So... I had a guy apply for a unit, and he seemed kinda pushy, wanted me to guarantee him he would get the unit if I pulled his credit report (one point is the end of the world), wanted free rent, was hot to trot, but then didn't follow up.
Anyway today he wanted me to send him a word doc of the lease, instead of the pdf I sent because he had some redlines - but I don't re-write the lease for anyone. I was overjoyed to reply today that I had leased that unit to another applicant.
I just can't with her. And I find it very interesting, because Dr Bob Wachter, who is her superior at UCSF, is very measured and yet reassuring. She's just bananas.
Yeah, and I'd also point out that there are some who are plainly looking for clicks in the other direction, trying to be as alarmist as possible (Eric Feigl-Ding comes to mind). It can be exhausting.
A guy like Wachter must find it helpful to have her around. There is probably value in hearing from people who are willing to stick their necks out, even if they are more often publicly wrong because of it.
You just can't fall into the trap of making her voice the only voice you hear.
I hate that I feel like I need to start reading original research in real journals on health topics, rather than trusting that sound bites on the news aren't going to kill me.
Actually just went to our company Slack and someone posted a screenshot of an email with an attachment and the body text was just "Please find the attached".
We get enough phishing emails with attachments that I'm not opening anything that isn't obviously from a person with a purpose related to me.
Take the time to add 12 words to make it obvious that this is legit.
I absolutely hated Clippy, but that thing in Outlook where it says "did you forget an attachment?" when I have written an email saying I've attached something and I haven't is very useful. Thank you, Clippy's successor.
Subject lines that are not topic specific. I am in the building design world, in a niche field where we work on like 100x the projects as an engineer or architect does.
The number of emails I get that just have "walls?" as the subject line is maddening. I realize that you're only working on one project, but this doesn't help me. Or "what about the walls?"
I have the opposite pet peeve. One of the attorneys we work with has an annoying habit of replying only to an individual in a group thread, so then we need to manually copy everyone back in so they can see his usually important input. Or sometimes you don't notice he has only replied to you and you assume everyone saw his email, and... nope.
The answer is in between...if it's an email to 39 people, don't Reply All asking a Q specific to you. But if it's a 3-person thread (and everyone is needed), don't just Reply (and make the receiver add people back).
I've found that a lot interviewing candidates (we have a two-person interview "committee"). We keep having to add each other back to Reply (not all) responses that we get from applicants.
The managing partner of my firm got upset about this a few years back so now when you email a broad d list you have to click through a bunch of pop ups designed to make you feel like a schmo for wasting everyone’s time
I knew someone who didn't think to include the email trail when replying, so her emails would simply say "Yes" or "No" with no context. However, I think she's retired now.
yeah, that's lame, but I also (just this morning even) had the opposite, where a thread includes like 20 replies and *everything* is there. So it takes forever to find the relevant text.
I try to blockquote the relevant text in my reply, and then lop off all the stuff that isn't relevant anymore.
A few years back, we received a firm-wide e-mail from the top partner at our firm that started with. "It has come to my attention..."
ok... not good...
"...that the quality of the pizza we have been ordering has dropped as of late. I propose we start a weekly tasting of all the pizza places around [city our firm is located] and vote on the best pizza."
*ears start steaming* our director does this all the time. random important topics in something unrelated and that half the people in the cc list don't even know what it is.
I have to admit, at this point 95% of my gmail use is reading broadcast information - I do very little back and forth, maybe with the missus, that's about it.
Teams was thrust upon us, and I do like not having to put everything down in an email between 2 or 3 of us. But it is NOT a good platform for broadcasting the official or complete announcement/instructions to something. It has gotten out of control fast, which is especially not good given it is pretty clunky, seems prone to network issues, and is not (IMO) one of the more usable tools.
I tend to copy the questions/things I am responding to into the body of my email rather than replying inline. If you must do inline, for all that is holy USE A COLOR.
I use inline a lot when responding to a bullet list.
But I start a new line below each one, put my name/initials at the beginning, and bold it (prob not color, but sometimes...I find that colors can go odd with email).
This is what I will do. Or if I find that my responses are specific to certain conditions and I want to make sure that my answer is matched up to the appropriate question.
absolutely dreadful - especially when people start using different colors of text to differentiate their comments. If there's a need to do something collaborative like that, and your organization has something like Teams or google docs or whatever, then put the text there and use the email to alert people that they need to go edit.
these are also the scenarios where the robo-advisors can do well. some stocks are up, others are down. the robos can sell the declining stocks for a loss and replace with equivalents and lower overall capital gains.
i have the most familiarity w/ Wealthfront. above certain investment thresholds, they effectively create an SP 500 lookalike fund for you made of a couple hundred individual stocks.
A few more eps into S2 of South Side. Not feeling it. They seem to be doing a bit what Mythic Quest did in S2, which is side stories. But I find it less interesting with SS.
he's going to end up taking the fall because he was the coordinator / the one dumb enough to put things in writing. Of course it won't be much of a fall to take, because apparently we don't care enough to enforce laws around the integrity of the republic.
I agree 100% with this take, and it's why I'm prepping the offspring to be stateless in their future--be able to go where they need to, not tied to any particular country
Starting out american is super tough (because there's a ten year gap for continuing to collect taxes) - but I have friends parents who have become Maltese or Canary Islanders or something.
I think, what with the new crime bill in the UK, it is theoretically possible - on paper - that I could get both citizenships revoked at the same time. I assume that's a million-to-one shot though.
It can also be sub-optimal in that you could wind out with no support when its really, really needed. I get what you are trying to do, but its a dangerous thing to do in a world where lots of places are dangerous places to be.
Officials arrest 3 people from a Florida town for voter fraud because they voted twice. I'll give you three chances to guess who they voted for President.
9/11: 3,000 Americans killed, the conservatives happily signed away their right to privacy, certain freedoms. Covid: 800,000 Americans dead & counting. Conservatives: you can't tell me what to do. I have no sympathy. It's a plague. If you don't get the shot, you are moved down the list. Make it public knowledge, shout it far & wide. Everyone one will still have a choice.
That's because 9/11 the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was brown people., whereas for Covid the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was white people.
I don't think I can agree with denying care to people because of poor personal choices. Where do you take that, in the end? Deprioritizing smokers? The obese?
I have sympathy with this view, but I think it's not exactly analogous; refusing to get vaccinated isn't just a personal choice, it's also a social one. You're endangering others as well as yourself.
you might not think it's exactly analogous, but I invite you to revisit that while pretending that you're the kind of rapacious sociopath who manages pricing and risk for both private health insurance companies and hospitals.
I think it would be really interesting to spend like a month as that kind of rapacious sociopath. I struggle to imagine the thought processes, I would appreciate the insight.
Sure, it's a good question. I'm just saying it's fuzzier than you were making it out to be. And like, it's a free shot available to everyone that only takes a few minutes of your time. That's not the same as addiction (smoking) or years of poor lifestyle or other physiological issues (obesity). I don't think people should be denied medical care, but I can at least understand the argument that if the pandemic stretches hospital resources to the breaking point, it's fair to not penalize the people who did what was asked of them.
I wouldn’t implement something like this during “normal” times when beds and care are abundantly available, however, when healthcare systems are at capacity and you have to ration care they should implement a system.
I have a lot of doubts that this will actually do any good. The core problem is that the regions that least need such a mandate (blue cities with high vaccination rates) are going to be the most likely to follow it. The regions that most need additional protections (rural red areas with low vax rates) won't enforce it.
Do you remember when Barry Tompkins used to do Cal games with Dan Belluomini during the Braun years? Still, he's better known for calling the Balboa/Drago fight in Russia....
The large national financial institution that employees me is full steam ahead for January 10th. No mask mandates, no capacity limits, no vaccine mandate (except in those localities where laws demand them). Can't wait! 🖕
open space is easy, everyone wears a mask all the time, and no in person meetings/cube chats. We've been having our weekly group meeting over teams for a year and a half, even though we all site no more than 15 feet apart.
the federal agency I support is going to slow their roll for the planned January return. Even before Omicron, I'd assumed that winter / school holiday spikes might put a crimp on those plans.
Schefty says more than 25 more expected today, and the Rams have had to close their facility and enter the intensive protocol. I might be kind of pissed if I were the Cardinals.
Wonder if Ashtyn Davis, Cameron Jordan, Stephen Anderson, Marvin Jones, Jaylinn Hawkins, Patrick Mekari, Jake Curran & Cam Bynum were among them? That would be interesting, and another indicator of the City of Berkeley’s reach on all things pandemic... ;-)
The NCAA head coach who has won a National Championship and a Super Bowl is Jimmy Johnson. He won a National Championship with the U in '87 and two Super Bowls (XXVII, and XXVIII) with the Cowboys.
Cheaty Petey's first HC position was with the New York Jets ('94). He then was a DC with the 49ers ('95-'96) and then HC with the New England Patriots ('97-'99). His record in the NFL at that point was 2 games over .500 (33-31, .516).
He then found success with USC, winning 8 straight Pac-10 championships and two National Championships ('03 and '04), with a record of 97-19, .836.
Subsequent to the end of his college coaching career, Carroll was hired by Seattle where he has been the head coach for 12 seasons (incl. 2021). He has won 1 Super Bowl (XLVIII) and lost another (XLIX). The Seahawks have made the playoffs in 9 of the 11 complete seasons so far.
I might argue he was never really bad prior to USC. The Jets are a tire fire of a franchise that you can't blame Carroll for failing to fix in one season. The 49ers had great defenses when he was DC. With New England he wasn't amazing but he made the playoffs 2 out of 3 years. He was just in a tough spot being compared to Parcells before him and Belichick after him.
Obviously he went to another level after that, but he wasn't a bad coach.
I never said that Pete Carroll was a bad coach. He wasn't elite status as an HC at either the pro or college level until he was at USC. And he had at least one shot that was more than one season (New England).
The NFL has a bad history with national championship college coaches who try to make the transition to the NFL. Off the top of my head Steve Spurrier is the example that most readily comes to mind. Spurrier had been a head coach at Duke ('87-'89) and Florida ('90-'01), playing for a National Championship in '95 and winning one in '96.
Spurrier spent 2 seasons with the WFT before giving up the idea that he could translate NCAA success into NFL success. He returned to college ball and coached 11 more years at South Carolina.
Let's also not forget Nick Saban. Saban had 2 years with the Miami Dolphins as their HC before bailing and returning to the college ranks at Alabama. Saban had won a National Championship at LSU in the 2004 Sugar Bowl (ending the 2003 season). He's won 6 other National Championships at Alabama ('09, '11, '12, '15, '17, and '20). His '21 Alabama team is in the playoffs...again.
Prior to the Dolphins stint, Saban had NFL experience with the Houston Oilers ('88-'89 as their DC) and Cleveland Browns ('91-'94 as their DC)
No he didnt stay.. I wasnt arguing re: the "NFL's history with the national championship coaches" (if that was a thing to categorize into a "history") but your context seemed to imply that they cant succeed and that Saban bailed because he couldnt succeed. "Middling" is also way off base. The Dolphins were in the dumps and Saban immediately turned around their trajectory, before his wife decided he needs to go back to college where their hearts are. Putting that in the same context as Spurrier is misleading. I'm not sure there really is a significant enough "history" of national championship coaches in the NFL for it to even be a thing... But if you want it to be a thing: 6 coaches come to my mind, and 3 (50%) of them won Superbowls in relatively short order. That's a pretty good history, come to think of it. I suspect you have some recency bias with Urban Meyer, even though Spurrier and Saban were your examples.
I totally agree with you, but Wilcox just turned down $4M a year to coach at one of the best programs west of the Mississippi, which also happens to be his alma mater, in order to stay at a school that can't seem to go a season without nearly forfeiting games....I've backed off saying what is and isn't unrealistic, at least in terms of Cal football ;-)
Less than ideal…tho after having visited TCU in Sept., there’s about 8000 co-Ed reasons why I could see this happening, plus 1 big one called the holy trinity dinner at Woodshed Smokehouse & BBQ
Random question, but is anyone aware of any alumni presence in Montana? I've met tons of California ex pats here so I figured there has to be a few, but there's nothing official on the alumni association website and they never responded to my question.
CAA will never ever give out personal data unless you're an official chapter. My recommendation is to start up an unofficial site on Facebook page. That's how I started the NC chapter.
I disagree. I think ILB room is deep with experience. ILBs should be Rutchena, Iosefa, Paster, Oladejo, Anzoulatos, Puskas, Smith, So'oto.
OLB will be thinner that I think our so-called DEs are actually the jumbo-strong side OLB. Croteauj/Wilkins as SOLB, Patu/Calhoun as Rush OLB. Curley Young left the program. Elarms-Orr recovering from injury. Ieremia is a project. Which leaves Lynch and Williams for depth.
Fourth-year academic, but wasn't listed in the seniors list. However, his transfer portal status seemed inevitable since he was passed by 3 others on the depth chart.
I feel seen: https://twitter.com/ThomedySci/status/1468369111117799427
pltm
OMG THESE ARE AMAZING
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/rfwgmc/aita_for_perpetuating_ethnic_stereotypes_about/
2. https://www.reddit.com/user/throwawayorangecat/comments/rgi000/update_aita_for_perpetuating_stereotypes_about/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Torties are smarter than Lynx points, so I guess I perpetuate ethnic stereotypes.
Well...amazing can be good or bad. Or something else.
What am I reading?
Landlord joy
I have one tenant who is a delight. I hope they never move out. I sent them cookies last year.
I know Cugel has at least one as well! 😃
But I generally give wine.
That reminds me! Do you have an updated inventory from your ongoing cellar sale? I'd be happy to buy some more bottles off you.
Sure, what do you want? If it's French or Italian, I got you covered. And Oregon & Cali Pinots
I may contact you when No 1 comes in town. He may want to get a couple.
French... CDR? I also like most Bordeaux varietals...
Italian... Barbera? Sangio? I also usually like the Chiantis you pick.
So... I had a guy apply for a unit, and he seemed kinda pushy, wanted me to guarantee him he would get the unit if I pulled his credit report (one point is the end of the world), wanted free rent, was hot to trot, but then didn't follow up.
Anyway today he wanted me to send him a word doc of the lease, instead of the pdf I sent because he had some redlines - but I don't re-write the lease for anyone. I was overjoyed to reply today that I had leased that unit to another applicant.
I have that with (potential) clients. if they are a pain during the proposal process, they'll be a pain during the project.
Sounds like a chronic headache saved
are you still a tenant of the cugz?
👍🏽 indeed
Did he say what he wanted to redline?
He wanted cookies rather than wine for being the best tenant ever.
He did not
I'm guessing that for Cugel any redline is a red flag. In that context, doesn't matter.
A thread compiling Dr. Monica Gandhi's dangerous assertions https://twitter.com/KindAndUnblind/status/1470389931679883268?s=20
I just can't with her. And I find it very interesting, because Dr Bob Wachter, who is her superior at UCSF, is very measured and yet reassuring. She's just bananas.
You would hope that scientists could rise above the lust for clicks, and yet here we are…
Yeah, and I'd also point out that there are some who are plainly looking for clicks in the other direction, trying to be as alarmist as possible (Eric Feigl-Ding comes to mind). It can be exhausting.
A guy like Wachter must find it helpful to have her around. There is probably value in hearing from people who are willing to stick their necks out, even if they are more often publicly wrong because of it.
You just can't fall into the trap of making her voice the only voice you hear.
I have found some of her commentary valuable, but you definitely have to check her predictions against other experts.
Though I guess that last part pretty much goes for everyone.
I hate that I feel like I need to start reading original research in real journals on health topics, rather than trusting that sound bites on the news aren't going to kill me.
listen, if not knowing your ass from a hole in a ground becomes a problem in this country, I'm in REAL trouble.
Of course I'm not giving stupidly bad advice on pandemic management, so I'm the only one at risk from my errors
Porch Pirates
email pet peeves
Actually just went to our company Slack and someone posted a screenshot of an email with an attachment and the body text was just "Please find the attached".
We get enough phishing emails with attachments that I'm not opening anything that isn't obviously from a person with a purpose related to me.
Take the time to add 12 words to make it obvious that this is legit.
Oh, and about 5% of the time, I'm the person who forgets the attachment. I love that meme! Gonna steal it :-)
I absolutely hated Clippy, but that thing in Outlook where it says "did you forget an attachment?" when I have written an email saying I've attached something and I haven't is very useful. Thank you, Clippy's successor.
there's a successor?
wouldn't help, since I don't use Windows (or Outlook), but that's a clever function
It's just a pop up message, rather than a damn sentient paperclip.
The Cal SOS website has a Clicky like guy that is a bear. I like him!
Man, you struck a nerve here with this topic! ;-)
Subject lines that are not topic specific. I am in the building design world, in a niche field where we work on like 100x the projects as an engineer or architect does.
The number of emails I get that just have "walls?" as the subject line is maddening. I realize that you're only working on one project, but this doesn't help me. Or "what about the walls?"
Reply all. Fuck those people
A way to avoid this is to send to yourself and bcc the recipients (if they don't need to correspond with each other, just you).
"Add xx to the contact list" that only the original sender needs to know.
"Great news!" x 23
I use this method when sending out Delegation of Authority emails for my boss.
I have never gotten a reply in return apart from Out of Office autoreplies.
I have the opposite pet peeve. One of the attorneys we work with has an annoying habit of replying only to an individual in a group thread, so then we need to manually copy everyone back in so they can see his usually important input. Or sometimes you don't notice he has only replied to you and you assume everyone saw his email, and... nope.
Yes, true. Clients do this a lot because they think it will save them money
The answer is in between...if it's an email to 39 people, don't Reply All asking a Q specific to you. But if it's a 3-person thread (and everyone is needed), don't just Reply (and make the receiver add people back).
I've found that a lot interviewing candidates (we have a two-person interview "committee"). We keep having to add each other back to Reply (not all) responses that we get from applicants.
The managing partner of my firm got upset about this a few years back so now when you email a broad d list you have to click through a bunch of pop ups designed to make you feel like a schmo for wasting everyone’s time
our big boss got the same way, sent a hissy email about it and now we can only email the list "with approval from management" lol
The great irony of reply all problems with:
1) my graduate department (bioinformatics...you know, people who SHOULD know how the internet works)
2) one of my workplace email lists (all the communicators across my organization)
I knew someone who didn't think to include the email trail when replying, so her emails would simply say "Yes" or "No" with no context. However, I think she's retired now.
yeah, that's lame, but I also (just this morning even) had the opposite, where a thread includes like 20 replies and *everything* is there. So it takes forever to find the relevant text.
I try to blockquote the relevant text in my reply, and then lop off all the stuff that isn't relevant anymore.
Wow, that is strange.
Whoa, that's hella weird.
"No"
that's scary if it was coming from a boss lol
This actually happened.
FET
A few years back, we received a firm-wide e-mail from the top partner at our firm that started with. "It has come to my attention..."
ok... not good...
"...that the quality of the pizza we have been ordering has dropped as of late. I propose we start a weekly tasting of all the pizza places around [city our firm is located] and vote on the best pizza."
Yes, the email didn't start well, but it sure as hell ended well.
We all want to know, what pizza place won? Or will that give away [firm location]?
I frankly do not recall which place won.
Is it Pizza by Alfredo, or is it Alfredo's Pizza???
"It has come to my attention..." https://twitter.com/lizrodwell/status/1470403912226148353?s=20
Forwarding an email without adding any information to it. Not even an FYI.
I get that from a certain older relative.
I have to stifle myself from replying all with "...and you wanted say...?"
I hate that I want to end every email with "Best" or "Best Regards", stupid PR training
My signature in Outlook begins with "Regards,", then three returns, my name title, etc.
Pretty much the same for me, but I add the Regards manually.
I just use Thanks. Maybe not the most professional.
I'm the same. for clients I know well, I'll often change it to Cheers
I'm a cheers-er.
I'll mix in an occasional cheers for a more casual-toned email exchange.
In a similar vein if I am emailing a group of men I like referring to them as “Gents”. These are the small pleasures that my life affords me
I use a lot of 'let me know if you have any questions'
My penultimate sentence before closing is "Contact me with questions."
Most of my emails are about imparting information gained through research or institutional knowledge I have simply stored in my brain.
No one reads past the 2nd line.
Replying to an email with a subject line about matter X only to discuss unrelated matter Y in the body.
thank you!
*ears start steaming* our director does this all the time. random important topics in something unrelated and that half the people in the cc list don't even know what it is.
^^this^^
Well, like the picture, forgetting attachments.
Gmail putting every back and forth email into a conversation where it gets hard to tell who sent what to whom.
I have to use gmail for some school stuff and I hate it! I just set it to forward to my "regular" email address and use that app.
I think you can make it stop doing that. Most of my gmail is notices and spam.
I have to admit, at this point 95% of my gmail use is reading broadcast information - I do very little back and forth, maybe with the missus, that's about it.
Yeah me too, tho primarily because it is blocked on my work computer
and text and Slack and those types of communications seem to be better for the back and forth.
Two reasons that I sometimes avoid text are:
1. Can edit (or delete) after the fact (like in Slack)
2. Can't mark Unread (like in email or Slack)
If I get a text and am not ready to respond, I have to leave it unread, otherwise it'll not have a notification anymore and it'll be gone forever.
texting is the answer, for me at least...nobody at work uses collaborative systems like Slack or Teams, even though they have tried to set up Teams
I have to use Teams as provided by my customers. I don't care for it. They get super pissed if they think we're texting on personal phones.
Teams was thrust upon us, and I do like not having to put everything down in an email between 2 or 3 of us. But it is NOT a good platform for broadcasting the official or complete announcement/instructions to something. It has gotten out of control fast, which is especially not good given it is pretty clunky, seems prone to network issues, and is not (IMO) one of the more usable tools.
responding inline.
i would rather you type out what is important rather respond to every question or comment as if it was a script of a play.
I tend to copy the questions/things I am responding to into the body of my email rather than replying inline. If you must do inline, for all that is holy USE A COLOR.
I use inline a lot when responding to a bullet list.
But I start a new line below each one, put my name/initials at the beginning, and bold it (prob not color, but sometimes...I find that colors can go odd with email).
those are all good ways to handle it. Color can be a real pain in the ass (also a good way to find out who on the distribution is color blind)
I respond inline if you send me a million questions. Otherwise, no.
a shorter version of what I just wrote ;-)
This is what I will do. Or if I find that my responses are specific to certain conditions and I want to make sure that my answer is matched up to the appropriate question.
Same.
absolutely dreadful - especially when people start using different colors of text to differentiate their comments. If there's a need to do something collaborative like that, and your organization has something like Teams or google docs or whatever, then put the text there and use the email to alert people that they need to go edit.
my approximately 100 year old boss does the inline-different-color-response thing all the time and it drives me so insane
it only works for two people and one (maybe two) rounds. After that, gotta past the relevant text up top and start again.
Or...use the "if this has lasted two or three rounds, talk to the person" rule
DBD Not Official Financial Advice
S&P 500 and Nasdaq are declining. If you dollar cost average, you'll pick up more shares, which is the silver lining.
these are also the scenarios where the robo-advisors can do well. some stocks are up, others are down. the robos can sell the declining stocks for a loss and replace with equivalents and lower overall capital gains.
i have the most familiarity w/ Wealthfront. above certain investment thresholds, they effectively create an SP 500 lookalike fund for you made of a couple hundred individual stocks.
DBD Test Kitchen
DBD AV Club
A few more eps into S2 of South Side. Not feeling it. They seem to be doing a bit what Mythic Quest did in S2, which is side stories. But I find it less interesting with SS.
that was funny! :-)
Taylor Sheridan’s Mayor of Kingstown on Paramount+ is damn good television...
Our Crumbling Democracy
The deeper one dives into Mark Meadows, the more one realizes that he may be the biggest traitor in US history.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/politics/mark-meadows-election-fraud-liaison/index.html
he's going to end up taking the fall because he was the coordinator / the one dumb enough to put things in writing. Of course it won't be much of a fall to take, because apparently we don't care enough to enforce laws around the integrity of the republic.
I agree 100% with this take, and it's why I'm prepping the offspring to be stateless in their future--be able to go where they need to, not tied to any particular country
Being stateless is almost impossible to achieve (and I think literally impossible if you start out American).
Starting out american is super tough (because there's a ten year gap for continuing to collect taxes) - but I have friends parents who have become Maltese or Canary Islanders or something.
I think, what with the new crime bill in the UK, it is theoretically possible - on paper - that I could get both citizenships revoked at the same time. I assume that's a million-to-one shot though.
It can also be sub-optimal in that you could wind out with no support when its really, really needed. I get what you are trying to do, but its a dangerous thing to do in a world where lots of places are dangerous places to be.
I hear ya--it's more of a dream than anything. I'm just trying to figure out how to plan for the future in a non-democratic country.
Derek Chauvin stops resisting
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/13/us/derek-chauvin-federal-plea-change/index.html
GA State Senate President Pro Tem has filed legislation to ban all voter drop boxes in Georgia.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-gop-senator-running-for-lt-governor-wants-to-ban-election-drop-boxes/YZ4SH27BNZFPVFDCNYOMSSKM7I/
Officials arrest 3 people from a Florida town for voter fraud because they voted twice. I'll give you three chances to guess who they voted for President.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/12/13/3-residents-of-the-villages-arrested-for-casting-multiple-votes-in-2020-election/
The link gives it away. The Villages is a as close to a Trump retirement playground as anywhere. Drugs, prostitution, sex parties, etc.
Today in Omicron
Indoor mask mandate back again
Hospitals should make a priority care list.
1. People vaccinated and children under 17 not vaccinated
2. Elective surgery
3. Non vaccinated people are last and only given care if beds are available.
9/11: 3,000 Americans killed, the conservatives happily signed away their right to privacy, certain freedoms. Covid: 800,000 Americans dead & counting. Conservatives: you can't tell me what to do. I have no sympathy. It's a plague. If you don't get the shot, you are moved down the list. Make it public knowledge, shout it far & wide. Everyone one will still have a choice.
That's because 9/11 the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was brown people., whereas for Covid the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was white people.
I agree with all of this and good point about 9/11.
I don't think I can agree with denying care to people because of poor personal choices. Where do you take that, in the end? Deprioritizing smokers? The obese?
people are already being denied care because of *others'* poor personal choices not to get vaccinated...
I have sympathy with this view, but I think it's not exactly analogous; refusing to get vaccinated isn't just a personal choice, it's also a social one. You're endangering others as well as yourself.
you might not think it's exactly analogous, but I invite you to revisit that while pretending that you're the kind of rapacious sociopath who manages pricing and risk for both private health insurance companies and hospitals.
I think it would be really interesting to spend like a month as that kind of rapacious sociopath. I struggle to imagine the thought processes, I would appreciate the insight.
No, thank you! I mean, I believe in universal health care too, if we're getting philosophical here.
That's a reason to deny job opportunities, attendance at events, etc. But medical care once you are sick? There's a different moral dimension there.
Sure, it's a good question. I'm just saying it's fuzzier than you were making it out to be. And like, it's a free shot available to everyone that only takes a few minutes of your time. That's not the same as addiction (smoking) or years of poor lifestyle or other physiological issues (obesity). I don't think people should be denied medical care, but I can at least understand the argument that if the pandemic stretches hospital resources to the breaking point, it's fair to not penalize the people who did what was asked of them.
I wouldn’t implement something like this during “normal” times when beds and care are abundantly available, however, when healthcare systems are at capacity and you have to ration care they should implement a system.
Even in that situation putting them behind elective procedures seems unnecessarily cruel.
I wish this could be implemented, but money talks in healthcare
I have a lot of doubts that this will actually do any good. The core problem is that the regions that least need such a mandate (blue cities with high vaccination rates) are going to be the most likely to follow it. The regions that most need additional protections (rural red areas with low vax rates) won't enforce it.
Yep, I agree. I am tired of changing my lifestyle for people that have decided to not get vaccinated and won’t wear a mask.
Like Drago said in Rocky 4: “if he dies, he dies.”
Do you remember when Barry Tompkins used to do Cal games with Dan Belluomini during the Braun years? Still, he's better known for calling the Balboa/Drago fight in Russia....
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9dbf972f-a285-489c-9aaa-def113ae1133
I took Sociology of Sport from Harry Edwards and Barry Tompkins came and talked one day about sports and the media.
Did you get Barry to say "He's cut, the Russian is cut. And it's a bad cut" ?
It's been that way in LA since July
Santa Barbara too
So many companies pegged January as a return to office. Wonder how that plays out in reality. Open space particularly tough
The large national financial institution that employees me is full steam ahead for January 10th. No mask mandates, no capacity limits, no vaccine mandate (except in those localities where laws demand them). Can't wait! 🖕
That's coincidentally the start date of the first full jury trial that I will have since Covid began.
open space is easy, everyone wears a mask all the time, and no in person meetings/cube chats. We've been having our weekly group meeting over teams for a year and a half, even though we all site no more than 15 feet apart.
the federal agency I support is going to slow their roll for the planned January return. Even before Omicron, I'd assumed that winter / school holiday spikes might put a crimp on those plans.
i heard that some got hurt at home, sued for workers comp because they were "forced to work from home" and WON.
800,000
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
I just read that Pfizer (2 shots) is only 36% effective against Omicron. Gotta get that 3rd booster folks. (Getting mine today, finally)
i bet this is subject to some accounting issues ..
- the 2 shot effectiveness is being measured several months after
- the 3 shot effectiveness is being measured right after getting boosted
most likely not matter how many boosters you have, there is some decay in effectiveness over time.
that being said, you should get your booster as it will give you more protection.
i am sure we will be getting 4th, 5th, 6th boosters as coronavirus times drag on indefinitely ...
it will be incorporated into the annual flu shot that is available every year.
I like this idea
It would be very convenient. Which is probably why it will take years to achieve.
36 NFL players tested positive for La Rona yesterday. One staffer tested positive, which was omicron variant
https://sports.yahoo.com/los-angeles-chargers-lineman-tackle-rashawn-slater-reserve-covid19-coronaviurs-list-chiefs-223723874.html
Schefty says more than 25 more expected today, and the Rams have had to close their facility and enter the intensive protocol. I might be kind of pissed if I were the Cardinals.
The NFL in general has been rather flippant towards Covid, so no one should be pointing fingers.
Wonder if Ashtyn Davis, Cameron Jordan, Stephen Anderson, Marvin Jones, Jaylinn Hawkins, Patrick Mekari, Jake Curran & Cam Bynum were among them? That would be interesting, and another indicator of the City of Berkeley’s reach on all things pandemic... ;-)
Sad that's how few we have in the NFL now
Uh oh
Pro
Warriors SEGABABA
we (whole family) are going tonight. ticket prices only shot up after the game vs the Pacers ended last night.
nice SEGABABA!
I was thinking of you as Steph was missing shots that last few games. lucky you!
maybe you can sell yours and go to a bar and watch ;-)
Take care of y'all bodies and y'all chicken
https://twitter.com/manscaped/status/1469389025572233220
sweet jeezus. he is darn funny, even with the sound off.
are you new to the internet?
You know things are bad under Urban Meyer when the NFL allows something that makes them look bad be written on its own website
https://www.nfl.com/news/tension-boiling-over-between-coach-urban-meyer-jaguars-players-staff
The NCAA head coach who has won a National Championship and a Super Bowl is Jimmy Johnson. He won a National Championship with the U in '87 and two Super Bowls (XXVII, and XXVIII) with the Cowboys.
Barry Switzer won both.
What about Pete Carroll?
Doesn't Pete Carroll count as well?
Pete Carroll is one of those rare coaches who seems to have learned quite a bit from his failures, paving the way to success later in his career.
In reverse.
Cheaty Petey's first HC position was with the New York Jets ('94). He then was a DC with the 49ers ('95-'96) and then HC with the New England Patriots ('97-'99). His record in the NFL at that point was 2 games over .500 (33-31, .516).
He then found success with USC, winning 8 straight Pac-10 championships and two National Championships ('03 and '04), with a record of 97-19, .836.
Subsequent to the end of his college coaching career, Carroll was hired by Seattle where he has been the head coach for 12 seasons (incl. 2021). He has won 1 Super Bowl (XLVIII) and lost another (XLIX). The Seahawks have made the playoffs in 9 of the 11 complete seasons so far.
I might argue he was never really bad prior to USC. The Jets are a tire fire of a franchise that you can't blame Carroll for failing to fix in one season. The 49ers had great defenses when he was DC. With New England he wasn't amazing but he made the playoffs 2 out of 3 years. He was just in a tough spot being compared to Parcells before him and Belichick after him.
Obviously he went to another level after that, but he wasn't a bad coach.
I never said that Pete Carroll was a bad coach. He wasn't elite status as an HC at either the pro or college level until he was at USC. And he had at least one shot that was more than one season (New England).
I agree with this take. Pete Carroll was a great DC with the Niners and as you mentioned, successful with the Pats, they just didn’t have patience.
The Jets are basically Cal of the NFL. Poor institutional support, poor coaching hires and bad luck.
He would have had two NCAA championships (2004 vacated) and two Superbowl wins (just hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch)
The NFL has a bad history with national championship college coaches who try to make the transition to the NFL. Off the top of my head Steve Spurrier is the example that most readily comes to mind. Spurrier had been a head coach at Duke ('87-'89) and Florida ('90-'01), playing for a National Championship in '95 and winning one in '96.
Spurrier spent 2 seasons with the WFT before giving up the idea that he could translate NCAA success into NFL success. He returned to college ball and coached 11 more years at South Carolina.
Let's also not forget Nick Saban. Saban had 2 years with the Miami Dolphins as their HC before bailing and returning to the college ranks at Alabama. Saban had won a National Championship at LSU in the 2004 Sugar Bowl (ending the 2003 season). He's won 6 other National Championships at Alabama ('09, '11, '12, '15, '17, and '20). His '21 Alabama team is in the playoffs...again.
Prior to the Dolphins stint, Saban had NFL experience with the Houston Oilers ('88-'89 as their DC) and Cleveland Browns ('91-'94 as their DC)
Signs point to Saban being a very good NFL coach (of the Bill Belichick mold) if he wanted to stay
But he didn't and his NFL record was middling at best.
No he didnt stay.. I wasnt arguing re: the "NFL's history with the national championship coaches" (if that was a thing to categorize into a "history") but your context seemed to imply that they cant succeed and that Saban bailed because he couldnt succeed. "Middling" is also way off base. The Dolphins were in the dumps and Saban immediately turned around their trajectory, before his wife decided he needs to go back to college where their hearts are. Putting that in the same context as Spurrier is misleading. I'm not sure there really is a significant enough "history" of national championship coaches in the NFL for it to even be a thing... But if you want it to be a thing: 6 coaches come to my mind, and 3 (50%) of them won Superbowls in relatively short order. That's a pretty good history, come to think of it. I suspect you have some recency bias with Urban Meyer, even though Spurrier and Saban were your examples.
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Diamond Dallas Page recently got married. His wife's name is now Payge Page. Not quite as good as Lauren Lauren, but still...
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/12/ddp-gets-married/
Payge Page is apparently a "retired adventure athlete"...huh?
Cris Collinsworth claims that up is down while defending Aaron Rodgers.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1470218361401491457
Collinsworth is a buffoon.
frustrating, as he used to be good as an analyst, but has gotten to far afield in recent years.
Feels like his actual gameplay analysis is still good, but he now also thinks he knows the players as people when he really doesn't.
Do the players know themselves as people?
IMO, he has surpassed Joe Buck for commentator buffoonery.
Buck has gone the opposite way IMO. Not really a buffoon anymore. If anything, he's in on his own joke now.
I agree. Buck has gotten better. I thought he was too uptight for the NFL, perhaps it was due to his coming up as a MLB announcer.
Buck has gotten much better the last 2-4 years.
MNF ended for me when Collinsworth took over
SNF? Current MNF crew is perfectly cromulent.
I don't even count the current MNF lol. But I'm really old too.
You're right, I speficially was referring to the Al Michaels + [analyst] version, which I guess is SNF now.
It is kind of weird how SNF has overtaken MNF in importance.
Other College
Former Indiana pre-season hype-train Michael Penix (giggle) Jr transfers to UW Huskies
https://twitter.com/allasley/status/1470834145156816896?s=21
Wow, I didn’t see him going to UW.
really? He played for DeBoer when he was OC at Indiana
I forgot about that connection. Thanks for reminding me.
Notre Dame fans are not happy about the recently announced changes
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/notre-dame-restoration-modernization-plans-approved-1234613176/
shit, you got me.
I saw this and thought "they seemed pretty excited about the new coach, what's wrong now" and then realized that was the wrong Notre Dame
Nike with NIL support for Ducks football team
https://twitter.com/boardroom/status/1470520421653139463
Wazzu's Max Borghi declares for NFL draft
https://twitter.com/max_borghi/status/1470570774088015877?s=21
he was really fun to watch play, good luck to him
He's got New England Patriots written all over him
I think Shanahan and the Niners draft him.
Spencer Rattler transfers to USC
https://mobile.twitter.com/spencerrattler/status/1470575906947100676?s=21
Following in Ronnie ‘Sunshine’ Bass’ footsteps & playing for the ‘Gamecocks....
Shocking!
Cal
Garbers has announced he's heading to the NFL draft.
Good luck with that.
https://twitter.com/ChaseGarbers/status/1470882540747513857?t=gKE0f0EwJQmCODMvE8NX0w&s=09
Just saw that. Late round pick?
Insurance salesman.
maybe he could call Matt Leinart and dabble in commercial real estate in between being wooden on Fox
UDFA
this
Maybe Canada for him? Love Chase, but NFL seems a skooch unrealistic. Then again you never know
I totally agree with you, but Wilcox just turned down $4M a year to coach at one of the best programs west of the Mississippi, which also happens to be his alma mater, in order to stay at a school that can't seem to go a season without nearly forfeiting games....I've backed off saying what is and isn't unrealistic, at least in terms of Cal football ;-)
Damonic Williams decommits and flips to Dykes and TCU
HE HAS FLIPPED BACK TO CAL.
https://247sports.com/Article/Damonic-Williams-re-commits-to-Cal-Bears-TCU-horned-frogs--178302100/
LOL 😂 oh the fickle heart of an 18 year old
Damn you Sonny!!!
Wait, Sonny Dykes is stealing defensive recruits from Justin Wilcox?? WTF
Sonny HAS defensive recruits?
*Sonny Dykes*
That’s a big loss. Salt in the recruiting wound losing him to Dykes and TCU.
Less than ideal…tho after having visited TCU in Sept., there’s about 8000 co-Ed reasons why I could see this happening, plus 1 big one called the holy trinity dinner at Woodshed Smokehouse & BBQ
crop top, mini skirts, and boots.
that was a sight to behold
For those not in the know, we had our tailgate next to the TCU Song Girls' tent. Not that I noticed.
Wilcox gotta flip some guys too
https://youtu.be/Rntm3yDAQuM
Random question, but is anyone aware of any alumni presence in Montana? I've met tons of California ex pats here so I figured there has to be a few, but there's nothing official on the alumni association website and they never responded to my question.
I suppose Travis DeCuire doesn't count
he does not
CAA will never ever give out personal data unless you're an official chapter. My recommendation is to start up an unofficial site on Facebook page. That's how I started the NC chapter.
I actually did. I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t reinventing the wheel.
Go Bears!!!
Tattersall in the portal
https://twitter.com/rivalsportal/status/1470837631957221379?s=21
Not surprised at all.
yep, he was simply passed by the younger guys.
Next year's LB should be pretty solid.
OLB - Oladejo and Deng, ILB - Rutchena and Paster
ILB is a little thin though.
I disagree. I think ILB room is deep with experience. ILBs should be Rutchena, Iosefa, Paster, Oladejo, Anzoulatos, Puskas, Smith, So'oto.
OLB will be thinner that I think our so-called DEs are actually the jumbo-strong side OLB. Croteauj/Wilkins as SOLB, Patu/Calhoun as Rush OLB. Curley Young left the program. Elarms-Orr recovering from injury. Ieremia is a project. Which leaves Lynch and Williams for depth.
...do we know if Deng is coming back?
Also, he isn’t a Pac 12 starting caliber LB. His ceiling in P5 is special teams and backup player. He should drop down to a G5 school.
He is not even backup caliber
Fourth-year academic, but wasn't listed in the seniors list. However, his transfer portal status seemed inevitable since he was passed by 3 others on the depth chart.
Signing day is coming up. Let's get some more recruits to flip!
Prediction: it won't be a good signing day for Cal, but we'll make up for it from the portal later.
I like the sci-fi undertones of the term “the portal”
Could be tricky getting confirmation of academic standing for a Klingon you plan to have play LB.
Okay - the Damonic Williams news was the bad news I was expected. I expect some good news tomorrow.
The immutable laws of the portal shall make it so
this
I agree that it won’t be good for Cal and we will have to make up for it with the portal.
After last season’s recruits, Wilcox can survive a solid but unspectacular class provided it’s a one-off & that he really starts working the portal.
That assumes most of last seasons recruits:
1. Stay healthy
2. Reach their potential
3. Keep their grades up
4. Don’t transfer
perhaps we should start looking into Dr Pepper NIL deals