barzalline.bsky.social
elon university alum; writer @ lighthouse hockey
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also the draft age should be 19 or 20 and then they can get rid of that chl compete clause thing. most of these guys aren't nhl ready, including a lot of the top picks who end up making bad teams. it's crazy that these kids get drafted out of high school
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ao3 authors know they’re writing ~erotica and approach it that way, Serious Professional Authors don’t want to be seen as obviously writing something you’re meant to find titillating
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really trying to resist an "i told you so" to the people who told me that big pharma etc would stop this from happening
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genuinely excited to see how many guys show up to training camp with a beard
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this is a huge part of it - i joined twitter in the first place because the actors in a tv show i liked were *tweeting about the show* and engaging with fans while it aired. you're never going to get that kind of dynamic again, especially on a platform as trigger-happy as this one
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forbes is specifically one of the worst websites i’ve ever been on
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spent my train ride thinking about this and would honestly probably invest money into figuring out how to create a newspaper for an internet brain rotted audience. gotta be better at concise communication that sticks
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i was an intern at a name news outlet a few years ago & nearly every full-time employee couldn’t write a summary of an existing news article, which was the majority of the work. genuinely doesn’t surprise me that people are turning to ai and not even proofing it before publishing
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this largely seems to be what the b2b offerings are shifting to based on what i’ve seen which makes a lot of sense since you do obviously want to avoid your corporate chatbot going off on a tangent about south african white genocide
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it’s time to shine for the old ncaa substitution rules
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her whole thing is explicitly being just annoying enough to be the opposition but not an imminent threat until the moment she is. tay kolma thinks he's more of a radical than her at first!
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this is 100% what they should do, too. people here complain about "the jedi" as the boring part of star wars but really it's more "the complicated & often stupid backstory needed to do anything with the jedi" & they can just reset that. most people really do not care about the larger ~canon
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yeah, i also don't begrudge the actors keeping their commitments to multiple projects with how weird the industry is now but i kind of feel like doctor who should work harder to find relative unknowns then if the main characters are consistently missing a quarter of the season
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it drives me crazy that belinda’s entire character is just being a nurse and being functionally kidnapped by the doctor and presumably because of andor filming we’ve already had 2 episodes that she was barely in
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imo it's also because if you start naming ""boy"" toys you run into the fact that there are adult voters he needs who are into those things. can't exactly say that kids won't be getting a nintendo switch or legos
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truly i want hagens in an isles jersey
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if he's as good as they claim then i get why he's ranked #1... but it seems like a lot of these guys who miss significant time in their draft year just never recover development-wise. nolan patrick being the #1 ranked skater in 2017 really comes to mind
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yeah i believe 31 years old now is the oldest for "donald trump has been involved in every single election i've voted in" and honestly seeing the country pick an unqualified racist rapist over two competent if flawed women and actively eroding women's rights is definitely radicalizing
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i wonder how much of it is just that if you’re 29 the first election you participated in was 2016 and so everyone that age and younger has just always had trump looming in their adult life and almost all media geared for women has been all in on Orange Man Bad nearly that entire time
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why on earth would you put your entire medical chart into the for-profit chatbot
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it’s going to be funny if all kyle dubas had to do for years was fire the coach for someone experienced, basically the one thing he just refused to do
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i assume they'd just start skeleton crewing. tnt is already doing some of these broadcasts remotely and the backlash probably just doesn't make enough of an impact to really change anyone's mind
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i think it helps that those specifically are in really immersive *worlds* rather than any specific game being the pinnacle of storytelling. most games people want to adapt have stories that specifically work for being video games but no real hook if you take the player-character experience away
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every day i mourn the big board
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getting rid of that is basically the only way to solve what they think the problem is: "desirable" prospective parents *do not want to have children*. there are lots of people who actually want to have kids but can't for various reasons but they're entirely uninterested in solving those problems!
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honestly think the founders would have been surprised andrew johnson wasn't convicted
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a few comedians getting “canceled” by college kids did untold damage to mainstream comedy. the threat of woke scolds at harvard actually felt more real to jon stewart than everything everyone warned about trump
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an act of mercy for general audiences