Zero to Zero. No pressure, Charlie :)
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@brooksmd sweet. When the rebuild happens I'll try to keep up with you guys. I enjoy a good rebuild. I'm no longer a Red Sox fan (was one growing up) but when they did the rebuild a few years back I enjoyed watching the trials by fire [with my dad] of the young guys. Jackie Bradley, Mookie Betts. Going from "are they good enough to play MLB?" to all star is a few years is a hell of thing.
@brooksmd hm. think the Royals will start the rebuild at the trade deadline?
@wissox I'm enjoying Eaton. At the time of the trade I thought we gave up too much. I never really saw much from Giolito though he was the higher rated prospect. Was fine dealing him, but Reynaldo Lopez I thought was going to be a beast. Esp. since our bullpen is shaky and felt he was on his way to being a 1 inning shut down guy, either as closer or set up man. Hope you get that out of him.
Ouch! Got any young guys that make the process enjoyable?
Hey Brooksie. How they looking? Signs of life?
I mean that I think that people are looking out for themselves first and foremost. They aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good. There used to be more of that sentiment.
So things like universal healthcare, or free college education as you alluded to... Well people size that up and generally only get behind it if they can immediately see how it will directly benefit them. They don't think how it might indirectly benefit them, if everyone might be healthier and more well educated. And I get it, you ask how we can afford that. And that's a valid thing to discuss; my point is just that people don't get past the point of understanding the value of it, not enough to try to figure out how it could work, because they don't feel like the greater good is that important. So they just immediately rally behind the first guy willing to shoot it down without really thinking on it.
We are a country deeply divided. And I think most of us most of the time are focused on looking out for us and ours while feeling disconnected and maybe a little lonely, like the country is getting away from us and we have to take it back. So we rally behind people who say they are going to do that, take it back, because they know that's how we feel, but they don't take it back. They take the vote and run to Washington and do what they really want to do because elections are posturing and their reality is something that happens in between.
@JayHawkFanToo the main reasons I can figure why the dems might not be doing well are 1. They aren't good at politics and they are rolling out boring has beens 2. The party of inclusivity is losing a public that is increasingly disconnected from society.
@DoubleDD good post. Will reply later when I have some time.
OK, I'll bring it back.
I removed quick reply, leaving the full screen in composer. Let me know if this isn't good.
Trying to resolve issues with scrolling in mobile.
Right now, supporters of both parties believe that party line is the only option. I believe the Democrats have to be in power before we can get to a multiparty system. At that point both sides will be able to look at splintering the party as a viable option. The Republicans because a faction will feel the need to redefine themselves in order to win, the Democrats because the progressives have been stymied but stayed locked into the party to avoid the Republicans dismantling of our democracy, at least that's their perception, be it true or not. That was what I had hoped would come after a Hillary victory. Disgust but freedom of movement. There is no freedom of movement now.
@DoubleDD As I understand it, and I wasn't around for it, the Nazis rose to power on a nationalistic antisemitic platform running opposed to the Democratic government in power after WWI. I get your point that some people were starving; that doesn't discount the fact that a dissatisfaction in the existing system empowered the Nazis to win public elections by blaming others and being hyper nationalistic. Similar song and dance.
I'm concerned by a feeling that it couldn't happen here; discounting the possibility because we are different is a bit of the American exceptionalism that we often slide into.
You're not crossing a line. We are friends, I'll be honest how I feel. You be honest how you feel. We work this over a bit and move on, the KU Buckets way.
@DoubleDD The Nazis were publicly elected.
I guess the people having voted doesn't necessarily equate to what is best for the people. Regardless, suggesting that one of the two parties has a mandate IMHO is not fruitful. We hop between two crappy alternatives as the blame ping pongs.
@DoubleDD The founding fathers intended only landholding white men to vote. While they got a lot of things right, some things have definitely needed refactoring. I believe the filibuster is a healthy tool when used to promote bipartisan decision making, but when Harry Reid enacted the nuclear option, our political system had already degraded into party-line politics. We can debate the reasons why. But we can (I think) agree that there is essentially no such thing as bipartisanism now. Two party politics have a stranglehold on this country. We should be electing people on the merits, not based upon party affiliation. I believe a multiparty system would result in coalition building and usher in a new era of compromise, and in turn would force politics back into the arena of representing the desires of the people. We can dream.
Lulufulu nice man! Wish Bennett and Self would schedule a home and home. Why not? Why do the major conferences have to only play each other in the context of non con tourneys?
Though I guess it wouldn't be a fair comparison. Davis did that at Hutchison after leaving Kansas. Juiston is doing this before. I wonder if Juiston is talking to Davis.
Found this part interesting:
Juiston’s 446 total rebounds this past season were third most in team history. His 12.1 boards per game average tied Ben Davis (1994) for sixth on the season list. His 67 blocks were seventh most in team season history.
Ben Davis played for KU 1991-1992. He left Kansas to go to Florida, then asked Roy to let him come back, which Roy denied.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/1993/aug/28/davis_says_leaving_ku/ ↗
Ben Davis went on to get picked 43rd overall in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Phoenix Suns but never played in the NBA.
It'll be interesting to see what Self might do with a player of comparable talents, coming from the same JUCO, since we've been comparing Roy's time at KU vs Self's of late.
0-3 with a 3 ERA. Sounds like a bad luck start to the season continues.
Now he's pitching from the stretch for the 3rd guy. Scratching my head.
Oliver Perez pitching from the wind up he's a big herkey jerky mess but somehow hes got first 2 out this inning. Don't most relievers just pitch from the stretch even with a clean frame these days?
My Nats walked in the tying run in the 7th. Now 3-3
Oof
It Saddens me to no end to see so many young Americans trying to tear down the American concept
@DoubleDD seems to me the Republican Congress trying to tear down our checks and balances are a bunch of old Americans!
Jeff's attorneys need to make sure his stank face pictures are inadmissible evidence.
@JayHawkFanToo I realize I'm ruining it by saying this, but I appreciate that your comment got zero response, just like the real Lavar Ball! Ignoring him is the only medicine that will make that clown go away.
So, done!
Bill is a better coach and a better man. Championships matter but they matter more when good guys win them. Bill Self is a Jedi. Everyone loves Star Wars. Why doesn't everyone love Bill Self? Not enough special effects? This is an opportunity for a great Late Night skit.
Thanks man. Glad we are past the stress of the upgrade. Big ups to the nodebb guys for putting together a great platform.
If he is willing to work hard I think going to Illinois under Underwood and transforming into a monster would make a hell of a story.
The one that always got me was Dakari Johnson saying he'd beat Michael Jordan in his prime one on one.
@stoptheflop I like to take a zen approach to it. It is what it is.
There is certainly a positive and negative application for a less restrained ego.
Lol I think that's actually very valid. Need one big font one.
Yep! It's just your preference. Let me know which though if you don't mind, as maybe other's feel the same way and I can change the default. So far I feel like I'm settling in to Readable myself, but if people have a strong opinion all towards 1 other one, then maybe we switch the default.
It looks like the nodebb guys have set up skins to be something that can be customizable at the user level. For those who've I've been conversing with about the legibility of the site (right now default of "Readable" skin), would you mind going to your settings screen (click on your avatar top right -> settings, and playing with the different skins and see which looks best? Let me know, as I haven't really played around with them in depth and curious if there's a better default than Readable. Thanks!
@jayballer54 @brooksmd et al, thanks guys!
Also, see my tagline under my post? I think something must have gotten jacked in url encoding of your " and ' in your tagline. If you rewrite it it should work.
@Red.Rooster Yeah man, assuming this new feature works you're going to like this....
Go to a specific category you want to ignore on:
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Then tap the watching box and make it ignoring. You should never get notifications for that category again.
Could Texas pull Bamba? I know nothing about the kid, other than that his ego is strong.
"It’s corny, but I really want to have buildings named after me at whatever university I go to and if I can do that in one year it means I had a great year.”
Did you guys check out your time line on profile? It's nice. So are bookmarks.
I haven't. I saw someone post a new post @ someone else recently though. I assume they used it.
@Crimsonorblue22 well the purpose of it would be if we disable the full screen reply. I has both on to see if both worked for you iPad users. If so we can turn one off.
Yeah that's right. Could be a friendlier message for sure.
@brooksmd :high_heel: :high_brightness: :high_heel:
@ParisHawk I never took it as anything other, but I did want to address the issue specific to our header. No worries man. :+1: please keep talking ui, I enjoy it, especially now that things are settling in a bit with the upgrade (knock on wood)
@Kcmatt7 If the iPad guys are OK with using the quick reply in lieu of the regular reply (until the issue is resolved by the node guys) then we could make it half screen again. Hard call there. Or what @mayjay said is a valid work around.
The node bb guys are gearing for a major release soon. I'm going to see what they changed there and may recruit the iPad guys to test on a separate instance of the board. Hopefully the reply issue will be resolved there.
Thanks guys. That helps.
@JayHawkFanToo I feel you on the legibility, good feedback there. I felt same way about the big white sheet effect. Part of the reason why I colored the header blue again. Only briefly looked at background colors on main layout. Will explore. Thanks.
@JayHawkFanToo excellent! Thanks man. And no issues with scrolling like before right?
@Crimsonorblue22 so I think there is a subtle line under the post that disappears after a sec and also a little icon on right that does the same (?) if so shouldn't be too hard to override css to highlight post. Also when you are posting now does both the full screen composer as well as quick reply work? If so I am debating removing quick reply.