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LOL - I was thinking about a post bemoaning that if they can't get more out of Elmer at this point than Motte or Fischer we need to write him off. At least now we get to see. I hoped two years ago that when they put him on the the 'big' line with Sundqvist for that short audition they might have had something if they had given it more time.....

I wasn't questioning you, just Musk - both his behaviors and his claims.

It looked that way at the end, but there is a little bit of a retcon to that. They were terrible on O and D coming out of the gate. It took the D a while to find itself under Martindale. My uninformed opinion is that there still would have been enough early losses to put them out of it even if the O had been passable.

he may have said this, and maybe he is somewhere on the spectrum or was, but watch a live one-on-one interview with Elon and watch his body language and watch him hold eye-contact with the interviewer, the audience, and then tell me his impairment is any kind of serious.

Which season do you mean by '24, I assume you mean fall 23? I'd hardly call the effort for fall 24 a "run" . No question the had a lot of funding for guys like Corum the year before. But this last season they were caught with their pants down in almost every way. I'm not blaming that on OSU. My impression was that this last season had a big wait and see component regarding where things with conferences , possible sanctions, player payments and the portal were going to go. Between that and an untested coaching staff and a heavily depleted offense they (at the admin levels) knew more money was going to be too little to late anyway - otherwise they probably would have spent more.

Reality is always the enemy. No matter what the subject. Science, a gesture, history. Denial of what is real is the fundamental hallmark of everything that needs to be resisted if they actually wanted to 'make America great again'

More sane washing. Asperger's folks are generally high functioning - obviously Musk is in that category. Besides, the syndrome relates to emotional acuity, not any deficit in the intellectual capacity to use symbolic communication.

I don't see why we should let ourselves get played as saps by these fascists. Of course he makes the gesture in a plausibly deniable way - it's suits the purpose perfectly as a wink to the racists he wants to play to while denying he's doing it. Elon's dance with these folks has already been going on too long to admit any other reality. All the sane washing is wishful thinking on the part of all the people who are loath to admit how far and fast US society has fallen toward the sewers.

Hope the cap goes up a lot? Seriously though - maybe basketball is going to be the place where the money for salaries to keep increasing so fast finally can't keep up. The cap is based on total league revenue is it not? If salaries have been going up faster than total revenues, someone's got to get squeezed.

there are enough effective (and often mal-adusted!) people around to pull the rest along with them. Pretty much the way it's always been.

M has been a year behind - I don't think M spent what OSU spent last year, but that was more for lack of being organized to do it. With the deal to Underwood they have certainly caught up. If the new 'deal' goes into place I would expect NIL to start falling off. In fact the NCAA is supposedly going to start enforcing some kind of 'value returned' standard for NIL, but we'll see is they do any better controlling that then they ever did with all the other money that oozed though Div I FB.

I had to laugh - there was blurb on infielders on ESPNs web site and the clip they had of Torres was him booting an easy ground ball...🤷‍♀️

the interesting question to think about is that unless the robots start demanding bank accounts of their own, AI and robotics will be increasing the productive capacity of the society - if the stuff works it will be mean that like every other period of innovation, capital will be applied to increase the overall net wealth generating capacity of the economy. Once you look at it in those terms, the issue is just as much how the political system distributes the rights to that wealth as what jobs everyone ends up doing.

Not the same questions - also what does "Satisfied he won the election" mean. I am perfectly satisfied he actually won the election in the sense that I don't doubt he did, I am not at all satisfied that he is president. Which question was being asked/answered, or was the ambiguity in the question deliberate? 🤔

just for accuracy here, Canada supplies about 60% of the oil we import (~8mbpd), but the oil we import is only about 40% of what we use (>20MBPD), so we import about 25% of the crude we use from Canada. Otherwise your point still holds 100%. All the gory details you would ever want are at EIA.gov

If there were a set a education, tax and investment policies to go with the tariffs, along with tax law reforms to make dismantling of industrial production companies less profitable by guys like Romney, then maybe selected tariffs would motivate re-shoring, but tariffs alone lead to fat, sloppy, non-productive concerns like the 70’s US auto industry. If you want to build production that can compete and actually provide US consumers with world class stuff attack the cost side as well as the price side. Improve the manufacturing environment too. The other thing that I think would make more sense than blanket tariffs would import excises based on pollution abatement or CO2 burden. It is unfair if we are buying stuff from overseas in cases where it’s only because the off-shores are operating in ways US producers would not be allowed to. That is one area where I don’t mind tariffs or excises. That’s usually given up as too hard to implement- good task for the AI guys to work on.

I don't know what this means - but good night and good luck.

Disclaimer: - this post contains political material - as it directly relates in an unavoidable way to the topic. No advocacy will be involved. So here is how I read what is going to happen with tariffs. Trump is going to prefer to keep the threat of unimplemented tariffs constantly on the front burner as his 'negotiating leverage'. Until that strategy runs its course to either success or futility, or wherever it ends, I don't expect to see much but symbolic tariffs actually put in place.

I support the right of someone to make an argument for the communist party - absolutely. Otherwise how are we better than Putin or Xi? Not to mention that the communist party in the US is about as toothless as a 90yr Babushka.

Seriously - It's a terrible thing, but how does that change the understanding of the purpose of the sacrifice? It's not the flag, it what the flag stands for isn't it? When we start to take symbols as more important than what the symbols represent, we are losing something in the translation somewhere. And isn't that the question when we fight in questionable causes? For the guys on the line it become more about 'the. mission' than what the mission is about, because who the hell knows what that was. And that make everything turn internal - so the guy burning the flag become the enemy, when he's just following the logic that created the flag in the first place.

I think the proper term for that in a free society is suppression of peaceful free speech. That's what you were supposed to be serving to protect. At least that's what the civics books used to say, when we still had them.

Just call it the "Joy of Cruelty." Seems to be the favorite emotion for Trump and his ilk.

so what would even come close to a 21st century equivalent of overturning the tables of the money-changers? It's all bits in the ether now. They've found a way to make their avarice outrage resistant in physical space. And if they ever taught their flocks the truth, they would understand that this kind of praise in the service of profit is exactly what the 3rd commandment is really talking about.

Life imitates art. Peter Sellers would be proud.

Santander to the Jays - in case someone else like me was wondering.....🤨