They also don’t want people who are too smart:

9/8/2000 (!)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

It’s Congress though, so “Circular Firing Squad”. :)

Contrary to popular opinion, mods don’t scrape all the threads looking for removable content.

We remove it when we see it, and sometimes it takes a report to make that happen.

Removed as being a video link, the actual news article is linked further down thread:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42990909

Wasn’t there also a problem with the music rights?

I was looking for an original to restore but there are problems doing that:

1. They are FULL of paper capacitors. All of which have to be replaced.

2. Once you do that, the set is still black and white and has no modern inputs, coaxial and dipole only.

So in my research, I found a tiny company in Dousman, WI who bought the Philco Predicta license. Not sure if they are still making them, keep in mind this was all 25 years ago. Was $2,500 + freight shipping.

http://predictatv.com/

Black women are not the base of the party, that’s a common misconception.

In 2023, just 14.4% of the US population identified as black. Women are just over 50% of that.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045224#PST045224

So Just over 7% of the US population are black women. You don’t win elections catering to 7% of the population. Even if they all vote for you, which they won’t, a party can’t survive on 7%.

The Democratic party represents 45.1 million people out of 186.5 million people registered to vote. 24.18% of the voting population.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-voters-have-a-party-affiliation/

Core services should be paid first and when you run out of money, you run out of money.

I pay my bills every 2 weeks, I start by looking at “core services”:

Mortgage.
Electricity.
Water.
Gas.
Garbage.

Then I look at the “optional” stuff.

Medical bills. Credit cards. “Store” cards.

All sorted by due dates. Pay, at a minimum, everything that’s due before next payday then pay ahead what I can.

Most months? Zero debt, money left over.

So for the city? You pay the essentials first.

Police/Fire/Emergency
Would probably help if the police would, you know, start writing tickets again to boost their budget. A saturation patrol on McLaughlin alone would make fucking bank, to say nothing of Foster/Powell/Division/Stark/Glisan/Halsey.

Then schools.

Then roads/bridges.

Then everything else. No money left for the seniors Tai Chi class at the parks and rec district? Sorry, not a priority.

I think she started with Y-Y-Z. :) Sorry, Rush joke…

https://youtu.be/ftVTWDrtrlc

Yeah, bought them as speaker stands.

Oh, yeah, those lamps are long gone now.

My (now) wife freaked out coming to my apartment the first time. Turns out, she’s a huge Rush fan:

In my living room at the time:

All I hear is “Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

70% sure she just married me for the TV.

Here’s a photo from 2001? 2002?

Problem is it can’t sort by number of there are text values in file name. “11” is a number. “11.” is not. :) Fun with computers!

Oh, that’s the before photo… I’m still waiting on this to… wrap it all up!

https://scalablevideoswitch.com/

Predicta television:

It’s also why stuff like this exists:

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

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