Because they like to seem hip and cool.

Durant’s game has never really been driven by pure athleticism, so if anybody seems likely to survive some injury-related slowing, it’s probably KD. His shooting seems likely to stick around, his length on defense will still exist, his court vision and mind will be the same. Even if he permanently loses a step of…

Wrong, I read the entire article. And that’s why I called it out. The writer was focused on the short-term realities of the situation - see phrases like “Keep paying your loans while Bernie tries to cancel student debt”, “before the next election”, “by the time legislation along these lines gets approved”, “do not…

If you think this or any similar legislation is going to get passed before the next election, you are ... incorrect.

His badgering has already prompted the bill’s authors to add language stating they’d monitor the results of the working group.

Interesting.

If your head explodes, you’re definitely not going to make it as a doctor.

One more piece of advice:

I’m guessing he’s thinking long term totals - he doesn’t get $30 million a year for this season so it’s a short term loss, but he gets something like 4 years/$100 mil...whereas if he accepted the option, he’s getting $30 mil this year and then maybe a much smaller number next year. Or maybe a way to hedge against…

Twitch Plays NBA GM would result in counterproductive moves to troll fans, a shaky understanding of the rules, wildly veering between different strategies on the fly, no real leadership, and making decisions at random.

At my last job, the CEO made it a point to know everybody’s name in the office when he visited one of the branch offices. He would have his secretary go through our online company directory and print off names, titles, and photos of everybody in the branch, and put it in a binder that he’d review in the car or plane…

I agree that no competent doctor would ever straight up rule out an injury, but it’s possible that a competent medical staff was discussing “injuries” from the standpoint of ones that are likely to be related to existing injuries and just never really discussed the potential of an Achilles tear.

I assume you have attended academic conferences? Because ugh lord, they’re the absolute worst for “My question is really more of a comment”. 

Oh it certainly was useful, since the written explanations were very thorough.

At this point, the easiest thing for the Warriors to do is just buy the knob out of his shares.

I think liberals throw Obama under the bus primarily because of the feeling that he blew a once-in-a-generation political opportunity in 2009. After the triple disaster of the failed Katrina response, the wildly unpopular Iraq War, and the economic meltdown, the Democrats walked into January 2009 with a huge chance to…

That flowchart is a disaster. The fact there’s only straight lines rather than arrows makes it impossible to follow, especially since there’s no verticality to it.

Can confirm lines are crazy: The wife and I went to Krispy Kreme last year. The line took a solid 30 minutes or so to go through.

Whether or not to make the process so toxic and hateful that would shatter the reputation and personal life of any nominee that wasn’t an absolute saint was still in the Democrats’ hands.

Excellent breakdown. Reading this article, what really struck me is how “gaming together with friends” really parallels how adult men (of which I am one) follow sports together.