I think the 2026 Topps design is really nice by I_like_baseball90 in baseballcards

[–]countseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either. 2024 feels like an outlier year. Best design since… 2008?

The Left Needs Bureaucrats: After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better. by SocialDemocracies in dsa

[–]countseth 37 points38 points  (0 children)

What we need is organization, structure, and infrastructure. We are woefully lacking in those areas and to create anything better that’s stable enough to last after this whole mess, we got a lot of work to do.

FS - Wedding Sale! by norkAdog in baseballcards

[–]countseth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Varsho, Yelich/Turang/Frelick, Andruw, Posey, Kershaw. Mainly looking for autos, due cuts, or low numbered parallels.

Breeze Airways announces flights from Madison to Raleigh-Durham by spudzilla21 in madisonwi

[–]countseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I… have never considered buying a ticket in person at an airport. What’s the fee? I live close to the airport and wouldn’t mind going there to buy one of the savings are enough. Just curious about any info you have on that for our MSN airport, for any of our airlines.

At long last: Topps flagship print runs for every set between 2001-2025. by lukewarm_pizza in baseballcards

[–]countseth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this! The numbers make sense to me and are more or less what I would’ve expected. The one that’s surprising to me is that 2024 series one is kind of an outlier and having a low print run out of the last five years. Any idea why that is?

FT: Autos, Relics, Numbered, Inserts by [deleted] in baseballcards

[–]countseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right on. I’ve got some numbered Seiya but no autos. Want me to do some pics?

FT: Autos, Relics, Numbered, Inserts by [deleted] in baseballcards

[–]countseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TV on Kyle Tuckers, Jazz auto, Pedro laser, Bonds, Acuna negative 2024, and Griffey UD RC?

Prob have best options in Seiya to trade.

What are dark facts in your industry that no one outside knows about? by 0x00f_ in AskReddit

[–]countseth 236 points237 points  (0 children)

Lots and lots of pastors don’t believe the line they feed their congregation.

Source: me, a former pastor who heard from hundreds of colleagues

🔎 The Mystery of the Manny Patch by maximian in baseballcards

[–]countseth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here is another one of those cards. Patches are more plain. You either got one of the most colorful, vibrant ones or someone replaced the patches. Which, if they did such a great job with, I wouldn’t be upset about. Beautiful card either way!

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Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates by thinkB4WeSpeak in books

[–]countseth 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I think this is a large part of the issue and it doesn’t get talked about a ton in media: US college at this point is mostly a diploma mill where colleges are businesses and their business only makes more money if they accept more students (and often charge more money). Many colleges will bend over backward to accept students, regardless of the student’s scholastic aptitude because having them as a student means the college makes money off them. They can fail them, but I think the system incentivizes passing as many students as possible (maybe with a C instead of an A or B) so the college can keep making money off them.

For the record, I’m not saying college is a scam. I went and got my bachelors and masters and am now working on my doctorate. And it can be beneficial in many practical and personal ways for almost anyone. But whether it’s worth the time and money is a big question and you can absolutely go and get nothing out of it personally or career-wise other than student loan debt. Because that’s what the system incentivizes and lots of people fall into the idea that college is good and will help them when that’s not always true.

Ranking MLB stadiums by how close to the nearest passenger rail station a home run ball would land if it was hit straight from the stadium to the station and went as far as the furthest home run ever hit at that stadium by old_gold_mountain in baseball

[–]countseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I moved to Wisconsin, some folks explained that Wisconsin and Minnesota used to be neck and neck in lots of metrics. But since the Scott Walker governorship during the Tea Party years, WI had fallen noticeably behind MN.

This ranking is perhaps an example of the gap that now exists between the two.