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And just as silly as this it is you can exactly reverse this meme to “death row inmates disguise themselves as fetuses…..”

that's why the whole idea of "ready to contend" is a bad one. Maybe they weren't 'ready to win', but if they had pursued Chapman in '22 and signed him to the same deal the Giants did they would be sitting pretty now. Maybe he had some kind of bad rep tailing in with GMs because I never understood how Toronto got him so cheap then. When you can good a good player at a fair price, you have to do it.

that's not that abnormal for a basketball team though. Spurs went from 60 wins to 20 when they lost Robinson for a year. ( then that 20 loss season got them Duncan and they got really good!)

and to think there was time a few years ago when I thought the Wings were only a couple of players away from being a good team.

the first is conceivable, the 2nd a bridge too far. 👳‍♀️

for any who wonder at the connection, you could walk from Cass to Navin Field in few minutes.

That too, but I wasn’t thinking so much about Trump passing as just loosing the Congress again.

Right, the “outrunning the bear” metaphor applies. In most cases you don’t need to be perfectly secure, just secure enough that someone else becomes a more attractive victim.

Be interesting to see what kind of cars they do together. Hondas are good vehicles but pretty pedestrian. Of the the Japanese brands I think Nissan is the closest thing to a driver’s car.

well, there is almost no way something inside the actual harddrive could possibly be rattling short of being run over by a truck. OTOH, something in the housing certainly could be broken, and possible something that holds the interface card on the drive. Many external USB drives have a pretty ordinary SATA harddrive inside them with normal SATA connectors, and a little PCB board plugs into the SATA interface and carries the USB/SATA interface and the USB connector that mounts in the housing. If something is rattling and the drive doesn't read, you might be lucky enough to have just broken the interface. You might be able to open up the housing, remove the drive and plug it into a SATA port of some other computer (or put it in a new $10 on ebay SATA/USB case) and be good to go or maybe just reconnect it properly to the exiting interface. Or not - depending on what you find when you open the box - if you care to try. There is no guarantee it's going to be a free standing SATA drive inside A little research on the model of the drive might tell you.

Back in the day when laptops had spinning rust I had a number of 2.5" laptop drives give up the ghost - rough handling usually, but agree I've don't think I've ever had a drive die in a desktop. Then again, if you are like me when you build your own you don't use low quality drives! There are plenty of them out there in OEM stuff.

Maybe we get lucky and Lange gets over his yips after this rehab. He only walked one in 9 appearances in Toledo after he was sent down.

My nephew used to work for these guys and he knew what he was doing, now that he's gone on to bigger and better things I couldn't say..... https://www.bestbuy.com/site/geek-squad/geek-squad-data-recovery/pcmcat748300502324.c?id=pcmcat748300502324 When you say does not get recognized do you mean it's offering to format it because it doesn't see anything on it, or it doesn't even assign a drive letter (assuming windows here.....) or if Mac doesn't mount it?

probably more like 2

LOL - I would put it exactly the other way, to me throwing your hands in the air is just importing more low wage workers into the economy instead of letting the economy restructure itself properly to an equilibrium population distribution. But it's not a black and white choice. If we have a rationalized immigration system, many people who come in will initially pick up slack in services like nursing, health care etc. I just don't like the trap logic that there is some kind of imperative to immigrate your way out of eventual population decline. That's exactly the recipe for social upheaval because you basically are justifying the position of 'replacement theory' immigration opponents.

The above is a good point. For sure there are white collar places where retirements have always tended to come later. e.g, my FIL was a CPA who kept a hand in part time doing corporate tax work right up to the year he passed. OTOH, most of my immediate circle have been engineers, tech area workers, teachers etc, and other than a little consulting we have all bailed. I was about the last person in my circle to hang it up.

I think are already past the worst of if. US fertility rate peaked in 1957 and those folks are already past the most typical retirement age. We are actually starting to enter the boomer die off, which will start reducing a huge aged services load/drag from the economy. The first post WWII babies will be turning 80 in a year.

yes - but that is an inevitability at some point before we are all standing shoulder to shoulder in our 1 ft sq allotment of the planet, so whether we learn to deal with a leveling or decreasing population today to in 10 or 30 yrs it's something every country is going to have to learn to handle. More workers have been retiring in Japan than joining the workforce for some time and they have figured out how to cope. The already undesirable pressure of current populations is something the species collectively already has a strong instinctive understanding of which is why in almost every nation where people have a choice, fertility is declining. A set of economic theory assumptions (we must have more laborers!) that fly in the face of what every 1st world population is choosing for itself is a priori a failed one.

Labor is a market. Just because the pay required to pull people in may be more than fits with peoples' preconceptions of what someone in a given field should be earning, that doesn't mean there isn't still a market price where the demand is met. And in the case of construction labor, it's is the fact that is can be so cyclical that means you will indeed have to pay more to pull in the peak marginal worker who knows he may have to go back to something else in two years.

The Wings are beyond depressing. In most of every game they play, the opposing players on the ice play with more speed, skill and creativity than the Wings players on the ice do. That's just no fun to watch at all. They aren't just bad, they are supremely boring.

well one obvious way is wages have to climb until those jobs become as desirable as the ones people are more busy chasing, or you can import labor. "I can't fill these jobs" is just whinging by employers who have grown fat and happy with low cost labor inputs and can't fill them at the price they want to pay. But every task has a price where people will start lining up to do it/learn it. Of course nothing is free. If labor costs go up, the normal business response is to off shore those jobs that can be moved. How possible that is depends on government policy. All that is basically today's status quo - how we go to where we are today. To me, importing labor just to import labor is the absolute worst justification - it's basically just the old 'manifest destiny' unbounded growth idea and on a planet with 7 billion going on 10 billion people we need to get over it. It's OK if a nation's population gets smaller and if the US makes fewer widgets for fewer people. It makes me tear at what little hair I have left when I hear people think it's some kind of strategic crisis if the population doesn't just keep growing unbounded. If you ask me what immigration policy should be, it would be a reasonable process for true political refugees, and a reformed and probably expanded H1 program to allow people with expertise and ambition to keep entering and providing the innovation drive that they always have. I do not believe it is the US's responsibility to fix Central and South America by simply importing their populations. The good question is where are the 'reasonable' lines? I think one useful marker is looking at the durability and growth of foreign language enclaves. If you are bringing in so many people that you are generating stable societies within a society with as many or more people entering than are assimilating, than you are at the point were you are courting public backlash and social tension, which to me are the bottom line for where the control point should be. In the end, I don't think the answer if found by what business wants or economic policy or what a particular moral stance would argue, I think it's always the more practical question of what the current population wants to tolerate because at any given time it's their country. And if a historically immigrant population want to practice the hypocricy of pulling up the ladder behind them, in a democracy they have that right and you will simply lose elections arguing the case with them. I don't know exactly where those lines are, but when you have a public as energized around reducing immigration as the US is, you've crossed them.

FWIW, Beck did a piece on Navigato in August talking up his bat but he also said the glove was not likely to play as a full time MLB shortstop.

RIzzo is toast that's already been cut and buttered.

Whose narrative? I try always not to care what people I shouldn't care about think!

Only 27. Seems like he's already been around forever. Maybe because he looks 40.... 😉