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I wouldn't trust any of them either.

The bold is the key. Coming from someone who started making engineering drawings with paper, pencil, a mechanical arm, and a cheap calculator, to the highest 3D CAD systems in the world. Thanks to computers, the transition from paper to CAD changed the world. The days of football field size drafting rooms with hundreds of tables (and people) were replaced with AutoCad (went DOS 1992) at first, then the 3D stuff. Once it went digital, many jobs and support systems were lost. This will continue with AI. We have the great things we have today due to the progression in this technology - we could draw some complex parts years ago with a pencil and mechanical arm (had to scale as well) - but nobody could make it. Today, with our CAD/CAM machines we can do incredible things. All about cost. I bolded we. We isn't AI. That is the scary part. What should scare the living **** out of all of us is what these inept corporate worms are cooking up to convince their corporate worm bosses this AI horse**** is going to make record profits for years to come and they will suck it up like a Hoover vacuum cleaner. Hey - look at the stock price and all the bonuses and these dickhead getting rich. What's not to like? Then the whole ****house blows up because it was a scam from the start. Dot-com mania on roids (when it comes to the market). All driven by technical BS by arrogant greedy clueless assholes and an ignorant populous. AI can't replace people, and never will. Crazy Teddy Kaczynski is laughing in his grave.

I think it was a Sunday game with the Phillies when they were interviewing the first basemen. While the game is going on, and if I remember right, a left handed batter at the plate. Don't remember where he was playing, but adding a fudge factor, let's say 110 feet from the plate. Ball gets ripped toward said player with an exit speed of 110 and he has about 3/4 of a second to react. WTF? Not to mention how utterly stupid this is since there is a baseball game going on. And this dude's basically on the phone. It could get someone killed and that is a hill I will die on.

We used to stand by where the players came in (of course it was the old Tiger Stadium) and the Mick came in on a motorcycle. I think it was a Kawasaki. He was wearing a green outfit that matched the bike. We heard the club wasn't happy about him riding the bike. I couldn't get through 13 innings today. They piss me off and I'm usually done by 7 or 8. If they interview a guy who is playing a base while the game is in progress I run it off immediately. One of the dumbest things I have ever seen. <spit> And I've seen a lot of dumb **** over the last 70 years.

Without a doubt. Here is a stat sheet for that year, game by game. Too bad it doesn't include pitch counts for each game (which I consider more important than innings). I was at one of them but don't remember when. Mickey Lolich 1971 Pitching Logs - Baseball Almanac

I'm not worried about that, and I'm on it. Money is fungible and we have a printing press. There is no trust fund, and we are what (have to look) 37 with the big T trillion in debt. It all went to the people in the big club.

And thinking further - think of the private equity derivatives the wizards of Wall Street can come up with. Wankin' ****in bankers.

Pox doesn't come close to describing how stupid this is. The first obvious problem is private equity has no transparency - they are private - DUH! From Vanguard; Private Equity [bold mine] Footnote 2; Ain't that great? Giggle. They keep finding ways to fleece us. To your second paragraph, I couldn't agree more, but it is in conflict with the first one. They still wouldn't know how to manage it. To be honest, the ones I dealt with while employed didn't give me a bunch of choices as far as timing and choice anyway. In other words - run and hide. The whole ****ing thing is a giant scam.

Thank you, I had no idea. I honestly can't believe this. This seems like baseball 101. I almost had my head taken off by a batted ball and I WAS paying attention - and it wasn't hit by some guy on ESPN Sunday Night baseball - it was just little Ralph from down the street. I'm old and a traditionalist. What have they done to the game I once loved? When I think they can't find new lows... And don't get me started on how if I chose to watch these games I have to buy them through a gambling site so I can hear and read gambling stuff all game while they mention the available pitching staff who are not suspended for potential gambling violations. Carlin would have a ball with this stuff. WTF?

This could/should go into today's game thread but I felt it was better here. I don't pay to watch games but today I got what I call a "freebie" due to it was on ESPN or something I get with my package. Point being, I don't watch many games, just follow the scores. Maybe I had too many beers, or I was hallucinating today, but I thought I was watching a split screen with the normal camera in one window, and a close up of the Philly first basement in a smaller window, and they were talking to him... You could see he was wearing a mike. They talked to him through an entire at bat while he was playing first base. What? What if they hit a smoking hot one at his noggin? Is this normal? If I really did see what. That's fricken off the charts nuts.

Not really.

If it was only about the price of the whore...

RE: Epstein Somebody has to wear a tin-foil hat so I will do so. It should come as no surprise they will not release the Epstein stuff. Why? It's complicated. I link to the below books you can get on Amazon. Well documented and cited. Two Volumes. Incredible reading. One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein Vol. 2 (2) Over 1000 pages between the two. There is plenty of there there. Your beloved government is crooked as **** - all of them. News at 11.

It depends on how you are positioned. I wouldn't want to be short crude oil. Nevertheless, funny this happens on a Saturday, about 18-20 hrs before the futures markets open tomorrow. The insiders are lined up at the checkout counter as we speak. Cha-ching! It's good to be in the big club.

In Powell's presser yesterday he said "“We expect a meaningful rise in inflation in the coming months,” said Powell." So let's cut rates. Outstanding! There is no sane people running anything in this country. Blithering idiots all.

Around here, there is nothing worse than standing behind someone buying 87 thousand dollars worth of lottery tickets - one at a time - and also not sure which one out of a couple of dozen they can choose from - at the only two lines in the gas station. They had trouble with people buying tickets and then scratching them off right on the counter. Even put a sign up. They also drive.

A picture of Mark Fidrych pumping gas would be a treasure, but so was he. It wouldn't be out of character, he had his own business, with trucks as I understand it. I will never forget; after he retired, don't remember how many years later, the Tigs were playing Boston (he lived there at the time) and he spent some time in the radio booth. Don't remember the announcers, maybe Ernie at that time. They said they were going to have him on for a couple of innings. He did, and spent about 5. What a treat that was. He was great. He could have done that too. One of my favorites. I was there the day he made his comeback. Out in the sticks in right field. Place was packed.

In those days we pumped the gas, washed the windshield, and checked the oil and tire pressure if you requested it. Now we get to do all that ourselves while gas has went from .35 cents to over 3 bucks a gallon. I think there are a few states with laws you can't pump your own gas. Oregon was one in 2018 when I was there. Friday and Saturday nights were the best. There was a nigh club just out of town from our station. Lots of girls would stop for gas or cigs on the way to the night club, and they were always dolled up.

We used those coin changers in a gas station. We sold gas, smokes, snacks, etc. Went through our belt and a wad of bills in our shirt pocket. There wasn't a cash register on site. Maybe a calculator inside somewhere. 1973 during the oil embargo we had to ration gas. Shut people off after 1000 gallons a day. They were not HAPPY!!!!! You got really good with one of them and could make change in no time at all. It became a habit you hardly thought about. I often thought it would be fun to put up a table in a mall or on a street corner. Have a money/change drawer and a computer. Computer random generates an amount between 0 and 20 bucks, and a countdown timer set to 10 seconds. Make change in under 10 seconds win 10 bucks. If not, cost you 2 bucks. 10 seconds is enough time. I think you would make money.

From a different angle on the AI stuff. I am working on a history project and need to build a website. There are many "help" type ways you can go. It seems to be very AI intensive, and they try to push it. Give us some details and we build you a website, and it will. I looked at the WIX/Wordpress stuff. Always a button to let AI take over. Mine is simple. It doesn't seem to get that. I spend more time editing the pages. I honestly had a better site with the old 2000 Microsoft Front Page or raw html code. You can also save all Office documents in html format. Used that too. Just playing. So I got curious. I spun up Grok, just for fun. Entirely different thing than a webpage. I posted a picture of a mechanical coin changer and asked AI how to use one. Ten minutes and a bunch of BS answers later that sounded like the same corporate BS I heard for the last 40 years, and it had no idea how to make change. It was entertaining though. Junk in, junk out, same as it's always been. It won't end well.

Are there any guru's here that know html/css/javascript? Trying to make a simple cheap website (almost impossible) without things like Wix. I have one published, but its on notepad level.

Credit Card Delinquencies, Balances, Debt-to-Income, and Credit Limits in Q1 2025: Our Drunken Sailors & their Credit Cards

The above chart goes from 2007ish to when the S&P 500 hit 666.79 low in March of 09 after the swine banksters blew up the world. Think about all the things that have happened over the last 15 years, and the market has only burped a couple of times, while continuing to go up and to the right. Cha-ching. When it blows up the next time the same people will get bailed out and the same people who got ****ed the last time will get ****ed once again. That would be us. The market is an illusion. It is in no way is a measure of our economy - it is a giant scam (has been for a long time for those who paid attention), and will continue to be. That's the rules. We have been turned into a shopping mall with a flag, while they give us easy credit so we can spend money we don't have on **** we don't need. If it weren't for third world **** holes exploiting slave labor and our easy issued credit our world would have blown up long ago. Now we have AI - great! Wall Street loves it. While our tent cities multiply. As Jim Stafford said in the song Wildwood Weed, all good things must come to an end, and we can see that happening. Tick, tick, tick. I'm glad I'm old, you people are ****ed.