I don’t understand what “rejected by geography” means here. Wang’s metric is based on minimizing the number of “wasted” votes, which makes sense when you’re trying to solve the actual problem of gerrymandering. If you think that a different metric would be more appropriate, I’d like to understand which, if any, you…

You should check out Sam Wang’s work at Princeton on this. They have a pretty convincing model based on excess votes that would allow you to set a bright-line criterion for what’s allowed and what’s not.

deadspin: i come for the news about sixers rookies but i stay for the revolting medical explanations

Then again, so does the idea of cracking open the shell of a living, mud-slurping bivalve with a body like a giant wad of beige-grey cigarette-smoker snot and sucking the still-alive creature out and into your mouth and chewing it and swallowing it.

amen

Fortunately for me, I guess.

Dang, sorry to hear that. I was actually a child in Odessa when Chernobyl happened but the winds blew the fallout west rather than southeast, so fortunately neither I nor my family were directly affected.

i was not aware that the raiders had moved to chernobyl

but actually it is tho

The wideouts have the half-life of a hydrogen isotope.

he fixes the cable

this photo is nsfw

i think you mean the horniest slogan

Grown men writing mean poetry about each other goes back to basically the invention of the written word, so it’s not like there’s anything new under the sun.

goddamn

trent’s brain is as smooth as his dome

moar like ben mcleless amirite

These are legitimately good takes. Put Iris on TV.

The Netherlands is a country of 17 million people; it’s hardly a “big” country, the larger point notwithstanding.

finally, a french incursion into russian territory that ends in victory