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1st half leads have to be pretty big in a regular season NBA game before they mean much.

NBA officials making themselves the game again.

that bests his point total from last year already.

Good for him!

17 it was. 29-12 I think.

and even more fundamentally, no-one voting for a mayor should give a damn what he thinks about international affiairs - that's not what you are hiring him to do. Mamdani is running on a platform of making things work. That's the judgement that the people who vote for or against him need to make. There may be nothing in American today more destructive of functioning democracy than voter inability to focus on the nuts and and bolts of what they are voting for instead of the faux reality TV aspects of the modern political contest.

America is wierd place. It's like we're a nation where time has stopped and no-one moves on from anything. Nobody in the US was still bringing up Pearl Harbor to Japanese Americans 25 yr after Pearl Harbor.

look like Aryan Nation to me.

It's like Mantha all over again but worse. He'll give a good shift or two that shows what he could do, and then disappear again. Hockey is a game where you spend a lot of time at the edge of total exhaustion but hockey players seldom show it. Rassmussen *always* looks and moves like he's already exhausted out there. I try not to accuse players of lack of heart (though Rassmussen has driven me to that on occasion) because you don't know what they are actually going through. In Ras's case, he clearly has a level of skill, but it looks like somewhere along the line he lost the physical capacity to generate the energy needed to play hockey in the NHL.

Exactly.

I know. I laughed about that too.

105 pitches. I wonder the Jays have gone down in fewer in nine innings this season.

A few years ago, in one of the dumber episodes on the old board, we had a couple of MSU slappies that managed to goad a couple of M slappies into getting themselves banned. Then with no-one to troll, they left the board too. The college fora have been pretty desiccated ever since.

2nd tier playing for all the rookies - except Finnie. When was the last time Rasmussen was a healthy scratch?

two teams that aren't going anywhere and MSU especially so full of portal rentals that there is no rivalry.

The problem is Americans have to do everything they do do to wretched excess.

That was part of the big oversell for 'additive manufacturing' that had to come back to earth. Even with the new faster machines (about 5-10x the first gen like mine) these are prototyping and custom build devices. Nothing wrong with that, great in fact, but it's much more an addition to existing fabrication methods than a replacement for any of them. 3D printing had maybe the all-time classic introduction hysteria/crash back to earth/find its real level adoption curve. It's turning out one the things it's really great for is cutting down the cost of engineering research. Cook up all you little experimental equipment designs on the cheap and don't send anything out for expensive machining until you have it right. It a niche few people care/know about but it's been a huge impact there.

favorite play was the steal by Thompson late in the 2nd. It was like he just apparated out of thin air.

It has been funny watching the Jays run the bases station to station and wondering way they can't score two on a single. EDIT: and make it 11 runs. IIRC, we put up 13 against the Card in game 6 in 68.

In case anyone wonders how weird baseball is, the Jays just put 9 runs on the board and still only have one out in the 6th against Snell and the vaunted LA staff.

I've printed some male threaded parts down to about 3/8-16 but for anything less than 1" I tap the female thread after printing. Most filament plastics tap well. One the printed threads, the trick is zeroing in on the thermal shrinkage of your material. A decent 3-D printer may hold tolerance to a few thousandths, but you have to have the shrinkage dialed in. Sort of like making ferrous parts that have to be in tolerance after heat treat.

The market is celebrating 3% like it's some kind of victory. The self-delusion is strong in them.

yay! but also Damn!

Mid-tier cities and bit city outer ring suburbs. Whoda-thunk?