I assumed they were eventually going to get to SOME weird MLS style rule in this situation - the incentives are similar even though almost everyone's numbers are smaller - but this was not the one I would have picked

confidential to Normal Island in particular, today

I think we treat reading and writing, specifically, as learnable (as opposed to visual art and music, which get a lot of the same "innate talent" talk)

though this might be a me-specific recollection, I have never been even decent at the latter two (though this never stops me from singing)

like, you can arguably do it for Carney because there appears to actually be A Plan and he's articulated it, even though circumstances have required various zigzags that people who held their nose for him at the polls clearly don't like

Starmer either doesn't have a plan or isn't sharing it!

Notre Dame (and others) blame everyone but themselves in CFB’s lawless, leaderless era - The Athletic Everyone in college football wants a cookie, and they're throwing a tantrum until they get their dessert.

I don't even watch CFB, I'm just here for the Discourse: particularly this Leitch column framing the whole mess as a Teachable Moment, especially since college sports is ostensibly educational

though ironically the athletes seem the ones least in need of THIS lesson

www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

I think we will someday miss having the MLS season end immediately before the college football playoffs, just for the timely hit of perspective on what a dysfunctional and confusing playoff system actually looks like

being able to feel air that cold to any extent is enough to leave you questioning your life choices

I'm happy for the opportunity Wilfried Nancy has taken but Celtic IN PARTICULAR feels like hard mode because the fans are not used to having more than one other team to worry about

well he's French so that'll get him halfway

two leg series

as if you weren't sick enough of them already

Humanities students should understand some level of mathematics just like STEM majors should know how to write clearly

Honestly they absolutely should do it, in the same way other leagues both in the US and abroad name awards after outstanding players from early in their history even if they've been surpassed since

just maybe not YET

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again' Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

I think @mattgurney.bsky.social got to the heart of the world's "USA Problem"

"But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway."

www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

we were, of course, all much younger then and far less inclined to empathy

in retrospect we shouldn't have made so much fun of Ted Stevens

actually at the time we shouldn't have made so much fun of him, he was pretty much correct if you compensate for "old person talking about thing invented after his prime"

I would kill to have a public that understands the Internet merely as badly as Ted Stevens did.

no no Steve it's ARYANISM, not *Arianism*

it is so funny we’re back at square one with the streaming services. brief moment of low cost/high budget tv was just the product of another VC cash pit.

the thing about middlemen is that everyone hates them but whenever they're removed they just reconstitute themselves because it turns out everyone also hates the cognitive load of dealing with all the individual providers of the vast variety of goods and services and content we want

Madame is watching Person of Interest off and on after not finishing it the first time and I'm torn about whether to bring this up to her or leave it as a Fun Surprise

I will only ever remember Varoufakis as the guy Valve hired to research the Steam marketplace so him going pro-gamer mode when it came to all the racism in the new NSS shouldn't be unexpected

obviously the federal government is under no formal obligation (collective bargaining agreements aside) to consider this when deciding how much in-office presence should be required from its employees

practical obligations on the other hand...

I am extremely sympathetic to the design of the post-LRT Ottawa transit system as a concept, even though it has made a number of people's individual commutes require more transfers than they used to

its actual EXECUTION, thanks to resource constraints from Council, has been borderline unforgivable

It's extremely funny that this person is getting really annoyed by reply limiting (something I personally also find kinda annoying, but which also exists on Twitter) while abusing "removed by author" (a unique blueskyism)

It used to be quite good but in a way that wouldn't scale

and the unified city government was never going to spend enough to properly scale it, especially once the first mayor who tried promptly lost an election before being able to get shovels in the ground

hilarity has ensued

so I appreciate the opportunity for further thought, while knowing it will probably remain theoretical in my specific case

My initial reaction was that the latter harm would at least be more localised, but I suppose the societal metastasis of the extreme people/responsibilities orientation is the old saw about liberalism refusing to take its own side in an argument, or the Anti-Bedtime Aktion tendency more generally

it's usually possible to disambiguate this (hell, there are tools to see through blocks and I don't think it's technically possible to prevent them on this protocol) but with enough friction that I frequently find myself reconsidering my life choices whenever I try

but I still think that these different motivations can cause parents to take even the same courses of action in different ways or to different degrees and that the former works out better in the long run for parent, child, and society