Oh wow - could they really be in jeopardy even if they were just (indirectly) following the president’s orders and with the apparent consent of Congress?
On the Dem side this seems like one of the most important things to resolve. You're never going to convince David -- he's a true believer; but the bigger problem is that the footsoldiers (i.e. those who are more partisan than ideological) are treating the extreme position as the party line to enforce, and that's a drag on the party popularity (which is extremely low right now, as I imagine everyone has seen). Dems need a message akin to the "safe, legal, and rare" formulation for abortion to indicate compassion for trans people but not total capitulation to the extremists, that the pols can sign onto to be able to win more elections.
Question for you Californians -- is this tweet accurate? It's pretty jaw-dropping:
amazing...in 2016, the California Legislature passed a bill to update its Y2K-era campaign finance portal, estimating development costs at $11.6 million w/a completion date of February 2019.
The latest cost estimate is now $92.3 million w/a completion date of February 2027.
There will always be that part of the response, but my sense so far is that unlike in 2017 (when basically my entire social circle was freaking out about everything), now it's limited to the most partisan & vocal folks I know, while for the rest it merits an eyeroll or resigned shrug. The J6 pardons and immigration changes are getting more attention so far.
Either that or he's become easily led (or some combination). That happened to my grandfather -- in the last few years of his life, he let himself be talked out of decisions that he had confidently made decades prior, because he had lost the mental acuity to be able to have and defend his own ideas.
I think you’re overthinking this. Garbage time effort will always be different than when the game is on the line, so bettors should bear that in mind when placing bets. How the nfl should police potential player/team involvement with gambling is a separate question— presumably they have people looking out for behavior outside the norms to identify situations that may need further investigation, but that stuff probably won’t appear in espn articles until it’s much farther along.
Also from Onion 1999, giving the perspective of the other side: Nation's Experts Give Up. Though it's funny to read this one in the light of what's changed since then.
I wonder how their contracts are written - does that revenue instantly disappear? If so, not good from a budget pov for this to happen just after the 1st of the year.
Guess that's not surprising given the effort she's putting in to spread this around. If it were my name on it, I would just be relieved that it didn't see the light of day for whatever reason.
Has it been confirmed that Bezos killed it? I saw the story this morning, and the editor gave a non-Bezos-related explanation for the decision. Of course it could be a cover story, but I haven't seen anyone asking the sorts of questions that would get us past the initial reaction stage -- e.g., have any other cartoonists submitted comics critical of Bezos? If so, were they run? Has the paper run other content that criticized Bezos?
Personally I would've killed it for just being not a particularly good or interesting cartoon (in this case the picture is worth only about a dozen or so words -- perhaps okay as an illustration for an accompanying article at best), but OTOH maybe this is the average level of a political cartoon these days.
I'm a little late to this, but I did appreciate that some of the admissions of error re Biden's fitness seemed to show genuine acceptance of responsibility (Mehdi Hasan's was particularly emphatic). The test of course will be the next time there's an emperor's new clothes moment, to see whether any of them actually do anything different based on this experience (especially before it's safe to do so).
Our main biz is Medicare Advantage enrollment, and CMS decided to make a crap-ton of regulatory changes this year effective 1/1/2025, with not nearly enough notice for us to properly plan -- so now we have a traffic jam getting all our clients all their needed updates in time. We didn't anticipate this when liberally granting time off, so those of us with the most wringable necks will have a busy Christmastime scrambling to find the resources to test, deploy, deal with fallout & unhappy clients, etc.
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Oh wow - could they really be in jeopardy even if they were just (indirectly) following the president’s orders and with the apparent consent of Congress?
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"How dare you acquiesce to our demands and take away our justification for protesting! We demand that you stop acquiescing to our demands!"
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On the Dem side this seems like one of the most important things to resolve. You're never going to convince David -- he's a true believer; but the bigger problem is that the footsoldiers (i.e. those who are more partisan than ideological) are treating the extreme position as the party line to enforce, and that's a drag on the party popularity (which is extremely low right now, as I imagine everyone has seen). Dems need a message akin to the "safe, legal, and rare" formulation for abortion to indicate compassion for trans people but not total capitulation to the extremists, that the pols can sign onto to be able to win more elections.
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I noticed and fixed it before you replied :)
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A modest proposal regarding the naming of things.
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Yes, let's be sure to use the exact spelling the settler-colonists chose after taking over the territory.
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Question for you Californians -- is this tweet accurate? It's pretty jaw-dropping:
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Damn, there go my "Denali is not just a mountain in Alaska" jokes. Those always killed.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025”
There will always be that part of the response, but my sense so far is that unlike in 2017 (when basically my entire social circle was freaking out about everything), now it's limited to the most partisan & vocal folks I know, while for the rest it merits an eyeroll or resigned shrug. The J6 pardons and immigration changes are getting more attention so far.
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Why would he say anything about it? Is there anyone whose opinion he has reason to care about is also concerned about it?
If anything, the brouhaha serves Team Trump's interests, as Saul's TPM quote suggested.
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Either that or he's become easily led (or some combination). That happened to my grandfather -- in the last few years of his life, he let himself be talked out of decisions that he had confidently made decades prior, because he had lost the mental acuity to be able to have and defend his own ideas.
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Oh I didn't read all the way to the bottom -- maybe they're also writing the speeches?
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We're in garbage time now, the third-stringers are running the socials.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/13/2025”
Let’s hope that’s the last one and he doesn’t sneak in yet more billions of dollars of student loan forgiveness.
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I think you’re overthinking this. Garbage time effort will always be different than when the game is on the line, so bettors should bear that in mind when placing bets. How the nfl should police potential player/team involvement with gambling is a separate question— presumably they have people looking out for behavior outside the norms to identify situations that may need further investigation, but that stuff probably won’t appear in espn articles until it’s much farther along.
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But this has always been a thing, to some extent - the main difference with *legalized* gambling is that ESPN is more apt to write a post about it.
On “A Society of Shame Attached to Everything”
See this related SMBC comic.
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Also from Onion 1999, giving the perspective of the other side: Nation's Experts Give Up. Though it's funny to read this one in the light of what's changed since then.
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I wonder how their contracts are written - does that revenue instantly disappear? If so, not good from a budget pov for this to happen just after the 1st of the year.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/30/2024”
Guess that's not surprising given the effort she's putting in to spread this around. If it were my name on it, I would just be relieved that it didn't see the light of day for whatever reason.
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Has it been confirmed that Bezos killed it? I saw the story this morning, and the editor gave a non-Bezos-related explanation for the decision. Of course it could be a cover story, but I haven't seen anyone asking the sorts of questions that would get us past the initial reaction stage -- e.g., have any other cartoonists submitted comics critical of Bezos? If so, were they run? Has the paper run other content that criticized Bezos?
Personally I would've killed it for just being not a particularly good or interesting cartoon (in this case the picture is worth only about a dozen or so words -- perhaps okay as an illustration for an accompanying article at best), but OTOH maybe this is the average level of a political cartoon these days.
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I'm a little late to this, but I did appreciate that some of the admissions of error re Biden's fitness seemed to show genuine acceptance of responsibility (Mehdi Hasan's was particularly emphatic). The test of course will be the next time there's an emperor's new clothes moment, to see whether any of them actually do anything different based on this experience (especially before it's safe to do so).
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Our main biz is Medicare Advantage enrollment, and CMS decided to make a crap-ton of regulatory changes this year effective 1/1/2025, with not nearly enough notice for us to properly plan -- so now we have a traffic jam getting all our clients all their needed updates in time. We didn't anticipate this when liberally granting time off, so those of us with the most wringable necks will have a busy Christmastime scrambling to find the resources to test, deploy, deal with fallout & unhappy clients, etc.
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