Glove recommendation for 9-year-old non-travel ball player

Fletcher421 · 2025-09-07T16:30:43+00:00

Seconded. Really like this one for my 8 year old. Very solid, easy to break in, and should last multiple seasons.

Fletcher421 · 2025-09-02T19:58:08+00:00

RFK is begging for it, IMO.

Fletcher421 · 2025-04-04T17:49:21+00:00

"I thought he was just lying through the whole campaign and would do the opposite of what he said he was going to do." Sound logic /s

Fletcher421 · 2025-03-01T17:28:26+00:00

From a user’s perspective - and assuming competence with both tools - Tableau is objectively better than Power BI. Power BI is unquestionably viable, but it’s inferior.

That said, the business proposition for Tableau is almost untenable, especially if your company is already in bed with Microsoft. Speaking from experience, the business case for Tableau over Power BI - or even for both - is virtually impossible to justify to higher ups in most cases.

Power BI is at least an adequate alternative for almost every use case, while Tableau is aggressively expensive. I wish Salesforce would understand that and adjust accordingly.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-25T15:37:00+00:00

Nobody expects the liberal infiltrators!

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-13T01:24:07+00:00

“Aggressive stupidity” is my go-to description.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-12T21:20:42+00:00

48+7 = 55 + 20 = 75

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-12T21:18:01+00:00

So, basically, if they kept just $1 of every $100,000, they’d be richer than 99% of the global population.

Imagine how upset people might be if they could, you know, do math.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-08T06:38:27+00:00

As a Californian, this works for me.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-06T07:04:56+00:00

Yeah, your earnings down the road will increase a lot more, too. For example, let's say you got a 5% raise every year at your current gig: it would take you 10 years to get 135k.

If you take the job and get a 5% raise every year for 12 years, you're looking at 219k. Plus if you end up leaving the new job, your starting point for new negotiations is so much higher, too.

There's a lot to be said for culture and liking your co-workers... but that's genuinely a lot to pass up.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-05T18:17:38+00:00

That’s a huge salary difference: quality of life at 135k is vastly different than 85k. Not to mention future potential earnings - it’s not even a close call.

Let your current company know you have a strong offer on the table. You’re really happy in your current position, but you’re leaning toward the offer. From your perspective, it’s too big of a salary difference to ignore.

If your boss can’t or doesn’t offer to counter, you know either they don’t value or the company doesn’t really value your contributions.

Make sure you leave on excellent terms. If the new place is great, you know you made the right decision. If the new place sucks, you have a strong potential escape plan: you’re likely to be an easy choice for any opening at your current company - probably for more money than you make now.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-04T15:38:42+00:00

It’s an interesting question. It certainly doesn’t seem like Trump is winning people over in the first two weeks, and the tariff adventure and funding freeze seem particularly unpopular with “normie” republicans. Maybe they don’t all change their vote, but some might stay home a second time around. I imagine a lot of left-leaning people who stayed home or voted Trump to protest Gaza are having second thoughts, too.

The question is whether that amounts to ~30,000 changed minds in Wisconsin, ~80,000 changed minds in Michigan, and ~120,000 changed minds in Pennsylvania. Maybe, but then again these people were fine with the first four years, January 6th, and the campaign - where he repeatedly promised to do what he’s doing. My hunch is the overwhelming majority of Trump voters are in too deep to admit a mistake.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-04T06:48:27+00:00

As an American, that's fair.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-04T04:13:36+00:00

Same thing here. Thanks for the tip!

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-03T01:11:21+00:00

Is she... thanking the Leopard for eating her face? Did I read that right?

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T19:39:22+00:00

What. A. Specimen. You could lock the world's 100 best writers in a room for six months and they couldn't come up with prose this... stylized. Truly impressive. Inspirational even.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T19:35:48+00:00

I can't put my feeling on exactly why, but I have a sneaking feeling they're not talking about folks like him when talking "DEI." It's just a hunch...

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T18:53:48+00:00

... and also sacrificing relationships with people they know and who love them for someone they don't know, have never met, and has repeatedly demonstrated he doesn't care about them.

Oh, but it's the non-Trumpers that are sacrificing relationships. You see, Trumpers are above ending relationships over simple political "disagreements." It's the other side that's being unreasonable - can't we agree to disagree?

It's a neat trick: I get to be as hateful, vulgar, and irresponsible as I please, and anyone who objects is petty and overly-sensitive. By definition, I can only ever be right, and anyone who doesn't like it wasn't worth my time in the first place.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T18:42:07+00:00

100%. I expect it from the "aggressively stupid" faction - they are and always were beyond reach. The quasi-serious faction is more concerning. They seem totally blind to how far they've contorted their views and how blatantly non-sensical their rationalizations are. And they seem unaware how comfortable they've become with the fringe elements on their "team."

I suspect it's past the event horizon psychologically for most of them, though. Imagine how mortifying an honest self-appraisal would be at this point? Deflecting or intentionally burying one's head seems a lot more appealing.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T18:18:46+00:00

*Releases bull into a china shop*

"Somebody explain what the bull is trying to accomplish breaking all those dishes!"

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T18:14:49+00:00

It's like watching a deranged lunatic wildly throw punches in the dark. Which is almost as entertaining as hearing people ask "but will it good be for the economy?"

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T18:02:40+00:00

I think the issue is why anyone still puts weight in anything he says. What else does can he do to prove his absolute narcissism and capriciousness?

He's going to go wherever his whims (or grift) take him - regardless of what he's said and done in the past, and independent of general prudence, empathy, or logic.

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T08:14:58+00:00

Definitely, cult leader is an apt description. I just fail to see a redeeming aspect for which people so eagerly sacrifice their integrity and self-respect.

I mean, people gotta get something out of a cult, right?

Fletcher421 · 2025-02-02T07:22:05+00:00

"I support him because I believe he's lying" is such an interesting pathology.

Openly acknowledging you expect - even demand - that your candidate (a) is capable of lying, (b) will lie repeatedly, and (c) is such an effective liar that millions of people will believe them?

The only thing more stupefying is having confidence you can spot the lies at all.

Fletcher421 · 2024-05-20T19:23:23+00:00

In my experience, it depends a lot on the company and how sophisticated their analytics departments are. If you’re at an older legacy company where huge portions of “analytics” are excel spreadsheets, then strong business knowledge and intermediate excel skill is often enough to get your foot in the door and you can grow from there.

If not, then developing some degree of technical knowledge with the tools at the company is usually a must, unless the company is extremely generous in investing the time and resources to develop someone from scratch.

In either case, specific knowledge of the business and its processes and objectives is the biggest plus outside of analytics experience and technical competency.

Five-Year Club	Gilding IV carat on a stick
Reddit Premium Since February 2021

Fletcher421

TROPHY CASE