So, Trump is going to either not follow through on the meeting, or ask for a ton of concessions and offer zero in return, and we’re in a worse place than we started, is how I assume this will work out. Not *quite* complete metaphysical certainty, but very close.

The running translation part is always what fucks me up. Well, that and it being a good 15 years since I actually used Spanish on any regular basis. Still, this is impressive.

I dunno, I’d probably still rate the Sex Cannon higher than Dilfer.

*wonton

I was like 17 or 18 before I heard the term “awry” spoken aloud. I’d read it any number of times and knew what it meant, but until then I assumed it was pronounced “aw-ree”.

It’s generally acknowledged to be by about the age of 2 that people can no longer differentiate between similar phonemes if the language(s) they are exposed to don’t. This is also why native English speakers struggle with a lot of the vowel sounds in Scandinavian language etc.

I feel like you’re actually trying to come from a decent place here, so I don’t want to sound condescending or insulting, but you are aware that the vast majority of mass shooters have been young white men from middle-class families, right? Not “kids from crack head parents”?

Sure, people would still find ways to kill each other, either by illegally obtaining guns or using another method, but the point is to make it difficult to obtain a device designed to kill things without at least having some sort of licensing process. The way we currently go about it stinks of “We tried all of nothing…

As I said, I’m not trying to knock the guy. It’s impressive. I just find it to be a comical oddity that the majority of his triple doubles involved somewhere between 10 and 15 points.

And my point is that extreme fundamentalist Islam wouldn’t have nearly the foothold that it does in the Middle East and Central Asia if we hadn’t: a). supported tyrannical regimes that oppress their own people and support hard-line fundamentalist clerics; and b). bombed the shit out of/sent troops into/overthrown the…

There’s a local grocery chain called Central Market in Dallas that had an amazing produce section in the late 90s/early 00s. You as a customer were expected to label your own produce with a SKU, because they had such a wide and constantly changing variety that the cashiers couldn’t reasonably be expected to identify…

Morel hunting is both fun and has a delicious result, if you live in a region that has them.

Believe it or not, the sheer inconvenience of homemade bombs would actually deter a lot of this. There is actually a pretty broad body of research that shows when people get mentally worked up to either commit suicide or an act of violence, that obstructions that make it more difficult often deter the act.

Rondo: master of the 10/19/11 triple double. Not trying to knock the guy, but I can’t think of another player where so many of his triple doubles have points as the lowest of those 3 stats.

Sadly, jobs that place adults in a position of trust/power over minors are always going to attract people likecthis.

Deists. But you’re otherwise correct.

That shit *was* shockingly delicious in general.

Adam Rippon finished 4th in this year’s tournament and was chosen on the strength of his performance over the course of the season.

While lacrosse is currently associated with rich white douchebros, it was invented by Native Americans. I’m also reasonably certain that the idea of e-sports makes the John Moodys of the world have a screaming conniption fit about the “pussification” of America, especially given that POC and trans people have seen…

And they certainly feel that way because they hate freedom, and not because their primary exposure to America for the better part of a century has been US ordnance and propping up brutal and corrupt autocracies. And despite all that, you’re about as likely to die from a lightning strike as from a terror attack.