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This is super cool. I just wish it was clearer. A Brilliantly Detailed Map Of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks

Maybe if we show Trump this, he'll stop caring about Greenland and Canada. 😁

The Name “John” in Different European Languages I did not know "Evan" is Welsh for John.

When in Rome ... kiss twice.

I love these maps.

I'm just basing my assessment on what I see now versus what I saw before, and if not racking my brain for reasons to doubt it or explain it away makes me a slappy, I guess I'll wear it. In my opinion, Occam's Razor applies here. Let everybody else's mileage differ for all I care.

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How did you phrase the pushback, exactly? How is it working for you?

The hard part for anyone with massive reach is exactly that: X has a great deal of reach, and no one who relies on maximum engagement from their customer base wants to intentionally reduce that. The other part, of course, is whether those organizations are truly anti-nazi, or are in willful denial as to its very existence. That's probably more the question at hand.

I see, OK. The post mentioned only Bassitt and Ponce by name, you said “him”, and I deduced you did not mean Ponce.

It’s only January still.

Suspending elections was on the dock long before this. But yes, a pretext would be convenient. I’m not sure it’s something he himself could do on his own, although he’s doing a lot of things on his own that the Constitution doesn’t allow presidents to do, and everyone is letting him get away with it, so, who knows what’s next.

No, because according to the article: Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement to USA TODAY. "A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response," So, appropriate for the so-called leader of the free world.

Domestic violence is a horrific thing, and needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That stipulated, it’s also a pretty broad thing and in some cases could include verbal or emotional abuse. Is that really the worst thing she can come up with? I can think of worse things these thugs could (and probably do) have in their background, such as aggravated battery, rape, murder, etc.

All the confederate states have a long history of one-party state fascism, especially the deep southern ones, so, this all is like coming home for them.

So I’m finding that AI is a really good enhancement to my own intelligence, rather than a replacement for it. I wanted to invest a little in some emerging technologies. I’d had a pretty good run with AI-based securities and wanted to roll some of those gains over into whatever “the next big thing” might be. I use a LLAMA to help me identify what those technologies might be and the companies best suited for growth within each. I figured quantum computing would be one of them—I had actually been in IONQ for a bit before, getting whipsawed back and forth until I finally said enough and got out with a couple extra bucks. However, it pointed out to me that quantum is today where AI was in 2012: certain in its potential, but more in the science project stage. I looked into that, and it seemed right. made a lot of sense. It then highlighted some other interesting categories instead: grid modernization, commercial nuclear technology, satellite technology, space-based consumer technology, advanced health tech, metabolic biopharmaceuticals. It then provided a bunch of companies for me to consider. I dug into each to try to determine out which of themhave the highest wheat-to-chaff ratio, bounced my resulting list off AI, honed it, and I was ready to go. I also used AI to help me figure out how to place the investments, specifically, which I should buy all upfront and which I should buy in stages. I then did some research into that process to figure out which parts of it made the most sense. Then I made the buys. In no way was I ever going to ask AI for five or ten hot companies and then throw money into whatever they came up with. But in terms of giving me a starting point, AI was fantastic at coming up with possibilities I would never have come up with myself, and ideas about approach that I hadn’t really given much thought to before. As I say, I used AI to enhance my own intelligence, rather than replace it. I’m becoming a big fan.

First they’re gonna have to siphon as much money out of it all as they can get. Nothing changes until they do that.

I guess if what we see with those guys is what we get and they’re not going to get any better this year, then yeah, we could use Bassitt if he would ever consider coming here.

I was talking about Bassitt. It’s right in the quote in your post.

I think you’d agree that the big league roster has been in much better shape since 2024 than it was in August 2022, or for any of the five-pus years before that. That doesn’t mean the big league roster is in its finished state as per the plan. It is obviously not. But it is certainly better than it was, and that’s because of Harris, and it will continue to get better until we clearly see it’s getting worse. It was never going to be like flipping a switch—you know, trash in August 2022, done and in World Series shape by March 2023. It was always going to be a process, it was always going to take time because of the focus on development instead of purchase, and that was one of the first things Harris talked about in his first press conference.

Has Bassitt signed elsewhere? I haven’t seen that yet. I think the Tigers believe they are in pretty good shape with the rotation. Skubal, Flaherty, Mize are definite; the other two slots are slated to be filled by two of Olson, Anderson, Madden, Melton, Keider, and SGL. Possibly Jaden Hamm? And by the end of the year we should see Jobe make an appearance. That’s eleven guys on the list, so I think I’d be surprised to see them go after an established rotation guy.

Doesn't look to me as though Harris is sharing any blame in your view ... 😏 Ahhh, hell, I really shouldn't even be responding. I simply can't take seriously any position stipulating that Harris deserves no credit at all, only blame. Sorry. And for everyone else—no, I'm not saying Harris deserves only credit, no blame. I will say that the credit I think he deserves for putting together the vast improvements to our development, coaching, data science, prospect base, big league roster, etc., across the past three years is obvious to me, but whatever blame he might deserve would depend on my knowing exactly what it was he offered in trade and what he turned down, which I don't. I'm having difficulty dinging him for things he didn't do, such as not trading for this guy or not signing that free agent, when we don't even know whether such trades or offers were even on the table, and how the other sides responded in turn. All we know is what we can see that we can all agree upon seeing.

More coulda woulda shoulda here. I mean, if we really want to be fair about Harris's deadline performance last year—I know I do—let's take a look at all seven guys he picked up at the deadline, by fWAR: Finnegan: +0.7 Morton: 0.0 R. Montero: 0.0 Sewald: -0.1 Heuer: -0.1 Paddack: -0.5 Dobnak: n/a Total: 0.0 So, going by this measure, meaning contributions to wins and losses, Harris's performance was a wash. Sure, folks can hammer Harris now for not getting a basket of guys who netted out to a high positive WAR, and folks will. And folks can hammer him some more for getting six guys who did not achieve positive WAR and only one guy who did, and folks will. But I wouldn't agree that Harris's pickups were a collective disaster, because by this measure, they didn't lose us any more games than freely available options in house would have, theorietically. I also wouldn't say that the pickups Harris made was the sole reason we collapsed, especially considering that the same group of hitters who slashed .252/.322.430/108 wRC+ in the first 36 games after the deadline then went on to "hit" .210/.282/.326/70 wRC+ during the final 16-game skid.

How about those '87 Jays, too? Losing seven straight to cough up the division. Best collapse of my lifetime.

This post could not be more wrong if it were written by McCosky. Harris plays 4D chess, not 3D. Yeesh.