Ossoff: When you step back and consider it, the situation is absurd. Tech titans dig bunkers and warn us the new intelligence they’re training could lead to mass joblessness or human extinction, while our Congress debates ballrooms and youth sports.
We’ve amassed enough firepower to end the world 1,000 times over, but we can’t summon the will to guarantee health care and pre-K. I say all this to say, but it’s the crushing weakness of our politics, against the unmet needs of our people and the massive stakes of our times, that’s shaking our faith in the future.
But Atlanta, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become.
When Eva is old enough to ask me why I let this happen. I'm determined to answer truthfully, that I didn’t
@MJMelanc@ProjectStrider@will_nba_hater Stay on topic, he was insinuating there was no way for the DBacks to compete like they didn’t beat two top 10 payrolls. Teams below the top 20 in payroll shouldn’t be able to compete regardless. If you don’t invest even marginally you shouldn’t succeed, same with real life.
@ProjectStrider@will_nba_hater They swept the 7th highest payroll and beat the 5th highest payroll in a 7 game series. Yall just can’t be honest about how much a crapshoot the postseason is.
Got told by the media that the economy was dog shit for four years with job growth that literally had never been this strong in the history of our nation and those same reporters have jack fucking shit to say about the dumpster fire Trump created.
Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."
Trump on Switzerland:
Take a look at Switzerland. We have a $39 billion deficit. I can wipe out that deficit in one stroke of the pen and they're no longer an elite country. Yet they pay one-half of one percent interest. They're the lowest ones.
And all I have to do is say, "I don't want any of your watches. I don't want any of your goods." And we save ourselves $39, $41 billion, and they go from being elite to being very troubled.
Fortunately, I'm a nice person.
@NeuroNole@baseballbatbros No, i’m just hating. However, I would love to see a regression analysis on budgets spent on analytics/player development and win totals. I know that’s not possible, but anecdotally I think the brewers and rays win totals have a pretty strong correlation with that variable.
The 2005 Yankees payroll was 70% higher than the second-highest team in MLB that season.
The 2026 Dodgers payroll (including luxury taxes, according to Spotrac) is 15% higher than the No. 2 team.