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So, no idea, huh? 😉 I was just curious about the technical aspects of something like that, how it would work on a practical basis.

I don’t know whether this has already been discussed here, so apologies if it has, but what would be the practical implications of a Democrat like Hakeem Jeffries presiding as Speaker of the House over a Republican-majority Congress?

How does he even get in the door? Who is this guy? Where did he come from? Where'd he get all the money? Who's paying him? Who is he really working for? What are his plans?

When I was basically eight until maybe age eleven, I was scared shitless I would have to go to Vietnam. When they announced that the draft would end, I felt a little better. At last until the Hostage Crisis, which took place when I was 18. I already had to register with Selective Service, but this made that whole exercise feel more real than I imagined at the time. The Iran thing was the actual impetus to get me up off my recently-high-school-graduated ass and get myself into college for what I assumed would be a student deferment!

I think the dunking I've been seeing more of occurs using a screenshot of the tweet, versus clicking retweet or quoting the tweet which counts toward views and engagement for the OP.

As good as this advice is, this unfortunately that would require a level of behavioral zeitgeist that would never, that could never, happen. Individuals doing individual things on an individual basis never unwittingly band together suddenly to change their behavior from one direction to another en masse. There has to be some impetus from the outside, one that is compelling and practically unavoidable. So what could that be in a case such as this?

I wouldn't mind going boom with Marisa Tomei.

People in danger of flunking life can be very dangerous people, indeed.

Or hustle. Or beg. Or borrow. Or steal. Whatever it takes to keep from starving.

Part of that might be because in the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps self-made-man culture, there are no solutions that can be applied top down—only individuals achievements from bottom up. And if you don’t make it that way, it’s your own damn fault, wait, no, it’s the immigrants’ damn fault!

This may be because we are going through a moment not dissimilar to when the country, the world, went through a moment during the 1930s. One big difference is that no one today is flocking to the Communist Party.

😉

I wonder whether Chuck Hughes went down with the same thing fifty-some years ago?

Brian Anderson is a gimpy whifftastic hitter with doubles power who a bad defensive year last year. So, basically, a less healthy Jeimer. He could probably recover defensively, but that 90 wRC+ is probably what he's going to give whomever signs him.

Segura is the latest in a series of infielders that have also been connected to the Tigers. The club also had reported interest in Adam Frazier who has now signed with the Orioles and Wil Myers who will be with the Reds in 2023. Brian Andersonwas also listed among their targets, who is still available. Now that the Tigers have missed on Segura, Myers and Frazier, they could circle back to Anderson, or look to other free agent infielders such as Josh Harrison, Donovan Solano or Rougned Odor. None of those players will likely break the bank and the Tigers should have a bit of payroll wiggle room. They are currently at $124MM, per the calculations of Roster Resource, south of the $135MM Opening Day figure they had last year, per Cot’s Baseball Contracts. It seems like no one who has literally any other options (C’mon, Reds? Jesus …) wants to come to Detroit. We will probably have to overpay substantially to get any of the remaining guys.

I hurt my knee in a softball mishap in June and had to shut down for the season. I saw an orthopedist who said if I want to play next year I have to strengthen my legs considerably. I had allowed my legs to go to pot when I got equipment at home so now to get them in shape, I had to join a gym. It’s the first time since 2002 I’ve belonged to a gym. I had gone pretty regularly since the late 80s up to then. There always were machine or weight hogs who would sit and monopolize them in between sets. If I asked to work in with them it was a 50-50 proposition between “sure”, and some combination of “I only got x more sets”, “I’m holding it for a friend”, and “no”. Either way, I’d go somewhere else, come back in five or so minutes, and they’d be off. But now that it’s 2022, there’s a new wrinkle to the whole thing: now when they are commandeering the equipment without using it, people are on their phones, which are very addicting and time sucking. So instead of hogging the equipment for a couple minutes in between sets as before, it’s now five or ten minutes. I have seen when someone at a popular machine was sitting on it diddling with their phone, I left for another part of the gym to do other stuff, came back to the machine some 15 minutes later, and they are in the exact same place doing the exact same thing. At least recently when I’ve asked to work in, they haven’t flat out said “no”. So maybe that’s an improvement.

I want to transfer cash into my account.

I can't transfer funds into my Paypal account.

I had to post the above as an image because every time I tried to post it with text, it failed to post. I've seen this problem before—it's a rogue word that I have to identify and remove. It happened on the old board, too. So I have to break down the post one paragraph at a time, editing the post over and over, until I see this: Then when I remove the offending word and replace it with something else, it usually works. Although, this time, even when I did remove the word, I still got that dialogue box, which means there is at least one more offending word. So I gave up and just pasted it into Notepad and pasted the image here. That's why it's an image.

Ick. No.

Vikings were playing more for January 15 than for January 1.

And the Tigers had more starting pitching last year than just about anyone!

Apropos of nothing, I would look at that handle and think, “nine and a third cats”.

Always nice to score a touchdown without kissing the ground.