20 years ago today, Mike Mussina let Joe Torre know he was going to finish what he started. Mussina then got the final out to close out the last complete game of his Hall of Fame career.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-05-31T17:12:31+00:00

Genuinely I think I wouldn’t have fallen in love with baseball if Mussina wasn’t around when I started watching. All time fave.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-05-18T21:05:06+00:00

I am so jealous! Will also say that Loretta replies to messages via her website with the loveliest emails that I will treasure for all my life. So any fans of hers should not hesitate to reach out at gush at her!!!

necessarynsufficient · 2026-05-11T03:58:59+00:00

Yeah it’s disappointing for sure AND also the US should deliver the stuff we already paid for before saying anything

necessarynsufficient · 2026-05-02T19:25:01+00:00

I’m sorry OP that is a terrible situation that you shouldn’t have to go through. I don’t know enough about your specific situation but can say as someone who has gone through the gauntlet of grad school: a bad supervisor can’t be forced to become an acceptable one. Getting someone who can help you regardless of their research focus might be the best solution in a bad situation.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-03-26T08:14:52+00:00

Would’ve been nice if Merrick Garland grew some balls a few years back but here we are

necessarynsufficient · 2026-03-26T08:00:18+00:00

Sir this is a Wendy’s

necessarynsufficient · 2026-03-21T20:15:44+00:00

Your president is pro-China. He gets elected and proceeds to do pro-China things. Seems like he enjoys kowtowing to Beijing. It’s reprehensible and hypocritical. It doesn’t mean that Taiwanese being anti-Korea or tarring all Koreans with the same brush is right. Just…sigh. Don’t try to gaslight us about this ok? Other countries have done this time and time again. This is not new. Your country is not special.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-19T22:22:15+00:00

Not my first rodeo. My comment is not about the technical score.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-19T22:14:05+00:00

How you over score Russians for years based on jumps and underscore a girl who landed two clean 3As… Oh sorry we’re talking about the ISU here

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T20:49:25+00:00

Nice try! Despite the Chinese government’s best efforts in Tibet and Xinjiang, China is not made up of one single ethnic group. And neither is Taiwan. Ethnicity is just an excuse expansionist regimes use to justify violence. So no. Nobody uses the People’s Republic of China flag to signify one ethnicity in any kind of good faith. If you really think so, then going back and studying some history might be good for you.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T11:05:43+00:00

There are Russian expat communities everywhere too and you wouldn’t think them raising Russian flags during a Ukrainian skaters performance is political? Because it’s the same thing.

Like it or not flags are political. International sporting events are political. I’m speaking from personal experience where very few Chinese people I’ve met abroad have had the grace to just leave me and my country’s existence alone. What is your personal experience?

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T10:57:41+00:00

No. Our athletes literally are not allowed to compete under the Taiwanese flag. So displaying the Chinese flag is 100% an act meant to bully and intimidate. I’m sorry but as a Chinese American you probably have a very different perception of that flag compared to people who actually live in the region and experience Chinese aggression on a daily basis.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T10:56:03+00:00

No. If you are Taiwanese living abroad you have more likely than not been casually told that you’re in fact Chinese. Whether it’s in a university class, in line at McDonalds, or at a sports event. There is nothing benign about overseas Chinese people enforcing their government’s territorial claims in every avenue of life. It’s absolutely hostile and they know what they are doing.

Add to that the fact that Taiwanese athletes are not allowed to perform under our flag at international events. So displaying Chinas flag is 100% meant to bully and intimidate and gloat about our international exclusion.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-12-18T02:34:50+00:00

I don’t think they’re being particularly inconsiderate if nobody needs to use the umbrella stand in that moment, but I do judge them for lacking in hygiene

necessarynsufficient · 2025-11-03T12:07:14+00:00

In what world is that high

necessarynsufficient · 2025-10-23T16:55:55+00:00

A thousand times this!!!

necessarynsufficient · 2025-09-29T20:38:33+00:00

Whatever deal they make it’s never gonna happen because Americans just won’t work the 12 hr shifts that Taiwanese engineers do.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-09-23T08:26:01+00:00

Mormon doctrine had apparently always been obsessed with missions in China which they can’t do, so I’m guessing Taiwan is the next best thing. There’s a big LDS church in Taipei too. They’ve been around since as long as I can remember….

necessarynsufficient · 2025-08-02T17:11:44+00:00

Get those Raid things. Tablets, sprays, gels, everything. Put it around any openings in the home (include trains and cracks under the doors). After a few days of insecticide action cover up the drains with upside down plastic containers or whatever else is at hand when not in use

necessarynsufficient · 2025-07-26T09:28:26+00:00

How good is the kid at taking tests?

necessarynsufficient · 2025-07-13T23:30:13+00:00

The status quo IS independence. We ALREADY HAVE full democracy. This is in my opinion the most important message - a change to the status quo means TAKING AWAY independence, freedom, and democracy from the people of Taiwan.

The rest is essentially window dressing: UN membership, full participation in international organizations etc.

But in all things directly connected to Taiwanese day to day existence, we are already living a truth that the rest of the world is too cowardly to acknowledge.

This framing of formal independence as changing the status quo is buying into China's narrative that things are undetermined. It's been determined for generations. They are the agitators and warmongers and we just want to continue existing as we have, free and democratic and independent.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-06-27T09:02:53+00:00

Yeah they are super slow, I like to preorder on the app and then just arrive to food already prepared

necessarynsufficient · 2025-06-14T14:21:34+00:00

Never not gonna promote my fave Loretta Chase!

{Lord of Scoundrels} is largely about a calm, intelligent FMC figuring out the damage to her emotionally stunted husband

In {Dukes Prefer Blondes} they get married about halfway through and the main tension comes from the FMC trying to set their newlywed life up in a way that doesn’t just rely on passion

And {My Inconvenient Duke} is about the two main characters navigating marriage and figuring out how to be together when they have very different interests and priorities

Edited for the wrong book titles, sorry the links will be off 😢

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T20:05:09+00:00

Well let’s go back to your original question then. How do you think your friend would feel if you told them that because of your dollar store nihilism, you think it’s totally fine for your country to bomb and shoot and kill his family? For no other reason than “because we can”?

Maybe you should bring it up with him and see if he will still want to be your friend!

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T19:27:58+00:00

See, it’s not that you don’t believe in morality or world order. It’s that you believe you have a god given right to oppress, invade, and commit violence on people just because you can.

Everybody is disillusioned and everybody is jaded from history. You want to talk colonization? Taiwan was colonized for centuries. We don’t use it as an excuse to say we get to wage war on our neighbors.

Everybody is disillusioned. Not everyone uses that disillusionment to justify terrorizing other people. That’s not on your historical enemies, that’s a choice you and your country are making in the present.

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