It is troubling that Haliburton gets back from 16 months away from basketball and immediately starts having injury issues. I would assume that he recovered from his Achilles injury at the end of last season but, since the team was already tanking, he took his time working himself back into shape over the last 6 months.

Did he spend the last 16 months confined to bed rest and go straight from the hospital to training camp? Was the plan for him to play himself back into shape?

The jury determines guilt while the judge sets the sentence.

As someone who has lived in New England for the last 30 years, I have to tell you that that description is bullshit.

The old man who runs the dump keeps his hand of glory in a Red Sox glass. The Bruins mug belongs to his son.

Ohio is for Lovers - Hawthorne Heights

As someone who grew up on that old web, I am grateful that the board game hobbyist community is still using Board Game Geek. That site is just a reskin of a pile of PHPbb forums.

My favorite dog whistle (that went over my head, because I was not the audience for it) was the Subaru “Come out and play” commercial.

If I remember it correctly, the ad was mostly footage of Subaru SUVs driving over rocks and through streams while a voice over talks about the cars’ off-road capabilities. The ads would always end with the narrator saying "Subaru invites you to come out and play.”

As a straight man, I always assumed that the commercial was about how much fun it is to drive a Subaru up a mountain. Apparently, I was missing the point. The nature footage was all a distraction to pacify the straights. The real commercial was just the sentence fragment “Subaru invites you to come out”. It was meant to say that Subaru supports queer people. It was a resounding success in promoting the ‘Subaru driving lesbian’ stereotype.

The article makes it (slightly) less bad. 3 year old was kicked out of a 5 year old league for being too good and ruining competitive balance. The kid’s parents took it badly and would not leave until police intervened.

Well the temple is on Earth, so smaller than the Earth, probably.

I think that the person you are replying to meant that the donkey had a fully developed rear end (capable of carrying a heavy load), so it would be a “grown ass ass”.

If you read the article, he does not even grow his own pumpkins anymore but buys them from other farms in the area. It is more of a pumpkin themed seasonal theme park.

A month ago, my wife saw a nice looking cookie recipe on Instagram. When she tried it herself, the cookies came out looking amazing. We had to throw them out because they tasted awful.

I crack with the blade of a knife (since I generally have one handy to chop whatever else I am including in the dish). I can get a very good crack with minimal force. Since it is such a small break, there aren’t any large pieces of shell to get into the food. I don’t cook recipes that require separating the white from the yolk, so I am not sure how often I break the membrane between the two, but from casual observation, it is almost never.

According to the article, the league as a whole rejected the offer, but certain owners are rumored to be interested. I am sure the NBA is working with those owners to campaign on their behalf and/or looking at ways to move those teams from Euroleague to NBA Europe.

Based on publisher leaks, there may be smaller carts now. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/cheaper-lower-capacity-switch-2-cartridges-could-mean-fewer-game-key-cards/

A game key card is not as good as a full game on the cart, but it is better than a digital purchase. I can lend, gift, or resell a game license tied to a key card. Once I have a game installed, I can play it entirely offline and never check licencing servers.

As my therapist likes to point out, no one is calling out my gross incompetence, so I can’t be doing that bad.

With a sticker like that, the driver is practically begging to be rear ended.

Applying for jobs is intentionally difficult. A company needs to be able to review applications as fast as they come in. By adding a lot of needless busywork to the application process, the company ensures that the candidate thinks applying to this job is worth 10 minutes of their life. The fear is if companies make it too easy to apply, candidates will just apply to every job posting they see without considering if they are qualified for the job.

That is also why companies have resume keyword filtering, AI candidate reviews, and recruiting interns administering standardized tests. Companies I have worked at put a lot of effort to not have (highly paid) hiring managers digging through resumes just to reject candidates lacking any relevant skills. I assume companies would rather immediately reject the ideal candidate because a computer did not understand that “automobile” and “automotive” are synonyms rather than rejected that candidate because they are the 501st person to apply for the job and the manager made an offer after reviewing 500 candidates.

If the point is just to slow down applications, it would be better if people did not have to play stupid games, but could set up a system where a person can only apply for a limited number of jobs (maybe 5/day). I would assume that that would not be realistic to build, since people would game the system by setting up duplicate accounts and the more you try to weed them out, the more you will have people denied access to jobs because of false positives.

I assume it is because the show is too popular. Amazon makes more from show viewers than they lose to upset Trump fans.

Also, they have started a spin-off series, Neagle. Maybe it is a ploy to reduce the role of Ritchson in the franchise, though I assume it is to reduce the royalties they pay to the book author. I noticed that the opening credits to Neagle do not mention the author, probably because it is not based on any of the books, just a character from the book universe.

I am like that boyfriend, though The Little Mermaid is one of the few Disney animated films I have watched. I am mainly aware of Phantom of the Opera due to the amazing Nightwish cover of the main song: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=n1G5WiMoRjw