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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 31, 2024, 07:34:09 PM »

i hope the royals keep winning (obv), but tbh, i think we're playing for a wildcard.  cleveland is just good.  minnesota is pretty solid too.  just got stuck in the wrong division this year.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: amazing animal stories thread (post your own)

« on: May 31, 2024, 06:13:10 PM »

looks like a a northern (aka common) water snake.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: New Mattress (MASTER SLEEP THREAD)

« on: May 31, 2024, 10:43:59 AM »

do you use it to address health issues? curious about the benefits and appeal

sleeping in a relatively upright position seems to mostly fix my sleep apnea symptoms.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: New Mattress (MASTER SLEEP THREAD)

« on: May 30, 2024, 07:44:29 PM »

i bought like an inclined pillow and having been using it.  it kinda sucks bought also kinda seems to work so i dunno.  probably will get a inclinable bed the next time we buy a bed, but god knows when that will be.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: many years of investigations into Trump Organization

« on: May 30, 2024, 05:25:12 PM »

good job outta the jurors.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Costco/Sams Master thread.

« on: May 28, 2024, 07:06:33 PM »

the cookie is too expensive for the costco food court.  it doesn't fit the ethos.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 25, 2024, 09:25:49 PM »

cleveland delenda est.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 25, 2024, 08:35:43 PM »

i knew they couldn't win in those uniforms, but i never expected them to hit isbel in the face with a baseball.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: May 25, 2024, 04:57:28 PM »

I think for fall break we are flying to Fresno & doing Yosemite/Sequoia. Any pro-tips?

what do you want to know?

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 25, 2024, 04:54:38 PM »

omg.  poor isbel.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 25, 2024, 04:48:08 PM »

the tampa uniforms today are quite possibly the ugliest any team in any sport has ever worn.  i don't see how they can win in those uniforms.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 24, 2024, 09:05:14 PM »

really enjoying these next few hours before cleveland wins.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 22, 2024, 05:24:53 PM »

death, taxes and both cleveland and the royals winning every game they play.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 20, 2024, 09:34:53 PM »

cleveland being good is super annoying.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 19, 2024, 10:31:20 PM »

the royals should play the a's all the time.  very enjoyable, high-quality games.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: New Mattress (MASTER SLEEP THREAD)

« on: May 17, 2024, 11:03:05 PM »

anyone use one of those inclining beds?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: May 16, 2024, 07:36:39 PM »

i'll take a dozen.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 14, 2024, 03:02:46 PM »

What is the economic case for assessing 100% (Biden proposed) or even 200% (Trump proposed) tariffs on Chinese EV’s?

I had to read this book a long time ago for Macro and it convinced me free trade was great.

https://www.amazon.com/Choice-Fable-Free-Trade-Protection/dp/0131433547

What am I missing? Cheap reliable electric cars seem like a huge win for everyone.

1.  if you think china has unfairly subsidized their ev industry and you want to impose punitive tariffs to induce them to remove subsidies.
2.  if you think china is a geopolitical adversary and the ev industry has strategic importance and you don't want us demand to be used to help subsidize the development of chinese heavy/semiconductor industry and/or you don't want us producers to be eliminated via competition with chinese producers.

since neither political party really believes in free trade currently, i think it's clearly the second one, although we might at times argue the first as a fig leaf.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: May 13, 2024, 11:32:05 AM »

My dad and fellow farmer always said a good man could quarry and lay a rod (16.5 ft) of rock wall in a day.

i can make no claim to being a good man, but that seems like an impossible amount of physical labor to complete in a day.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: May 12, 2024, 06:12:09 PM »

whoa.  that's a pretty amazing stonewall for kansas.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: May 11, 2024, 08:33:09 PM »

that guy will probably end up killing himself of embarrassment.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 01, 2024, 04:58:38 PM »

just like everyone was saying in the preseason.  sure the royals are on pace to win 100 games, but that's probably not going to be enough to win the central.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 01, 2024, 04:16:59 PM »

also semaglutide has stadium ads in toronto.   

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals

« on: May 01, 2024, 04:15:31 PM »

lugo is offering incredible return on investment.  i hope he can keep it going for a while.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Non-Political Market/Economy/Finance/etc. Thread

« on: May 01, 2024, 11:05:18 AM »

other than losing muscle as well as fat, i haven't heard of a single concern re. glp-1 use.  on the contrary, every story that comes out on them is is like "welp, we found another thing these drugs cure without even trying".


i think i'm gonna try to buy some of the oral version the next time i'm in mexico.