Ok but Black Metal Law would be an amazing procedural.
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Ok but Black Metal Law would be an amazing procedural.
Monday: I'm gonna cook a bunch of eggs and put them in the fridge so I can have them with breakfast all week
Tuesday: Who the hell ate all my eggs?
I live alone.
Tuesday: Who the hell ate all my eggs?
I live alone.
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Monday: I'm gonna cook a bunch of eggs and put them in the fridge so I can have them with breakfast all week
Tuesday: Who the hell ate all my eggs?
I live alone.
Tuesday: Who the hell ate all my eggs?
I live alone.
I once described the North Shore's vibe as "people have 'good sweats' for more formal events, like church or the playoffs."
October 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I once described the North Shore's vibe as "people have 'good sweats' for more formal events, like church or the playoffs."
But they're explicitly not who I'm talking about. They are the elite athletes who DID advance up the levels of the "right" sport. There are also guys who dropped off the elite level in soccer who may have been more succesful in another sport if they'd been more into it than soccer at a young age.
September 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
But they're explicitly not who I'm talking about. They are the elite athletes who DID advance up the levels of the "right" sport. There are also guys who dropped off the elite level in soccer who may have been more succesful in another sport if they'd been more into it than soccer at a young age.
lol, I think the only thing we actually disagree on is whether this is happening for soccer at an equivalent level to football and basketball for boys specifically in the USA currently
September 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
lol, I think the only thing we actually disagree on is whether this is happening for soccer at an equivalent level to football and basketball for boys specifically in the USA currently
But it's not random, it's culturally filtered. The reason you suddenly have a bunch of European superstars in the NBA is because there was a massive increase in the number of kids playing high-level basketball in Europe a few decades ago. A lot of them would have focused on other sports before that!
September 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
But it's not random, it's culturally filtered. The reason you suddenly have a bunch of European superstars in the NBA is because there was a massive increase in the number of kids playing high-level basketball in Europe a few decades ago. A lot of them would have focused on other sports before that!
Children are generally much shorter than that. There are a bunch of basketball players who were elite level athletes in that sport until they reached high school or college and suddenly didn't have the size of their peers.
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Children are generally much shorter than that. There are a bunch of basketball players who were elite level athletes in that sport until they reached high school or college and suddenly didn't have the size of their peers.
The pipeline for the best athletes to high-level sports is absolutely tilted towards basketball and football for boys in most of the States. Compare it to the pipeline for girls-- soccer is THE sport for girls in a lot of places and has no obvious #1 competitor in its high school season.
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The pipeline for the best athletes to high-level sports is absolutely tilted towards basketball and football for boys in most of the States. Compare it to the pipeline for girls-- soccer is THE sport for girls in a lot of places and has no obvious #1 competitor in its high school season.
An absurd version of this pops up in hockey and soccer. "What if Lebron played ____?" We generally don't push the most athletic US boys to play hockey or soccer. But putting Lebron on skates doesn't get you Zdeno Chara. A Minnesota-born Messi doesn't become an NBA superstar. That's not how it works!
September 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
An absurd version of this pops up in hockey and soccer. "What if Lebron played ____?" We generally don't push the most athletic US boys to play hockey or soccer. But putting Lebron on skates doesn't get you Zdeno Chara. A Minnesota-born Messi doesn't become an NBA superstar. That's not how it works!
The Scots would be higher on the list but their GOAT swearing proficiency backfired when 60% of the judges' sample was bleeped out.
September 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Scots would be higher on the list but their GOAT swearing proficiency backfired when 60% of the judges' sample was bleeped out.
I had to quietly pull a few Berlin colleagues aside to tell them not to use numbers when complaining about rent or healthcare costs to their Boston colleagues.
September 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I had to quietly pull a few Berlin colleagues aside to tell them not to use numbers when complaining about rent or healthcare costs to their Boston colleagues.
Feels a bit rude when the Brits are so remarkably chill whenever an Americanism crossed the pond. They are always very normal about it.
September 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Feels a bit rude when the Brits are so remarkably chill whenever an Americanism crossed the pond. They are always very normal about it.
The fun part of this particular physics problem: while there is no combination of cargo and speed that will get the truck ALL the way under that bridge, there are many options that will get MOST of the truck HALF of the way under.
September 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The fun part of this particular physics problem: while there is no combination of cargo and speed that will get the truck ALL the way under that bridge, there are many options that will get MOST of the truck HALF of the way under.
The misplaced confidence of newcomers to Boston that their rented moving truck is shorter than the lowest bridge on Storrow Drive
September 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The misplaced confidence of newcomers to Boston that their rented moving truck is shorter than the lowest bridge on Storrow Drive
I read many "classic" works much later than your average sci-fi nerd. Most are dreadful, some are interesting, a rare few are treasures. Almost none are worth recommending to a teen today. I say get them a magazine sub and let them discover dozens of authors. They'll work back from their favorites.
August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I read many "classic" works much later than your average sci-fi nerd. Most are dreadful, some are interesting, a rare few are treasures. Almost none are worth recommending to a teen today. I say get them a magazine sub and let them discover dozens of authors. They'll work back from their favorites.
Mine will refuse to start if the door wasn't opened recently enough. Apparently my prep work isn't up to Whirlpool's standards.
August 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Mine will refuse to start if the door wasn't opened recently enough. Apparently my prep work isn't up to Whirlpool's standards.
It's an ongoing story. He's even older today than when Tapper's book first came out!
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It's an ongoing story. He's even older today than when Tapper's book first came out!
I'm sure someone who was in a thrashdeathgrindcore band in the 80s will be along shortly to say they all hated early Metallica, but all the cool kids are more into grindthrashdeathcore these days anyway.
July 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm sure someone who was in a thrashdeathgrindcore band in the 80s will be along shortly to say they all hated early Metallica, but all the cool kids are more into grindthrashdeathcore these days anyway.
Ironically, Early Metallica was influenced by hardcore punk, which predates techno by a good bit, and then was a major influence on thrashcore, which was one of the early "____-core" subgenres.
July 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ironically, Early Metallica was influenced by hardcore punk, which predates techno by a good bit, and then was a major influence on thrashcore, which was one of the early "____-core" subgenres.
When I flew home from Parma I overslept, so it was kind of chaos getting to the airport. The Airbnb cleaners called to say I'd left cheese in the fridge.
Me: Ah no, I'm already through security.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Them: So...?
Me: Ah no, I'm already through security.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Them: So...?
June 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
When I flew home from Parma I overslept, so it was kind of chaos getting to the airport. The Airbnb cleaners called to say I'd left cheese in the fridge.
Me: Ah no, I'm already through security.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Them: So...?
Me: Ah no, I'm already through security.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Them: So...?
No, he meant she left the public eye and just did her own thing in her castle. Which is correct.
May 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
No, he meant she left the public eye and just did her own thing in her castle. Which is correct.
* that would be platinum records that also won awards, not the dumb made-up thing I typed!
May 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
* that would be platinum records that also won awards, not the dumb made-up thing I typed!
I think this is more an example of how the awareness of most Americans is wildly out of sync with the wider music world. "Quit" here means "put out a fistful of platinum award-winning albums and wildly successful soundtrack work."
May 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I think this is more an example of how the awareness of most Americans is wildly out of sync with the wider music world. "Quit" here means "put out a fistful of platinum award-winning albums and wildly successful soundtrack work."
Listen, if you take away Columbus Day, what's left honoring Italians? Well, apart from July and August. And technically I guess a couple other months. Ok, there's the name of our country. And the continent it's on. But other than that? Nothing!
May 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Listen, if you take away Columbus Day, what's left honoring Italians? Well, apart from July and August. And technically I guess a couple other months. Ok, there's the name of our country. And the continent it's on. But other than that? Nothing!
After the first couple Mission Impossible films you really have to question the quality of their risk analysis team
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
After the first couple Mission Impossible films you really have to question the quality of their risk analysis team