much like a swarm of wasps would disrupt a group of entomophobes having a picnic

No, he said “I’m not going to re-sign when my current contract is up and, if you trade me, I’ll sign an extension with the Laker (and maybe a couple other teams) and no one else.” He didn’t stop playing (or even threaten to) and doesn’t owe anyone the favor of keeping his preferences to himself or timing when he…

Obviously not important in the scheme of things, but this:

*were

The most the Warriors can offer him is some small percentage over what they’re paying him this year (maybe $6MMish?). No way he can’t get better offers elsewhere if he’s healthy. 

Without looking it up, the Paris climate accords are called that because they were agreed to in Paris, right? Not because they’re somehow specifically about Paris?

Thanks. I don’t think it changes the overall point of the report or your article, but it’s at least concerning that account closures are described as losses in the report. It suggests either sloppy methodology or bias.

The project was originally supposed to cost $3.8 billion, but it wound up costing an extra $3.7 billion due to protests and loss of market capital. On top that, a hardcore divestment campaign led by opponents got people to close 150,000 checking and savings accounts with 17 banks involved with the project, including…

What did that poor kid do to not get his face blurred?

The point is that, the ability to buy things, to borrow money to operate control of said possession are part and parcel with the basic functioning of our society and the economic system.

The point you’re making now is not the point you were making before. “People who own companies ought not to be able to run the companies that they own?” is not the same as saying it’ll be too hard to craft effective laws, so why bother even trying.

. . . they’re perfectly in their rights to do so.

The whole point of a [murder for hire scheme] is that you’re going to [kill people] in order to [make money]. Like that’s literally what a [contract killer] is setup to do.

Possible club flush

“That’s all Kaep needs to prove his case, right?”

But this doesn’t seem to control for the fact that the drivers starting up front tend to be better (unless I’m missing something?). Getting picked first in the NBA draft correlates with success too, but it’s not because being a first pick somehow conveys an advantage.

I assume the idea is that since Orlando didn’t get possession anyway, they shouldn’t get a free do-over because the clock started early? Unless Gordon stopped playing because he saw the time expire (unlikely), I kinda think this is the right result.

Allegedly and the like should be reserved for statements that are effectively legal conclusions like “murdered his wife”. They should not be used for factual claims like “killed his wife”. The former can only be determined by a trial (or plea) and is thereafter entirely black or white. Facts are always a bit less…

It seems likely to be bullshit in Spacey’s case (if he doesn’t recall this particular event, likely he remembers other similar ones), but in general, since we’re talking about good apologies, what is an appropriate response when you genuinely don’t remember the bad behavior?

“When you come up to speed on the expression, I’ll fill you in on the business acumen that you don’t have.”