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23 minutes ago, chasfh said:

What if Disney simply refuses to file two years early?

Disney goes to court, the court quashes the order. It's more harassment.

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I know there is not much that’s convenient that I can do about this, but I hate how my car hijacks my phone for the purpose of connecting it for use with Apple CarPlay. Anytime I just have the radio on, and I happen to look up something online that has a video attached to it, the car hijacks the phone, and the video plays over the speakers. Right now I’m in a car wash, and I want to watch YouTube videos in the lobby while I’m waiting, but because the car is on, it keeps hijacking and re-hijacking the phone over and over, so I can’t use it unless I forget the car’s WiFi network entirely. A first world pain of the first order. 

yeah - I think there is a way to turn off car play in my car but I would not be able to find it without hunting through a lot of menus. I just turn off BT on the phone if I want it disconnected because I can find that. I generally don't connect my phone to the car's wifi at all - it's a redundancy I haven't needed for anything yet.

24 minutes ago, buddha said:

its funny because its osu, but it goes on everywhere.  the idea that most bball or football players go to michigan for the academics is silly.

osu has so many university wide scandals right now theyre beginning to rival michigan!  

TBF, schools do make a huge effort in recent years to help athletes go to school if they want to, I'm sure that is as true at OSU as at UM. But while you can lead a horse to water....

11 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

Rumor was that Weaver wanted to take JD at pick #5 and he got overruled so he traded up to get him. I realize JD's value just dropped across the league, but maybe a sign and trade involving Trey Murphy could be worked out with our former GM.

It would be nice to have 3pt shooting center, but that discussion has been had before and there aren't that many out there. Maybe if you had a team that was less shooting handicapped across the board, teams would not be able to so easily take away what Duren could be doing. When you put together a team the pieces have to complement  each other - the pistons' shooting so far is deficient enough that it's skewing everything else and a part of that right now is Cade isn't playing like he's at 100%

Then there's the turnovers......

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

I had an argument with my then pulmonary doctor over this a few years ago. At an appointment he asked how I was doing under a certain medication. I told him I hadn't heard from anyone.

"Do you answer your phone when it's an unknown caller?' No

"You should aways answer your phone". If it was important they should leave a voicemail.

We went round about this for several minutes. Then he said "you'll enjoy Dr. XXX" and walks out. 

It turns out his "assistant never sent the prescription in (the prescription comes from s speciality pharmacy). And never contacted the specialist to set up an appointment, until I called his office the second time.

I stll don't answer my phone on unknowns. I figure if they needed to call me they'd leave a message. If it's not in my directory...

UofM system always leaves voice mails and usually sends texts/emails as well. Nobody should be relying on a live telephone connection to communicate in the 21st century, it's been a debased system for a long time. Another thing that shouldn't be the way it is but we have a government that doesn't work.

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Now Little Donnie, you need to practice reading out loud more. And no playing in your new basement play room until you finish ALL your homework

and Melania has another 'Mask' outfit going!

18 minutes ago, RedTeamGo! said:

It is so funny how this is being spun. Also, OSU aside, why is everyone attacking Arvell Reese, suddenly? Like every post on r/NFL and r/CFB is dragging this guy. I have never seen him get in trouble, talk trash, being a diva, a-hole, etc - Dude barely talked during his time at OSU. 

I had a 2.5 GPA in high school but turned it around in college and graduated with honors on the dean's list. Does that mean my college sucked or does it mean I actually applied myself in college? Weird thing to rip on a person for. Dude bettered himself and people are using it tear him and OSU down. Weird. 

you're right, but OTOH, the NCAA and B1G are at least as full of academic cheating stories as academic success stories so a casual reader is just going to see it fitting into the assumed narrative. And just to beat an old point into the ground, it's the problem of social media factoids being out there with no context. Was he talking about graduating from an accredited program or about just skating by? You can't tell that from the one line post.

11 minutes ago, oblong said:

Maybe this is a repeat but if you are repairing a dryer yourself, just go ahead and get all the potential parts.  If you have a simply dryer they are easy to repair and the parts are not tha....

Good work. 

The other thing is that a lot of newer appliances have a single PCB controller board. 99% of the non-mechanical things that go wrong are failures in that board. It's usually about 10 minutes to replace the board and you can find them on the internet, so that's another 'go to' for maybe $150 tops before you run up a service bill or buy a replacement.

One of the funnier things I've witnessed was a service tech who came out look at our dishwasher (under warranty at the time) and just thew up his hands because he couldn't diagnose the problem. Just replacing the board before he checked anything else would have rung up less charge to his employer than half the labor time he spent poking around. In the end, the warranty service co never did fix it. But it's still in my kitchen running with the new board I put in it....

8 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Another manager bites the dust

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/phillies-fire-manager-rob-thomson-don-mattingly/

 

if you lose 10 straight the problem is not your manager, it's your pitching staff, which means it's your GM. But GMS's don't fire themselves. 🙄

9 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Yeah, but it's so weird to be standing for maybe 3-5 minutes in one section of a store and they knew EXACTLY what I was looking for.   Just creepy.  

But I think I am a fairly young-thinking old guy at 61, but I don't need non-stop adulation on social media.    To me it's a form of mental illness and there's a lot of really sick people out there and they don't know it.   I've read about a growing trend of people unplugging from social media and finding themselves to be much, much happier.     It's crazy.  It's like the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive", which is the most realistic episode of the whole series.   Great episode and 100% happening in real life.   

it's part of the price we pay for the stuff we do like. For instance we were traveling last week and had put AirTags in our bags. They will ping of any phone they can find and then the apple network gives you your AirTag's location based on the system knowing where those phones are. So apple is hijacking someone's phone without them knowing to tell me where my tag is every time I check. If everybody opted out of the system all the time, that kind of stuff wouldn't work. Similar kind of concept behind traffic conditions on navigation apps.

3 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

It's funny, but I don't bring my phone into the store probably 80% of the time.   And the reason was I was once shopping for a streaming device in a target.  All I had was my phone on me.  I did not take my phone out check anything and the next thing you know, I started getting a bunch of ads for streaming device sales.    So, based on where I stood for a few minutes, I guess.  That **** is scary to me.   I no longer have Facebook on my phone because I found it to be a major distraction, but also, I don't want people to know where I am at all times and I think Facebook is a major contributor to that.   

I do use loyalty rewards at Kroger and Meijer, but they have physical price labels on their shelves.   If I see those disappear or see electronic ones, I will dump that rewards program.  

the tattletales are Bluetooth and Location Services. Turning BT off when you don't need it and locking down location services so apps can only use it when they are in focus or not at all is about all you can do other than a hard shutdown of the phone. 

55 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

SMALL SAMPLE SIZE

The big jump in OPS goes back as far as last August but the K rate was still terrible even late last season - so the better K rate this season is only on 80 AB so far. The better production has been over a little more than 200 AB. I suppose Candelario had close to a half season of higher production before falling back, but the recollection is hazy and I'm too lazy to look him up.

The thing with Workman is that IIRC, he was also showing signs of improvement after the Cubs picked him up but he didn't sustain it then, makes you wonder more if he can sustain it now either - or maybe it means he is closer to getting his act together? Time will tell soon enough.

41 minutes ago, buddha said:

cade was garbage.  i know he's super cool dude now with his GQ cover story, but can he actually play hard and locked in for 40 minutes?

Maybe Cade isn't really back to being Cade yet?   That was always the possibility

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

Workman has NEVER had bat-to-ball skills...

IIRC, prior to this season he's been pretty much a .220 hitter... in college and in the minors.

What gives?

that kind of change at that age is pretty unusual. Among possibilities could be:

• unusually long streak of  BaBIP luck
• He shortened his approach enough to give himself more time and made it work
• He got stronger and his bat speed increased and that's given him more time or he just has more ability to put the bat where he wants it.
• combinaton of 2 & 3
• Combination of 1, 2 & 3. He's gotten somewhat better but not as good as he looks now.

3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

and they matter both politically and even in terms of the authoritarian consoldation project, as it is much much harder to consolidate when upwards of 60-65% of the public disapproves versus approves.

one point that might be worth making is that to go back to the parallels with other RW or strong man movements, in 30's Germany, there was a real external 'enemy' that was a uniting force for German's against the status quo - namely the terms of the Treaty of Versailles - the Great War was over but they were still in fundamental opposition to the rest of Europe.. In Venezuela, there was the imperialist north, if you want to count Berlusconi a lightweight RW movement in Italy you can take him as a reaction to the onerous debt management terms that the norther EU countries were imposing on the Southern. The point being that there is usually at least a grain of truth in the idea that there is some external force that the country had to unite around the strong man to break free. 

In the US, the the RW can only run against the US LW; whatever ills they claim are damaging the US are all self-imposed. There is China as the boogie man of de-industrialization, but that isn't even at the top of MAGAs list, which are mostly cultural. So your difference is that MAGA cannot unite the country around its project, because its complaint is fundamentally against the other half of the voting public.

That strikes me as difference in kind that has some level of relevance.

56 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

If Arlington was annexed into DC and DC became a state, would the population be large enough to give the new DC state 2 Congresspersons instead of one?

it's around 3/4 million population per rep district. (340 million/435 seats)

1 hour ago, buddha said:

i dont think the wings have a plan.  or if they do, it hasnt been executed very well, because now theyre not physical, not especially speedy, and not all that skilled.  

so what are you?

This. Over the years I've watched various GMs build or fail to build our teams,  and to me that's the difference that stands out - the difference between just trying to collect talent, and trying to collect talent that fits together into a team that can be more than the sum of its parts. And right now, it feels like that is where the Wings are failing. Yzerman has brought in players with some talent, but they don't fill the team's most severe weaknesses. Along those lines that's why I was hoping they would let Kane go. Sure there are things he still does well, but they are not the Wings' glaring needs (i.e. puck possession and forechecking) - etc, etc. When you are bad you have to use your limited resources plug your most sever deficiencies with players that bring those particular skills, not just collect bodies that succeeded somewhere else under different conditions.

41 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Does Workman play OF?

they've been working him all around the IF this season but no OF. In prior seasons he's collected a total of about 60 games in the OF across all three spots - so not much

32 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I was just reading where the average MLB player has 20/12 to 20/13 vision.  80% have better than 20/15 vision.  

And that's only the acuity or spatial resolution measure, there is the other aspect of time resolution or 'frame rate' which must also vary but isn't measured at all in conventional vision testing. I would think that plays into things like spin detection as much as acuity does. 

Good win

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I'm coming around to the idea that hitting has not been our problem. 😏

I think it's going to take a while for everyone to get the recalibration created by ABS figured out. And I think there will be some roll over in pitching staffs. The #1's, guys that already have great command like Skubal, aren't that affected, but I think at the other end of pitching staffs, some guys who maybe throw hard but are only 'around' the K zone and were living off catchers stealing strikes and umpires' allowances to the outside, are going to end up dropped in favor of guys who maybe give up a few more hits but can throw strikes into the ABS zone. So maybe we see this initial rise in walk rate fall back a little, but a few more balls in play before all is said and done.

21 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Tork and Riley...the problem with them is consistency. They both have long extended cold spells that makes fans want to send them to Toledo. They're both hitting right now but it's our pitching thats letting us down....big time.

As for trading either of them? We probably couldn't get much for either...if Harris was ever capable making a blockbuster trade. Most of his trades hsve been pretty insignificant. 

Because he is a HR hitter, I think people tend to overestimate Torkeson as a hitter somewhat. His OBP so far this year is higher than any year in his career, but probably because he came out of the gate slow the 1st week I bet most fans would be surprised by that. He's always been limited as a hitter beyond the HRs. If he could hold a 350 OBP for a season it would be a breakthrough for him.

14 hours ago, holygoat said:

Yeah, he literally just signed an extension last year. I don't know who the BoSox are gonna replace Cora with, but I know it's not gonna be AJ Hinch.

There is no reason to think Hinch wants to go anywhere, but the truth is that if he did, it wouldn't do much good to try to hold him to his contract and have him sit around without his heart in his job. Contracts on that kind of talent - artistic talent if you will, are of pretty limited value if they really want out. Another game would be the Sox (e.g.) could offer a title bump - "manager/GM" for example, for which there is probably an out in most managerial contracts - didn't we get Harris that way in fact?

41 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Hinch headed to Red Sox! Not. He has already lost his soul once I can’t imagine him wanting to lose it again.

trick question: If you had to offer Hinch Harris' job to keep him, would you?

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

That’s true, but also, and I know this is an unpopular opinion, but this is only his first abjectly awful start. He’s been below average within an acceptable range when bad, and fairly decent when good. This one start will not cost him his slot in the rotation.

The big issue is BB. nobody stays in the majors long at a rate of 22 BB in 25 IP. He either gets that under control quickly or the Tigers have a very expensive water boy on the staff - or of course more likely on some excuse to the DL.