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He slowed down physically, and visually in terms of performance, but I am not convinced he couldn't do the job.  The mind is what matters and I wasn't there and I don't trust the media or staff members to give us an honest account.

But politically that stuff does matter and difficult conversations should have been had earlier.

On this date Apollo 10 came within 9 miles of the lunar surface and about 150 miles from the site of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.  There were always rumors that they put less fuel in it to prevent them from landing but that's not true.  First off, these were military guys who would not disobey an order.  Second, they had plenty of things to test out that needed to work before a landing could take place.

They came close to crashing.  A switch setting was flipped by one crew member, and the other didn't realize it, so they switched it back.  That tricked the craft from thinking an abort was taking place.  They came within a few seconds of crashing into the surface.  They begun to spin wildly above the surface.  A bad word was said, which was a scandal.

This is the only flown Lunar Module that's possibly still intact.  Previous versions were crashed into the moon, Apollo 13's burned up in Earth's atmosphere.  Snoopy, the name of Apollo 10's was jettisonned into orbit and a few years ago a team said with 98% confidence they found it orbiting the sun. 

Democrats get held to normal standards and the GOP can be bat**** crazy.

It's like siblings.  The oldest one gets all the good grades, does charity work, well behaved.  The youngest is a screwup but plays football and makes people laugh and gets girls so everybody gives them a pass.

We just watched the movie Parenthood again last week and the dems are Steve Martin and the GOP is Tom Hulce.

Always given a break, never has to be accountable.

She kind of tore him up at a discussion held not far from my house earlier this week. I  wish I had known it was going on but it was a UAW hall so maybe attendance was restricted.

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

But that's not how it works in MLB The Show!

too many people think athletics and performance is all about you and what you've done or not done. "I just didn't work hard enough man..."  

"You are weak!  You didn't prepare!"

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Sometimes the pitch you think is right isn't actually right because the pitcher masks it effectively enough to make it look like one type of pitch when it's really another, and then it's too late.

Hitting is hard. Hitting at the major league level is major league hard.

I like to tell people "The other team wants to win too... and they're good players"

I was painting some planters in the garage and listening to Dan and Dan. First time I've listened extensively to them this year.  Right before McKinstry got picked off Dickerson was saying how he's able to get a big lead right now..

I never knew it until about a week ago. 

We’ve already been “told” what some of the costs relate to our various AI tools. The tokens. 
 

I do worry though about it making things too easy. At least for some of us. Like GPS and knowing “where you are”. I’ve always had a good sense of direction so that doesn’t apply to me but I know peoole, younger ones, who can’t go further than 20 minutes with a GpS telling them where to go.
 

But I have been using it for some kind of basic questions where I just didn’t want to bother figuring it out or remembering.  Like something in Excel. So I just ask our tool. I could have had it myself in maybe a few minutes or farting around. But I got it instantly. Especially with the way you can be specific and it doesn’t forget.  But is there value in me spending that few minutes figuring it  out? 

There's going to be a backlash I think against AI.  We cannot predict the future.  Regarding the doom and gloom... if everybody's replaced by AI then who will the customers be?

We were all given AI objectives this year and we laugh at it.  Maybe off the cliff but we see the holes already in trying to implement it in our work.    Then it becomes "Well, just call this AI to check the box".

Using in place of something like google has been fantastic.  It absolutely helps me do my job faster but it does not replace what I do.  I'm not special. Just a hack grinding away.

7 years ago I spent 3 months on something because autonomous vehicles was the way forward.

8 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners, and they seem to show up everywhere. I prefer things with less sugar, so I definitely don't want something that tastes sweet but with a funky aftertaste. And stevia to me has an even more unpleasant aftertaste than saccharine.

Me either. I can always tell too. There’s an aftertaste and my stomach will notice. 

**** them.  

Some of my favorites;

The introduction of Larry, Daryl and Daryl on Newhart.  

Bob and Chucks magic trick on soap. 

from movies, the only times I sustained a laugh to where I had to fight to stop, in a theater happened 3 times

Naked Gun when he had the mic on while urinating. 

Dumb and Dumber when they ate the burgers with all the peppers. 
 

Something about Mary, the “hair gel”
 

I’m pretty sure that fans of participating teams are not considered at all in the equation for an NBA playoff game 7. It’s whatever the league and entity paying for the broadcast rights want. I went to a tiger playoff game on a Saturday night and came right back Sunday morning for a noon start time. 

Now we will hear a bunch of stuff. The only good Republican is a retired republican. 

Today is the 40 year anniversary of the Dallas episode where Bobby Ewing “came back” from the dead by appearing in the shower to close out the season. (He died the previous season in their cliff hanger. It all ended up being a dream).  Patrick Duffy’s in town at comic con and someone shared these photos where he’s having fun with it  

Once again I switch from Heat to Cool. 

3 hours ago, buddha said:

i also really hate cleveland fans.

i remember them from the 90s too.  They were very annoying AND cocky.  like "were not from detroit" as if cleveland was a much better city.  the indians hadnt won anything in forever (and still havent), and they came in and acted like they were superior to the tigers historically.  

i ran into cleveland fans in napa of all places and they were talking a lot of smack.  not like in a funny way, but in a serious "**** detroit, you suck" way.

so cleveland can go **** itself.

 

The cocky part is the key. Jays fans flooded tiger stadium but their team just won a title and seeing how close we were it made sense. Canadians from Ontario are harmless. Cavs fans got cocky in 88 and 89 thinking Mark Price and Daugherty were going to skip past the Pistons. Mahorn elbowed Price and he cried like a bitch.  Then Jordan took care of them. 

I have a 30 year hatred of Cleveland fans. Goes back to when they flooded Tiger stadium.  No other city fan base makes me angry.  I can’t explain it. But F them. 

35 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

It's very telling how you always comment on this cherry picked nonsense and completely avoid talking about the blatant corruption going on with Trump and his kids.  For as much as you cared about Hunter Biden being on the board of an oil company, you sure don't seem to care about Trump's kids making hundreds of millions of dollars with shady deals.   Why is that? 

By “be normal” he means “don’t nominate a girl, especially a back girl”.  

Alternate uniforms and Apple TV and a Bullpen day... a lot to complain about.

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

That’s a nice neighborhood. I’m in Pingree Park which borders Indian Village. 

That's great.  My wife used to work out at a place on Mack near you.  Run by a very good person.  Detroit Body Garage.  She only left due to some scheduling issues.

Thirteen Days is a great movie, pretty accurate, but nearly ruined by Kevin Costner trying to do a Boston accent.. then he kind of gave up at some point

11 hours ago, guy incognito said:

He’s going to use that money to turn the J6 thugs into his own personal army so they can defend his underground bunker when the time comes.

The good news is those guys are a bunch of fat asses that are a 1/4 mile run away from a heart attak.