I did it. I opened a private tab and checked Truth Social. Trump is obsessed with Walz misspeaking on school shooters. He also screamed in all caps that he would veto a national abortion ban. Also his usual weird fixation with the moderators’ ratings in other shows, and still asserting that anyone who said he lost in 2020 is lying.
Brett Yormark, the B12 commissioner, has floated Gonzaga and UConn on multiple occasions, on the notion that basketball is dramatically undervalued and that the top basketball conference is too important to ignore if you’re the SEC and B1G.
The presidents have pushed back, with the common theory being they’re content with where the conference is basketball-wise (arguably already #1) and loathe to dilute football any further because being football #3 is at least as important as being basketball #1.
CTE remains the bigger issue long term for football, and you don’t need fencing-pose concussions to get it, just year after year of knocking heads in practice and games. You could mostly get rid of it, but it would require drastically rethinking the sport’s rules and rhythms, including, among other things, alignments, snap procedures, tackling styles, and protective equipment (less may actually be more). It might also be best if players don’t even play true “tackle football” until they’re adults.
They need to say that if you score, you get the ball, but it’s fourth and 25 from your own 25. Get it to midfield, you keep it, but 99% of the time you’re better off punting. Special teams in general are these weird relics that have (d)evolved into minigames that exist mostly to tweak play-balance for the “real” football.
Shoot, you could get rid of kicking altogether if you really wanted to. Have an incomplete pass on fourth down be treated like a punt, and replace the goalposts with some sort of skills-competition target that QBs can hit at roughly the same percentage that kickers make field goals.
I didn’t do this but I definitely threw tennis balls at the girl I liked when I was 13, which may be one of the few dumber ways to try to get attention. Teenage boys’ brains are pretty much the reason crappy sit-coms resonate with anyone.
Sounds like the Zags are giving up on Yormark winning the Basketball argument with the B12 presidents anytime soon.
Have to think this is also about making the PAC attractive to somebody else, as they still need a full-sports member, apparently.
Meanwhile I’m over here playing in the through-hole kiddie pool or dead-bug handwiring keyboards.
I suppose if a given machine can work in LAN or sneakernet mode, then it’s not THAT bad, but I was referring more to their heavy reliance on Cloud, closed source (possibly in violation of other projects’ licensing), and proprietary parts. If any 3D printer maker is going to start hiding features behind a paywall someday, it’s them.
I was thinking the Neptune 4 plus looked pretty good. If I can get my print capacity to 300mm in X and Y, options for my other hobbies (keyboard building in particular) open up. Then, I’ve never really tried TPU, so direct drive also seems nice.
A big Core XY for under $600 seems nice. Have to consider it.
Factoring in marketing costs and the theaters taking their cut of the profits, Megalopolis would need to make at least $300 million to break even. I think it’s safe to say that’s not happening.
While the basic point still stands that this is a financial disaster for somebody, I would be seriously surprised if the usual blockbuster math regarding marketing comes into play here. No way Lionsgate paid $100M marketing a vanity project with “commercial flop” buzz from the beginning. If anything, it seems more like they picked it up on the cheap when everyone else passed, as a gesture to a legend (if apparently a creepy one), and a low-risk bet.
The only other disadvantage I can think of is smaller dimensions in X and Y. At a minimum, I’d like to be able to keep printing 200+ mm squares. The inherent speed and stability seem nice, though.
Apparently, for being bad at border stuff? The fact that almost half the country (and an inconveniently important half, given the god-damn electoral college) thinks this asshole is the best option to lead the country is truly depressing.
Maybe I’m getting whooshed here, but while Shawshank Redemption had some bad luck at the Oscars, it was nominated for seven of them, including best picture, best actor, and best adapted screenplay. People might not have predicted its staying power, but it was pretty much universally praised.
You beat me to it! I don’t know the Youtube repercussions, but I know I personally prefer when they wait a bit and get the CC metajokes on there. Still, good stuff as usual. The Zoomer Ole Miss frat bro and the Hugh Freeze BS were 👩🍳😘.
More like battery acid and corn syrup, at least for the regular flavor, and I say that as someone who likes it.
Glad to hear it. In revisiting it, the steel will be harder than the casting, which is also a bit thin below those holes, but if it doesn’t wiggle a ton, and you don’t just drop the whole contraption on the ground, it should last quite a while.
New College has the double whammy of being Florida’s most liberal public college, and also by far its smallest. It didn’t have nearly the cultural insulation to survive DeSantis even as well as The larger schools who have alumni scattered across various levels of business ands government. More’s the pity. New College was something special.
UF for instance slow played everything its imported, uselessly-conservative president Ben Sasse thought he might want to do until he got bored of spending the school’s money on his friends in Washington — as in they literally got jobs with UF but never moved to Gainesville — and finally quit.
TCU @ KU
Frogs trying desperately to find a way to lose this game, but failing so far. Great punt return.
Yeah, I think the MAGAs will run mostly with the unfortunate garbled school shooter phrase, mostly because the eternally 12 year old bully Donald Trump seems to think it was some sort of fatal gotcha moment and not a facially nonsensical mis-speak. Ironically, I think this will mostly squander some generally skillful sanewashing BS from Vance.
Kamala’s campaign on the other hand will get very good mileage out of the refusal to concede that Trump lost on 2020. Somebody on CNN said it would be the best “campaign ad” moment of the debate.
Overall, it is what it is, and it will be impossible to tell how many people will really be swayed by the debate, but I doubt it’s a particularly large number. In particular, “leave abortion to the states” is unlikely to resonate with women in any state with a Republican legislature, including GA, AZ, and NC.