Seattle wanted to tax enormous businesses just a liiiiiiittle bit [...] and Amazon (read: Bezos) threw all their weight behind the opposition

It seems weird that she would bother. Most people would only go through the headache of suing someone if they really needed the money (e.g. your former roommate steals $500 or something you’re not going to court) so you would think she would view this the same way and decide it isn’t worth it, especially with the…

Yes, but think of all the hot takes. No team wants to be attached to takes that hot!

In my anecdotal experience, most people strongly favor net neutrality, but don’t believe there is a real threat of cable companies limiting their access to the internet without it, so it isn’t a huge deal to them.  In other words, not important enough to get the average person to turn out and vote.

The NRCC is running ads in my area (and I assume many others) framing this election as a referendum on Nancy Pelosi.  We must stop her or all is lost!

Not that impartiality is a thing that matters with announcers, but Witten’s reverence for the Cowboys made him even harder to listen to this week.  He seemed genuinely hurt by this celebration.

Existing plan, not working for me either.

“50 points! Let’s some of see those highlights”

The best thing about the latest consoles is they tend to go into “suspend” mode and you can fire them up instantly and start playing. Makes a 15-minute gaming session actually practical.

My anecdotal experience is that 100% of the people I know have an incredible reverence for cases and would never buy a phone that wouldn’t allow for a substantial one.

I don’t really understand the reasoning that, given the 3 options you have laid out, it is a given that he preferred the “condemn the president and get fired” option but chose this one anyway because he was too scared to go through with it. It is quite possible he just felt that was the wrong thing to do.

These were always the plays you ran when you were up 30 and trying to spice things up.

Good call, I would say this is the one to beat.

I can’t come up with much, maybe the Brandon Marshall lateral, which didn’t involve as much hubris but was also much, much stupider: https://deadspin.com/brandon-marshall-says-his-failed-lateral-was-the-worst-1733356160

That’s a good choice, but I think he at least has the excuse that it happened so fast and your instinct is to make a play on the ball.

How does this rank in terms of individual fuck-ups in recent history? Got to be top-3, right? Not just the fact that he made a mistake, but the amount of premeditated hubris involved.

How do you simultaneously think “we should trade this player” and “this player is so good we need to make sure the team who gets him isn’t competing with us for playoff spots because then they will beat us.”

The New York Times story and Trumps rebuttal were both very specific in referring to voice calls, so I still don’t understand why the existence of other surveillance techniques negates the rebuttal.

The New York Times never said they were intercepting text messages.  They said they were listening to voice telephone calls.  Just because the president sucks doesn’t mean you should move the goalposts to make him even more wrong.

We have a long way to go regarding mental health acceptance, but I’m impressed how few people have come forward to dismiss Griffen as “crazy” as opposed to someone in need of help.