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maybe not, the preliminary report was that it might be as mild as Omicron 1. I am disheartened at this American drive to declare victory before anything is actually won though. Sure case rates are plummeting, but from an unbelievable high level to a level that we still would have thought bad a year ago, plus you have to question how much case rates even mean with so many people testing at home with mild cases that are certainly not getting reported. I mean people could give it a damn week to see which way the next breeze blows. I don't want to hear about how 'tired' people are. This is not fatiguing - forced labor is fatiguing. This is just annoying. It's gotten to be like a neighbor's dog that barks too much, you don't have to end up in psychic puddle over it.

I guess I'd push back on that a little. I think the idea that a Tiger win by those early 90's team was going to be a slug fest, i.e. that they were going to give up close to as many as they scored (i.e. couldn't pitch), was a pretty common view of those teams. You'd have to not notice that they lead the league in runs in 92 and 93, 2nd in 91 and 3rd in 94 - before the bottom fell out completely.

Sure, the thinking would be that it ups the pressure on the players. Things is I don't know if either side is particularly sensitive to what the public thinks, so it probably won't make any difference in terms of good strategy.

I wonder what kind of Billiard player Larks is?

wings carry the play for at least 5 straight minutes then let down and all but give up a goal in the last minute of the period. There is something wrong with they way they approach period ends and it's been this way for a long time. Either Blash isn't getting the right rotations out there or the team has gotten in the bad habit of letting down or what ever, I'd be surprised if there was a team that gave up more goals in the last 90 sec of a period.

one can only assume he must be speaking from some experience in that direction......

It's about time!

it's always been about the quick release with Stafford. He's tough to defend with zone coverage because the time from decision point to the ball arriving is his best attribute. I wonder if that is part of why he has had so much success in come-from-behinds - don't most teams drop back into zones when playing 'prevent'?

just because people don't recognize a threat doesn't mean it isn't there. And like we used to say in Nixon's day, "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."

I don't have any personal feelings about Stafford either, but it's a good background story to the game as a fan in general. Good QBs that labor without winning the SB are usually stories that generate interest - Jim Kelly, Jim Plunkitt, Elway, that Marino never got back again.

yes and no. In baseball the wash out percentage for hitters is really high - you can have big numbers and all of them will still wash out. If I were managing a baseball draft system I would probably ignore most of the high floor guys. I don't care if my MiLB teams win, I just want to score one above replacement player per year. HS talent like Greeen and Jobe and internationals are high risk but they are where the payoff comes when you hit.

Single data point: It appears poll workers in Washtenaw County are 'volunteers' but are paid by the hour - County website says $13-17/hr depending on local jurisdiction https://www.washtenaw.org/DocumentCenter/View/17917/Poll-Worker-FAQ?bidId=

keep hearing this from everyone 2nd hand. Scholz doesn't want to put himself on record? Not the best sign.

you mean in an alternate universe where we had Holiday voting the Lions would be winners?! Sign me up!

mail in voting is great - how many state GOPs are trying to move away from it as we speak?

Cade appears to be in street clothes at the end of the bench? I guess it's a real one week minimum hip pointer and not the Casey - day-to-day variety hip pointer.

the point being that even in 1790 they were setting up the system to be as easy as possible - that was their example. When people say - "well we've always done it this way" they are nodding to the fact of history but missing the principle behind the fact. To follow the principle we should be using all the tools we have today to make it easier instead of saying "well my immigrant veteran great-great-great-grand-dad who fought in the Revolution stood in the snow to vote and it was good enough for him!" - when the equation should be flipped to say it was the best the country could do for him at the time.

of course that should say 'hockey stick' but editing has timed out.

but in an economy where so many people live pay check to pay check in a gig economy, it's really the same thing. Voting that ends up coming at time cost is voting that comes at economic cost which is a voting right that is being fundamentally denied. The founders set elections for November when the crops were in but before winter hit hard, when gentleman farmers had nothing but time on their hands and movement was still possible. Even they clearly intended to make voting as easy as possible.

McConnell polling must be seeing decaying Trump support. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-2b0ae5c3e5f3445d11b67d45df6195f7

MI data seems to get to the national site on a longer time lag then some places. ICU lags hospitalizations to some degree but generally we have passed this peak in hospitalizations,

LOL - Washtenaw county is sitting at about 40 cases/100K this week. A year ago this number would have had everyone talking about more lockdowns 🤯, today it's like "doesn't this mean it's over?" 😌 Lets's just hope it keeps falling.

HaHa. Of course in the interest of full disclosure, the old blast furnace steel plants were huge sources of SO2 emissions, which caused acid rate but also have negative global warming influence because they increase the reflectivity of the atmosphere. It would not be PC to study it in detail, but the huge global reductions in SO2 emissions world wide when acid rain awareness hit in the 70's probably had at least some percentage part in why global temps took such a 'hockey' turn in recent years. SO2 aerosols would have had a masking effect on the growing greenhouse potential of the CO2.

that might be on the list after I retire. Of course people that have to take time from work to vote in the first place can't do much volunteering either.

So those are 'parabolic' cooling towers. That is what you use when you need really big cooling, like at a power plant - the key to them is that they are passive, they don't have fans. The size creates enough chimney effect. That makes them more cost effective at big installations. They are not used exclusively at nuke plants, any big facility might use them, and in fact the ones at the skiing site are from a massive steel works that was shut down before the 2008 Olympics as part of the pollution abatement push then. You can tell they are out of service because if they were working there would be cloud of condensate mist above them.