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    MAP PR0N!

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    On 4/29/2026 at 10:49 AM, chasfh said:

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    the runways at DTW are 2 miles long.

    The two airstrips and the total flight would all fit easily inside the boundary fence at Metro. ✈️

    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    5 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

    I'm curious-does he consider things like the Epstein files and talk of the online rape academy distractions? Sounds like the ultimate example of the tangled web we weave when we try to deceive.

    interviewer never went there. His complaint about distractions started when the interviewer started asking about Fuentes. Carlson said he regretted the interview because people overestimate the reach of people like that who have no power and sucks all the attention from what the people who have power are doing.

    While I would says he's being more than a little disingenuous there, I'd say he's still correct about the basic fact of the elevation of immaterial over the material - even if guys like himself are a big part of that immaterial.

    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    3 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

    Woof

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    immigration is still toxic for the Dems.

    So here is the thing. Most people believe AI is going to lead to big unemployment. I'm less worried about that - at least long term. Historically, new techs have displaced workers but created more net activity. The best example is mechanization of agriculture. That eliminated the work of a far larger % of the population than AI will, but the Industrial Revolution that came with it easily absorbed all those workers. The thing is, we don't see where the new work is yet, so we tend to take the worst case view. However, short term, one thing that will be worse is the speed of adoption. Things move much faster today so the short term displacement can still be bad.

    In any case, that real fear over job losses in the economy, whether correct or not, certainly drives a lot of people who are not particularly evil to want immigration to go to/stay at zero. So they may vote against the kind of gratuitous cruelty of this admin, but any reform proposals with things like an expanded H1-B program are not going to go over well in an environment where the predictions are flying that millions of jobs are at risk.

    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

    "CNN confirmed" it, but they don't have anything about it on their main page? 

    I was able to watch the full video report from the regular CNN homepage yesterday.

    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    3 hours ago, guy incognito said:

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    I don't know if this story will get traction or if the American public is totally somnolent at this point, but our inability to defend our bases should be a huge story.

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    05/02/2026 7:15p EDT Texas Rangers at Detroit Tigers

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    43 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

    Unless the bullpen continues to be a problem, I think a healthy Melton will be a starter in Toledo as insurance, filling Montero’s old role.

     

    Skubal, Valdez, Mize, Montero, Melton will be the rotation in by June - and that's assuming Casey doesn't injure something esle recovering from his current injury

    05/02/2026 7:15p EDT Texas Rangers at Detroit Tigers

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    36 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

    Jobe will be back but 1st year after surgery, most really struggle.

    TJ procedure has evolved into two somewhat different surgeries depending on the exact conditions. The STD full transplant procedure and a newer less traumatic one. IIRC (but I really am not sure at all) I thought it was reported that Jobe underwent the 'modern' technique - so in theory he may have an easier recovery, but I don't know if enough of the newer procedure are in the books for there to be a lot of data.

    2026 DETROIT TIGERS REGULAR SEASON THREAD

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    3 hours ago, casimir said:

    I’m not against dealing guys, but that sort of deal creates holes now and takes away the best CF option for the future.  I’m not sure they have much else in terms of CF prospects.  I’d like to see the Tigers build up their prospect base via up the middle guys that can move to corners as they age in the majors.

    If they had better options to bring up and take some spots on the major league roster, it’s a different story.  If Clark were closer, and/or Perez  & Jung were better, and/or Lee were a but further along, and Meadows hadn’t flamed out, then I think Alvarez as an addition to put the lineup over the top is a more reasonable move.

     The org is too short of starting pitching to think about including Jobe in a trade for a position player.

    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

    I really do believe there's a reckoning of some kind coming. We can debate whether it's sufficient or good enough because it may be more about material conditions (ie. Gas prices) versus issues like abortion or immigration, but people are angry and there will be a response politically

    Having said all that, what I despair about is that all of this stuff is happening, and he says and does all the stuff that he does, and people who know better in elite circles, whether it be the media or in business or what have you... They see everything we all see, but they downplay it or turn away and act like it's NBD or "politics as usual"

    It's really been a blackpill for me to see how much Trump has done to alienate a large majority of the American public, only to see elite circles try to downplay it all. It's enough to make me think they're fine with all this BS

    The NYT (of all people) did a podcast interview with Tucker Carlson. It was interesting, one of his biggest complaints was exactly how the media was normalizing what this admin was doing  - in his case his concern was over the normalization of what he considers an immoral murderous foreign policy and all the happy talk about killing innocent people, but his complaint about the oligarchy keeping everyone distracted with issues that are fundamentally unimportant while ignoring the things that actually affect the lives of everyday Americans could have come from any progressive, and he even said as much.

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    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    2 hours ago, Hongbit said:

    As is BP. They are always the most expensive.  

    In a lot of places BP runs a loyalty program and discounts their list price to the same as the competition for card holders. I guess the theory is that non-regular customers are willing to pay more because maybe they are refueling at need? But that seems dumb when there is a station across the street at a dime less, which is the situation for at least a couple of the A^2 BPs. The corporate programming must tell them it works overall, but seems like a tough deal for those stations where that competitor is right across the street.

    The pet peeve thread

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    37 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

    My Pet Peeve right now is Microsoft - who have included in their most recent FORCED update something they call Efficiency Mode.   It's designed to help save battery life in your laptop.   I'm not on a ****ing laptop.  I am on a PC and I don't need it and even if I WAS on a laptop, I wouldn't want this nonsense.   It's a total resource hog and it slows Google Chrome to a crawl.   You can only seem to disable it - one instance at a time, which is a total pain in the ass.  NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS !   GIVE US AN OPTION TO KILL IT !     If I go through battery life on my laptop it's because I did not plan ahead.  

    try setting you default power mode to high performance. Of course that might keep your fans running. If you're brave you can go into 'Group Policy' or the registry for a fix but it not clear those work either, and have a good back-up first.

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    Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise):

    Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Power Throttling Settings.

    Set Turn off Power Throttling to Enabled.

    Registry Edit (GPO Preference):

    Create a DWORD (32-bit) value named PowerThrottlingOff set to 1 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerThrottling. 

    what adds to the confusion is that some reports are that after you do this, task manager still reports efficiency mode is applied even if it isn't.

    I've been using a Mac more and more recently and the intel boxes run Linux for everything except Solidworks. I'd really like to be completely done with MS but I can't get off that and couple other critical equipment control application that are only available in Windows.

    The stupid irony is that I'm only in Windows maybe 5% of the time I'm on a computer, but still spend at least 50% of my total system maintenance time  keeping up those windows shells I hardly use.

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