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Deferred maintenance because margins are too thin? One step from there to injuries and shutdowns. I don't know how many times I had the conversation with a suit. "You are telling me it's going to fail - will it be tomorrow?" If I couldn't given him a statistically derived proof that it was he didn't care, and when most of the specialized equipment in the plant are "One-of" being run in ways they were never run before, there is no such thing as those kinds of statistics. So they run till they don't, and for want a day or two to do maintenance, you lose the whole operation for who knows how long. The maintenance guys go to 12hr shifts and everyone else goes home. ....And the tech staff gets blamed anyway!

Darkness is the thing because you can't see the horizon. When we spent time on the lake, you always wanted to see the horizon when the boat was pitching because if what your eyes see matches what your ears (otoliths) say you have half a chance. Same thing with reading in a car. Look out the window while driving, most people are fine. Give you kids a book or game for the back seat which has them looking down and they are tossing their cookies in no time. I'm usually pretty resistant to motion sickness at sea but I never try to read while riding in a moving car for more than a minute or two. Oddly, the SO can read in the car but doesn't do too well in boats.

This reminds me that when we spent time on lake superior on a boat, the soda crackers were always on hand to help with seasickness. Bland starches are the thing I guess.

Great. They'll rest Cade and watch the league decide the Pistons are the team they are going to hammer for it to make an example...

But they haven't reversed the rollback? Seems if they really believed what they were saying that would be their fiduciary responsibility. Or management just isn't as lefty as their customers and they don't care. 🤷‍♀️ US corp management is a weird mish-mash. At half of US corps, you miss a quarterly guidance and you are turning in your key to the exec washroom, in the other half you control the board and all the proxies and you can run the org right into the ground without anyone on the inside saying 'boo'.

could be, but that's easier to assert than prove. Frankly, I think the number of people who decide where to shop based on politics is a pretty small number, but OTOH, margins in retail are small so maybe that's enough.

Target and Walmart overlap a lot and Walmart is doing really well, basically pulling folks from other retailers again. TBH, I don't know how much is politics and how much is that Walmart is doing a better job, esp in e-commerce.

you know that Target moved people out this bldg to remote work during the pandemic right? And that Target world Hdqtrs is still in DT Minneapolis in a bldg about a block from this one?

This is the new Tiger 'rope-a-dope' strategy to fix their terrible April starts. Make sure none of the teams they play early in the season take them seriously. they've got some work to do on their challenges. They lost 2 of 3 today, only Liranzo got one right.

A working truck is the worst application for current EV tech though (and I think a mistake by FoMoCo to put so many eggs in that particular basket). The value is in commuter/short trip cars. but no problem. You have one for around town with bumper sticker that says "my other car is a truck".

This is a thread about Trump, and if you follow the rules - i.e. no personal attacks, I don't feel the need to shun anyone that shows up here to post about him. It's not like TH doesn't participate in the sports fora here, he does the game treads for the Pistons. I doubt a pure provocateur or malicious bot would be doing that, though maybe I shouldn't........🤔 If he gets banned, then he's gone, otherwise, he's just telling you want he thinks, which is what everyone else is doing.

Have you driven an EV yet? They really are very cool.

Bingo. This hits for me especially at the Olympics. For all the reasons you catalog, I find all the 'human interest' stories about the athletes a total waste of my time. I don't want to know what they went through to get there, I only want to watch them perform, so get to the coverage of the damn event!

and Trump had no part in it. Both can can be true and are. This isn't that complex. When covid hit everyone thought the world was coming to an end and both the Federal gov and the Federal Reserve (but mostly the Federal Reserve) dumped a ton of dollars into the economy to tty to keep it afloat - and they overshot. That pig had to pass through the Python. By the time Trump was elected it was largely already through. Read some Milton Freedman. Inflation is at least 90% a monetary policy phenomenon. Presidents have very little to do with it. The national debt fuels it to some degree (and Trump has made that way worse) but that is still small potatoes to what the Fed reserve does. The real influence a Pres has is who he nominates for the Fed board. That's the funny part. Trump put Powell on the FR, then consistently hated what he did even though Powell has largely saved his ass.

and part of this is that we are in what John LeCarre would have called a 'silly season'. There used to be some level of separation between the office and then person or the politics. Like the line from Band of Brothers - "you salute the rank, not the man". But the problem is that is a two way street. When Presidents refrained from using the ceremonial aspects of the office for personal political ends, then they could expect people to respect the office irrespective of the occupant. But when the occupant doesn't respect the office or the institutions represented, then that level of respect from the public is likely to be withheld. But a lot of people are still sort of lost in transition - they may know full well Trump is jerk (even if they do vote GOP for tax purposes) but still think it's too rude to refuse the President - and of course a range of views on both sides around that. Trump is obviously a much more uniformly negative figure for young independent women, so the difference in the response of the men's and women's team is not surprising.

Certainement.

They probably can't. Sounds like fodder for an ACLU action, but they are somewhat otherwise engaged recently..... If you want to start the suit I'll throw in $100 to a go-fund-me just to see it.

Rule one: Correlation /= Causation. Trump has been completely irrelevant to inflation. In fact by pushing the Fed to loosen money more than they were willing to, he was moving to make it worse if he could have, so he gets no credit for other people whose actions he opposed tooth and nail having done a good job despite him.

how long before schools start arranging for NIL be escrowed?

that's what he counts on.

Check the dates on your own chart. He inherited an economy with a rapidly falling inflation rate. This would be like the Avila/Harris debate except in this case Avila really did already do the work.

If I had to rank my 5 top question marks for this season, "will Meadows hit enough to be the regular CF" is probably #1; followed by "can Keith hold down 3rd with the glove" #2; then "which Flaherty do we get" #3; Can Riley be more productive" #4; and finally "What does JV have left in the tank" #5

You don't park your humanity at the door when you become an elected official either. It doesn't serve anyone's citizens to take joy in the discomfiture or others. The de-humanization is simply the precondition to excuse acting in ways that would otherwise be morally unacceptable - own it for what it is.

they put up 7 runs today, that's good trend to keep up.

yeah - they have a reasonable number of decent defenders, the question is whether those players can hit enough to stay in the lineup. Keith is a question mark but I'm moderately optimistic he'll be OK at 3rd.