That’s what platforms exist for. You can stand on an elevated platform so your recipient doesn’t have to bow for you. When you’re dealing with a head of state, you usually arrange that. If you actually care about bowing to a foreign dignitary and are the President of the United States, you make sure they don’t put you…

Orb is horse. Please enter oats into my oat deposit slot. Orb is horse. Orb must win your primitive Earth horse race, so he may make love to your Earth horse women. Orb is a very sexual being. I come from the advanced future of 5024. Everyone is a geometric shape and everyone loves to party. Please find me a horse…

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If only there were some way to have a medal put around your neck without bowing.

All five defenders rush to LeBron.

Yeah, that... somehow caused Minnesota to be unseeded.

There’s an insanely high percentage of comments from people not getting the joke.

This is a Photoshop of the Ronaldo bust

It’s 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott!

You should get a sous vide circulator, too.

You should get a sous vide circulator, too.

Baseball direction in general is bad. The tyranny of the centerfield camera is terrible. Think about it, if you had a free ticket anywhere you wanted to sit, would you be in center field with high-powered binoculars focused on home plate?

It’s only sugar free ones that do that.

It’s only sugar free ones that do that.

The Saturday Night Massacre was a turning point because Nixon defied a court order to turn over documents to an investigation, did it without pretending that it was for something else, and both parties saw it as an admission that he was hiding malfeasance.

On the other hand, the Comey firing will be viewed as a great…

He was expected to be drafted in the second round before he came out, and that quickly dropped.

There is a cameraperson high above home plate that tracks fly balls. Between plays they will zoom in on second base, then zoom out, centered on second. With that angle you’ll see the whole field, but as soon as the ball is in play it’s going to focus on something else.

Can they? Sure, they can have a camera mounted high in the stands behind home plate that doesn’t move. But the reason the NFL does the all-22 camera is so that coaches can have video of a full play, which is something that’s not really useful in baseball. There would have been value for some advanced metrics is being…

This is getting eerily close to those monitors on the walls in 1984.

Deadspin headline: 2087:

“It’s Probably Time To Stop Talking About Father Time As A LeBron Stopper: James Leads Team To Finals For 77th Consecutive Season”

“We addressed an issue that was brought to our attention immediately. In the profession of law enforcement, issues will arise in every agency due to an essence of individuals being imperfect. One officer’s actions does not reflect the agency as a whole.”