Came here to make the Minchin comparison.

“heckuvajob” is the established nomenclature.

Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.

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They will sell it to the highest bidder, likely foreign. That is the whole point of the “sovereign wealth fund”. Trump and the Uber wealthy see it as an asset to plunder, who cares if Bahrain owns Yellowstone or you have to pay Bezos to fly over the Amazon Canyon? The future is amazing!

It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.

Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.

I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.

Because the problems they raged about are systemic, and the system didn’t change.

If you truly haven’t connected the dots as to why the slide to the right of Democrats enabled Trump to win, and win again, I pity you.

Throwing labels at me because you can’t refute the point is always the mark of someone on the correct side. Rest easy!

He allowed extra-judicial torture practices there against UNHR and any humanitarian objections. He didn’t do what Trump is going to, but he allowed it to normalize and continue despite the power to stop it, and makes it less of a leap for a right wing freak to make something like this happen. It’s not a “thanks Obama”, but people down voting holding Obama to account for keeping it open want Dems to be blameless despite complicity in the neoliberal bullshit dating back to Clinton as the party swung for corporate interests and abandoned their humanity.

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Obama didn’t, even with a supermajority in the Senate. This is the problem with neoiberalism taking over the D party. Trump certainly isn’t going to.

Grog use triple flint blade. 6 months subscription new rock comes.

They don’t need to. What they’ve done with high speed rail in 15 years makes me want to cry. They built an entire national HSR network since the great recession. America is such a fallen empire.

NYT suppressing genocide coverage in Palestine and questioning anything but lockstep support for Israel then wondering why authoritarians messaging landing so we’ll.

NYT are clowns, lost all credibility after backing invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite no evidence and UN security resolution against it.

Is this the same exploit that we read about I’m like October that the vendor didn’t even give credit to the person who brought it to them and they ignored?

Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.

The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.

Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.

We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn’t being stocked by ideologues.

Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.

Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.

Nice country you got here.

Careful outing yourself as a brown family, this apparently means you’re illegal and need to be turned into immigration authorities in coastal Oregon.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/lincoln-oregon-brown-people-immigration-letter

Other than obvious physical traits:

Power of observation. Accurately seeing the game(s) and your opponents lets you anticipate, which is basically partially seeing the future and it of course is incredibly powerful.

Analytical mind: observing is the first part, then analysis to understand how or why you can take different approaches to win, attack, defend, etc. is part two. There are almost always another level of analysis to be done.

Curiosity: most people plateau physically long before they’re mental capacity in a sport is exhausted, but even at the pro level you still see many athletes that once they’ve made their paycheck or won x, they coast or stop developing. True multi-sport athletes are curious and diversely talented and this drive to understand helps them not just be satisfied with a single focus or sport.