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I wonder whether they gets bonuses for increasing the percentage of customers hanging up during holds.

Yes, it is a dictator move, as he is using the power of the state to threaten the media's business with legal action based on spurious charges in order to prevent full, open, and transparent news coverage of him and his administration. Not for nothing, that is also the idea behind preventing most news media outlets from fielding a correspondent at the White House. Using the power of the state for personal gain in such a manner is the textbook definition of corruption.

Not a pet peeve, which is why it’s here and not in Pet Peeves, although this might be more aggravating than amusing to some. I generally drive over the speed limit. Not by a lot, though. In the city, I’l go probably 35 in a 30; maybe 40 if it’s a five-lane road like North or Western. That same plenty fast and fairly controllable considering the amount of parked cars, bicycles, and pedestrians crossing you generally encounter on such a street. So I’m driving 35 in a 30 on Armitage, and I look in the mirror and this guy is really gaining on me. I can tell it’s not a cop car, so I just keep going. But he come right up on my tail, I mean, I can’t see his headlights anymore, he’s that close, going 35 in a 30 behind me. This goes on for another block or so, and I finally decide I’m going to have to pull over and let him by. So I put on the right turn signal and pull as far over along the parked cars as I can so he can pass me. What I didn’t expect was once I did, I could hear him floor the car behind me, honk the horn as he’s going around catching up to me, and as he’s abreast of me passing—yeah, it’s a “he”, what a shock—he’s apparently yelling while wildly waving a middle finger toward me. And then he speeds off at what looks like 50 or 60 mph. On Armitage, for Christ’s sake. A two-driving-lane road. And I had to laugh. I mean, why not? None of whatever he thinks happened was my fault. I did what I was supposed to do, I think. I would think he’d give me a wave of thanks. Nope. I guess he was mad I was keeping him from speeding at his speed at all. It was a completely irrational and inexplicable response on his part. But you can’t get mad at an obviously crazy person acting out, can you? To what end? So how could I not laugh?

I wonder whether women have a harder time getting past these annoying pitches then men do, not necessarily because they’re weaker and more prone to giving in, but because they are perceived by the agent on the other end to be weaker and more prone to giving in, so the agents keep hammering them. When someone tries to pitch me on the thing they pitch you on, I say nope, no interest, thanks anyway, and generally, that’s that, they don’t keep pushing me.

Because it feels good to have your preconceived notions, however arrived at, to be validated and reinforced.

That's not what I would think to myself. People who support white supremacy/hegemony and don't want certain people to have equal access to resources, or equitable chances to succeed, or be included in the bodies social and politic, specifcally because they are of color, are too far gone to think about changing their minds.

They were always gonna anyway.

Of course.

You call a business's 800 number to discuss a specific issue you have with their product. Their AI bot asks you to go through a number of voice prompts that verify your information, account numbers, etc. You assume you tell them once and whomever you talk to will be given that info. Then you get to a live person and you have to tell them all this information all over again because they don't have it on their screen. This **** happens to me all the time, so it barely registers a rise out of me anymore. Today was a new one. Instead of voice prompts verifying me and my account info, I went to a live person (with an Asian accent, which I always assume is someone offshore). They ask me all the verifying information, then ask me specifically what do I want to discuss. I tell them, checking account. They ask what the specific problem is. I tell them, assuming that matters in terms of whom they transfer me to. Then, after spending all that time explaining myself and my situation to them, they transfer me to someone who has no idea I'd even talked to anyone before them, and so I have to start all over explaining myself and my situation to them. I sometimes wonder if they make it all this infuriating on purpose in order to frustrate people and limit the amount of calls they receive.

Good for them. Hit 'em in the wallet, man. Red hats will whine that they shouldn't be allowed to do this. Maybe the Musk government will sue them.

I will be in FLA March 8 and 9. Tigers at Blue Jays in Dunedin on Saturday (first time in a while I'll be paying attention to the national anthems), then Pirates in Lakeland on Sunday. Hoping to see everyone at the top of the prospects list for at least a couple reps.

I feel as though Sweeney will be given a fair chance to win the starting job outright, or at least be the strong side of a platoon situation. As for the service clock thing, I don't believe there's a long-term concern about that since we have Bryce Rainer and/or Kevin McGonigle in our long-term plans for shortstop, unless Sweeney blossoms into an All-Star shortstop, which I suppose is a possibility given his first-round selection cred.

News flash, Don: they know exactly what they are doing. The person who doesn't know what these Trumpers and Muskovites are doing is you.

They think what we refer to as "real conservatives" are hopeless, spineless leftist running dogs.

It's almost as though they have a meeting the first thing every morning to figure out the most outrageous, disgusting, corrupt thing they can do that day so they can shock people and laugh about it.

I get that and agree with that, but the post was asking them to basically explain why diversity is bad, why equity is bad, and why inclusion is bad.

She doesn't say in the video that she has to get a job. She says that she can't work. Are you assuming she's lying?

Man, you'll see some real deep cut kids playing. Do they have three-digit uniform numbers yet?

What are they saying about him? Injury issues? or performance drop-off?

Seeing that the full squad reports this morning, the offseason is now officially over for everybody and spring training begins in earnest! Let's start the thread with an injury update from this morning.

I was in high school at the time, and I don’t remember this to be the case, although I don’t think I got into SNL until I started delivering pizzas when I was a junior in high school, Because the guys would put it on the small TV in the back room while they were making dough and folding boxes. That would’ve been during the 1977-78 school year, which would’ve been season three, so it was definitely running on channel 4 at that time.

NHLPA might differ with you on that.

Javy is not blocking anyone long term, although a renaissance could have him here for three more years. If that’s going to be the case, I hope we can get a couple wins a year out of the guy.