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lol seriously mother**** this guy 4. 🐦 Musk says X will charge everyone Elon Musk, holding one of his sons, talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in New York on Sunday. Photo: Turkish Presidency/AP Elon Musk said he's moving to require all users to pay a monthly fee to use his social media site X, formerly Twitter, Axios' Sara Fischer reports. Why it matters: The comments, which Musk made during a live-streamed event on X with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come as the company struggles to regain trust with advertisers. Netanyahu brought up the large armies of bots that amplify hate speech. Musk replied: "The single most important reason we're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is it's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots." Musk said adding a subscription would make it much more difficult for bots to create accounts, because each bot would need to register a new credit card. He added that the company plans to come out with "a lower tier pricing" than it currently charges X Premium subscribers — around $8 monthly. 🥊 Reality check: Musk has often teased new products or innovations, only to change course. Share this story.

What's the context? Do they invite dozens of countries to march troops in their parade as part of the celebration? Or was Russia a special guest?

I think the bar for success here is very low. Trump's going to have a bunch of guys in a union hall hooting and hollering for him. Union guys are historically known for voting Democrat, so it's going to look like a bunch of Democrats are moving over to Trump, and that video with that strain of commentary will air over and over for days on every network that has a news division. I think there are two audiences being targeted here: independents, and on-the-fence voters of both parties. For each, the effect will be the same: when they see video of a bunch of Democrats whooping it up for Trump, I can totally see them saying to themselves, well, if even Democrats are going for Trump instead of Biden, maybe it's time to get (back) on the Trump train for the big win. I can even see a new group being announced: Democrats for Trump. That's low-hanging fruit and they'd be nuts not to go there. Sure, Trump is nuts, and the Trump campaign people are nuts, but I don't think they are that kind of nuts. And it doesn't matter that the new group would be synthesized out of astroturf. All that matters is that it happens and is seen. I think the only thing that will "go wrong" is that he will say something that rises to a new level of objectionable, which will then be rinsed through the news cycle, liberals will be outraged, red hats (and union hardhats) will be delighted and energized, mainstream media will both-sides whatever the comment is to death, and then everyone will leave it in the dust and move on to the next outrage. In the meantime, Democrats for Trump would be the one idea that will survive. I think this is a genius move and I pray to god they find a way to inexplicably blow it.

Maybe that’s Jake’s ceiling on a good team? In that way, he may not be unlike David Ross? A guy with a glove and a bit of pop who gets exposed with too much playing time? I’m doubtful about Jake’s All-Star potential. Maybe if he were 24 I’d be more on board with that idea.

And they’re the better of the two houses, by a lot.

J. D. ❤️ Eduardo

This Eduardo-Will Smith battle was a beauty. Luckily the liner he laced went right out to the right fielder. Run scoring notwithstanding, not the worst outcome.

To me, the difference is that the way Fetterman dresses is not a hypocritical betrayal of the way one purports to govern. It merely offends sensibilities. If I’m with the guy, I could live with that.

Wow, good move.

Oops, they fixed the problem. What a shame … 😁

Same look for the bottom of the first, too. I like it! Game looks bigger on the screen without all the graphics. There is one graphic, though, the strike box and pitch speed. Nothing else. Nice.

Wow, I don’t know what you guys are seeing, but there is a completely clean screen for the top of the first inning of this game. No score box, no crawl, no graphics of any kind. Throwback.

Batting thirrrd, the big man, Miguel Cabrera.

Lots of reasons Montreal got forced out of baseball: uncertainty created by fluctuating exchange rate; the worst stadium situation in baseball; weird local broadcast situation; small market size coupled with limited nationwide appeal potential across two countries; outlier with French language; and most of all, provincial and local governments totally unwilling to give them billions in tax dollars in breaks, abatements, and outright payoffs. One other thing, and I heard this from a fan at Stade Olympique, so grain of salt applies here: it’s pretty well-accepted in Quebec that Bud Selig believed he had a birthright to receive an NL expansion franchise in 1969 for Milwaukee, but he lost out on it to Montreal, he had to accept an “inferior” AL team from Seattle as a consolation prize, he never forgave Montreal for any of that, and as a result, had a personal agenda to drive the city out of baseball for good. I don’t know if I believe it on its face, necessarily, but in my opinion, it falls well within the range of plausible.

Did you go to any of the World Series games in 2012 and 2006? If you went both years, did the 2012 games feel as big as 2006? I decided to not go in 2012 because i didn’t feel it as much that year and I did six years before—although during the playoffs the following year, I was definitely planning on making my way to a World Series game if we’d’ve beaten Boston.

So much for the Rays moving to Montreal, I guess. I found it interesting when, last week I think, Oakland was being talked up along with Nashville as the next logical expansion franchise! I mean, I get why they would prefer to move the A's to Vegas and do the Oakland expansion team, rather than keep Oakland and expand to Vegas, because it's a humongous windfall for a guy who's already in the club. But SFO is not a top four market along with NYC, LA, and Chicago. It's a #10 market, which means it is smaller than two other former two-team DMAs, Philly and Boston. I get that Oakland has an MLB history (as does Montreal, FWTW), but fewer people in a market generally means less media revenue for both teams there, and especially the Oakland subregion which, with only 1/3 the population of the whole SFO DMA, is slightly smaller than Milwaukee, the current smallest MLB DMA. In any event, I would bet the San Francisco Giants ownership will have a lot to say about whether there should an expansion team plopped into their DMA.

Absolutely this. The 2012 team had the seventh-best record in the American League. Not the seventh-best in baseball—seventh-best in the American League. Expand out to all MLB and we were tied for eleventh-best with our old buddies, the St Louis Cardinals. Twenty thirteen was far and away the best team of that era, if looking at nothing else but runs scored versus runs allowed, and it just goes to demonstrate once again the crap-shoot nature of October (and, now, November).

I'll grant that funny is subjective, but also, this seems very personal for you. I really don't want to get into a public spat here. If I upset you so, then my counsel to you would be to put me on ignore. To do so, go to your own profile by clicking on your screen name next to your avatar, top right of every page. Choose "Ignored Users". Once there, in the box under "Add new user to ignore list", type "chas" and my icon should pop right up. Click on that, and you'll see three box choices: posts, messages, and mentions. Choose any or all that suit you and click Add User. That should do it. Or don't do so, as you see fit. Either way, take care and best of everything to you.

I was being jocular. Are you upset? You seem to be taking this hard.

I have a 40-ounce Stanley Cup! I like it better than the hockey version! 🦆🦆🦆

This reads to me as though clock management was at least some of it.

Maybe if they were red instead … 😉

Hell yeah that’s progress!