James Harvey

Aren't Truth and Reconciliation commissions and Nuremberg style trials kind of opposites? One is "so many people did bad things that we need an amnesty for anyone who confesses to breaking the law," the other is "this conduct was so egregious that it deserves punishment regardless of domestic laws"

Yeah, "dodge sales tax by claiming you're using something in a lower tax jurisdiction" is an idea that popped up about two seconds after the first sales tax in history was proposed; the tax authorities have had some time to write rules closing that "loophole."

Gist is that he lives in Tennessee and registered his exotic car under a Montana shell company to avoid paying sales tax. Turns out that works as a way to avoid *paying* sales tax, but not as a way to avoid *owing* sales tax.

I thought the patronage thing was an exaggeration, but "All these families around here needed someone to call on for something. The new people that have moved in don’t need politics for their kid to get a job or to get a letter of recommendation like we did." 😬

Not sure if this is what Amanda was thinking of, but the iconic black-and-white soccer ball design (that one: ⚽) originated with the Adidas Telstar (designed to be visible to people watching the world cup on kinda fuzzy black and white TVs in the earliest days of satellite TV links)

Yes please. I think everyone in my life (parents, siblings, spouse, kids) wants books about maps and/or books with lots of interesting maps for Christmas.

It helps that one coyote and a bucket of paint can create a mile of road in seconds.

A pop-up box. "Draft emails confidently with Gemini" "Gemini can help you write your drafts in seconds and quickly refine them." Options are "Continue" or "Try it now"

I mean, I guess that's *one* option for getting people to use your AI product...

Also the solution to "I have broth left over from the hot pot place"

Oh, I know this one! Put the starchy water in a container, telling yourself that you'll use it to thicken sauces. Stick it in the fridge. Over the next few weeks, gradually move it to the back of the fridge as other things take priority. Forget about it. Eventually clean out the fridge and toss it.

My first rule of sports gambling is to avoid betting on outcomes where the result is more important to gamblers, in aggregate, than to the athletes on the field.

As the quantity of gambling explodes, betting on just about anything other than money line game outcomes is a worse and worse idea.

Except that NBA cup games also count as regular season games, except when they don't.

Next do state capitals that end in "rson City"

Ok, but which 2am?

They named their whole country after walking slow, what did you expect?

You know Roku's Howdy app must be good, because every time I uninstall it, a week later, there it is again.

Kinda wild that tonight's game is worth the same as last night's game.

TIL the catcher is still allowed to block the plate, and the runner is still allowed to initiate a collision with him.

Lauer's leaning in to the "no point in having 7 fielders behind you if you don't use them" thing

The announcers keep saying that both teams are almost out of pitchers, but they’re forgetting that pitchers and catchers report soon.

All the empty seats behind the plate isn't a great look for the Dodgers

And I think that's a thing they're not supposed to do any more.

Like my baseball intuition is that that was a legal tag, but if that's allowed then the runner needs to be allowed to barrel into the catcher to knock the ball loose.

I have no idea what the blocking the plate rule is.

If you have home plate seats at the World Series and they catch your ass dinking around on your phone back there a big claw game thing should come down and pluck you up and out by the head.

I've yet to see Bo Bichette in person, but Dante Bichette gave me an autograph at Red Sox spring training in 2001, and he had the largest forearms of any human I've ever met.

There were two candy factories a block away from each other, separated by the old MIT Museum: Necco and Tootsie Roll (making Junior Mints). The Junior Mints factory was the really strong smelling one.

Yamamoto has struck out eight Blue Jays batters. That's the equivalent of ...

• 10 Brewers
• 14 Giants
• 29 Rockies

A reminder all: GO TO JURY DUTY WHEN YOU ARE SUMMONED

Yes it is disruptive of schedules but these days, juries need you