Air pollution is just one type of negative externality driving creates. While pervasive shared electric vehicles would reduce that, they’d also more than double the vehicle miles traveled, because empty vehicle mileage would skyrocket. Instead of removing the need from parking from car-chocked urban areas, they’d…

That article was flawed because it was comparing the direct impact of traditional car engines to the indirect impact of EVs. Essentially, comparing the cost of using gas to the cost of generating and using electricity. When you compare the cost of generating/using to the cost of manufacturing/using gas, EVs still come…

Well, much like the 90s Phillies/Eagles, they’ll try to pretend that the 4th largest sports market the US/Canada somehow is a “small market”, and use that as an excuse to underspend.

His time on the Philadelphia Union was frustrating, though really most of the Union’s 5 year existence under miserly ownership has been. Several times a game, he’d pull down a long pass, and you’d have the briefest flicker of hope before you remembered what happened every time in that situation. Freddy would seemingly…

It’s a shame phones with wireless charger are so hit or miss. I really like it on my Lumia 920, and on my nexus 7. Unfortunately, I don’t like any of the current batch of wireless charging phones, so I went with an xperia z3.

More like a decade ago.

I don’t understand superzooms, at that size a mirrorless with a kit lens is probably a better choice.

Unfortunately, that’s mostly because the Pacific Northwest is isolated from patterns of minority migration, and just has fewer minorities overall.

Yeah, in my experience there’s very little overlap between Hockey and bouncyball fans. Hockey fans often have a negative impression of the nba and college sports because they get so much mainstream coverage. Especially in northeastern cities where the NHL is more popular, where the bouncyball coverage is dictated by…

It will be truly sad if the ghost of the Sonics kills NHL Hockey in Seattle yet again.

yeah, it’s how a lot of euro leagues in many sports work.

Seattle starting a new team in 2017, 100 years after being the first American city to win the cup, and 50 years after the first NHL expansion, would be very appropriate.

There is no “loser point”. When a regulation NHL game ends in a tie, both teams get a point, they then play an additional 5 minutes, followed by a shootout, for that 3rd point. The biggest problem is that this encourages getting to overtime to generate that third point.

Baby one more time - Britney

Find songs that don’t require you to have a singing voice. Cake songs like Never There or Short Skirt Long Jacket are among my go-tos for that reason. (I Will Survive and The Distance are a bit more challenging).

Nick Sakiewicz has been trying really hard to be worse. The Union are so bad newspapers in Britain are following them for the lolz

The main limiting factor in NHL expansion is goaltending, but there are at least half a dozen backups who could be starters. NCAA hockey is growing and increasing in quality, so that will expand the player pool. The salary cap has led to an increase in unsigned 30-something free agents, who would be good veterans for…

Even just among major markets, DC, Atlanta, and Houston are all sadder. Dropping down into the second tier, you’ve got Phoenix, Seattle, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, and Cleveland.

It is frustrating that the minidolls are such a big departure from minifigs. Given the shape and detail lego is capable of, surely they could have created a curvier minifig that wasn’t mostly incompatible with the other themes. Round off some of the corners, pinch the waist, and they could have a “feminine” minifig.

Ah yes, the “soccer is magic”, do it like Europe plan