Chad Orzel

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There is literally no profession that could team up with Kalshi where my reaction wouldn't be "Wow, this is beneath them."

I have discovered a planet. A wombat-like creature lives there and nibbles infinity. We could travel there through the void. Would you like to teach love there?

The 1800s: When Americans Drank Whiskey Like it was Water Alcohol history is sobering: The sheer amount that the average American drank per year in 1830 is mind-boggling.

Consumption levels in the 1820s and 1830s were just unbelievably high, especially when you consider that the averages imply that a lot of people were drinking quite a bit more than those numbers.

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Unfortunately, we don't have any fresh snow, just icy crap from a couple of weeks ago, so it's not even all that good for skiing.

I had hoped we might be done with dog walks in single-digit Fahrenheit temperatures, but no...

Congratulations to the nominees to be the next supreme leader of Iran: Jonathan Isaac, Michael Porter Jr. and Kyle Kuzma

Fellas you gotta dress like Rihanna and get your own rain machine for the musical number, it works

i am 100% not cool enough to be in situations where the coke gets busted out but i'm going to posit that its resurgence in popularity from the '10s on explains more about how politics works across the left-right and insider-outsider spectrum more than most ppl would suspect

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

The New York Times really needs to stop adding new crossword variants that I have to scroll past to get to the Wordle.

Overturned ball/strike calls so far:
Fielders → 160 (55% success)
Hitters → 119 (49% success)

All of the pitches on the left turned into strikes.
All of the pitches on the right turned into balls.

I'm probably heading up to Brookhaven, maybe hit Tree House in Saratoga on the way back.

Me: I'm kind of worn down, maybe this weekend I'll just hang out at home and not ski umpteen miles
[looks at the news]
Me: On second thought...

I do not avoid Ivy League Professors, Mandrake. But I deny them my essays.

The replacement for the Wonderlich intelligence test just dropped

On Slop How can you tell when the Words came out of the Bag, rather than from a human brain?

Like everyone else in higher ed, I worry about my ability to distinguish LLM sludge from artisanal human-written sludge: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

the funniest thing about this poll is that white britons apparently hate every single political party

The photo with this has me picturing the negotiation ending with an anvil falling on the CEO of the company with the losing bid.

Kellis Robinett @KellisRobinett Here's a look at the team-themed food items that will be available at the Big 12 Tournament • Arizona - Arizona Wildcat Mini Chicken Chimichangas • Arizona State - Sparky's Smoked Boneless Wings • Baylor - Baylor Brisket Sliders • BYU - Cosmo Churros • UCF - UCF Citronaut Drink • Cincinnati - Cincy Cheese Coney • Colorado - Boulder Green Chile Nachos • Houston - Houston Shasta's Brisket Tacos • lowa State - ISU Green Chili Pork Walking Taco • Kansas - KU's Big Jay Loaded Mac and Cheese • Kansas State - K-State Powercat Steak Tacos • Oklahoma State - OSU Orange Power Pizza • TCU - TCU Cowtown Loaded Tots • Texas Tech - the Matador Melt • Utah - Utah Majerus Special • West Virginia - West Virginia Mountaineer Pepperoni Roll 2:36 PM • 2/26/26 • 741 Views

The Big XII food items available at the Big XII Basketball Tournament.

I’m scared to know what the Majerus Special is

Part of what is great about college for a lot of people (and I know this is not something everybody wants to do or is able to do) is that not every class you take is taken for your major, or because it’s a requirement.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right?

The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬

But how does this even work?
Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).

Oh, is there a politcsball happening tonight? 🙄

I think if you had an entire institution focused on it (like a legit university that only did remote, not university of Phoenix) and took it really seriously could probably minimize the difference between it and in person, but yeah that’s just not the case most of the time.

a photo of an australian shepherd with unique coloring. his snout and forehead are brown and tan, but the rest of his head and chest are white. he has one light ear and one dark one. he’s standing on a bright green patch of grass and facing the camera. his brown tail tipped with white is a puffy blur behind him.

This is Milow. He knows beauty comes from the inside, but he also happens to have it on the outside. 14/10 rare as h*ck (IG: aussiemilow_)

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

One of the many small irritations of the rise of direct-to-camera vertical video as a mode is that so many are shot with the video mirrored, so I'm distracted by "What does that shirt say?" and "Is that a British car?" and miss whatever the actual point was supposed to be.

Wemby didn't have a good shooting night, but when you look at the highlights you can see how much of an impact he made on the defensive end