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In anticipation of meeting with Trump later this month, the Chinese have promulgated a series of rules aiming to nullify US sanctions on Chinese refiners. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-rare-defiance-of-us-sanctions-sparks-showdown-over-banks-021410787.html

a number of conflicting reports about doings in the Persian Gulf this AM. The USN may or may not be trying to get ships past Hormuz. Of course the Navy doesn't have nearly enough ship to escort all the traffic waiting in the gulf even if they wanted to, and I doubt they want to.

It was such a different era. Today it would be like: "Oh- someone shot the President? Hmmm. Well, on to lesson II" The other funny thing to contemplate is whether anyone would be crying in the hall if it had been Nixon. Even if you had voted for RMN, it's hard to imagine having much emotional investment in him! 🤷‍♂️

The only problem (OK - not the *only* problem) with MTGs epiphany is that if she were a more serious person she would have stayed in the House and kept up the opposition. But it points up how hard it is for the blue side to actually move these people to their side. Trump is losing support among people like Green who have come to oppose him on an issue, e.g. Green on Epstein, Carlson on Iran, but who still support too much of the remaining RW agenda to ever actually vote on the blue side. A couple of generations ago, when political difference weren't so culturally conditioned, it was a lot easier to get people to change parties over policy issues. Today getting a person across the divide is tied up in personal identity issues as well as policy preferences.

Was listening to this game and was wondering how McGonigle got to 2nd. Dan and Dirks talked about Rogers sort of fooling the Rangers about which way he was going, but the key for McGonigle was that Burger just completely abandoned 1st base to run at Rogers instead of throwing the ball. Burger had gone so far across the diamond that KM could go most the way to 2nd safe in the knowledge he could beat Burger back to 1st if a throw did go to 2nd. Bad play for the Rangers all around.

Rico played 848 games over 9 seasons and managed to amass a whopping -1.1 WAR. Much like left handed relief pitchers, if you can hit 20 hr you keep getting chances. Zinter spent 13 yrs in AAA with an overall 838 OPS. A worthy nominee for the Mike Hessman association.

summer of 46 he would have been a returning war hero campaigning for his 1st House seat in Boston.

That's crappy. It ought to be a DQ when a team brings an illegal bat.

I've been using Fedora for more than 15 yrs. It's the opposite of an LTS, releases come 2'ce/yr and updates every day. But Linux updates so painlessly, even the full release updates take less than maybe 1/2 hr. TBH, I probably still wouldn't advise someone to use linux if they are not open to learning how to maintain it. It's not particularly hard but you have be willing to do a searching when you have an issue and a little typing to fix it. OTOH, when stuff is broke, linux developers fix it FAST - usually a day or two.

Before I even gave up playing, our league had gone to the lower flight ball - the diamonds we played on weren't big enough the high travel balls.

Pitching Kaos for the win.

Burch Smith will be trying to leaf the Rangers behind.

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Shades of Javy against Will Craig.

and how many plus players has Yzerman scored by trade? Debrincat, Gibson....Faulk maybe..?

IDK - FWIW, press reports today were still that Torres was day to day.

IIRC, when they drafted him Workman was rated a plus defender, but maybe he never lived up to that.

the swing of this series was probably about Cade getting 100% back into NBA playing mode after the pneumothorax.

Freep report says MRI on Vest showed no damage. Still when a guy goes the DL with pitching forearm issues, you can't help but brace for the worst.

I hope mom had tickets to yesterday's game.

the runways at DTW are 2 miles long. The two airstrips and the total flight would all fit easily inside the boundary fence at Metro. ✈️

interviewer never went there. His complaint about distractions started when the interviewer started asking about Fuentes. Carlson said he regretted the interview because people overestimate the reach of people like that who have no power and sucks all the attention from what the people who have power are doing. While I would says he's being more than a little disingenuous there, I'd say he's still correct about the basic fact of the elevation of immaterial over the material - even if guys like himself are a big part of that immaterial.

very nice

immigration is still toxic for the Dems. So here is the thing. Most people believe AI is going to lead to big unemployment. I'm less worried about that - at least long term. Historically, new techs have displaced workers but created more net activity. The best example is mechanization of agriculture. That eliminated the work of a far larger % of the population than AI will, but the Industrial Revolution that came with it easily absorbed all those workers. The thing is, we don't see where the new work is yet, so we tend to take the worst case view. However, short term, one thing that will be worse is the speed of adoption. Things move much faster today so the short term displacement can still be bad. In any case, that real fear over job losses in the economy, whether correct or not, certainly drives a lot of people who are not particularly evil to want immigration to go to/stay at zero. So they may vote against the kind of gratuitous cruelty of this admin, but any reform proposals with things like an expanded H1-B program are not going to go over well in an environment where the predictions are flying that millions of jobs are at risk.

I was able to watch the full video report from the regular CNN homepage yesterday.