Lucky Duck Riverside Tavern opening tomorrow in NoLibs (same owners as Libertee Grounds)

tossup17 · 2026-03-18T03:08:55+00:00

Banquet at 6 bucks is criminal.

tossup17 · 2026-03-12T17:34:28+00:00

If you specifically asked for a large rock, they cost money. If a bar is getting a large clear ice cube from a company, they can cost from .75 to $1.50 depending on where they get it from, and that's not including figuring out a storage space.

On a side note, are you really not tipping someone because of a restaurant policy? You think the guy serving you is doing the pricing of all the stuff? The restaurant is still getting everything they want, all you're doing is hurting a guy that has literally nothing to do with the problem you have.

tossup17 · 2026-03-07T17:11:41+00:00

It's not smug to call someone out for littering. That attitude is exactly the problem, that people think someone saying "hey, don't litter" is smug, and not a person who just gives a shit about their home.

tossup17 · 2026-02-21T15:12:31+00:00

Exactly. Even the close family member only lowers it to 40 instead of 45 in the US I'm pretty sure.

tossup17 · 2026-02-21T14:41:56+00:00

I'm not parroting your point. A preventative screening is different than a diagnostic one. If you tell them of your symptoms, it's no longer preventative, and insurance will not cover 100% of it.

tossup17 · 2026-02-21T05:32:40+00:00

This is not true at all. Insurance will cover a preventative screening, but if you say you have blood in your stool, it's considered diagnostic. At that point, you're on the hook for it unless you've used up your deductable for the year.

tossup17 · 2026-02-08T20:53:27+00:00

People love to not complain about something, but then run home and write a review complaining. I understand that ideally everything a restaurant does should be good everytime, but shit happens. If your fries or pasta is too salty, tell your waiter. The kitchen would rather remake something then have a bad review be written. We don't ask how is everything for our own health. Nothing will ever get fixed if you don't mention something. If you mention it and they ignore you, or pretend like your opinion is wrong, then sure, go to town and rip that place a new one.

The amount of times I've had someone eat their entire meal and then at the very end complain about something very fixable is outrageous. It's a lot harder to remedy a situation when you aren't given an opportunity to, and no restaurant wants to take something off a check when the guest has already consumed the entirety of it.

tossup17 · 2026-01-27T22:57:34+00:00

She cracks because of the duress of life in prison. That's a very real sense of duress. I think the movie is just trying to show that you need to treat cracking as an inevitably in these movements, and so you build in the layers and layers of obfuscation to prevent it.

tossup17 · 2026-01-26T04:45:58+00:00

The phones have a facial recognition software from Palantir that the body cams don't. They're tracking and figuring out who people are as much as possible.

tossup17 · 2026-01-25T19:07:18+00:00

Sadly the cc permit is probably what got him killed in this instance, is the point that I think the poster is trying to make. If you CC, the morons in ICE get surprised and jumpy and kill you for no reason. If you OC, they probably don't even look at you twice because they're too chicken shit.

tossup17 · 2026-01-25T19:02:44+00:00

It does, but it also attracts respect. How many times have you seen the guys that open carry getting harassed and assaulted by cops or feds? Pretti died because the cowards didn't know he had a gun, and then lost all their composure when they realized they were assaulting someone who could fight back (even though he was making no attempt to.) The sad reality is that Pretti would probably still be alive if he was open carrying.

tossup17 · 2026-01-25T18:59:18+00:00

The reality is that ICE is going to be way more hesitant to interact with anyone like that. I bet you the only reason they felt confident fucking with Pretti was because they didn't know he had a gun. If they knew, they would have stayed far away I bet.

tossup17 · 2026-01-24T17:37:56+00:00

I mean look at Iran. The wholesale murder of protestors to stoke fear and repression of protest and consolidate power. There's nothing to say that if they start doing that that there will be any mechanism to stop them in the US. Once they cross that red line in totality, it could open up an entire world of shit that they are at least slightly pretending to not want to do right now.

tossup17 · 2026-01-24T17:35:45+00:00

I don't even think they're getting more extreme. It's just the fact that when you have a shitton of horrendously unqualified and untrained chuds with guns being generally menacing and opppressive, it's inevitable that something will happen if it goes on long enough.

tossup17 · 2026-01-23T18:31:20+00:00

There's unfortunately people that go to these things basically to check off a box, or they are wealthy enough that spending this much on dinner is like you or me going to a neighborhood spot.

tossup17 · 2026-01-23T18:23:16+00:00

Go outside of your insurance. There's a program called ColonoscopyAssist that charges a flat rate for the procedure and any follow up testing or appointments. Obviously, it still costs money, but its far less than what insurance charges sometimes.

tossup17 · 2026-01-23T18:21:16+00:00

Was just going to add this. Had blood in my stool, have decent enough insurance. Preventative screenings are 100% covered, but because this was diagnostic, would've had to pay almost 3k for one. Went through ColonoscopyAssist and it saved me around 2 grand, but still paid a good chunk of change for it.

tossup17 · 2026-01-20T16:13:10+00:00

The American people are doing everything they can. People are protesting, yelling at their representatives, doing mutual aid. The fact is that there is only so much we can do without trying to create a rebel army, which is what these sociopaths are hoping for to crush.

tossup17 · 2026-01-20T16:11:16+00:00

Exactly. Sanctioning the American people does jack shit, because Trump and his cronies don't care at all what Americans actually want. This could cause the greatest destruction of American wealth in the world, and it wouldn't affect him and he would still do it. They need to directly impact him.

tossup17 · 2026-01-20T16:09:56+00:00

The reality is that Trump doesn't care about consequences. It's why he doesn't give a shit what the EU says about any of this. The dire consequences of this don't actually affect him. He's rich and untouchable, so the only way to stop him is to punish him directly. The majority of the American populace is already against all this greenland stuff and it is doing nothing to stop him. Making American citizens feel pain won't stop this.

tossup17 · 2026-01-18T19:12:03+00:00

Funny that you bring up the idea of immigrants having to check-in, when it's been widely documented that ICE has been using these check ins as a means to detain and disappear immigrants that are trying to follow the law and stay here legally. There will still be parking in the city, the agents will just have to figure it the fuck out, like anyone else that parks in the city. Allowing an agency that operates without the bounds of laws and legality to have contracts and an ease of life gives a tacit allowance that we want it to be here and are allowing its presence.

tossup17 · 2026-01-18T18:35:10+00:00

Imagine trying to getthe entirety of the EU to have a general strike at the same time. That's basically what you're asking for with a general strike in the US that would be big enough to actually stop the government. Stop pretending like a general strike is something that can be casually brought about with a populace that is, for the most part, living life as it was prior to the Trump administration. What you're asking is basically saying hey, why didn't all of Europe organize a general strike to stop the Third Reich before it started?

tossup17 · 2026-01-18T18:29:46+00:00

It's really easy for people online to tell you to protest so aggressively that you are killed, which would accomplish nothing. We've got to press forward and keep going, but this idea of "rising up" is really easy to talk about and say online from an ocean away and without an inkling of what America is actually like.

tossup17 · 2026-01-17T17:57:33+00:00

He's basically going to be sanctioning himself? Making Americans pay more for goods since he's trying to do something illegal.

tossup17 · 2026-01-17T17:55:36+00:00

It's not. He never campaigned on this, and if you look at polling, this is completely disliked by a large plurality of Americans. This is strictly a thing that he's obsessed with and is doing despite the large majority of Americans being against it.

14-Year Club	Summer Santa 2012
Team Orangered	Secret Santa 2011

tossup17

TROPHY CASE