The A’s have been trying for years, long before Lacob bought the Warriors

I spent this whole episode wishing that AoS would just embrace the cosmic side and become a MCU Firefly/Star Wars hybrid. Last episode, I spent most of it wondering what was going on in space. This episode, outside of some vague interest in what Coulsarge is, I barely thought about Earth.

This is an excellent article. I took multiple classes on comparative political systems (and actually paid attention in them!), spending months studying different voting systems, and the 15 minutes I spent reading this was a more effective explanation, followed by practical illustration, than I got in any of those…

There are also way more car dealerships and grocery stores in large cities.

No state income tax in Houston either, and just to add the other states with “major” cities and no state income tax: Memphis/Nashville and Las Vegas (not that I’d want to live in Vegas, but Nashville was cool)

I feel similarly - I don’t understand why anyone rich and famous would want to live in cities where it’s a pain to get around and has shitty weather.

These all seem like... good reasons not to put an expansion team in Quebec City to me. The goal of expansion is right there in the word: expand, so the critique that “it’s only because Bettman secretly only wants expansion to expand markets” seems like a ridiculous complaint. The language issue is a real one, as is…

> shitbag billionaire David Samson

Procedurals are literally the most sustainable form of scripted television ever created.

Also, Lin is returning for Fast 8 & 9 (which is apparently the point at which they've decided to stop)

That's pretty clearly goaltending. Even if it wasn't going to go in, part of the reason for the rule is to prevent players from interfering with where the ball immediately goes on a rebound, which this very clearly does.

I'm an unapologetic Simmons fan, and that one still threw me. How many people in the world know even a single chef, let alone a great one?

It does kind of look like he's yanked down, foul might not be unwarranted.