Ivanhoe

Freedom of speech does not protect Alex Jones or anyone else from libel, slander or defamation.

I don’t necessarily see an incentive for Brightline to significantly increase speed on the MIA-ORL route until there are important connections are both terminals. For ORL, the Sunshine corridor ext. and for MIA, the metro mover expansion to South Beach. As it exists now, Brightline only needs to be as convenient or slightly more so than other forms of transit to be successful.

Regarding Amtrak / Acela: Its electric locomotives are confined to the Northeast Corridor and the Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line, dual-mode locomotives are only used in the Empire Corridor between Albany and New York, and the diesel locomotives are used in all other areas across in the United States. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amtrak_rolling_stock#:~:text=Its electric locomotives are confined,across in the United States. Brightline West and CA HSR will also be 100% electric.

Does this have something to do with the fleet of trains used? Amtrak’s new Acela fleet will rollout in 2024 with top speeds of 160mph whereas top speed is currently around 130mph in sections with average speed at 68mph.

That’s how you do a building mural!

Copper that ages to a green patina would have looked better or even glass paneling that illuminates from underneath. CSP is also very gimmicky with its hodgepodge of patterns. It really ruined any perspective of height the Suntrust tower once had.

That may be true of places yet to legalize recreational marijuana but is not the case everywhere else.

Marijuana dispensaries are already all over the metro in highly visible areas. Nothing particularly unique about the location. I could see residents of Dr Phillips trying to fight it but it’s outside their boundaries in unincorporated OC.

Former Suntrust crown seen in a flattering light today (same cannot be said for CSP from this angle):

Maitland plans new $18.7 million library

Osceola Magic win third in a row, move into tie for first in the South

I guess it depends on how you’re defining top tier status which was probably the wrong term In the context of this discussion. I was merely talking about built urban environment. NOLA is lightyears ahead of all those cities you mention in that regard and remains that way. In terms of other things such as financial influence I would agree with you. It’s not a question.

For that matter, Richmond as well.

I’m referring to city tier status in response to the previous post, not just skyline. Yet, I do think the drive through NOLA on I-10 is a more exciting experience than most cities in the south due to sheer density.

Arguably, Miami, ATL, and NOLA are the only major top tier cities in the entirety of the Southeast. Honorable mention to Nashville. Tampa has the bones but is still decades behind. It will always be limited by lack of mass transit alternatives until that becomes available.

^Art imitates life.

Ron DeSantis will be unemployed and collecting soon.

A case for term limits. Political effectiveness has a shelf life.

I would discourage you for speaking on behalf of most straight people. I do not see the average straight person at all squeamish about drag. Also, you can just simply avoid it if your feelings are so arcane towards the subject. What you can’t do, however, is try to stop it like DeShameless because as a matter of fact those people have a right so do whatever they want if it’s within their rights, to which it is. Also, I would discourage you from bucketing drag in with acts of indecent behavior whatever it be gay or straight. It is completely legal whereas some of the things mentioned here such as indecent exposure, public nudity or sex, are not in most places not SF or Key West (and since you know those things are legal there, just don’t go if you don’t like it — it’s simple really). Case in point: I do not want to get an STD from a MAGA republican, so I do avoid the Villages.

When the interstate was in the planning stages, I-4 was to run considerably west of the current location up what is present day OBT / JYP area before making a slight eastern shift north of downtown. It faced fierce opposition and was rerouted to the present day scenario. This is the reason there is the sharp turn on I-4 at JYP as it snakes through the area.

Not only are they different definitions, they are different concepts. Being equal under the law does not require anyone to have acceptance of another person’s lifestyle nor does it require said person to conform to a majority stance (whatever that actually means because I sure don’t put all straights comfortably into a box).

You seem to misunderstand something. The gay community is not and has not looked for acceptance by the straight majority, rather fought for equality. To that measure, the movement has been largely successful. It is the straight majority who are fixated on their “acceptance rate” of gay marriage and other things that gay people do with their lives. Just pointing that out, not as a matter of confrontation.

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The joke is on you.