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It sure does. He's admitting the early offers were never intended to reach an agreement which is a violation of the best efforts to play as many games as possible provision. The big dope admitted they were just running out the clock to get to the number they wanted.

I love this. His tone and maturity to me mirrors of what Jose Abreu has brought to that locker room.

Give this man some room, he is ready to do some things.

It’s basically the same thing in baseball, with 30-something free agents (except for pitchers, especially lefties) getting pushed out of the game 3-5 years earlier than they used to. Or radical shifting and endless pitching changes...but just because the game is more purely efficient in terms of statistical outcomes, the product quality has actually decreased markedly. Leaving aside the world of sports, where are the incentives in this type of system for investing in design, innovation and creativity? Simply extracting the most value out of any transaction gives you an entire world of Wal-Marts and Amazons that function as near-monopolies and serve to stifle competition. In this type of environment, the bottom 80% of a society will cease to thrive. As more money shifts from the hands of the labor class, who are going to the markets and reliable buyers of the future? Eventually, you end up with a world where the opposite trends take hold, where competition is largely eliminated and producers, not consumers, set prices. And only a certain number of people can pay for products and services that used to be affordable to the majority. That’s where even completely decoupling from China, how are you going to limit production costs of the future? You’re looking at an almost completely automated society driven by AI and almost completely invulnerable to a health care crisis. No more driving careers as autonomous vehicles take over. No more assembly line workers. Almost no more blue collar workers left at all, except for certain niche areas that are more dependent on art/creative skills. It’s a wonderful future for those value added profit extractors who work in fields like a actuarial science and aren’t themselves wiped out by apps and algorithms, but doesn’t bode well for the rest of society. The entire developing world is pretty much going to be consigned to a perpetual gerbil wheel existence, frozen between 3rd world and 1st status.

Since the summer camp is at the GRate, I wonder if someone would get in trouble if they flew a drone up and took some video of the workouts. Just asking for a friend. 😁

He’ll still do it and gut it 😂. Or those On! And Zyn nicotine pouches where you don’t have to spit

However they have that microphone set up in that Burger hitting video. Oh man. Sounds like he’s just murdering those balls. He looks solid too

After some consideration with the wife, we aren't going on that trip to Utah I mentioned earlier. I think we could do a lot to mitigate some of the risks, but the reality is the plane ride is just too much, plus we have no idea how crowded certain places will be and won't have a lot of choices if they are. Probably going to rent a house or cabin on the water for that week instead (probably Wisconsin or Michigan), stay mostly in the house except going out to canoe, fish, swim, hike, bike, etc. Get groceries, pick up food, maybe eat out just a few times when it's outside dining. Way less risk, still a week of fun for the kiddies and some time to relax. Also likely a much cheaper trip, so bonus there. Still really want to do Zion, Bryce, etc., they will just have to wait.

“The reality is we weren’t going to play more than 60 games no matter how the negotiations with the players went,” said Manfred. Tell us something we didn't know ya giant turd.

Buildertrend. It’s kinda cool because people find our company on Yelp a lot (which provides its own level of data), the Yelp links them to the website form which inputs directly into the sales section of Buildertrend. So before we even talk to somebody we know that, for example, a man in his 40s (Yelp) who lives at so-and-so address is interested in X project (the form).

If you're not good enough that's the way it's always been. Sucks to be less talented , just a notch below the best . No reason to be mad at the Sox . I'm more inclined to think he's done . But maybe he just thinks he's in limbo, not part of the 44, not part of the taxi squad just yet. He was abysmal last year. He had to know his time with the Sox was coming to a close sooner rather than later Engel has more value to the Sox than Palka.

You guys have any experience applying data science to construction companies? Currently we use a pretty comprehensive software that manages the whole process from sales, estimating, job costing and finally reporting. So we can see general job margins and margins associated with specific tasks which has been eye-opening to say the least. Just feel like this is the tip of the iceberg of what we could be doing. Data is everything. Data is dollars. You should be called Money Doctors. Do you just cut deals with companies all day and say, “I get to keep 25% of the money I save you, for 24 months. Deal?”

I think I just squeeled a little bit.

This kind of reeks of the SCORE trying to sling some mud at the White Sox. No other reason. He was suspended what's the point of it now? Why is Cody Decker given a soap box?

The best thing about today is 2020 is halfway over.

Trickle down economics has been a lie for those same 40 years, starting with David Stockman and Reagan, through the Paul Ryan’s and Grover Norquists of today. Cutting taxes on the rich and corporations, attempting to starve or defund the Federal government through austerity policies and “balanced budget” posturing...we didn’t even need to go back to the Eisenhower and Kennedy years, we ran surpluses for three years under Clinton largely due to increasing revenues/receipts from capital gains and estate taxes. That said, I don’t believe that you can accurately blame economists more so than, let’s say, Ayn Rand or the Koch Brothers. Perhaps we can all neatly lay this at the doorstep of Alan Greenspan, but he was empowered and embraced by presidents of both parties. In the end, economists or think tanks are unelected policy creators, but it’s the corporations and Top 1% pulling the string behind the scenes to fund their self-fulfilling research and theories that have hollowed out 2/3rd’s of the former middle class.

And those workers are making shit pay and receiving very little protections and have no benefits; we're literally sitting here arguing that these people are essential for the basic functions of human life in this country, and we treat them and pay them like they were replaceable garbage. They've been treated as subhumans for a long time and even in the media today, politicians openly state that it's not real people getting sick, it's the immigrants in the meat processing plants in places like Iowa and etc. The best part is many of them feel threatened or etc, and are working for less than the $600 they'd get on unemployment. It's shameful. No one is saying close the doors on the entire world. That is not feasible, but drastic measures, restrictions and closures clearly saved a lot of people elsewhere, but we're too damn worried about the bottom line to give a shit about the people who actually produce those goods.