That’s nothing compared to the permanent ‘deke’ Rogers puts onto Blue Jays fans - making them almost good enough to pay attention to, but not good enough to win anything.

Of course. Like all reasonable individuals, I am absolutely all about permanently and absolutely judging an individual I don’t know by his mother’s tweets.

Somehow Bills fandom gets worse. Am I a terrible person for primarily thinking about the fact that with the exception of maybe Charles Clay and a 1 or 2 O-linemen, McCoy is the Bills’ only NFL-calibre offensive player?

Next up: Belgium vs France. If history’s any guide, they’ll both surrender about 5 minutes in.

The US-Mexico border is among the only places on Earth where the developing world and the developed world directly meet. If one is to take it as given that almost anyone from the developing world is better off the instant they set foot in the developed world, then it makes it a very unique scenario. Whether you choose…

We should be thankful he did not mimic a deuce.

TO is arguably the 2nd greatest WR in NFL history. He should’ve been easily in on the first ballot, but was not selected for reasons that could easily be described as dubious and irrelevant. A voice of reason might suggest TO separate the selection and selectors from the Hall and ceremony itself, as they aren’t…

And just wait until face recognition software gets better. You’ll have to explain that pic you took at age 18 when you’re in your 60s.

“Social media used for actual socializing, for keeping up with people and as an avenue for sharing your life with those you care about, is undoubtedly a massively positive development.”

I don’t know about ruined, but certainly has made a negative mark. It cultivates the world’s most useless emotion, envy, and has had a negative impact on the mental health of young people (people too young to not give a fuck about what others think, say, or do/claim to have done). Yes, it is nice to be able to keep up…

Twitter is toxic sludge. The short format means can’t build and back up on points made, and the whole system of liking and retweeting encourages a playing-to-the-mob mentality that eliminates room for doubt, doubt being critical to reasoned discourse.

There is no indication in any report I’ve read that the arrested man was a suspect under active investigation.

Sad/scary/interesting that all the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of person-hours of investigative work probably did not mean much, and would not have caught him. The efficiency gain from the technology employed (DNA science, the internet) is astounding, and if one thinks this only has privacy implications,…

I did one of these a few months back, and was surprised that they linked me to relatives. Most interesting was my first cousin, whose ‘dad’ is not her biological father. I’m not sure if she knows (if I know she must, but still), imagine if she were to log into the site and find out that way?

The Browns especially love to mock drafts. How else to explain their generation of laughable picks?

I don’t buy the whole ‘ignorance’ thing. Since there’s not quite as much toxic sludge on Twitter than in the Buffalo or Cleveland waterfronts, Allen even at age 16 wanted to make sure he’d drop below them on the draft order.

How does one determine what another ‘deserves’, and what systems are you proposing besides the monetary system?

The official stance of the Japanese government is and always has always been of regret. That is not a ‘technicality’, it’s a salient fact. Could it be that denial that these apologies and statements of regret have occurred (an easily refuted fabrication), for self-serving internal political purposes, also plays a role…

“Victims of atrocities carried out by South Korean soldiers still pursuing reparations decades later”

Speaking of SE Asia, 300,000 S Korean soldiers served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and they have been accused of atrocities. Has South Korea apologized for those?