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His eye beholds beauty differently from most of us.

I do believe that Gen Z kids are more polite to their elders than certainly my Generation Jones cohort, and certainly more than Xers, and probably more than Millennials. I believe that's because that kind of behavior was reinforced through publicly-supported policies in schools such as anti-bullying initiatives, diversity and inclusion policies, focus on mental health wellness, and probably some others I'm not thinking of. They were taught to be more empathetic than we were when we were growing up, and I think it shows in their encounters with us grownups. I'm more concerned about the tail-end of Gen Alpha (b. 2020+) and the following Gen Betas (or whatever the next generation will be called), who may end up being educated within a Trumpian dog-eat-dog tough-guy regime that respects only people of means and power, and disregards everyone else as expendable.

We've had a billionaire for governor in Illinois going on eight years, and he's been great, and I'll be sorry to see him go, because I'm afraid of what could come next. I acknowledge he has been a total outlier as a traitor to his class.

Slippery slope definitely applies here. With every victory they achieve rescinding the established rights of people considered today to be on the margins, they will try to expand it to apply to more and more people until it applies to the rest of us. There will never be a point at which they say, "OK, that's enough, we're done" until we the 99% exist only to serve them. That's their true end goal.

And now he's saying even after his near-180, he won't leave the Democratic Party, and why would he? He can be much more effective working to hollow out the party from the inside than he can trying to bombard it from the outside.

Give him time, he'll get them all to cave. He's taking names now and then he's gonna kick their asses.

Colt Keith is having a super weird year. He’s hitting .321 and his wRC+ is 113 even after yesterday, so it’s not as though he’s collapsing, but he’s in this weird sort of purgatory where his contact quality is actually the best of his career in term of hard hits, but two things are suppressing his results: (1) a launch angle drop to 9.7 that’s turning potential home runs into hard grounders and line drives, and (2) literally zero home run luck on his fly balls. His xSLG is .451 vs his actual SLG of .387, which should suggest a comeback, but his SLG has trailed his xSLG his entire career, just never like this. It’s a real question whether that drop is the result of instructional intention, since the Tigers are one of the more line-drivey teams in the majors; whether pitchers are exploiting his weakness at hitting sliders more systematically lately; and whether his more passive approach at the plate this year (much lower strikeout AND walk rate) is a slump artifact or a real change. Everything about his individual and expected metrics screams inevitable comeback, but man, it sure is hard to watch while we’re waiting.

They sure were yesterday, at least.

Accident of geography?

A bat-first outfielder. A tale as old as 1876.

What the everliving ****, Wenceel.

Well, yeah, it's not as though they're interested in freedom and liberty for literally everyone, right? That has never been how conservatism works. That's always been a liberal idea.

Brandon Carr has already tried to block that route.

I do agree that in a free and fair election, contested democratically, the Democrats smoke the republicans off the field.

They're not blameless victims, but I guess they're moldable clay?

Oh god, please let this be true. 1 big thing: Gen Z leads social media exodus Some Gen Zers — ages 14 to 29 — are ditching social media in pursuit of better mental health, Axios' Rebecca Falconer reports. It's part of a wider digital detox movement away from screens and toward analog options. Research suggests that social media use is waning — and that more people are embracing app-blocking products and "dumbphones" that lack social media apps. 📵 Chris Wells, a self-described former "Twitter and Instagram junkie," tells Axios that he's "99% off" social media after doing a "Month Offline" challenge. The 26-year-old says: "I didn't know who I was without my social media accounts, and when I quit, it was pretty miraculous." "The one thing that really came back to me was a sense of privacy. I hadn't really felt that since I was a kid." 🗑️ 17-year-old Aditi Ediga deleted her phone's social media apps last fall. Ediga says: "One reason why teenagers don't want to delete apps and stop using them is that they're scared they're going to miss out on stuff, and then I realized I wasn't really missing out on anything." 🤝 NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of a bestselling book on the effects of childhood tech use, tells Axios: "What you're seeing now, especially among Gen Z, is a self-correction back toward real-world connection." "They've felt the costs of isolation and are rediscovering what actually leads to flourishing." 🤳 Yes, but: Plenty of young Americans are still spending countless hours on social media, with platforms facing calls to ban or restrict teen access. Go deeper.

Trump definitely would have won, because he definitely would have run again and Hillary would have taken the blame for the virus.

Is it not considered a major in Europe?

I agree that getting older has a lot to do with it. The closer you get to the 18th hole, the less stupid **** matters.

If Hillary had won, Trump would have won in 2020.

The question is whether they can get Democrat voters to just throw their hands up and quit, thus ceding permanent ruling power to the Trump regime, versus being energized and fighting against it. Honestly, I have no inclination on which one I would put my money on.