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What can be done to prevent mass shootings? Hmmmmm …

It had not occurred to me that the point here was to propagate and legitimize a counter-narrative about Trump and Russia, versus an honest attempt to convict Sussmann, but knowing these people and who their backers are, it makes total sense.

Your Outlook will play nice with Google from now on and you will find the less secure apps setting is already disabled (in fact, disappeared). Here is the link to this same thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook/gmail-less-secure-apps-being-locked-down/m-p/3280433/highlight/true#M11009

Do you use Microsoft Outlook to download your Gmails? I do. Did you lose access to that ability today? I did. For the past decade or so, if you wanted to use Outlook for your Gmails, you had to allow your Google account access to "less secure apps" which, apparently, Microsoft Outlook is one. That's risky, I guess, because if you allow that for one app, you allow it for all, and hackers could etc etc. Starting today, Google is no longer allowing that. Google actually sent an email last month saying that we might lose this access as of May 30. (They apparently gave us a couple of extra days grace on it.) Rather, Google would prefer you use 2-step verification, that kind you see when you attempt to log into something on whatever device and then you get a text to your phone with an additional verification code to complete the login. Secure, perhaps, but also a pain in the butt. However, neither Google nor Microsoft even sent a workaround on using Outlook. It would be completely impractical for you to use a second verifying code every time you wanted to download mail. I tried calling Microsoft because I am a 365 subscriber, but they've shit-canned all their support phone reps and pushed everything to online support which, as everyone knows, is practically always insufficient when you need someone to tell you what the hell just happened. BUT: I just happened to stumble across a forum thread describing how to get around this new barrier, and so far, it works great. It's a bit of a pain to set up, but if you want to keep using Outlook for your Gmail—and I sure do, since I have over ten years of email history for ten separate Gmail accounts attached to it—then you have no choice. So, long story short (or tl;dr, as the kids of 2009 say), here's the process to reconnect your Outlook to your Gmail: Google Help Center 2-Step Verification > Signing in with 2-Step Verification > Sign in with App Passwords Login to Gmail Account: "myaccount.google.com" On left, choose "Security" Enable 2 step verification. You will need a cell phone or access to some other device for verification codes. Afterward, click on the back arrow to get back to Security home page Having done that now app passwords will appear under 2-step verification click app passwords click select app and select mail click select device and select windows computer click generate and a 16 digit code will appear like so: #### #### #### #### highlight and copy to clipboard go to Microsoft Outlook and paste that code into your password line, which you will be prompted for click on remember and save

Not to lean on the whole "it was a different time" thing, but he was a politician in Texas in the 1940s, so it was rather expected to a certain degree.

The clue to determining the win value of outs above average might be in the way they calculate it. They determine out probability on a given play and reward or ding you based on that. For example, a fielder who successfully completes a 25% Out Probability play gets +.75 outs above average; one who fails to make the play gets -.25. Marry that information with a play’s leverage index, add up all the plays throughout a season, and you’re probably pretty far down to road to runs prevented or allowed, which can then be translated to wins.

I can think of some potential confederates of his who would know.

Not all of it. Maybe not even enough of it.

I wouldn’t bet real, actual money that Tump helped mastermind some elaborate scheme to strategically steal votes in swing states to put him over the top despite losing the popular vote.

Whenever some right winger does get caught on audio dropping an N bomb, I’ll lay 10:1 that Fox will invoke the First Amendment while defending them from the woke mob.

I saw the Tigers clobber Clemens in Detroit in 1987. I was behind the plate about nine rows up in the Time Inc seats. Might have been my first-ever free game courtesy of a media vehicle, because of my job. Great memory.

If Statcast is to be believed, Iglesias is worth -0.1 offensive runs to Baez’s -8.6, while Baez is worth +2 runs prevented to Iglesia’s -3. Slight edge to Iglesias for the moment.

I bet he would get more than 40,000 votes today.

Not necessarily either-or. Could have been both-and.

OK, I’m going to ask it: how many votes did Trump steal to win 2016?

Arm the nurses.

Well, thank god the five years we've spent in rebuild mode has prevented that!

The biggest pleasant surprise of this season has been the bullpen, and it’s not a particularly close race.

Can’t say for sure.

Looks as though mask compliance in Chicago grocery stores is up over 50%.

More to the point, they want to convert that particular workforce from being teachers to being babysitters. It doesn’t take much education or certification to impart to kids the kind of indoctrination some states are seeking to implement. That’s one reason the pay is so low: it repels degreed critical thinkers who want to make a difference educationally, while it continues to attract less-skilled people … OK, let’s be real: women … who prefer to work around little children all day. (I’m not being anti-woman here—rather, these states know women will accept lower pay for the same jobs versus men, and I don’t think many Christian states want adult men around little kids all day every day nine months a year.) It doesn’t take much knowledge to teach first- and second-graders: even high school grads with a 2.4 GPA who went on to obtain a smattering of community or for-profit college credits already know the entire curriculum for first and second grades. At that point it’s all about directing them how to teach the curriculum, which topics to focus on and, as importantly, which topics to avoid. With rare exceptions, I suppose, classroom adults with that background probably won’t be agitating for the academic freedom to teach critical topics to children. They’ll probably pretty much do what they’re told so they can keep their teaching jobs in order to avoid the deep fryers and the rubber gloves and the cash registers.

I tried to give you a laugh face on this but somehow I am already out of reactions on a day I haven’t given any.

I have long wondered how much a strike three call on a pitch that’s obviously out of the zone has to do with an umpire being annoyed when a batter presumes ball four and starts trotting toward first before the umpire makes the call.

I was wondering whether I could easily and quickly cut through last year’s and this year’s Statcast data to see whether I can locate some key differences, but that might take me the rest of the year, given my general lack of capabilities (i.e., Excel and nothing else). Tell you which slugger is doing just fine, though: our old buddy J.D. Martinez. In a league where batting averages are dropping like toilet floats, he’s basically leading the league in batting average, hitting around .360. But how he’s gotten there is a big deal: he’s changed the launch angle profile of his hitting so that his line drive rate is by far the highest of his career (31% vs previous high of 24%), and his fly ball rate is down to a career low of 32% (down from recent seasons over 40%). This is just one anecdotal example, but it is a clear indication of how a hard hitter can adjust his swing and still crush it in a new deader-ball environment.

Well played, sir.