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Snake Diggity

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  1. If Abreu isn’t washed up this lineup could be the deepest and best in franchise history.
  2. Education, healthcare, and trades careers all should be relatively safe from AI. Manufacturing, tech, retail, and transportation are doomed. Rather than UBI, a 30 hour work week is where I would start to mitigate the downside of the societal change, but it has to be paired with universal healthcare and a dramatic increase in minimum wage.
  3. Not concerned about college kids as long as the schools don’t change degree standards. For school aged kids, I’d want to see the breakdown of who (rich vs poor) and why (sick, vacation, etc.). Generally speaking I don’t think rich kids missing school really hurts them. Poor kids need to be in school as much as possible. I think attitudes about work/school are changing pretty dramatically. Some of that is healthy (getting away from the “live to work” mentality), some of it is not (removing the dignity of work and not holding people accountable for their behavior). To a degree I think we are still unwinding the impact of the pandemic and it make take another 2-3 years to see the new normal and start to have data about the outcomes.
  4. It was Dana Brown’s idea to transition Blanco into a starter.
  5. I would like to see Scott and Mushinski sent down and Drew Strotman and Luis Contreras brought up. 9 of the 23 pitchers on the 40 man are hurt. Dylan Coleman is the only healthy 40 man pitcher in AAA.
  6. Yeah as well-intended as it is, it probably is not a politically savvy move.
  7. Estimated Trump flags seen from hwy on route from Austin to Port O’Connor: 2016: 23 2020: 18 (75% leftovers from 2016) 2024: 6 (4 of which are still up from 2016)
  8. Dana Brown has been GM for a little over a year. He’s presided over one draft (early returns are very good), one trade deadline (where the only significant move was dictated by the owner) and one offseason (where the only significant move was dictated by the owner). Could he have done a better job with the meager resources he had to address the middle relief? Maybe, but it’s been 2 games. I feel pretty good one of the fringey arms (Scott looked fine that first game) he added will emerge. And if Abreu isn’t suspended Houston wins at least one of those games, possibly both. Im stoked about Meyers and Javier. I’m worried about Framber and Jose Abreu. But it’s early.
  9. The site has an ignore feature. The fact that you circumvent that by continually creating new accounts makes you a very distasteful person in this arena. Also, color me extremely skeptical that anything you’ve ever posted has “helped other posters make money”. Kindly fuck off.
  10. Nah not yet, lemme get banned like 10 more times like you and then I’ll start one.
  11. Crypto bro immediately chimes in with link to crypto bro’s blog post.
  12. Thats an interesting point. I am not an expert and all the crypto bros say “no way” but I’m not convinced that the code can’t be changed in a way that undermines its value. Buying Bitcoin is an act of higher faith than buying USD (or gold or stocks) imho. I also look at how much the US is vested in the USD as the worlds primary method of exchange and the worlds reserve currency, and I don’t see them letting Bitcoin undermine that. People aren’t using Bitcoin to transact to any meaningful degree. Its use as a currency is not at all reflected in its current price. I think it’s current price simply reflects the fact that there was a shitload of capital out there with no reasonable place to put it; if Bitcoin’s price keeps going up or remains stable if/when the world economy goes into severe recession then that will be proven wrong to a large degree.
  13. Lineup kicks ass. Bench is solid. Rotation high variance. Leverage relief kicks ass. Middle relief very suspect.
  14. It is an odd thing. Far different from USD or gold and any other financial instrument. If more and more people are using it as currency and there’s no increase in supply, the price will continue to go up which seems like it would become severely deflationary. If Bitcoin’s value is in its use as a currency, but its price continues to rise to the point that it cannot be used as currency……. Clearly a lot of people have made money on Bitcoin, and I have not made any, so maybe that means my opinion has no credibility. I’m certainly no expert on blockchain or crypto. But I still remain skeptical, if for no other reason than every single loud proponent of Bitcoin that I personally know is a fucking idiot. I also believe that change control and government intervention are real risks to its value. My opinion is that Bitcoin is a store of value. An alternative to inflating USD and overpriced stocks. It’s having a moment. I’m not going to try to time that and if Bitcoin continues to go up forever, I am comfortable continuing to miss out.
  15. Y’all motherfuckers need to quit giving me hope. A complete rebuke of Trumpism in November wouldn’t make the last 8 years worth it, but it sure would be a societal sigh of relief bigger than anything in my lifetime.
  16. Yeah, smartphones, social media, and the internet can be pegged as major source of most of the issues I listed. Narratives propagated online breed a lack of resilience, empathy, and accountability. The culture of excess and celebrity diminish the dignity of work. The unregulated Internet breeds disinformation and misinformation. And the 24/7 in-your-face nature of smartphones increases awareness of issues (climate change, war, inequality, etc.) and breeds a sense of powerlessness to address them. In terms of what I think might be achievable ways to address these issues, I think an anti-smartphone/socialmedia campaign and legal accountability similar to what happened with cigarettes and smoking would be good. We also need to poor a fucking fuckton more money into public education.
  17. Top 10 list of crises causing this, in order: 1. Resilience: this skews worse as you analyze younger generations. This goes hand in hand with #2, and paired together is what I think is driving the woefully misguided anti-woke crowd. A culture of victimhood has allowed people to justify wallowing in failure or defeat. We need to teach young people that anything can be overcome, because it’s true, and even if it’s not true, believing that lie generally leads to a happier life than not. 2. Accountability: this is a major problem for all generations. I am not sure the cause, but our society does an epically poor job of holding people accountable for their behavior. I think a lot of people’s unhappiness is bred from an external locus of control mindset and a lack of accountability for their own happiness. We need to teach young people that they are in control of and responsible for their own happiness. To be accountable is to be empowered. 3. Empathy: I trace a lot of this back to the Internet and social media, but there seems to be a tremendous lack of empathy in our current society. People seem to be more able than ever to block out how their actions affect others. This spans all generations. 4. Dignity of work: Working has gotten a really bad rap. Our society glorifies people who inherited wealth more than people who work hard and aren’t wealthy. Workers are viewed as suckers. That has to change. This problems spans all current generations including the Boomers. 5. Disinformation: Media bias is a gigantic fucking problem. Society went from less than a handful of sources of information, all of whom presented basically the same information, to infinite, contradictory sources. Being unable to trust new information breeds a lot of problems that flow into this happiness metric. 6. Healthcare: our healthcare system is utterly fucked and almost no one has quality, affordable, convenient healthcare. This is a tough nut to crack. 7. Education: our education system is utterly fucked and middle and lower class young people are getting the major shaft. Unlike healthcare, I believe money can easily address this problem. A much lower student/teacher ratio and a much higher salary for teachers would go a LONG way to fixing this problem. 8. Climate: it’s hot as fuck all the time and that makes people unhappy. Also, thinking about societal collapse in the next 100 years because their grandparents and parents weren’t willing to make even moderate sacrifices has gotta be depressing as fuck for young people. 9. Inequality: I think there’s a big gap and this issue is far less impactful than the ones above it on the list, but wealth consolidation is a major problem. Access to capital is probably the biggest determinate in someone’s ability to achieve in our society. It far outweighs other factors like talent and fortitude. That has always been a problem in our crony capitalist society over the last 200 years, but it’s worse now than ever. 10. Demographic: I think demographic trends are already causing problems, but this is more a forward-looking issue than something that is causing current unhappiness, and there’s actually a chance this could end up being a good thing if technology and migration are properly managed. But there’s a worldwide shortage of young people relative to old people, and that’s a problem. Mass shootings didn’t make this list, even though I believe they cause young people a lot of unhappiness. And even though I believe guns should be much harder to obtain and that our national priorities are totally out of whack on that issue, I do think if you solved #2, #3, and #7 on my list, you’d see a dramatic reduction in problems related to guns.
  18. It’s ridiculous that users are allowed to get banned multiple times and just create another account and immediately continue doing the same shit that got them banned in the first place. It renders the ignore feature useless. A cancer on the site is a very good metaphor.
  19. Team has looked poorly coached and aside from Weaver it seems every player either regressed or didn’t take a reasonable step forward. The program is on a downward trajectory, but Terry is extremely likely to get 3 full seasons as coach. The bar for next season: Miss the tourney: 2025-2026 hot seat (sweet 16 or you’re fired) 6 seed or worse with Round of 64/32 exit: 2025-2026 is warm seat; better be a top 5 seed in the tourney in 2026 or you’re fired 5 seed or better with Round of 64/32 exit: 2025-2026 is warm seat; better make the 2026 tourney or you’re fired Sweet 16: good job Elite 8: good job, here’s a moderate extension FF or better: great job, here’s a massive extension that makes you one of the 10 highest paid coaches in the sport for the next 5+ years.
  20. Nah. Blanco and Bielak are just as good.
  21. Chic Fil A last night for my family of four (me, wife no pics, 8 year old, 5 year old). $56. There were 2 nuggets leftover. Fml.
  22. This tweet tastes delicious. Nom nom nom nom nom
  23. Bitch out there sounding like Miss teen South Carolina “I personally believe that witch hunt such as the Saudi Arabia and Russia…and the demise of our country like the politically motivated…”
  24. I was taking all that from ballotpedia. Looks like their SC data is wonky.
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