andyburke

Does anyone else feel like these national leagues have become just as disconnected from reality as any other hyper capitalist enterprise?

I want more hometown sports. I daydream about leagues funded by local communities, starring local talent, with smaller local crowds. Is there anyone else out there who would give much more of a shit if things were a little more close to home, reality-wise? Am I alone?

Guys getting paid literally hundreds of millions to play a sport is unrelatable. A local star making $300k and being a part of the community feels better to me. Seems like we should be able to afford a lot of those for the money we are spending.

I know next to nothing about sports or the business around them, but I know I remember summer nights with cheap hotdogs and minor league ball that seem to have evaporated as the wealthy accumulated. 🤷‍♂️

lol at 3/4 of a megabyte of Vue components being ok and thinking node_modules is the issue at hand.

I am so old. Ever seen Aliens?

Enjoy our time. Eventually they will come. They always come… mostly at night, mostly.

This chart doesn’t show the adult blood lead levels boomers had through continuing exposure. They didn’t get as huge a dose as kids, but they got it for longer.

But yeah, you’re understanding why I am asking why people think this is becoming less of an issue. It’s just shifting a bit. As a GenXer myself, I would probably be ok with an age limit of like 40 to hold political office at this point. Neither we nor the boomers can be trusted.

What makes you think lead poisoning has wound down as GenX ages into taking over from the Boomers?

It’s a fine line - getting tired of having to meet people where they are when they’re standing in the shit.

Good on you for having the energy to keep it up.

Let.me know which bit I got wrong such that I should enhance my chill.

Oh, you means liberals did something instead of nothing, and then it wasn’t perfect, so conservatives absolutely lost their goddamn minds, only to realize hey maybe we should do something, now let’s address the things the liberals wanted to address in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE?

Is that what you mean?

You refuse to address the “arbitrary” and “dire consequences” parts of my arguments by pointing at hypothetical religions. I will not respond to that.

To teach someone that they must follow arbitrary rules with dire consequences for failure is unethical.

You can decide what that means for religions.

All major world religions with many followers have arbitrary rules and dire spirital, and often physical, consequences for breaking them.

I am not here to argue specifics on religions.

I don’t think I could be more clear about why I believe teaching anyone religion as fact is unethical.

Teaching anyone that they must be judged by arbitrary, unprovable rules or face dire consequences is unethical.

You are like a younger me who refused to see the 10,000 year history of abuse and realize that any system based on “because I told you so” us unethical and harmful to human life.

It is also important to remember that religions are human organizational structures, but their basis of authority is “because I said so.” We see this structure arise over and over until it is eventually removed for something more based in reality.

The history books are full of religions’ heinous crimes against humanity. Maybe there is some religion out there that is purely benevolent but I have never heard of it in the sea of counterexamples.

If you are currently trapped in a religion, I am here to tell you that you can escape. Once you do, a lot becomes much more clear.

This would be true if religion were not so often used to suppress and hurt people.

May have been true if he hadn’t supported Israel.

some drone strike victims would like a word.

We forgot we could regulate capitalism like we did 100 years go. Let’s make taxes great again. Then take that money and pour it into education. If the states really want to control that, fine, that’s a compromise that can probably still end up working out in the end.