No kidding.

You can know a fact without grokking it. Knowing Fidel was old as shit he was so present politically until recently it’s still hard to wrap my head around him having a son who’d be our third oldest President.

Even knowing how old Fidel was it’s still hard to grasp that he had a son a 68-year old son.

This is what American cops are taught now - CONTROL THE SITCHIATION. Escalate until the subject bends to your will, one way or another. Always pretend you’re rolling down Main Street in Fallujah. Doesn’t matter that being a cop isn’t that dangerous and America is statistically safer than pretty much any other time in…

Dude with the gun is armed with a 12-gauge with birdshot - if that’s his armament he’s out and I’m not going to have to plan around him. Eagles are a requirement, nothing else on this list can kill them. I’ll take the rats as backup if they’re able to swarm.

The Mavs have been so horrible lately I didn’t even know they’d continued the fine tradition of bringing in big foreign stiffs.

How many more years of grace does Cuban get for 2011?

The negotiating amenities thing makes a certain level of sense - with baseball salaries generally so excellent, the grind of the schedule might seem like something worth negotiating to ease.

I prefer Crisco Pigs.

Anything happen to her girls who are laughing along with her but not quite bold/stupid enough to say it themselves?

I’m not sure I’ve ever read an entire piece at The Ringer - partially because of the layout, partially because the feel is much more “Bill Simmons’s toy” than Grantland was.

Semi-seriously, I knew a relationship was over when we no longer spontanteously went down on each other when playing GTA 4. It had been a joking thing from the beginning about “yeah, try to concentrate on the mission while I do this” and the lack of it was evidence of the missing spontaneity and evaporating…

PCP is technically a medication.

If you have a cat that goes outdoors and you care about birds, you can put a humiliating bell on your cat and stop it from being able to hunt effectively, too.

I cannot imagine this is going to go over well with anyone but the religious sect of Trump’s base.

Uh... no. Your “point” was that gold was “intrinsically valuable” whereas Bitcoin/crypto is not - that is fundamentally untrue. Gold has no intrinsic value (nor does the US dollar, nor the yuan nor etc.), it has agreed upon value backed by history.

You came up with one use where gold excels - a relatively minor use so…

First, there are not “substances with the same qualities that perform better”. Gold performs uniquely well at conducting electricity and resisting corrosion, which is why high-end electronics equipment uses it.

“Malleable, ductile and conductive” doesn’t equal “intrinsically valuable,” it means the substance has some uses that are part of the reason we’ve agreed collectively that it has value. There are substances with those same qualities, that perform better, that are less valuable than gold, so apparently that’s not the…

I’m not a Bitcoin fan or user but it has no less intrinsic value than gold - gold is more stable because we’ve valued it for 6000+ years but it’s not inherently worth anything.

You’ve got it backward - Roy Moore’s been in the game for over two decades and the GOP at large have been normalizing Trump for 50 years.

No. There aren’t enough fundies and white nationalists and homophobes for this to have happened because of them, not entirely or even for the most part