Do you live in Siberia? Because I live way up in northern MN, and while we can (and just did) certainly see insane subzero temperatures, I still wouldn’t say that -50C describes a part of the temperature scale that is useful to us on anywhere near a regular basis. And again, I live in a fairly extreme area in that…

There are currently four PGs in the top 20 for FTA this season:

Fine by me!

Yes, and what this reveals, of course, is that he’s only averaging 1 FTA per game. That’s pitiful. And let’s face it, he actively avoids getting to the line for literal free points because he sucks at free throws. Let me expand upon my argument that there’s no excuse for a PG to have this problem; there is no excuse…

Dude, -50C is -58F, and 50C is 122F. That’s nowhere close to being a useful part of the everyday scale for human purposes. If you clamp the values down to measures that are reasonable for ordinary humans (below 0F is pretty damned cold, above 100F is pretty damned hot), you get something like -17C to 38C. Not only is…

I agree with your argument, except for the bit about Lonzo not being butt. There is no excuse for a PG (or most any position, really) to have his FT numbers. It keeps points off the board, and affects his willingness to even draw fouls in the first place.

What happens when anything breaks out of warranty?

For starters, women never “dominated” computer proramming. There was greater gender parity in the field, but that’s not the same thing.

She immediately looked for and found another job, but if she hadn’t happened to find out the guy’s salary she would have kept the job happily.

Yeah, it’s hilarious when the conversation suddenly switches to “But women are taught to blah blah blah.” Why can’t people see how utterly infantilizing it is to insist that women never make any of their own choices in life, that it always ultimately comes down to the patriarchy deciding things for them? I guess it’s…

Fahrenheit is more granular, and having “normal” temperatures fall along a 0-100 scale is far more intuitive for everyday uses. The argument for metric is compelling, but I’ll never understand why people think Celsius is a better real-world system than Fahrenheit. 23C is a nice, mild day, while 35C is hell on Earth.…

CVTs are here to stay. Don’t worry, if people are getting nostalgic about traditional automatics right now, you’ll be nostalgic about CVTs as soon as the next thing comes along.

Why should they release a turbo version when nobody is going to buy it? That’s why they cut the Forester XT.

The dash tablets are less aesthetically pleasing, but by far more ergonomic.

You’re right, they don’t. Because those things objectively do not matter for 97% of use cases. I’m sorry that they are designing fewer affordable cars for people who envision themselves carving up backroads or whatever. But “envision” is the key word here. Enthusiasts like the idea of this shit far more than the reali…

What’s more interesting, though, is your apparent need for her to be worse than she demonstrated herself to be in the video. Isn’t the video bad enough? Why do you demand more? Maybe it’s worth considering that there’s something toxic in that impulse as well. But hey, self-reflection is hard, so just go on believing…

The entire reason why you have stars on your post is because centrist asshats agreed with what you wrote. Splinter comments are ironically full of them. Looks like they didn’t get your “sardonic tone,” either. Anyway, given the reality that the average Splinter commenter is here to spew pro-establishment bullshit, I…

The strength of Fahrenheit (whether intentional or not) is that it captures differences in temperature that real human bodies can experience. Fahrenheit is better for everything that isn’t science. There’s a lot that isn’t science.  

The thing is, it’s pretty standard even in low-stakes situations for companies to cover their ass by making these “use of likeness” agreements fairly broad and extensive. I don’t necessarily like it, but I’m willing to bet the use of her image in future related marketing was covered under the contract she signed.

She almost certainly signed use of her likeness away in the deal with Fiji. I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if trying to make the issue go viral on the internet is just her legal representation’s way of forcing an undeserved settlement. Because if she didn’t sign away use of her likeness, then the case is fairly…