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47 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don’t see where the NY Times says anything about operating in waters deeper than 56,000 feet. I do see where the Democratic Underground website says that.

 

NYT quoted a bad number and then fixed their typo apparently because the earlier web edition was not corrected to 5600 ft. The lift in my orginal post was directly from the NYT website but of course they probably heard about it a zillion times and fixed it.

I was trying to guess whether BP wanted to operate on the Sisgbee(sp?) trench (over 14k feet) and somebody coverted meters to feet twice, or if they just didn't bother to check the quote they took. In any case, even if you're quoting someone else's number that is off by an order of magnitude and don't note it, you've given it your imprimatur. 

6 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

LOL - those are not all victories. NBC is better off for the exit of Chuck Todd, and the public has stepped up to save NPR, which now that they are off the Federal dole, and no longer have to worry about losing it, are no longer looking over their shoulders about whether they need to shade their work.

1 hour ago, guy incognito said:

And too many STEM people are similarly indifferent to if not outright contemptuous of the arts and humanities.

You can see the roots of a lot of our problems in that siloing. On the one hand, well-meaning humanists with no clue as to how things work; on the other, antisocial technocrats with no check on their ambitions.

Yeah - engineering schools in particular should not (but too often do) just punt on forcing their students into wider distribution requirements. There are humanities studies that can catch the interest of the technically oriented beyond just getting a grade - such as Rhetoric (not Lit), Philosophy (not Soc), Music, etc.

1 hour ago, LaceyLou said:

I'm thinking this is not exactly new. When I was school (back in the dark ages) people majoring in the arts/humanities/social sciences, and even business, tended to avoid science and math classes 'like the plague.' And I'd often find mistakes-though not anything as extreme as this example.

Perhaps there were better editors and fact checkers back in the day, who did have some background in the sciences.

A really sharp HS class mate of mine (1500 SAT kind of guy) went to Yale for Chemistry - ended up the science editor at Newsweek/WaPo. I don't imagine that happens too much anymore. Just doesn't pay enough.

this is not a political press failing, but just a general example of how the people writing for the press are now so ignorant of the topics they write about that they make mistakes that make you question everything they say.

Article in our 'paper of record' the NYT, about BP wanting to put a deep water rig out in the Gulf. The writer gives the depth of water they want to work in as 56,000ft.

"Opponents said the extreme pressure and high temperatures required to operate in waters deeper than 56,000 feet heighten the risk of a blowout that could endanger Gulf communities and the marine ecosystem."

There is no water on the planet anywhere near that deep (Marianas Trench about 36,000). So what are they even talking about? Deepest water in the Gulf is 13,000-15,000, average is about 5300. But how does a guy end up writing tech for the NYT who doesn't have some idea how deep the ocean are? 

We are gonna be doomed by our own descent into ignorance.

3 minutes ago, 4hzglory said:

According to this, they are right behind the Dominican with 94 and almost triple Cuba who is 4th (US is 1)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Major_League_Baseball_players_by_country_of_birth

very interesting.....😉

14 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Venezuela

Are there good numbers from VZ in the majors? Obviously we know the Tigers have had a few, but I guess I got the impression from the way that was covered here that that was some kind of exception. Admittedly not something I've spent time auditing.

11 hours ago, buddha said:

and when pettiti's contract is up, i can almost guarantee you that michigan will support him.  theyve become a feckless institution that stands for nothing.  blahblahblah PE deal blahblahblah.  they'll cave on that too.

I've really been disappointed in this group of regents. To me, both the Ono hiring and now the Syverud pick represent a lack of courage, vision, or just an unwillingness to put in the time to actually find a younger more dynamic, principled leader. Syverud looks like a nice guy but from what I've seen of him he looks like he's not aging well, like he's already exhausted with life. If we get anything more than caretaking from him I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Ironic that a group supposedly politically 'liberal' is so conservative/cowardly/risk averse in their hiring - leadership in general. I'm afraid it's getting to be that high profile people in the state are seeking the job more for the cachet (and as a party funding payoff) than because they care about the 'U', in contrast to some of the old-timers we had for whom it was a vocation - folks that lived, breathed and bled blue.

It's a challenge as a voter because most anyone running on the GOP side recently is just a bomb thrower so we are stuck with who the Dems put up.

hard to see a US attempt to hold Kharg island as any more successful than the Russian attempt to hold Snake island.

9 hours ago, buddha said:

warde did neither.  he authorized the suit and then caved when pettiti threatened him.  instead of calling his bluff, he turtled.

the only caveat here is we don't have any way to know what Warde chose to do vs what he was told to do. I've already lost track of the timelines of what was going on in sports vs what was going on in Admin, but Ono turned out to be such a putz it would be easy to believe some of this lands at his doorstep as well.

3 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

On the optimistic side - aside from Mize - all the relievers who have come in have done pretty well, although I can’t speak for the quality of the hitting they are facing. I’m not paying too much attention to this game.

appears the Tiger hitters weren't either. Torkelson, McGonigle, Green, Carpenter, Keith, Roger a combined O for a bunch of ABs.

9 hours ago, casimir said:

Jones’ .373 BABIP vs LHP last season will not repeat.  Once his offense vs LHP is gone, what other tools does he have?

To paraphrase 'Sheed: "BaBIP don't lie!"

4th quarter GDP revised down to 0.7%. Of course recession can't  be official until the release of 2nd quarter figures.....

39 minutes ago, buddha said:

the insurance company will settle it.

I have to think Partridge wants a public exoneration. Would they admit nothing even if it's going to cost them more? Or maybe it reads better to ask, "How much more are they willing to settle for to not have to admit anything?"

32 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I am getting more nervous about going to Europe in May. I had held off going last May because i didn't know how the Trump presidency was going to affect things between us.

you and me both (trip scheduled late April)

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

My basement is finished and has a high efficiency furnace and tankless water heater. I’m an elitist. I don’t shovel coal into my furnace like a real American. 

My basement is finished but I did it myself, but it probably doesn't count because I had a van all those years and not a pick-up. Actually I had a red-blooded GM B-body "door-gate" station wagon when I started working on it. Man, I miss that vehicle design.

On 3/11/2026 at 8:43 AM, Deleterious said:

Next month could be interesting.  You can't move a single good in this country without using gas/diesel.  Oil prices are one of the biggest drivers of inflation.  

 

Diesel at the corner Speedway was $4.99 just now, unleaded at $3.69.

Brent crude futures are hanging around $103 and the S&P has lost $2.5 Trillion in value.

8 minutes ago, casimir said:

Japan?

Yeah - add Japan.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

He got juked for sure.  

This one is pretty dumb. I don't pretend to know if what Partridge claims is true, but if it is, the U is going to look pretty stupid if they fight it. Just write him a check and make the public apology/exoneration (which is probably what he really wants anyway)

6 hours ago, casimir said:

I think you have to have some sort of lineage to that country to play for it.

If they didn't leave it open to US players with foreign ties they wouldn't get enough MLB players on the other teams to make it interesting. It would be the US, The Dominican, Mexico and a bunch of single A teams.

Captain BoneSpurs says oil would be getting through the Strait if shippers would just have more guts....

9 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

I don't think Jones has an option. 

Ed's table says you are correct.

15 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

Action->reaction->action->reaction->action->reaction-.....

the more people you kill, the longer you stay on the treadmill....

10 minutes ago, KL2 said:

The problem is they pick 17 not 3. Can’t guarantee they get a decent one in the draft and even if you do they still need a vet for either the no 2 or 3 on depth chart. The haven’t done either and another option went off the board. Muhammad has his problem but so does everyone whether it be age, health or production. At least we knew what Muhammad could do.

 

right now we have a big ole gaping whole and the position where Brad hasn’t added anyone, really, in years. That’s the frustration 

Lions' 'window' is turning out to have been more like a dryer vent.

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

They knew this dude was a potential risk. Probably the same with the guy in West Bloomfield. Maybe if Homeland Security and ICE would keep track of serious possible risks rather playing cowboy to harass blue states, these events might not have happened.

But what do I know, I'm just a woke lib who needs to smell grass (once the snow melts)

technically he was out of ICE's jurisdiction as he was a naturalized citizen. Doesn't leave the FBI any excuse, but Kash has been too busy making up to MMA stars.