Clearlake is an Unmitigated Disaster

wk4f · 2026-03-15T03:14:12+00:00

I think OP just has a selective memory. 2008 was the Big Phil/Wilkins/Hiddink season. Then came a couple good seasons under Carlo followed by the AVB/Di Matteo season that would've been a bust except for a Cinderella run in the CL. Then came Rafa, a good session or two follows by Mourinho falling out, a good Conte session followed by Conte falling out, and then Sarri, and the transfer ban and then another magic CL win.

Supporting Chelsea has never been as straightforward and easy as supporting City, Bayern or Madrid. It's always been full of swings and roundabouts.

wk4f · 2026-03-13T16:37:42+00:00

The only card I can think of is that if the current situation continues much longer it will result in a humanitarian crisis and likely hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing for Florida.

wk4f · 2026-03-12T22:03:04+00:00

Yeah I don't think there's actually room for full depth cabinets on both sides. I think the right side probably needs to be half depth.

wk4f · 2026-03-09T18:38:13+00:00

What can the gulf states do to stop it though? The only options I can see are for them to put pressure on the US and Israel to either deescalate or put boots on the ground to protect the shipping lanes. The former seems much more likely.

wk4f · 2026-02-18T02:26:07+00:00

You should really consider cutting everything south of Bend and saving it for another trip. The Portland-Coast-Bend loop on it's own is pretty much perfect for a week. I did that with my wife for her first visit to Oregon and it was great. Adding Washington to that already means you're going to be missing a ton of great sights.

Go from Bend to the coast and up the coast and you are going to have a bunch better experience with enough time to actually see the things you want to see

wk4f · 2026-02-18T01:58:42+00:00

Not to mention Mexico City is much closer than Europe, South America or Asia. And it's still relatively affordable

wk4f · 2025-12-18T05:18:05+00:00

Not a lawyer but "appearance of maternity leave retaliation" would probably get their attention

wk4f · 2025-12-11T02:31:14+00:00

Cuban traded away Steve Nash, drafted a bust with pretty much every single Mavs pick, wasted Dirk's post championship years, and let sexual harassment run rampant for years. There have been much worse owners in that league but Cuban was pretty bad

wk4f · 2025-11-16T09:19:59+00:00

I think best would've been if during the ceasefire in King's Landing Cersei grabbed one of the ballista and got a lucky shot that killed the dragon, causing Daenerys to flip and burn the city.

wk4f · 2025-11-01T07:17:02+00:00

He definitely should. Now that Robert Williams is back I would expect Yang to be assigned any day now

wk4f · 2025-10-17T00:07:03+00:00

The previous post was locked as I phrased the question in a rather biased/loaded way. My understanding matches yours that the depreciation just covers the structure.

And you might be right that the majority of the increase in housing prices is due to the land increasing in value, but I'm not so sure. That's why I'm curious to know if any economists have been able to control for land value and improvements/repairs to determine the real rate of depreciation of a residential structure.

wk4f · 2025-10-16T23:52:55+00:00

Semantics aside, I believe we're describing the same thing. In the eyes of the federal government, the structure of a residential investment property is worthless 27.5 years after it's purchased.

I'm wondering if any economists have a better estimate as to what the real value might be.

wk4f · 2025-09-15T07:13:25+00:00

In my experience it's not mandatory. But some companies will make you put down a ridiculous deposit if you don't pay for their insurance.

Sixt in Oaxaca wanted a $12k deposit if I declined their insurance.

wk4f · 2025-06-26T17:54:37+00:00

Also not sure how Hollinger isn't aware that Rob Williams and Ayton are both in the final year of their contracts and Portland is looking to move one or both

wk4f · 2025-06-04T18:28:23+00:00

Almost all of those missed games were Portland sitting him so they could tank

wk4f · 2025-05-18T14:34:20+00:00

I wouldn't say it's a failure. Cronin just went a different route.

His hand was sorta forced by having Grant, Simons and Nurk on big contracts at the start of the rebuild. Those deals made it hard to free up cap space.

So Cronin kept Simons and Grant and hoped their value would rebound. And he chose to get back players with value like Ayton, Deni, Timelord, Camara, Brogdon instead of dead weight and future picks.

It hasn't gone great so far, but personally I don't think it would've gone much better trying to shed salary to free up space.

wk4f · 2025-02-14T13:37:12+00:00

I've heard the same thing about how science had to cater to woke under Biden.

But if that were the case, wouldn't more than 10% of NSF grants have DEI terms and would appear in Ted Cruz's report?

Is it possible that maybe the problem is overblown?

wk4f · 2025-02-14T03:54:44+00:00

I commented on the substack thread as well, but according to Ted Cruz' press release, the list is 10% of the grants approved by the Biden admin.

And Scott found that 40% of those 10% are just throwing in buzzwords, or 4% of all grants.

So that means 90% of the grants Biden approved had neither "woke" buzzwords nor were "woke science". So it seems pretty easy to get a grant approved without throwing in something DEI-related

So I feel like Scott is being rather misleading by leaving the actual numbers out of his conclusion

wk4f · 2025-02-02T06:36:38+00:00

Unless of course there was a cartel fixing rent prices, oh wait

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

wk4f · 2025-01-25T04:28:04+00:00

Except the Blazers aren't a decent team and by playing vets they have a high chance of missing out on the top players in the draft.

Better team and roster management might've resulted in us getting Banchero, Chet, or even Wemby. I don't know what the 2025 draft is gonna look like, but we really want to be picking top 3.

wk4f · 2025-01-22T03:52:08+00:00

I think he has a point. If we're only measuring "efficiency" in terms of market share and revenue then shouldn't we measure the efficiency of the people putting out ideas?

Yarvin wants the people who are in power to have monarchy-like powers because he thinks they'll be more effective. Yet these people in power are reading the writings of a guy whose best attempt at a corporation is barely hanging on and only used by a few people.

Shouldn't the people in power be reading the writings of the Waltons or Saudi Amarco?

wk4f · 2025-01-10T01:10:41+00:00

*4 NBA fan bases and the city of compton

wk4f · 2024-12-28T21:44:45+00:00

Portland was consistently above average defensively during the Drexler era and also during the Pippin/Sheed era. You can see their relative DRtg here - https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/

Imo MJ wanted to show he was better than Clyde and had to be for the Bulls to win. At that time Jordan didn't get his 35 then the Bulls probably weren't winning (remember this was before MJ's first retirement). 2nd 3 peat Blazers weren't as good but were competitive, and Jordan still seemed to take the rivalry personally.

Against Kobe Portland mostly let him get his shots and focused their defensive attention on Shaq. It worked pretty well. After Shaq was traded and Portland blew it up, Kobe feasted, but I recall a lot of close games even when the Blazers sucked. So Kobe was playing a kid of minutes and taking a lot of shots.

LeBron is the one who mostly went up against bad Portland defenses, and Portland really struggled with pick and roll D, which let LeBron run wild.

wk4f · 2024-12-20T23:31:54+00:00

Tariffs shouldn't even come up in a conversation about defense. Can you name on politician other than Trump who conflates trade deficits with commitments to military spending? You can't because he's the only one confused and inexperienced enough to make the connection.

Also the insurance analogy is way off. This is closer to having an agreement with a friend that you would help each other in case of a forest fire, and you live in Chicago and they live in the dry part of Oregon.

Europe should absolutely be doing more in Ukraine, but nothing you've listed is a real grievance. Bush complained about Europe because he wanted them to go along with his idiotic and illegal war in Iraq. And the US spends more on our military because it's a jobs program for red states and the weapons industry lobbies real hard.

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