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the generations after the WWII generation in Europe and the US have gotten lazy, and since we have been the richest, we got the laziest. For close on 35yrs we've basically forgotten to take care of all the things that make a society work - education, fairness, citizenship, equity, truth. So here we are.

Agree. The thing is though, as much as the people one the one side would currently like it to be true, I'm afraid it is not true that the rich bad boy's club breaks particularly on political ideological grounds, which is why as much as each side talks about the other, they never quite actually get all the way to dropping the hammer.

Make it 3 Stone.' Seems only right to give the weight of a curling rock in 'stone.' And who is this 'Harris'? Haven't seen nor heard from anyone of that name.

go for it. If he can piss off Ohioans, that would put an end to GOP 2028 hopes.

I just remembered, when we were in school the SO had to take an anthro course and part if it was about some group of arctic natives and the way chief established himself was to intimidate the members of his tribe by giving them better gifts than they could give him. This guy happen to have any Innuit blood?

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the people who stood up and got arrested in the civil rights era were celebrated the rest of their lives. The same will likely happen here.

If by 'no 'single' player' he means 75% Harmon and 25% his extrapolation I'd believe him. Aside from the bat position being exactly right, the tell is the nose. Harmon had a very pointed nose and so does the logo.

Pretty sure this is true.

✅ - now yer talkin!

if they miss because they suddenly run into more injuries beyond Edvinsson, it's a 'what can you do' situation. But if they are relatively healthy and collapse again, with a previously successful and experienced coach, then you have to start thinking about rebuilding around a different core - like maybe a Larkin trade. I think the Olympics are going to be a major test for Larkin's captainship. If he doesn't take care of himself and come back healthy, then he is too selfish about his personal goals to be a team captain on a winner.

Billy Butler comes to mind. Alejandro Kirk - though not as good a hitter as Butler. I'd even nominate our own Victor Martinez, who was a great hitter but a marginal athlete at best.

One place this shows up is that despite the 225 basis pt reductions the short term funds rate, 10yr Treasuries are virtually unmoved over the same period.

They've also had a real fiasco with recent Windows updates. Not an issue revenue wise but leaves a lot the public re-considering their incompetence.

Still down 11% last in the session. I have very mixed feelings about MSFT. They have been a terrible, terrible company through most of their history. They aren't as bad now, but are still a terrible SW house, so in a just world the market should have and should still be punishing them. The problem is that mostly via their past unscrupulous practices, we now are all pretty dependent on them sticking around to support the SW we've been forced to depend on.

From an engineering POV, the practical question is whether the cost of the minimal ICE plus a battery with a 30 mile range for a plug-in hybrid is going to settle out at more or less than the cost differential to a 300mi battery that can fast charge regularly without being killed. From an environmental standpoint, plug-in hybrids can take ~90% of the CO2 burden out of the automotive transportation sector because ~90% of your trips are short. The small ICE probably also weighs less than the step up to a 80-100KWhr battery so could make for an overall more efficient vehicle. Bottom line - it all depends on battery tech, and where the endpoint for that will turn out to be is still anybody's guess.

Nephew had a Rivian pickup. Loved it. Totalled it. Too bad they are butt ugly.

and its always a matter of a good deal for me, but not for thee. Your friends at the bank can draw funds from the Fed's overnight window to put into the carry trade at rates that you and I couldn't get within 10% of.

Fed Funds rate from 2010 to 2017 ran pretty much at zero

The interwebs just informed my that in any given year up to 60% of MLB rosters are at the MLB minimum salary of ~$825K

I'd add you have to have the reflex speed to go with it, but I agree that hitting is a genetic gift. You can do things to augment it if you have it, but if you don't it's been proven that you can be Michael Jordan and it still won't get you to the majors.

Ideology is a luxury, in fact i'd say ideology is always stumbling block; but good ideas are a necessity.

A lot more things become possible if you get past this hurdle.

Use of hands allowed:

there is a more fundamental aspect to this though which to me is under-recognized, and that is honest, rational, constructive conservatism is by nature a stabilizing reaction to an active and potentially over ambitious or mis-directioned reform/liberal movement, and the truth is that liberalism as an active social re-organizing force was spent after the civil rights and great society pushes of the post WWII era. Liberalism has not had any kind of interesting or novel ideas or approaches for things like the stagnation of the middle class that are the things people are most deeply concerned about. It's been largely stuck in the social welfare theories of the 30's for 90 yrs now and the useful parts of those things are already in place. Or worse, it's been naval gazing over identity politics. You can hardly expect anything other than stagnation from Conservatism when there are no serious reform movements to be the counterbalance against. Are there even any decently serious thinkers in the democratic party on economic restructuring beyond Elizabeth Warren? AOC and Mamdani have welcome energy, but the DSA doesn't have the right answers to the future any more than the 50's British labor party they appear to want to emulate did. The country is desperate for ideas relevant to this century to reform corporate governance, education, politics, media; where are they?