I am of the nature to grow old.
There is no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill health.
There is no way to escape ill health.
I am of the nature to die.
There is no way to escape death.
My final statement on the ABS nonsense …
… if we no longer care about nuances of the game that have made it what it has been for over 100 years, fully automate the strike zone.
Forget the challenges, forget putting any of these calls in umpires hands.
We very obviously have the technology in place. If all that matters is getting the call right every pitch, let’s automate the entire thing and get it over with.
Keep HP umpire back there for plays at the plate and other duties but take balls and strikes away from them completely.
@ode_to_fyodor@MattHMajn@RealEmirHan they want to see Homelander get his, rather because they they feel seen. We all have a have a little dark part of our brain that recongizes how tempting it would be to do evil with god like power.
@ode_to_fyodor@MattHMajn@RealEmirHan Because it doesn't matter what he was trying to make. People are going to take it and interpret the any media through their own lense regardless of the director's intent. The show is about human nature, there is a significant portion of people who watch this show not because 1/2
The Big, Beautiful Bill was a tax hike. It made government bigger & more expensive. Americans will pay for phony tax cuts with higher inflation. Anyone who tells you the Big, Beautiful Bill was a tax cut is lying. That’s why @RepThomasMassie had the integrity to vote against it.
Thanks to Donald Trump, we now have two Democratic parties. With the defeat of @RepThomasMassie for being a principled fiscal conservative, the Republican Party basically exists in name only. We have two big-government political parties, each offering its own brand of socialism.
Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.
At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.
It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.
They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.
When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.
He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.
Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.
The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.
That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."
He earned the right to say it.
its never over. never give up fren.