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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.

I find this one hard to fathom. At assembly plants the cars normally have to be driven to the rail or truck ramp, - and certainly get driven around the dealer lot prior to sale - and *backed* into spaces. How on earth do flaws in the RV camera system not get noticed before those cars get sold?!?!

the last bit about Protestant Hispanics was interesting. I'm old enough to remember when non-Catholic Hispanics would not have been a large enough group to care about (politically that is!) but Google just told that Catholicism among Hispanics fell from 67% to 43% in just the 12yrs from 2010 to 2022, Apparently 2nd generation Hispanics leaving the RCC in droves. That's an amazingly rapid shift.

It's funny how memory gets skewed. I have this firm recollection about being unhappy that Wells picked Detroit to have the worst year of his career. Of course he didn't. I guess I must have just tuned in mostly to his losses to get that impression - but it remains.

Probably true in a lot of denoms. Apropos that Tater posted that lecture by Watts above where he makes the excellent point that a person can only talk about things in the forms/images/language they have particular access and experience in, IOW that your communication is all culturally conditioned. Paul is pretty revolutionary when you filter him through the lens of what he was - an upper class(probably), Pharasaic Jew of the Roman Empire. Of course by today's culture he still appears in places as reactionary. I don't think that's the best take, but YMMV. I always look back to the story told in Acts about Peter and Paul disagreeing on doctrine. I am always astounded the curators of the NT let that story slip through because to me it is the most salient episode in all of post resurrection writing and blows-up every church's claim to interpretive authority. You are not an evil person because you disagree on doctrine. If Peter and Paul do not, nobody ever will, no-one really has any better claim to it than anyone else. (yeah - they'd probably have burned me at the stake as Gnostic heretic too )

Obviously, for a long time the Wings were too small and too slow and a lot of teams tried to come out and intimidate them early, and that's been Yzerman's job one since he got here. I suppose it's just habit now for the Oilers to keep on trying it. Not the same team any more though. I also remember Seider's rookie season the 1st time we played Edmonton McDavid took a run at Seider and Moritz put him on his rear. You knew then we had the 1st piece of the turnaround.

Watt's brand of spiritualism had a kind of revival a couple of decades ago - guys like Deepak Chopra enjoyed a lot of popularity. I don't know if that's faded more recently or if I just pay less attention. Of course Watts probably would have been burned at the stake as a Gnostic or Catharite heretic under the inquisition. 🔥 😱

LOL - Al sometimes gave the impression of being the last innocent man in Sodom.

Meaningless management speak. Nothing else he can say really, or at least nothing else he can say which isn't even more foolish to say that that was.

we can hope they peaked too soon.

yes - that or the inverse, they trade the prospect blocked by their 4 win guy and he turns out to be a 4 win guy too. I'm really curious to see whether Harris can be a guy that separates himself from the pack in player acquisition in baseball to the degree Holmes has in football. If he can pick from a team's MilB offer list with the kind of acumen that landed a McGonigle, then I'm all for a trade. But if his judgment is no better than they've been with the MLB acquisitions (Maeda, etc), then maybe not so much!

yeah - we laugh about Campbell being a goof, or a guy that likes to 'hide his light', but being entertaining and being able to roll with the losses was no small part of what bought him time at the beginning. There were a lot ways that Campbell was the perfect coach for the Lions when he got here. Not many hires are going to be that kind of match.

Wing are actually at 52% as a team. Even my buddy Rasmussen at at 59%. Copp is in the rear at 38%. Maybe it seems they lose more than they do because they are still not good at maintaining possession after a defensive zone face-off win. They still lose a lot of pucks because they don't move the win on the draw successfully.

I don't follow soccer so I can't include them, but something about football seems to bring out the crazy in people more than other sports. Part of the fun for the rest of us. 🫠

LOL - Lions beat a 5-1 team without the outcome even being at doubt at any time in the 4th quarter and we're firing assistants over game strategy? Tough crowd.

One might note the slight difference between the example of some terrible 'lefty' person being a nobody randomly found on the internet, and a terrible 'righty' person being some one this government is trying to put into a position of official authority.

Ernie knew there would be flak and set it up anyway. It was great.

I don't have the numbers but I think the lions must be running fewer plays per game because Gibbs touches are not up, Goff's attempts are not up, but Montgomery's carries are down. Seems that has to add up to fewer total plays. They are averaging two fewer 1st downs per game. It does seem the power ground game is less effective with the o-Line loses, so maybe that has translated into more dependence on chunk plays which is less Montgomery's game.

reminds me of the old saw about "economists have correctly predicted 7 of the last 2 recessions." Few guys do well in the majors without having shown a lot of promise - though even that does happen occasionally, but a lot of guys show a lot of promise and still don't turn into much. It might be wise to make some distinction between hitters and pitchers though. With modern instrumentation you can measure exactly what a pitcher throws, and know fairly for certain if his stuff can get out MLB hitters. It's command that is still harder to predict as they face better hitters, but you do have a pretty good handle on stuff today that was not available in the past. But with hitters it remains harder to know how they will fare as the quality of pitching goes up because so much of hitting is mental/perceptual, and you don't know where a guy's hand/head limits are until he is tested at those limits by MLB pitching. Now that said, with pitchers the injury risk today is so high that even if you are pretty confident a guy has the stuff to succeed in the majors, whether his arm will hold together long enough to have a good career is probably just a big an unknown as the overall unknowns with hitters, maybe bigger. ⚕️

Speaking of the coaching staff, Petzold reporting Iopoce is gone. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/10/20/detroit-tigers-anthony-iapoce-first-base-coach-coaching-staff/86726134007/

same here.