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Congress really needs to step up and set some regulatory boundaries from the get go. Most likely, it's gonna be up to the EU again to tell big techs to stay in bounds.

What is the likely cost of getting Aiyuk? Depending on the cost, couldn't we get him and frontload his contract to use up whatever unused cap space we have after rookie contracts to make him more affordable starting in year 2 of the contract?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/26/trump-advisors-are-considering-plans-to-dramatically-revamp-the-fed-wsj-report-says.html Not linking WSJ directly since it's paywalled, but cnbc article is not paywalled. I cannot emphasize enough how terrible an idea this is. To any voter with an ounce of sanity, this has to be straight up disqualifying regardless of party leaning. If anyone wants an example how insane it is to have political concerns meddle with the central bank, just go look at the Turkish Lira since Erdogan's stupidity.

I'm out of the loop on this. What's the issue with number 5?

And Peters is not responsible for any of that history

And Peters was the GM for none of those years. People can disagree with the pick but trotting out the team's history under Snyder as the reason is just terrifyingly bad logic

It's one thing to disagree with the decision (plenty have), but you are ascribing intent and incompetence to Peters that is wholly unsupported by any evidence (refuted in the case of Kingsbury connection). The notion that an up and coming GM with a long term view towards his own future in the league is going to torpedo his first stint as a GM by using the 2nd overall pick for a marketing juice instead picking who he thinks is the best pick is so beyond the realm of logic, it is in tinfoil hat territory.

So first it was to cater to Kingsbury and now it's a marketing move?

I'm curious, what constitutes disrespecting your opinion? If you have the right to disagree with other people's opinion, they have the right to disagree with you right?

With Daniel Jones throwing to him

Don't forget the Keim shade for reasons that passes understanding

Now I feel ignorant 😓

Wait, you're not supposed to rinse?

Damn, imagine the havoc Snyders could have created by Dan, Tanya, and their son starting a twitter war by each staking their claim on a QB prospect and arguing back and forth in public.

I think at least 3, most likely 4 will be considered a bust out of the top 5 QBs. There is rarely, if ever, a safe QB pick anyway. I'm not gonna fault the team for swinging for the fences. Hopefully it works out.

Pot and munches vs ME debate on ES. Tough decision

No guarantee it works here or anywhere either. It just the method with the best shot at a championship for a non destination city like DC imo.

They better do it every year till they get the franchise superstar. It's not their fault that Leonsis didn't hire them the year before Wemby sweepstakes and at least we're done with the all in for play-in nonsense.

Can they all just colonize Mars or something and duke it out over there?

I feel like the money options could be arguable depending on your current age, financial situation, and investment confidence (especially combined with no taxes), but no taxes and no sickness is a no brainer.

I doubt it's the most shorted stock. If nothing else, for there to be a lot of action on the option chain, there has to be healthy disagreement on the speculation dividing the masses on seller and buyer side of options. Currently, almost everyone transacting in puts are gambling over when and how drastically it goes down, not on direction of the price action. Add in the high potential of irrational price pump action by those who may view buying the stock as proxy support for Trump, the axium that market may stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent has never been truer. People shouldn't short the stock (except maybe extremely far out leaps at extremely low premium, if such are available), not because anything about the company fundamentals would support any valuation above penny stock levels, but because there is a high likelihood that price action of this stock would have no connection whatsoever with the realities of the company.

Okay, I appreciate you revisiting topics you covered earlier in the thread and my bad for not delving more into the previous posts before asking. 👍 I don't want to rehash what I assume were probably discussed in detail before so I'd just summarize my position as certainly open to something along the lines of what you suggest (tweaking the EC system to improve on things it does well and fix things it does not). I was commenting more generally on the EC as is vs. a straightforward popular vote system (and if a choice between those two, I prefer the popular vote). But if people came up with a better system, certainly yeah, I would not be set on a popular vote system. At the end of the day, I want a system that encourages presidential candidates to try to reach out and engage with more parts of the country than they are doing now.

Or only when the compact actually accomplishes what it is intended to do (i.e. - national popular vote winner wins the election). I don't really care who supports it for whatever reason nor do I care about what was needed to bring people to the table 250 years ago (though tbf, the compact doesn't change the bargain. States were always free to decide how they awarded electors). I do know that I would rather have the candidates try to turn out the votes and engage across the whole swath of the country rather than campaigning at pretty much the same select few states every election cycle. I don't understand this part. What are the pitfalls of a popular vote?

The compact provides that selecting the elector in favor of the popular vote winner is only enforced if the states joining the compact represents the majority for that election. So for example, if the compact states represent the majority in 2024, but census change puts them below in 2032, the compact would no longer be enforced in 2032. It would lay dormant until the compact states represent the majority again.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics New York Fed publishes regular report on household debts and credit. Most recent quarterly report was February (and FWIW, it does look like HELOC balances are dropping while CC balances are rising) https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/interactives/householdcredit/data/pdf/HHDC_2023Q4