100%. I wouldn’t give a runny fuck about Trump and would just be waiting him out if it weren’t for the fact that 75% of the people I know and love voted for him and 50%+ actively support him. It really really sucks to find out such a high percentage of people you care about are either retarded or evil or both.
Me, if I were a reporter with White House press access: “Mr. President, sir, my question is, is Stephen Miller’s hand uncomfortable?”
Trump: “Wha? Does he have a problem with his hand? I haven’t heard of a problem with his hand.”
Me: “Well, sir, I’m sorry, I should have been more clear with my question. What I meant was, is Stephen Miller’s hand causing discomfort in your rectum? I mean, since he clearly has his entire arm all the way up your ass into your mouth so he can operate you like a ventriloquist dummy.”
For fast food, they will reduce labor costs by probably half over the next few years as automation and agentic AI evolves. I dined inside a recently remodeled McDonalds in Lockhart last week and never interacted with a human being.
Agentic AI will dramatically reduce admin staff over the next handle of years. They will also continue to be able to erode credentials for practicioners and can capture part of those savings.
I’m in on GOOGL, although it was a much better buy earlier this year. But of the big 7 I think it has the most realistic chance of increasing in value.
CVS could potentially be a good medium term play. Again, was a better buy earlier this year.
I’m bearish on banks, crypto, META, and TSLA.
It may not be this year but at some point in the next 2-5 years fast food (MCD) and healthcare service providers (maybe UNH, ELV) are going to see big margin increases.
But most importantly, I don’t know shit about fuck.
Nice. So the moves I’d like to see:
RB: swap Baxter for a portal stud
OL: swap Neto, Robertson and Stroh for 3 portal interior OL studs
K: add a kicker
DT: replace Hills with a depth option from the portal
LB: replace Hill with a depth option from the portal
DB: replace Muhammad with a portal stud
5 portal badasses (RB, 3 OL, DB) and 2 depth guys (DT, LB) should be too much to ask.
Need portal studs at RB, OG, OT, C, LB, and CB, plus backfills for any unexpected losses from the projected 2 deep. If we don’t address the OL we are fucked. Otherwise we should have a better team next season.
If the Dems don’t clear the field for the white male preacher schoolteacher, they are fucking up the only chance they have to shock the nation. The black milquetoast football player and the sassy highly intelligent black woman have zero (Z-E-R-O) chance of winning a senate seat in Texas.
Weiss will have options but it’s weird they’ve signed 2 guys the promised a shot at starting. Gonna be hard to add 2 more legit guys. Reading too much into it I think this might predict an Arrighetti trade.
I think Diaz is a hard worker. I just think he’s stubborn and prone to inconsistency which have prevented him from taking the next step. And he was unlucky offensively in 2025. But it’s a shame he can’t learn to be more selective and take more bad pitches. He could be a monster.
Relative to their current fangraphs war projections, the guys I think have the best chance of surprising to the upside are:
Correa (3.7 fwar projection): It won’t shock me he if busts out with a full, healthy, MVP caliber season.
Paredes (2.0): Even if there isn’t a trade that opens an everyday spot on defense for him, I expect him to play the field most days and get more pa than they’re project him for. He will end up closer to 4 war than 2.
Cole (0.6): The projections are down on his defense and it’s looking likely that Meyers will be shipped out and Cole will be given first crack at the everyday CF job. He has immense ceiling with his power and speed; a season like Joey Gallo had in 2021 (4.4 fwar) isn’t likely but it’s possible.
Matthews (0.2): Cutting Dubon and Urias loose opened the door for Matthews to take on a super utility role, playing 2B, CF, and LF as they get guys more rest than in prior years. If another infielder is traded it could also open the door him effectively being the backup at 3B and SS. Either way, even in a bench role he will be a pinch running weapon. Hes a very high ceiling prospect and I expect him to for outstrip his 0.2 fwar projection.
Javier (0.9): Javier has always been underestimated by the projection systems. If he doesn’t get hurt he will easily more than double the 0.9 fangraphs is predicting.
2nd, 3rd, and 4th year Arbitration salaries are heavily influenced by the prior year’s salary. Meyers only made $2.3M last season (his first year in arbitration) because he hadn’t had much consistent production his first 3 seasons. So his $3.5M estimate represents a big raise. McCormick made more earlier in arbitration because he already had multiple 2+ fwar seasons on his resume going into his first year of arbitration, so his number ended up so high because he started off higher.
Most likely Zach Cole would be at the top of the depth chart coming into ST, but Brice Matthews, Jacob Melton, and potentially even Cam Smith and Jesus Sanchez could all be in the mix.
Some of the dumbest shit I’ve read about crypto is how it can be an alternative/replacement for the US Dollar. As if Bitcoin would be worth fuck all if the dollar were to collapse.
ETA: just realized these don’t have the ANC. The description is very misleading, as if says they have ANC in the description but then clearly in the outline section says this version doesn’t have it. Fuckers.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DGHMNQ5Z?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image
Yesterday they were $69.99 (new) at that link; I bought a pair. Today it looks like they sold out and you can only buy used ones at that price.
You might not be a crypto bro but you are repeating crypto bro talking points. The ideas that cryptocurrency has as much underlying utility as publicly traded stocks or that the US dollar is as “artificial” as bitcoin cannot be described as anything other than fucking stupid. There’s also no convincing evidence that crypto is “non-correlated” or contra-correlated” to more traditional investments. If anything crypto is just a more volatile leading indicator for more traditional investments. When bad times hit, it’s the first thing everyone will dump, when there’s boatloads of excess cash floating around and nowhere to put it, bitcoin skyrockets. It is a store of value based on blind faith. You can glorify “financial nihilism”, but I am pretty sure that’s just another term for gambling. You can write off “Warren Buffett style investing”, but I’m pretty sure that’s just another term for “investing in actual value”.
I think he’s being brought in as a RP. But the more guys they bring in like this on guaranteed big league deals, the more likely I think it is that Lance McCullers will never pitch for the Astros again.
Out of options pitchers on Houston’s 40 man roster:
Brown
Javier
France
De Los Santos
Ort
Pearson
Abreu
Hader
Sousa
King
Okert
Alexander
McCullers
Weiss
That doesn’t include Wesneski, Blanco, or Walter, who will be on the IL, or Arrighetti, who would almost certainly make the roster.