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  1. Fwiw, I’m having the same issue with Safari 18.6.2, I presume it’s embeds.
  2. He could easily be a good guy now, but he was a weirdo back when Varsity Blues was filmed per a couple of my fraternity brothers who were extras. The story I remember best was that he stuck his thumb out of his pants zipper in between takes of a pep rally shot and was saying (bear in mind this is in front of a stadium crowd of extras of all ages) “look Mom, Dawson has his pee-pee out”. Regardless, fuck cancer.
  3. I was east of Houston and most of the dads of my friends worked at the Arco plant or Chevron Cedar Bayou (or they farmed, and most of them were hurting, too). I also recall being invited to Baptist Sunday school (we were Methodist) and being incredulous when told the apocalypse was two, maybe three years away. I don’t know what it is about these people that they are so eager for the hereafter, but I think it’s maybe an American version of Edith Hamilton’s description of the richly imagined afterlife created by Egyptian slaves.
  4. @cabowabo was being sarcastic... I love Luhnow, too, but with the benefit of hindsight his draft record and international signings show there was some performance based criticism we seem to overlook. I mainly appreciate the faith that Crane appeared to place in him to roll the dice in a way that Click and Brown can't.
  5. I was a little disappointed and felt the last three episodes lacked suspense. I'm sure Hawley wrestled with this, but investing in a protagonist who appears to be invincible robs the viewer of the natural tension from putting the protagonist in peril. What's Wendy/Mary's peril? The hapless (to this point) Weyland-Yutani corp and their agent Morrow? Also, I don't know if this is lighting, how it's shot, creature design, etc., but the xenomorph here: Is so much less scary than here:
  6. Mexico is much closer, has better food and you don't have to learn Portuguese.
  7. Yeah, I think you have to contextualize a) who was available and b) was the move supportable, regardless of who the decision maker was. This isn’t like rolling out Chris Carter because you want to keep the payroll low. Abreu and Walker were relatively affordable and patched a hole. Also, 1B league wide has become a position with surprisingly little offense compared to the 90’s/early 2000’s. Anyway, the 2025 Astros don’t have the stink of Baytown refineries because the owner fucked around with 10% of the payroll, it’s because the other 90% didn’t get it done.
  8. Who exactly are we talking about here? Hader and Verlander? The Altuve extension? The Astros wanted Abreu under Luhnow and I think if Click hadn't been fired, Abreu and Montero still get signed. Sorry if you're being sincere (I'm sure you are), but this reads like ill-informed Clutchfans drivel. "Why don't we have four All-Star starting pitchers? Brown is stupid! Go trade for Ohtani!" The story of this season could just be that a team with a poor farm at the AA and AAA got hammered by injuries and doesn't have the depth to replace them. It could also be that the team's highest paid players under-performed or were hurt. Valdez and Altuve are competing for the worst second half performance they have a lot of company. This off season is going to be a good time to disrupt things, not just because the team is poised to miss the playoffs, but because next year looks worse barring some upgrades.
  9. What do you think Crane or Brown should have done differently? Personally, the only thing I want from Crane is a willingness to run the budget up to the CBT apron and to make sure that the scouting and development personnel have every resource they ask for. The first box is clearly checked and I'm not in a good position to evaluate the second, although I think it's clearly better run there than under McLane. If those are both "yes's" then I prefer the owner to be checked out.
  10. I guess we’re in the few, my wife put the hammer down and we’re headed to Waldemar or we’ll just take a that exorbitant camp tuition and use it for basically anything else that doesn’t include drowning our daughter. I still think the Eastlands are getting sued out of business, but I’m a little surprised it’s taking this long.
  11. What do we think the chances are that Espada is fired after the season? He was hired under Brown but it’s hard to think of him as “his guy” since he was already in the org.
  12. Wtf, I watched that clip, too. Worse, I’d never seen a single second of that show previously and I was at least somewhat proud of it.
  13. I’ve got a buddy with the Centurion; it’s forever ruined Platinum for me.
  14. My feeling is that the preservation of a Fox or Newsmax in the interest of free markets and/or free speech has been indulged too long. You probably drive that voice online, maybe that’s better, maybe it’s worse but at least it’s taking action.
  15. I sympathize, but personally it's hard to to feel proud of the name on the front of the jersey if it's not committed to knowing the truth to be made free.
  16. That’s a good example of the failure of imagination on the part of MAGA opposition and why Biden and Garland should be forever asterisked in the history books with “oh, by the way, they failed the republic”. it doesn’t matter if it’s legal. If you have power and you think it’s wrong you make it illegal. It’s the current playbook and we should have been using it to avoid this truly avoidable four years.
  17. Aside from being illegal, none of that is helpful. If the entirety of ICE quit tomorrow it’ll not curb the 100 other antidemocratic behaviors of the Trump government.
  18. I would extend this to "it's the disinformation that's ruined civic life". We've always had the rapacious, the "fuck you, I've got mine", and the power-hungry. It's only marrying this with the ability to so effectively fragment voter groups with bullshit that's got us here.
  19. I've followed Nepal, and certainly social media has been credited with connecting young people during the Arab Spring and in the periodic protests in Iran. Kind of like any tool, it's what you make of it. That said, I'm taken with Scott Galloway's criticism ("tobacco of our generation") and agree with Jonathan Haidt that it's super harmful for kids, in particular. It's hard to deny that the world online increasingly doesn't resemble the real world, and that's problematic when so much time is spent there.
  20. The Democratic Party (any coalition group, really) is what you make of it. Your "silent public" will need to get involved. It's that simple. On a deeper level (I'm going to keep beating this drum), there's a cultural rot that's exacerbated by social media and siloed online communities and that needs to be addressed. I'm not sure this needs to be the test of everything, but is there any respect in which social media has increased domestic tranquility in order to form a more perfect Union? I'm re-touting my own idea from a different thread, but I also think the public needs to be calling for a Constitutional Convention. There's actually a lot that the public agrees on that can't be enacted because of antiquated law made too difficult to update. It's also a "big project" that's right in line with the values the Democratic Party claims to represent and it's clear they need a message more compelling that protecting norms.
  21. I’m not sure that’s a reason for hope-severe sprains can take longer to heal than smaller breaks.
  22. I was trying to rein myself in, because this is a good topic for discussion and there's probably five other ongoing threads that would make a better home for it, but just to quickly address your post, I'm using church attendance in the same overall bucket as any social group as described in Puttnam's "Bowling Alone". It's not that they are religious, it's that it's a community not purely based on socioeconomic traits and encourages mixing of different personalities, political preferences, and there's good scholarship that the community takes the edge off extremist beliefs. FWIW, the Enlightenment had to reckon with your concern about faith versus secular values, and that tension heavily influenced the founding fathers. I think Jefferson would say that religion doesn't open the mind to falsehood, but that many professed believers who's minds are already open to conspiracies and fantasy are more forgiving of the mystical as an explanation for things they can't comprehend. Taking it back to social media, the voter who believes that Jesus saved Trump from assassination no longer has a neighbor or fellow congregant who gently dissuades him; instead he's found a group on Facebook or X that is reinforcing his beliefs. What should be really scary is that these people are fundamentally lonely, and are going to be the very first community emotionally dependent on an AI that is too novel and unregulated to have much sense of what comes next.
  23. Adding to this, the Sark offense appears to really rely on satisfactory blocking at the X and Y receiver positions, particularly with how many screens and swing passes are in the playbook.
  24. I don't think they really want it; it's not spiritually nurturing, and the fact they are addicted to it is linked to the demise of the social bonds that previously made for a more culturally homogeneous group, at least on the biggest issues. We could address the those issues (urban/rural divide, failure of the economy to sufficiently deliver happiness, increasing inequality, dehumanization in the face of technology, even a decline in church attendance or support for alternative lifestyles if you want to validate conservative critiques), but the one that touches or has infected everything is social media. I listened to about 10 minutes of Pod Save America this morning as the boys decried violence and called out hypocrisy on the right, but they kept ignoring the elephant in the room--if we can't unite around some basic shared truths (like dishonesty is disqualifying, or that evidence based decisions should prevail in conflict resolution), you can't govern except by fiat. This is getting wildly off-track from enjoying the dildo of consequences, but personally I'd have a lot more fun laughing at the harsher ironies if I felt like Democratic leadership were prepared to actually deal with the big problem and not live in a fantasy land in which too many voters reject enlightenment.
  25. I think you answered your own question. Tari wants Jabari money and Stone is offering less.
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