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I want to know how they are selling it on the RWM to rank and file red hats. There’s got to be something they’re saying to them that they think is a benefit, doesn’t there? Such as, every subsidy is going only to illegals, or welfare queens, or something like that to make them hate the idea. That’s what I’m trying to get at. I can’t locate anything along those lines.

Stay classy.

Can anyone tell me what the intellectual argument against healthcare subsidies is? Why is it a bad thing? Serious question.

Random thought that popped into my head: I don't know whether I should be a little surprised or not at all surprised that apps like ChatGPT, Anthropic, Gemini, et al. have never been referred to as LLAMAs, which strikes me as a reasonable acronym for Large LAnguage Model Agents. I mean, come on, it's sitting right there in plain sight ...

You could also say that if it weren't for the ten-year struggle Poland went through, it would have taken Hungary, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia a lot longer than ten months, ten weeks, or ten days.

Because I disliked driving on the wrong side of the car so much in England, I opted out of driving in ANZAC when I was there.

There were also 119 Americans who died, along with 49 Syrians, 20 Canadians, 3 South Africans, 3 Uruguayans, 2 Chinese, an Australian, and a Mexican person.

Local tastes.

Just 243,000 (0.9%) Of People In Australia Live In The Red Area

Where Men & Women Are Most & Least Likely To be Friends

Map Of The Town of Springfield From The Simpsons

Oakland > Macomb and Wayne

What else is there to do in Iceland?

I think I figured out a hack to get at time in between pitches. Fangraphs has pitches per game at the team level for both batting and pitching, in their Leaders area. Reference has time of game by team under Seasons/Other. My simple hack is, take the total number of pitches faced by batters and thrown by pitchers for each team, and divide that by the average time of game multiplied by 162 for each team. For example: the Tigers threw 24,044 pitches and faced 23,339 pitches as hitters, for a total of 47,383 total pitches thrown in their games. Their games averaged 158 minutes in length—multiply by 162, and we conclude that they played baseball for a total of 25,596 minutes during the regular season. (Apropos of nothing, that works out to almost 18 full days spent playing regular season baseball during the year.) Forty-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-three total pitches divided by 25,596 total minutes equals 1.85 pitches per minute on average in Tiger games during the regular season. Maybe it's not perfect, but it's probably good enough. Here's the resulting table for 2025. Team Pit/Min NYY 1.75 TOR 1.77 NYM 1.78 SDP 1.78 TEX 1.78 HOU 1.78 MIA 1.79 BAL 1.80 ARI 1.80 TBR 1.81 SEA 1.81 BOS 1.81 PHI 1.81 LAA 1.81 CHC 1.82 STL 1.82 LAD 1.82 CHW 1.83 MIN 1.83 WSN 1.84 KCR 1.84 COL 1.84 PIT 1.84 ATH 1.85 MIL 1.85 DET 1.85 CIN 1.85 CLE 1.85 SFG 1.87 ATL 1.87 MLB 1.82 The team's in red are the playoffs teams from last season. My takeaways: Yeah, the Yankees are decidedly the slowest team in between pitches. The best teams are not necessarily the slowest teams. Those Yankees/Blue Jays regular season games must have been murder to sit through.

Perhaps because world war was being waged there during ten of the previous 34 years.

Time between pitches could probably be extracted from freely-available Statcast data. There’s a guy who makes them available on his GitHub.

If it’s a free and fair election, yes, it will be a blowout.

If he’s even allowed to run, then democracy and the Constitution are literally over. At that point it will be Xi, Putin, and Trump explicitly carving up the world among them, and EU Europe will basically become the Warsaw ghetto.

TDS has been fully embraced by Trump as a nice little cudgel, although I don’t think he could ever have come up with it, because he truly has no innate idea people could ever not love or respect him, except for mentally disabled (or, as he and MAGA would say, “retarded”) people. I think someone had to come up with it for him to explain to him how anyone could ever not love him.

Murdering drug smugglers? I thought Trump was pardoning drug smugglers? 🤔

Trump wants to be all things to all people at the same time. He wants to be both the president who satisfies most people by keeping us out of war unlike those RINOs and Democrats, and be the guy who thrills soldier sniffers with the rapacious overseas adventures they crave. This is not unlike Jesus who is also all things to all people—he’s the Prince of Peace to most Catholics and mainline Christians, and, at the same time, the ass-kicking no-prisoner-taking architect of the Apocalypse to the evangelicals.

Trump despises norms and institutions because they serve to constrain his worst immoral and antisocial impulses. Norms and institutions are for suckers and losers, people with no balls. Trump is sending a message to everyone in the world: we are the biggest, baddest mother****ers on this planet, and we have a divine right to control everything and everyone on it, especially you. Dare to complain or push back in any way and we’re gonna destroy you, too.

I’m pretty sure Trump’s talking about the oil under Venezuela soil that American companies started taking after it was discovered there in the 1910s, then Venezuela booted them out in the 1970s.