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@BBGreatMoments The art of hitting 400 and Charlie Lau’s book should both be mandatory reading for any parent or kid connected with youth baseball

Ted Williams understood launch angle and made it simple way before all of the analytics in today’s game. He made it simple and that is part of the reason he was the greatest hitter to ever do it.

@CFBGuy999 Rudolph and Denbrock

Projected 2026 Starting Offense 🍀: WR: Micah Gilbert WR: Mylan Graham LT: Will Black LG: Anthonie Knapp C: Joe Otting RG: Sullivan Absher RT: Guerby Lambert TE: Cooper Flanagan WR: Jordan Faison QB: CJ Carr RB: Aneyas Williams What would you change? 👇

@ohabryka @benlandautaylor is this really position you are taking? WTF!

@benlandautaylor He already spent 5 years in jail, so it's more like ~6 years in jail/prison + probation period. Which, IDK, is not an enormous factor away from what seems to me like a just judgement here.

I’m going to be honest. If someone randomly murdered my uncle, and was convicted of it in a court of law, but merely released on probation and sentenced to pay $19,000, then I would kill him.

@SkimMilkey wait…i thought women’s basketball could demand the same prices as the men’s?

Cheapest lower bowl tickets on the sidelines for a Sweet 16 game: $136 You price people out at 11:30am on a game that is 900+ miles from Louisville and Michigan...and this is what you get. Stupid.

@geraldposner San Francisco and California are getting exactly what they voted for.

All my friends in my native San Francisco are in a fury over a judge's decision to grant probation to a 24-year-old defendant who had assaulted and killed an 84-year-old man in an unprovoked attack. The judge—Linda Colfax—was appointed to the bench in 2011 and has subsequently run UNOPPOSED in elections. I hope voters remember this case the next time she is running to keep her seat. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/gra…

@tbhorka the coaches could boycott the media stuff. there’s no material penalty.

UConn’s Geno Auriemma has serious issues with the setup of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. He says the logistics of it were responsible for the 21% 3-point shooting yesterday’s Sweet 16 teams combined for. “How many arenas are we going to sell out with that bullshit?”

@DutchRojas it’s because she wants to cap the billionaire’s benefits while taxing them with no ceiling

Senator Patty Murray posted this yesterday. Every number in it is accurate. The post is still a lie. Here is the technique. The Social Security wage cap is real. Earnings above $184,000 are not subject to the 12.4% payroll tax. A billionaire does pay a fraction of a percent in effective Social Security tax rate. The math is correct. What Senator Murray did not post: Social Security benefits are also capped. High earners do not collect more because they do not pay more. The contribution cap and the benefit cap are the same architectural decision. You cannot lift one without addressing the other. A billionaire who pays 0.002% into Social Security also collects the same capped benefit as everyone else above the threshold. The system was designed this way deliberately. She presented half of a structural equation as if it were the complete picture. This is called cherry-picking wrapped in perception management. It’s designed to manipulate the audience. The numbers are real. The picture they produce is false. The sophistication of the technique is that correcting it requires more words than deploying it. Senator Murray needed three sentences. This post needed three paragraphs. That asymmetry is not accidental. It is the whole point. When someone shows you accurate numbers that produce an outraged conclusion, ask what is not in the frame.

@OmniAeronautica @Handre you state.. Scarcity, surveillance, and institutional distrust tend to produce resilience, social cohesion, and a preference for order and continuity.”. there’s no preference, it’s mandated. Your entire argument falls down because that line position it as a benefit

THE BERLIN WALL PROVED MORE THAN ECONOMICS—IT EXPOSED TWO COMPETING VISIONS OF SOCIETY What the Berlin Wall experiment actually demonstrated was economic failure under central planning, not moral or cultural superiority on one side of Europe over the other. Yes, West Germany decisively outperformed East Germany in GDP, consumption, and innovation. That conclusion is not controversial. But stopping the analysis there misses what happened after 1989, and what persists today across former Soviet-influenced societies. The populations that lived under Soviet control developed a very different psychological and cultural posture. Scarcity, surveillance, and institutional distrust tend to produce resilience, social cohesion, and a preference for order and continuity. When those systems collapsed, many Eastern European societies did not swing toward the same degree of social experimentation seen in Western Europe. Instead, countries like Poland and Hungary retained stronger national identity, more traditional social structures, and a higher sensitivity to instability. This creates a divergence that is often misinterpreted. Western Europe, particularly Germany, optimized for economic dynamism, openness, and individual expression after the war. That model delivered extraordinary prosperity. But over time, it also expanded into broader social and political experimentation, including large-scale migration policies and cultural redefinition that some now view as destabilizing. By contrast, many former Eastern Bloc societies optimized for cohesion over experimentation. They are less permissive, more skeptical of rapid change, and more protective of national identity. That is not evidence that socialism “worked.” It is evidence that the lived experience of socialism produced populations that are more cautious about systemic disruption. So the more precise takeaway is this. The Berlin Wall proved that free markets outperform central planning in generating wealth and opportunity. But the post-Cold War divergence suggests something else: different historical pressures produce different cultural risk tolerances. Western Europe pushed further into openness and transformation. Eastern Europe pulled toward stability and preservation. The current tension inside Europe is not a replay of capitalism versus socialism. It is a conflict between two models of managing success. One prioritizes openness and adaptation. The other prioritizes cohesion and continuity. Both emerged from the same divided history.

The Berlin Wall created the most brutal controlled experiment in human history: identical people, split by ideology, watched for 41 years to see which system would prevail. West Germans embraced market economics while East Germans suffered under socialist central planning. The results? Devastating. By 1989, East German GDP per capita sat at roughly 30% of West Germany's level. East Germans consumed 40% fewer calories, owned cars at one-tenth the rate, and waited 12 years for a telephone connection. Meanwhile, their western cousins enjoyed rising living standards, technological innovation, and personal freedom that made West Germany an economic powerhouse. But the socialists had excuses ready. "East Germany started from a worse position after the war," they claimed. Bullshit. Both regions faced identical devastation in 1945. The Soviets actually stripped more industrial equipment from their zone (roughly $10 billion worth), yet this affected rural areas less than urban centers. And East Germany possessed abundant natural resources like lignite coal and uranium that should have provided economic advantages. The real difference? Property rights, price signals, and entrepreneurship versus state ownership, price controls, and bureaucratic allocation. West Germans could start businesses, invest capital, and respond to consumer demands. East Germans filled quotas set by party officials who had never run so much as a lemonade stand. You can't coordinate an economy through committee meetings and five-year plans when prices tell you nothing about real supply and demand. East Germans voted with their feet—2.7 million fled west before the Communists built their wall in 1961. After reunification, investigators found Stasi files on one-third of the population. When you need secret police watching every third citizen, your economic system has already failed.

@OmniAeronautica @Handre you say order and continuity like it’s some sort of communist benefit. the tens of millions massacred under communist dictators would struggle with that position.

@SMB287 @Handre State your case then.

@SDSLLC_USA take a few with him.

If they ever do come to take our guns, they will get them. What is one person going to do when he's surrounded by 20 cops ready to kill him if he doesn't comply?

@iluvusofia_xo it happens in all business settings.

There’s an upscale provider who entered the industry around COVID whom I briefly enjoyed spending time with. During a slow trip she had to Chicago, I extended some support—introducing her to a few of my local clients and offering guidance where I could. I was under the impression we were on friendly terms. Recently, however, I’ve been made aware that she has been speaking negatively about me and, on multiple occasions, has reached out directly to my clients. I won’t mention her name, though I did notice she’s launched a new Twitter account and blocked me—which, if anything, is more amusing than anything else. Situations like this are precisely why I don’t romanticize friendships within this industry. There are always individuals who engage under the guise of connection, but whose intentions are ultimately self-serving—leveraging others for access or visibility without offering any genuine reciprocity. There’s value in maintaining professionalism, grace, and decorum—but it’s equally important to recognize the point at which extending yourself becomes detrimental. Being discerning about who you allow into your circle isn’t unkind; it’s necessary.

@HealthcareREguy think of all the creamers minorities could steal.

Imagine if from 7-10AM Chipotle made the world’s best breakfast burritos… Start in a few exclusive stores, make it go viral, then scale nationally. Seems like it’s a huge opportunity right in front of them.

@drdating007 @sculptherbody i’d never go to class again

benefits of dating older women

@Viralvid_89 she should get to share a cell with a trans.

When a 'Sovereign Citizen' Meets a Real officer.

@OneBadDude_ lesbians don’t age well.

The No Kings protesters all so old because the elderly are the only ones left paying attention to the mainstream media.

@bluelivesmtr @JackPosobiec @nicksortor if you’re a conservative, you better be packing because the legal system provides no protection

We are rapidly approaching a tipping point in society where people are going to lose all confidence in our judicial system and start applying "street justice": @JackPosobiec - "Portland jury just found a member of Antifa not guilty in the assault of @nicksortor even though she and all of her friends are on camera assaulting him...You cannot get justice with these liberal juries.” And here's the thing. That same tipping point will likely result in those in uniform turning a blind eye when the system corrects itself. REPOST for exposure! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

@unlimited_ls i’m confused. libs say a 14 year old can transition but she can’t make the choice to sleep with an adult. 🤔

NEW: Former South Florida youth track coach starts crying after being sentenced to 50 years in prison for molesting a 14-year-old Darius Tremayne Lawshea, 51, was found guilty last month in a case involving a student from Miami Carol City Senior High School Lawshea was the longtime head coach of Miami Gardens Xpress Track and Field The victim said Lawshea had s*x with her three times, including twice in his car and once at his apartment She said she stayed at his apartment before an early track meet. Lawshea was not arrested until 2020 The victim said she stayed silent out of fear because Lawshea was well known in the community At sentencing, another alleged victim accused Lawshea of grooming her to take advantage of her

@Handre that is why i stay clear of any ipos. there is no reason for a successful company to go public except to make the investment bankers and founders money. the business itself almost always suffers

Sarbanes-Oxley turned going public into a $3 million annual compliance nightmare. IPOs dropped 76% in the decade after 2002 -- from 457 average annual IPOs in the 1990s to just 108 from 2003-2012. The compliance costs hit small companies hardest (obviously). Goldman Sachs absorbs SOX requirements as a rounding error. Your innovative startup burns through Series B funding just to satisfy auditors who've never built anything. Established corporations love this arrangement. Why compete with disruptive newcomers when Congress erected a regulatory moat around your market position? Private equity now buys promising companies before they can threaten incumbents through public markets. The supposed "investor protection" created the most concentrated corporate landscape in American history.

@Handre all true but US communists are smarter. 😀