If Cuban wants to say fantasy sports and gambling have ruined fandom and the league he should just say that. People rooting for stars is old, though maybe a little different with more of a national media market.
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If Cuban wants to say fantasy sports and gambling have ruined fandom and the league he should just say that. People rooting for stars is old, though maybe a little different with more of a national media market.
There's a labor historian on here that, to his credit I guess, bit the bullet and said that "Yes, even concentration camp guards should have a union."
What? Like it's hard?
That Skyrim is for the Nords and Ulfric is also implied to be an agent of the High Elves' cabal leads to some unsubtle readings of the setting/plot.
Didn't his military JAG career put him in Guantanamo? It's hardly a stretch to think he'd go further.
UK Parliament or College Football Player would be a game to play.
Could be wrong on the overall data but my anecdotes/experience at the two schools I was a grad student at was foreign phds did the bulk of the TAing for the sciences since American ones could get lab positions more easily.
It's essentially a Tom Clancy plot. Maybe less masturbatory.
Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title: Tom Clancy's Infinite Jest
Someone should do that.
The New Coke Maneuver. But also dumber.
I'm willing to do this. In fact, I'll make up new words/concepts that Democrats are saying to confuse Bret Stephens even more. (I know I'm stealing two of your bits.)
I will drink any pumpkin beer. Not all are good, but there are some winners out there.
If that's what it takes but I fear we're getting all cops are troops, all troops are cops, all are heroes that big city liberals hate.
The four stages of #zcavengerhunt
Was that last one really one of the clues or just something alluded to?
I don't know if you drink alcohol, but cucumber infused gin and vodka are pretty easy and don't go bad.
Between this and articles about summer camps for adults there's probably space for more campaign events that are connected to social activities. Which is not a new idea, though it seems like there's a dearth of candidates charismatic enough to pull it off.
I mostly think this is because despite all of the posturing, nearly every elected official has a liberal arts degree or went to law school where word choice gets emphasized all the time. Even if they all publicly agree words aren't magic, they still internalized the magic of word choice.
The Goodyear Good Enough Guide.
Star Wars fans can't accept that the film series is camp. So, it's probably for the best.
We gotta settle the '68 primary fight first.
We could invent the cuckoo clock with how agreeable we all are!
"Oh they had designers back then!"
If I could vote, that meme would get me to support Cuomo. I could be the third man.
It's either TikTok or YouTube with Twitter maybe coming in fifth of the big name social media networks.
Once Congress comes back in session we can go back to hating Schumer.
Yep. We saw an A-game of social media smack-talking and pettiness before, and believing him didn’t work: Fetterman.
Bad Brains? Why not Good Brains? People tell me I have the Best Brains. Nobody ever had a better brain than me.
I think the best argument for staying on Twitter is to get noticed by someone holding a position of power or influence and that's 1) tricky to arrange for the reasons stated and 2) just not worth it for most of us here.
40k without orks is just a really fucking bleak universe. You need some boyz out there having fun making shit up that works somehow.
Remembering that I randomly advised someone about a post office within walking distance and forgot to tell them that the person was condescending and unhelpful. I still use it, but I know the post officer is going to sigh and berate me for not finding the right form.
I first started teaching using powerpoints that were only charts or images while relying on students to take good notes or pay attention and I'm tempted to go back to that.
Once I learned that the "laboratories of democracy" line was from a dissent, things changed for me.
It's a good test for Stancil Thought. If media (writ large) doesn't blame Trump, his numbers will not bottom out.
You should have the right to vote from birth.
Good thread. This is why "Freedom of Choice" is probably my favorite Devo song.
Republicans: We're sending undesirables to concentration camps. Democrats: Make👏the👏camps👏consistent👏with👏neighborhood👏character.
Picking pullups to showcase one's athleticism is a trap that I will never fall for.
Teaching a research methods class in grad school was really helpful in emphasizing the importance of background information to even pose a good research question, let alone create something original.
Get into some debates about the merit and accuracy of WARB when seeing a couple of birds around the same feeder.
Brahmin Capitalism by Noam Maggor. Can't believe I ended getting enthralled about Boston urban development and tax policy.
Taysom Hill is the rare player to not be talented enough at any position to risk using him elsewhere.
I used to maintain that the first movie holds up surprisingly well but now I'm not so sure.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if, as a professor, you ever graded on blackboard or canvas or used turnitin then you've fed information into this machine? Is that the implication from this software or is it just doing some misleading advertising?
Genuinely curious if that 50 year old who takes blood from his son has investments in any of these detention centers.
Right. The extent to which people are granting credence to high brow Marine Todd posts is a little dismaying.
I'm waiting for there to be a horrible twist or something where Zoey Kravitz dies of a heroine overdose or something to make it more true to his ouvre.
That each Safdie brother is individually doing a sports biopic where one is about the UFC and the other is about ping pong lead me to believe that one is subtly mocking the other.
I can see that Tough Liberal Vet Campaign Ad Season has begun. (For the record, it's whatever, let's see if it works this time. But, let's also remember how much money Amy McGrath raised in a blow out loss with Top Gun level aesthetics.)
There's probably room for an analysis that universities and the Democrats undermined their vast network of potential supporters by using all their communications to ask for money.
We used to have a real news media in this country.
You'd think he would have been a little more thoughtful and said machinist or mechanic fox.
Made a Hop Collins with my cucumber infused gin. Gin Lemon juice Simple syrup (mint infused this time) Swap an IPA for soda water.
If Zelensky had starred in more American films he probably would have some advanced military hardware right now.
There's also a third kind of moderation that exists independent of the other two. It exists to be perceived in the Pundit's Third Eye that perceives outside of things like policy or manner.
It was a book written by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson that tried to lay out a coherent thesis for what liberal policy making should emphasize while trying to fix liberal tendencies that thwart their goals. But it's also viewed as a positional battle to rehabilitate Centrists by punching left.
All-time Guys list.
Hypocrisy is hardly his worst sin but it is interesting that he views everyone else as engaging in cynical coalition and power games but would bristle at any accusations that this new venture is just doing the same.
"Flacco is one of three quarterbacks to have a winning record with the Browns since their return, along with Brian Hoyer (10-6) and Case Keenum (2-0)." Genuinely cursed sports fact. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
I could be misremembering but it feels like a not insignificant number of the older bloggers working this beat used to go on about the "Hack Gap" between Democrats and Republicans and it's weird to see them come out saying that the other hacks won.
Annoying docents at the National Portrait Gallery until they show me the Billy Dee Williams painting.
I must be naive or gormless. People actually do this?
QUICK, EVERYONE MAKE SIGNS CRITICIZING OR MOCKING ICE SO THEY SPEND TIME TAKING DOWN SIGNS THAT HURT THEIR FEELINGS INSTEAD OF ARRESTING 9 YEAR OLDS ON THEIR WAY TO CHEMO TREATMENTS! What a bunch of snowflakes…
Real talk, I'm a little tempted to do this.
I didn't tattoo "Whig Measures, Tory Men" written out in cool skeleton bone font for nothing.
We're all waiting for the moment when the fired nerds in the NIH align with the fired jocks in the FBI to *Redacted* Big Balls.
Not for nothing but a strong EU is basically the dream of an Austria-Hungary down to the Hapsburgs still being rich and serving in functionary roles.
(And maybe, just maybe, we should recognize that our bitching at Senators is also cowardice manifested, waiting for the cavalry to come save us, even though it isn't)
We're bringing Governor Jerry Brown back to deploy his Seude Jacket Secret Police.
I enjoyed it because I have nostlgia for the show and like shortish documentaries about things on YouTube. I don't know how much you're into some of the behind the scenes stuff.
You ever catch the Defunctland video on the show? youtu.be/OVVkSlXl41Q?...
He'll give it to Thomas who'll rank it against ones he's seen in movies.
There is no agreement Republicans or Trump will honor so I'm not sure there's value in supplying any votes is.
RCV can encourage more fusionism like we saw with Lander and Mamdani. Which I like for both electoral and policy reasons.
I wouldn't be surprised if aids aren't already using it on him. Anyways, this also ties in to someone on here's idea that Trump is the easiest person to put in a Truman Show situation.
She does nail the true to life experience that 1/4 of English children are rat bastards. How else do you explain Saltburn?
We banned Chimeras under Bush and the technology wasn't there. We should get ahead of it now for the same reason.
Russ Meyer ogled so Nina Nishimura could gawk.
Adams fondness for Ethnic celebrations, fairs, and holidays makes me think he'd be more like Calendar Man.
That is interesting actually.
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I agree with the second part of your sentence but Vernors is garbage.
Congratulations!
I must have missed the window as a kid because I also found this movie to be pretty unremarkable.
Ok, Gooner.
Ironically, it is not good enough.
Why not just use "sub" in the third line?
One of the rare times where the Founder's emphasis on remote capitals worked somewhat to our advantage.
Gotta get that salad.
Phantom Zone is too good for him. We're sending him to Detroit.
The police state wanted to march in AC and maybe hit the Pret A Manger.
It seems really bizarre that the side that controls the guns and manpower is this invested in trying to control the culture this ineffectively.
There's unclaimed space for happy warriors in today's politics.
A lotta people highlight postal banking as a good idea but I think there's space for a basic version of postal social media.
Abattoir
Your Gen Z college students are a bad influence on you
I feel like I missed the popular reevaluation of War of the Worlds. Should probably rewatch it.
Being a boring teenager would let me survive nearly any horror movie. No high school parties or spring break trips that could have gone wrong. I went to a summer school where we studied the classical world.