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TSLA getting hammered for the 2nd time this week. Down 15% since Monday's open.

Well Tork was aggressive on a 1st pitch strike, but he didn't do much with it.

true - the quality of the news coverage is much more important than the OP-ED page. For years when it was owned by DJ, the WSJ ran a pretty Neanderthal op-ed but still had solid unbiased news coverage. I think right now Bezos is in a reactionary phase after being vilified by the left wing. So maybe he'll continue to get worse, maybe he'll get over it. We'll see.

excellent

yup - "Free Markets" in todays semantics it just a euphemism for "serve the oligarchy". Too bad. I guess he kept WAPO out of bankruptcy for a decade when it might already have been lost, so I won't begrudge him that - but I actually don't see even see the business case for trying to clone the WSJ.

we are such a stupid country.

so how does a signing bonus work in the NHL? Jones' contract was ~50% bonus - is that already paid or not? His cash salary cost drops to $2.5M in '27. It doesn't matter to the cap hit as the bonus is prorated for the cap, but not having to make the actual cash outlay would at least make it less painful....(?)

Meanwhile, investors have decided Musk is now worth $73B less than they thought he should be worth at his post election peak. He wasn't on the ballot but folks are voting on him with their money. (TSLA down $27 today)

Just following in the footsteps of Leo de Medici: "In 1517, Pope Leo X offered indulgences for those who gave alms to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The aggressive marketing practices of Johann Tetzel in promoting this cause provoked Martin Luther to write his Ninety-five Theses, condemning what he saw as the purchase and sale of salvation." US and its political culture *are* proving themselves in need of a little Reformation. 🤷‍♀️

IIRC they tried to give Prince more to do later in his career when the team was winding down but without much success -- by that time he didn't still have the energy I guess,

did they maybe give the whole park a coat of paint too - it needed one.

talking about awareness - there was a play in the second half when the Clips had a chance to break, Ausar was the first to see it and took off. Half way down the court he reached up and back with his left arm and took a blind swat - he saw where the man in front was and was just taking a guess at the passing lane while running down court full at a full sprint. He didn't deflect the pass, but I was damn impressed at the awareness to make the attempt.

Doubly ironic coming from Elon, whose always stresses that exact point whenever SpaceX has one their "alternately scheduled vehicle disassemblies"

Getting Thompson's back and picking up Schroder have been big adds. Cade's FTA and eFG both steadily increasing.

A couple those fouls came when Trae got past Thompson, and Ausar then ran over him on the trail because he didn't anticipate Trae's little stutter step. Definitely something he needs to learn. And in general, he needs to accept that once his man is past him there is a limit to what he can do. He gets caught overplaying trying to make it up when he's been passed, and you just have to learn to accept that you can't do that. His agility is something else to watch though - he's like a big cat out there.

Sulzberger has been studying for his "Lachan Murdoch" junior certification for a number of years now, he's just not very good at it or the Times would already be a lot worse than it is.

There is an old saw about engineering mentality being the person that will spend 20 minutes doing a 5 minute task the first time so he can do it in 4 minutes the next time. I think there is a lot of truth in that. But like most things - there is a limit to how much a good thing is still a good thing.

Yes, and the beatings will continue until morale improves.

How many of these are run by the old mainstream institutions (read: "non-evangelical"). So they wouldn't count with the MAGA.

You would think that even though baseball has fewer Black players than it once did, the Hispanic population has to be at historically high levels and you might think they would be just as radicalized against Trump as Black players, but it doesn't seem to work that way. I'd guess on some teams the language barrier results in there being two separate clubhouses that may play together on the field but that's about it.

Pistons had 3 players attempt 10 treys and make more than 50% of them. That's not your everyday occurrence.

IDK - people who don't receive donations end up dead - hard to see the revenue generating potential in that, other than for the NFDA*. (*National Funeral Directors Assoc.)

Tiger 3b coaches in mid-season form I see.

definitely

Nice play at 2B, but not Torres.