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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.

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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.

If Davis Warren could have gotten a couple of years experience under his belt, he might have turned into a decent QB in the end. A lot of his balls are very well thrown, arm strength is OK, just hasn't learned to go downfield. Also makes you wonder whether if they had just put in a playbook more suited to what he could do well initially and stuck with him from the 1st snap if he might already been further along even within this season.

We had an early "Famous Dave's" in Minneapolis that was better than anything currently available in A^2. But I don't know if FD's has maintained their standards as they've grown, most places don't. For years in A^2 a one old dude ran a tiny hole in the wall with one smoker in a little shack that was probably once a 1940's single island gas station at Kerrytown. Strictly carry out. But he eventually decided to retire and no-one wanted the business. They are now building a multistory bldg on the site (queue up the Joni Mitchell...). There have been a couple of BBQ places come and go in town since then but none seem to stick. Maybe BBQ is tough sell today with the Quinoa and Arugula crowd.

WWP=Wounded Warrior Project. Non-profit that nearly went belly up in 2016. Also. always look beyond the AI summary on anything that potentially changes over time. The algorithm is not very good at discerning obsolete data from current data. I've recently had the AI bot toss up a lot of bad Linux system programming info because it was recapitulating obsoleted info. Supposedly you can try using -AI on your searches. I've been experimenting with that.

I've always thought that was an aspect with Cade that was maybe oversold. He doesn't seem to have the lightning kind of quickness to draw an above average rate of fouls. He did improve from his rookie year to last year, but not much change in FTA so far this year.

Who are Columbus's patrons? I'm as egalitarian as the next guy, but the truth is that most of what makes the more 'beautiful' cities beautiful was rich men or industries that had a local interest and could enforce a level of aesthetic vision at critical points in development history. Almost everything nice in Detroit came out of Dodge, Ford, Fisher and other auto industry vanity projects (and now Dan Gilbert). Pittsburgh was Carnegie and USS, LA is the entertainment industry, NYC the financial money, Chicago was the midwest retail, rail/transport, refining and steel hub. Other than being the state capital and OSU, who or what have been Columbus's big drivers?

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I still have close to zero confidence that Malloy can stick. July->August->Sept he was worse each month which often as not says a guy is not adjusting as pitchers work his weaknesses. He did flash a little in the playoffs though.

Yeah - the 'validation by past trial' is always losing logic. You have to keep proving your bona fides every day no matter who you are. What they say on the Street applies pretty generally: Past results not a guarantee of future performance.

I can see the the logic of it. Despite its other shortcomings some of the RW Dmen can make a good pass or contribute to the rush themselves. On the other hand you have Veleno, who probably should just dump in more often instead of trying to carry it in and getting erased as he usually does. More seriously though, I'd guess it's the combination of the popularity of fast forwards and ever bigger big Dmen which probably make dump and chase a better proposition. If you have the speed, better to dump the puck past a Seider (or Edvinsson) and try to win the race to the puck than let a big Dman just cut you off.

Glum is a misread. The games remain the games, institutional loyalty is what it is, but having been tied to the maze and blue for over 50 yrs by family, education, employment, and residence, I am now more amused/bemused in its sports pretensions and foibles than any capacity I retain to be swept up by the institutionally misfit dog and pony show major college athletics has become, so it would probably be fair to say I no longer meet the definition of a "fan." How about loyal non-fan? (and get off my lawn.......)