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 Cohabiting couples in Burundi have until the end of the year to get married or face legal consequences.

The government order comes after President Pierre Nkurunziza launched a campaign "to moralise society".

A government spokesman said a crackdown on informal relationships was needed to combat a population explosion.

He said too many schoolgirls were getting pregnant and men were taking advantage of women by cohabiting with several simultaneously.

Burundi has been in crisis since 2015 when Mr Nkurunziza, a born-again Christian, announced he would run for a controversial third term.

One farmer quoted by AFP said local officials had already threatened him and his partner with a fine and said any child born out of wedlock would not qualify for free education or medical treatment.

Chard posted:

gyro or gtfo

eviltastic posted:

Hollismason posted:

Bill Clinton Would Have Won

Captain Invictus posted:

if we're gonna have foodchat for this evening's derail I'm gonna have to throw down and say papa ginos is some of the worst poo poo pizza in the world, and there's some shiiiiiitty pizza out there.

Pikavangelist posted:

As much as I hate to even remotely defend Papa John's, I've only eaten at one place that could screw up pizza, and it wasn't them. It was Sbarro's.

Captain Invictus posted:

papa ginos is some of the worst poo poo pizza in the world, and there's some shiiiiiitty pizza out there.

Tatsuta Age posted:

Didn't McDonald's make pizzas for a sec

Phyein posted:

I want everyone to picture Jeff Sessions getting crushed by a steamroller. We could all use a laugh in these troubled times.

FlamingLiberal posted:

NYT reporting that Trump is not going to try and block Comey from testifying before Congress

eviltastic posted:

Shifty Pony posted:

Speaking of Atlanta and food there was a place southwest of Atlanta right off I-20 called Jurassic Subs. It is a sub shop with dinosaurs everywhere and it is loving awesome.


the sandwich was decent but any shortcomings were more than made up for by the dinosaurs

axeil posted:

I did not get a chance to ask a question at Lovett or Leave It but it was a good episode. They talked a bunch about the Social Security Disability article we were talking about this afternoon.

AsInHowe posted:

Did you get me Katie Nolan's number or other contact info

Hellblazer187 posted:

Captain Invictus is one of the wrongest people in the world, and there's some wrrrrooooong people out there.

Papa Ginos is the best. Whenever I'm in New England it's my first and my last stop. I will literally fight you over this.

Edit: Papa Ginos aint Papa Johns. Yes, Papa Johns is pretty trash. Papa Ginos is a New England only chain and it literally defines what good pizza is. All pizza is measured in terms it's variation from the Papa Ginos standard.

Edit2: Did you throw this out there just because you know there are a lot of people who feel strongly for Ginos and you knew saying this would drive somebody mad?

mango sentinel posted:

Don't be gross

Hollismason posted:

Why not just eat garbage off the street instead of either of those places.

Classtoise posted:

I am just imagining him calling the steamroller the N-word over and over as it just keeps rolling forward.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I know Jimmy Johns bases itself on super fast delivery but how the gently caress does that work? Didn't places like Dominos get in big trouble in the 80s because their promised fast delivery times resulted in tons of car accidents?

quote:

ROTT: Williams has applauded Trump's plans to repeal Obama-era regulations on the coal industry, but he also knows that there are factors Trump can't change. He can't change the energy market.

WILLIAMS: Part of it is because of the price of natural gas has made it more competitive.

ROTT: And he can't change the fact that increasingly, the two biggest customers for Colstrip's energy, people in Washington and Oregon, don't want coal-fired power anymore.

RON ROBERTS: Many of our customers are more interested in having green energy come through. They're more interested in renewables.

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MANNIX: We can put up with all the pollution, and they get the gravy. And this went on for 40 years. And we took it. We ran with it. We made it successful. And now these prima donnas out there can just walk away. Well, no - pay your way out of it now.

ROTT: Mannix and others here would like to see those states help pay for Colstrip future, whatever that may be. They're not giving up on coal, not even close to it. But they know that changes are inevitably coming. Nathan Rott, NPR News, Colstrip, Mont.

Phyein posted:

Roy rogers still exists, albut only at interstate rest stops. I occassionally go to them when im bored and miserable... theres something peaceful about a rest stop espicially on a tol higheay because its close to home but isolated at the same time because only long travellers go to them. They feel like a whole nother world.

Roy rogers sucks though its bottom of the barrel fast food, its like, theres no reason anyone would go to them unless they absolutely have to. Hence interstate rest stops.with nothing nefore or after for 20 miles.

bernie would have won

Mr Interweb posted:

I'd like to interrupt the sandwich talk briefly to laugh at these Trumpeters:



http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/531099076/montana-town-exemplifies-coal-countrys-uncertain-future

tl: dr

Montana Trumpsters think Trump will bring back coals jobs to their lovely little town, but also seem to realize that natural gas is also killing coal. But they're also angry that Oregon and Washington, which used to be the coal company's biggest customers, don't want coal anymore, and the Trumpsters insist that they should be propping up their lovely industry. Sounds like entitlement to me...

Also, Subway is loving awful. Shame that Quizno's went out of business. Now there was a REAL man's sandwich shop!

glowing-fish posted:

I've heard that East of the Mississippi (I hope that is a neutral term), interstate rest stops have fast food restaurants and stuff?

glowing-fish posted:

I've heard that East of the Mississippi (I hope that is a neutral term), interstate rest stops have fast food restaurants and stuff?

In the Western United States, all they have is bathrooms, drinking fountains, picnic tables, sometimes flyers of tourist attractions. Sometimes people make coffee which they give away for donations.

glowing-fish posted:

I've heard that East of the Mississippi (I hope that is a neutral term), interstate rest stops have fast food restaurants and stuff?

In the Western United States, all they have is bathrooms, drinking fountains, picnic tables, sometimes flyers of tourist attractions. Sometimes people make coffee which they give away for donations.



This isn't totally irrelevant to the thread, because I am learning about Trump's mindset, about a world where everything is commercialized and tacky, and where of course a rest area has a bunch of cheesy chain restaurants. The idea that a rest area could just be some trees and picnic tables is probably something that Trump couldn't understand.

glowing-fish posted:

I've heard that East of the Mississippi (I hope that is a neutral term), interstate rest stops have fast food restaurants and stuff?

In the Western United States, all they have is bathrooms, drinking fountains, picnic tables, sometimes flyers of tourist attractions. Sometimes people make coffee which they give away for donations.



This isn't totally irrelevant to the thread, because I am learning about Trump's mindset, about a world where everything is commercialized and tacky, and where of course a rest area has a bunch of cheesy chain restaurants. The idea that a rest area could just be some trees and picnic tables is probably something that Trump couldn't understand.

In fact, has Donald Trump ever had any record of being in a natural area? I mean, like most people from the East Coast, he probably doesn't even understand such a concept exists, and then on top of that, the idea of him coming up against something that is just nature, that isn't a social reality where he could stroke his ego, probably just doesn't compute.

Majorian posted:

Yup. I was floored the first time I drove cross country and found how less-lovely East Coast rest stops are than West Coast ones.

glowing-fish posted:

This article is confused.

This article is people in the Eastern United States who have never been further than Pennsylvania, who think that the entire Western United States looks like rural Pennsylvania, and who are trying to figure it out based on that.

Oregon and Washington never used much coal power, Oregon and Washington had plentiful hydroelectric power coming from rivers. Coal mining was not a major industry in Montana: Montana's history is based around copper mining, if anything.

The county that Colstrip, Montana is in had a maximum population of 10,000 people, which even by Montana standards is small. Compare that to Silver Bow County (Butte), which at its peak had 25% of Montana's population. Contrary to the narrative about coal miners loving Trump, Silver Bow County has voted Democratic in every election in its history, with I think the exception of Nixon in 1972. But because the narrative is about environmentalist hating coal miners, Montana has to be about that, too.

glowing-fish posted:

"Yes, instead of getting to have a quiet natural area where I can exercise, I get to look at asphalt and eat McDonalds"--- an East Coaster who also probably thinks that Trump Steaks are a classy luxury item.

Maybe the lack of nature and prevalence of fast food has some type of downside?

glowing-fish posted:

This article is confused.

This article is people in the Eastern United States who have never been further than Pennsylvania, who think that the entire Western United States looks like rural Pennsylvania, and who are trying to figure it out based on that.

Oregon and Washington never used much coal power, Oregon and Washington had plentiful hydroelectric power coming from rivers. Coal mining was not a major industry in Montana: Montana's history is based around copper mining, if anything.

The county that Colstrip, Montana is in had a maximum population of 10,000 people, which even by Montana standards is small. Compare that to Silver Bow County (Butte), which at its peak had 25% of Montana's population. Contrary to the narrative about coal miners loving Trump, Silver Bow County has voted Democratic in every election in its history, with I think the exception of Nixon in 1972. But because the narrative is about environmentalist hating coal miners, Montana has to be about that, too.

glowing-fish posted:

This article is confused.

This article is people in the Eastern United States who have never been further than Pennsylvania, who think that the entire Western United States looks like rural Pennsylvania, and who are trying to figure it out based on that.

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LORI SHAW: When I was a little kid, I actually thought it was a castle. And I thought the princess of Colstrip lived there.

ROTT: Lori Shaw could lay claim to that title, the Princess of Colstrip, herself, and she wouldn't hear many arguments. She's 25, wears her hair in a long blond braid and has the town's name tattooed in swooping cursive on her right wrist.

I don't think we've passed a person that hasn't waved at you so far.

SHAW: Yeah, that's Colstrip for you.

ROTT: Shaw is the co-founder of Colstrip United, an effort she helped to start about a year and a half ago to help give supporters of coal and coal workers more of a public voice.