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Thanks. I probably spent about $600 all-in, for two of us to attend for a decent time because the Rangers were awesome (and got to watch the best outing of Dane Dunning's career). I think I will prefer watching on Bally's until the playoffs and there's more energy and electricity onsite.

I was at the game last night too-- row 1 sec 6 (right behind 3rd base). This was my first time at Globe Life Field and I'd like to hear your thoughts, but I was underwhelmed. You walk in and it feels like a convention center. I thought I was at the Javits Center or something. Lots of stale, clean concrete. I bought an $85 Rangers golf polo because I couldn't justify buying a $50 t-shirt for just $35 less. Then the seats-- they kinda sucked. I asked a poster the other day what the Commissioner box equivalent was here, and he said there wasn't one and he was right. The nets are the lamest part-- is that an MLB-wide mandate or just the Rangers? The huge scoreboard was distracting and while it was 75 degrees indoors when it was almost 100 outside, I found myself missing the feel of a real ballpark-- smaller, less distracting scoreboard and the smell and sound and sight of the outdoors. It felt like a Field Haus on steroids and didn't feel major league. That said the product on the field is GOOOD. Loved it and what a game we got to attend? I can see the place being electric during playoffs. As stated I sat right behind 3rd base so got to see Jung up close and personal and that guy is a beast! He looks like a Mike Trout Jr. out there and his throws from 3rd to 1st on warm-ups (and in games) were frozen ropes that made me feel about 6 inches tall. Jung is going to be a very special player for a long time in the class of Mike Trout, I say. So the seats were cool in that you were up close, but they also sucked from a sightlines. We couldn't see my boy Duran's homerun at all.

Was reading a story this morning referencing Netflix’s success in password sharing monitoring (Costco revenue down 4% despite revenue being up 2%, I think it was, prompting Costco to implement policies making membership sharing harder), and saw this about Netflix. I know lots of people thought it was a bad idea and would bite them in the butt: “Netflix received a larger influx of new users after blocking account sharing than it did when nearly everyone was home watching TV during the COVID lockdowns of Spring 2020. Netflix received nearly 100,000 daily sign-ups on both May 26 and May 27, according to Antenna. The company started notifying U.S. users about the password sharing crackdown via email notification just days earlier on May 23. This spike is an overall 102 percent increase in sign-ups over the past 60-days. …. It's obviously still early, but so far Netflix's decision to curb password sharing seems to have been a successful one. And you can guarantee that other streaming services are watching how it goes, ready to roll out similar policies of their own.””

An underrated benefit is what you describe— to others don’t look sloppily addicted to your phone like a dumb person (even if just checking the time) by constantly peeking at your phone. If you hang out with Gen-Z all day, the opposite I assume would be true and you’d want to eschew the watch and be on your phone constantly for the no cap klout.

This is exactly me. I wear an Apple Watch as the daily because it’s cheap and awesome. When client facing I wear a humble mid-tier watch so as to not be offensive with the display, but also respectful in that they know I’m good at what I’ve been hired to do and respect myself in dress and accoutrements which gives off a respectful personal image/brand. I never wear the more expensive/garish watches which were handed down, gifted or impulse bought as a young, stupid man.

Your uncle sounds like a schiester; it’s obvious from touch when your cotton/linen is heavy starched versus regular.

Tipped a valet guy $20 yesterday at The Omni and you’d have thought I saved his child’s life. He was grateful which felt great (and it was a slow Tuesday night).

I get heavy starch too— you get two wears out of your shirts

My boy Duran!!

"Socrates said that philosophy is a preparation for death. For everyone else, there’s travel." Read an interesting article today that might hit home to some who read on here from The New Yorker: The lead in: What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make? My nominee would be “I love to travel.” This tells you very little about a person, because nearly everyone likes to travel; and yet people say it, because, for some reason, they pride themselves both on having travelled and on the fact that they look forward to doing so. The opposition team is small but articulate. G. K. Chesterton wrote that “travel narrows the mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson called travel “a fool’s paradise.” Socrates and Immanuel Kant—arguably the two greatest philosophers of all time—voted with their feet, rarely leaving their respective home towns of Athens and Königsberg. But the greatest hater of travel, ever, was the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, whose wonderful “Book of Disquiet” crackles with outrage:

I've heard the same: A Rom-Com but for kids and light on the "com" part of the Rom-Com equation.

Soul was fantastic. I think it’s one of those that the critics (and parents) loved but audiences (kids/tweens) generally didn’t.

Since Genesis 3, the world has been "going to hell in a handbasket". Every generation gets to be tragically unique and think it's worse in their day and age, because of...reasons. There is nothing new under the sun; it's all derivative. This is actually an argument for a possible simulation if you want to infer a closed loop system, by the way. But why can't it be both? A double helix of an infinite God creating a simulation East of Eden for his creation?

You obviously don't know me, because this is my go to banger that tears me up everytime:

I was on a consulting project for M&M (RE) for a while, so I was in Calabasas every week for half a year-- it was awesome. It felt like if you took the best parts of Texas suburbs and put them in a beautiful setting and then it was equidistant from Malibu and Santa Monica/Venice, so if you wanted to bougie it up or slum it up, respectively, you could.

The guy is nearly 70 years old. That's impressive in a vacuum, outside of politics.

I've always interpreted the "We are living in a simulation" to be the 21st century version of Brain in a vat thought problem, which, from my vague recollection of reading about in Aeon Weekly or something, is a proper point of view, in that it could potentially be possible and is plausible-- while it is also at this point in time un-provable. It's like solipsism in that way, which I've always really appreciated. I probably put more credence than most because I try to anchor my view of the world with as much of a deconstructed ego as possible, which brings me to the core belief that I'm a spiritual being (eternal) who is merely experiencing (enduring, even) a physical experience for the 70 or 80 years that I have. So I can see how the physical is a material manifest-- whether that be "real" in terms of organic material living and working together at a molecular and cellular level or if it's "real" in terms of my electrical and chemical brain making it so, it doesn't really matter. And so the fact it can't be proven doesn't really matter either. The mysteries of faith.

What word would you use? Just substitute your word for sake of genteel conversation, but the point being made is the same.

He shopped for months; he got a lot of bells and whistles that added to it to be fair (the wheels, lights, the bed cover you can stand on, etc.)

Yea my friend doesn’t have kids. I could drive a Lambo if I didn’t have 5 kids.

Not sure how this makes sense. Are you saying it’s not wrong to continue spending on fun/luxury/travel when housing/food/utility/transportation costs are pushing you to your limit? Poor people feeling entitled to things that are outside of their budgets is a problem. So the conversation becomes a political one about what a citizen should be entitled to (e.g. free/low cost healthcare, low cost housing on the one end of the spectrum and iPhones and an the ability to go on vacations for their mental health, etc.)

Americans consumerism won't be crushed. Credit cards maxed to the extreme, over-leveraged to the hilt, and will be bleeding-out in a ditch in the streets but broadcasting on instagram live with an iPhone in new Nike Dunks.

Why was he crying? I think I'm missing a big piece of what makes it funny.

Means that using AGI for a trailer is a perfect way to cut costs, if it's considered "good enough"