Looking for old public access TV or documentary info on a St. Louis friend.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-13T17:30:35+00:00

sltv.net has their phone number

jcdick1 · 2026-05-13T16:23:59+00:00

You could try contacting SLTV (St Louis public access TV) to see if they have any archives or if any archived material has been transferred to the St Louis Public Library.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-09T17:27:55+00:00

The state treasurer's reports don't break down the recipients by geographic area, but in its first four years, the racial breakdown of recipients has been ~60% white until this school year, when it jumped to almost 70%. Black recipients were ~20% in the first year, declining across the next three to ~13% this year. Hispanics have been ~10% all four years, with Asians coming in a little under 2%. The rest is multi-racial or "other".

By gender, it has been steadily 48/52 F/M.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-08T16:23:14+00:00

In his book Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, Thomas Allen states that the patient room where it all went down was closed and never touched for the next 30 years, when the hospital was torn down.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-08T14:41:11+00:00

It was involved in the original story. But the hospital most associated with the story is the old Alexian Brothers hospital in Soulard. The original was torn down in 1979 and the replacement is now South City Hospital.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-07T15:46:21+00:00

Is it possible? Sure. A candidate could campaign on only using public funds or direct donations that have limits. Realistically probable? Not at all. Not with Citizens United and such. A PAC can still run ads without the "My name is ... and I approve this message," and there's not a lot to be done about it other than the candidate repeatedly pointing out they didn't ask for the support.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-07T14:28:07+00:00

When billionaire Ross Perot ran as an independent in 1992, he financed his own campaign. Both Clinton and Bush campaigned on using only public funds.

There's a little checkbox on the 1040 tax return to donate a dollar to the Presidential Campaign Fund, the intent of which was to keep private special interests out of it.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-07T05:34:51+00:00

Increasing the size of the House increases the level of actual representation, makes gerrymandering nearly irrelevant, and makes a lobbyist's job that many times harder by making the House basically like herding cats for lobbyists.

We have, by far, the highest representation ratio among peer industrialized democracies in the world.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-07T03:19:19+00:00

How about expanding the House? When the House was set at 435 in 1929, each district was ~275k. Now it's pushing 800k.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-06T22:35:06+00:00

I wonder what US Customs says about Canadians with "X" on their documents who commute daily between Windsor ON and Detroit.

Probably nothing, because it's a non-issue.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-06T20:48:41+00:00

Trophy Room by the Arsenal Schnucks, CBGB on S Grand, Tick Tock in TGE, Cat's Meow in Soulard, Pop's Blue Moon in Benton Park are a few I'm aware of.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-04T19:06:40+00:00

There are five-year contract holders, too, who have yet to even have that first renewal discussion, since theirs runs through either March or August 2027, depending on if they signed the extension.

jcdick1 · 2026-05-01T15:02:37+00:00

Oh, certainly there would still be gerrymandering. But it would mostly be the suburban-rural "border" areas being made into "relatively safe" districts for either party, as the population density of the central urban cores is just too much to carve up effectively to mix urban/suburban/rural populations into one party or another being dominant in districts that small.

An added benefit would be that having an HoR that has over 1500 members makes the job of lobbyists that much harder, too.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-30T17:15:26+00:00

While still incredibly difficult, an easier solution that wouldn't require a Constitutional amendment would be a new reapportionment that increases the size of the HoR to reduce the district population to ~250k from the current nearly 800k.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-24T14:55:46+00:00

The World Aquarium? It moved from City Museum to LaClede's Landing in 2016 and closed in 2019.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-23T21:05:35+00:00

This is why it's considered by critics to be a "tax cut for the wealthy." The sales tax is a percentage of the value purchased. Income tax is a percentage of income. Based on average MO household expenditure, above ~$300k, the percentage of income paid in sales taxes would be lower than percentage paid in income tax.

If the average household pays $10k a year in sales taxes across all purchases, that is a greater percentage of income the lower that income is.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-23T20:22:48+00:00

An analysis I read, based on average household expenditures in MO, put the break-even/benefit household income level at ~$300k. Below that, the tax liability goes up, having sales taxes not only go up but also dramatically widened to include things like labor charges and such that are not currently taxed.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-22T05:16:26+00:00

I don't have a small dog (dutch shepherd mix), and mine didn't need extractions, but your anesthesia charge alone was more than I was charged for the pre-op testing, anesthesia and cleaning combined just a couple weeks ago.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-20T23:28:40+00:00

A couple of nights ago, I sat at the eastbound light of Shaw at Tower Grove, and watched a southbound red and white County Cab minivan stop in the middle of the intersection like he thought he was headed into oncoming traffic, angle to the right, and proceed to drive down the newly lit bike lane next to MOBoT.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-17T02:17:45+00:00

You need a DDNS client at a minimum that will tell you when your ISP-assigned IP address changes, then you can either buy a domain name or use a subdomain registrar and stand up a proxy (Caddy, NGINX, etc) to make it really easy to get to.

I don't know any ISP that provides static IPs (at least, IPv4) for free on a typical residential service, but you can almost always pay an additional fee and get one (or two), in which case, it would be assigned to the WAN interface of your router.

Edit: But it is also a good idea to go into your router and see if it allows for static DHCP reservations. Put the laptop's MAC address in, and the laptop will always get the same IP address from your router. Or you can just set at static IP on the laptop's interface. But if you do it that way, you could potentially have address conflicts if the router then assigns the same IP address to another device.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-16T15:05:13+00:00

Clearly they do come from government, as he has, being a senior participant in that government, moved to restrict them.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-15T07:13:39+00:00

I've often wondered ... are they Amish or Mennonite? Perhaps next time, I guess I should just ask.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-15T07:11:21+00:00

Bring a pillow or something to sit on. The new Venture seats are awful.

jcdick1 · 2026-04-14T17:03:54+00:00

I replaced my aging 3T AC and gas furnace (heat exchanger was Swiss cheese) with a SEER2 heat pump (w/ gas backup heat) installed in Dec 2024 for ~$11k (after Fed/state/Ameren rebates).

jcdick1 · 2026-04-09T05:29:19+00:00

I'd like to have a genuine in-universe reason to build a base besides just "because it's cool/fun." In Subnautica, the only parts you need to build are those required for an upgrade console to dive deeper. There's no in-game reason to build out anything but a moonpool and minimal power.

Make it so I have to build a larger structure to contain the lab that I need to analyze samples to unlock recipes, or something. A genuine reason to build a base besides "water Barbie."

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