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I wouldn’t think Sasaki would be happy to come here.

My friend from Cuba, who has been working hard to get his permanent residency here, still had a wife and child there, as well as his parents. He reports they lost furniture but otherwise the housing structure is OK, and thankfully, so are they. Very scary time for a guy living in a foreign land separated from his family.

Everything is an option, but if we’re signing Bichette for the seven or more years it’s going to take to get him to come here, we’re probably going to have to trade three of McGonigle, Anderson, Lee, and Rainer. OK?

I believe even that part is a head fake, because they want us fighting about stupid **** like this post, and even though I totally agree that Trump is cognitively compromised to a significant degree, I do think he is with-it enough to understand the value of head faking America about stupid **** to keep us from looking behind them and really taking in what they are actually doing to dismantle American governance. As for J.D.: this is why I keep telling people who wish Trump would just expire already because they think Trumpism would simply end and we would go back to normal: hey man, careful what you wish for. A key reason everything is happening at firehose-speed is they're getting an entire infrastructure in place that they plan to be impossible to dislodge.

See, I kind of believe that there's an explicit acknowledgement among movie producers that because people expect to suspend belief about the existence of paranormal nonsense, the filmmakers have much more leeway to fudge or even completely disregard key details about the real world parts they depict in ways they could never get away with in a real movie, and that goes double for what happens in police investigations, court proceedings, business offices, college campuses, you name it. In fact, I firmly believe that a high percentage of the most avid consumers of horror movies actually believes paranormal definitely exists, which means they almost certainly don't have much of a clue how police stuff etc. actually works, so the filmmakers can depict it in practically any way they want and not have to worry about getting called on the carpet by Internet scolds for it. And even if they are, well, all they have to do is reply hey, it's a movie about aliens/voodoo/super killers/etc., lighten up, d*ck. Put the scolds on the defensive, make them the wet blankets. Filmmakers would totally get support from all the non-scold fans on it.

OK, now I'm sorry I dumped NVDA at 123 last summer. Although in my defense, I was still ahead on the sale as recently as May 12.

Probably, but that Trump social post is not evidence of that.

Whenever he does these, look behind the curtain to see what he's really doing. These Trump Social posts are nothing but head fakes. They want us talking about this instead of the real story that's in plain sight.

I wasn't calling you disingenuous. I was calling your take disingenuous, because you're pretending it's about media business as usual, and it most obviously is not. We all know what Bari Weiss was brought in to do, and it wasn't to tinker around the edges with personnel to boost ratings by a few micropoints. Between emotional resignations by decades-tenured news chiefs and the network throwing money at Donald Trump because they did actual journalism, nobody is buying the story that Bari Weiss is coming in as an honest actor to shore up CBS's integrity. It's laughable on its face.

Not exactly a brooming of incompetent nincompoops. I wonder whether we'll get any insight on why. Beauregard may not mesh with the system so well, or maybe he himself is simply a weak link among the three.

If Kyle Tucker were 100% healthy and hitting on all cylinders, he'd be worth 10/400.

Agreed, if we'd be paying him for his performance during the 2025 season.

Toronto, for reasons I can't articulate in this part of the forum. 😏

He's not Skubal, so I would be less butt-hurt to see him walk for nothing. I'm just a little concerned about signing him for 22.5 and he struggles for the whole year while we're like, hey, we bought him so we gotta use him. But yeah, there's no riskless choice here.

I don't think so. Tucker was both injured in September, but also, legit bad during the second half. I mean, like, switch-flipped-along-with-the-calendar-to-July bad. I think he might be had for as little as seven years and mid-twos.

Arm's gone and he's not the only one who knows it.

OK, that's plausible. Now the question is whether we want him back even for another year. With top prospects knocking at the door possibly as soon as March, I'm not sure he would be worth the twenty-two five.

Isn't large plot holes one must suspend belief basically built right into the horror genre formula?

I tried the softball schedule test in ChatGPT and the Google one, and they both failed spectacularly (and rather blithely at that). Here's the post I made about that: I recently consider giving it another try to see whether it's gotten any better at it, but really, if it can't accurately count the number of question marks in a short document, I already know it's not going to get the softball schedule test right. So, I still don't trust it. Hey, what can I say. I'm an Ailuddite.

That's a disingenuous take. This is clearly more than just "trying something else" as though they're filling a marketplace need.

Speaking of Mercator distortion ... 😝 But seriously folks—Russia is legitimately 115 times the size of Bangladesh, which is about the size of the state of Illinois.

We were the first in 1776 (actually, 1783 but whatevs). It took about 140 years for the next country to do so. Countries That Have Ever Gained Independence From The UK

I think most of us have seen corrections to the Mercator map before. I'd seen this one, too; in case you haven't, check it out:

You don't think anyone signs Torres for more than a year?

Also, kakistocracy, a word I learned in January, 2017.