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The problem is Americans have to do everything they do do to wretched excess.

That was part of the big oversell for 'additive manufacturing' that had to come back to earth. Even with the new faster machines (about 5-10x the first gen like mine) these are prototyping and custom build devices. Nothing wrong with that, great in fact, but it's much more an addition to existing fabrication methods than a replacement for any of them. 3D printing had maybe the all-time classic introduction hysteria/crash back to earth/find its real level adoption curve. It's turning out one the things it's really great for is cutting down the cost of engineering research. Cook up all you little experimental equipment designs on the cheap and don't send anything out for expensive machining until you have it right. It a niche few people care/know about but it's been a huge impact there.

favorite play was the steal by Thompson late in the 2nd. It was like he just apparated out of thin air.

It has been funny watching the Jays run the bases station to station and wondering way they can't score two on a single. EDIT: and make it 11 runs. IIRC, we put up 13 against the Card in game 6 in 68.

In case anyone wonders how weird baseball is, the Jays just put 9 runs on the board and still only have one out in the 6th against Snell and the vaunted LA staff.

I've printed some male threaded parts down to about 3/8-16 but for anything less than 1" I tap the female thread after printing. Most filament plastics tap well. One the printed threads, the trick is zeroing in on the thermal shrinkage of your material. A decent 3-D printer may hold tolerance to a few thousandths, but you have to have the shrinkage dialed in. Sort of like making ferrous parts that have to be in tolerance after heat treat.

The market is celebrating 3% like it's some kind of victory. The self-delusion is strong in them.

yay! but also Damn!

Mid-tier cities and bit city outer ring suburbs. Whoda-thunk?

Haven't found this to be an issue with pickup. The store prefers you to pickup to having you take up the space in the building so they generally want to make sure you are happy with what you get. Of that doesn't mean any particular stores are not incompetent.

the difference between 2% and 3% is prices going up 50% in a generation vs prices doubling in a generation. It's enough to notice - esp in a population already sensitized to price increases.

LOL - we bitched an moaned for years about watching the Holls and Petry's, so now we get to bitch and moan because they let the young guys play through the pain. I don't see any plan B for this season. Me thinks they are going to sink or swim with most of these kids. Remember that Soderblom got a handful of games and then wasn't seen again for a long time....

Retail shopping decisions/loyalty can be as paper thin as retail margins - as Target has found out the hard way. It's very easy for people to go somewhere else once and then it's an easy habit.

Well, you wouldn't think they'd all be spending the night before the game out on the town midweek in Buffalo.....

The other one I wonder about is that after Brock and Henderson and Coleman pitchers all started cutting back on their deliveries and I wonder how much of that more compact delivery style results in even more arm stress. I think it's actually great to see a guy like Skubal go back to the big leg kick. I can't make any kind of kinesiological argument, but it sure seems that extra energy stored in the keg kick kick should somehow be convertible into into added pitch energy. I guess we'll see how well Skubal lasts. And of course a sample of one wouldn't mean much anyway.

someone has to go when Danielson is ready. I was hoping for Rasmussen when the season started, but for whatever reason management doesn't seem inclined to give up on him yet and maybe he is playing a little better - maybe.

I guess it's just the thrill of pulling it off.

yup. Hitting probably benefits less from the advances in strength and training than the rest of the game. Not saying it doesn't benefit at all - but the best hitters are still good because of visual acuity and reflex speed, and so far they haven't come up with much that changes that, In fact with pitch velo up, pure reflex speed is an even bigger component for hitters than ever.

who manages to produces this kind of hardware without the details leaking? Or maybe that's what happened -

It's all about pricing. In general people like the idea of electric cars, esp if they are a two car household and one can be dedicated to primarily local use. They just don't like how expensive they are. The end of the subsidy produced an big sales over run in the 3rd quarter so there is going to be big drop off next quarter and everyone will be doomcasting. But one of two, or maybe three things will happen - less expensive 'ground up' EV platforms from US builders will get to market that cost less and market growth will continue, or they will appear overseas (in fact already have) and they will either show up in the US or be tariffed out of the market (at least until 2028 prolly) and thus US sales will fall (more likely), and the rest of world will continue to build and sell a larger % of the market to EV and it will just be another tech where the Chinese (and by then probably the Germans) will be miles ahead of us.

I think the Wings were prepared for ASP to have some tough games. He has played a grand total of 2 hr and 15 minute of NHL hockey in his lifetime. It's still early for large scale panic...😱

he's a strange dude. Did you see him score the empty netter the other night? Hardly even watched it into the net, turned around with his head down and sort of slunk back to the bench looking like his dog had just died and his bunions were acting up. Maybe the weirdest reaction I'd ever seen in a hockey player that had just iced a game for his team. I guess he wins faceoffs but he still floats around a lot. I'm not going to say anything about how his mates must take him, because I don't know. Maybe they love him for other reasons, but it would seem hard to believe it's for anything he does on the ice for his teammates' benefit.

that is the way umpires call it today so I assume that is what the computer will be set to. But the umps usually give away even more than that to the outside, which is why I'm going to be happy to see it get automated. Too many umps call a zone so wide the batters really have no fair chance.

+1 I've read some about Origen, one of the most renowned teachers of the early church, may have been the single person most responsible for the selection of the canon. Today the church doesn't talk about him because a lot of what he believed is not current orthodoxy. But Origen himself was cool about it, freely said he wasn't sure about a lot things but he'd tell you what made sense to him, take it or leave it.