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51 minutes ago, Screwball said:
Why do they always say "unexpected?"
We live in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever funded.
I was half expecting to see a rush for the door at about 3:45 today but nothing really materialized - a little attempt at a rally actually but it fizzled. I guess it's good news if people aren't panicking.....so far.
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I don't imagine RFK has taken the time to read this (Medscape 2/17/2026):
"As the US measles cases soar following 2025’s record-shattering outbreaks, experts warn that healthcare practitioners and parents may be unprepared for the virus’s hidden threat: immune amnesia.
The condition is pretty much what it sounds like. The virus destroys immune memory, wiping out memory B cells and T cells and forcing the immune system to rebuild its defenses from scratch.
“Nearly every unvaccinated child who gets measles can be impacted,” said Patricia Stinchfield, CPNP, past president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Rebuilding immune memory leaves patients vulnerable to new exposures, and infections, hospitalizations, and missed work and school can linger for up to 5 years, casting a long shadow after recovery.
Immune amnesia was officially recognized in 2015, but clues emerged before that. Scottish scientists in the 1700s described waves of infections and deaths in measles’ wake. When measles vaccines arrived in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, researchers noticed unexpected drops in seemingly unrelated health problems. And looking back at prevaccination records, they documented higher rates of infections and deaths in kids for several years after they had this highly-contagious childhood illness.
Lots of deaths. “Half of all childhood infectious-disease deaths were related to immune amnesia caused by measles,” said Michael J. Mina, MD, PhD, an infectious disease expert and former assistant professor of epidemiology and immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Mina’s landmark research, published from 2015 to 2019, helped illuminate the measles-immune amnesia link. “Before vaccines, it was difficult to see the connection because virtually everyone got measles. There was no one to compare them to.”
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1 minute ago, slothfacekilla said:
My guess is:
Edvinsson - Seider
Chiarot - Faulk
Johansson - ASP
JBD
Yeah - I think Axel has been improving. Seems to be having more success using his speed to avoid being hit, and when he's not on his butt, his skills are OK.
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6 minutes ago, lordstanley said:
Faulk to Detroit for a 1st and a 3rd!
so who Is now the 7th D man? ASP or JBD, or do they both become 6 1/2?
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1 hour ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:
We all just need to make more sacrifices. Just you wait, there will soon be a chicken in every pot and a tariff check in every mailbox. All the while, Iran will be a free, liberated, democratic country.
The last President that told Americans they needed to sacrifice over bad economics was Jimmy Carter. Didn't end well for him. And the joke is that at least Carter's economic issues were not ones he engineered himself.
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Diesel fuel up $0.41/gal. Which gets added to just about every single thing you buy.
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Oil at $85 and Market futures down another 1%. So much winning.
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5 minutes ago, Shelton said:
Anyway, I know people will disagree, but it seems like you gotta cut one of Vierling, meadows, or Perez, and Perez to me feels the most useless all things considered.
the analysis makes all kinds of sense, but a team that is as dedicated to handedness as the Tigers is going to give a SW every benefit of the doubt in the choice.
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6 hrs. Tick..tick...tick.
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46 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
Perez and Vierling can play CF, but you don't want them playing there regularly. I think Hinch will be playing his usual musical chairs
Perez's can make good plays, but the consistency of his concentration level as a fielder has left something to be desired. Vierling has not graded particularly well as a CF. If neither Javy or Meadows can hit enough to stay in the lineup the team is going to suffer it.
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Does give them another RH shot. Don't how much one can expect from a 37yr old journeyman though
17 1/2 hours of hope left, dwindling fast.
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9 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
I am not optimistic that either will hit. Baez went two straight years where he was garbage. One year he was injured, the other year I assume not. They can both be useful with their gloves, but their at bats should be limited. It's not ideal for both to be in the line-up at the same time.
I think one of them is going to get a lot PA though because I don't really see a reasonable CF choice for that ballpark beyond those two unless Clark shows up early in the season.
BTW - what are we calling it now that Comerica is in the corporate dustbin? Are they really going with the completely non-sensical '5th/3rd' moniker? There won't be an out of town announcer that recites that with a straight face.
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54 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:
back in the day there was a word for that that has pretty much disappeared : Stalking Horse.
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36 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:
Over the past three years, Meadows has a .694 OPS. Baez .606. Chances are neither will hit, but I'll take my chances with Meadows over Baez. A platoon makes sense though. I expect McGonigle to be the starting shortstop.
Or you can look at the most recent indicator - last season when Baez was 60 pts better. It comes down to including the year Baez was injured vs including the year Parker was injured so it can be sliced and diced anyway as desired.
Why I am less optimistic about Parker is that he came back and had no discernible upward trend as he moved away from the injury (one 5 hit series against the Yankees in Sept was about it) and he has followed that up with an ice cold spring that he can't afford to be having.
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5 hours ago, Screwball said:
Crude is at $79 and change as I type this. Was as high as $79.97. Dow down 780ish, S&P down 48, and the NASDAQ only -77
Here are two very long and sobering reads on the Iran/oil situation.
Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis of a Zero-Flow Strait of Hormuz Closure
The Invisible Siege: How Insurance Markets, Not Missiles, Closed the Strait of Hormuz
"The myth that digital civilization floats above heavy industry is, in this scenario, extinguished. Compute is shown to rest on copper, transformers, stable voltage, LNG, and ships"
Best quote in the piece. Civilization is not linear, it's cumulative. The things that were before don't go away, they continue to underpin what is now.
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1 hour ago, Shelton said:
I think any solution that includes Javy as a regular is a bad one. It feels to me like a Parker and Javy platoon or time share in CF is a reasonable outcome.
And Jones is a lock for platoon DH. I think Vierling is also a lock especially given Hinch’s comments and Matt’s veteran status.
Is Wenceel still passable in CF? If you can share CF among Wenceel, Javy, and Vierling, I could see Parker going to Toledo. But ultimately I think they defer to Meadows and his defense, and we are looking at Wenceel as Toledo bound and the first guy up when there is an injury.
I think Perez is sort of erratic as an OF, but maybe the Tigers don't agree. Javy could certainly hit (or fail to hit) himself out of regular playing time, and a platoon is always possible, but my original post was premised on Meadows showing so little stick the decision to send him down is unambiguous.
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27 minutes ago, romad1 said:
Nice
35K registered voters in the county, so basically nobody cared about this election - or Dems didn't care marginally less than Repubs.
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6 minutes ago, The Ronz said:
Your monitor functions as a two-way mirror.
It has been this way since April 30, 1993.
Thinkpads have a shutters on their cameras, desktops don't have cameras built in. Tape is handy otherwise.
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7 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:
He's had about 2 good months in August and September 2024. He's been invisible other than that. The last spot for the OF should not be between Vierlng and Jones, it should be between Meadows & Jones.
Parker is screwed anyway because when McGonigle makes the team, Javy goes to CF.
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3 hours ago, chasfh said:
Atlanta has long profiled as more progressive than Houston.
Houston was a company town for all of its early years. The oil biz still has a big presence there, and that's a lot of professional, engineering and scientific types who should be the ones telling their neighbors the truth who have made the deal to self-censor (or self-delude) themselves for their paychecks.
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30 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:
Great upgrade.
be hard for it not to be.
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3 hours ago, oblong said:
Trump is a NY guy and he likes winners. That's it. There's no principals to it.
right. NYC will always be the center of the world to him and he will always crave approval there.
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when you start getting to very short charge times heat management becomes a constraint. It looks like they have made a very system with a very high surface/volume ratio so it can dump heat very fast. That also a minimum of ~1000 amps going through the charging cable!