Benjamin Wendorf

i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.

THN Analytics: The statistical argument against fighting The age old fighting debate rages on, but a statistical analysis of the effects of fighting shows that the true impact of fisticuffs may be less than we could have imagined. In fact, not only is it le...

Here's the link, from 2014, which I'm afraid to say is ancient: thehockeynews.com/news/news/th...

I did find the rates of particular penalties (slashing, roughing, elbowing, boarding) went up in the time remaining in a period after a fighting major. It was in a THN piece about whether fighting was, among other things, a deterrent to more violence.

Africana Studies students know all the things. Why? We actually teach all the things — the good and the bad. The most rounded education you can have in the contemporary university. Just sayin’.

We do have to realize that his most cogent logic, even as prez, is concerning real estate.

Addendum, having just seen the news on Hellebuyck's surgery: WPG will likely be regressing to the negative, too. As long as Bucky was healthy, he was papering over some troubling numbers (they really miss Ehlers!).

And also gives him juicy "$1 trillion dollar investment" headlines, true

The Dems, ever looking for the opportunity to faceplant, tell on themselves how they feel about universal healthcare (and education, and Social Security, etc.). Do they not think this vote won't come back to bite them when they deliberate on funding for those things?

I mean, I feel like it's not outside the realm of possibility that his racism compartmentalized this as not unlike shmoozing with MbS

He might actually like him more than JD

It's that time again! Candidates for positive regression: EDM, STL, NSH. Candidates for negative regression: SEA, WSH, CHI. Most of the anticipated negative regression is probably goaltending; ditto for NSH & maybe EDM on the positive. Though, can we admit that Saros might be lost and gone forever.

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

When I was a kid, we had a 20 ft high metal tornado slide that, in the winter, somebody would secretly go and throw water down overnight so it was an ice chute by morning. That thing would always have a long line of kids waiting.

I do appreciate their unwitting actions that precipitate more Emperor-has-no-clothes moments. Kinda like Vance saying they aren't going to let the most recent election change their behavior. Prepare the petard for the foisting, by all means.

Fun exercise: what song does Billy Bass sing? You'd think it was YMCA, but you have to think more sociopathic. "You're Sixteen," Ringo Starr version.

Like, how much of him is torso? His torso is the length of 2 Brinkman necks.

Image of baseball card of MLB shortstop Ed Brinkman, who clearly looks ready for nothing except the warm saddle of a plank of pine wood.

Me, 41 years old: "Yeah, I could've made the big leagues."

Me, had I made the big leagues:

Screen photo of AI Gemini's response to a query about 2025 Trick-or-Treating schedule in Worcester, that incorrectly identifies October 31st, 2025 as a Thursday.

Mmm, yes, AI, thank you. What if October 31st 2025 is not, in fact, a Thursday?

Like...c'mon. You are not going to beat the bubble allegations like this.

Eastern Jamaica, which includes Kingston and its highest mountain ranges. Yikes.

Picture of a man seated in front of an open book. His hair and eyebrows are obviously dyed (for someone his age), and his hair is Bieber circa 2010.

Who is this? Wrong answers only.

That whole Prez/AI thing played surprisingly accurately to one of the big statements in Team America: World Police.

Photos of NHLer Blake Nelson from his rookie and 13th season, showing his change in appearance.

Powdered Toast Man has added a bit of salt and pepper

CALL AN AMBULANCE

BUT NOT FOR ME

Screen grab of Yahoo News headline: "In phone call from White House, Netanyahu apologizes to Qatari PM over Doha strike"

Envisioning this going like the President's phone call to the Soviet PM in Dr. Strangelove

Picture of a restroom sink with Fast Orange pumice hand soap next to it

You know the club goes hard when they have Fast Orange in the bathroom

The weird thing about all of this stuff is that the British sending troops to Boston to quell the people they considered radical was/is American Revolution 101. And, like, the British had a fair argument!

Hell yeah Jeff Hiller

The irony of somebody whose come-up was a book about escaping the (as he saw it) low-character lifestyle of his childhood community.

Skaters play most games with someone getting similar icetime to them, but it's not as tight as we sometimes think. Pinched, though, for sure, along that axis.