i watch a lot of these appalling videos and few of them have gotten as immediate a reaction of out me -- a dad with a 18-month-old in daycare -- as this one. there are likely kids as young as three or four months in that facility.

i think a lot of people, deep down, didn't think he should have resigned and also (happily, might i add) thought that the "me too/woke" era had passed us by

but the great irony here is that mamdani is a typical young new yorker. he just is! likes new york, thinks it is too expensive, and loves to be online

the highest-ranking elected democrat in the country either did NOT vote for the winner of the democratic primary in favor of a third-party challenger or DID so and won't admit it. either option is bad

it is impossible to read that question in anything other than joe pesci's voice

trump gets away with whatever he wants and nobody ever cares but EVERYONE is distracted by the affable mamdani and is instead missing a legitimately insane and serious scandal

you can parse about 150 things from both games that are excruciating what-ifs but even that misses something more elemental: there were (at least!) 5 separate swings where it looked liked the blue jays had walked off the world series, PLUS the 9th inning save situation. just devastating as a fan

same. i know none of them will and we wouldn't either but that's a real gut punch that changes the relationship to the team in the short term

i'm still (now and always) outraged and depressed about the 2024 WS and that pales, truly pales, in comparison

plus, in keeping with the zeigeist, this is a downstream effect of everything being so easy to do in two taps on our phones. the ease of this stuff is what's truly changed. it's easier to be a "casual" of both sports and betting and get sucked in

agreed. i can see a throughline with fantasy but video games are active: you build a superteam in madden 06 and then play with it, whereas fantasy is reliant on the performance of strangers. it's a stronger and more coherent argument

this is truly a pointless observation, of course, but it makes me so angry

i have a pretty libertarian view of prohibiting vices, but the key is doing it in a way so that it's not a wild wild west. we did the opposite with sports gambling and it's a real problem

also, i usually turn my nose at college/campus reporting but this is actually important: historiography makes a meaningful difference and the destruction of programs like this is bad news in the long run

from my memory the core insight of this program was to let teenagers read primary sources and apply historical analysis to it. the horror!