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Ivey had internal fixation surgery today. No indication of any damage beyond the fracture. With the screws or plates or whatever they installed, plus an intact Tibia (unlike Hutch who broke both), he should be able to at least get back on his feet a little sooner while it heals. https://www.freep.com/sports/pistons/

I wonder if retirement was looming?

Law enforcement tending to this conclusion. Driver shot himself before the truck burned https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/02/las-vegas-explosion-tesla-cybertruck-trump-hotel-colorado/

Not if the idea is to get less left-handed. He did have some decent MiLB contact numbers though - better than Torkelson's ever were. I'm waiting for some sense to emerge from this off-season, so far I don't see it. Keith looks like he could turn into a good OBP hitter, but he's not shown any power yet, so moving him to 1st seems like a misfit - or at least premature. I'm pretty luke-warm about Torres unless he was willing to move to a corner and supposedly he is not. Baty would just be more confusion. I know you sort of have to take hitters where you can find them, but pretty recently we've also seen the futility of rosters full of big bats who don't add up to an good baseball team so you don't want to end up there again either.

very strange. You would think a guy with his kind of training could have done a lot more damage if he had wanted to. Maybe this one was just a noisy suicide?

if it's not in too many pieces that would be better news than the ankle or ligaments.

Schwartz might break the hex.

And he's going to have to keep it up. If the Vikes sign Darnold and decide to trade McCarthy going into a not so great QB draft year they could end up with some good picks.

Yzerman hasn't left himself enough room to take on a $11.6M cap hit without doing some serious surgery. 🤔

My Master's project was on 3000 80 column punch cards. I got to where I could hold an IBM card to a light and read it without the text printed on top. Another entry in the inventory of now useless but once needed life skills. I always wonder if the limiting factor on AI is going to be the GIGO problem. How do you keep the models from corrupting themselves with all the falsehood that is out there? Anyway, there aren't many examples of technologies that have been successfully kept in the bottle. The Japanese managed to keep firearms from widespread use for 250 years but it's hard to think of other examples. We've managed 80 yrs without a nuclear war, but it's been a continually dicey proposition.

If they land Bregman someone will get moved - probably for relief help. That will be two IFs added and only one removed - or at least likely removed (Torkelson). What would be fun is if they land Bregman and then Torkelson tears up ST and/or his 1st month at Toledo. Not likely but it would be a fun problem to have.

I had a really nice Pickett. My sophomore year my roommate and I split the outrageous cost of one of the first HP35s and that was that.

Eggs may expensive in some places, but the Duck are laying enough to drive the price down in LA tonight....

You can probably figure that when a problem sits in Congress for 40 yrs without resolution, it's because there are powerful interests in it not being resolved.

I am not offended if we want to allow more immigration, I am not offended if the country decides to allow less. I am offended by the hypocrisy of letting millions of people into the country on a nod and wink for the benefit of employers without giving them rights or a path to citizenship.

I'm willing to give Reagan some benefit of the doubt that if he had seen what GOP policies have done to income distribution he'd have switched sides again. Reagan started out as a dem but bought into the Austrian school stuff and was pushing welfare reform. I will grant that how you do welfare does matter and a good deal of reform eventually happened, but the Austrian School/Every-dollar-the-government-spends-is-a-Threat-of-Socialism stuff was, and remains bunk - it's just bad analysis, but since it fits the narrative the rich want to sell to oppose tax increases, it won't go away.

I guess they still trust Kreidler's glove to fill-in in case of injury, but I think any hope the bat can play in the majors in other than emergency duty is gone. Haven't seen Navigato play but from what little I've seem about him the glove doesn't play at MLB SS. Concern about D at SS can only have increased with Gleyber penciled in at 2B.

Hard to say much about Kim without knowing the medicals - but agree the fit is certainly there the team can get some kind of assurance he's going to be 100% in reasonable time.

If we are talking about what policy should be, it's on the assumption policy will or needs to change. What policy is does not bind what it should be, and the arguments to support what it should be can't be constrained by what it is.

It seemed so spot on that the 1st thing McLellan said was the Wings had to play faster. No kidding. But still striking to say it out loud since it was such a direct slam at Lalonde. Everyone and their brother could see it, why didn't Lalonde?

These folks put their seed phrase online. Isn't that at about the same level as leaving a post-it note with your password on your monitor? Does last pass advise people that is a good thing to do? There always has to be something you remember yourself that isn't stored anywhere. The key is to leverage remembering one easy thing for you into a bunch of other locks that are hard to open. I don't have anything against PW managers per se but I'm too multi-platform to have found one that works everywhere I would want it to. I generally use a personal "seed" string and an algorithm to generate passwords for any site I visit. I don't have to remember them because I know how I generated them. If you hacked my google account you might figure out the algorithm, but you still wouldn't have the core string. That isn't stored anywhere. OTOH, the core string by itself isn't the PW to anything.

But the circumstances of their presence isn't why their performance is better or worse. If the issue is that the need for skilled labor should be reflected in who immigration policy favors, then MTU's point is exactly valid.

there has always been that contradiction at the heart of populism: The levers of government cannot be fixed by any means. Give me power and I will fix the levers of government. Nonsensical when simplified to its core. But that's because what we are seeing here is also a culture suffused in the Superman myth. The leader can do it because he is special. Ironic that in an age when it's almost impossible for any public figure to escape being show to have feet of clay, the public clamors all the more the mythical Hero. But look at film as a reflection of popular culture in this regard - what do we see but super-hero movies? We've given up on the idea that normal people working together can solve problems and are reinforcing that idea to ourselves everyday. We used to see Mr Smith goes to Washington, now we wait for Thor to save us from Armageddon. The stories a society tells itself matter and the ones we are telling ourselves are not the ones likely to inspire us to get off our own asses and fix it.

I think it has as much to do with the rise of social media. There has always been a big difference between what's said to the next of kin or in a funeral service, and the conversations in the cars of the acquaintance on the way to the funeral. It's just that the latter get shared much more widely because the kinds of conversations people used to have in 'private' aren't as private anymore. But I will grant that what has changed is the acceptance of low class behavior in general, and in a sense, it's I think that's also a symptom of that same blurring between public and private discourse. In the social media era we have monetized the kind of speech that used to remain private - so now we get it marketed in public.

Carter had let military preparedness slide to where he didn't have many good options when things fell apart in Iran. Still, I doubt a more competent Carter could have stopped the revolution in Iran any more than Reagan was able to stop the one in Nicaragua. Like Assad, the Shah had done enough to make sure his ticket was going to get punched by his people. And the Islamist movement was not something new - it had been percolating in the ME since the fall of the Ottomans. They could have done in Khomeini, but big countries prefer the status quo where leaders are off the table - it's in their overall interest not to encourage that level of asymmetric warfare. We've moved off of that stance some in the 40 yrs since Khomeini but at the time I don't think any US gov would have targeted him directly. And of course it's not like Khamemei has been any kind of improvement.