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Is Rasmussen nursing an injury? His skating seems labored even for him. Veleno and Motte pretty much invisible.

I wonder if that arrangement gave a better alignment between the difference in the zip code and the postage rate between zones.

it was looking pretty hopeless at the end of the 2nd. The sloppy passing on the one power play was downright embarrassing.

Yup - this quote has a lot of different forms but there is a lot of truth in it. When the debates were going on about cutting high marginal rates in the Reagan era, people who were never going to pay those rates were some of the biggest supporters. On one hand there is a certain value in having a society full of dreamers, because some of them actually manage to create those dreams, which keeps society moving. But there can also be too much of a good thing.... OTOH, this might be something that is fluid right now. It seems the GenX/Millennials/Z have a much less rosy view of American economics than in the past. The problem there may be that they also may not be economically literate enough to vote to get the change they want. I imagine there is isn't much economics taught anywhere in US public schools, too controversial if you try to do any kind of realistic job.

Exactly. And if Trump himself couldn't win the Dem nomination, under what scenario would anyone else who was going to be Trump like win there? It's a long route to try to get to another 'whataboutism' or 'both sides are 'just the same'. No. One side is going to places neither side has thought about going at least since 11 states seceded. And the public is fine with it because at heart they care more about potties than politics.

Trump is a one of, probably wrt both sides. I don't see how projecting him onto anyone else gets you a meaningful discussion. If the argument is, what if Trump himself had run as a Democrat? What would the outcome have been in that case is a little interesting. But the Congressional dems are too much a herd of cats with too many constituencies for him to have been empowered in the D party the way he was on the R side. The Dems are fine with eating their own. It still wouldn't have been similar.

And the beatings will continue until morale improves! So seriously, how long would it take for 25% across the board tariffs to trip a recession? 6 months? Maybe less than that I'd guess. The only way to ameliorate it at all would be for Congress to immediately pass spending to push all those dollars right back into the economy and even that wouldn't make up for the shutdown of US export markets in retaliation.

I suppose if the plan is to remove the South towers and most of the pavilion south of the central tower, it would open things up a ton. The facade on the Jefferson side will still be too much, but it is still way better now than Portman left it. Reading between the lines I'd guess they have little prospect of finding tenants for the space in the towers GM is leaving.

Just saw the report that GM, Bedrock and the City want to take down the two south towers of the RenCen and redevelop the site into something more residential based having more ground level river access. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/detroits-iconic-renaissance-center-could-222054557.html

If Mother Teresa robbed banks, she wouldn't be Mother Teresa, she'd be Ma Barker. There is no hypothetical that follows from 'If Mother Teresa robbed a bank'. When you say 'Obama' that name is not just a dust jacket you can put on another book, the identity carries it's own set of definitions with it. If you move outside that actual identity, you simply are not talking about that person in any real way. This is pretty simple. If you want to say, "What if some unidentified Democrat did what Trump did', then you can at least get to 1st base with the hypothetical.

Sean Hannity repeatedly demands we not treat him as a journalist. Take him at his word.

I'm getting to the opinion that we can all stop right about here......

who is your 'they'? Hannity? really?

It's a non sequitur because if he had, he would not have been the Obama people voted for, and so that person you describe would have been someone else. You simply can't posit that X would have done Y when it's clear X would never have done Y. It's a meaningless comparison.

this is another place where the conspiracy theories go off the rails. You have all the pressure of a 30 trillion dollar economy demanding they keep the dollar as honest as they know how. It's a place where virtually everyone's interests aligns with them not screwing it up. So they don't anticipate every gyration in the economy with perfect prescience, but try to imagine what would have happened to price stability through a crisis like Covid if we had been depending on Bitcoin or gold.

Did someone here post the story about the guy in England that's trying to get some municipality to dig up the local landfill because a hard drive with billions (?) in Bitcoin got thrown in the trash?

In one way it's bad that Marx is so out of fashion, because the truth of the basic critique that unfettered capitalism is politically unstable in the long run has been lost from Western socioeconomic thinking. Like a lot of social critics, the fact that Marx's solutions were wrong didn't mean his analysis of some of the issues were wrong. In the proximity of Marxism, people like FDR saw Capitalism's threat to itself much more clearly then we do today. There are some out there picking up the message, but not enough.

the defense certainly is reason to live with Parker going against LHP, but Colt isn't yet so great a 2b that his D is what's keeping him in the game against LHP. But not to dance around it, it's fair to just come out and say they have a bigger stake in Colt's development than they do in Carpenters. Also, not to miss the obvious, Parker and Colt hit LHP. Parker had almost no platoon split - a mere 13 OPS points last season, and 3 pts better OBP. Colt's OPS split is 34 points, but his OBP split is also negative - 50pts. - so he's no more likely to make an out against a LHP either. Of the three lefties that go against LHP, it's Riley that has a big split, but that's mostly because he's a beast against RHP. He still manages a 700 OPS against LHP. So that's a tremendous luxury to have a core of three LHH you don't really need to platoon for.

The problem in every aspect of 'retail' that has been computerized is system stiffness. If something, anything, happens which was not explicitly anticipated by the programmers, or more often, that is in the SW but no-one is trained on, you're screwed. I've been trying to open an account at a financial firm that will have three owners. Oops, the online form can only enter 2. No, they don't have any rule it can't be three. How do I make it three - we'll play phone tag for at least a week and maybe someone on their end who knows how to do it - somehow - probably mostly by accident, finally gets pulled into the loop. Then it going to actually take about 10 seconds to do.

They let Keith and Meadows work against LHP at least in part, so there is some criterion that a player can meet to get that shot, and apparently whatever it is, Carpenter hasn't met it yet.

Yes the blockkchain is elegant databasing, but again, it turns out to be total overkill for buying a loaf of bread. There is no value in the overhead to recalculate a block chain for 99.99% of the trivial transaction we do. Another complications is transaction reversal. Once you and someone you deal with - say Krogers or the bank or whoever, agree that a transaction had an error, it only takes the agreement of the two of you to reverse that transaction at each end. Not so much with blockchain.

The people that started bitcoin didn't really think it out very well. The thing they wanted the most was for bitcoin not to be tied to some national currency like the dollar, so it couldn't be 'manipulated'. But the problem is that that makes bitcoin a lousy payment vehicle because it's value is too variable - exactly because it is tied to nothing. Everything's price is going to change everyday. They fundamentally misunderstood that the fact the US gov 'manipulates' the value of the dollar so that is as predictable as they can make it (which admittedly is not perfect but still better than anything else) is exactly what makes the dollar desirable as an exchange currency. So don't hold your breath for bitcoin to become a big payment vehicle. We almost had a social meltdown over 5% inflation for a year and a half. Bitcoin bounces around that much in 10 minutes. There are some cryptos - called 'stable coins' where thy they do peg them to the dollar (or something) to get around that, so then they have no point at all. All that said, as long as you can find someone to buy it from you for more than you paid for it.....

He did most of that early though, by later in the season he was pretty much scuffling across the board, though as noted earlier, he did have a good playoff.

bingo

slight oddity: Apparently the same 5 Wings on the ice for both even strength goals, the Marchand goal against and the Raymond goal for. No +/- for anyone on the team tonight.