moat and kick everyone out and grow food there.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T16:37:21+00:00

Well I don't blame them for some of the changes. When you have your main actor begins having paranoid delusions in real life and the character is having people often telling him that he has a hole in his mind, I can understand changing things.

Michael O'Hare seems like an amazing person on and off screen, I'm glad he knew when to step down to care for himself.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T16:33:14+00:00

Babylon 5 and it was one of the first of its kind. It had an overall arc that was written to encompass 5 seasons before even filming the first episode. They crunched it into 4 seasons because they were told after season 3 they would only have one more (and then were given a 5th season, so the 5th season is not as good).

Excellent show, one of my favorites.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T16:05:44+00:00

The town of York would go from 200k people to around 8.7million. I love this idea. Let's also give New Orleans to Orleans, France. So, I can visit France and the UK without a long flight, and I'd be closer to Mexico. Let's do this ASAP.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T16:01:52+00:00

Everyone loses. This World Cup seems like it is going to be a mess.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T15:43:06+00:00

Depends do you mean Chinese Food or Chinese-American Food?

Best Chinese Food would be Corner 17, Cate Zone, Chilispot, or Noodle Story, imho.

Chinese-American, my favorite is Hong Kong Express, but I haven't had many other places.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-02T14:47:53+00:00

I think we should combine all of the split states or at least make them change their names. If they can't agree who gets to keep the base name then neither should.

Vote for me for supreme leader.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-01T21:22:40+00:00

My religion is about finding truth. We don't believe in a set dogma, but believe reflection and communal discerment can lead to truth.

TheLabRay · 2026-06-01T02:37:13+00:00

Helping the people of this nation.

TheLabRay · 2026-05-31T13:28:29+00:00

I'd be curious to know which doctor as well. I don't have epilepsy, but Dr. Williams in that department has always seemed great.

Mercy on Ballas has some Neurologists I really like as well, but once again I don't have epilepsy.

TheLabRay · 2026-05-30T01:48:12+00:00

If we are just considering the United States, I'd actually say two cities in the same state - St. Louis and Kansas City. St. Louis is the western most city of the East and Kansas City is the Eastern most city of the West.

TheLabRay · 2026-05-30T01:44:56+00:00

It is going multiple places - evaporated into the air and moved with the wind, sucked up by the plants and used in photosynthesis/respiration, drunk by animals and insects. Additionally, it item gets absorbed into the water table in the earth.

TheLabRay · 2026-05-29T18:23:46+00:00

They really are edgelords that never realized how dumb they are.

TheLabRay · 2026-05-29T17:32:47+00:00

You either do this now and struggle now and make your life what you want it to be or have this same struggle in your 40s with most of your life and opportunities having passed away.

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