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Clearly, we need more Brewer Hicklen

You'd be up 17% on a passive buy and hold of an S&P index fund, so 25% doesn't represent that much investing navvy. If you'd just taken a flier on Intel or weighted Nvidia you could have beaten 25% The inverse Cramer is good to see though.

Don't disagree when it comes to pitching, just because so many get hurt, please just don't give me a front office that takes the same approach with hitters - you can collect all the MiLB hitters you want and they are just as likely to all fail - quality only with hitters please!

I skipped through this one a bit on the DVR, a couple of things that stood out: It was Larkin that completely lost his man on one of the OTT goals. I don't know if he was cheating up ice thinking the Wings were about to regain possession or what, but a bad play from a guy that knows better. ASP continues to struggle with the 'defense' part of being a defenseman. Maybe if he comes back next season 15-20lb heavier? Gibson was the best player on the ice. I'm sure today it's the Ottawa fans looking at this game with a sigh and saying it was one of those games where they won the game on the ice but got stoned by the goalie.

do you suppose they still have a local paper in Eau Claire or LaCrosse?

probably because too many Americans have bought more house than they could afford and commute an hour to work in a vehicle that can pull 6 snowmobiles but gets 12mph.

For more context. World wide EV production is somewhere near 20M vehicles/yr. Even if we assume a conservative 5K miles/yr driven, that works out very roughly to 334,000 bbl/day of gasoline saved, which is about 500K bbls/day of oil saved - which is the output of 2 fairly large refineries - subtracted each year going forward. The world is awash in oil and the biggest market for oil is going in the other direction. According to Google, the real price of oil is sitting pretty close to the overall average number since 1946 ($58.07)

I think I probably posted upthread that there are certainly particular refiners that have some investment in heavy crude capacity on the Gulf Coast that they'd rather see making a better return, and certainly if they have any brains they've tried to get Trump's ear, but that doesn't rise to any kind of significant US economic or security interest. So 'oil' as a real US national interest - no. But 'oil' considered as just another Trump grift - sure. And after all, to circle back 360 to the 'reality TV president' idea, reality TV is really just one big grift by the entertainment industry. So there you are. 📺💣🎇

For what exactly? For this: To capture the news cycle for a couple of days. That's it, and all of it. Nothing Trump does is focused on *accomplishment*, rather strictly on the appearance of accomplishment. This is reality TV government: Invent a story line, generate a lot of noise and smoke, charge up emotions, run in a lot of circles, break a bunch of china, and at the end of the day....nothing real has happened. Stay tuned for the next episode of 'Real Presidents of DC!" As noted, the Vz government is still there, no fundamental change but suddenly there will be no crisis between the US and Vz, because there never was in the first place - it was just more noise being generated by Trump on his way to his next media presentation episode. You grabbed a tin pot and put him in jail at the cost of several billion in ordinance - oh and BTW, there was some 'collateral damage' on the gound. Well, no-one we knew and BFD about Maduro. Just like nothing has changed in Ukraine and nothing has changed for the Palestinians or Israelis after he heroically 'solved' all their problems. Argue with China, settle with China, argue with China, US industrial production is still being displaced and farmers are only worse off. 6 months of headlines from DOGE, hire back most of the workers and the government is hemorrhaging more money than ever. Trump runs around, makes a lot of noise, makes a lot of pronouncements about actions, then, Cut! He's on to the next sound stage and nothing has actually been accomplished. The actors who were on the set before he got there are left to sort it out for themselves just like they were before he got there You only know he's been there by the bill he leaves for his expenses.

well, in the end it's one more thing I don't have to feel bad about not caring about any more. At the rate society is removing things I used to care about from my interests, I may yet experience Nirvana before I die. 🕉️

Yup. You can deny reality for a long time if you work at it - and MAGA works harder at it than anything I've seen in my lifetime, but in the end reality always wins. And the longer you have been in denial, the more brutal the defeat ultimately is.

IOW, total chaos. No adults anywhere to be seen in the mangement of college sports.

the one thing to keep in mind is that refineries don't set up to run heavy crude because they prefer to, but because heavy crude traditionally sells a discount to Saudi or WTI. There is a market price at which the added cost of production for hard to process oil means that it can't be sold at a large enough discount for refiners to be interested. The other complication is that once a refiner configures a refinery for heavy crude, they will not be as efficient if they switch back. But in general, it's still easier to run light crude or a lighter net blend in a refinery configured for heavy than vice-versa.

and they won without him. It was 4 sec, but one sec is a stupid thing to get tossed for.

there is no lack of stuff circulating now. I've heard from people in the area that have had Flu A, Flu B, and Covid all in the last month, and if Edman is correct that Adenovirus is out there too, the more the merrier.

Don't forget that Andre's other big problem was he was just intimidated by other big guys who put a body on him. Who can forget Embiid getting in his head? I think any player out there would think twice before trying that on Duren.

so over 81 games Duren project to 2.6 VORP? Andre could rebound, you can't fault him on that.

He can't run the US government competently, I'm sure the Venezuelans can't wait to see how he runs them.

Wilma was supposed to have edge. The Flinstones was more or less (mostly more) an animated remake of the Honeymooners. so Wilma was modeled on Audrey Meadows' Alice, who was a tough cookie.

It's par for the course. From all available evidence, Trump's brain stopped processing changes in the world in about 1970.

I would say this is a bit of an unfair comparison though because from every indication, including his own admissions in recent years, Andre was not interested in being a better player when he still had the chance to be. I don't follow the pistons anything like some of you guys do but has anybody ever accused Duren of not working hard on his game?

Numbers on the chart in this story don't seem to tell a consistent story. They do indicate that capital/wafer is roughly double in the US, which is bad enough, but it's quite unclear how they get from 100% more capital cost to 700% more depreciation cost/wafer. Unless what they are capturing is a difference in depreciation schedules between Taiwan and the US. If true that would have been worth noting.

The fact that a GM and a coaching staff sit down and try to figure how to survive the wreckage and limp home after moving a bunch of pitching just isn't grounds in my book for giving that GM credit for his players exceeding every reasonable and unreasonable expectation. It's like saying the Doc that put a bandaid on a patient gets credit for a subsequent spontaneous cancer remission.

We better hope that isn't true of Harris. Any GM that evaluates talent based on whether it has his name on it is an egotistical fool and is going to be a loser as a result.

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