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Of course the converse is that if guys like that didn't buy them, even if just to park them, they might not get built at all. The possibilities are myriad though. If Bugatti can't sell one really terrible Veryon, maybe they build two less individually terrible but still in total terrible cars that two other people who buy them *will* drive. The mind boggles.

they have to refuse, they need the issue far more than they want a solution. The issue helps them get elected, a solution would take away the issue - or worse - give them direct ownership of whatever the new status quo turns out to be, which will be less than perfect since all real world situations are. Chalk it up to the basic ignorance of the American voter who doesn't see that the current situation is largely the result of GOP refusal to meaningfully address the issue for those 12 years. But that's how the US political cookie crumbles.

right - but there was always a bit of an unknown around how long boomers would choose to stay in the workforce. The counter arg was that by some measures a lot of them didn't have the resources put aside to retire comfortably and thus would keep working longer than their predecessors. The degree to which people have decided to make do with the retirement income they have was an open question.

Seems like that should be something that training could address. If you have the fast twitch it's going to be in all the muscle groups, not just the straight line ones. The counter would be that his lateral problem is not physical limitation but a mental one - insufficient recognition/anticipation. That might or might not be as fixable.

Good stuff What about slider spin? I get FB and curveball spin, but slider spin would be interesting because my pet theory is that that is the one most destructive to a pitcher's arm - it would be intreresting to confirm if the risk was at least worth it! I remember it was Jobe's slider spin they were so raptured about.

IDK, corelation coef at ~.5 really ain't much.

ironically, unless he is putting them out to rental, an individual collector like that actually insures that most of those cars never get driven. He's helping the environment by keeping all but one of them at a time parked in the garage - amirite?

To be clear, I think wage inflation for the bottom half of American workers is long past overdue and the rest of us can damn well put up with a sligthly crimped entertainment budget (etc) for the sake of a little better wage equality in this country. Of course it won't be that neat, the well educated who are in demand will still pull up even faster than laborers and service workers, but even given that, most of 4yr degreed world, techs, et al are still not 1%ers so it's still a shift of income in the right direction.

to double down implies he has more chips to put out on the table. Putin will be testing his assumption there.

hope some of the JDAM capacity will be in place by then...

that's an interesting thought - I've had the impression that the brother are fairly competitive, one working for the other would be a different narrative.

I guess a lot better than that he wins it.

Just read a report today about the Fed deciding to give up on the idea of any of the early retired baby booomers coming back to the labor force post pandemic and so anticipating the need to continue fighting wage pull inflation with higher interest rates. But heaven forbid we let any more people into the country who are pretty desperate for gainful employment to support their families.

that sounds like a quote that is actually a closed captioning or audio or text capture. That's exactly the kind of error CC usually makes.

at minimum you'll have Pompeo and Pence along with DeSantis - though I can see Pence's campaign folding within about 10 minutes of him announcing it. What a zero.

he was purchased. Three guesses as to who would put money like that into a US election race....

they should pitch well enough to avoid losing 100. The rest is up in the air but there hasn't been much of anything new to be encouraged about.

this is right. The only way 2023 is in any way successful is if the 2022 team was a bunch of guys who were a lot better than they showed because they all had a bunch of bad luck that isn't going to be repeated in addition to a sprinkling of prospects not quite ready for the majors then who will be this season.. These things are either true or they are not If not, we're are looking at another long multi-year road back. We can make any kind of story or speculation around it we like, but that is the bottom line for the organization.

The black and white letters say that, but it seems in the NBA today, top tier players have a lot of success at getting what they want. 🤷‍♀️

which goes back to something I thought back in 2016, which was that whichever candidate won the presidency that year, their party was going to suffer long term. It didn't actually seem to happen with Trump, but maybe (hopefully) it's just been a delayed reaction because his cult of personality has the glue holding that voting coalition together. If the GOP turns against him now en masse - which seems to be the plan - at least in terms of presidential politics, the GOP's underlying weakness may be become more exposed. That said, I wouldn't underestimate the Dem's ability to screw up the chance they may get.

I tend to believe there are still millions of low political information voters out there who still believe DJT to be the highly airbrushed character they think they knew from the 'Apprentice' and that no amount of political news reporting will ever persuade them otherwise. With no other GOP candidate having anything at like that kind of Hollywood head start on creating such a perfected public persona, the rest of them have to depend on who they actually are, which in most cases probably won't get them anywhere near as far as NBC's massaging of Trump for years got him. So I'd like believe virtually none of them just fall in line behind a nominee like DeDantis, but of course, I could be wrong - it's still the $64,000 question.

There is a universe in which Luka demands a trade, but is there a universe in which Luka demands a trade to Detroit?

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There are times it would be nice to believe in hell.

at the current price it's almost possible for them to increase sales over time enough for their P/E to start looking normal without more drop in the share price. Telsa has always been priced as a magic beans company, but the truth is they are a car company - and the slide in price is mostly the adjustment in the view of investors from the one to the other. The fact that Elon is acting like a 2 yr old at Twitter doesn't help of course, but I think at most it's just hastened an inevitable reckoning.