Edman85

Gov employees only, so this is till a 3+B dollar ****up.

I got a doozy in my box this morning: a signed memo from Hegseth ****ting on trans people. I forwarded to my HR office. Contacting a lawyer later, and between the onslaught of harassment emails from OPM, the privacy across violation with Elon and the treasury, I think it might be fun to go on the offensive here.

He didn't "break rules," and a lot of teams did that in that era.

What do you mean by that? The CBA has restrictions on what types of incentive clauses can be in a contract.

They had cash to burn last year. Keith's deal had a signing bonus payable last year, I believe. It made sense to do some frontloading, because the young core is only going to get more expensive.

Thought I had while doing some landscaping earlier... With all this data deleting going on, I could very well see the BLS suppressing the inevitable inflation data coming in the next few years.

Heard from an ATC I know who reported Trump at some point since 1/20 rescinded their 2025 COLA raise. Throw that on the pile with all the OPM nonsense, and do with that what you will.

The plane crash is the first of many disasters that will be attributable to the crap this admin is pulling on federal workers.

I do feel like there is a negative correlation between fanbase contentment with the Tigers' offseason moves and actual improvement by the team.

Everybody is activated at end of season. That doesn't mean he is healed.

If Faedo is still injured, he can't be outrighted until early March. Edit: he wasnt on the December injury report, so this isn't an issue. My other candidate was Kreidler.

Who's the 40 man move? I'm guessing Englert.

I would contend they aren't change-ups then.

I still haven't gotten the email, but this is my thought. The most likely thing is they pull the rug and the resigned employees will have to fight for the 25k RIF VSIP they are entitled to.

Almost like the sample sizes aren't significant or something...

I'll go further into the epiphany I had, one I strayed from a little bit in the lead up and aftermath of the election, and why I am choosing this path. First of all, I have a family member with an excruciating, chronically debilitating health condition that is taking a lot out of me emotionally and mentally. Additional stressors are not healthy at this point. Second of all, as a federal employee, the issues are two fold. One: I do not trust DOGE et. al. to not retaliate against anybody criticizing this group on the socials, so best to keep it off. Second: there is sudden professional uncertainty I haven't had in 16 years, adding to that emotional and mental strain above. Thinking back on my own life, I was definitely more of a passive political follower pre-Trump. Being more politically vocal starting around 2016 and crescendoing during the peak of the pandemic has made me some enemies. Now, while you can say "big whoop, not a big loss," when you have had a **** year (see the first paragraph) and you see all the friends you've hung out with on NYE for over a decade (except 2020) were hanging out and you weren't invited, it certainly makes you look inward and wanting to have a healthier way of trying to follow this stuff, because how I follow it leads to how I react to it. Oh, I do want to say due to more social cache back in 2016, I was able to successfully keep some people off the Trump Train at that time who have since jumped aboard. I want to try to build that cache back up. So... every-10-minute updates, doom scrolling twitter, doom scrolling here or a similar forum elsewhere, seeing speculation, having text threads with friends mocking Trumpies, just the constant barrage of Trump news? I don't need it, and it makes me a worse person. Worst of all, it doesn't help stop Trump and the like; if anything it only makes it worse. I know it's bad. Enjoy embracing the doom. I'm going to try to enjoy the good parts of life that I can, and hopefully use that to regain some social influence and try to get people aboard the good side come fall 2026.

I got news for you: they freely crime whether we bitch about it online or not.

Not much of a market for the free agent starting pitchers that are pointed to as development successes. Good trade returns for them, though.

Hi, just opening this thread and going straight to the bottom to post. Accuse me of having my head in the sand all you want, but completely tuning this **** show out the last few days instead of constantly refreshing and doom scrolling has been pretty great for my psyche. 10/10 recommend.

Craig Paquette got 2/4.75 from DD 23 years ago and we thought he was nuts. A player with a similar skillset gets 5/90 now.

Is that true? My understanding is the owners couldn't get their **** together.

Nobody's heard from the Hawk Tuah girl for a couple of months after her similar pump+dump.

My intent for those four years, or at least the first two, is to just bury my head in the sand as much as possible for a bulk of it and protect my sanity. Maybe midterms impose some much needed guardrails if we haven't already careened off a cliff at that point.

The tiktok users up in arms over this are kinda only proving the point with their outrage... They are being played by the algorithm.