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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. I'll quickly admit to not being an economist, so you can let me know if I'm being misled. https://archive.ph/NOilY#selection-4705.0-4733.418
  2. Here's another similar take that perhaps you also think is garbage. Dunno. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/04/sanders-says-true-economic-crisis-corporate-greed-and-gop-congress-would-make-it
  3. I like your username. Makes me laugh. Sorry you felt it was garbage. Care to explain?
  4. helobious's ridiculousness cracks me up. it is such an obvious card and yet so many, such as yourself, get all wrapped up and frothing at the mouth about it. which typically cracks me up as well. it reminds of the board you and i met on, so it bemuses me that it riles you up so much you have to project that it is somehow amazing he doesn't kill himself in real life. and the very post i quoted you on was you assessing other's attributes, so don't make me re-quote it. and again, this isn't the 'astros fans only' thread. as to mariners fandom--eh, i've fallen away from just all sports, but i'm glad you noticed. seriously, i miss some of our back and forth. but if i was loyal to a team, sure, it's them. so i tuned in to them getting swept, and still had fun with the novelty of it all--long drought after all. one of the many reasons i've fallen away from sports is when you step back the absolute silliness of someone being a "chickenshit" based on their behavior on an internet forum is just astounding. such serious business over something that lierally has no impact on your life, nor do you have an impact on the outcome. and i think overall chomsky is quite right about sports in general. just mentioning that name is dangerously close to CR, but there you have it. the concepts of people not being 'loyal' to their region is also funny were it not sadly provincial. and i guess stepping away so much just makes me shake my head when i see otherwise rational folks who i personally know are good people go absolutely insane online over someting like someone disappearing instead of 'taking their internet lumps.' its just silly, and robbing of joy for me.
  5. So still the majority, but not as much of one. OK. Even if it was NOT the majority, I would think in a non-Astros based thread some 'haters' are expected.
  6. sidis, I can only hope you're drinking heavily during all of these types of posts. it has been crazy seeing you make personal assessments of people's lives based on their actions in a sports thread of all things. worrying about fans in the supposedly non-Astro fan thread is just flat out joyless and beneath you. The majority of America is rooting against the Astros. I hesitate to point it out, because there's really no need to hash over the same old arguments again (and who knows all the reasons), but that's how it is. While every Astros fan will disagree, blame Manfred, e.t.c., that doesn't mean that everyone posting non-Astros support is somehow a loser in life that enjoys hating more than rooting for their own teams. As you are aware, there are only two teams left. Should every non-fan of those two teams turn off their TV sets and quit posting? Don't most neutral folks root for the underdog? Does picking one team to root for automatically equate to being a hater? Should they all not pick someone to root for? It seems you and Penelope would have it that way. Which is sad to see from posters I otherwise thought were smarter and should recognize the easy correlation between nutty tribalism in sports and elsewhere in our society.
  7. It might. The book covers losing time/hours/focus to all the distractions of the internet. Social media gets its due in it, but so does things like binge watching Netflix. There is a bit of Pollyanna-ishness to it (the author has never used a lot of the social media he critiques) but still caused me to evaluate my relationships with tech and media. There is a 30 digital detox recommendation where you cut out all social media/mindless browsing/binging. After that the recommendation is to re-engage in a more mindful and limited fashion. That worked for me for a while (my book reading increased) but like all addicts I easily slipped back into some bad habits. I should probably try it again. At any rate, it’s an easy read and food for thought.
  8. If you like that, you might enjoy this book: Warning: It will change your relationship with places such as this:
  9. further and further into third world country status.
  10. But people have been saying this literally for decades. They all were essentially hollering down a well. They did not have large, influential media companies behind them. Their political allies were at best timid and at worst absent. For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report detailing a resurgence of radicalization in the American military. The entire commingled Republican political and media, led by then-Speaker John Boehner, a reputed “moderate,” lit themselves on fire. The outcry, stoked (as always) by lies and deliberate misrepresentation, caused DHS to run and hide. It withdrew the report. You will note that I did not use the word “forced.” The DHS was not “forced” to do anything, any more than the Clinton administration was “forced” to abandon Lani Guinier. In 2009, the DHS was going to be in Democrats' hands for at least three more years. The department could’ve told Boehner to pound sand and stood by the report. In the real world, political outrage is not “force.” It only has the power that tepid resistance gives to it. Which brings us to this weekend. Paul Pelosi gets attacked with a hammer during a home invasion and as a temporary proxy for his wife, who is the second in line for the presidency. We had Republican influencers babbling about gay trysts gone wrong, and idiot candidates trying to link the attack to their current bogus spin about a national crime wave. And this is the reaction, on national teevee, of the national chairwoman of the Republican Party. From the Washington Post: I just can’t anymore. These people are simply lost and mad. Their political party is simply lost and mad. Their political movement is simply lost and mad. Their candidates are simply lost and mad. We are on the very brink of handing the country over to the lost and the mad. The prion disease has jumped from one subject population to the general public, and in too many ways, it is creating its own reality in the national mind. We are all lost and mad. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41819935/republican-extremism/?src=socialflowTW
  11. Pretty wild that somehow the conversations have already moved on beyond a failed political assasination.
  12. not worried if you do or don't. they were equivalent level posts in terms of substance.
  13. Sorry to upset you with my subtle, nuanced, grandpa troll.
  14. well you could always just kill yourself.
  15. ah man. but we'll always have this:
  16. Midterm elections outlook darkens for Biden's White House https://www.reuters.com/world/us/midterm-elections-outlook-darkens-bidens-white-house-2022-10-25/
  17. Pretty sure we're going to need a plain ol "expatriates" thread in a few years. Every time I check on the SC, I'm reminded that there is no real state in the US you can run to. Given I can't leave for at least 6, I'm wondering what language I should start to learn. Or if New Zealand will let me in at age 60ish.
  18. Cue a lecture from Roberts on how the SC is legitimate. Thomas never should have been on this court in the first place. Thanks, Monsanto.
  19. https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/young-healthy-people-may-not-need-bivalent-boosters-offit-155018744.html This is from September. My understanding is this dude is legit. Curious @Anastasisas to what your take is on the bivalent boosters outside of high risk groups.
  20. Nike co-founder Phil Knight says he would do anything to take Oregon’s governorship out of Democratic hands https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-co-founder-phil-knight-says-he-would-do-anything-to-block-the-democrats-in-the-oregon-governors-race-11665995971?siteid=yhoof2 Just a billionarie doing billionaire things.
  21. Tina Kotek, Christine Drazan neck-and-neck in race for governor, new poll finds; support for Betsy Johnson waning https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/10/tina-kotek-christine-drazan-neck-in-neck-in-race-for-governor-new-poll-finds-support-for-betsy-johnson-waning.html Not a real large scale poll there.
  22. Not your fault, but that was pretty wishful thinking.
  23. Thanks for the non-NYT link. For whatever reason I don't seem to get around the NYT's paywall these days. I'm glad to see some comeuppance for Mr. Jones. But its always tempered by the pictures of those poor famlies. Guts me to think about their loss(es) and the compounding of those losses by all the shit piled on them from Mr. Jones and his followers.
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