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and the corollary to that is likely that if you are talking to Harris and you leak from your end, you are probably done talking to Harris.

I wouldn't argue that there is a segment of the religious community that would like to 'reclaim' Christmas for itself, an argument that 'it's our holiday and if you aren't going to be part of us you shouldn't be expropriating it into secular culture." Given that the Church largely expropriated Roman Solstice celebration into the Christmas festival in the first place, that the Christmas Tree is a totally pagan symbol, etc., that's a bit of hypocritical complaint. OTOH, within the Church, not losing sight of the religious meaning in the middle of all the secular hoopla that intrudes remains a useful piece of advice. So it depends a bit on who is saying it to whom.

He just got the syntax a little out of order. Trump’s faith is to be serious about Taking His.

To me the one red line is admissions, if you take public money you must admit the ‘public’ without preference or exceptions.

That shouldn’t really be a surprise. The winter solstice celebration is far older and has deeper roots than Christianity. People always felt the need to throw a party and have a celebration when days finally stopped getting shorter. The church just co-opted the existing cultural practice because that’s how cultures work. Any excuse to be nice to people, give gifts to your children an eat well is OK by me. 😊

Same two ewe all! 🐑🐑

the problem with that approach is that a team that might make an offer you would take may not even bother calling.

And just as silly as this it is you can exactly reverse this meme to “death row inmates disguise themselves as fetuses…..”

that's why the whole idea of "ready to contend" is a bad one. Maybe they weren't 'ready to win', but if they had pursued Chapman in '22 and signed him to the same deal the Giants did they would be sitting pretty now. Maybe he had some kind of bad rep tailing in with GMs because I never understood how Toronto got him so cheap then. When you can good a good player at a fair price, you have to do it.

that's not that abnormal for a basketball team though. Spurs went from 60 wins to 20 when they lost Robinson for a year. ( then that 20 loss season got them Duncan and they got really good!)

and to think there was time a few years ago when I thought the Wings were only a couple of players away from being a good team.

the first is conceivable, the 2nd a bridge too far. 👳‍♀️

for any who wonder at the connection, you could walk from Cass to Navin Field in few minutes.

That too, but I wasn’t thinking so much about Trump passing as just loosing the Congress again.

Right, the “outrunning the bear” metaphor applies. In most cases you don’t need to be perfectly secure, just secure enough that someone else becomes a more attractive victim.

Be interesting to see what kind of cars they do together. Hondas are good vehicles but pretty pedestrian. Of the the Japanese brands I think Nissan is the closest thing to a driver’s car.

well, there is almost no way something inside the actual harddrive could possibly be rattling short of being run over by a truck. OTOH, something in the housing certainly could be broken, and possible something that holds the interface card on the drive. Many external USB drives have a pretty ordinary SATA harddrive inside them with normal SATA connectors, and a little PCB board plugs into the SATA interface and carries the USB/SATA interface and the USB connector that mounts in the housing. If something is rattling and the drive doesn't read, you might be lucky enough to have just broken the interface. You might be able to open up the housing, remove the drive and plug it into a SATA port of some other computer (or put it in a new $10 on ebay SATA/USB case) and be good to go or maybe just reconnect it properly to the exiting interface. Or not - depending on what you find when you open the box - if you care to try. There is no guarantee it's going to be a free standing SATA drive inside A little research on the model of the drive might tell you.

Back in the day when laptops had spinning rust I had a number of 2.5" laptop drives give up the ghost - rough handling usually, but agree I've don't think I've ever had a drive die in a desktop. Then again, if you are like me when you build your own you don't use low quality drives! There are plenty of them out there in OEM stuff.

Maybe we get lucky and Lange gets over his yips after this rehab. He only walked one in 9 appearances in Toledo after he was sent down.

My nephew used to work for these guys and he knew what he was doing, now that he's gone on to bigger and better things I couldn't say..... https://www.bestbuy.com/site/geek-squad/geek-squad-data-recovery/pcmcat748300502324.c?id=pcmcat748300502324 When you say does not get recognized do you mean it's offering to format it because it doesn't see anything on it, or it doesn't even assign a drive letter (assuming windows here.....) or if Mac doesn't mount it?

probably more like 2

LOL - I would put it exactly the other way, to me throwing your hands in the air is just importing more low wage workers into the economy instead of letting the economy restructure itself properly to an equilibrium population distribution. But it's not a black and white choice. If we have a rationalized immigration system, many people who come in will initially pick up slack in services like nursing, health care etc. I just don't like the trap logic that there is some kind of imperative to immigrate your way out of eventual population decline. That's exactly the recipe for social upheaval because you basically are justifying the position of 'replacement theory' immigration opponents.

The above is a good point. For sure there are white collar places where retirements have always tended to come later. e.g, my FIL was a CPA who kept a hand in part time doing corporate tax work right up to the year he passed. OTOH, most of my immediate circle have been engineers, tech area workers, teachers etc, and other than a little consulting we have all bailed. I was about the last person in my circle to hang it up.

I think are already past the worst of if. US fertility rate peaked in 1957 and those folks are already past the most typical retirement age. We are actually starting to enter the boomer die off, which will start reducing a huge aged services load/drag from the economy. The first post WWII babies will be turning 80 in a year.

yes - but that is an inevitability at some point before we are all standing shoulder to shoulder in our 1 ft sq allotment of the planet, so whether we learn to deal with a leveling or decreasing population today to in 10 or 30 yrs it's something every country is going to have to learn to handle. More workers have been retiring in Japan than joining the workforce for some time and they have figured out how to cope. The already undesirable pressure of current populations is something the species collectively already has a strong instinctive understanding of which is why in almost every nation where people have a choice, fertility is declining. A set of economic theory assumptions (we must have more laborers!) that fly in the face of what every 1st world population is choosing for itself is a priori a failed one.