I was driving today in South Carolina north of table rock, and even though I didn’t see a sign telling me I had entered NC, I knew I was in NC by the following two clues: 1. The road suddenly got bettesmoother 2. The sign that said “burn headlights when using wipers.”
I love that official signs use the phrase burn headlights and am amazed that term made it on official government signs. I imagine someone from outside of the state who is unfamiliar with that term thinking they have to start their headlights on fire. Also, since we are now in the age of LED, there is nothing burning in the headlight.

Pride night! Our long-awaited rematch from the season opener is finally here. They've made some upgrades since then. Hello, Victoria Pickett.
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• What/who were your bright spots?
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90'+8': Kansas City Current 1-0 North Carolina Courage

Kansas City Current scorers: Kristen Hamilton (8')
Venue: Children's Mercy Park, KC
LINE-UPS
Kansas City Current
Cassie Miller, Croix Soto, Gabrielle Robinson, Addisyn Merrick (Jenna Winebrenner), Lo'eau LaBonta, Vanessa Di Bernardo, Hailie Mace, Kate Del Fava, Kristen Hamilton (Michelle Cooper), Debinha (Mimmi Larsson), Cecelia Kizer (Isabel Rodriguez).
Subs: Adrianna Franch, Alexa Spaanstra, Ryan Childers, Chardonnay Curran, Morgan Gautrat.
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North Carolina Courage
Casey Murphy, Malia Berkely (Mille Gejl), Kaleigh Kurtz, Emily Fox, Ryan Williams, Denise O'Sullivan, Narumi Miura (Brianna Pinto), Meredith Speck (Victoria Pickett), Rikke Marie Madsen (Tess Boade), Kerolin Nicoli, Tyler Lussi (Olivia Wingate).
Subs: Brittany Ratcliffe, Kiara Pickett, Frankie Tagliaferri, Katelyn Rowland.
8' Goal! Kansas City Current 1, North Carolina Courage 0. Kristen Hamilton (Kansas City Current) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Debinha.
45' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Michelle Cooper replaces Kristen Hamilton.
64' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Olivia Wingate replaces Tyler Lussi.
65' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Tess Boade replaces Rikke Madsen.
68' Kerolin (North Carolina Courage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
73' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Jenna Winebrenner replaces Addisyn Merrick because of an injury.
75' Meredith Speck (North Carolina Courage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
77' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Victoria Pickett replaces Meredith Speck.
77' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Brianna Pinto replaces Narumi Miura.
81' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Izzy Rodriguez replaces Cece Kizer.
83' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Mille Gejl Jensen replaces Malia Berkely.
88' Brianna Pinto (North Carolina Courage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
89' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Mimmi Larsson replaces Debinha.
90'+1' Hailie Mace (Kansas City Current) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

In full disclosure, I really hate to say this as someone who absolutely loathes Trump, so much so that I'd vote for DeSantis in a primary as a Biden supporter to eliminate any risk of Trump being POTUS again. But ever since election day 2022, when I bought the conventional wisdom that DeSantis was probably going to beat Trump for the nomination and would have a decent shot to beat Biden in the general election, I've come to regrettably realize that Trump, while not a favorite in a general election, would have a better chance to beat Biden in the general, and here's why:
First, there’s the issue of low propensity/Trump only voters. We’ve seen Trump beat his polls twice, and there are a lot of theories as to why, but I think given the accuracy of polling when Trump’s not on the ballot, it’s pretty clear that there’s a Trump-only vote, and that this “Trumpism without Trump” theory doesn’t work. That may be MAGA diehards who screw with pollsters for fun, or it may be a socially-estranged, low-trust, not-answering-phone kind of person who doesn’t pay attention to the news much and only votes for Trump in a general election because he’s the only candidate who’s in the news enough to draw their attention. It’s probably a bit of both, but there’s not a lot of evidence that non-Trump Republicans have much of this appeal, especially in swing states. I concede that DeSantis beat his polls in Florida twice, but Republicans underperformed their polls in basically every other swing state in 2022 (if Florida counts as a swing state), 2018 had errors in both directions, and Romney underperformed his polls in 2012. If these people exist, and are key to Republicans winning or keeping presidential elections close, then that’s a problem for DeSantis as non-Trump candidates don’t seem to have the ability to turn them out, and DeSantis, by trying to do “Trumpism without Trump” probably increases the odds that he will Blake Masters himself rather than get himself elected POTUS.
Second, people who think DeSantis is more electable need to take a look at the electoral college, and what's driven the key states in the directions that they've been driven in. I would agree that given his inroads in the suburbs and with Hispanics, DeSantis would have better odds than Trump in Georgia and Arizona, and would probably make Biden's odds of winning North Carolina or Texas close to zero. But even if DeSantis wins Georgia and Arizona - which is far from a guarantee, that gets him only to 262 EVs if all other states hold from 2016. DeSantis would then have to flip Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania, which seems doable given their 2020 margins, except for the fact that DeSantis has one major achilles heel in these states, and that is abortion. Republicans lost the governorships in all three states in 2022, in Michigan and Pennsylvania by landslide margins where the losing candidates took very extreme stances on abortion, and we all saw how the Democrats won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 11 points in no small part due to abortion, and DeSantis's 6-week ban is not going to play well in overwhelmingly pro-choice states as the three big Rust Belt states are. And while Trump can be linked to Dobbs given his justice picks, Trump has not staked out extreme positions on abortion for the most part, and he has one big advantage over DeSantis in these states, which is that he actually won them in 2016. Granted, he did lose them in 2020, but not by much, so I wouldn’t say he’s favored in them, certainly not in Michigan or Pennsylvania. But think about the last time these states elected a non-Trump Republican in a general election. Ron Johnson was that in 2022, and that Johnson and Pat Toomey won in 2016, but that’s while Trump was on the ballot. George W. Bush lost all these states, Obama cleaned McCain and Romney’s clocks in all these states, and the most recent cases that you can point to where they elected non-Trump Republicans outside of Ron Johnson (who ran against a disastrous opponent) were when Scott Walker and Rick Snyder won… in 2014, 10 years before 2024. Trump’s not strong or favored to win in these states, but he at least has a record of a fighting chance, whereas DeSantis’s style of politics has a very poor track record in them.
And finally - and I think this is the big one: the electability argument that people have re Trump vs. DeSantis in 2024 get talked about in a similar way to the Biden vs. Sanders one in 2020. And if you could feel relatively certain that whoever loses the primary will throw his support behind the nominee, as you could in the case with Biden and Sanders, that would make sense. If you assumed as a given that if Trump lost the primary, he would endorse DeSantis in the general, give a convention speech, etc. then the case for DeSantis being more electable would make sense. But that's the problem, is that you can't assume that. It's not something you can quantify in a model, and we do have to rely on subjective probability here, but I would dare anybody who thinks DeSantis is the way Republicans beat Biden to answer the question: what about Trump tells you that he's going to be a good sport and throw his support behind the guy who beat him in the primary? The man has no record of being a good sport, and the one argument that I think is somewhat persuasive that he would be in this case - that Trump would need DeSantis to win the presidency in order to get a pardon from his legal issues, that argument is undermined by the fact that Trump's biggest legal threat is in Georgia, not from the feds, and even if DeSantis pardons Trump in the documents and (if they bring charges), the 1/6 investigation, he can't save Trump AT ALL from a likely racketeering case that the Atlanta DA is going to bring. Even if a DeSantis presidency could save Trump from all his legal issues, it's not even clear that Trump would have the self-discipline to support him given his demonstrated lack of self-discipline, and given that it can't, I don't think the "but the pardon" argument holds.
I’m not saying that I think Trump is our next president. He could lose the nomination due to indictments convincing people DeSantis is more electable, and if he wins it, he’s an underdog in a general election given Biden’s incumbency advantage, his tarnished image post-1/6, and the fact that the economy seems to be holding up OK enough to not sink an incumbent (though the last point I’m least sure about). But I just don’t see how the Republicans have much of a shot to win without him.I rest my case here, and want everyone’s agreements/disagreements. This was fun to write!

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Anyone know Michael Lee this Rock N Roll guitarist? It's still sealed so I haven't listened to it. No entries or any information on eBay, Amazon, Google or Discogs. Comes from the Statesville, North Carolina area, released on Vaporizer Records. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

90'+8': Kansas City Current 1-0 North Carolina Courage

Kansas City Current scorers: Kristen Hamilton (8')
Venue: Children's Mercy Park
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LINE-UPS
Kansas City Current
Cassie Miller, Croix Soto, Gabrielle Robinson, Addisyn Merrick (Jenna Winebrenner), Lo'eau LaBonta, Vanessa Di Bernardo, Hailie Mace, Kate Del Fava, Kristen Hamilton (Michelle Cooper), Debinha (Mimmi Larsson), Cecelia Kizer (Isabel Rodriguez).
Subs: Adrianna Franch, Alexa Spaanstra, Ryan Childers, Chardonnay Curran, Morgan Gautrat.
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North Carolina Courage
Casey Murphy, Malia Berkely (Mille Gejl), Kaleigh Kurtz, Emily Fox, Ryan Williams, Denise O'Sullivan, Narumi Miura (Brianna Pinto), Meredith Speck (Victoria Pickett), Rikke Marie Madsen (Tess Boade), Kerolin Nicoli, Tyler Lussi (Olivia Wingate).
Subs: Brittany Ratcliffe, Kiara Pickett, Frankie Tagliaferri, Katelyn Rowland.
MATCH EVENTS via ESPN
8' Goal! Kansas City Current 1, North Carolina Courage 0. Kristen Hamilton (Kansas City Current) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Debinha.
45' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Michelle Cooper replaces Kristen Hamilton.
64' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Olivia Wingate replaces Tyler Lussi.
65' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Tess Boade replaces Rikke Madsen.
68' Kerolin (North Carolina Courage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
73' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Jenna Winebrenner replaces Addisyn Merrick because of an injury.
75' Meredith Speck (North Carolina Courage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
77' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Victoria Pickett replaces Meredith Speck.
77' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Brianna Pinto replaces Narumi Miura.
81' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Izzy Rodriguez replaces Cece Kizer.
83' Substitution, North Carolina Courage. Mille Gejl Jensen replaces Malia Berkely.
88' Brianna Pinto (North Carolina Courage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
89' Substitution, Kansas City Current. Mimmi Larsson replaces Debinha.
90'+1' Hailie Mace (Kansas City Current) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Hello! I was a former finance and econs exchanger at NUS and it’s business school! I wanted to ask and post here (if it’s allowed) if students are doing study abroad (called SEP? 🤔) with my home uni of UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Met some amazing friends from SG who exchanged here a year ago! Just wanted to answer some questions in the thread below! I really enjoyed my time in SG! 🇸🇬