wait why don't we have a US cup where every state fields a team? obviously CA & TX would dominate, but WA & OR would be competitive, and sometimes a plains or midwest state would pull off a surprise dark horse run. NY is England in this scenario.

OMG Dude got a yellow card and injured himself AND HE WAS NEVER IN THE GAME. Legend.

guess everybody complaining about the expanded world cup field feels pretty foolish now, huh

In conclusion, any Republican who takes months off to deal with a medical condition on the taxpayer's dime needs to switch parties and apologize to the American people or resign in shame.

really hate the world cup convention of always showing standing tables during a match as if the current score were final. makes it easy to see one counterfactual scenario, but so much harder to reason about other possibilities

the crayon factory episode of Mr Rogers' Neighborhood really holds up as well as I remembered!

Man, ever notice how since AI, every thing you read is using the term "recency illusion"?

Egg. I have gotten over all my other childhood dislikes, but to this day the smell of cooked eggs makes me slightly nauseous.

I will never forgive Dawkins for rebranding cliches as memes

New blog post: How we made the world's fastest spreadsheet even faster

man, dating in the early 5th century sounds terrifying

Pretty proud of the work we've done to make Row Zero fast and responsive even when working with data that is several orders of magnitude larger than Excel's theoretical limit! rowzero.com

This framing is so frustrating. Would $70B for ICE be fine if we also got some healthcare amendment dem senators in blue states could sign their name to?

If you're looking for a full recap of today's Sound Transit board meeting, we've got you covered.

Greetings from Union Station. We're a few minutes away from the most impactful Sound Transit board meeting of this decade. The board is set to keep some ST3 projects fully on track, delay others, and throw a handful of major transit projects into limbo. Stay tuned for updates.

This story involves an Iowa tshirt company, a basketball star, a Boston Globe reporter, online trolls who piss on walls, a lot of toxic masculinity and a lot of insight into the state of men. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

this is what political leadership looks like. not hand-wringing. not posting. being present. modeling peaceful protest & dissent. creating news.

"your only possible interest in listening to me is to hear which particular kind of nonsense I am going to talk" describes way too much online discourse

my god yes. it's like if you go to the dentist and they're blaring fox news in the waiting room, except it's everywhere all the time and there's no way to turn it off

The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Related: my 3yo is currently obsessed with Star Wars but gave up half way through Episode II (watching in release order)

another fun thing that can happen: 1. a motion not to make an endorsement in a race is made. 2. the motion not to endorse fails. 3. additional motions to endorse specific candidates are made and voted on. if all motions fail, you end up in a logically impossible but procedurally possible state!

at 36th LD Dems membership meeting tonight, discussion of whether a tabling motion is an interrupting motion that can be considered before the motion on the floor has me feeling like we're playing Magic the Gathering instead of voting on primary endorsements

Everyone knows a "taco" is a hard corn shell containing exactly ground beef (with taco seasoning), iceberg lettuce, diced tomato and onion, sour cream, and shredded cheese which is both yellow and white.

Anyone know a person with strong frontend web dev and product design skills who's looking for work? Row Zero is hiring.

Last time I went in for flu shot the nurse entered defensive crouch as soon as I asked one clarifying question. When I had scheduled the shot, I had asked for flu and COVID. Scheduler warned me they couldn't promise they'd have COVID vaccine available.

TIL the guy with the eye-patch in The Phantom Menace is named Captain Typo

I kind of want to open like a cafe that sells mantou and baozi but is mostly a place for neighborhood folks to hang out and also a mini library.

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

The parenthetical is doing a lot of work here.

Congress should pass a law stipulating that defense contractors must not espouse principles explicitly opposed to pluralistic democracy.

Since I posted this, uh, 13h ago, there have been at least two more news items that have made me want to repost it.

On vacation. I am once again struck by how critical a component it is of any popular vacation destination (that isn't just a city) that cars are not permitted there.

Holding DOGE and Trump accountable is both morally correct and necessary to save the country. But that's probably not sufficient to persuade our elected leaders. So we should consider also:

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

We should switch to a base-12 number system.

In other words, Star Wars is for kids, and that's fine, until you realize you're living it and not Star Trek.

I've come to appreciate Star Wars even as I've lost my childhood love for it. When the prequels came out, my first reaction was intense disappointment. I wanted Anakin Skywalker to be an interesting, tragic character, not a stupid, angsty teen who never matured because he had too much power.

If we allowed billionaires to exist, but capped their wealth at $10B, confiscating anything additional for the public good, would this in any conceivable way harm them? It seems at least possible it would do them good, by forcing them to find better ways to distinguish themselves in the "endgame".

Considering doing April fools by shipping a commit that makes the > relation intransitive for "Excel parity".

At this point in her life, my daughter's only experience of Google and Amazon is of interacting with basically non-functional software (Google Maps voice interface and Amazon Music, both in the car). Whenever she hears "Google", she says, "Try again!!"

It's certainly not the only thing. But in college, during the Dominion war, my friends and I were like, "We better not have missed that space battle because they blew the effects budget on making Odo ooze into the founder lady."

Twitter has a lot of sins to answer for. But right up there is the post that's just a screenshot of text.

Honestly shocked that this hasn't already caused Schumer and Jeffries to give Trump unlimited funding for ICE and illegal wars

a mind-blowing thing is that humans developed pretty accurate maps of Earth's coastlines and rivers and such BEFORE we were able to take pictures from the sky

I will never in my life say that something is "based" without following it with a preposition. I know that is a function of my age. Which is less than 54.

it is done. i am now an arch linux guy

I should really stop walking home along the bus route and hoping maybe a bus will pick me up before the steep hill.

I am just a guy with no particular claim to being a knower of politics. But both this and Stancil's analysis somewhat resonate with me.

Surprising fact about Excel #1035: the format strings you supply to the TEXT builtin, e.g., =TEXT(A1, "yyyy-mm-dd"), need to be localized. So if you're using Excel on a computer where the OS region is de-DE, the preceding example will eval to an error, and you need to supply "JJJJ-MM-TT" instead.

I've seen multiple people on bluesky proclaim "JSTOR now lets you read 100 articles per month, free!" Finally tried this out today and it just isn't straightforwardly true. Every article I attempted to read has displayed this banner. idk maybe non-philosophy disciplines are more available?