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@japan_nobunaga The Ford F-150 has been the best selling vehicle in the US for 30+ years.

The Chevy Silverado is probably not for behind.

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@alt_w_v_g -Zero buildout.
-30 year lease that can be transferred at a profit if real estate market improves.
-First to show up to sign a long-term lease in a new development, lock in lowest rate. -Arbitrage in case a commercial center becomes popular.

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It’s a multi-sport complex including practice facilities that is used by Prosper HS and likely a bunch of surrounding junior high schools as well.

The tendency in Dallas suburbs is to build one very nice stadium and use it for football, track meets, soccer games, marching band and drill team competitions. It is in use almost continuously during the school year, and they will fill it with paying fans for every home game.

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@noza_0911 My daughter will be teaching high school in that district next year (Prosper ISD).

Prosper was a one-stoplight town in 1990, population was 1,018.

Estimated population in 2023 was 41,660.

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@learning_yohei Both are originally British terms for the same game. Football has become the preferred term over time, but Americand didn’t invent the term ‘soccer’, we just adopted it once we had a different game we called ‘football’.

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@Dan_Agent47 @LeahRay44 She has the genetics, the area we think of as “hillbilly country” is the homeland of the 1700s Scots-Irish diaspora in the United States.

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The southern accent is as close to a rhotic British accent (we say the r’s) as we get in the US. Britain dropped the r’s and went to accents like RP after the Revolutionary War, being out of the Commonwealth we missed the memo. If you wonder what parts of Britain sounded like in the 1700s, other than going to a “Shakespeare Original Pronunciation” production, parts of the American South are pretty close. Slower, and probably a little more slurred, but close.

I would expect British actors to find it easiest to mimic an American Southern accent.

People from other parts of the US often mistake talking slow for thinking slow, to their later chagrin.

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@litcapital You can try, but from the look of things, he doesn’t understand in the first place.

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@yunamorichan Your English is much better than our Japanese.

You will be fine, and a minor celebrity.

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@Talismantradr @FreddyLA7 ‘The First Dance’

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FWIW, DFW is car travel based, there is a light rail (DART) but by and large you will be driving. Dallas and Fort Worth share an airport but they are close to an hour apart or worse by car, depending on traffic. To limit time spent in the car, I would do a day in Fort Worth OR Dallas, but back-and-forth between them sounds more like punishment than a vacation. If you will be home-based in Arlington, you are halfway between D and FW. If you are headed to Frisco, you will be in Way Far North Dallas.

Plenty of good options in either place. For good, reasonably-priced steak, Texas Roadhouse is a good choice. If you want a more expensive steakhouse there are a lot of options — Pappas Bros., Perry’s, III Forks and many others. If you want Tex-Mex, Pappasitos fajitas are an emotional experience, highly recommended. El Fenix is great and I really enjoy Velvet Taco.

It is hot, hydrate and use sunscreen.

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Very much so.

Awesome things:
*Trains in/around DC are actually pretty good.
*The National Mall, Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol Building, with world class museums on the north and south margins of the mall. National Air & Space Museum is a personal favorite.
*Mount Vernon, just outside DC in Virginia. Preserved home & grounds of the first US President, George Washington. Fantastic museum about his life and a beautiful piece of land overlooking the Potomac.

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@TheAdamWaite @Jadestormchase My answer as well, part of a refinery.

Lot of oil in North Dakota, as strange as it may seem.

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@ellalangleymsic @FreddyLA7 @Saints @PelicansNBA Freddy is making Ferris Bueller look like an amateur.

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@JohnPockos @MichaelShanks …by a LARGE number of geeks, of which I am one.

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@kz3ee @its_The_Dr The LD50 (dose that kills 50% who receive it) for falling is 30 feet.

Most people who fall that far die from head trauma or a transected aorta from deceleration.

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Remember that Amazon didn’t turn a profit for 4 years after it IPO’d.

SpaceX currently has the cheapest pound-to-orbit on the planet and an exceptional reliability record for the rocket industry. Once Starship gets rolling, they can lift 100 tons to orbit per launch with reusable booster and cargo craft.

Furthermore, they have more experience operating satellites and more data than anyone else. Because they have space launch and satellite design experience PLUS data center and chip design in-house, they appear to be ahead of any competition in orbital data center production. And given solidifying opposition, energy constraints and water issues, orbital looks like the future for data center buildout.

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The point is that it is mendacious to assume that because something is a a “biological laboratory” it is involved in weaponized pathogen research. Until you know the details of the labs, you cannot make assumptions either way. Russia was more than happy to exploit the uncertainty and present a frame that you have, sadly, adopted.

Wuhan Institute of Virology does happen to be a BSL-4 lab. Being suspicious of that one for offensive research, or at least handling of highly pathogenic strains for defensive research, is reasonable. The only reason to have a BSL-4 lab is if you have specimens that require BSL-4 handling.

Listed laboratories on the ODNI documents:

0 BSL-4
1 BSL-3
The rest are BSL-2 or lower.

Was there bioweapons research in the territory of what is now Ukraine?

Undoubtedly, Biopreparat under the USSR was a sprawling organization. This is one of the reasons they need to be able to diagnose and respond to a bioweapon, because the potential to be accidentally exposed to something left over from the Biopreparat days is exponentially higher in any part of the former Soviet Union.

Automatically assuming that any lab assisted by a DoD counter proliferation program is an offensive biological lab is as foolish as assuming a nuclear lab in the former USSR supported by DoD counter proliferation grants is developing nuclear weapons. The whole point of the post-Cold War counter proliferation programs was to pay people to NOT weaponize nuclear material or biologic agents.

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Elon has committed the unpardonable sins of offering goods and services people want at prices they can afford, building facilities used by other companies, and articulating (and then actually delivering on a significant fraction of) a vision of the future that individuals and corporations find compelling and want to buy into in the form of Tesla and SpaceX/Xai stock.

For shame.

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Most are probably reference laboratories because most laboratories independent of health facilities are reference laboratories.

Common things occur commonly, when you hear hoofbeats think horses, not zebras.

About a third of them are veterinary laboratories, you mendacious dolt.