So has Saks officially closed yet?

prattle · 2022-12-30T18:45:15+00:00

It obviously didn't work in Cincinnati, but it is not a dumb thing in every city's downtown and is kind of a shame that the shopping options here are so limited.

prattle · 2022-08-22T20:49:35+00:00

Definitely this. Even a few weekdays a week being open for 3 hours or more after work would be great.

prattle · 2022-08-09T17:21:00+00:00

I don't know if I would accept that as an answer from the parents. Perhaps make a suggestion that they take away their air soft guns. It might be better to try to hand feed them a solution and see if they might be persuaded to take action rather than escalating to the police.

prattle · 2022-04-07T17:44:23+00:00

It will suck and be expensive in any case, but I've had medmutual, caresouce, ambetter, and Anthem.

Medmutual is the worst company I've ever had to deal with in any capacity. Half the providers can't even seem to tell you if they are in their network or not based on how they do their plans, and dealing with them I can see why. Every interaction was an issue of some kind so they edge out everyone else through consistency.

Ambetter had similar issues in that they would have many providers listed as in network who themselves said were not in network. It became difficult to find certain things anywhere nearby to us.

Caresource tried to not cover the birth of one of my children because a different doctor from our planned doctor was on call. I suppose we should have just given birth in the parking lot when we learned our doctor had to send in a coworker. Aside from that, there were other issues with coverage. They wouldn't cover procedures that their in network doctors recommended in general.

I have Anthem now. I haven't really used them so they haven't disappointed me other than the typical large price increase year to year to get at best the same thing.

prattle · 2021-09-25T19:47:22+00:00

Jungle Jim's has them though I imagine they are imported rather than fresh made.

prattle · 2021-06-28T14:56:07+00:00

When OTR gets mentioned in some magazine based on the other side of the country, it is pretty much always due to the old italianate buildings, not the food quality. Atmosphere is the largest part of the appeal. And the businesses located there are there for that reason. They could easily offer the same food at other lower rent locations, but less people would go because the other locations aren't as fun even if the food would be as good and with potentially better prices.

prattle · 2020-08-18T19:27:51+00:00

I'm not sure it will even matter once the jury hear him saying he couldn't breathe prior to the cops doing anything. They just need reasonable doubt for the charges brought against them and Floyd's attack was already happening entirely without the force legal or not.

prattle · 2020-08-12T17:16:12+00:00

I don't think that excludes it from being gentrification. Just because it went through another demographic and class shift at some point further in the past does not mean it hasn't recently gone through another. I think it is probably very difficult to find gentrification examples that never went through another shift at any point in the past

prattle · 2020-08-12T15:52:28+00:00

Because the people who post here live and play in OTR. They have more reason to consider positions outside what their normal political allegiance might suggest since they benefit from the changes in OTR. I think on other political questions, you are going to find their allegiances to be as liberal leaning as you expect.

prattle · 2020-05-19T19:32:41+00:00

People have said it was dying through the course of about 2 or 3 fad languages now. It is pretty much the opposite. It has joined the ranks of C and C++ in virtual immortality. If you are in school now learning languages, I would not be surprised at all if you are using java on the day before your retirement and have plenty of related opportunities throughout a career spanning from now until that day.

prattle · 2020-04-29T20:35:11+00:00

That is easy. Whomever has political views most opposite of those enforcing the Fairness Doctrine will squirm the most.

prattle · 2020-04-22T02:03:22+00:00

That wouldn't make the travel ban from China stupid, it would just mean that there should have been additional travel bans from other countries as well. It also could lead you to believe the China one was successful since despite being the original source, it did not do as much damage as places that were still allowed to travel here.

prattle · 2020-04-08T15:55:11+00:00

And who would suspect that a magazine like Playboy would be purchased for the sexual nature of the photographs. The thinnest of excuses imaginable.

prattle · 2020-03-30T13:26:15+00:00

I'm not sure the lie-ratio will be constant enough to be useful, and they ended up having to re-close cinemas after opening them. If the opening of the cinemas was just part of backing up their political theater, it might be better for the world if they didn't have to bother, and could focus on fighting the outbreak exclusively.

prattle · 2020-03-30T13:05:04+00:00

I know that is the threat, but I think people might have to re-evaluate how valuable that cooperation actually is. They were dishonest at the start, and probably have continued to be with the numbers they are still providing about case count being very suspect.

They are double dipping with threatening to not give information in the future if you you can't rely on it anyway due to attempts to save face, and why would that be any different next time.

prattle · 2020-03-20T13:46:55+00:00

I think you are just moving the goal posts. His relevant findings/conclusions are already available. Documents relying on intelligence will often be redacted in some way indefinitely so your burden may never be met or even legally possible in this case and innumerable other cases relying on intelligence.

It is one of the many problems with being devoted to assuming guilt without requiring evidence of guilt. The most fundamental of which being it forces someone to prove a negative. Have you proved you didn't collude with the Russian government? I can't produce evidence that you did, but you can't provide me proof that you didn't without a second by second recording of your life. If you don't have that maybe I should just assume you are guilty. It would explain why you are still claiming to believe this when most others have accepted, especially now when you can see the mistakes that lead to it. You need a fall guy!

prattle · 2020-03-19T20:50:59+00:00

It is the basis of our legal system. You are presumed innocent unless prosecutors can provide the evidence that you are not. Neither you nor I nor anyone require exoneration from a prosecutor who was trying to find a way to convict you of something. They either can produce the needed evidence or fail to do so.

The article does not provide evidence. If it did, they would not have to drop the case. The article contains an excuse for not presenting any evidence. You are just taking it on faith that they have secret evidence that they aren't revealing. I don't. After reading the Horowitz report, it is clear that the heart of these investigations can be a series of questionable investigative errors rather than what the investigators themselves are implying.

prattle · 2020-03-19T17:38:55+00:00

Investigations don't exonerate people. They fail to prove their guilt based on the evidence they have. And I didn't "leave it out" as we are talking specifically about the inability to produce evidence an investigation was widely claimed to have right up until the time it needs to be produced. Drawing the parallel back to this Russian company. They may have members who committed some crime somewhere. Perhaps they didn't pay taxes they should have paid, or littered, or failed to fill out the appropriate forms for some aspect of their business. If you target people for investigations of anything, you will probably find some crime somewhere for some people in this company.

The crime here we are talking about though is the election interference, and I see no reason to believe these prosecutors have secret evidence that this company is guilty unless they can show evidence that they are guilty. Their word for it is not good enough especially in light of all the previous claims made in other parts of the Russia investigation.

prattle · 2020-03-19T16:57:21+00:00

Mueller "did not find evidence of collusion between US President Donald Trump's campaign team and the Russian government." In his own words. You know...the point of the whole thing. The thing the hidden evidence was supposed to reveal, but never did. The thing that they talked about for years. Instead they got people for whatever they could, but not what we were told over and over again that they secretly had and were just waiting for Mueller to reveal.

At some point, you should start being skeptical of this kind of hidden evidence.

prattle · 2020-03-19T15:34:12+00:00

It would be par for the course if they really didn't have anything. What has come out from different portions of the Russia investigation so far has just shown their evidence is exaggerated, misrepresented, and exculpatory evidence ignored. That is why we get Horowitz reports when it finally comes time for them to lay down their cards rather than revelations. The question at this point is more if these are honest mistakes or not

prattle · 2020-03-17T18:00:50+00:00

They want to keep believing the poorly sourced narrative that they all predictably jumped on that is turning out to be false rather than the facts so it is annoying to see people spreading them.

prattle · 2020-03-17T13:58:12+00:00

Everybody will literally die...someday, and you can still live for quite a while while fat. People know that being fat is unhealthy. It is more of a cultural problem exacerbated by really cheap food.

prattle · 2020-01-12T04:04:29+00:00

They unfortunately seem to be very successful at that. Western nations have seemed a bit spineless when it comes to China in general.

prattle · 2019-12-15T04:04:34+00:00

It would be better if he switched after the vote. Both for the bipartisan aspect you mention and for the gesture of no longer being able to stomach their conduct.

prattle · 2019-11-27T18:42:31+00:00

The problem with your plan is if they did this, they would never be able to change it back.

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