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    Glen Powell was the best thing about "Everybody Wants Some" (and that was a typically strong Linklater cast), but he's not had the opportunity (or chased it) to show versatility. I still vote for Chalamet but Emma Stone is worthwhile for the same reason--they are both willing to take very big swings. A worthy suggestion but he's following the Cruise career path where his preference is to not disappear into the role entirely. Cruise, particularly after Eyes Wide Shut, just got risk averse. She's still really young and is always the best part of whatever she's in.
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    My personal worst dining experience that I can recall is eating at the Red Lobster in Mishawaka, Indiana in January at the behest of the Marines with whom I was training at the AM General plant. I don't even remember the food or service, just that it was bad. What I do remember is looking around the mostly empty restaurant and seeing utter despair, both in the faces of the obese diners and the harried waitstaff. And yes, all the result of running out cheddar biscuits...
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    I’m not a well read religious scholar, but I do think it’s worth adding that Islam was entirely compatible with science, epistemology, and finding compromise between the faith and earthly concerns, including being able to coexist with non-adherents, for a thousand years. It’s only been in the last 200 that the Wahhabists have so successfully taken a fringe belief mainstream and created an environment in which the clerics feel like they have to one-up each other at being the biggest assholes to be the “true” faith.
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    I haven’t really dug into this but I have a suspicion that the offensive struggles from the second half of last season are caused or exacerbated by a change in personnel and approach that lowered team contact frequency (selling out for power?) and that maybe didn’t result in a cumulative loss of runs scored, but it made the for streakier output. We end up with too many 10-5 wins and 4-0 losses and the Pythag looks like we should be better than our record.
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    In my somewhat limited experience, all of the production side itinerant labor (and even though they are on camera I’d put stunt performers in this category) are just really happy to have a job.
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    Good, a team full of dudes playing at their peak is ideal from a resource allocation and team building perspective 🙂 Or, do you think we should be selling off an outfielder and he’d bring the most in return? I used to espouse that kind of fantasy baseball stuff, and maybe you can do it on the margins but it’s also a great way for a GM to get fired.
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    Not to be a dick but I answered your question in my post-maybe it’s not in him to copy Beto, but try running as a man of the people, going town to town, speaking to independents and Republicans, run against Washington, etc. If you have the charisma it’ll get you publicity. At this point he’s poised for a trouncing because no one knows who he is and he doesn’t have anything to offer besides his bio. The uncomfortable truth is that he’s a lackluster and underbaked candidate in the first place. The Texas Dems, however, don’t have anyone willing to run that’s clearly better so here we are.
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    I’d like to think we’re on the elite side when it comes to maximization, but if you look at other teams you’ll see a lot of guys that outperform their prospect pedigree. My point was that Loperfido isn’t Wyatt Lankford or prospect Kyle Tucker, and in whom at bats at the expense of a veteran might be justified because the expected ceiling is so high once they’ve gotten comfortable.
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    Literally no one thought that. If he was healthy enough to play he wouldn’t have retired. You want to start a rookie (and not a broadly regarded one) on a team with championship aspirations? He’s had about 220 AAA at bats between last season and this one and there’s only the early 2024 hot streak to justify claiming Chas’ spot. As far as Abreu, there’s a pretty good chance that this was always the plan and he’ll be on notice once he’s back. If you want him gone you should see this as a positive. $40m is a lot to eat for anybody that isn’t in NY or LA.
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    Ah, the "lull them to sleep" gambit, AKA Lupe Valdez but darker and with more muscles instead of an LEO background. Beto created a pretty good template for how to campaign and could have crafted a credible run in another race against a candidate with high negatives (say Dan Patrick) had he not gotten googley eyed about POTUS and gone hard left on guns. I bet if we asked 100 random Texas voters who Colin Allred is 90 of them will have no or a wrong answer.
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    Yeah, I don’t know why we’d want to add another non-shooter. Sengun is going to have three dudes guarding him.
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    I think you gents are in more agreement than the tone of your posts might suggest… I think Washpark is trying to rebut the idea that “deficits=always bad” rather than justify the current budget. Also, @Dbeasy, if I might quibble, neither Congress nor the executive branch sets monetary policy. They do set fiscal policy, however. I don’t really blame them—apparently getting elected to any Federal office is better than cocaine for a certain personality type. It’s the electorate that’s really to blame.
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    I’m not sure the economics on it are clear, but Houston construction needs to adopt Pacific tsunami technologies. It seems like there’s a 100 year event now every five years.
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    This might have been on Shaggy but in a predecessor version of this conversation @Bozo_Casanova made the point that what we think of as “defense” is an enormous government program combining actual defense, a jobs program both in the DoD directly and via procurement (all of which has to be sourced in the US and often is located in mid-size or smaller population centers), a retirement and healthcare system, etc. I’m sure he had some other points to describe the leviathan but I think the main idea was that a lot of what we call defense spending is just a transfer payment by another name.
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    FYI, do not Google “Johnny Horse Cock” in an effort to remember the name of this movie.
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    This-BYD isn’t making $10k EV’s because of low-cost labor and technology innovation. The CCP wants to dominate market share after watching Japan and Korea do the same successfully with consumer electronics.
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    Why is Snoop from the wire stealing “All Gas No Breaks” from Sark?
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    Brooks looks like a drag rat in hand me down clothes.
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    Game of Thrones in space by the look of it…
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    That’s my objection to him. Also, I think his type is more available in trade or free agency than less skilled/more athletic players.
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    Got to be Chalamet. I bet Driver would vote for him, too.
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    Pizza

    LCHorn replied to blacklab's topic in Austin

    Has anyone tried Bambino yet? If so, what's the verdict?
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    Not to poo-poo on the idea because Flood might very well be Alex Gibbs or Joe Bugel level great, but citing a Ketchum level hack who is principally using years of experience at a high profile program as his metric isn’t a great way to support it. I think if anything, we’ve learned that the recruiting services are pretty bad evaluators of high school line play and that it might be true that Flood isn’t ONLY hunting 5-stars.
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    Have you considered something like Stratfor? If I had a PhD in Asian Studies I’d also be looking at anything Federal related (State, DoD contractor). Once to get your foot in the door it should be pretty easy to shuffle around and this probably makes your resume better for a future return to academia if you hope for that.
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    Not at all, in fact I’m sure the creators of Lost would point to the Fallout games as an inspiration for the Dharma initiative.

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