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The clear implication of your first post, especially, was that anti-vax is the default position for liberals. I am simply here to tell you that is false.

That's another thing, too. It's not all one thing or the other. But I wouldn't support permitting this to excuse allowing Nazi parents to privately train their kids to wreak violence on the world as a legitimate lifestyle choice.

Long Duck Park?

If you have never been a middle manager in that situation, I can see why you would not understand.

This is what busing in the 70s was intended to address.

It’s not just the kind of socialization where kids learn to play together at recess. There is also the kind of socialization in which schools teach children the proper range of social behavior and thinking consistent with American ideals, which is a legitimate educational function that serves us all well. I concede the idea that parents have a right to raise their children within certain beliefs and lifestyles as they see fit, but there has to be limits to that if the result could actually end up being harmful to society. Think of it this way: if a child grows up in a family in which the parents believe in providing hours each day of Nazi doctrine and paramilitary training for their kids for years on end in order to prepare for what they believe is the inevitable coming race war, is that merely a lifestyle choice they should have the right to pursue?

Apropos of nothing, I saw Sabrina Carpenter being interviewed recently, she was home-schooled, and man, is she sharp.

Again, not typical liberals. Garden-variety liberals don’t believe in anti-vax doctrine, and if you continue to insist they do, then you are being aggressively ignorant about the nature of American liberals, and not a little intellectually dishonest. As long as we’re going here, if you are a Nazi in America, 9/10 you are voting red.

You missed all the discussion about this here. It was firmly established in the documentary about this incident that the front office went around the manager and directly to the players to execute the scheme, and no manager could have stopped that. If you’ve ever been a middle manager and your boss went directly to your reports to do a project without your knowledge or consent, you’d know what that’s like.

They have Skubal for at least two more years.

This is true, although also, the Yankees and the Red Sox.

MLB can’t market convicted cheaters. They don’t have to think about marketing managers.

Ratko has it right. Matt Shaw is ready.

That’s fine, we need more whiff in the pen.

I practically got a boner reading this part of the story, especially the second paragraph: “I think every team pitches you on that idea,” Cobb said of improvement through adjustments. “I think what separates Detroit is the fact that I know Scott [Harris], his background, and I have talked to other free agents, people that have gone through the process with them that said it was different here. “I haven't gotten into it with them yet; I’m excited too. But [others] suggest that it is not the same as the pitch that other teams give you, that their data’s a little bit different and they have the staff that knows how to take that and translate it into an athlete’s terms of understanding.” This is exactly the kind of thing I have wanted for my franchise for 25 years!

In marketability terms, he doesn’t need the numbers because he’s guaranteed employment until he’s 40. In self-esteem terms, this will probably be a big problem for him. I’m coming around to believing that it came down to “I’m the Man”, which he never could be under Aaron Judge’s thumb.

The populist idea of democracy has been reduced to pulling a lever every four years, or, if you’re more ambitious, every two years. That’s because “actually, we’re a republic”.

All six of these things are related.

They want you to get used to the worsening because that means you'll give up on wanting better, you'll be easier to manage, and they can pocket the money they might normally invest in the product to make things better for you. It's a core capitalist value.

I don't know what they are, but those aren't liberals you're talking about. I know this because I am a liberal, and rejecting science and vaccines and embracing holistic alternative medicine horsehit was never a core liberal value. Only right wingers who hate liberals think liberals are typically that. I can prove that to you: Trump's embrace of RFK Jr proves he's no liberal.

Proto-red hats escaping the liberal hellhole that is Missouri? 😉😁

So much for "don't be evil". 😕

I swear they’re going to outlaw vaccines entirely. Probably make them all Schedule I narcotics.

I'm sorry, are you saying here that Google Photos syncs to Apple iCloud and you can't decouple them? Do I have that straight? What's the business connection here?

Yeah, that whole $35/month thing they came out with was always intended to be hit of the dope. We've never left DirecTV. We pay a lot more money than cobbling together multiple streaming services, but we can afford it, and it sure is darn convenient.