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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things in Wichita that don't suck

« on: December 18, 2024, 03:07:44 PM »

https://youtu.be/IdqMbPYzXKI?si=TcJfdTXc1zG5pZBe

I don't remember this when it was on but damn if KAKE doesn't love memorializing this freaky crap.

Speaking of KAKE, Lily Wu really rough ridin' up, huh?

No, Lily Wu didn't do anything.

You mean other than circumventing open meeting laws to force the fire chief to lay off firefighters?

The chief lied about all that.  She issued an apology and everything. Are you not keeping up?

The behind the scenes situation is that the union boss set up Chief Snow to set the stage for running her out.

She said that Wu did not tell her to cut any jobs but that came weeks after the investigation started. Why wouldn't Snow just say that at the start?

  Union boss filed the complaint and the investigation started.  I would assume all parties were told not to speak until the investigation ran it's course. 

Why would Snow cut 42 firefighters without being told that she had to?

  Have 42 firefighters been cut?  These positions were funded by a temporary grant, once the grant is gone the money has to be found in the budget, either by raising taxes or cutting something.  The city council votes on the budget, the department heads, in this case the Fire Chief, makes budget requests for additional staff.

The union chief's complaint was against Lily Wu, not the Chief. He said either the mayor is lying or the chief is, but again the question is why would the chief cut 42 positions without being told?

  We know for a fact the Chief was lying because she admitted it.

If Wu doesn't want her to cut those jobs she can very easily tell her not to, the chief works for the mayor, not vice versa. Also if Snow lied on Wu, and it was caught on tape, Wu can and should fire Snow for cause, that hasn't happened and I bet you that it won't happen.

The Chief works for the city manager, not the mayor.  The mayor cannot fire anybody.  The city council and mayor make policy decisions and the city manager runs the day to day operations, such as personnel decisions.   I am sure the Chief's days are numbered but it won't be the mayor firing her.  To me this has looked like a setup from the start.  The union boss secretly recorded their conversation and wasted no time filing the ethics complaint, seemingly without notifying or consulting the chief. Shady as crap (unions are bad, actually)

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things in Wichita that don't suck

« on: December 16, 2024, 01:51:27 PM »

https://youtu.be/IdqMbPYzXKI?si=TcJfdTXc1zG5pZBe

I don't remember this when it was on but damn if KAKE doesn't love memorializing this freaky crap.

Speaking of KAKE, Lily Wu really rough ridin' up, huh?

No, Lily Wu didn't do anything.

You mean other than circumventing open meeting laws to force the fire chief to lay off firefighters?

The chief lied about all that.  She issued an apology and everything. Are you not keeping up?

The behind the scenes situation is that the union boss set up Chief Snow to set the stage for running her out. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things in Wichita that don't suck

« on: December 16, 2024, 07:56:43 AM »

https://youtu.be/IdqMbPYzXKI?si=TcJfdTXc1zG5pZBe

I don't remember this when it was on but damn if KAKE doesn't love memorializing this freaky crap.

Speaking of KAKE, Lily Wu really rough ridin' up, huh?

No, Lily Wu didn't do anything.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: What streaming services do you have and how much do you like them?

« on: December 13, 2024, 08:19:26 AM »

Does anyone use sling anymore? Seems like a decent off season compromise.

I have sling, seems OK.  I watched all the Qatz football I wanted this season @ $75/mo.  There was even more Qatz football available but I rage quit a few times.

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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

« on: December 05, 2024, 01:41:05 PM »

With graduating 30 seniors from a team that *nearly* made it to 0.500 and the 15th ranked recruiting class in the Big XII this year, they are pretty much back in the mud for the foreseeable future, no?

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats

« on: November 25, 2024, 04:55:21 PM »

Seemed like a microcosm of a Mittie season, start hot and then it's a total shitshow by the end.

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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

« on: November 25, 2024, 04:05:58 PM »

RB's from the great state of KS have run for 410 yds, 4 td's at almost 6 ypc in two games.  You can also throw in 145 yds and 1 TD on 9 catches.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: New Orleans has a University?

« on: November 06, 2024, 02:32:25 PM »

Holy crap that was awesome (after the first 8-10mins). Hawkins looks like the leader, which is wild considering he ended up with only 6 points and went 1/6 from 3. Meaning he should be putting up a lot more points going forward, right?!

If we take Hawkins 3pt shooting out of the mix, K-State shot just under 43% from 3. Wowzers!!

Does anyone know what's up with Achor? He played a lot during the exhibition game. Seemingly he was replaced by Max but to get 0 minutes seems wild.

He had a family thing/some other thing that kept him out of the game.  This is from Mrs. Fedor as she was working on wordle while watching the game so some details could be off.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: October 25, 2024, 10:49:44 AM »

Skutt? More like Big Butt!

That’s right


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Reminds me of Scut Farkus.  I hope you smoke them steve dave.

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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

« on: September 19, 2024, 01:16:06 PM »

KU gets surprise news on football stadium renovation; work on east side likely needs to begin sooner than thought

Future development around KU’s football stadium — currently undergoing a partial $450 million renovation to add a conference center and other amenities — has recently become more complicated.

Soon, local governments may be asked to ease some of those complications by providing financial incentives to the project at 11th and Mississippi streets.

“It is going to take the whole community to get this done,” KU Chancellor Douglas Girod told the Journal-World in a brief interview.

As a reminder, the development has been billed as KU’s Gateway Project. KU hopes to build around the stadium a hotel, restaurants and retail that will bring convention-goers and others to Lawrence to spend their money even when KU football isn’t playing a game.

The project is underway in a big way currently. The west side of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium was demolished, and is currently being rebuilt while KU plays its home football games in Kansas City. A conference center that will host events up to 1,000 people in size is being built in the northern end of the stadium.

What’s not happening, though, are any improvements to the east side of the stadium. The $448 million project is essentially just renovating half of the stadium, plus building the conference center.

Instead, KU had largely put the east renovation on pause, saying it had no timeline for completing that renovation, and acknowledged it didn’t have enough donor money or other funds to begin the project.

Rather, the next phase of the project has been focused on finding a private partner to build a hotel on the east side of the stadium to connect to the conference center. KU and other industry officials have said a hotel is critical to the success of the under-construction conference center.

Here’s where the new complication emerges: Developers have told KU that it is infeasible to build a hotel or anything else on the east side of the stadium until KU actually completes the stadium renovations on the east side.

“That is what we learned going through the process with developers,” Girod said. “I did not appreciate that until fairly recently. We can’t wait on the stadium because none of it can happen.”

The reason the renovation must happen first comes down to space. Renovation of the east side of the stadium will involve moving the grandstands 80 to 100 feet to the west, said Jeff DeWitt, KU’s chief financial officer, who also has been involved in the discussions. That extra 80 to 100 feet of space is what makes it feasible to build a hotel, retail, restaurants, parking and other amenities on the east side.

DeWitt said that was surprising news to KU officials.

“It didn’t enter my mind until the developer saw it,” DeWitt said.

Girod said the revelation has been pivotal.

“They said ‘you don’t understand. You can’t wait on (renovations) because none of this will happen,'” Girod said of recent conversations with an unnamed development group that KU is considering as a potential partner.

What comes next will be highly consequential as well. While KU has learned what it needs to do to have enough space to build the project, it is still working on what it needs to do to have enough money to build it.

No cost estimates have been announced for the east-side stadium renovations. Conceivably, it will be less than the $450 million on the west side because the west-side project includes the press box, luxury suites and the conference center. By the time you add a hotel, restaurants, retail and parking garages to the project, the east-side projects could be at or above the $450 million mark. KU is counting on a private development group — which it has not yet selected — to contribute heavily to the nonstadium portions of the project.

How much developers are actually willing to contribute to the project is unknown, and even then the question remains of how KU will come up with the funds to cover the stadium-specific costs. The west-side project is slated to be covered by a mix of gifts from donors and new debt that Kansas Athletics Inc. will add to its books. KU hasn’t yet said how much debt the athletics department will have to take on, but Girod previously has acknowledged it could be more than $100 million.

That’s why Girod said it’s likely that KU will seek financial assistance from local governments like the city of Lawrence and Douglas County, though he did not provide any details about what KU may seek.

“My suspicion is we are going to need some incentive work with the city and the county to figure that (financial) piece out,” Girod said. “We need to understand that better.”

Girod said a key point of figuring out the overall finances of the east-side project is related to whether the project should include a student housing component. Girod said university officials are leaning toward the idea that the Gateway Project should include a new building for student housing. That building likely would be a revenue generator for the project, producing millions of dollars in student housing fees.

Exactly how large and what type of student housing component should be included is what KU officials are now studying. DeWitt said he thinks KU housing officials will have answers to those questions by the end of the year.

However, there also are major parking questions to answer. The east side of the stadium currently houses the two largest lots for gameday parking. Some sort of parking garage is expected to play a role in replacing that lost parking. But where and how much are key details that still must be determined.

Additionally, KU must finalize an agreement with a private developer. Girod acknowledged KU has one proposal from a developer that it is “pretty excited about,” but the university has not entered into a contract with the unnamed company.

DeWitt said that spring is likely the earliest KU would announce next steps on the project, including ideas on financing and timing.

Girod said much work has to be done between now and then. With the news that the stadium renovations must proceed before other work can begin, he said there are multiple elements KU is actively working on: a hotel, retail, student housing, parking and the east-side stadium improvements.

“Really, it now has five elements to it, which adds significant complexity to it, but it is the right way to do it,” Girod said.

Oh. My. God.


How do any of the people in charge of this project still have jobs!?!????

This is just noise, right Piss'?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2024 Presidential Race

« on: September 10, 2024, 04:39:37 PM »

A lot of people polled (like 28% in one case) say they want to know more about Harris. This is not true for Trump. So, as long as Harris represents herself well in the debate, she has the opportunity to win lots of votes.

Yeah, that's how I feel about this "debate". Trump is going to do trump things, and this isn't going to change any cultist minds. But this could for her allow her to very publicly in a non-DNC setting allow her to (hopefully) hold her own and make herself known. I think the biggest thing (and why she absolutely should do it assuming she can) is prove she is mentally light years ahead of Biden, and de facto trump. If you replaced a bumbling Biden and the last thing many people have in their mind is that debate, you have to replace not just Biden as the candidate, but Biden's last memory to the electorate with a new memory of her. That is what she has to do. Prove she's coherent, able to handle zingers and send them back, and have it not devolve into who's golf game is better.

I think her campaign so far has been pretty good at keeping trump off his normal game, and if she can succeed in that and be again, coherent and mentally capable as well as clear, she will bring enough fence sitters over, especially if trump comes off as exceedingly boorish, rambling bully he really is.

This is the bar for our presidential candidates: Prove you are mentally coherent.

I mean, it drove Biden out, might as well do it for trump. But tis a low bar when launch codes are on the table.

It didn't drive Biden out, the fact he was going to lose to Trump drove Biden out.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: The Real Estate Investing Thread

« on: August 21, 2024, 01:51:59 PM »

yla airbnb goes live next month 

year + into hosting now. 90% of the time it is fine and dandy, the other 10% of the time I wonder why I do it and think I should just sell the place.

what happened in the 10%

Mainly just people and that it's also impossible to please everyone.

Is it profitable tho?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness

« on: July 01, 2024, 04:54:34 PM »

Please tell me that lumber is not what you used for the new sill plate.

you're in luck!  ms tobias got sent out to grab some ground contact PT

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness

« on: July 01, 2024, 01:15:03 PM »

what started as a “hey can you put up some storage hook thingies in my shed” ended up as replacing about 14’ of completely rotted out sill plate with jackshit for tools on hand except for an old sawzall with a shitty blade, an impact driver and the jack from my car

Please tell me that lumber is not what you used for the new sill plate.

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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

« on: June 19, 2024, 10:16:34 AM »

It's too late, now. We're pot committed. Phase 1 (2/3 of a stadium) will be done. The stuff we pilfered KSU tax dollars for might not, at least not for quite a while, if ever. Anyway, thanks guys!

Will it though? I ask because according to the article linked, KU will have to take out an additional $115 million in debt to complete phase 1. Now, that's not a complete surprise as everyone outside the crimson and blue clouds has been talking about how this project was behind schedule and over budget for a while now. However, the next question I have is, aren't those tax dollars in discussion contingent on the whole Gateway project being built? I mean, it's one thing to take that tax dollars, say it's going to be used for the project, and then muddy the waters between the stadium and the conference center/hotel/restaurants. It's another to take the tax dollars, use it all for the stadium, and not even build the Gateway project at all. Wouldn't that constitute fraud?

I'm asking seriously here because I truly don't know how these things work.

Obligatory I'm not that kind of lawyer, but when KU fans tease y'all about this, they're gaslighting you. They're federal funds, me boys.

Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) Bonds are a financing tool that allows Kansas municipalities to issue bonds to finance the development of major commercial, entertainment and tourism projects. The bonds are paid off through the sales tax revenue generated by the development.

There is gaslighting on both sides.  It's not really state tax revenue (except the portion from the development, which would not exist if not for the bonds) and it's only from the patrons of the development, which are not KSU fans (except for every other year when we show up to wax that ass).

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: goEMAW.com's Poetry Thread

« on: June 19, 2024, 09:05:30 AM »

What is this final stanza to this poem about?

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

He is dreaming and is woken up to real life and it sucks.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Cars.... How far have you went before getting a new one?

« on: June 14, 2024, 10:47:53 AM »

My 2000 Toyota Tundra is still going strong. Now with 76,000 miles.

Have you considered driving it at some point?


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I was going to suggest you get rid of it and just put an inflatable replica in your driveway.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Cricket World Cup

« on: June 07, 2024, 11:47:48 AM »

Go to the World Cup if you can because cricket is weird and the national team is apparently good 

I think the US winning was termed the greatest upset in the history of Cricket so I am not sure how good we are.  But definitely go to the World Cup.

Also, I went down a rabbit hole on X about cricket players vs. baseball players.  Cricket fans are convinced that cricket players are superior because they don't wear a glove. 

I think we all know that baseball players are superior because they are better athletes in every way.  Check out how this baseball player adjusts his game on the fly and absolutely rakes in 20 pitches, or bowls, or whatever, while cricket guy is complete ass at baseball.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Fun but weird hobbys

« on: June 06, 2024, 11:26:24 AM »

I guess the question is do I start new things or go all in on what I have already.

Both your current hobbies and the new prospects seem kind of boring and lame, so I guess you do you boo.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats

« on: June 03, 2024, 05:21:34 PM »

I'm literally moving that weekend but if the cats make the CWS I might just move stuff in the morning and fly up to Omaha to watch us play 

Where is Steve Dave in all this?  It is only right that he open his home to all the gE'rs making the trip.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump 2024

« on: May 31, 2024, 10:32:57 AM »

twitter is going all in on the assassination theory

Double?!?   

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: May 22, 2024, 01:15:35 PM »

we going to talk about Baby Reindeer? because holy rough ridin' crap

that was hard to watch

yeah i didn't have fun with that.  by the time i wanted to get off the ride (that episode), I felt like i was already in too deep and had to see it through.  no fun though.

I am at the epi where she shows up as he is walking home by the canal and pins him against the wall.  Feels super creepy.  Sounds like it's not worth going on.

It gets considerably worse.

I’m out.

I quit as well.  I found myself hoping that every character would get murdered to put them and myself out of our collective misery.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 16, 2024, 08:08:48 AM »

Here’s a great example:

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2024-byd-shark-phev-pickup-truck-first-look-review/

Yep, you wouldn't be able to get one fast enough if that was sold in the US. It's been obvious for a while that the big auto companies and dealers are delaying EV adoption as long as they can. That's why every EV that comes out looks like a shitty lego car instead of a normal looking car. Elon is a moron for lots of reasons but building the stupid cyber truck instead of something like this is up there for all time dumbass ideas.

That thing has a lower towing capacity than a Nissan Pathfinder.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: TexAgs politics board gems thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 02:27:31 PM »

peacedude10:50p, 4/30/24
After 52 years of life, I still have never had a cup of coffee.

Give me hot soup, not a hot drink. Plus, it tastes like sh*t.

As for gourmet coffee, to me that's akin to wearing a designer mask.

i suppose by that logic i too, must confess i've never had a cup of coffee, since i've never managed to get the coffee-containing vessel bone dry before discarding.

how could he possibly know it tastes like sh*t?

If only there was some way to taste coffee without consuming an entire cup.

Lol, shambles.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: TexAgs politics board gems thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 11:34:27 AM »

peacedude10:50p, 4/30/24
After 52 years of life, I still have never had a cup of coffee.

Give me hot soup, not a hot drink. Plus, it tastes like sh*t.

As for gourmet coffee, to me that's akin to wearing a designer mask.

how could he possibly know it tastes like sh*t?

If only there was some way to taste coffee without consuming an entire cup.