Thanks for posting this. I met Kotkin once at an academic conference. Loved his short book on the fall of the Soviet Union.

@lufins-dad said in Wet Pants Denim: Why pay extra when you can just make your own? Temperature?

@mik check out "The Bluegrass Cantata." Link to video

Isn’t it just redeploying dollars from one group to another? Sounds like a better use of the incentive pool but there are losers correct?

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@doctor-phibes said in The $700,000 Movie: Budget for Blair Witch Project - $300,000. It made $248 million. Budget for Blair Witch Project 2 - $15 million. It made $47 million. I think those are a generational phenoma, not to be repeated for awhile.

Good news. I was wondering if anything related to COVID might be used to improve current fly vaccines.

Sadly, the gold-plated edition is sold out.

If history repeats itself that woman has a life long history of significant mental health issues and these people always love fringe ideas, from the left and right. It makes them feel alive.

@jolly said in Rocky & James Bond: Watch your Prime cost climb. I think you are right. It won’t be a race to the bottom and the competition is for good content. There will be big winners and big losers.

@taiwan_girl said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: @doctor-phibes said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: @aqua-letifer said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: @horace said in Phil’s up 4 with 8 to go: Trump and Mickelson are neck and neck for biggest losers on the planet. Trump's not a loser, he's right up there with Franklin Pierce, Pehr Svinhufvud, Aden Abdulle Osman Daar, and other household names who have changed the world in their only term. Look how many times he won impeachment, Horace, Donald Trump is anything but a loser. Plus, he's never lost a game of golf, if you believe what you read. Would have been interesting if President Trump would have been able to play Premier Kim Jong Il of the DPRK. QUOTE One of golf’s greatest feats is to shoot one’s age. So, imagine how spectacular a day Kim Jong-Il had back in 1994. The North Korean dictator, who died on Saturday of heart failure at age 69, scorched the 7,700-yard Pyongyang Golf Course in a stunning 38-under par, 34. Now, before getting all bent out of shape that such a score is impossible or clearly the product of creative scorekeeping on the part of the “Dear Leader,” it’s important to note that witnesses attest to his great round. According to reports, Kim, who was 52 at the time, carded no worse than a birdie on any hole at the country’s only golf club. He also had five holes-in-one in the round, which was witnessed by 17 armed bodyguards. “He is an excellent golfer,” Park Young Man, the club professional, told the International Herald Tribune a couple of months after Kim’s historic round, which was widely-reported in North Korea’s state-controlled media. Good thing for Tiger Woods and his contemporaries Kim spent his time serving his people because clearly he could have ruled the PGA Tour too. UNQUOTE Supposedly, it was the first time he had ever golfed!!! (https://www.thestar.com/sports/golf/2011/12/19/kim_jongil_once_carded_38under_par_at_pyongyang_golf_course.html) Baghdad Bob must have been an understudy.

@aqua-letifer said in Trust Us: @loki said in Trust Us: @horace said in Trust Us: Known Republican Lebron James doesn't want to say whether he's vaccinated. https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2021/05/24/lebron-james-coronavirus-vaccine-nr-vpx.cnn How can you be woke and a social justice leader and refuse to say? I’d love to hear that argument. Depends on how shitty the people are who are asking, I'd guess. If I felt like the question was more like a pre-emptive attack I'd tell them to go to hell with their question, too. And yes I still think those who are capable and should get vaccinated but still don't are fucking assholes. Shucks, I'm still for open carry and let everybody say what they want to. Manners and assholes would soon even out.

@loki The point is that fully vaccinated individuals are capable of transmitting the disease, just like unvaccinated people. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the individual to take responsibility for himself. Being vaccinated may, or may not protect society in this case, especially the further you are from your vaccination.

Martha’s Vineyard is for democrats Nantucket is for republicans

@lufins-dad said in Gal with a gun: Resulting in his death. He made a tragic miscalculation in the odds. Thought it was just women and children. A soft target. As a juror I would call the woman a hero, imminent threat to mothers and children. The optics aren’t any more obvious than that.

Thanks all! I will pass it along.

Drama is part of the sausage making. If a deal happened I would expect chop and turbulence and a dumpster fire all the way to the bitter end…and then each side will need to figure out if it has the votes and the leverage to accept whatever.