Isn’t it implied that Tywin plotted with Jeyne Westerlings mother to get her in a position to sleep with Robb knowing that his honor would cause him to forsake his vow to the Frey’s and marry her. So because she was an (unwitting, and still in love with Robb) part of a Lannister plan, she is kept away from the Red…

Similarly (and possibly easier from a production perspective), they could have waited to kill Missendei until a similar point. Dany has won, the Lannisters have surrendered, and then Cersei has the Mountain off Missendei (similar to how Caetlyn killed that Frey girl at the red wedding), sending Dany into her rage. It…

Bill Gates is a perfect example of how screwed up the current economic structures are. He has stated that his goal is to give away (mostly to his foundation) almost all of his fortune, and by all accounts is doing this as rapidly as possible while still being financially prudent. Nevertheless he is still gaining…

When I lived in Chicago I used to go to the Seahawks bar on football Sundays (Chicago has a sports bar for basically every team you could possibly imagine). It was one of those places that objectively, probably wasn’t a great bar, but through a combination of its weird quirks, a variety of fun memories, and a…

We all pay our taxes to (in theory at least) build a safety net that is there for others, but also for ourselves if we fall on hard times. There is no shame in collecting unemployment.

So you’re saying that the moral of this situation is that we shouldn’t believe women (or anybody) when they willingly tell us what their personal reaction in the moment was?

But the article isn’t stating that people using Carter’s account are ‘bad’. It lists Carter’s account as a defense of Biden (I don’t know that it actually is a defense of Biden as much as a request to leave her out of this shitstorm) and then states that that account is ‘bad’. In fact this is the first linked piece…

It does seem kinda weird that you link to the same medium article twice in here with very different takes. Once to call it ‘bad’, and the other time to say that ‘We should listen to her telling of her experience like we listen to Flores’. Is it really ‘bad’ to not want a random photo taken out of context to be used to…

That employment point (and the related fact that 1/6th of the US economy is labeled under ‘health care’ related) is the biggest argument in favor of the ‘Medicare for America’ type plans actually being the better option for the current state of the US. Have a medicare plan open to everyone, immediately enroll all the…

There is almost always a cost to the city when construction is happening. Even if it is paid for privately, I highly doubt that the tunnel project will be entirely non-noticeable to the people in the neighborhoods that it goes through. If it is able to be completely non-disruptive, then props to them. But it feels…

I mean, do you? Why is Tate talking about the NFL on a podcast anyway. Tate is a podcast producer who seems to love college basketball and has a decent secondary interest in the Carolina Panthers. None of that makes him seem like someone that would be worth my time to hear chat about the NFL on a weekly basis. It…

Overall, IMO the strengths of The Ringer goes podcasts > videos > writing. Across almost the entire sports/pop-culture space you can find a pretty good podcast for whatever your interest is, even if it is a kinda small corner like sports media or something. Their goofy 7 minute videos like NBA desktop and slow news…

But what if you add goggles?

Going to college in Minnesota, I always got a kick out of how every year without fail, in October when it got to 30 degrees it felt cold as fucking balls and then in February/March if it got to 25 degrees, it felt like balmy t-shirt weather. Every year the body would adjust and every year the body would forget.…

There’s a difference between who owns a company and who runs a company. Obviously ownership would be staying with the family, but they could easily hire this person as a senior manager or COO or CEO or whatever you want to call it and pay him a salary to run the company. It is a very common practice in fact.

There is a lot out there how this bill would make tuition waivers taxable, basically crippling academic science in America. Would it also make athletic scholarships taxable income? Forcing athletes to pay taxes on the $5k-$50k scholarship (even though they never see the money) seems like it would dramatically fuck…

Yeah, they also reference stuff from the 2015 Hawks vs Panthers game rather than the 2016 Seahawks vs Panthers game when talking about that game. After watching it carefully, I’m almost positive this was taped in summer 2016.

Are we sure this isn’t a replay from last year, everything they say at the top sounds like it is being said in summer 2016. They imply Lynch was on the team the previous year and that the team started off slow the previous year. Both those things were true last summer, but not this summer.

Another reason besides the anti-socialism propaganda that many have talked about is that the American health care system has already dug itself really far into a hole and that a sudden change to a single-payer system could have serious economic impacts. A lot of our economy is tied up in the bloat of the insurance…

Pointless FYI, but the picks that are swapping are 2018 picks rather than 2017 picks.