ESPN lays off employees, with more cuts to come

[mav1234]

4 hours ago, TheCasillas said:

Charlotte has a pretty shitty infrastructure. It was not designed to be as big as it is becoming.

This is a North American city problem, though.  There's worse places for sure, but I agree with you, fwiw.

[TheCasillas]

6 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

As a truck driver, I promise you it's better than most. 

As someone who lives in center city.... Chicago was way better... The fact they built uptown on a hill (why they call it uptown) and did not construct the city on a grid system, it is an actual poo show to navigate between boroughs... You have to go through the highway to get anywhere. They never planned for the city to grow how it has.

[scpanther22]

We need more walkable cities, the amount of cars in this country is insane 

[Toker Smurf]

On 4/24/2023 at 3:38 PM, Khyber53 said:

Disney is planning something very big for next year and is clearing the decks to create cash now.

 

Stand-alone streaming service (not ESPN+). 

[Ricky Prickles]

34 minutes ago, Toker Smurf said:

Stand-alone streaming service (not ESPN+). 

You mean their own streaming service with all channels like a Sling, or Hulu or YouTube TV? One thing that pisses me off with streaming services is that they talked so long abit how much cheaper they were than cable but streaming services prices continue to shoot up to the point that it's not much cheaper than cable or satellite. I just dropped Sling due to it being something like $87 per month once I added a bunch of additional channels not counting any movie channels. I see most of the others are about the same proved as well once you add all the channels you want unfortunately. I hope Disney brings something out that beats all of them price wise but being that it's Disney and a bottle of water in one of their parks costs as much as a used car I won't hold my breath.

Edited July 2, 2023 by Ricky Prickles

[CamWhoaaCam]

2 hours ago, scpanther22 said:

We need more walkable cities, the amount of cars in this country is insane 

Sir we are also the most obese country. We are lazy and always looking for shortcuts. We will have flying cars in the near future. It's only going to get worst from this point.

[Paa Langfart]

On 4/24/2023 at 4:05 PM, amcoolio said:

They gave Buck and Aikman 30 million a year combined and now I imagine will cut a lot of lower level employees making less than 200,000 to make up for it

I can't be the only one who hates listening to their self important drivel

[Paa Langfart]

On 4/24/2023 at 5:41 PM, CamWhoaaCam said:

Speaking of Disney I heard on the radio today that Disney World might be coming to North Carolina. Nothing final but it's being considered as a real possibility.

 

My guess is somewhere out West with a lot of land would probably be the location. Asheville makes sense.

God no please

[pantherclaw]

17 hours ago, TheCasillas said:

As someone who lives in center city.... Chicago was way better... The fact they built uptown on a hill (why they call it uptown) and did not construct the city on a grid system, it is an actual poo show to navigate between boroughs... You have to go through the highway to get anywhere. They never planned for the city to grow how it has.

Atlanta is worse in that aspect. 

[1of10Charnatives]

On 4/24/2023 at 7:10 PM, jayboogieman said:

Won't happen. Disney all but owns Florida and is that state's single biggest source of income. It's just a publicity stunt by some of the state reps along with trying to milk 750000 from the state to "perform a study on the feasibility of getting Disney."

There is another reason Disney would no bs consider the move. If the science says there's a meaningful chance Florida is underwater from climate change down the road, forget all the nonsense political noise from both sides, do you really think a company as big as Disney doesn't take a serious look at relocating their major park to avoid that risk?

If they relocate to the mountains of NC, it would be telling. The cheapest, flatest land best suited for a major theme park by far isn't in the mountains, it's in the eastern part of the state. Compared to large chunks of eastern NC, Asheville is neither flat nor cheap, and building large roads to and from any relocated park would be much more expensive projects than in flat easter NC. But if Disney goes to the mountains, what does that tell you about what they believe might happen?

[scpanther22]

Forgot where I read this but I read that Disney was basically allowed to self- govern themselves in FL...which is insane amount of power to give a corporation 

[jayboogieman]

30 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

There is another reason Disney would no bs consider the move. If the science says there's a meaningful chance Florida is underwater from climate change down the road, forget all the nonsense political noise from both sides, do you really think a company as big as Disney doesn't take a serious look at relocating their major park to avoid that risk?

If they relocate to the mountains of NC, it would be telling. The cheapest, flatest land best suited for a major theme park by far isn't in the mountains, it's in the eastern part of the state. Compared to large chunks of eastern NC, Asheville is neither flat nor cheap, and building large roads to and from any relocated park would be much more expensive projects than in flat easter NC. But if Disney goes to the mountains, what does that tell you about what they believe might happen?

If Disney moved because of the climate, they would go further north than NC because they had seen studies that showed NC would become too hot and dry and they wouldn't want to move again. If Disney moved to NC at all, it wouldn't be the mountains but somewhere in the piedmont. There's not enough land in the mountains for a park Disney World's size. Virginia, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, or Kentucky would be my guess if Disney left Florida due to the climate.

[jayboogieman]

4 minutes ago, scpanther22 said:

Forgot where I read this but I read that Disney was basically allowed to self- govern themselves in FL...which is insane amount of power to give a corporation 

Yeah. Disney has a special distract in Florida where they provide some government services. Here's the wiki about it.

[PantherFanInPhilly]

22 hours ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Sir we are also the most obese country. We are lazy and always looking for shortcuts. We will have flying cars in the near future. It's only going to get worst from this point.

No, the US is not the most obese country.