Their food seems higher quality than McDonald's or Burger King, but they don't really have a "hook": Jack in the Box has all day breakfast and a very diverse menu, Burger King floods my mailbox with coupons, Taco Bell is "Mexican", Dairy Queen is the ice cream place, and McDonald's has the name recognition.
Wendy's is kind of just there as an alternate burger joint. Apparently the frosty is some sort of loss leader for them, as they do the coupon books at Halloween and you can get something that gives you unlimited frosties for a year for some silly low price like $5. But honestly, I only found this out recently because I never even think of them when I think of fast food.
That's my perception of McDonalds. Occasionally I'll get breakfast there on the way to the airport and I always feel like I got punched in the stomach about 30 minutes later. For some reason McDonald's breakfast is the only fast food that does that to me.
This was argued at SCOTUS 40 years ago in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. The ruling was that VCRs do not constitute copyright infringement simply because someone could play infringing content on them.
Since the emulator allows you to play backup copies of games you legally purchased, the fact that it could also be used for illegally copied games is irrelevant.
There ought to be extremely heavy fines levied on the petitioner in cases of vexatious litigation like this.
Well, the state only really gets involved with their National Guard in appointing the senior officers and when they are activated for an emergency. The rest of the time it's run with federal dollars and is busy sending people to the same training that the active duty receives and trying (and failing) to meet the active duty readiness standards.
It's also staffed mostly by people that were prior active duty but didn't have enough years to retire, so they are rounding out their careers in the National Guard so they can get some form of military pension.
The exception would be things like how Texas is using their National Guard on the border, and have a couple states refused to order their National Guard soldiers to get covid vaccines. There usually isn't a conflict between the feds and the National Guard. Could that and will that change? Let's see how everyone's feeling after the next election.
According to court documents, almost 5,000 people fell for this.
And if you're that stupid you shouldn't be allowed to vote anyway.
I see what you did there...
I wonder if these people even understand the inconsistency of their position. If reading, not committing crimes, getting jobs, being a productive member of society, etc. are all "racist" (for apparently no other reason than the fact that it is "harder" for blacks to attain these relatively low benchmarks of being a valued human) aren't you making the supposed white supremacist's argument for them? I mean, if all these things are harder for them for them for no other reason than they are black that would by default mean that blacks are lesser creatures than whites.
we have made the difficult decision to have you step down from your volunteer position, effective immediately
These people haven't even mastered the English language, or more likely are deliberately corrupting it. You can ask someone to step down, or they can choose to step down (even under pressure) but the term itself means an action initiated by the person in question. You can fire or remove a person, but then they didn't "step down".
It seems like a little thing, but I know the choice of words was deliberate to try and falsely soften what they were saying
For some reason the left needs to politicize everything. I used to frequent Board Game Geek. I think they generally had a left-leaning bent, but generally tolerant to nonconforming views with only flame war type posts getting deleted.
Right around 2020 this changed. They posted a manifesto on their front page proclaiming several "truths": blacks, trannies, women, etc. are oppressed. Their voices deserve to be featured and counter-posts that minimize "their truth" are invalid, etc. They started heavily censoring non-conforming posts and assumed a generally holier than thou attitude towards any dissent. The message became: "we know what is right and what is wrong; if you don't agree with us, you are immoral and either need to shut up so we don't have to listen to you or leave"
So now, if a "person of color" complains that a WWII game doesn't have a black character and you point out that it would be historically inaccurate, you're post will be deleted for being "dismissive" or "derailing".
There was even an video game made where the only thing you could do is beating her up.
Sounds fun. Where can it be downloaded?
I used to love X-Men comics, and didn't really read Batman. I tried watching the X-Men cartoon when they brought it to Disney+ and it just didn't resonate with me anymore.
Physical media is nice, but hard drive space is cheaper. I may or may not have sailed the high seas to get copies of all these shows and more cartoons from that era.
The idiots that scheduled programming in my area never broadcast Pirates of Dark Water, Exosquad, or Conan the Adventurer in the correct order- I don't know if they ever even showed all the episodes. Back when TV shows were still almost entirely episodic, these cartoons had an ongoing story that didn't make nearly as much sense if you watch them out of order.
Batman. It has the most lasting impact and has aged the best.
What you all need to understand about cartoon character, especially classic cartoon character, is that a lot of them were inserts for minority figure
Because it's New York and martial art.
I guess someone missed the day that they taught pluralization in school. Or is this a new part of ebonics, intentionally not pluralizing words to corrupt the language and be "cool"?
"Turnt" isn't a real word. Using one gibberish slang word to explain the meaning of another isn't very scholarly.
I count two women that could possibly be French and zero men. If I saw this motley crew on the street at night when driving around I would roll up my windows and lock the doors.
Remember when France used to be accused of being xenophobic by the more "enlightened" western nations for having laws banning hijabs and forcing immigrants to learn French? WTF happened?
I definitely think that countries feel like they "got away with it" when they fuck us over and we don't take to the streets rioting.
They certainly aren't analyzing the second and third order effects of what happens when a large segment of your population is seething with anger and only behaves because they fear prosecution if they don't.
They better hope their grip never slips, because I think they'll be surprised at the number of law abiding citizens who have been sharpening their dagger waiting for the chance to plunge it into the government's back.
If only we could get people to act as a group in their best interests:
"I don't have rights as a parent, okay I won't become one."
You need people to have a country, so if all the parents fuck off and don't have kids your country disappears in a single generation. I guess that's why they're importing all the filthy breeders from overseas shit holes to replace us.
I won't see it either way, but I hope that he either tells them to fuck off outright, or extracts basically the same salary he would have gotten if he had been the leading man in a full movie for whatever shitty cameo they have planned for him.
Didn't they publicly announce that he was fired during the whole Amber Heard thing?
If you punish speech that isn't causing an immediate threat to life and limb you're not a democracy. It doesn't matter how you government is structured or what your other laws say.
That is literally the hallmark of an oppressive regime.
Did they quote a TV show in a published court opinion?
The thing about the old days, they the old days.
WTF does that even mean? The entire US legal system is built on precedent; ruling the same way on similar cases ensures fairness and consistency. There has to be a significant reason to deviate from established precedent. "Yeah, I don't think that jives with modern sensibilities" doesn't cut it.
Usually the activist courts pay lip service to the rules while subverting them, I think this is the first time I've seen one come out and blatantly say "we don't have to follow the Constitution because it's not relevant to us anymore."
Fuck Hawaii. The natives there are racist and arrogant. Those islands would be a complete shit hole, just like Puerto Rico if not for the white man's tourism.
how can a billionaire have a socialist daughter?
Because what she really believes in is socialism for you, silly. In her fantasy you will live in a Soviet-style cement apartment building and eat bugs, but she will continue to live her life just as it is now, with all of us peons eternally grateful to her for liberating us.
The irony is that while communist countries absolutely have an elite class that becomes rich and live a quality of life equal to the wealthy in the West, it's not the pre-revolution elite. They get the guillotine or the gulag. A new elite made up of the most clever and wicked of the revolutionaries replaces them.
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I don't have a problem with this. Calling people faggots and niggers was what online team death match was all about in the old days.
I'm not sure we can say this is a race thing as much as a "cops are assholes" thing. I mean the white guy with the same name got dragged out of the car and held at gunpoint in a similar situation.
Once things get past a certain point, the system is loath to simply say "we made a mistake and we apologize", because they wrongly believe that admitting fault will somehow lessen people's respect for them. I think this mistaken belief that they're protecting the system overall is behind a lot of really fucked up rulings by judges excusing absolutely outrageous behavior by cops.
In fact it's the opposite, admitting your mistakes and making amends is a sign of maturity and legitimacy. Making a bad situation worse by punishing someone unjustly instead of just backing down when you're at fault is what actually undermines faith in the system.
Which will just fuck the middle class. The reason really rich people pay insanely low taxes is it all their assets are titled to entities designed to reduce their liability to lawsuits and minimize their tax burden. When a millionaire's personal income is actually zero, because it's all funneled through a trust, they'll end up getting free electricity under this model.