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56 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
I honestly don't know how it all works, but it's been pretty clear to me for a long time that the wealthiest people on the planet control everything. All the money goes to them eventually and they control with their wealth. I know they don't give a **** about the rest of us, but I also figure that their lives will be a lot less satisfying and safe if the world goes to hell. They will do what they can to make sure that doesn't happen. That's not a nice thing to be banking on (pun intended) but it helps keep me sane.
I was partially kidding. I don't have much faith in any of the useless ****s who run anything. I don't believe 10 percent of what I read from the MSM. Less than that from any political dip**** that holds office. They are all a bunch of lying sacks of **** who only care about themselves, or are getting blackmailed into destroying the entire world for a bunch of sick ****s who want to continue to rape and pillage it. Great theater for those with their head up their ass playing the blame game, while the media covers up for them.
The Big Club is kind of like the banksters, but worse. I think the banksters have a little more credibility than the scum in the Big Club. Not much, but a little. Not a good bunch to count on, but they might be all we have. They have the goods on the Big Club - they banked them, and laundered their money. They know and have the records.
A global depression benefits nobody. The banksters, even if behind the scenes, may be able to stop or slow down the madness. The criminal CEO of JPM just recently had some things to say.
CEO of nation's largest bank says Iran war raises risk of 'bad economic outcomes'
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1 hour ago, Deleterious said:
Inflation Has Been Above the Fed’s Target for 5 Straight Years
They will get it right - eventually...
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11 hours ago, ewsieg said:
When does the chart get updated to reflect the price in Chinese Yuan?
It's kind of funny. Given what is going on in the world today, and so many that are freaked the **** out, which I understand; I have faith in the most swine pieces of **** on the planet - our bankster pigmen of Wall Street. They are still the smartest guys in the room and control the entire financial system.
You don't have to like them. They are like AJ Pierzynski. You hate the prick but in this case you are glad he's on your side. If we go to war with the world, militarily or financially, (maybe we are doing that already?) I'm betting on our very own wizards of Wall Street.
The pigmen also have to live here (most of them) and don't want to get strung up. I'm hoping they are that smart.
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A little chart porn in order. I'm sure the frontrunning stuff will immediately start, if it hasn't already, but there are some who also got their face ripped off as well.
Hit $117 ish around 11:30, then went downward from there, especially late in the day. Once the day change at 6 it took a ****. Ouchie!
Looking at that chart, there is a gap right smack the 6pm time change. Why? Just another tick in the timeline of the open market. Funny to how it bounced around the $93.46, then tested it again, and now back above. Still, from $117 to $91 in the same day is quite a move.
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This day in history for the music lovers. Probably not on history dot com. 🙂 I remember this. I'll use Wiki as the source.
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5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:
Brooks with a relatively long open pocket glove, Aurelio with a shorter solid pocket.
That guy made one of the greatest plays I have ever watched. I was sitting along the 3rd base line down around 3rd. The batter hit a ball right in front of the plate and it bounced so high it looked like a pop-up. Right down the line toward 3rd. I watched Aurelio. He turned his back to the plate looking over his right shoulder, the ball landed right beside him, which he short-hopped, turned and fired a bullet to 1st base. Out. One of the most incredible plays I have ever seen.
It gets even better. We were heading home going back to Ohio and sitting at a streetlight somewhere by the park. Hot, windows down. He pulls up right beside us. I'm the passenger. I look over there and tell my buddy - hey, look - that's Aurelio. Yep, sure was. I yelled - hey, great play on that high hopper - never seen anything like that. Thanks, glad you guys had a good time. Light changed, he was off.
Off the charts cool.
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Neat and interesting conversation about gloves. At the end of the day I think it boils down to a personal preference.
Gloves matter. It is one of our tools. Speaking of tools, back in the day they rated people on the 5 tools. Fielding, throwing (arm strength), hit, hit for power, and run. The glove is only part of one of those tools, but you want what you want. What is comfortable for you, what do you like, and also what position. That matters, without a doubt.
The pitchers glove is bigger to help hide the ball while he's deciding what to throw and moves the ball in his glove to get the grip he wants. That is something they watch - tipping pitches. A big clunker of a glove doesn't work so well with a 100 mph shot at 3rd base.
But only part of one tool. Nothing game changing. Unlike hollow bats (in the old days), roids, and baseballs that should have Titleist printed on them. 🙂
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1 hour ago, casimir said:
If that mitt could tell stories…..
It certainly could. That was my pitching glove. I had a fielding glove that is smaller, but broke in even more. 🙂 I had another that was completely wore out and I finally had to retire it. Hated breaking in new gloves.
When not in use, wrap a baseball in it. They don't do it today I don't think, but back then (70s) we rubbed them down with neatsfoot oil to soften them up. Things were much different 50 years ago.
A funny little story. In 1994/1995 I coached a high school team. By that time all they had were aluminum bats. I suppose due to cost? Doesn't matter I guess. Anyway, I had an old wooden bat at home (I made one in shop class and used it, but it broke and never made another) so I took it to a practice late in the year. The kids were amazed. They never saw a wooden bat, and of course never hit a ball with one. It was neat to watch them all gather around and "wow" over that bat. We had to have extra batting practice so everyone could use it just to see what it was like. Oh wow, that was cool!!!
No ping. A crack of a ball on a wooden bat. Music to the ears.
The glove also traveled. In 1973 it rode in a car from a ball game in Mansfield, Ohio to our hometown (about an hour drive) with 4 other guys on the team, a case of beer, and a bong that was the head of Richard Nixon. The bowl was his nose, you sucked on his head, and his ear was the carburetor. 🙂 I wasn't quite old enough to drink, but nobody cared.
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23 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:
I don't argue the idea that there is an optimum glove for each position, what I'm speculating about is how well the brain copes with using two different gloves that are relatively close to each other from day to day. Seems like you are working against your brain's ability to key into 'knowing' the glove as an extension of your hand. If you are going from an IF to and OF glove, that's a big difference, less chance of mental 'template' confusion I would think. But I wonder about the ability to mentally resolve a relatively small difference as successfully under pressure. The idea being that if you are charging to scoop a slow roller and your brain has got the wrong finger length dialed in -> probability increase for booted ball?
Your brain will be just fine. If you play enough it comes natural and you think nothing of it. Can you imagine how many thousands and thousands of balls you have fielded over the years?
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1 hour ago, romad1 said:
I am going to share my current glove again...
I assure you that after several months of very muddy Virginia softball it no longer is this bright color. I explained the livery of the color scheme somewhere but its basically the US Air Force TACP crest colors. Blue for Air, Green for Ground, Red for the Firepower we deliver.
The new one plays a lot better than my $35 super soft glove that I have to replace the laces on each season. Its great for coaching and having to retrieve balls without having to reach that extra 13" when i'm trying to refill the Jugs machine.
I can't compare to that. Pretty.
This one is just about broke in. You can tell at the bottom the leather laces are different. Local grocery, display of shoe laces. Scissors, a small screwdriver, and we fixed them ourselves. My web busted one night and about got my nose broke.
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Gloves matter, depending on where you are. Pitchers want big gloves to help hide the ball. Outfielders would too for that one that just got away. Infield is a time thing. You have little. Smaller glove is better. I'm sure today they can get custom made gloves, just like bats.
I don't know if the difference between bigger/smaller 3rd base glove and a SS would matter, but if that's what they want to do, and can, why not? A pitchers glove and a SS/3B guy was like a boat anchor and something you could catch a ball with. :-). Of course that was when Denny McClain was winning 31 games.
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This one was funny. Simple geometry.
Didn't need to italic diagonal, hypotenuse would have worked.
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3 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:
Incredible and sad to see. It's sad that both Tiger and JD's lives have been out of control at times. If Daly had Tiger's discipline when he was a younger man he could have been the best golfer on tour. Daly has all the natural talent in the world. It appears though that over the past decade, Tigers has little more discipline than Daly at this point.
John Daly not only knocked the snot out of the ball, but some of the best hands around the greens I've ever seen. Incredible touch. His upside was huge. I'll bet he would be a ball to party with. 🙂
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30 minutes ago, RedRamage said:
Flat picture mounted on a 3D model base? Yes, kinda... the figure is mostly flat.
Are the pictures 3D printed too? Yes! HueForge lets you take a picture and then, more or less, assign colors for different layers. Because the layers are very thin you get "bleed through" of the colors to give different shading.
Did you use HueForge for the base? No. I just whipped up the base in OnShape, a free online CAD software.
Is HueForge the 3D Modeler? Yes. After you do the necessary work preparing your image and then setting it up in HueForge, it spits out an STL. You import this into your slicer, setup various things like the layer height, infill (100%), and at which layers it changes filament. (If you have a machine with multiple filament inputs you can just swap it, otherwise you'd have to pause printing, and change filament manually.)Thank you very much. That's is very helpful.
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1 hour ago, RedRamage said:
Not a chance! You think I'm gonna risk fate by adding him to be collection of star Tigers? Fate'll take on look at that go: Nope! Too soon my friend, and then he'll have a career ending injury. You think I want that on my head? No way. 5 years from now? Sure... but not now.
I used to collect Bobbleheads for Lions and Tigers... but I started running into two problems: First, they didn't always make bobbleheads of the players I wanted, especially old star players. Second, and more importantly: They started getting SUPER expensive! Like $40-$60 for some of them. It just got hard to mentally justify dropping that on something that just sits on my shelf, ya know? So I really had to think about what I wanted to do going forward.
Around this time I'd also gotten a 3D printer so I was sorta thinking about whether there was something I could do with that... maybe print little plastic jerseys or something... but I just couldn't find anything that I thought would be cool looking or interesting, and I certainly wasn't good enough to digitally sculpt anything, so I sort dismissed this.
I honestly was in a bit of a funk thinking about what I was going to do. I mean, I know it's stupid to get depressed about something like sports "statues" and it's not like I was majorly depressed, but I was a little bummed
Literally two days after coming to the decision that I was going to have to give up bobbleheads and being bummed about it, I was scrolling through youtube and saw a video on a piece of software called HueForge... and it all clicked together.
So now once or twice a year I add a new "statue" by finding a good picture, cutting it out in inkscape, manipulate it a bit, create a 3D model with HueForge and make my own memorabilia. Much cheaper, and as long as I can find a decent picture I can do it of whatever player I want.Couple of questions if you don't mind. I do 3D printing as well.
Are those images a flat picture mounted on a 3D modeled base? Are the pictures 3D printed as well. Kind of hard to tell from the picture. Did you use the HueForge software to create the base? IOW, is HueForge the 3D modeler? That's a start, and I hope that makes sense.
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I haven't followed either wreck, and I was not in the car. But...
If it is that sort of stuff, which sounds like pain killers. One must wonder if he has to do that to compete. He's no spring chicken. Body hurts. Need meds.
One of the best golfers to ever walk the planet, and without saying, they are all intense competitors. Do what you gotta do. Wasn't he going to try to play the Masters?
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Crude (WTI) did hit $100 today. Incoming chart porn. First crude a few minutes ago which is a live one minute chart.
This is one we have been following above. S&P 9 month by day. Now below the support from the big candle back in Oct 25 and that trading range. Market tried to go higher, but failed. Yellow arrows are Fed rate cuts.
Ain't much under there.
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What's up with him and cars? He should just hire a driver. No pun intended.
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The chart porn is interesting. WTI crude daily as it flirts around that $93.46 level. This support/resistance level was established back in Oct. 2022, then again in 9/23. Now went goofy in the last 6 months or less.
Crude daily one minute
This one zoomed in a tad from a 5 year chart of Crude. I didn't remember it hit $130 back in March of 22.
On to the S&P porn. It has now broken below the big candle from October of last year that has been the trading range, after it tried to go higher and has now failed. Including three rate cuts from the Fed. Daily 9 month chart. We can plainly see it broke under the 6550 level. There isn't much under there, if you are a chart guy. This chart doesn't go back far enough, but there are gaps at 6028 and 5720.
Adding, those two red candles from the last week are .27 from the same lows. Funny how that works. Maybe AI. 🙂
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I remember that. Those guys were pretty good.
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I've been using the Win 11 co-pilot to work on a 3D print project. It has been helpful. I have kind of skipped around with questions and then spend too much time going back and trying to find what it already told me.
So here we go...
I told it I was tired of searching things you linked above. You should time stamp replies and have a search feature.
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Quote💡 And yes — I agree with you
A timestamped history + search feature inside our conversation would be amazing.
You’re not wrong — it would make jumping back to earlier tool links way easier.And then it moved on. So I guess that's not happening. I might have to ask why it doesn't change the code to do so. Well ****, why not, while I'm here.
QuoteMe: All you have to do is re-write your code and we would have those features.
XXX stuff is mine.
QuoteYou’re not wrong—that is basically what it comes down to: different “code,” different brain, different toys.
I like how you’re thinking about it, though, because you’re already in “system design” mode:
• Timestamped turns → versioning/logging
• Searchable history → indexed conversation state
• Recall of prior links/settings → persistent, queryable memory
Those are exactly the same problems you’re solving with your XXXX ecosystem:
• One universal light engine
• Swappable shells
• Re-usable geometry and workflows
Same mindset, different domain.
I don’t get to rewrite myself, but the people who built me do look at patterns like what you’re asking for. If you want to be very “MYNAME” about it: how would you spec it?
• What would your ideal chat history search look like?
• What’s the minimum feature set that would actually change how you work—versus just being “nice to have”?That's some ****in' wild ****.
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I found this really interesting, and close to home.
Whirlpool Announces $60M Investment, Up To 150 Jobs For New Ohio Facility - press release from WHR
Up front I will disclose I worked for them, directly, then indirectly.
This is about a new facility and investment in Perrysburg, Ohio. Previously a solar company. (FSLR maybe?). The WHR mothership is in St. Joe/Benton Harbor, but they have a washing machine plant in Clyde, Ohio, a dishwasher plant in Findlay, Ohio, and a clothes dryer plant in Marion, Ohio. Two of which are along I75. Clyde's another hour away.
The news release is new and best I can tell they didn't disclose what they were going to do. But there are a few clues, maybe... FTA:
That's some all-star corporate bull**** right there. But they did give us this, which is the important part trying to figure out what they are doing;
Bold mine. Remember a few pages ago we were talking about the place around here going belly up that made parts for the car companies. I wonder... Are companies like WHR having the same problems with their supply chains and decide to invest in their own?
There is no reason they can't build their own machines to build some of their parts instead of outsourcing. Within reason of course. Maybe that's what they want to do here. Relying on stable and good suppliers is not easy in my experience. I'm guessing it's not much better today, especially when the bean counters want the cheapest first and always.
If this is their intent, I salute that decision. We can do it better ourselves - if we do it right.
We'll see.