Michael Evans

Americans Increasingly See Legal Sports Betting as a Bad Thing For Society and Sports - Slashdot Pew Research: Public awareness of legal sports betting has grown in recent years -- and so has the perception that it is a bad thing for society and sports, according to a new Pew Research Center surv...

No shit! "Gambling is bad—more at 11!" 😪 I can't stand sports betting. Not only is it terribly exploitative, but the advertising ruins the experience for those of us who just want to watch the game.

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It was fantastic to hear about your work! 😁

High-entropy nanomaterials by candlelight - Nature Chemistry High-entropy materials offer an exciting realm of possibilities for material discovery and application; however, their nanoscale synthesis is limited by the need for specialized equipment. Now, a simple synthetic strategy employing wax candles enables production of these compositionally complex nanomaterials.

This is an incredible story. Researchers used a wax candle doped with metal acetylacetonates to create high-entropy nanomaterials on the cheap!

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"Some people" is basically the populations of 48.5 states.

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"The world doesn't need to hear from 98% of humanity." Slashdot commenter with the cuttingly true comment re: problems with social media.

That 2% of humanity worth hearing from does vary, so it's worth keeping an account...but bear in mind that you're probably not in the 2% today.

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"That's an organic chemistry formula." –Catherine Zeta-Jones

What the sigma?! Say less.

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Falcons fans to Younghoe “Wrong Way” Koo:

Wrong Way Koo strikes again! 😫

since the falcons aren't my team i typically only say "goddamn falcons" out loud four or five times every sunday

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

GO FALCONS! CAW CAW! 🐣

Enjoying the transparent scoreboard and graphics on the Fox NFL broadcast. It worked in the 70s and it still works now!

As soon as I saw “C. Pennington” as the QB for Gardner-Webb, I knew I was about to feel old…

…Yes, it’s Chad Pennington’s kid! 😭😂👴

Falcons my six-year-old son has met that I haven't:

- Matt Ryan
- Bijan Robinson

Dang.

"I had to teach myself everything in his class."

I don't hear this too often, but whenever I do, this meme comes to mind.

Well on our way to another disappointing season @gtfootball.bsky.social. 😪

YouTube video by kansaspolitics Snoop Dogg says read the syllabus!

Snoop Dogg: too lazy to have a conversation with his grandkids about gay people...but at least he reads the syllabus.

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Thanks for watching! 🙂

That's my neighborhood and I know that guy! (Also, he's right.)

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GT PTS had been doing a great job of turning their reputation around over the past several years—almost historic considering how universally they were hated. Shame to see them getting back to their old ways...

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What hope is there for the rest of us?! 😫😂

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Autocorrect removed from New Outlook on MacOS - Microsoft Q&A I’m extremely frustrated to find that autocorrect functionality has been removed in the June 2025 update of New Outlook for Mac — including the critical “Replace text as you type” setting. This is a c...

Microsoft is out here just pushing users away yet again by removing Autocorrect and FIND AND REPLACE from Outlook for Mac.

You read that right: you can no longer find and replace text in an email in Outlook. What in the world...?

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YouTube video by MDBBall Knicks @ Bulls 1993 ECF Game 4 Jordan 54 Pts (NBA On NBC)

YouTube suggested the 1993 ECF to me the other day. The fact that I've been watching with rapt attention even though I know how it ends speaks volumes.

I'm not big on comparing across eras, but twenty years from now, would you watch the OKC vs Indiana finals?

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ESPN currently has three of the four teams in the NFC South ranked TWENTY-EIGHTH OR WORSE in pre-season rankings. Worst division in football by far.

Gonna be a long fall… 🐣😭

They were delicious! 😁

Out to lunch in Edgewood today, I came across the oldest living white oak in Atlanta—a witness to the Battle of Atlanta in 1861! Check it out. Neat little green space on Vaughn Street.

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Agreed!

Also, "it's the journey, not the destination." The destination is two minutes of euphoria then right back to "what are we having for dinner tonight?" The work IS the fulfilling part.

"This game we're playing...all the work we're putting in...it's fundamentally meaningless." Fabiano Caruana said this on C Squared once and I've never forgotten it. Good perspective after a tough loss; life goes on. Scheffler has a similar vibe here. #chesspunks

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