kempner.net
Husband, dad, software developer, soccer nut, and defender of Oxford commas
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Cool It Down by Yeah Yeah Yeahs is fantastic, and 19 years after Fever to Tell.
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Took 5 minutes to do, and it feels like the best 5 minutes I’ve spent today.
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Just an immense lack of quality on the field. Players incapable of doing the simple things, like making a successful mid-range pass.
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I went from Postdoc & visiting astro/physics prof to a small biotech startup. Scattering works the same in the intergalactic medium as it does in animal tissue, and I found a company needing someone who understood it. Those PhD skills are more transferable than you’d guess, and in surprising places!
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And that was with a country about 1/4 the size and 1/100 the population
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The scariest shit there is the repeated use of the phrase “improper ideology”
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Lesense and McKay were both making the decisions when the ridiculous Klich deal went down. It’s hard to hear “we’re cleaning up other people’s mess” when that one is entirely of their own making. Maybe Klich wasn’t a player they wanted, but they could have gotten something or someone for him.
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Definitely deserved to be in Top 10. It’s weirdly hit or miss: I’ve seen nights with 3 or 4 soccer highlights in the SC Top 10, and others where amazing soccer plays were overlooked for yet another NBA dunk.
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There’s a not subtle undercurrent of social Darwinism here, along with a supremacist belief that disease will only impact others, which of course leaves these idiots as magically the only ones left.
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“United employs 24 players, six less than the league maximum.” So I guess all the holes in the roster are *by design*, eh? It’s so frustrating seeing other teams filling out their rosters with depth signings and knowing that we have positions that are effectively one player deep.
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Agree with lots of the posts here, especially Becky Chambers and Annalee Newitz as maybe slightly less obvious choices. I would also add “The Space Between Worlds” by Micaiah Johnson.
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One of my all-time favorite books. I have a mass-market copy I bought when it was new, and a signed first edition that was a birthday gift a few years ago. A lot of the “predictive” parts have aged amazingly well.
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I recognized 26 and regularly listen to more than half those. Not bad for nearly 50.
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At this rate any FFP sanctions might be irrelevant in their ability to stay up.
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And again!
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Both of you are correct
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“A bit of both” feels like the right answer here.
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If this sort of action would require federal agencies to publish new rules, would that not be subject to a public comment period? The last Trump admin was especially bad at the admin law side of gov’t rules and had a number thrown out by courts for failing to follow proper procedures for new rules.
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Will they also go after those who sought to recruit at historically white colleges, like those that literally only desegregated at gunpoint (Ole Miss)? The overt racism from these regressive idiots boggles the mind.
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It’s VERY good. Some similar themes to The Expanse but quite different on the surface.
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It’s also more or less the equivalent from the left of Mitch McConnell’s approach to Obama’s election.
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I dunno, that boundary layer looks pretty stable
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Nice! I went through the same process last weekend. Next step: update the site to point to your account here instead of on the other place. 😉
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Beautiful. The X-ray image is from Chandra, presumably, since the Hubble Space Telescope is not an X-ray telescope.
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I’m beginning to think trump confuses tv with reality. Surprised he hasn’t nominated Derek Shepherd for Surgeon General.
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Spam, spam, spam, eggs, and spam? Okay, one of those doesn’t rhyme.
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Perhaps the only good news is that by telegraphing this he gives plenty of time for opponents to work out their legal arguments for the inevitable suits.
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Hope Cardoso is ok. Tessman did fine. Not spectacular but no major complaints.
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With Pulisic and Musah getting forward it will probably look a lot like the old 4-3-3. I like the idea of Cardoso and Tessman as double sixes, but they’ve not been great in the past. Both have loads of potential, hopefully they can finally realize it with the senior team.