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  1. True as far as it goes. But, what does he have to lose? Assuming the law holds as written, he can't run for re-election to a third term. That much is clear. Other schemes to avoid application of the 22nd involve certain post-election events that he can't completely control.
  2. Icono may be too busy furiously masturbating over all this.
  3. Elon Musk goes to therapy and 50 therapists throw up their hands and fire him in disgust would get repetitive.
  4. Funny thing, I immediately considered whether this could be patented. It might could. However, there was a recent interesting case where American Axle patented a less-vibration-prone drive shaft, the design addressing shell and bending mode vibrations. When they claimed it though, rather than specifying a range of dimensions for the shaft liner, they phrased it in terms of "tuning the liner to damp both shell mode and bending mode vibrations" and then threw in a couple of percentages for how much damping it accomplished. There was a big snit about whether that was patenting "laws of nature" because it basically claimed a design process of tuning a shaft liner to damp two types of vibration to a satisfactory degree (which could be considered patent-ineligible). Rather, arguably, than the product of such a design process having concrete dimensions or other characteristics (which would be patent-eligible). This could be susceptible to the same kind of problem, but specifying a range of dimensions should be easier because there's a more finite universe of legal bat lengths and diameters than there is of drive shafts.
  5. What's weird about this is no one outside MLB uses wood bats and it is much easier to accomplish similar things with an aluminum bat without the oddball shape. Something about typing in these windows makes me make typos I wouldn't ordinarily.
  6. Yeah, I think that's accurate. A corked bat would also have a different coefficient of resititution than a solid wood bat that probably works against it. That is, more energy/momentum lost to compression of the thin-walled bat.
  7. "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Or, as paraphrased by Hemingway: The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Julian. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that wrecked him.
  8. Well, alcoholism is a mental health issue, not a moral or judgment issue per se (although at some point it becomes the latter when it goes unaddressed despite the obvious consequences). And, while that Beard's problems don't seem to be fully documented or proven as domestic abuser, they do seem to reflect very poor judgment. And alcoholism or addiction could supply an explanation for that. Addiction isn't and shouldn't be a get out of jail free card for all bad behavior because some of that bad behavior "transcends addiction. But once lasting recovery is achieved, the likelihood of "recidivism" for harboring a twat like Randi Trew goes to nil.
  9. Yep, Dimon has flopped back to his original position that tariffs are inflationary. Lickspittle. Ackshually, this may be like Cantor shitting on the tariffs while Howie is SecComm. The workaday economists and traders have very different views from their politically sensitive bosses.
  10. That whole scenario is horrifying. For all the various weather "outlets" out there, a) I don't think anyone has anything akin to the Storm Prediction Center and b) all of them freely admit that they use if not directly base their forecasts on NWS data. And that's just for consumer idiots like us, not people whose livelihoods depend on weather.
  11. Like with a lot of things Trump, there's a tiny nugget of truth or accuracy in most of the things he does and says: yes, Europe should have shouldered more of its defense burden; yes, immigration is fucked up; yes, we need not to be dependent on China for cheap shit or for strategically important products like integrated circuits, and the same goes for other countries, but to a far lesser degree. But what he slathers onto that tiny nugget of truth to turn it into a giant, maggot-infested turd, and his solutions and implementations are complete shit.
  12. The only inhabitants of BIOT/Diego Garcia are US and UK military personnel and contractors.
  13. VAT is irrelevant, because it is applied to domestic and imported goods. It provides no advantage or disadvantage. But, you're sitting here trying to rationalize the policies of a clear moron.
  14. Problem is, that dumb sonofabitch ain't saving shit.
  15. The backstory is he's been quoting Goebbels for 15 years. https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/state/collin-county-judge-uses-nazi-quote-in-campaign/article_93fe9b35-c5ec-5c4d-8ef6-41d4013945be.html
  16. Also worth noting, again, that guys like Gates donate sums beyond the comprehension of most of us. But his wealth grows anyway, because it too is incomprehensible.
  17. So, Cass seems like a pretty reasonable guy. But, he is by admission and criticism, a wonk and not super-big on implementation. But compared to other conservative "intelligentsia," a breath of sane fresh air. But some of his stuff veers toward "common good," and there are some dangerous, authoritarian ideas there. I'd be interested to find out if he approves of those social ideas. Also, Jon Stewart is really just fantastic. Sharp, incisive, passionate when needed, civil, courteous and fun with a reasonable guy like Cass.
  18. Had a pair, liked them, but they keep changing them up. Right or wrong, I want knuckle protection. Too easy to whap into a tree round here.
  19. I do think someone told him that weakening the dollar would help the trade balance, which seems to be his main thing, as brisket notes. So, he thinks China and whoever else manipulated currency to strengthen the dollar. 🤪 Also, it's been noted in the context of international arms sales, but one of Trump's fuzzier ideas is to open more markets to US goods, which dollar weakening might help. The again, this whole tariff-trade war thing works against that. He's so completely incoherent.
  20. Do note that I didn't say Gates was not still an asshole, but the asshole part apparently is still there, just lower-profile.
  21. I suspect that more "modern" billionaires, from this era of "disruptors" and short-term profits, may be more disgusting humans than some of their predecessors. But they probably have at some point in their acquisition of wealth exhibited some sociopathy. Take Bill Gates. He's been pretty quiet and highly philanthropic for the last 20 or so years. But hark back to the M$ antitrust trial and a lot of cocksucker behavior and entitlement revealed then. Even if they aren't total greenheads, they seem to have some sort of messianic complex (you should thank me for Windoze and Internet Explorer, not sue me).
  22. The fundamental problem with that is that Constitutional law has ALWAYS been a word game, Calvinball if you prefer. Yes, it's worse now than it's ever been (although the Court during FDR's administration was quite incoherent), but it's just a matter of degree, not difference.
  23. I I think the way this would come up is sane states object to putting Trump on the ballot as VP. Trump would sue, and it would go pretty much just like the 14th Amendment/insurrectionist cases as far as timing and procedure go. And if Stephen Gillers says it's plausible, he is super-credible.
  24. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-describes-how-he-could-solve-russia-ukraine-conflict-24-hours "I know Zelenskyy very well, and I know Putin very well, even better. And I had a good relationship, very good with both of them. I would tell Zelenskyy, no more. You got to make a deal. I would tell Putin, if you don't make a deal, we're going to give him a lot. We're going to [give Ukraine] more than they ever got if we have to. I will have the deal done in one day. One day," Trump responded.
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