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I've seen some OSU folks complaining in social media (for what that's worth of course....) that the top leadership at OSU right now are political hacks and looking for leadership there is futile. But I'll state I've not personally done nor do I plan to do any research into the quality of the OSU leadership. 🎓

I get the idea, but I think you are being idealistic. If the Dems had it as program plank and then introduced any such thing in a GOP state, the GOP would immediately amend the proposal in to an effective suppression format and the Dems would be left holding the bag politically. I think that is the much more probable political reality. And in any case, the idea that lack of state ID is holding back people from accessing services (other than voting) is a presumption not actually in evidence. I've yet to hear any chorus from county social workers that they are being impeded in their work by lack of client documentation. This is about voting, and I'll stand with the all the arg's above that state ID for voting is a red herring that Dems have no good reason to get behind.

Their GA is good, but part of that is Gibson and there is always the question of whether a goalie will sustain good play over a season. They still don't clear their zone well, but are doing better keeping the other team in safer places in our zone - so less SOG etc. I think the biggest question is how ASP and Danielson do. Are they going to sustain or grow or are they going to hit a rookie wall and have to be sent back to GR. If they don't have to dip back into weak depth to replace those two I'm optimistic. And I'd still rather see Solderblom playing than Rasmussen. At least Elmer makes enough plays you know his is on the team.

but a long standing problem for the Wings is that with this team 'lock down' is never far from becoming 'turtle' mode, meaning the goalie having to save the game single handedly.

there is one thing that could save Sweeney, which is if they think they need Baez in CF - IOW I'm not so sure Meadows is a lock. And even if Meadows doesn't make it, they also have Vierling, so still a long shot for Sweeney.

right. And not borrowing for operational expenses is a pretty good rule of thumb for anybody other than a start-up. And didn't PSU issue LT bonds for the stadium? Have they got weird rules in PA or something?

One not to bright sign about NVidia - their SW people have been screwing up recently. Now I'll state upfront it's a totally insignificant part of the overall business, but I hate to see lack of attention to detail anywhere in an org. The last release of their Linux drivers had to be pulled back for some pretty basic QC misses. Gamers also complain they have fallen behind AMD in the SW implementations of some of the better features of their cards.

32 yr old OF who was already a late bloomer whose contact and OB have been dropping and his K rate rising, whose productivity is only sustained by his increasing HR numbers? Not a profile I find appealing. Maybe Rodriguez' rehab hasn't gone well.....

Congress should have stepped in after the 1st NIL court ruling and decided which genies needed to stay in which bottles, Legislation is probably the only thing that can fix it all now, but without getting political about it in more than the most general way, this is the kind of stuff that can run off the rails for years when the government stops functioning.

And Duren solid at the line at the end

at about the 5 minute mark they were already starting to be back on their heels and the Krakon hadn't even put the extra man out yet and it was looking like another goal would be given up late, but they managed to pick it up. Talbot almost gave away with a sloppy play where he turned his back thinking he was leaving it for ASP behind the net but a Krakon got there first.

sounds like another one the where the injury deficit is looking permanent. Or at least the Tigers feel the news has been bad enough no-one will pick him up.

and they probably knew M would be a point of resistance so they sweetened that pot a much as they dared. But the real answer was further down the thread. M's revenue for a single year is estimated at $142M, which sounds pretty close to me. You're being asked to give away a 10% interest for a third more than one year's rev? Just not a good deal anyway.. Perception fallacy of large numbers. $2B doesn't go that far when you divide it 18 ways and then put it up against current budgets.

'Sealed Beam' headlights. DOT mandated them for decades. They had the one great advantage that they were all glass, so they did yellow or go opaque. And because there were only half a dozen standard designs, they were cheap. Of course they didn't light the road for **** either....

I can't tell you what particular properties make for good paving asphalt, but I can tell you that the asphalt available on the market for pavers has changed a lot in recent years. The drive to recover more from every barrel of crude, and the pumping of lower and lower quality crudes, plus products like Canadian tar sands, have resulted in big changes in the composition of the 'bottoms' product from crude stills that used to be the traditional source of asphalt, And increasingly refineries have installed cokers - which consume the steams that would beome asphalt within the refinery, so little or no asphalt is produced at all. Since there is less around, you are perforce going to get less choice of quality. I suppose if and when the EV reigns supreme and oil production drops by large percentages, paving with asphalt may become a rarity altogether.

I know people are generally pretty irrational, but I don't get why they would call the boyfriend over to witness this scene.

I can't tell exactly where the red ends going south toward LA, but for as often as I have been out there, I still can't get used to the warn days tuning so cold after dark. I just don't acclimate to remembering to take a jacket with me when I leave the house at 3pm in 80 degrees.

he was a 3 WAR ( and I will bravely use this term fully cognizant of all that has gone on above!) even with a bad lower half for half a season. I think any GM would be crazy to be disappointed that was coming back.

And just to add on the topic of 'getting IDs to folks'. You come here speaking as an honest agent that if the poor had IDs it would be easier for them to vote and access services. The problem is that GOP elected officials who you advise the Dems to work with have no interest in either of those things happening, and are not going to create anything like the kind of programs you envision without being forced by a counterweighting political force, which in the end is only going to be Dems winning more elections/seats. This is just a true about getting rollbacks of excess dumb idea liberal politics in blue states. Not going to happen until the Blue side loses seats over it if it's stuff they believe in, and the sad truth is that much of the current GOP believes just as deeply in suppression of the other side's voters.

well, that raises the bar for Keith.

can't even imagine how empty NA was with 4M total inhabitants.

IDK, In the abstract this is true, but I think in reality the ability to match does in general depress offers, though of course it won't in every case, and it does save teams risking bidding against themselves at the front end of the process.

He's got a real gift for deciding who we need to be polite to, doesn't he?

You are basically talking about run or RBI opportunity here, and that is a function of team OBP, or even more specifically the OBP/OPS of players immediately around a player in the lineup, and that's still going to be a variable thing depending on the quality of the team isn't it? At the limits, you can double every time at bat and contribute zero runs if the 3 guys behind you in the lineup bat zero. You can single every time up and produce a run every time if one guy behind you always doubles before the 3rd out, etc. So the question is how much better is the correlation of procution to runs than wins? I would think you just look at the correlation between runs and wins for that answer - because production to wins should be the product of production to runs times runs to wins?

My point being that politically - its a perfectly valid strategy to put your effort into electing people who will do what you think is right elected as opposed to trying to accommodate people who won't. It's not being 'useless' at all, it's working the process as it was meant to be worked. There is nothing wrong with trying to take the edge of policies from other side when you can, but I'd submit the opportunities to do that in the current environment could as easily be called 'useless'. Whitmer had gotten things from the GOP because she won the governorship and she had leverage. If she hadn't, the Dems would not have gotten those things in the legislature by saying pretty please.