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Those are just counting stats. I need something more substantial like WAR.

The real problem is in that name. They have chosen to continue to call themselves the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when it really is a Museum of Popular Music. Much of the controversy arises over what qualifies as rock and what doesn’t. Change the name and most of the hate goes away. They also need to do away with the fan vote. I doesn’t mean anything. A few years back, Dave Matthews Band won it and they just ignored it and didn’t enshrine them and then never put them on the ballot again.

Jack (paraphrasing): “three runs this early is not insurmountable”. Has he paid any attention to this team?

What are you drinking?

A true touring band will at the very least have a slightly different set every night. The great live bands will leave you guessing with every song. While a band out cashing checks will play the same produced show every night.

The Duke speaker was this year and Harvard from 2014. I think someone's entire academic career is about to be examined at Duke.

I think it would be great if he either opened one of his shows with Margaritaville or didn't play it at all. It would be hilarious. But I admit that DMB is basically Jimmy Buffet for my generation.

Jerk Sox and Jerk Sawx?

That better not be a shot at Jimmy Buffett.

It's Gran Rapids

Hector told him to find proof that Chicken Man is working against them, so he is.

I agree, Jimmy Buffett is a first ballot HOFer!

Wow, I forgot about all of that. I knew who she was but forgot about his direct involvement. Now it makes sense. They even "reminded" us when they referenced Lalo killing the travel agent kid. Damn this show is so good. I need to find a wiki to refresh everything. It's my only frustration is not remembering things from 3 years ago.

Extending Grant would be a disaster.

20 bucks your doctor is following Oz because she was tired of getting blindsided by something stupid he said on his 'doctors' show and used it to be prepared to handle questions from her patients.

Another bad throw by Haase, but Javy's got to come up with that.

I wish there was a way to mute posts that include tweets from accounts that you have muted/blocked. People like Rupar amplify the crazy.

Rain delay

i love how the media is treating the warriors win last night as them stealing a game because kerr wasnt there. they played memphis at home without morant. how did the "warriors" steal anything? if anything, that was a missed opportunity for memphis to steal the game because the warriors couldnt shoot straight.

its the ultimate irony. For millennia we used things like gold that were hard to get and yet quite easy to keep (very physically stable and reworkable) to stand for the value of other stuff we wanted to trade so we didn't have to carry bushels of wheat around. But it never worked all that well because the price of the gold or silver or whatever, kept changing its intrinsic value (e.g. every time a gold find flooded the market with cheaper gold) and when that happened it screwed up everybody's economy. And there was no way for money supply growth to match economic growth so growth was often inhibited. But that's the way it stayed, right up until the 20th century. Then finally some clever people figured out that you can just print dollars, and as long as you control the supply, it's value won't bounce around everyplace. The economy saw that it was good, and that was the creation of 'fiat' money. Now, sometimes the people trying to control the supply didn't do the best job and the economy ping ponged from inflation to recession, but decade by decade they tried to learn to get better. How much better is an open question but the point being there is group of people out there trying to keep the dollar as stable as they know how. (and getting a lot of flak for being too slow to have caught the current inflation before it got off the ground.) But all was not joyous in paradise. Some people thought that the government was controlling the value of money to evil purposes and pined to go back to some material standard like gold, despite all the problems inherent in that. And some people just couldn't accept the idea of money with no backing. But they never got much traction. Then came 2009 and the crash. And a bunch of programmers decided that the crash was caused by the fact that the banks 'controlled money.' Now this was a misdiagnosis because the problem in the crash was not instability in the value or origin of money, but in its use (reckless credit and derivativization) but be that as it may they decided that what the world needed was money created by computers under some kind computational distributed model were no-one had control. They would free 'fiat' currency from it's oppression by government and bankers and somehow market magic would take care of everything. But it turns out that fiat currency only works exactly when there is someone, like the Federal Reserve or Euro Bank, actively trying to manage the value of a currency. In it's absence it's value becomes a pure speculation and just goes anywhere, and that is what crypto now is. On top of that, the programmers' dreams of block chain tech have also crashed because the 'ledger' (the bitcoin or other cypto database) quickly became too big for transactions to be executed at reasonable cost (which has to be damn near zero in the everyday economy). The cost to clear a single bitcoin transaction today is in the 10s to 100s of dollars depending on too many variables for anyone to contemplate when they are in the line at Krogers. So it has failed both functionally as a medium of exchange and theoretically as a stable store of value. And Bitcoin even fails as an environmental scourge because mining bitcoin is pointlessly generating untold tons of CO2 the world doesn't need as computers churn recalculating the encryption of the ledger. However, the market loves a good speculation - especially with a high tech gloss and a story so complicated it can keep people confused and worried about FOLO, so onward it goes. And Etherium thinks it can transition to a new gig by adding NFTs to its blockchain to keep it going for them. All the while the power to control these 'currencies' is concentrated into smaller and smaller circles as the cost and resource requirements of mining goes up, failing even their initial theology of a system too distributed to be manipulated. The system insures each crypto quickly and effectively generates its own oligarchy. Moral of the story, the nerds are no better at saving the world than anyone else, but clever people can always find another way to get rich.

An update on my wife's lymphoma and chemo- My post about her losing her hair was a false alarm. So far, she's good. We've reached our $4,500 maximum, so we should be done with that. for the rest of the year. I got my Moderna shot number 4 last week. My wife got a shot of Evosheld. This is designed for people with compromised immune systems. Instead of stimulating the body's immune system to produce antibodies, it just injects antibodies. There were several other people in this thread whose family members were involved in chemo. I'd like to hear how you're doing.