It’s a pretty standard thing. I mean, if it wasn’t part of the agreement, then it wasn’t. Great. But it’s definitely something that companies do far marketing efforts far less consequential than this one.

It would be wrong to say that support for Harris lies in her identity as a mixed race black woman alone.

Yeah, the craziest thing is that Ball’s FT% isn’t just bad among PGs, but among players of all positions. Even Shaq had like a career 52% from the line, and people fouled his ass just to take advantage of it.

I don’t even like football or the Patriots, and this patterned pessimism makes me want to root for them.

So what’s the mission here? To hound an actor about somebody else’s alleged behavior just because you’re not succeeding at cutting through to the person who actually carried out that behavior? This is asinine.

I still don’t get how not putting up 5-10 more points on the board every game (and again, this is a feat accomplished by lots of PGs in the league, not just elite ones) because he only shoots 40% and goes to the line only once every game can be explained away by his WS/48. Can you explain?

There are PGs putting up ~10 points a night that they otherwise wouldn’t be simply because they’re getting to the damned line. That Lonzo Ball only gets to the line once a game is embarrassing, and absolutely hurts his team offensively. I don’t see how you can possibly deny this. And the fact is that he’s no better a…

Nobody cares about this fat hoe.

Choose your advanced stat, then. I guarantee you Lonzo still won’t stack up. And “below average” is pretty much what this article is accusing all the other named players of being. That was the entire point of the piece.

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.…