It feels like just yesterday we were drafting our NBA fantasy teams, full of hope that our early picks will stay healthy, that our late-round picks will have breakout seasons and that we will be sitting comfortably at the top of our league tables by now.

And now, week 14 is upon us and most of us are in a tough battle to clinch playoff berth, the guys we drafted late in the draft have long since been forgotten on the waiver wire and we've reluctantly, but wisely turned their places into streaming spots.

As always, I have taken a look ahead at the NBA schedule for next week, and here are the fantasy basketball streamers for Week 14.

One word before we go deep into next week. I've been getting some amazing replies to my posts in the past few weeks, and thank you guys so much for this!

I just wanted to let you know that the whole RotoBaller crew is working hard to help fantasy GMs out, and there is a ton of quality stuff on plenty of topics on our website, so if you're looking for information about something else as well, you can probably find it here: https://www.rotoballer.com/category/nba-fantasy-basketball-advice

NBA Schedule Guide - Week 14

With Tuesday having just two games, while Thursday and Saturday both have only three there's little doubt which days will be the most difficult on fantasy managers. All other days have between 11 and 13 games played, so we will continue with the assumption that most fantasy teams will be filled on these days, and focus on teams that play on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Here's the low-down:

Teams with 4 games:

Atlanta Hawks

Boston Celtics

Brooklyn Nets

Charlotte Hornets

Chicago Bulls

Dallas Mavericks

Detroit Pistons

Golden State Warriors

Indiana Pacers

Los Angeles Clippers

Los Angeles Lakers

Memphis Grizzlies

Miami Heat

Milwaukee Bucks

New York Knicks

Oklahoma City Thunder

Orlando Magic

Philadelphia 76ers

Portland Trail Blazers

San Antonio Spurs

Toronto Raptors

Utah Jazz

Washington Wizards

Teams with 3 games:

Cleveland Cavaliers

Denver Nuggets

Minnesota Timberwolves

Phoenix Suns

Teams with 2 games:

Houston Rockets

New Orleans Pelicans

Sacramento Kings

Number of teams playing each day:

Monday: 24

Tuesday: 4

Wednesday: 26

Thursday: 6

Friday: 22

Saturday: 6

P.S I posted something similar in the open thread and didn't get a proper response, only adhoms and name calling.

Central Banks, just like planning boards common in socialist nations, suffer from the knowledge problem. If you guys aren't familiar with the knowledge problem or the economic calculation problem, I suggest reading these two papers, one by Frederich Hayek, and the other by Mises. Both of which are well accepted in mainstream econ.

It's well accepted that socialist economies cannot allocate resources as effectively and efficiently as capitalist economies can because central planners do not have the sufficient knowledge to properly allocate resources. Capitalist economies on the other hand, are great at allocating scarce resources because of prices and competition. Prices, as Hayek mentioned, act as knowledge surrogates in the sense that they help coordinate "the separate actions of different people in the same way as subjective values help the individual to coördinate the parts of his plan." Competition in a capitalist economy also provides the proper incentives for firms and entrepreneurs to innovate and seek plans that bring about greater coordination between various market actors.

So this brings be to central banking vs free banking. Central bankers are no different that central planners in zoning boards or planning boards in socialist states in the sense that they lack the proper incentives and knowledge of the market actors. Price signals help coordinate the subjective preferences by market actors, but this doesn't exist when it comes to central banking. Since the goal of monetary policy is monetary equilibrium, central bankers "lack access to real-time feedback process that conveys the state of the money market"

Meanwhile, free banking is essentially an unregulated (or lightly regulated) banking system where private banks are free to issue their own redeemable money substitutes. There is no deposit insurance, no capital or reserve requirements, etc. Unlike modern day central banking systems, market forces regulate the quantity of banknotes and deposits in free banking.

So how has this worked in practice?

There have been over 50 episodes of free banking (or lightly regulated banking) worldwide ([See Experienc

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#Red scare

Five centrist Democrats have killed the nomination of Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, assisting Republicans—intentionally or unintentionally–in winning their ‘red scare’ campaign.

Omarova is a professor of law at Cornell, an expert on the banking industry, and previously worked as an advisor in the Dept. of the Treasury. She supports the Green New Deal and advocates for reforming the Federal Reserve.

Despite her qualifications, Republicans have focused on her heritage as their main line of attack. Omarova was born in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and attended Moscow State University where she wrote a thesis on the political philosophy of Karl Marx. She move to the states in 1991, earning a Ph.D. in political science and a Juris Doctor degree.

The rightwing media has been against her nomination from the start:

>Fox News ran a big story crowing that Omarova “could be the next Biden nominee to go down” alongside a large photo of Marx. Network exile Bill O’Reilly proclaimed that “what this woman wants … [is] communism,” while RealClearPolitics ran with the headline “Biden Is Nominating Soviet-Trained Radicals Now.” The Wall Street Journal editorial board asserted that her “radical ideas might make even Bernie Sanders blush” and that she “still believes the Soviet economic system was superior.”

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) piled on the red scare tactics during Omarova’s nomination hearing, questioning her participation in Soviet society (clip):

>Kennedy: You used to be a member of a group called the Young Communists, didn't you?

>Omarova: Senator, are you referring to my membership in the Youth Communist organization while I was growing up in the Soviet Union?

>Kennedy:

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The trio of ships gets together and begins their deployment in earnest. But naturally several things come up.

So many chapters ago someone mentioned that frigates are smaller than destroyers. I could break the fourth wall and say the idiot author goofed, but I think I've got an in-universe explanation that works.

Next chapter is probably going to be out Thursday/Friday.

A Terran Space Story: Academy Days

First | Previous | Next

Chapter 112: Wolfpack Kick-Ass

39 Hours Later. 02:00 Martian Slipstream Transit Point

Three corvettes sped through the void toward the traffic lanes between Mars and her designated slipstream transit location. It was a point two million kilometers from the Martian L2 Lagrange point. The corvettes then split and headed toward different ships.

The Memphis headed toward a pair of mining vessels. The Las Palmas and Winnipeg were heading toward freighters. The respective ships closed in, scanned the vessels, and either moved or flag them for inspection. When all nearby ships had been scanned they came back together and flew in formation.

All sorts of drills had been run to get three crews of cadets to work with one another. There was still a long list of items the crews had to go through before their wolfpack training had been completed. John was reviewing the list and was trying to determine the most efficient way of completing all of the items.

“That’s one more item completed sir,” Rich said.

“That it is, please send a message to our sister ships. I’m working on the remaining list of drills each shift has to run.”

“Will do sir, any change in course?”

John paused on his list and looked at the tactical map, “That’s a negative, keep us pointed in the same direction.”

John spent about five minutes working on the first shift’s list of drills to run over the next five days. The other two shifts were included in his final message to the sister ships but the commanders during those shifts could choose to run different drills if they wanted to.

“Rich, please send out that list for me,”

“Will do,” Rich said as he keyed in some things at his terminal to send the message to the other ships, “Sir, mind if I ask you a question.”

“Hit me,” John

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

They were cooked in Greece.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

While not all explicitly from anarchists but anarchist, here is a collection of ones I like:

Errico Malatesta

>Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth. The common interpretation of the word does not misconceive its true etymological signification, but is derived from it, owing to the prejudice that government must be a necessity of the organization of social life, and that consequently a society without government must be given up to disorder, and oscillate between the unbridled dominion of some and the blind vengeance of others. (Anarchy)

>Man, like all living beings, adapts himself to the conditions in which he lives, and transmits by inheritance his acquired habits. Thus, being born and having lived in bondage, being the descendant of a long line of slaves, man, when he began to think, believed that slavery was an essential condition of life, and liberty seemed to him impossible. In like manner, the workman, forced for centuries to depend upon the goodwill of his employer for work, that is, for bread, and accustomed to see his own life at the disposal of those who possess the land and capital, has ended in believing that it is his master who gives him food, and asks ingenuously how it would be possible to live, if there were no master over him? (Anarchy)

>And even if there existed men of infinite goodness and knowledge, even if we assume what has never happened in history and what we believe could never happen, namely, that the government might devolve upon the ablest and best, would the possession of government power add anything to their beneficent influence? Would they not rather paralyze or destroy it? For those who govern find it necessary to occupy themselves with things which they do not understand, and, above all, to waste the greater part of their energy in keeping themselves in power, striving to satisfy their friends, holding the discontented in check, and mastering the rebellious. (Anarchy)

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

Many of you follow my blog post:https://texadmissions.com/blog/2019/10/25/when-might-i-receive-my-major-decision-does-ut-have-rolling-admissions-for-fall-2020-freshman

A lot of you were understandably expecting a big wave of decisions to go out. As I stress time and again, there's no telling when, how, and why UT does what they do. Even so, I'm pretty surprised nothing went out. This breaks with every other admissions cycle where UT sent out a big batch in the second week of December.

I thought I'd share my mailing list broadcast I just sent out.

"I hope this message finds you well. I'm receiving a lot of inquiries about when UT will release their first batch of acceptances. As of around 9pm Friday December 10, things are quiet.

As I stress in my post "When might I receive my major decision?" nobody, not me, not random people on Reddit or College Confidential, not charlatan "admissions professionals," and often not even frontline UT counselors know when decisions will go out. Calling the UT admissions hotline may yield conflicting answers, amplifying confusion. Senior admissions staff might leak info to confidants or family friends. Like so many bureaucracies, the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.

All that we can do is look at previous admissions releases since UT started this "wave" system in the early 2010s. There has always been a big release in the second week of December, but this year seems to be an exception. Big decision waves have never gone out on weekends, so it seems previous trends don't hold this year. Perhaps a batch will release as we enter December's third week, but there are no guarantees.

For any student or parent who asks, "when might I hear back?" or "why did my friend with lower grades get in early and I didn't?" My honest answer is I have no idea.

Moreover, if your friends hear back early, that doesn't mean you're for sure rejected. Some of my top clients every year don't hear back until late January, while some of the solid but not exceptional ones receive admission in December. You just can't ever tell how, when, or why people hear back when they do.

It's important to zoom out and examine the bigger picture.

Elite (top 50) universities nationwide don't need to communicate adequately to the public nor shine light on their processes. They know you will wait, however anxiously. They know most families will line up to pay full price or take on five and six figure debt loads. Elite universities know they are

If you end up winning
Your next week's matchup
You might be thanking
Your streaming pick up

In a close battle of NBA fantasy
Coming down to a stat or two
Your streamer a hero can be
But the question is - WHO?

We're looking ahead to the NBA schedule for next week. Here are the fantasy basketball streamers for Week 11.

One word before we go deep into next week. I've been getting some amazing replies to my posts in the past few weeks, and thank you guys so much for this!

I just wanted to let you know that the whole RotoBaller crew is working hard to help fantasy GMs out, and there is a ton of quality stuff on plenty of topics on our website, so if you're looking for information about something else as well, you can probably find it here: https://www.rotoballer.com/category/nba-fantasy-basketball-advice

NBA Schedule Guide - Week 11

This week is pretty tough to predict when it comes to streaming. Thursday is definitely the primary target with just four games played, followed by Saturday with six. We will be focusing on players from teams playing on both of these days. The thing is, all these teams play just three times this week (although they all have their last game on Saturday so you can still get a four-game week if you drop them for another player who plays on Sunday).

All other days have between seven and ten games played and it's pretty much anyone's guess which fantasy teams will need help with their starters on which days. Not to mention Covid-19 implications - my head would explode if I tried to factor this one in as well.

Here's the low-down:

Teams with 4 games:

Boston Celtics

Chicago Bulls

Cleveland Cavaliers

Dallas Mavericks

Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Clippers

Los Angeles Lakers

Miami Heat

Minnesota Timberwolves

New York Knicks

Oklahoma City Thunder

Phoenix Suns

Sacramento Kings

San Antonio Spurs

Utah Jazz

Teams with 3 games:

Atlanta Hawks

Brooklyn Nets

Charlotte Hornets

Denver Nuggets

Golden State Warriors

Indiana Pacers

Memphis Grizzlies

Milwaukee Bucks

Orlando Magic

Portland Trail Blazers

Toronto Raptors

Washington Wizards

Teams with 2 games:

Detroit Pistons

New Orleans Pelicans

Philadelphia 76ers

Number of teams playing each day:

Monday: 14

Tuesday: 16

Wednesday: 18

Thursday: 8

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As is the case almost every week, NBA has scheduled fewer games on Tuesday and Thursday for next week as well. With just four games on Tuesday and five on Thursday, players from teams playing on these two days will be worth a look if you're looking to stream your way to victory in your fantasy NBA matchup.

So, if you've got a guy on the verge of being cut, and if he is by any chance from the OKC Thunder (who play just two games next week) there are plenty of other (dare I say - better) fish in the sea. At least for streaming purposes.

Here are the fantasy basketball streamers for Week 9.

One word before we go deep into next week. I've been getting some amazing replies to my posts in the past few weeks, and thank you guys so much for this!

I just wanted to let you know that the whole RotoBaller crew is working hard to help fantasy GMs out, and there is a ton of quality stuff on plenty of topics on our website, so if you're looking for information about something else as well, you can probably find it here: https://www.rotoballer.com/category/nba-fantasy-basketball-advice

NBA Schedule Guide - Week 9

Tuesday with four and Thursday with five games will be the most difficult for fantasy owners to have a full starting lineup. Saturday is next in line with seven games. We will focus on these three days.

Here's the low-down:

Teams with 4 games:

Atlanta Hawks

Brooklyn Nets

Charlotte Hornets

Cleveland Cavaliers

Denver Nuggets

Detroit Pistons

Golden State Warriors

Houston Rockets

Memphis Grizzlies

Miami Heat

Milwaukee Bucks

Philadelphia 76ers

Phoenix Suns

Portland Trail Blazers

Sacramento Kings

Toronto Raptors

Washington Wizards

Teams with 3 games:

Boston Celtics

Chicago Bulls

Dallas Mavericks

Indiana Pacers

Los Angeles Clippers

Los Angeles Lakers

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Orleans Pelicans

New York Knicks

Orlando Magic

San Antonio Spurs

Utah Jazz

Teams with 2 games:

Oklahoma City Thunder

Number of teams playing each day:

Monday: 18

Tuesday: 8

Wednesday: 22

Thursday: 10

Friday: 16

Saturday: 14

Sunday: 18

Back-to-Backs (beware of older or banged-up players who might rest):

Monday/Tuesday: GSW, PHO, TOR

Tuesday/Wednesday: POR

Wednesday/Thursday: HOU, IND, PHI, WAS

Thursday/Friday: -

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Streaming players that play on days where you have empty starting spots on your team is one of the strategies to fantasy basketball that allows you the most flexibility as you are able to choose the strengths of the players you target to best suit your needs in that week's matchup.

It does require for you to give up on your worst player though to make room for a streaming spot, which usually isn't too big a price to pay. If you're up for cutting one of your poorer guys to be able to increase your chances of winning week-in week-out, I am here to provide some additional info on this.

As always, we're looking ahead to the NBA schedule for next week and pointing out a few options that can help you out. Here are the fantasy basketball streamers for Week 4.

One word before we go deep into next week. I've been getting some amazing replies to my posts in the past few weeks, and thank you guys so much for this!

I just wanted to let you know that the whole RotoBaller crew is working hard to help fantasy GMs out, and there is a ton of quality stuff on plenty of topics on our website, so if you're looking for information about something else as well, you can probably find it here: https://www.rotoballer.com/category/nba-fantasy-basketball-advice

NBA Schedule Guide - Week 4

The two scarcest days next week are Tuesday and Thursday with just three games apiece, so there is no doubt most teams will need help fielding a decent amount of players on one or both of these days. Therefore it's no surprise that our focus will be on teams playing on both or at least one of these days.

All other days have at least seven games played so you should be able to have your pick from teams playing on these days.

Here's the low-down:

Teams with 4 games:

Atlanta Hawks

Brooklyn Nets

Charlotte Hornets

Chicago Bulls

Denver Nuggets

Golden State Warriors

Los Angeles Clippers

Los Angeles Lakers

Memphis Grizzlies

Miami Heat

Milwaukee Bucks

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Orleans Pelicans

Philadelphia 76ers

Phoenix Suns

Portland Trail Blazers

Teams with 3 games:

Boston Celtics

Cleveland Cavaliers

Dallas Mavericks

Detroit Pistons

Houston Rockets

Indiana Pacers

New York Knicks

Oklahoma City Thunder

Sacramento Kings

San Antonio Spurs

Toronto Raptors

Utah Jazz

Teams with 2 games:

Orla

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

The new season is well underway, and I hope that you've opened it with two wins so far!

In case you're not satisfied with how some of your end-of-bench guys are doing, you might just get more out of that spot by streaming available players who have some strengths that you're looking for and who play on days that you need help on.

As always, we're looking ahead to the NBA schedule for next week and pointing out a few options that can help you out. Here are the fantasy basketball streamers for Week 3.

One word before we go deep into next week. I've been getting some amazing replies to my posts in the past few weeks, and thank you guys so much for this!

I just wanted to let you know that the whole RotoBaller crew is working hard to help fantasy GMs out, and there is a ton of quality stuff on plenty of topics on our website, so if you're looking for information about something else as well, you can probably find it here: https://www.rotoballer.com/category/nba-fantasy-basketball-advice

NBA Schedule Guide - Week 3

The two scarcest days next week are Tuesday and Sunday with five games apiece, closely followed by Thursday with six games played. These are the days that will be our focus today.

Here's the low-down:

Teams with 4 games:

Atlanta Hawks

Boston Celtics

Charlotte Hornets

Cleveland Cavaliers

Houston Rockets

Indiana Pacers

Los Angeles Clippers

New York Knicks

Orlando Magic

Philadelphia 76ers

Portland Trail Blazers

Sacramento Kings

San Antonio Spurs

Toronto Raptors

Utah Jazz

Washington Wizards

Teams with 3 games:

Brooklyn Nets

Chicago Bulls

Dallas Mavericks

Denver Nuggets

Detroit Pistons

Golden State Warriors

Los Angeles Lakers

Memphis Grizzlies

Miami Heat

Milwaukee Bucks

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Orleans Pelicans

Oklahoma City Thunder

Phoenix Suns

Number of teams playing each day:

Monday: 18

Tuesday: 10

Wednesday: 22

Thursday: 10

Friday: 18

Saturday: 12

Sunday: 16

Back-to-Backs (beware of older or banged-up players who might rest):

Monday/Tuesday: -

Tuesday/Wednesday: DAL, NOP, SAC

Wednesday/Thursday: ATL, BOS, PHI

Thursday/Friday: DET

Friday/Saturday: POR

Saturday/Sunday: HOU, UTA

Sunday/Monday the following: BKN, CHA, GSW, NYK, SAC

Days with six or fewer games

Tuesday: 5 games

Thursday: 5 games

Saturday: 6 games

Teams playing on all three days:

Houston Rockets (4 games - Tues, Thu