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And for the record, because I haven’t chimed in yet, I’m sad Charlie Kirk is dead. This country is a scary, hyper-polarized place right now, and it’s full of guns. Kirk’s death doesn’t make any of those things better. He was an orator with a loud microphone. Nothing more or less. He didn’t deserve to die in front of his wife and kids for it.

Copied from a friend of mine. (Not sure where she may have seen&copied) ============================ Here is how you, personally, can help reduce the temperature in the country, and move us collectively away from the political extremes: the next time you plan to listen to a podcast, turn on music instead. The next time you plan to scroll social media before bed, read a fiction book instead. The next time you plan to turn on cable news, go outside and breathe in fresh air for 15 minutes. And then make those things a habit at least once or twice a week for the foreseeable future. Our algorithms are killing us. Quite literally.

Message board doctor with the diagnosis.

I think that about does it for #1 in the AL. Now we need to hang onto the bye.

This is true. Maybe is was never all it was cracked up to be, but originally you had to pledge to operate in the public interest to get an FCC license to operate a broadcast radio or later, TV transmitter. And there was a certain level of noblesse oblige that remained at work pretty much right up to the birth of cable. I think 20/20 hindsight tells us the the Reagan admin's and general GOP resistance to bringing cable TV under the jurisdiction of the FCC was the original sin for a lot of what is wrong the US media today. Because if cable had been brought under the FCC with a public service mandate, the precedent would have been set for the internet to have been as well. If there is one thing I really despair about it is that American voters don't understand that rules matter. They're always looking for the result in relative ignorance that it's the rules that produce the results. But of course rules debates generally don't work as soundbites.

He should lose his job over this. I remember the prolifers warning us of death panels and such. No outrage over this? Execution is the solution?

Headline on MLB site 'It's all good news' for Skubal (side tightness), who's on track to make his next start

Skubal is ok!!!! May not even miss a start!!

If that is, indeed, the case, then good judgment by Skubal to take himself out.

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Because their particular strain of religion demands absolute certainty and zero compromise. It’s all related and of a kind.

The ORCL thing kinda reminds me of the Enron (ticker ENE) and Worldcom, mark-to-market accounting, circa 2000 thing. Part of the dot-com bubble even though ENE was an energy company for the most part (IIRR, they got into internet too). Part of the theme; what's not to like about printing future (years) unrealized profits to the current bottom line. ORCL just played those cards. The stock goes ape **** nuts (in this case ~35% in a day). WTF? If I held any of it, I would have pulled the rip cord that day. There is an old saying; they don't ring a bell at the top. This AI thing will prove to be a spectacular ****-up. While investors love the thought of all these new data centers and all the money to be made... Reality will take over. The insiders and the early will get rich, once it blows up, the losses will be passed down to our 401ks - as it always is. AI data centers need a bunch of energy, water too. It will take years to build what they need. It will never happen. The push is sold as a great thing for us as a people, making our lives better and easier, but behind the scenes it's all about replacing our jobs. NO! Tell me it ain't so. It is so. I just spent the last 40 years watching it develop and happen. Technology is a great and wonderful thing, it can also be a real bitch. Two screws are three jobs. Robots, machines, and AI don't take breaks, vacations, call in sick, get pregnant, lip off, smoke, or need an HR department. If you can be replaced, you will be. And to make it even better, as the company announces thousands got laid off because of this, the stock price rockets another 5 percent higher. They get the gold mine, we get the shaft. Hat tip Jerry Reed.

Ironically, the former does exactly help make the latter possible. Condition someone to always just accept doctrine, then suddenly remove the constraints - and the moral reasoning muscle is deeply atrophied. It may go in a lot of wrong directions before it ever (hopefully) does find its ground. I know all the modern understanding about young brains, but all the more reason they should start being challenged with taking moral responsibility for themselves early, when the stakes are still low and they can learn their own way. I always thought Judaism was onto to something then they told a 13yr old it was time to grow up and start taking responsibility for yourself. If you are 13 with half an ounce of sense, you can figure out what is right and wrong for yourself if given the chance. But that's what too many parents are afraid or, or are being taught to be afraid of by the people they allow themselves to be led by.

I think 99.99% of the general public agrees with you but the 25,000 adults in the US who don’t have an internet presence.

Root canal?

This reads like a joke Dennis Miller would put his audience to sleep with.

The Supreme Court will allow her firing with an unsigned opinion. Kavanaugh will write a concurrence misapplying Herring and Heien because Trump honestly believed Pulte.

Republicans are responsible for the Republican president.

January 6 and the ensuing impeachment was a missed opportunity. That could have been it. Make Pence president for a few weeks. The republicans publicly purge Trump. And then they can fight with Biden as normal. It would have cost them nothing and today we’d probably have a president Haley or whoever. That was the moment for the GOP to change. It would have worked had they had the courage

Its really crazy how quickly the media just parroted every terrible hateful evidence free right wing talking point during the period of uncertainty. I couldnt imagine paying money to those folks.

A republican exploits preferred republican gun policies to murder a firebrand republican talker at a republican political rally in a republican state therefore the left needs to pay for it.

There's two purposes now for political thought/philosphy. One is education and figuring things out. The other is monetizing it. Talk radio and later the internet showed you can get rich by being controversial. Who cares what you really believe. Get people watching you say it and you can make a good living. The rubes listening and watching think it's real. People like Kirk and Shapiro, the children of Rush and Hannity, laugh to the bank.

I want to try the interactive, mock press conference booth. Then I would tell the world to bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass.

I think the article's point to link this to the Tigers is a bit of a stretch. This is a corporate culture issue within the Ilitch Organization. These are people who could be doing jobs anywhere. It's not about the baseball team, even if their current role relates to that job at the time. It's not the late 90's Tigers on the team plane harassing flight attendants. Even the Maybin and Monroe things are throw ins. Maybin didn't do what he did because of what happens in offices across the street. The Monroe situation appears to have gone nowhere and the team took that as a chance to cut bait with a story they didn't want to be a part of. Again, that's not because Bob in Accounting made a comment about Jan's butt. I think any investigation into a large conglomerate in this country would show this taking place. It's not condoning it obviously but when shown a group of 1,000 men there's still pigs around and that's the case with Ilitch Holdings.

Clearly Obama is to blame.

Look at all the misinformation the GOP was spreading about Pelosi's husband what he was brutally attacked. And they wonder why normal Americans call them deplorables.