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@dieter What makes it even more impressive is that was hit in the pre-humidor days on a typical cold San Francisco night. Wet ball and high air density.

I cannot express to you how much I just giggled after seeing where this ball landed. Folks who have not been to Oracle Park have no idea how far away that is.

@NorCalSportsNW Career OPS+ of 128. Last year 140 overall, 129 with the Giants. I suspect that you don't know ball.

Rafael Devers (Nevers) Never makes contact. He constantly misses pitches down the middle. His K rate is now 31.7% 27 K’s in 85 PA. Combined with last year’s 29.3% K rate with SF he has been absolutely awful with SF. You can live with the K’s if he’s hitting close to his career BA of .275 but he hit .236 last year with SF & is currently hitting only .213. If he doesn’t produce closer to his career numbers, the Giants season is likely to be a very long one. If his performance continues like this into July the Giants should do whatever it takes to trade him. (Pay 1/2 his salary & get some top prospects before he loses too much value.

@dieter For such a big guy you seem to be all about small sample size takes.

Luis Arraez turning into Joe Panik (all glove, not much bat) was not on the bingo card.

@DailySowell No working economist alive today doubts this. Even though Sowell isn't trying to be comprehensive here, he does drill to the point that the great depression was a multi-factorial government failure. Anybody who questions this is simply ignorant of prevailing economic analysis.

🚨 Thomas Sowell debunks the Great Depression’s most entrenched myth “There’s this narrative out there that the reason we had mass unemployment in the 1930s was because the market failed. It so happens that for the 12 months following the stock market crash, we never hit double digits of unemployment.” “Unemployment peaked at 9 percent two months after the crash and started going down. The unemployment rate was down to 6.3 percent when the federal government figured it had to intervene.” “And that’s when the downward movement reversed and we never saw 6.3 percent again for the next decade. It’s clear as crystal that the disaster came after federal intervention.”

@danaparish I always come back to this: Dr. J. William Langston at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose identified that a group of young drug users had developed severe, permanent Parkinsonian symptoms after using a synthetic heroin contaminated with MPTP.

🚩 I keep coming back to this 2002 article: Teen Michael J. Fox caught a virus on set of a sitcom in the late 1970s. Years later, he and 3 coworkers from the same show all developed Parkinson’s. Japanese researchers found a virulent flu strain can invade the same brain region Parkinson’s destroys… Pathogens = neurodegeneration

@WallStreetMav Unions only have leverage in monopolistic industries. That's why government workers and heavily regulated industries have the strongest unions. Roosevelt era corporatism or socialism is the endpoint of a society structured on the primacy of organized labor.

“Starbucks workers in Seattle are colliding with harsh economic reality as repeated strikes and escalating demands trigger store closures instead of concessions.” “Baristas, organized under Workers United, walked out demanding higher wages, increased staffing, and expanded benefits, pushing for raises as high as 64 % immediately and 77 % over three years.” “But as sales declined and pressure mounted, Starbucks responded with a sweeping restructuring plan under CEO Brian Nickell, shutting down multiple unionized locations and cutting corporate staff.” “Several Seattle stores, including high-profile reserve locations, closed despite protests, with the company citing poor financial performance rather than union activity. Workers, many unable to sustain unpaid strikes, returned to jobs only to find their stores permanently shuttered, with no transfer options offered.” “As closures spread and employees face job loss or relocation, the standoff reveals a blunt outcome. Push too far without leverage and the job itself may disappear.”

@ad0rnai Must be a generational thing. Because there was time not too long ago that anywhere south of the Estudillo Canal could have been part of the Jim Crow south. Only the peninsula in those days saw true and voluntary integration.

the more time I spend in the Bay Area the more I come to the conclusion that perhaps only those who grew up in the East Bay are ensouled

@TomeiTyler Decades ago this question was decided. Retirement funds cannot be taxed at California rates even if you live elsewhere. That decision was partly responsible for putting the state into deficit at that time.

We need reforms. First thing I’d do is reduce payouts to anyone who leaves California. You don’t get to be subsidized by working Californians when living in Idaho. That’s wack/fraudulent. We also need to rapidly build housing to make it affordable for teachers to live here. (4/5)

A lot of misinfo about the strike. So in case you’re wondering here’s kinda how it works (teacher in Bay Area but not SF) Max salary an SF teacher makers is 130k. That’s only those with graduate degrees and many years of teaching (close to 20). (1/5)

@PwnyRides @BradOnMessage @SouthwestAir Same reason we used to be told to go under our desks in case of a nuclear explosion. Cleanup crews had to know who was who based on the classroom seating chart.

@BradOnMessage @SouthwestAir I worked for SWA for 10 years and was on an emergency response team. She did that in case of a “souls onboard” scenario. I can’t go as far to say it’s legally required, but that’s why she did it. They have to know who is where, on the plane.

In a totally empty late night plane, a ⁦@SouthwestAir⁩ flight attendant just refused to let me sit anywhere except the row where my ticket is, and where someone inexplicably bought the middle seat. As an 80+ segment a year business flyer, you’d better fix this nonsense SWA.

@ZumwaltFiredYet @MaxArmand Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded.

@MaxArmand $600k for that piece of garbage? Good God, what has happened to California?

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@turtledumplin After I trimmed my Bay Laurel tree, I posted on nextdoor that I had tons of bay laurel leaves available for free. Got numerous messages asking me if I could bring them to their house. When I took the tree down this year - straight to the green bin.

I got a new cast iron Dutch oven so I posted my old one FOR FREE. Someone messages me and tells me where they live (an hour and half away from me) and if I would meet them halfway. So they wanted to know if I’d spend my gas to drive 45 min to deliver a Dutch oven I was giving away for free. Am I the only one that this doesn’t make sense to?

@ScottAtlas_IT @HarmeetKDhillon Not really surprising. The Supreme court allowed Americans of Japanese decent to be rounded up and held in concentration camps. Political agendas operate in the short run, while constitutional constraints on civil liberty abuses operate over the long-run.

.@HarmeetKDhillon: "I'll never forget the first case I argued [during covid]. I was challenging the state of CA for arresting people for driving into a church parking lot and opening their windows to hear the pastor preach a sermon—the court said, 'What do you mean, strict scrutiny? There's no scrutiny because it's an emergency' … I was shocked to my core, but I heard it from judge after judge after judge.”

@NoFilterGames @Cardschatter X is great for seeing people being confidently authoritative while displaying casual ignorance.

@Cardschatter Have you ever had a torn ACL? You get it done ASAP.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a player getting ACL surgery the day after the injury.

@BeholdPaleH0rse Pathetic effort by Bubba Paris.

Everyone talks about Brady’s injury before Mahomes. But I remember this one. Joe Montana gets rocked & the first 49ers dynasty ends. One of the first games I ever saw

@ChrisJM23 @BeholdPaleH0rse How can you not understand an elbow injury to a throwing arm? The same injury ended Terry Bradshaw's career.

@BeholdPaleH0rse I never understood how Montana missed all of 1991 and pretty much 1992 because of an arm injury.

@MattWintner @BeholdPaleH0rse Not factual. He tore a ligament in his elbow the following training camp and missed that season and part of the next one (1992). By the time he was cleared to play the Niners decided to move on with Young (who to be fair was the league MVP in 1992).

@KelBurchell @ZachNelson @BeholdPaleH0rse Nah, he set a standard for the running back position in the modern era - but fumbling away a three-peat is what hurt his chances at the HOF.

@ZachNelson @BeholdPaleH0rse Roger Craig isn’t in the HOF (yet) because he had only 1,000 3x in 11 seasons. Great player, yes, but only 3 stellar seasons combined with playing on a loaded team hurt him.

@BaseballJeff1 Haven't read Grant since the day he decided to espouse nuclear level hate on Hector Sanchez, a back-up catcher, for the sin of taking some ground balls at first base.

As usual, Grant Brisbee with a hilarious and probably accurate take.

@HaroldPeckNYC @Lily4Liberty A InP based single-photon detector operating at 1550nm.

A local resident in Loudon County in TN tipped me about this 400 acres of land sold in 2023 to a Canadian real estate company with mostly Chinese investors. It has a major AT&T fiber optic cable running through it and is located just 10 miles from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

@KevG163 ...and the Giants coach, John McVay, was fired and was immediately hired by Bill Walsh to help him build the 49ers 20 year dynasty.

November 19, 1978 "The Miracle at the Meadowlands" Ahead by five with under 30 seconds remaining, the #Giants inexplicably call a running play during which quarterback Joe Pisarcik makes a 360° pirouette pivot and fumbles. #Eagles corner Herman Edwards scoops up the loose ball and returns it for a touchdown to win in miraculous fashion at Giants Stadium, 19-17. A #Philadelphia loss would've seriously damaged any playoff aspirations they may have had.