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It's less about Southwest…

It's less about Southwest being a discount airline, and more that consolidation would lead to higher prices generally (as it has in the last 25 years). Competition keeps prices down across the industry.

also, our dipshit prosecutor…

also, our dipshit prosecutor Eli Savit, is FOR SURE going to weigh his political options in this. That guy would push his mother down the stairs if he could get elected to a higher office

Did he kick your dog or something? I'd think his politics are simpatico with yours if you're advertising your time at Community, but also he's a politician so sure, he'll consider the politics. Big time zinger there. 

I believe the city residents…

I believe the city residents voted not to hold it but a combination of inertia and the governor telling them to pound sand led to it happening.

Check out Once in a Great…

Check out Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss for a deep and well written look at a 3 year period of the city in the early 60s.

It's part of a time period trilogy, which includes They Marched Into Sunlight, about several days in the late 60s juxtaposing one battle of the Vietnam War and the protests against napalm and Dow Chemical at the University of Wisconsin. They Marched Into Sunlight may be the best historical non-fiction I've ever read. 

It's been on the decline at…

It's been on the decline at least since 1911 (check out the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire) and really rollicking since 1971 (OSHA).

And I'm sure you know this, but choosing to pursue a dangerous job (say, crab fishing) doesn't create societal risk. Crab fishing is not a communicable disease.

Quite the leap to go from …

Quite the leap to go from "no college football because there's a pandemic" to "totalitarianism".

These aren't the pentagon papers - it's "amateur" sports. Which, as the sometimes excellent and sometimes annoying Sean Doolittle accurately observed, "sports are like the reward of a functioning society". That cancelling sports in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in a hundred years is being treated like a grand conspiracy is proof that our society is not functioning.

Transfer to where? There is…

Transfer to where? There is no college football in countries that have this under a modicum of control.

I think about this like I…

I think about this like I think about masks. Either it's a public health imperative to do a thing (wear a mask, cancel college athletics) or it's not. I am substantially more sympathetic to college athletes losing out on a small window to play their sport at the collegiate level than I am mask truthers, but the end outcome should be the same. In theory this is why we have government and goverment-like leaders - to make societal decisions beyond the scope of individual choice.

Given the civil-military…

Given the civil-military environment in Lebanon, a dollar says those "fireworks" were not on their way to an independence day party.

CDC also says wear a fucking…

CDC also says wear a fucking mask.

It's only been 56 years…

It's only been 56 years since an entire community of people was afforded the right to vote. The infection is old news...it's been festering for like 400 years.

A general counterpoint is…

A general counterpoint is that the triggering event for the massive spread in northern Italy is believed to have been a soccer match, outdoors in the open air. Lower transmission doesn't imply no transmission. People will almost certainly transmit the virus in a stadium, it's a question how well you can create a preventative environment and what everyone (government, university, individuals, etc) is comfortable with in terms of trade offs.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-soccer-match-that-kicked-off-italys-coronavirus-disaster-11585752012

Are you looking for someone…

Are you looking for someone to tell you not to? 

See ya!

Other than the Spanish Flu…

Other than the Spanish Flu in 1918, 1957-58 was the worst flu season on record. So, yes, that one was bad. Using it as evidence that "COVID is analogous to the flu" is not a winning debate move.

Agree that's not random…

Agree that's not random recruitment in any generally accepted way. That said, given what they were testing for, which almost by definition the individual could not know and therefore bias their response, is the lack of true random sampling a meaningful design flaw?

 

I am not a doctor, statistician, or anything else relevant to answering the question, I just think it's an interesting question.

Good observation. Maybe we…

Good observation. Maybe we should have fewer orthopedists. This journal article suggests that 4-6 orthopedists per 100k population is clinically sufficient. 

As of 2016, the US had 9.2 per 100k population. That's conservatively ~10,000 more than clinically necessary in one specialty. Maybe some of them should be primary care providers (who typically make less money for themselves and their employer) while supporting lower overall system costs and better population health outcomes.

To defend the status quo is directionally aligned with profit-driven medicine

I get that. I understand why…

I get that. I understand why Beaumont is cutting staff based on how hospitals make money and which procedures are financially incentivized.

I'm saying that's a terrible paradigm.

The stability of the…

The stability of the healthcare system shouldn't rest on for profit procedures. Restaurants are closed right now (yes, due to government) but hospitals are literally overrun with patients, they are not lacking for "business" in any normal understanding of the word.

Medical operations…

Medical operations experiencing extreme duress because they can't charge 20k to repair an ACL (or whatever other elective surgery) is pretty damning of a structural problem.

(as are the ~10M newly uninsured because they lost their employment, which is a different but related issue to this one)

That this can happen…

That this can happen simultaneous to the greatest flux of critical care need we've ever seen is one hell of an indictment on our healthcare system

You're giving me whiplash…

You're giving me whiplash.

You: "It doesn't matter how mild or serious coronavirus is anymore.  The only thing that matters is how people feel about it."

Also you: wait on the science

We are supposed to wait on the science or we're not? 

Interestingly, those same…

Interestingly, those same scientists and public health officials are saying something like "hey, don't run around with other people until we know more about this virus that we don't know a lot about".

I missed the part where they said "actually, since we don't know anything, it's safe to lick all of your neighbors" and the part where feelings are a good prophylactic.

 

Even if it were "much mild",…

Even if it were "much mild", you do realize as many people have died of COVID as a typical flu season, and that is with the most extreme social distancing/ public health lockdown that's ever been done at scale?

I know you know this, quit being such a wanker.

This is 100% accurate. It's…

This is 100% accurate. It's also a great motivation to agitate for a healthcare system that doesn't operate on this framework.

A 25% gain in that time…

A 25% gain in that time period is more or less exactly the gain in the S&P and literally no buying and no selling in the intervening period would have yielded the same return. Congratulations.

And yes, you got lucky selling in December before the virus. Luck does not equal savant investing skills or advice, and over time trying to time the market is an almost guaranteed loss compared to an index. There's a reason dollar cost averaging is a thing for long-term investing.

 

+1 for introducing me to a…

+1 for introducing me to a chucklefuck

The key difference last year…

The key difference last year was steady football. There was no random hour long break during the first quarter. And it wasn't 35 degrees.

I would think most will come back today, but they're dissimilar.

And the Ann Arbor ward…

And the Ann Arbor ward boundaries are explicitly constructed to gerrymander out any coherent student voice. So they could still sway a mayoral election but without a serious, focused GOTV their impact on Council races is slim.

I (non-student adult)

I (non-student adult) frequent Fraser's. The place is disgusting and the servers are either extremely attentive or don't know you're there, but it serves a specific purpose that I'm all about. Trivia, sports, cheap beer, and not downtown.

A key distinction here is

A key distinction here is that Schlissel in particular, and Michigan's senior leadership generally, is not inbred like they are in East Lansing. There is no accumlated devotion to misguided hero worship because we hire nationally renonwed academic adminstrators and they find someone who's been around for 40 years drinking the kool aid. Schlissel went Princeton --> Hopkins --> Cal --> Brown. MSC was at Grinnel, UNC, Kentucky, and is now the President of the AAU itself.

Peter McPherson: MSU undergrad (and accomplished Federal appointee and private sector lawyer)

Lou Anna Simon: MSU PhD in 1974. Never left.

Engler: MSU undergrad and general good old boy politician.

The last MSU President that did not have a degree from the school left in 1992 (DiBiaggio). Michigan hasn't had a University President with a Michigan degree since at least before Robben Fleming in 1968. 

You and I agree.

You and I agree. I had an itchy trigger finger on the response above due to the generally ridiculous perspective of stats vis a vis wins that was being pushed.

This is not what WAR is,

This is not what WAR is, means, or how it's calculated or applied.

What do you think teams are

What do you think teams are paying their stat folks to do, exactly? Write academic papers on some derivative of WAR?

Stat guys MAY argue that a team with a lesser record is statistically "better" than a team with more wins, but statistical betterness does't win divisions. And no GM on earth is searching for the hollow victory of superiority in advanced stats.

This is an accurate list but

This is an accurate list but it's a little misleading. The two guys over 5.00 both played 80 years ago with four man (or fewer) rotations. I think the takeaway is that in the modern game it's effectively impossible to win 20 games with even a 4.00 ERA...it looks like the last season was Pettitte in 2003.

I agree that wins are a bad stat on their own, but at some point they become directionally accurate and as a time series are relatively indicative of talent. 

I guess every little leaguer

I guess every little leaguer might know that, but it's missing the point. (and you can make a similar claim about innovation in any field of thought...of course the chinese figured out how to make gunpowder, you just have to mix this and that. Of course geometry makes sense, Pythagoras was just codifying the obvious)

The A's were using that inefficiency to generate team wins, a notion you dismissed as passe in the mind of the Billy Beans of the world. All stats, be it OBP v BA, wins vs OPS-against, or any other stat or comparison between stats you want to use is about identifying those inefficiencies in an effort to win more games.

This is reductio ad

This is reductio ad absurdum. The stats guys will argue until the end of time about which player is better at this, or that, or overall based on increasingly esoteric metrics that 99.9% DGAF about. But the origin of stat mania was moneyball and they, in fact, tried to earn as many team wins as possible, and did a pretty good job of succeeding. 

PItchers are cheap, TVs are

PItchers are cheap, TVs are large, and students are nowhere to be seen. For some, that's a successful recipe.

This is an extremely fatalist

This is an extremely fatalist position. Thing isn't great, thing is likely getting worse, let's accelerate the worsening and leave the most vulnerable behind because we can't do anything about it anyway. The conflicting values you speak of are: I have an ability to pay more for something than someone else, and therefore I will buy that thing for more money. Great for cars, bad for healthcare.

How about the costs to the patients? You as one person may be doing better, but everyone else that does not participate is incrementally worse...have enough of these programs and peel off enough of the country's PCPs (which are already in short supply) and you can see where this is all a problem.

My PCP is a Michigan Health doctor and my level of care seems just fine, and if having not an hour long phsysical, and getting rushed in and out of labs, means that some guy on Medicare also gets to see a doctor, that is a societally beneficial outcome that I will continue to support.

Come on man. This tired ass

Come on man. This tired ass trope of folks with hourly jobs or a shitty lot in life being chain smoking, drug shooting, drunk McDonald's fiends needs to die.

Jordan Poole should invest in

Jordan Poole should invest in poster manufacturing 

So by implication, a new path

So by implication, a new path (ie not more of the same) is the one who announced their candidacy almost immediately after Gulati stepped back? Makes sense.

Cordeiro may or may not be a change agent, but at a minimum he was in the race before it became a complete shitshow of a free for all. 

Literal: representing the

Literal: representing the exact meaning of something. In this case, it modifies and adds weight to the term "equating".

Equating: to draw an equivalency between one or more things. This is what the Freep is doing between what's going on at MSU and Michigan's investment practices. When done incorrectly, we call this comparison a false equivalency.

But, you already know all of this and preferred a vapid response instead.

 

What you've described, that

What you've described, that the Freep is "attacking the large amount of institutional secrecy in both university systems" is the literal equating of investment management practice secrecy and the secrecy involved in extensive criminal miscounduct. 

These are not the same thing, and whether or not the Freep has a genuine interest in the former, the explicit linking of the two is meant to make them similar. Michigan could be investing with Bernie Madoff and it wouldn't be similar.

They have nearly an entire

They have nearly an entire outpost just for the Go to Skeeps cop on duty. AAPD has an office in the parking structure about 40' from Skeeps' front door.

The Crain's article does not

The Crain's article does not say a word about UM. 

 

Do you recall the first half

Do you recall the first half of the Wisconsin and OSU games, during which we played approximately competent offensive football? Me too. Much of that was misdirection based, and a lot of that was counter runs out of the backfield. Our backs looked like their jerseys were made of Crisco.

While this doesn't address "how Harbaugh lost", offensive creativity is a fact and necessity.

I've been here for going on

I've been here for going on nine years and have ~100 points for each of those years. This is, of course, indicative of being much more inclined to reading and lurking than content production. But on the chance I have something worth starting a thread over, I'd like to think I've earned that right in through my nearly decade tenure despite not having a zillion points. Takeaway is that given the ease of acquiring points, time elapsed since joining seems like a much, much better way to filter out the assholes.

It's immaterial (in my

It's immaterial (in my opinion) why he only plays half the time. You should have to be twice as good to win these things if you play half as much. Not only isn't he twice as good as Mo, he's not remotely 1x as good.

You're not wrong, but the

You're not wrong, but the implication is that UEFA groups don't also have a bunch of crap in them...Italy finished a (relatively) close second to Spain. You can find a few Monserrat and T&T look alikes in Italy's group of Spain, Italy, Albania, Israel, Macedonia, and Liechtenstein.

 

I still have this video. Also

I still have this video. Also have the 1994 WC all star team VHS. They are both awesome and a crazy throwback.