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His goal is not to court independents, never mind liberals. His goal is to mobilize red hats.

Yes, not getting daily briefs on security involving the Olympics is not the kind of impeachable offense Kash Patel likes to engage in.

He'll award you the presidential medal of freedom if you publicly praise him.

Why bother? He'd just be replaced by another red hat athlete. Most professional athletes, especially the white American ones, are ardent red hats. If you want to be a fan of big-time sports, you can't allow yourself to set a bar of no MAGA ever for your teams because you can't ever have that. Either disassociate the player from his ideology, or give up following big-time sports. Simple as that. You're rooting for the player, not the person. Difference.

Probably couldn't fact-check live because during the process of debunking one lie, he's told four more.

They are taking the stereotype to new heights previously unimaginable.

or they have a plan and it is optimal and they know how to execute it. i know it's hard to fathom we could actually ever have that, but that's a possibility, too. 😏

As long as we’re making that kind of prediction at the moment, I predict that no matter what the team’s record is on August 1, whether we are 75-35, 35-75, or anything in between, nobody here will be happy.

They had a lot of fun writing that one.

I could see a team without a plan doing that.

For as much as fans wanted Harris’s priority to be supercharging the offense by acquiring proven major leaguers, it’s worth remembering that last season, with essentially this same team, the Tigers’ offense finished 12th in wOBA, above the midpoint, but also, 7th in wOBAcon, 9th in xwOBA, and 5th in xwOBAcon. Not for nothing, they also finished 11th in runs, and were 8th before they slid. And they did this with one of the youngest offenses in baseball. This means they are doing the right things to score, and there’s still room for growth. Harris will get raked if the offense goes splat this year, and he’ll have earned that as the guy responsible for it. But the way things looked after their performance last year, standing pat on the core position players, if that’s what we end up doing, will have been a reasonable decision to make. Of course, there’s a lot of time between now and March 26—one month from tomorrow!—to make a move and finalize the roster. But I won’t be disappointed on that day if we don’t.

THE DOW IS AT 50,000 DOLLARS!!

I see, OK. Also, I would think they would ignore the grooming part and just jump right into the trafficking.

Definitely looking into Stoxx 600.

Terrible post. 😝 It's "no fewer". Get a style guide.

So, in addition to dumping PLTR, which I got completely out of when it fell through 153.24 last month, in the past two days I've been dumped completely out of IBM (252.44) and MSFT (382.01). I put trailing stop limit sell orders on those, same as PLTR, so I could take profits. All I have left of those big tech companies I've had for the past couple year is GOOG, which already sold some at 310.69 a few weeks ago, and will sell again at 294.13 and finally at 276.62, if it doesn't go back up and push those trailing stops up with it. That will pretty much get me out of the stocks I had bought two to three years ago to obtain a stake in AI. I have re-expressed some of these proceeds into small positions in a number of stocks in other leading-edge technologies like space infrastructure, satellite connectivity, nuclear/SMR, grid modernization, robotics, and metabolic health. I was looking at maybe putting down a stake in quantum computing, but it's probably too soon in the industry life cycle for that. I set down an initial amount in mid-January, and am buying in tranches this month and next month to complete the stake. So far the whole basket is up +3%, even though only four of the ten positions in total are up.

In the survey, conducted in January, X users were the only group in which a majority, just barely over 50 percent, expressed “strong” or “somewhat” approval of Donald Trump. His approval was significantly lower among consumers of news from “podcasts and YouTube,” local television, and even Facebook. Among people reading “newspapers or news websites,” browsing Reddit, watching broadcast television or scrolling TikTok or Instagram to keep up with current events, the numbers were, as Jain described them, “catastrophic.” He noted, “If you’re largely getting your news from Twitter, you might not even know that Trump is unpopular, because you wouldn’t even see a lot of the backlash.” Last week, in a study published in Nature, a group of researchers attempted to answer a sensible follow-up question: So what? People organize around news sources that flatter their beliefs, and in a fragmented news environment, you would expect different attitudes to be associated with venues that have developed a clear partisan identity. Well, it turns out that the engine of Musk’s X — its algorithmic “For You” page — is an ideological ratchet: In addition to promoting entertainment, X’s feed algorithm tends to push more conservative content to users’ feeds. Seven weeks of exposure to such content in 2023 shifted users’ political opinions in a more conservative direction, particularly with regard to policy priorities, perceptions of the criminal investigations into Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. The effect is asymmetric: switching the algorithm on influenced political views, but switching it off did not reverse users’ perspectives on policy priorities or current political issues. The effect was surprisingly pronounced considering the comparatively less insane conditions on the platform, and across politics in general, in 2023. In the space of a couple of months, users consuming X’s algorithmic feeds were both “4.7 percentage points more likely to prioritize policy issues considered important by Republicans” and “5.2 percentage points less likely to reduce their X usage.” Taken together, these analyses offer a bit of data to support the notion that X has become a place that both attracts more conservatives and pushes them further to the right, resulting in an X-obsessed administration that often uses the bizarre language of Zoomer fascists when posting online. The Muskification of Twitter into X — the MAGA platform of choice, where Musk’s tweets and the platform’s recommendations are unavoidable and the house chatbot is an outspoken rightist — may also be influencing the elites who still use it. Could it be happening to you, too? Are you … sure?

Not sure "grooming" is the right verb here.

Pitchers are valued for their ability to induce high levels of swing and miss, because they can’t give up hits and runs on balls that don’t get put into play. That’s always been the case, but that ability was considered special and limited to a small percentage of pitchers. Science has allowed more pitchers to figure out how to get much more swing and miss, and that requires a kind of max effort from most arms. But that’s where the money is, so pitchers will gladly risk their arms falling off for a chance at the big payday. Seems to me the thing to do is to change the game to reduce the need for swing and miss. Not eliminate it, just reduce it, to the same degree it was when a teams averaged 130 homers instead of 190. That way, it wouldn’t be so horrifying for a pitcher to give up contact. That sounds like changing the ball to me, which I’ve advocated for more than a decade now, but maybe there’s more to it, I don’t know. But there’s got to be something that can be done to eliminate the idea that a permanently shredded arm is a mere occupational inconvenience. Of course, chicks still dig the long ball, and Baseball makes a lot of money off that, so it would take some real business discipline to strive to put that genie back in the bottle.

That’s what makes it bold and not stupid: there’s a reasonable path for it.

Because a number of them are openly in a minority class, including the team captain, which is not true of the men's team.

Most of us know that, but hardly anyone steeped in RWM knows it. They hear nothing about Trump's health on Fox, Newsmax, et al, except when Ronny Jackson calls him the healthiest president in the history of the universe.

I will reject this idea up to the very moment they announce it's going to be implemented.

Now we know he's in for the win.

Thanks for pointing this out. We had noted this last year but it was easy to get past people. There was no way they could use a 3-D representation of the plate area where not only your example of catching just the front corner would be a strike, but also a floater that comes in and passes you up around your eyes clips the back of the plate area for a strike.