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European soccer has no draft, and as far as I can tell no salary or roster restrictions, except maybe nationality restrictions, which is why they have that kind of stratification. Theirs is a dog-eat-dog capitalist system where if a team can't keep up, they'll wind up. Since baseball has a draft and numerous rules on just how players can get compensated, all within a socialist revenue-share system ensuring not only their survival, but guaranteed profits, there will not be that kind of stratification.

I would also clarify that I am not talking about an all or nothing proposition here: meaning, it must be either the epitome of care and caution, or else it’s zero caution taken at all. Even a marginal drop in caution applied, whether due to a minute degree of nonchalance, or fatigue, or lack of full competences, or whatever it may be, could mean the difference between a safe experience and a deadly experience.

Hoping that nonchalance applies less to professionals does not necessarily mean that nonchalance could never apply to any of them, and that all armory professionals are of the exact same unimpeachably high quality, and never subject to error or negligence. Just as someone in America has to be the worst doctor, someone in Hollywood has to be the worst armorer. I’m not making any statements about this case in particular since I can’t possibly know for sure. I’m just talking in terms of general possibilities i don’t buy the nonstarter premise than nonchalance with the handling of weapons among Hollywood armorers could out possibly exist. If oblong’s comment that negligence in this case is true, I would certainly hypothesize that nonchalance in handling is quite possibly a factor, and should not be dismissed out of hand.

And the only reason anyone is trying to make them feel better about themselves is because Anyone wants their money and votes, and that’s the extent of it.

We really did miss Stan, didn't we? 😃

The Apprentice.

I don't think it's a matter of immaturity on the part of Trump, as though he expected to win and he's throwing a tantrum because he didn't. I think that's an act. I think it always was the plan to use the loss of the election as the springboard to dismantle the very idea of democracy and its elections. They know their base thrives on feeling like they're an oppressed minority. It's their superpower, but it doesn't manifest itself if they actually win.

Anyone who characterizes a crowd in which several people were armed as being "an unarmed crowd" is a person with interest.

I see, OK.

I don’t think “courage” is the operative concept here. Trump could be a coward in this case only if he was afraid to keep the crowd from doing something he didn’t want them to.

So if I’m understanding you right, you have an Internet gateway from ATT, an aftermarket router plugged into the gateway, then a “first unit” plugged into the router?

This circles back to my comment about nonchalance. It appears too many Americans are too comfortable around guns, and that’s not always (or maybe not even mostly) because they’re expertly-trained to handle them. I believe much of it has to do with their ubiquity, both physical (they’re all around us) and cultural (they’re everywhere in TV, movies, news stories, social media, etc.). I can envision where such comfort around something so dangerous can extend to even situations that are supposed to be airtight with their caution.

Ha ha, analyst said Stanford was “pissed” at the loss of the free play. Awesome.

Next handoff worked nicely, though.

I can’t believe the Masked Singer is an actual thing still. It’s, like, decline-of-western-civilization-level bad.

Good coverage of the middle on that double fake handoff play.

Who had Lions up 10-0 midway through the 1st quarter on their bingo card?

Which might be the most offensive part of the tweet. But hey, he’s in Georgia. If it’s not SEC football, it’s not a sport.

Interesting tweet mixing politics and sports, from someone whom I totally assume is in the "shut up and dribble" crowd when it comes to athletes.

I'm not talking about the difference between not-at-all serious and heart-attack serious within this country. I'm talking about how seriously it's taken among different countries. I would also expand it to include people beyond those tasked with the technical implementation of firearms on set.

Reading through this I see they suggest this system in place of a router. Did you replace a router with this system, or else connect it to you original ATT gateway without a router? We have an ASUS router on top of our ATT gateway and I have tried a mesh system using our old ASUS router once we got an updated router, but it didn’t seem to work, at least the way I set it up. Could this be used on top of a router+gateway setup?

I was just wondering whether the ubiquity of firearms in America contributes to some level of nonchalance leading to how Hollywood treats guns in production, as though having a firearm around is no big deal, not really. Guns are so common in real life, and so many people you know have one, maybe it’s like they’re thought of as little more than a toy. Some of the same people I know who gravely intone on the one hand how serious a responsibility having a gun is, will still wax childishly on the other hand about all the features and potential some new gun they just acquired has. I’m a little unnerved when they do. I’ll bet movie capitals in other countries don’t treat even prop firearms at all nonchalantly during production.

I know, Rosario would not be a good pickup, but he’s a hot commodity at this moment, and I think some people might be into it. That’s the joke. Bet he still gets a couple years and eight figures from someone, unless he completely collapses in the Series. I wouldn’t want that to be us. Fun fact, though: Rosario has achieved at least 1.1 WAR in each of his first seven years in the majors, including the short 2020. That’s pretty rare.

Eddie Rosario, Detroit Tiger, anybody? 😜

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