CombatWombat

I strongly believe that you should have a connection to the place that your sports team is affiliated with, but I think you should be very liberal about what you consider a connection. If you’ve moved a lot, it gives you a lot of teams to choose from when you’re choosing your alliances. I think it also makes sense to consider other sorts of connections as well — a grandparent’s alma mater, the team your dad followed when you were a kid. I know a lot of people who recommend watching a league and letting the team choose you, which also seems reasonable, but I prefer the place-ness of sports fandom. The only way to choose a sports team to follow that is objectively wrong is bandwagoning.

oppa mar-a-lago style

It’s tough to say definitively because there are a bunch of dialects, but in mine (west coast USA), “on another continent” is correct and “in another continent” sounds a little off.

Lots of things would happen, but the specifics wouldn’t much matter because there’d be no-one left to tell the tale afterwards.

I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:

Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.

I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.

I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/

My understanding is that it’s quite the opposite — a racist with Tourette’s would be less likely to shout a slur because they don’t feel the social stigma as keenly.

It’s not a coincidence, as far as I understand. The tics are involuntary, but they are specifically due to intrusive thoughts about what the most inappropriate thing to say right now would be. The blame here mostly lies with institutional racism for making that slur so awful; were it not available, I assume his tic would have focused on another terrible word, say “fuck”.

Edit: many Black folks I’ve listened to have said that they feel that in the we have defended this disability, we have erased the harm to Black folks they experienced. I hope I have not done that; I feel strongly that the harm the Black community experienced was real, independent of whether that harm was intentional from the speaker.

Ugh. Thanks for the heads’ up — I’ve definitely posted archive links without noticing they’re blocked before. PBS and NPR have really gone downhill with the budget cuts. ProPublica is great, but their coverage is pretty narrow, so there’s a lot of stories they don’t cover at all. It’s getting harder and harder to find a quality source.

I’m certain they’ve wanted to do this for a long time, and AI is a convenient way to justify it, rather than admitting they don’t want humans using it to circumvent the paywall. It does solidify for me personally that the LA Times is the paper of record for the United States going forward, rather than the New York Times.