StrangeSox

sacrifice bunts are terrible unless that happens

the bat toss

Honestly I'd have to look it up. It's all been set to the same auto-invest for several years now. Once every other month or so I'll check Fidelity's full view retirement planner thing to see Number Go Up edit: the fun thing with those retirement planners are how sensitive they are to initial conditions if you're still a couple of decades out from retirement. based on fidelity's three choices, "significantly below average, below average, average" market returns from today through the end of the plan, we could be anywhere from ~3k/month short in retirement to having ~$9k/month extra. that's, uh, kinda a broad range.

whatever one is either the total market index or the target date retirement one, which is where the bulk of our retirement savings are. they're dirt-cheap and perform well. you pay a pretty small premium with vanguard for the target date management.

What was changed about how U1-6 was calculated? Labor force participation never fully recovered from the '08 crash but did any of the underlying formulas actually change? Unrelated, can anyone explain what an NFT actually is, and why anyone would pay money for one?

Between finishing up dinner and then getting little kids ready for/into bed, I typically can only catch the last inning or two of a 7PM start. Which more often than not means watching Hendriks dominate, which I'm okay with.

BLOW. THIS. TEAM. UP. I thought that went without saying.

I don't see any way this current roster can guarantee a WS win. The only option is to sell off every asset. It'd be foolish not to.

boo

You can still run into issues where plants need to derate due to intake water being too hot. Thermdynamic efficiency is all about that delta T! Or if you simply exceed system capacity by having so many AC units running.

F1 used to use the infield track at Indy years ago but never Chicago. I happened to be in Baltimore once when the streets were set up for the Indy Car race the following week. Pretending to be on a race track in my rental Nissan was fun. I'm pretty sure "Monaco Yacht Rich" includes a generational component where new money need not apply

NIAID is a lot more than just pandemics. Maybe he was great at leading NIAID for decades in general but we need someone else focused on pandemic preparedness at an assistant director level or something. That said dude's in his 70's so he probably doesn't have a ton of time left in the role anyway. Dedicating your life and expertise to public health and scientific research is noble, imo. Here, for example, is Kizzmekia Corbett. She has spent her career so far at NIAIH/NIH labs and her team was the one who developed the spike protein target in the Moderna vaccine in a matter of weeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett The part you didn't bold and highlight, which I did quote previously, pretty clearly says he wasn't giving his full assessment to the public because he didn't think we were "ready" for it. That's why there are comms professionals and people whose entire job is science communication specifically. There's a whole body of research on the most effective ways to message negative news. Constant doomerism doesn't work, but neither does deliberately underplaying it and regularly shifting expectations and projections.

Fauci admitted to slowly walking up the estimated 'herd immunity' stuff. By all accounts, he's been very good at his job at NIAID for a long time and is well-respected within the scientific community. At the same time, people in jobs like that and at agencies like that have professional comms teams for a reason. He's been pretty not great, to put it charitably, at various public comms things throughout the pandemic. Some of that is pressure from the top, some of that is his own fault. He definitely seems to enjoy the taste of celebrity he's gotten.

These vaccines work incredibly well

Fauci's public communications have been pretty terrible from the start of this.

Is there any new evidence pointing to a lab leaker, or does the preponderance of evidence still strongly indicate natural zoonotic origins? There's been lots of smoke in the media lately, but as far as I've seen, it's not been based on anything.

Nitrogen expands and contracts more evenly than air, so race cars typically use it because they're dialing in the psi's very very precisely. That's where it all started. For passenger vehicles it really doesn't make much sense. Who cares if your tire's psi is 40 or 42 when it's up to temp? edit: Nitrous filled tires would be...very very bad in the event of an accident!

What on earth was the thought behind pulling Lynn for this trash

Lynn is very entertaining to watch

A tale of two countries: The B.1.617.2 or "Indian" variant appears to spread even faster the the B.1.17 "UK" variant, and it's currently becoming dominant in the UK. The UK has AZ/Oxford as about half their total vaccinations so far I think. I'm not sure if B.1.617.2 has made its way to Israel yet, but they only used Pfizer/Moderna mRNA vaccines.

DuPage County is leading the way in Illinois vaccinations, and it's showing in the results: