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Nothing. Baby born, life wins, the end.

Shouldn't this have been tweeted by Conservative Self-Owns?

This is the exact point. By putting 100% of their politicking efforts into culture war issues, Banana Republicans effectively excite and energize their red hat base so much on this one thing that they don't even think about the economics part at all, except when it's time to blame Democrats after Republicans make their retirement years go to shit.

Flip side: if you take your fully-due 100% benefits at age 67, it takes until age 86 or so before you get as many dollars if you wait until 70, and even then that's three extra years early on to take the money you get from SS and invest it for the kind of long-term return that could wipe out even that difference.

I was thinking it’s too bad we couldn’t find a couple million to take a flyer on Will Smith for a year, since it seems like he probably still has a few miles left in the tank for cheap, but it reads as though he was never going to sign for a Harris/Hinch-type team, anyway. We’ve talked some about how players sign with teams for soft reasons (i.e., other than just the most dollars), such as playing for a contender or playing close to home. But it looks like a team’s analytics philosophy could be another factor for some guys making their decision. Will Smith is probably right about that age where it could break either way for a guy.

I don’t think people always trash the old regime when a new regime comes in. I think they sometimes do. In this case, it appears to be deserved.

I guess Avila deserves some credit for talking to Fetter in 2017 before passing on him. Chris Bosio is still out of baseball.

A’m shoked

I dont think Avila led the hiring of Fetter.

I’m saddened to hear of your aunt’s predicament. I hope she’s all right. This is the second blood-curdling violent crime that’s been posted here in just a few days, so I’m just suggesting if that’s gonna become a thing here, maybe set aside a thread dedicated to it. Or maybe counterbalance the hate by posting a video of two people making love.

Hopefully we will find we have already hired that guy.

Oh my god, this is so thrilling to read. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2023/02/26/detroit-tigers-top-secret-lab-giving-pitchers-new-tools-to-dominate/69942299007/ Check out what Chases Shreve says here: In January, after left-hander Chasen Shreve signed a minor league deal with the Tigers, with an invitation to major league spring training, he met with Hinch and pitching coach Chris Fetter. “We were talking about analytics and what they want me to do,” he said. And he found it so refreshing. “I've never really been on a team that told me how to use my analytical numbers,” he said. “Nobody's really ever been like, ‘Hey, this is what we think you should throw your fastball, your splitter and in what counts.” This is a guy who has nine MLB seasons behind him, as part of five organizations. “On the teams I’ve been on, nobody has ever been like, OK, this is analytically what we see and this is how you should pitch,” he said. “Nobody's ever said that to me until I got here. In our meeting, they were telling me what they thought, and I told them what I thought, and we were bouncing ideas off each other and I was like, ‘I've never done this, like, with a team before.’ ” He found it refreshing and encouraging. Think about that: here is a guy who spent a ton of time in the Braves’, Yankees’, Cardinals’, and Mets’ systems—all considered top tier systems—and here he is saying that no one told him how to use the numbers from analytics until he came to the Tigers this year. The Detroit Tigers, on the forefront of applied analytics. WOW! I never imagined I’d ever see something like that!

Man, can you imagine just how big that guy is gonna be in five years?

I’ll love it when it destroys them. Until then, remaking society along those lines is all still in the realm of possibility. I learned my lesson in 2016 rooting for a Trump nomination.

There’s a whole generation of nouveau riche state school sorority girls who sound just like her.

I love Jon Stewart and I think he wins this overall on the merits of the ideas and words, but I gotta admit the legislator wins on temperament. I was wondering whether Stewart was slightly losing it because the legislator was so calm, maybe because the guy also looked so face-punchingly smug while reiterating his insane talking points.

Maybe there should be a whole other thread for this snuff garbage.

It’s why I abandoned the format a quarter century ago. I still can’t listen to Stairway to Heaven even if it’s been 25 years since I’ve heard it all the way through. There are so many deep rockin’ cuts these supermonster classic rock artists have that could be sprinkled in. “Sunspot Baby” by Seger. “Say You Love Me or Say Good night” by Speedwagon. “Chip Away the Stone” by Aerosmith. The aforementioned “California Man”. How about bringing the rock back into classic rock?

Next time play “California Man” and tell us about those emails.

Whoever this guy trying to convince us he's Weird Al did:

I think another part of it is the idea that if you don't truly hate fags, I mean actively vocally despise them, Jesus will hate you and God will condemn you to hell. After all, God spends all of his time reading the minds of seven billion people 24/7, including you—especially you—so if you're on the wrong side of any issue at any time, then it's later for you. Sure, some people might think that professional politicians would never believe in that nonsense and that it's all about gaslighting the rubes to get the votes and the power and the money and the sex, and that may be true of some. But remember too that a lot of these state-level legislators are not Washington professional insiders, but instead are small-town people with modest educations and zero political credentials who rode a wave to the state house as MAGA outsiders, so there are a lot of true believers among them.

It was the exact thing some guy filmed himself calling her on the capitol steps last summer. It went viral in red hat troll media.

Cool. I hope she'll have your vote when she runs for President in 2032. 😉

I don't think it's overrating AOC to say she has compassion in a way MTG and Boebert do not.

One more … i don’t think it got what I was going for … https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/kgwcbwuasfhotf4ma3kyxtrw44