Nathan Van Ness

Somebody needs to actually enforce that, or the rules will continue to be whatever he says they are.

Trump threatens to uphold the American tradition of actively destabilizing a "non-capitalist" government in order to prove that non-capitalism is unstable.

Sending a mushy text for your SO to the family group chat:

As a teenager: 💀

As a parent: 🤣

American psychiatry: do you feel you suffer from one or more mental health conditions? Go to a psychiatrist, pay so much that it financially destabilizes your entire life, and maybe you'll find something that helps! Maybe. Also, if you don't do this, YOU are being irresponsible.

It's making me depressed that I'm too depressed to write...

Adulting, verb: paying for things you don't want with money you don't have because the people who you're paying paid the people who are supposed to protect you to get them to require it.

It is not "outwitting" the 22nd Amendment to just ignore the Constitution, knowing that no one has the spine to stop you.

I firmly believe that maybe most MAGA voters simply haven't figured out that they're actually anti-capitalist because they've been indoctrinated to well.

(*everything is relative)

However, their argument is, "let's go back to segregation," rather than the "Left's" argument of, "maybe there shouldn't be a poverty percentage."

This is probably the main difference between the groups. "Stop hurting me" vs "stop hurting us."/

Capitalism has always left out a percentage of the population, it's just that, before DEI initiatives, policies ensured that this percentage was almost entirely minorities and women. Now, the "right" has correctly identified that this poverty percentage is becoming more(*) ethnically balanced./

Understanding that it's sound strategy doesn't change that it sucks to watch. People aren't buying tickets and cable packages to watch the games biggest player not swing the bat.

To a die hard fan or to the players maybe, but not to the league. It has happened repeatedly that a team finds a strategy that makes perfect sense strategically but bores or annoys the audience, and the league steps in and says, "nope. That's against the rules now."

Yes.

Professional sports is an entertainment product before anything else. If they aren't entertaining, nothing else matters.

Being lame reduces audience size and risks the viability of the league. There are not enough strategy nerds to sustain a sport that comes off as lame to the broader public.

What is she not understanding? If they intentionally walk him every at bat, it will be fucking lame. She is entirely correct on this point.

America: Where we will circle a parking lot for 10 minutes to save 1 minute of walking.

I've never been a very expressive person, and in the early 00s, I was told a few times that I'm really hard to read.

Today, I don't get told that, but I am frequently informed of different emotions that I am apparently feeling.

I feel like we're all getting worse at saying "I don't know."

The Mariners putting in Bazardo in that spot was the right call to anyone without the luxury of hindsight. He has repeatedly succeeded in that situation this postseason, and there's a big difference between asking Muñoz to get 6 outs and 8 outs. He made one bad pitch, and the M's luck ran out.

Normalize immediately ending transactions and walking away when offered an intrusive upsell.

If/when the files do come out, how many politicians, who are otherwise uninvolved, are currently building their own accessory cases?

Interesting that 10/7 initiated the Israel/Palestine conflict out of thin air, and that getting attacked by terrorists gives you free reign to inflict cruel punishment on citizens only associated by national identity.

No, you don't understand. I like religion that tells me I'm better than other people.

How old can whte men get before we're treated with the same legal harshness as a black pre-teen?

Imagine kids 40 years from now, learning about this time in history.

They aren't going to believe it. How the Eternal Lord Trump bravely saved society from evil gender shifters that were trying to turn all the children into gay, socialist frogs or something.

Everybody talks and listens wrong, and no one knows what anyone means anymore.

Depends on the state where the class is being taught...

I feel like there should be a way to penalize states or legislatures that diverge too greatly from their popular vote. 10% increase to federal business taxes in the state for every misaligned seat or something. It's half an idea.

Hitting the yellow line and going over is a HR (as opposed to a GR double). Otherwise, it must fully clear the line. If it stays on the field, it stays live.

He looks like his sleeves are too long