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LCHorn

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  1. Well, in support of your argument, it’s hard to top a Viking and a Ninja as your first two protagonists.
  2. I didn’t mind it-if you want to pick something mostly modern they needed a character who wasn’t a commando type, since it’s been done already. It also accentuates the idea that war fighting has evolved so that individual martial prowess is less important than mastering the technology. The Predators are skilled at both.
  3. The animation is pretty amazing for those of us who grew up thinking GI Joe/Transformers was the apogee of animated violence.
  4. How old are the kids? I hiked the mountains in Deer Valley with my 1 year old in a kid carrier and then dined at the resort restaurant on the deck after. It was pretty perfect (particularly the beer).
  5. To be fair, pretty much every WS champion I’ve ever seen has had a couple of average players with their career best season.
  6. This might indeed be true, but I see claims like this get repeated in the media unchallenged and I don’t get it. The Iranians* have both a history of lying and it’s in their interest to exaggerate their enrichment totals. Why do we presume this is true? *you know who else has an interest in exaggerating the enrichment totals? Israel.
  7. I know all of us saw this coming, but I actually think this hurts Trump way more than it hurts Elon. X is about to be full on Trump criticism and that’ll help magnify all the corruption claims that everyone not on the left seems to be ignoring.
  8. To your point, I've been checking out the Loan Originator subreddit lately and it's interesting seeing LO's admit to using trigger leads (by comparison, all of my professional network is overwhelmingly referral based). I know it sucks on the consumer side, but I also feel for them because that's a shitty, shitty way to make a living and they haven't had the breadth of experience to know that yet. They are stuck in a call center making 20-30 phone calls an hour to convert 1% of them.
  9. It’s WAY WAY upthread, but you can go here to stop them. And yes, it’s not Frost’s fault, it’s the credit bureaus (I guess you can blame the industry for so relying on credit scores, but that’s a little like blaming Ford for gas prices).
  10. I have cistern envy. Are you using it for solely for irrigation or other purposes?
  11. We just booked/bought ours for our trip in late July and were told they sell out.
  12. I had a bit of a dawning epiphany this morning reading the Politico articles on Latinos who flipped for Trump (Link) and Adam Jentleson (former CoS for Fetterman) starting a think thank working in support of moderating interest group influence (Link). The Democratic Party is just consumed with the idea that it's a big tent, and the electorate can be sliced up demographically with targeted appeals for each, narrowly defined subcategory. South Texas Mexicans (1st or 2nd gen), suburban women who voted for Bush but hate Trump, voters who grew up in a church but now define themselves as non-religious--they know these are groups, they have the data to target them, and they've convinced themselves this is how you win elections. It's a confluence between the knowing that the Democratic constituency doesn't have a lot in common, a preference for inclusiveness, and openness to bring in tech solutions (or mirroring what the social media companies have done to steal attention from traditional media). Even now, the party is proposing that it needs a leftie Joe Rogan, or needs to focus on what might bring back in young white males. That the medium is the message and that Democratic policies are popular, it's the failure to make government work that's the problem (aka the Ezra Klein analysis). The Biden BBB Plan and Inflation Reduction Act was partially an effort to help in areas that lost jobs over the previous three decades (if you're Biden and you're bemoaning the loss of union jobs, and believe that unions inherently are aligned with Dem interests, then increasing union jobs solves multiple problems). The Buttigieg's and other Biden administrators have a party line of "we failed to do it fast enough and when we did move fast, we failed to get credit for our wins." Unfortunately, that's just another way to isolate out a portion of the electorate and what can't be overcome is that the message this sends to everyone else. Now @Brisketexan just wrote this: And it's substantively correct (if a little hyperbolic), but the idea behind it is that voters are rejecting a Democratic party that says "I want to help you, first gen college African American. And you, Appalachian single mom. And you, Portland hipster lesbian," even if you're in one of those groups because you're not uniting behind anything and the Democratic party is happy to cater to you as an individual. Furthermore, maybe you're actually irate that, as a single mom in West Virginia, you resent these first generation African Americans college kids getting help, that the Portland hipster lesbian has access to health care or community benefits that you do not, etc. There is no benefit to being a member of a coalition that tries to give a little something to everyone, because your perception is someone else is getting more. It's easy to say "we need to get mean", or "this doesn't work, do the other thing." I'm not sure it's very clear what the "other thing" is, but maybe it's as simple as to stop targeting subgroups just because you can. If you have a political message that isn't a good fit for a larger community, then it's a poor fit for winning elections.
  13. I disagree with @chainsaw’s elevation of her, but in support of his argument is that she gets more play on social media and that is below the radar for a bunch of (mostly) 50 year old cargo short wearing surlyites.
  14. Unfortunately it's still Biden-Harris, which is why the left-leaning media (and Dem voters) are currently unable to organize around a cohesive message. It's also why the more mainstream media is still squatting on revisiting the 2024 election--that's still getting more oxygen than Trump's corruption.
  15. Scott Galloway says Bitcoin investment is a bit of a “fuck you” from Gen Z to the previous generations homeowners, 401-k investors, Vanguard account holders, etc. He describes it as an act of rebellion against the wealth hoarders. If that’s true, I’m not sure why they’d be any more likely to sell than any other market participant.
  16. Your post got me digging into my old boss' blog (he runs a $1b+ in loan production mortgage bank in CA) to see if he mentions her because he's, at a minimum, sympathetic to the macro argument behind crypto. In January 2023 he wrote about her favoring bank stocks. I didn't take a look that far back, but just out of curiosity I looked at Chase last 12 months (up 31%), WF (up 26%). Citi is up 22%. B of A is a bit of a laggard and is up 4%. S&P is up 12.35% as a benchmark. I'm cherry picking the big ones, but I'm also a little dumb-founded that a bank like Chase should be valued so much more today than last June.
  17. Even better, he can marry Nicole Shanahan and not have to sweet talk Usha that all of the bullshit is just playing to the MAGA rubes and he'll govern for everyone as POTUS.
  18. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see 2028 candidate Vance using his young family as props in a race against whoever the Dems might nominate and make the middle class economic stress a huge part of his campaign (in other words, seize territory normally considered home court for Dems, very much like Trump did with promising to protect social security).
  19. Yeah, I disagree. Far more money to be made as a member of the MAGA media ecosystem. They basically have a media company built for Goldwater Republicans and that's an increasingly small piece of the listening audience (also, OLD!).
  20. I mean, add them to the long list of people who set their voting priorities by something different from what we might presume they should be. I do think the bitter gay ex-Republican faction, however minute it might be, is my favorite. I know a couple personally and they are far more fun socially than my died in the wool Dem friends.
  21. Well, he has been impeached twice, convicted on 34 separate charges for fasifying business documents, lost a civil trial resulting in $83m in damages, lost an election as an incumbent, his family name is toxic by at least 50% of the country, etc. I think there’s been ample accountability, rather; he had one very narrow way out of bankruptcy and possible jail time and somehow managed through it despite very, very clear character flaws. We’ll probably all acknowledge how remarkable it was if we live through it.
  22. Tim Miller doesn’t call himself a Democrat but pretty completely repudiates all of the positions he previously held as a Republican (or rather, mocks them). I think they are more interested in taking down the Emperor than figuring out where they lie currently on a left-right spectrum, and I’m fine with that.
  23. Looks like the batting practice was actually whatever Ort and Whitley were throwing.
  24. Hahaha, that’s awesome. No fucks given. I relish the rest of the GOP attempting to pattern their communication after Trump because that shit only works for him alone.
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