So long as the country switching to open source takes most of the licensing fee’s they save and spends it to contribute to the FOSS they are relying on, it’s also just a good economic policy. Switch from shipping money off the a foreign company to paying your own developers to improve your systems.

It’s probably worth holding off on making strong conclusions from the underlying numbers this year because of the unusual home-away splits as stadiums are retrofitted for the world cup. VAN are likely very good but have also played almost every MLS match at home so far.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

BREAKING Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev, an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia, has won a parliamentary majority that could put an end to the country's years of political uncertainty, according to near complete vote results on Monday

Obviously I’ve written before about how I think the NWSL’s hard salary cap with with a liquid transfer is *better* but it’s also much more complicated than most other ideas especially if it were expanded on the account the higher fees in the men’s game (like multi-year amortization in the cap)

I think you need a method to add more cap when players are sold. I’m unconvinced that any method other than adding more cap space in a liquid form is less complicated or more elegant than that. It’s the rest of the niche rules with gam that need to go.

A liquid cap with a floor of what you can’t trade away, and a mechanism to buy more space up to a limit is basically a soft cap with more flexibility.

I don’t think that’s more restrictive than a straight cap or a soft cap as the piece proposes. I think it’s less restrictive than either.

I mean. I think we should simplify the whole thing by turning it all into a tradable liquid cap with fewer of the rules of current GAM. But just keep calling it GAM. The fundamental idea of a semi-liquid cap is good.

Also people in the US got a tiny taste of a social safety net with Covid (checks, expanded unemployment, child tax credit), which was then taken away. Like US child poverty was almost eliminated and then arbitrarily brought back. I think people are rightfully unhappy getting what they had before.

if you are a Marxist academic do NOT have kids

This is objectively correct.

they’re calling it the fakest economy of all time

Blood for the blood god.

Steak is massively overrated.

I remember reading that FIFA required upgrades to the train station that cost quite a bit. None of the state or federal funding for that ever came through. So this is foxburough’s way of paying it off, as easily the smallest town hosting a WC match.

In retrospect the first adult catholic convert Vice President of the United States picking a fight with the first American Pope should have been the most foreseen thing ever.

A throw into the box is worth about 0.01 xGD more than a short attacking throw. That's equal to a minute of Arsenal's time at +0.99 xGD per game. So at 30 seconds per box throw they're probably still worth it, but it's fun to think about how good you'd have to be for that not to be true

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

I’ve talked about it with my partner, and one of the things that would determine if we move back to the US at some point would be if we had kids. I have zero desire to raise kids in an environment where the expectation is near constant supervision until they are a late teen.

Genuinely one of the most stark differences between most US cities (with a handful of exceptions), and basically everywhere else I’ve been is the number of children taking themselves places. Part of that is transit. But a huge part is the persistent US paranoid-parental style.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

I do love his laser commitment to pissing off perhaps the shakiest portion of his coalition. The 13 points he picked up with Catholics to flip them from blue to red vs 2020 arguably won him the election. And then to turn around and be like “fuck you in particular” is just a great bit.

Would genuinely love to see the religious breakdown on this swing.

it feels trite to say at this point but that would be murder & illegal & i'm pretty sure advocating for it is also illegal

Getting a pope is like getting a fruit basket when a loved one dies. Fruit baskets are nice and all, but you rarely get them if something fucked hasn’t happened.

'the pope is an American because the Vatican is out to get me' is terrific because it's both a thing an insane person would think and also probably true.

The funny thing is that dude had it right.

Idk I think the caps have done some tidy business of late exploiting TFC’s incredible ability to fumble the bag.