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panem et circenses

Altering the childhood vaccination schedule, on the scientifically unfounded basis that vaccines cause autism, is so dangerous and destructive. There is a reason we don't have children and adults living in iron lungs today. The is a reason we've be able to control measles, mumps, and rubella outbreaks and that they're not killing thousands and thousands of kids every year. For RFK Jr. to re-examine and change the childhood vaccination schedule without thorough and rigorous scientific research behind any decision being made will potentially have a significant, negative impact on the health and welfare of kids around the country.

I spent more than my fair share of time in the 90s in college defending the Military's policy pre-Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I think its weird how I no longer give a crap about any of this except in the reasonable accommodation aspect. Reasonable has a different meaning in a war zone. However, war zone has a different meaning in the modern World too. We are in a war zone in our homes because there is a threat to the country burrowing into our data systems from China, from Elon for Russia. Its not all the volcanic ash of Iwo Jima or the jungles of Vietnam or Burma anymore.

Wow, I believe that is the first time he has ever stood up to Dump with dancing around the issue.

As we’ve seen here, the maga have no manhood. They are brainwashed cucks who foolishly believe they are on the right side of history.

Never EVER trade with the Salt Lake Rays

Meh, he's too likely to wind up injured

I might still have a Charles O Finley orange baseball somewhere. At least Oakland gave us those.

They’re like a Gremlin with a thyroid problem

I saw a reel of a homeschooling mom taking her kids to a science museum where she was bragging and rolling her eyes b/c the "expert" there was speaking about dinosaurs and earth and "millions" of years when in fact everybody knows the Earth is only 10,000 years old. I read the comments to see if it was sarcams... nope. Lots of flag icons and crosses from people who know "the real truth". Multiply that by thousands and thousands and that's why we are in this situation right now.

Those are not mutually exclusive events.

I think it’s a little from column A, a little from column B

The Keith Laws hates the Tigers thing is so lame. He used to criticize the Tigers farm system because it sucked. Now, he says good things about it it because it's good.

At our HS we had an already old IBM 1400 series (i think) computer which was about the size of a large office desk. It had 1000 tiny ferrite cores strung on wires for RAM. That was 1K of 'Core' memory. Hard to remember the efficiency pressure early programmers worked under when that was all the machine memory you had to work with.

this admin caters to stupid people. It's a simple as that. Conspiracy believing numb nuts. It's no wonder so many home schooling religious moms fall for the RFK Jr bull****. They have low self esteem and need to find a way to make themselves look smart.

Veritas

merger speculation? Some analysts yesterday were out there with valuations of a dis-aggregated Intel with the value over $30/share as pieces. Broadcom and TMSC were mentioned as suitors, can't see the Admin allowing TSMC to take an interest in Intel's foundry business though, but maybe the other half if the foundry biz is split off? That doesn't seem to parse either.

Everytime we see you supporting Trump and his nominees this is what we think . . .

SWEET!!!! Great tip! It worked here at home, let's see how the IT nazi's stack up. Thank you.

I'm a lifelong computer guy, worked in IT (and related), and feel very fortunate to ride that train over the years. Put food on the table and a roof over my head. I'm also impressed with the gains in technology. Anyone remember MS-DOS? Look where we are now. Impressive stuff. But this AI stuff scares the **** out of me.

The 2 digit year isnt a problem in the SSA. SSA DMF is the gold standard for death data.

AI can probably solve it, but I am not so optimistic about AI. AI will only be as good as the people who design the algorithms. Ultimately, I think AI will be designed mostly for profit just like everything else. Whatever the wealthy want is the AI world we are going to get. Somtimes that will be a good thing, other times it won't be.

Seeing what Cody Stavenhagen in The Athletic pointed out is giving me more respect for the Torres signing: "For reference, let’s compare his FanGraphs’ ZiPS projection with another notable infielder: Gleyber Torres: .260/.335/.402, 17 HR, 3.0 fWAR Alex Bregman: .252/.333/.430, 22 HR, 3.9 fWAR" Offensively you are looking at very similar players. Is Bregman's defense worth an additional $25 million? Plus Torres might bring another prospect to the Tigers eventually.

I'll have Kennedy put you in charge of this

Trump (or Elon under his auspices) goes and fires a bunch of people regulating nuclear warheads and USDA professionals working on bird flu and, after realizing his administration ****ed up, has to go back out and try to find these folks and reconnect to try to hire them... No wonder Holic would rather go the "noun, verb and pronoun" route lol

You tried

Love fest

This is where I am most at. It's what keyed me to this idea. And you just verbalized it straight outta my head. So... Simply... THIS.

Oh it definitely could be fraud. It could have been hacked by the Nigerians or Chinese. It could be Trump's or Musk's buddies or maybe Biden, Obama and Pelosi snuck in there in the middle of the night and added a bunch of illegal immigrants. Or maybe Musk is making it up as way to illegally transfer money. There are lots possibilities, but maybe the guy currently in charge of all the money in the country might want to investigate further before giddily telling the world what he found like a three year old. I was mostly just sharing my experience working with this kind of data

They are not booing USA. They are booing one person.

I just don't think Ivey has enough value to warrant trading him now. I do think he was on a nice trajectory before the injury and would have been a nice piece to add into a trade for a more proven star especially now that they have full control of their picks most likely after the season but with the injury, I think it puts a damper on his value until he comes back 100% and proves that the injury is behind him completely. The Pistons are in an interesting position. They have young guys surrounding Cade that have all shown signs of progress (not coincidentally the moment Monty was shown the door) but how much of a ceiling do they have and are there any legit #2 options blossoming among any of them? I think Ausar has the highest ceiling of the bunch but he'll likely never be a knock down shooter so that caps his ceiling. The other issue is that Ivey and Duren are closing in on the end of their rookie deals so are they worth signing that 2nd contract because once you do, you're sort of locking into them as the core and running mates for your budding superstar. Ivey is a big part of that discussion and I'm honestly not sure what the right move is whether to keep developing him or trade him and find a better running mate for Cade. Also, the aprons are confusing where teams like the Celtics with double the payroll of the Pistons are able to navigate it while we're talking about the impending Pistons cap crunch with one large contract on the books and among the lowest tier of cap committed salary this offseason.

Gerritt Cole has been brought in as a special instructor.

The back fields are kind of cool, at least they were when I lived in Tucson in the ‘70s and ‘80s and the Indians trained there. I’d walk on the warning track of the back fields and balls would roll up there and I remember throwing them back to Bob Feller and he threw one back to me - underhanded so he wouldn’t hurt me - and let me keep it and we chatted briefly. It was honestly kind of magical seeing the young players having picnics under palm trees with their parents. Of course, most of them washed out, but at least they had these moments of walking on cloud nine in paradise. There was something genuinely idyllic and dreamlike about it.

I have always been curious about the Junior Felix nontender. He batted .306/.372/.525 for the Tigers at age 26 and then never again played in the majors. I get that the strike screwed things up, but it's fascinating to me that he never got another chance with anyone. This SABR profile suggests that he might have been a lot older than 26: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/junior-felix/#:~:text=Félix was believed to be,already in his mid-30s.

But yes, the trucks shall be bigger and the roads more broken because it was ordained in the Old Testament that man shall have dominion over the Earth.

When did Keith Law join Fangraphs?

**** The Bears! **** Cancer!