It was actually very player-friendly to say "hey that guy was plot-critical so you might want to reload!" Plenty of games from that era would not do that for you

maybe the Navy can secure the strait of Hormuz by chaining some ships together?

it's more like "you thought the Onion was real"

Greene is a genuine antisemite. Omar is anti-apartheid and has been smeared for it. Conflating the two is doing the work of antisemites.

O'Malley's stats were inflated by pitching against the Rochester Ethermen, who all had serious neurological damage from their offseason jobs in an ether factory

Eh, they were all one-run games. The team’s not going to lose every one-run game all season. Trust the run differential.

The trouble is that "Israel is Jewish the way the UK is Christian" would involve multiple radical changes to Israeli law and society, including but not limited to an immigration policy that does not privilege Jews, that functionally amount to the end of Zionism as Israel's guiding ideology

I prefer "this episode was badly written!" but to each their own

Did he do this one already or did I dream that?

Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters (with slides!)

the NBA playoffs are kinda like the Jellicle choice

Roe v Wade was a bipartisan 7-2 decision, and the lesson the far right took from it wasn't "the law is settled" but "we only need three more judges."

Rusney Castillo was this guy for five years!

No rounding up, right?

Fool Time, his YouTube series about the trans-Atlantic telegraph, is great

A black and white image of a man reclining. Text above it reads, "Easy Way to Help Communism Win: Just sit and do nothing"

In grudging fairness, numbers stations have been leaking metadata since they were invented, and the whole premise of their design is that their metadata is not really useful to an adversary.

I thought I was the only one!

if being in NATO since 1952 doesn't make you a "Western power" then I'm officially confused about what that term even means

I'm sorry but Joe Morgan will always be the king of this very specific thing. He is the Jordan of this very specific thing to ARod's Lebron of this very specific thing

at last, my knowledge of ARod Lore has finally been useful

If it's a even number of inches, you have to swing. If it's an odd number, you take. Keep it simple.

Kalshi won't pay out if someone "leaves office" by dying, right? IIRC this already came up with Khamenei.

Repeal Marbury by statute. SCOTUS will declare that unconstitutional, but so what? You just passed a law that they can't declare things unconstitutional any more.

That man is from Illinois

I don't want to play through the Bronze Age again

Even if "hey there's lots of Marine iconography that looks a lot like the Totenkopf, haha whoops" was a good defense, anyone saying that in good faith wouldn't follow up with "vote for me, a Marine, a group that is definitely all Good Guys."

It's "Great" in the sense of "big" because it's the largest island in the British archipelago. It's a country named Bigger Than Other Nearby Islands

men will literally write the best spy novels of the 20th century instead of going to therapy

Israel, famously a country that supported the efforts of Nelson Mandela