jerryskids

Exactly. A very strong message was sent to Iran, in a language they understand. Not the Obama/Biden language of "here's more money guys, please don't bomb too much!" They don't speak Weak very well.

I don't disagree on there being too many swimming medals. It doesn't make 3x3 basketball an elite sport tho.

Good answer, and I've argued for Rice as the best NFL player ever for this reason (similar to my Rickey Henderson best baseball player ever argument). But... with the way the game has changed, I could see this being challenged. It would take somebody like Larry Fitz who loves/respects the game to do it, and I'm not sure the current crop of Chase/Jeff have it in them to last past their big paydays, but it could be done.

3X3 basketball should not be an olympic sport. There is nothing elite about this.

Yes

This data is a little dated, but Barrett is the 3rd most centrist of the justices. Only Roberts and Cavanaugh are closer to center. The other 6, including the 3 liberals, are more biased. https://www.axios.com/2019/06/01/supreme-court-justices-ideology

Harris commercials are tossing her a softball with credit for getting $35 insulin prices. Does anyone remember her being the Diabetes Czar? Or is this more alternative history?

I'm also digging the "Gold Zone" with the Red Zone guy bouncing between events, and the quad box screen where you can move your cursor to control the sound. NBC really hit it out of the park with these coverage options.

No, they are more like those x-ray glasses you used to get in cereal boxes.

It did, and Trump has said that he will not push for a national ban. But since this statement does not fall into the bucket of "Ima be a dictator!", the Left considers this one a lie. If instead he had said he plans to institute such a law, the Left would consider it a stone cold lock. When you view things through this lens, it makes their reactions much clearer.

The problem, which we've discussed countless times, is that you equate the success of our past immigration system with our current situation. In most of our history, immigration was restricted to certain cultures, and immigrants had no safety nets to save them. I've seen estimates of 30%+ of immigrants went back home because they couldn't hack it. Those that made it assimilated or stayed contained in their cultural pockets within the city. Which brings us to your studies which show that immigration improves the economy. What you miss, or choose to ignore, is that it does NOT do so for first-generation, which consistently costs money. Second generations are a slight net positive but not enough to outweigh the initial costs, and it's not until 3rd that the overall "investment" is considered a positive. And again, this was in the past, highly controlled system. As I type this it occurs to me: there is little incentive for the feds to stem immigration. The burden of that first-generation cost falls primarily on local and state governments. The feds just sit back and wait to collect taxes in the future. It makes me think that maybe we should stop shipping them to random cities and start dropping them all off at the Capitol.

I really dug watching the men's gymnastics team yesterday. Teams like China and Japan look like homogeneous automatons, while our team looks like the Bad News Bears. And they managed to get the bronze. Seeing the look of pure joy on that autistic kid after he nailed his pommel horse routine to secure the bronze... that's what these games are all about.

Probably best that you ignore me; the data I provide causes you too much pain. In fact, I don't think you are cut out for this place. A little too combative. You need a Leftie echo chamber. Maybe Tumblr?

So you believe the bolded, and also believe that deportation would be "catastrophic"? Honest question: why do you want to destroy America? I'm hoping it's just naivete.

Clearly he will eliminate elections and put in a monarchy for his family to rule the country for generations to come. Thankfully, we have no checks and balances to stop that, so we will all benefit from the Trump dynasty for the next 100 years. Idiot Yes https://www.allsides.com/news-source/washington-post-media-bias

Shhhh, why are you summoning him?

Why not?

Then why did you ask that question? Also: https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/business/facebook-admits-it-wrongly-censored-iconic-photo-of-bleeding-trump/

Well, no he isn't. Why do you think Google censored the picture?

Do you even hear what you are typing? The point is not that Google won't find it, it's that it doesn't want you to find it. Surely you recognize this, don't you? Mine finds the first one, because I've searched for it. Not the second one. I haven't explicitly searched for it.

You get Trump at "T" on Google? I don't.

Also, the shape of my lot leads to a lot of driveway room. The previous owners did a remodel where they extended the house, and with it the garage. Without the extra rooms/space from that remodel, we wouldn't have bought it. But the garage is sadly short in depth -- a lot more feet could have been added, and the per square foot price for garage space would IMO have been minimal. As it is, I can't fit any truck other than a Maverick-class in it.

I see what you did there. The "last mile" is something I've dealt with in my work life when the discussion of fiber-optic home internet began 30+ years ago. Getting fiber to a distribution point near your home was relatively straightforward; getting it that final amount TO your house was a major PITA. I think the analogy generally rings true for this situation. The vehicle can get to your house but... what to do with the package? Ima think Amazon has some smart people working on this.

For things like ride sharing/human transportation... yeah, the writing is on the wall. Deliveries have that pesky "last mile" problem of getting the package from the road to your door, but I expect that it is solvable, it'll just take a while longer.

Cat fostering?