INCREDIBLE. An all-time great World Series featuring an incredible number of Hall of Fame-caliber players who did Hall of Fame-caliber things…. And where supporting players still managed to overshadow them in many ways. Truly spectacular.

not great to not have someone to hit for Rojas

Highest career ERA+, min 2000 IP (ER official in both leagues since 1913):

Clayton Kershaw: 154
Pedro Martinez: 154
Lefty Grove: 148

I'm starting to think he can just do this whenever he wants and the 60ish percent of the time where he makes outs he's doing it on purpose so we keep assuming he's human

Jon Stewart mocks Democrats' CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER meme, saying "the Democrats could have filibustered to maybe extract *anything*, but ... they just fucking didn't. If that was the strategy all along, just let people know. Don't make a whole theatrical production of choosing fighters."

The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

“Officials liked what the man in the van set out to do - give all the children delicious candy - but have been frustrated by his reckless abduction approach”

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

Sometimes rich and powerful people are just dumb as shit, but they’re in that position because of heredity or accident. Also, being willing to hurt others, break laws, and ignore boundaries doesn’t require much intelligence.

I think about this post a lot

My issue with AI is 1) for me, it malfunctions more often than any new technology of my lifetime and 2) the biggest proponents *clearly* hold it as a religious belief (This is the Second Coming, this will usher in a utopia, the unprepared will be Left Behind, so give us all the money)

We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government

"AI" is not some new communication tech, it is an attempt to replace/reduce high level creative and intellectual labor either because the people in charge are mindlessly jumping on a trend or attempting to discipline labor or both. It isnt some inevitable new advancement, it is inherently anti-human

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, who accused the company of breaking copyright law, found dead in apparent suicide

I think it's interesting that with the growth and increasing dominance of the business corporation no mainstream literature ever emerged saying that they "artificially" repress the demand for loanable funds and reduce business investment by replacing "markets" with capital budgets

I want to see their annual MLK Day post on here