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Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.

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Our long national nightmare is… not quite over yet, but ending soon

that's the end the eagles deserve

fair enough!

this available somewhere or like a proprietary creation or what’s the deal lol

in a just world, both

Only options are eliminate the draft or to link revenue to performance so that it's not profitable to lose games, but NBA owners will never go for either of those proposals so here we are. I bet Silver secretly wishes Congress would ban gambling again, it would solve a lot of his problems

Last month of the season would still be meaningless under this plan, maybe even more so. Fundamental problem is the NBA draft exists to give bad teams the single most valuable asset in US sports, which will always incentivize losing and create gambling-related issues

what’s this from?

he’s watched the group spiral into the depths of AI paranoia as images of phony crochet projects and impossible-to-execute patterns flooded the feed

seems like one of the main use cases for genAI is to eliminate the joy that other people take in thinking and actually doing things www.thecut.com/article/woul...

this is coming sooner than you think imo, rumor is that florida state hasn't fired their coach in part bc his buyout is $59mm and the athletic department doesn't have the money to pay him and spend on NIL the way boosters want to

what?

God knows I’ve done my share of “I’m right and the world is wrong” takes but usually re athletes or writers. If you find yourself reasoning backwards like this wrt democratically rejected politicians, that should prob spark some self reflection

VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN Notes on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

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good luck!

Metro's the only way to make that trip during the day, whenever I have to drive it I'm a broken man by the time I get back to DTLA

BRAVO. JE T'AIME. ANNE. Notes on UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME (A MAN AND A WOMAN)

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Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson

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We know exactly what we’re doing lol, there’s nothing better than clowning on a former power trying to cling to their long-gone greatness. Look at how people treat the Dallas Cowboys!

St. Louis and Kansas City would both have fewer restrictions on their powers of democratic self-governance as occupied territories of Canada than they do as cities in Missouri

NEW PYNCHON??

Hello, we would like to continue to be the world’s dominant military power (which may involve annexing some things) and retain the central currency in the system, but not run large trade deficits or export much physical capital. Also, you really need to pay us more for this.

The United States incarcerates over 100,000 more people than China despite having a billion fewer residents than China

huqzea?

that's a pretty huge effect in elite sports, especially given how simple a change it is. if there was a compression sleeve or something that gave every pitcher an extra tick wouldn't that be massive?

i love to feel a sense of totally unearned accomplishment at finishing a bag of rice

I need you

I nes you

sporadic shooting pains somewhere behind my right eye for a few days now. probably nothing