I agree with you. I actually ended my statement above with the "Hard to commit fraud from logs" initially but then started to think of exactly how they might try fraud with the data, however unlikely.

‘Quietly’.

Oooooooooooooouuuuuu. It’s a mystery…..

Have you seen body cam footage before? Even if someone being arrested for DUI or something, if they turn around and stomp on the cop's foot, or spit in their face, or shove the cop... that is assault. That's where the 1,000 number comes from, which is criminally accurate I'd imagine.

Please go watch some basic footage of Jan 6 and tell me there aren't dozens if not 100+ more cops that were being assaulted, like... not in the nice assault way either. Again and I'll stop repeating it, I think Walz's summary was realistic. If you don't then that's ok, too. I thought his larger point is accurate as well... President's words matter and what we saw that day was a result of election denialism and stirring up his supporters.

As you might have expected, I've done some major slow-mo analysis of it and in this case, the guy who ends up with the ball seems to have obtained it fair and square. Belanski (the guy who got it), doesn't seem to have taken it from Matus who was also going for it on the ground. Seems fair.

At the end of the day, the unofficial baseball fan rule is you have to hold the ball up and claim victory before it is yours. Until then, there will be mayhem until there's an owner.

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In the case of the Barry Bonds ball referenced, I agree Popov got screwed. He caught the ball (in a freeze frame you can see it) but then gets ambushed by the crowd and loses it to someone else. That sucks.

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You want government agencies to follow the law or do you want government agencies to not follow the law?

@Jolly , you should incorporate some deep state conspiracy theories, like Harris as the seating VP getting access to super advanced wireless ear pieces from spy agencies not available to Trump or anyone else.

@taiwan_girl said in Dudes posting their Ws:

@Horace said in Dudes posting their Ws:

I brought a 100 ounce silver bar to work to show it to people because I thought it was cool, but I sensed people thought I was trying to show off. I work with a bunch of poor trash PhD scientists and engineers, so I guess they probably hadn't seen 2000 dollars all in the same place ever before. So I stopped showing it to people. You need to be an upper class high status type like me in order to appreciate the beauty separately from the monetary value.

Maybe you can move on to Platinum

The warehouse retailer (COST) has started selling one-ounce platinum bars priced at $1,089.99 apiece, which is slightly higher than the metal's current value of roughly $1,000 per ounce on the commodity market. Costco's foray into selling gold bars started last year and has proven a huge success, with the company reporting that sales reached $100 million in 2023.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20241003254/are-the-costco-platinum-bars-worth-buying-heres-what-finance-pros-have-to-say

That silver bar is $3150 now. Doubled since I bought it. I'm thinking of cashing them in for a nice grand piano.

Unlikely.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/fire-fighters-union-declines-presidential-endorsement-00182372

If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he hopped.

I know someone, I dare not name who that is, who had a Canada Geese problem at his vacation home in a nearby state. They shit all over the pool deck, intimidated his 4 daughters and were aggressive about anyone walking on their turf.

Said person, and I am implicating no one, purchased a CO2 powered BB gun to ... discourage the geese from nesting and hanging out around his pool. Though none of the geese were injured, the "plonk" of a BB hitting one of the flying rats was a strong disincentive for them to move to a different location.

Not naming names...

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Space is hard.

Not Nate:

https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president

Politico: "Walz has a tendency to misspeak."

Tim Walz has a problem misspeaking.

Since being tapped as Kamala Harris’ running mate, the folksy, plain-speaking Minnesota governor has had to explain a growing number of inaccurate statements — and at times embellishments — about his past. They range from comments about his military service to his visit to Hong Kong more than three decades ago to clarifying that his family didn’t specifically use in vitro fertilization.

It’s unclear whether Walz’s verbal errors will undercut his credibility with voters. But the need to continually clean up those claims could politically hurt Walz and Harris, who are locked in a tight race with Donald Trump and JD Vance. And in some cases, key members of Harris’ circle weren’t aware of some of the inaccurate statements until they became public despite the vetting process, according to four people familiar with the conversations who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter.

Even Walz admits he "misspoke."

The most recent example came Tuesday, when a CBS debate moderator pressed Walz over his claim that he had been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, when Hong Kong was still under British rule (Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997). Walz over the years had said publicly he had been in Hong Kong during the crackdown in Beijing, including 10 years ago in Congress.

But on Tuesday during the debate, he awkwardly responded that “all I said on this was, is, I got there that summer,” and “I’m a knucklehead at times” before conceding he “misspoke.”

Walz’s misstatements could contradict the image that the campaign has painted of him as an upstanding, everyday Midwest guy.

"Misspeaking." Funny when other politicians do the same thing another word is used.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2024/10/03/chinese-ev-firms-are-suffering-losses/

Beijing had made a big bet on electric vehicles (EV). But like so many other efforts of China’s centrally planned economy, things have not gone well. Intense price competition among China’s many EV producers as well as waning demand—both in China and abroad—have put manufacturers into financial trouble, with some reporting losses despite still considerable public support. Beijing has begun to step away from the effort, leaving local governments to pick up the subsidy slack. It is not a sustainable situation.

This now failing effort began more than five years ago. According to the MIT Technology Review, the raft of subsidies, tax breaks, procurement contracts, and other more oblique incentives to ramp up production and make China dominant has cost Beijing the equivalent of some $230 billion. The push eventually created a market for 13.1 million vehicles that accounted for 60% of EV ownership globally. Beijing also pushed for global sales of Chinese-made EVs. That effort made little headway in the United States even before Washington began to show increased levels of hostility toward China and Chinese products. The effort did, however, have considerable success in Europe.

@Jolly said in The Other Debate This Week…:

Did Cao move the needle? I know he was trailing...

He's gotta move it a LOT. Trailing by 10% last time I looked.

How often do "zingers" in a debate move the needle, even if you are paying for the microphone and don't make fun of your opponent's age and inexperience?