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MLB season started this morning (for America). The Dodgers beat the Padres 5-2; the game was played in Seoul.

Crisis averted. Several doctors have examined the elbow of Garrett Cole and none of them have found structural damage to the elbow or its ligaments.) The consensus sees it as a case of edema and that the muscle sits on the arm in a way that is irritating a nerve.* Edema is common for 34 year old pit...

noddy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:02 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7lNtFnrHMA

the kills are kinda fun

They are. I'm a little burnt out on the female singer fronted rock band.

Les Haricots Sont Pas Sale https://youtu.be/NSRcxdTqNiM?si=0iDyJMFdWW-es1Qs Zydeco is a cajunism for haricots. “Hip et Taiaut” are standard Cajun dog names - like Fido and Bowser in English - and the nonsense lyrics are put to many white and black melodies. Alan Lomax was the ethnologist who tied H...

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/when-did-popular-music-become-standardized another article (with stats) on the enshittification of music, This is one of the few things the attitudinal "late-stage capitalism" tags can be applied. It's a top-down affair that the conglomerates have brought...

. American Conservative NATO Can Have Ukraine or the USA — Not Both https://www.newsweek.com/maga-senator-mike-lee-draws-red-line-withdrawing-us-nato-1877569 "If Ukraine is in NATO, the United States should be out, plain and simple. We must draw a redline with NATO: You can have Ukraine or the...

I was the jinx. Day after posting the meme, the best pitcher in baseball, Gerrit Cole, was shut down and sent for testing on his elbow. After testing and a series of consultations, no doctor found an actual tear or damage in the elbow but he will be shut down for 1 to 2 months and is scheduled to ha...

Both also legalized or 'officialized' over-arm motions at roughly the same time and have been tweaking around the edges of that decision since.

the problem with AI is its going to be good enough even though its pretty lavender. thats why its so scary to ponder all the aspects of society it will soon control and guide, with its inhuman levels of pattern matching and "correlation means causation" approach to data. with billions of ...

That's a cool article.

The full lunging body motion still throws me off.

or the subsequent tweet:

"Hangin' Ten!" b/w "Locked Inside My Sad Closet"

it was very regimented and graded for me - certain amount of scales, techniques and standard tunes which must be played and sight read for every level, and then when you hit the right level you can get an offer to leave the school band and instead join the school orchestra, oohh allal. handel and h...

I'd say, "you'd have to laugh," if the intent wasn't so malicious. 8 years ago, these votes were conceptually (and conventionally) thought of as solid Democratic voters. That forgotten distant past of 2015-2016, they supposedly turned into the biggest monsters the earth has ever seen. In t...

It's iron age economics-- arranging of households. The Achaemenids encouraged long-term economic development and stability by investing in a lot of public works [to put it as an anachronism] and introducing the satrapy model which encouraged long term cities, working towards nationhood, a centralize...

For some, this may be a Freudian slip: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8OWAAAYAQy?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8PXUAAKwHv?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8MW0AAL2Bp?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH31q8NXoAAguXC?format=...

Yes, noble is a possibility; some argue that it is closer to peer or companion, or maybe even free-man.

heh, write what you love and all of that.

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The beauty with speculation is it could be almost anything, and depends how one weighs what's available. We have Achaemenid royal inscriptions and the similarities between the 17 Gathas and the Rig-Veda. The Gathas aren't full of biographical data; and the common source obviously shared by the Vedas...

So called Art Games are the indie music wallpaper of today.

I'm sure there is one or two in this thread I gave a positive review for but what a disaster overall, and that is when we went hunting for something good.

Never have that problem with the art movie or art music.

Well, I wish 'em the best but yeah, I'm pretty burnt out on role playing. These things aren't always my decision though. :) There is an eye on everyone's game of the year in Baldur's Gate III but it just looks like another thousand hour game. I am okay with Tetris and Pac Man-- pick'd up Pac Man Cha...

Yes. The irony that the brand is its biggest attention getter and hindrance. Probably would be in much better shape just to borrow bits of it, like bands of mad men in a post-apocalyptic world and run with that.

Get the impression that brainstorming what a Mad Max game is started with: "he drives around in cool cars...and....we are making this for Sony/Xbox so...." A quote from the game's wiki: Avalanche Studios found developing a vehicular-combat video game a challenge because of their inexperien...