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Friend of mine writes books on naval history. In one of them, he wrote extensively about how USN promotion was largely by seniority until perhaps the end of WWI. At which point everyone realized “this is stupid, let’s promote by merit” which turned out to be a pretty wise decision in retrospect.

It’s really more like

The thing about the people who sport the dumbest sports takes about teams winning and losing because they want it more is that it’s just a dumb persons way of seeing the world.

At dawn we ride for this. The NBA studio shows think Lalas is too negative about the product, that’s how bad it is.

My son is on a Godzilla kick so driving home from school, my kind started drifting to dragons breathing and stuff and then I got angry at the ending of Game of Thrones all over again.

Most important skill for being a winning poker player is game selection.

“Seth, it’s Gavin Newsom. Can I count on your support in the fight against the special interests of the fundraising industrial complex?”

Good luck trying to enforce that clause.

Hey y'all, if you use LinkedIn - as of Nov. 3, they'll have you opted in to train AI on your data (including DMs) unless you opt out. Opting out is not hard: click on settings and just turn it off.

Oof FVV. Gonna be a weird old season in #thisleague

Gross. Par for the world in which we live.

Incredible finish

Harsh on Madueke, but it took about 5 minutes of this half for it to be clear how much better Saka is.

Does he have the frame to have bulked up to be an edge rusher?

Randy Moss-like ability to separate

Holy shit Haaland.

These 4 could feud forever and I’d be good with that.

Hole up. Isn’t the point of a PLE/PPV no commercials?

My weekly “what is this lineup, Ruben?”

It was indeed lit (video taken by the still not on bsky Eric Nehm)

Say what you will about Wisconsin , gotta love to see this heading into the local wrestling promotion’s big annual show

I don't think I really announced that I was joining the Offside team, I just jumped on board and started making videos. I'm really excited about creating NBA videos with the team of creators we have. Make sure you signup for the waitlist to download the app www.offside.gg

Rich knows ball.

Is Van Hollen the new Mike Jones?

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

“Do you know who I am?” “Yeah and I also know you suck.” “I’M BEING SILENCED!!!!”

Makes you wonder when people will develop reasoning models. Not in an LLM, but in their actual heads.

United’s attack:

Bringing on Casemiro and Zirkzee is almost like Amorim is taunting us

We’re so laughably bad

But the vibes were off

City haven’t even played well and this is quite comfortable.

Feel like Altay should do better there

Welp

Incidentally, is there a soccer equivalent of “he’s with us?”

Surprised Kerkez is getting subbed, he’s been Burnley’s best player.

The trade deadline exists, John.

What do we call the color of Liverpool’s unis?

Something I constantly struggle with is deciding if it is a bigger insult to suggest prominent people are too dumb to recognize obvious bullshit or that they are just pretending to not recognize obvious bullshit.

Give it time.

Besides anything else, Arsenal playing with this much threat with neither Saka nor Odegaard on the field has to be immensely encouraging considering how toothless they’ve looked without either or both last few years.

Cmon man.

Can retire this pinned post 🎉

Ruby SoHo?

This is a plausible claim on a geological time scale. Is anyone surprised that a former podcast COO has no clue why people listen to podcasts in the first place?

Since this was described as an official statement from their communications department, I am sharing it here. It is, imo, the standard every publisher should be meeting immediately. I'm grateful to our team at Tor for being so on top of this. (And also Montlake who registered everything.)

Turns out Nuno was standing on plastic.

I had somehow not seen it til just now but y’all were right about how awful that Mahomes-Trainor ad is.

Soccer-worthy dive by dude on the Steelers to draw the personal foul.