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LOL - bi Jesus would only be the beginning of a new one!

I guess you've never watched a confirmation hearing if you believe a JOTSC won't lie in public when it's convenient. Also turns out turns out Totenberg is standing by her reporting. That Sotomayor is not conferencing - which is hard fact, seems prima facie evidence enough that all is not sweetness and light at the court. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/totenberg-scotus-masks/2022/01/21/18bddd96-7ade-11ec-bf97-6eac6f77fba2_story.html

apart that he has the whole thing backward. There was no looney left pushing pushing Mars to make the changes, they simply wanted to reformulate the campaign get make it more appealing to this generation. And ironically, the noise they are getting is from the looney right who are trying to cast good 'ol 'murican marketing work into some kind of woke tyranny.

when your best player doesn't (or at least hasn't learned to) draw many fouls that's going to happen

Depends on how you want to parse 'official'. Congress had given Reagan authority to negotiate the deal with Canada, so once that deal was signed by Reagan and Mulroney it was fully legally in force. NAFTA superseded it and did need Congressional approval because Congress had not given the WH authority to implement a deal with Mexico without their approval.

No joke. But the whole anecdote as journalism is wrong headed and is probably the most serious issue with the Times' journalism - and also as noted previously -at NPR. The shift at NYT is relatively recent though. You sense that someone at the top of the food chain sent down the dictum that all stories had to be 'about people.' The problem is that for macro-econ or political stories, that pretty negates any value they can have have, as the particular never has much informative value for the general condition.

the bad news is that Lynn Henning has weighed in with a column assuring us the season will start on time - so figure after July 4.

high performance video cards are hit hardest because you mine cryto with GPU's - the brains in a video card. Right now middle upper tier video cards such as Nvida 3000 series are being bid up to about 5x their 'normal' prices. However, cost of electric power has become the dominant factor. It's an incredibly stupid system - the block chain calc is so intense now that the cost of mining crypto is primarily the cost of the electricity needed to run the computational power so miners have to hunt around the world to find the cheapest power - or steal computational power off the web with malware. 5000yrs of recorded history and humans have finally come up with an idea for basing the value of currency that actually makes even less sense than the cost and availability of shiny metal.

because it filed its pronoun preferences with HR, silly person.

The SO was just reading a story about this to me today. Mars apparently gets a LOT of feedback from the M&M advertising. They wanted to update the female characters but there actually are a lot fans/critics watching everything they do *very* closely. #1stworldproblems

Yeah -- they danced around the question of married Orthodox priests moving into Catholic Parishes for a while too didn't they - but then backed away again???

I'll be happy when it finally gets low enough that I can buy a good video card for a reasonable price again.....

bad teams give up goals at the end of periods. They played pretty well but they still too often are unable to match the opposition's energy level at period (or game) end. Of course if Bert doesn't miss the empty netter.....

HaHa - we still have a few faculty in the Engin school who take joy in nailing students who report too many sig figs! But TBF, if you are using a spreadsheet and you want it to look decent you have to pick a number of decimals that covers all the magnitudes - so I'd cut the authors some slack. We probably shouldn't take the fact that too many sig figs appear in the larger numbers as an implication of certainty as much as an artifact of presentation form. Short of using scientific notation, which would make it hard to read, or having all the columns out of line what are your choices? I suppose they could have forced non-sig digits on the right to zero, if they knew how - but that's only marginally better.

LOL - can't lose track of which side we're on!

right- Congress' refusal to do anything to prop up the system didn't leave the Fed much choice unless they were going to see themselves preside over a market bloodbath and a possible deflationary spiral. You can argue, and I probably would, they they could have tapered it off sooner but that's picking nits to the larger question of why the Fed felt forced to go it alone.

There is truth to the fact that the combination of Bernanke’s inability to sell fiscal stimulus, Obama’s own economic conservatism, and the GOPs commitment to total obstruction did result in most of the post crash stimulus being monetary instead fiscal, which would have been a more normal course. Monetary stimulus does tend to flow much more as a benefit to the class that already holds capital, while fiscal stimulus like infrastructure goes much more to wage earners. But this is an explanation which should not stand as an excuse. It was still bad governance choices that produced this outcome. And it only accelerated the trend to wealth concentration begun by the Reagan reductions in the progressivity of the tax code.

You telling’ me Henry wasn’t da Man!?

Yup

Or he has just figured out that coaching teams without quality and stability at QB is a loser! 🤣

So, both my grandfathers were born in Anatolia, and both had blue eyes. The local joke in that part of the world was to call people that fair “crusader babies” because the locals knew well how those those traits got into the population. 🛡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🛡

Not sure where you get that. There was an anti-Roman zealot movement that had been tied to the Macabees, but Jesus was most definitely not associated with that movement. Nor was he associated anything like the aims of a separatist movement such as the Essenes, though there is speculation that he knew of them. He was an itinerant preacher, the only thing extreme was the radical nature of what he preached and that was purely personnel, he never exhorted anyone to any kind of external action in support of what he preached.

what you ignore with your list of difference is that despite those differences, inequality was not as bad here 30 yrs ago as it is today. The point is we are getting worse faster than other places and as long as we keep claiming everything is hunky-dory because we are so unique and have problems no-one else does, we give ourselves the excuse to not address our problems. and yes, this is a very big part of the problem - the people who will never admit that everything isn't roses stand in the way of addressing problems as much as anything. The belief in 'exceptionalism' gives Americans the excuse to look around and say we needn't pay attention to what any other country in the world is having success with because 1)it couldn't possible be more success if it's somewhere else, and 2) even if it is what they do can't possible inform our decisions as to what we should do because we are soooo special. This a very destructive mindset America has gotten into. Historically - meaning pre-WWII, the US was more than willing to look around the world and import the best models it found anywhere. The genius of America was to take what it found anywhere, use it and improve it. The refusal to keep doing that has been our peril.

Well, I think your 'prejudices are in the right place. Anyone who cares to actually read the book knows that the #1 target of Jesus' scorn were the organized 'church' and orthodox practitioners of his day. And of course according to the available reporting, it was 'churchmen' that did him in.

they are in generally worse here than in most 1st world countries. Economic inequality by most measures, which was not that much different in the US than Europe in the past, has grown steadily worse in the US in recent years. https://wol.iza.org/articles/measuring-income-inequality/long#:~:text=The most commonly used inequality,top end of the distribution. https://wid.world/news-article/why-is-europe-more-equal-than-the-united-states/#:~:text=Key-results%3A,to 21% in the US.