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Social media feeds going algorithm based and raking in ad revenue from pumping rage bait into feeds and sending us to our echo chambers. Twitter's IPO was November 2013. That is around the time the toxic en****ification of social media commenced.

I still say MLB is largely at fault for partnering with gambling organizations. Sure, the pitchers broke the rules and should be banned from the game and punished for whatever cimes they committed. But MLB is sending a very bad message with their hypocrisy. This kind of thing was inevitable.

Watching the highlights, and it can't be overstated just how bad this broadcast was.

There could be a video of a guy wearing an ICE uniform, showing an ICE badge with his picture on it, and yelling “I’m ICE” and trollboy would still find a way to deny it as evidence of anything.

The rise (and fall!) of MAGAism will be studied for generations to come. Personally, I think a great deal has to do with FOX News coverage of Obama's presidency. You had who was really a moderate liberal in office, who couldn't capitalize in any meaningful way from 2008-2010 and who didn't do much of note from 2010-2016.* But he was black and his middle name was Hussein. And you had a news station, watched by millions who may not have liked his policies to begin with, who told you 24/7 that the WORLD WAS ENDING under his regime. He was coming for your guns! He was secretly a Muslim! He wasn't even born here! It was all utter nonsense flavored with a solid dose of racism, but for eight years, that nonsense got a platform. It's all that was fed to a lot of boomers and those who subscribed to those channels (in addition to the others that cropped up, be they InfoWars, Breitbart, etc.), who already lacked a great deal of creative thinking skills. So in 2012, and the 2016 primaries, when the GOP tried to then pivot and use traditional real-world conservatism, with the Mitt Romneys, John McCains, and John Kasichs of the world (and to a lesser extent even Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio pre-2016), it wasn't going to work. Haven't you heard? The WORLD IS ENDING! Then Trump came along and said "YES! The WORLD IS ENDING! And I'm the only one who can save you all. MAGA." A cult isn't built in a day. Trump is but a weak, insecure man who was born into swindling the poor and uneducated. It's the infrastructure that built the following he inherited that is really to blame, IMO. *To be clear, I'm not diminishing Obama's tenure in relation to post-2016, but rather highlighting that he wasn't actually the Antichrist to conservatism.

I think Satchel Paige said that about Cool Papa Bell. It’s such a good line. And such a good nickname.

Seems a bit asinine in comparison to other crimes, but that’s just my opinion.

I'm highlighting this part to remind everyone to be careful what you wish for when you cross your fingers and hope Trump dies.

I don't think "defund the police" was ever a serious movement. First of all, it was never a starve-the-police-of-all-funds-and-then-disband-them movement. The goal was to recognize that a lot of what police do today is really social services, in particular mental health, and that it makes more sense they be handled by people specifically trained for that kind of support, and so, some funding should be shifted from policing into social/mental health services to properly address the problem. Whether the money would still be earmarked for the police and re-expressed into mental health personnel on the force, or shifted away from police departments into mental health departments, was supposed to be immaterial. The point was to stop requiring police to perform services they were not specifically trained for, and to fund the proper performance of these functions by trained professional instead. It's a very reasonable and, I believe, noble approach. Instead, the RWM and their Russian benefactors seized on the unorganized nature of the movement by highlighting the phrase itself and recasting it as "ban all police and let criminals roam free". That's not anything like a brilliant re-interpretation of the phrase because as fruit, it just hung so low, a high-schooler could have come up with it. But the brilliant part was how they were coached to hang the phrase on the entire Democratic Party, everyone in it, and anyone who ever voted for them. And perhaps because of the unorganized nature of the original idea, Democrats could not effectively fight that off, in no small part because they do not have a left-wing media ecosystem with nearly as much reach to help them out of it. I think it's still a great idea to shift responsibility and its commensurate funding for social and metal health services away from police and toward trained and educated professionals who specialize in them, but the damage from that phrase was so total, we may never see that happen in any of our lifetimes, even you young guys. Given the MAGA takeover of the nature of governing (i.e., ruling) nationwide, it seems more likely we would see police be tasked with solving mental health crises by simply shooting the people involved dead, than we would be to see a shift in responsibility for mental health issues encountered in the street from cops to trained professionals. Neither one will happen, of course, but given the current climate, one is at slightly more likely than the other.

I think it goes back farther. Back to the rise of right wing talk radio. The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine that no longer demanded broadcasters look at both sides of the issues. Throw in the politicization of religion with guys like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. I agree Obama may have been the tipping point for most so called conservatives as they started to flaunt their true colors

Of course it won't. You said it yourself, nothing has changed for ten years, why would it change overnight? The best to be hoped for is the status quo, which is still a bandaid over a bullet hole. And the status quo seems unlikely in the current political climate. There probably is a reckoning coming for the GOP. Trump's name will (hopefully) never appear on a ballot again. Notwithstanding 2020, they haven't been seriously successful on a ballot his name isn't on since what, 2014? Can they secure the level of crazy vote he brings without him at the helm? To what extent will someone saying they're a MAGA Republican matter as he fades into the sunset? I won't underestimate that contingent again after 2024, but I don't think it's a given that Trump voters are automatically Vance voters, no more than it was a given that Sanders voters were automatically Clinton voters. A large number are voting for the person, not the party.

but malik beasley was in town! he didnt sign?????

OPS+ is kind of a subset of WAR (except WAR uses wOBA, wRC+ instead). As to which one is better to use, it depends on the question. If you are only interested in offensive contribution, then I would not look at WAR. I would just look at OPS+ or wRC+. If you are interested in comparing the overall value of players at different positions, then WAR is better, because players who contribute more than just hitting need to get credit for that.

I don't know. As one of the people who isn't getting paid right now, it's hard not to see that the lesson learned from these 40 days is that Rs just need to outlast Ds. Rs don't care about collateral consequences. Who cares if the country is starving, or whatever humanitarian crisis results from the next shut down? They just return to their talking points and blame the other side. Likewise, Rs surely don't care that not paying governmental workers, many of whom could make much more in the private sector (but chose federal government for its supposed "mission," "benefits," and "security"), is causing long-term ripple effects in having a significantly worse workforce. The January shut down might very well go on for even longer. And then what?

Give him credit. He has a concept of what a concept of a proposed plan would look like. It's just that deciding on paint colors for the Lincoln Bathroom keeps getting in the way of a future decision

50 years ago…embarked on the journey the afternoon of the 9th. At 7pm the main hatchway gave in” on November 10th.

I hope their constituents make their retirement as uncomfortable and unpleasant a one as can be.

I think what we saw last week was........ 1. The Vikings were coming off a bad loss and the Lions thought they had it in the bag going in. 2. John Morton really is a ****ty play caller 3. Football can be goofy. The Dolphins are not better than the Bills. The Panthers are not better than the Packers. Lions fell into that trap last week.

Come on now. He's shooting a cool 53% this year.

I think they said it's only the third time in his career he has two makes in a game.

This post sucks. Hot garbage would be a better read.

Ali said it too

You never answered. Typical MAGA...distract and distort; So you're fine with millions of people not renewing their unaffordable health care plans? Even if it means most hospitals and clinics will have to close?

Hard to tell which is true today, that Dan Campbell is a much better playcaller than John Morton or that the Commanders are really bad? Probably both

Convicted felon and serial rapist swears in new military recruits, getting them to defend something called the Consti-Lu-tion, while getting booed by real Americans, which Fox edited out of their coverage.

The return unit and kickoff unit is a very large net negative. Zero explosives for and many explosives against. Campbell may need to take over for fipp too.

I have created a thread in the Political Forum for everyone who wishes to talk about Trump's appearance on the broadcast during the 3rd quarter. Please keep this Game thread free of such discussion. Thanks!

Noticed with Campbell calling plays we have seen more Montgomery.

Player gets ejected, TV crew is clueless as to why. Come back from commercial, still nothing. For as much hate as coordinators and kickers get with the “there aren’t 32 better in the world?!” line, the same can go for announcing crews IMO.

Love the tuddy, hate the celebration. That’s all ll I’ll say about that.

It is supposed to look this easy with all of this offensive talent.

Way to tell them to score a touchdown, Dan Campbell. I was getting tired of John Morton telling them not to.

Can SoFi handle a crowd of 15,000?

Playing against the hawks today

This is why I stick to bicycle trails as much as possible when I bicycle. If I am on a road, I drive against traffic to see what I am in the lane with/next to. Sure, I understand bicycles have a right to be on the road. But I don't like the physics of it if/when there's a conflict of space.

Pedophiles are only an issue when the person can be a bigot in pretending to be outraged. It’s not about the victims. They are mere collateral damage. But if they can take down “some of those queers” then it’s worth it to them.

Neato.

Lombardi should be in line for a spot in detroit. what else does he need to do? i guess if he's going to be a center he'll need some defensive chops tjat he might not have yet, but offensivley he looks ready. he could be a prime trade candidate to shore up the blue line.

It’s actually two boys playing on a tire swing and it was in the Boise mall for years and when new ownership took over they threw it away and some one saw it on the scrap heap at metal recycling facility and they knew the artist so they retrieved it and the artist repaired it and put it in the botanical garden. It was a beloved piece of public art that a lot of people recalled fondly from a more innocent time in our city’s past and it was kind of a big deal to reclaim it. Absentee ownership moves in all sorts of places and erases public memories, but this was one memory that in the end, and only by happenstance, was not erased.

About 6 weeks ago this guy started getting sick and throwing up. Then he stopped eating. A bunch of tests and few thousand dollars later we still don’t know what it was. Doctor thought it was addisons disease which would have meant forever treatment. It wasn’t. She knew of a parasite with similar symptoms so we treated it as if it were that. I swear at one point I figured we were going to lose him. I had already told myself that. He was on prednisone and going out every hour. One night he’d just go out there and lay down. I had to put his leash on to simulate a walk and that got him back in. He would only eat chicken if we made it and barely any at that. Then one day he finally ate a half serving of his food. A few days later he was back to his normal diet and routine and now he’s better than ever. I was feeling guilty over not taking him for enough walks. Sunday is our long run day but with the freep half marathon last week and our post race massages, which is worse for us physically than the race itself, we decided to walk our route today and take him with us. He loved it. Out in the woods and taking in all the smells. He’s been sleeping since. Dogs rule!

At GR..both Cossa and Postava are injured. No idea on how severe either injury is