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The part that irritated me the most about that was the fact that HHS/CDC/et. al. were actually doing a solid job and making the correct decisions. Like, you'd think people would notice we *didn't* have a massive Ebola outbreak here. Or even anyone getting infected at all.

I don't even understand all the hype and fear over this. Well, actually I do, but I'm thinking about it logically and it makes no sense. CBP probably processes something like 2000 people a day (my guess, based on anecdotal things I've heard, I doubt they publish specific operational stuff publicly). This caravan, let's say it has 5000 people in it? That's like 2 days of work. It's not a crisis. It's pretty obvious what's happening here.

Look at the teams that are winning in 2018, how they are run and managed, and then think of Ozzie's managerial style - how's that gonna work? Everyone else is playing optimizing matchups and percentages, Ozzie is gonna bat Eloy Jimenez 2nd and have him bunt or some shit.

I've read this post about 4 times and I still don't understand it.

I'm moving in 3 weeks, and I'm supposed to be taking stuff to storage on my days off but I can't get myself started. I started to today, and then saw all the clutter almost solely caused by my wife who hasn't done much (if at all) to help clear up and immediately lost all my motivation. Most of everything else that's in storage is there in spite of the other people who live in my house.

Cuz their team is competitive right now, and he's a known quantity

I don't understand why the Packers gave up their best secondary player. I'm assuming it's the typical Green Bay reason (we don't want to pay him and we'll just draft someone with the picks we've stacked) but if that's it then why not wait for a comp pick?

Bulls new defensive strategy:

Completion percentage in the modern NFL is inflated, Trubisky's accuracy seems to either run cold or hot. When it's cold, he will miss WRs downfield (but, and this is key, not usually turn it over) and make a bunch of short completions in the flat or bubble screens. That torpedoes his Y/A, but lately he's been getting big chunks of yardage in the second half.

The Bears have lost 3 games, and they were definite losses since there is no such thing as a "should've won" loss, but despite all their mistakes they were in a position to realistically win any of those games. They will probably get crushed against the Rams but looking at the rest of their schedule, if they can hold their own in the division (Fox was pathetic in this area) playoffs isn't out of the question.

That first picture is from before Obama was president (he denounced Farrakhan during the campaign and Farrakhan isn't exactly a fan of Obama - plus their houses in Hyde Park are literally walking distance from each other) and I don't know how you figure Aretha Franklin's funeral was some kind of Democratic-sponsored event. She was a Black American cultural icon, so that's the crowd who was at her funeral. Black Americans have a complicated relationship with Farrakhan but that's a whole other topic. His anti-Semitism is well known and he's been rightly been condemned for it over and over again.

When Trubisky takes off running there are times when I'm like "GET DOWN SLIDE IDIOT" but he's made 2 linebackers miss by the time I'm able to yell it and he ends up with 31 yards. If he is gonna be one of the best running QBs in the league with significant accuracy issues maybe we should call him Truvicksky.

Trubisky is at times maddeningly inconsistent but he hasn't actually been outright bad for a whole game, and when he's hot he's very hot. He's showing enough for me to think that we're not wasting time with him.

Farrakhan has been disavowed and denounced numerous times a long time ago already. He's not in mainstream politics.

Meltdown.

Kevin White has earned a shot, let's see what he can do

^^See: Rosewood massacre, 1920 Tulsa, 1985 MOVE bombings - this isn't stuff that just started happening. I don't understand how people think we have had some recent decline, and then use things that have either always been happening or were worse in the past (like teen pregnancy and murder rates) as evidence.

What country are you guys talking about? That element has always existed in this country and we've never managed to be rid of them. We don't like to think about it because it clashes with how we like to see ourselves as a society but it's all over history.

I got 4 more hours of work so it can take as long as it needs to lol

The crypto mining bubble finally and mercifully burst a while back and there's some great deals on used high-end GPUs - like a 1080 Ti for under $600. I think I might partake.

The gameplay is the same as the first game (not fond of the "repeatedly press A to sprint" thing Rockstar likes doing for some reason). I haven't figured out the food and water thing yet, like I have no idea what I'm looking at until it starts blinking red and my health starts going down.

Machado just stared down his hit that went all the way to the wall and dropped his bat thinking he had a home run, and turned a stand-up double into a single. Not bright.

I picked up The Show 17 for like 10 bucks last week, cuz I don't see the point in getting the most current versions anymore.

Loving it so far. It's got a pretty long intro and it's a couple of hours before it releases you into the world compared to the first game, and I haven't gotten a chance to play with all that yet. I have the Xbox One X version and the 4K HDR looks astounding (not as good as what the PC version will look like when they release that, but incredible for a console).

I read earlier that the Timberwolves don't want to do this trade, and by "Timberwolves" that pretty much means Thibodeau because ownership wants him moved. I really wonder if everyone's on the same page about what Thibodeau is now? What he did in Chicago is, at best, a mirage, and there's plenty of evidence for that now. All he was doing was playing his starters for the entire game to win regular season games and burn his guys out killing their careers while his "defensive system" spread throughout the entire NBA only to be rendered obsolete a couple years later.