What’s not to get? Each of those things are tasty on their own, I’m sure they’re also tasty when combined.

Yeah for sure, it’s not for everyone, and getting through the whole series is borderline a chore lol.

I’m reading through The Wheel of Time for the second time right now and my experience has been different. It’s crazy how the tone changes from the first book to the last, and the amount of character development that occurs. I think each book is been better than the last, and each for different reasons.

Yeah I’m pretty sure the cap is just fake and made up, a distraction they give us fans to puzzle over

Right, peer pressure is a helluva drug

Reminds me of the old gif of that woman skydiving naked

From what I understand, the insurance is against the cap. Haslam does still have to pay Watson’s salary, but the team gets a cap credit next year for the amount they insured. I think how much Haslam pays for the insurance premium may go against the cap, but it’s hard to nail down solid info about this stuff.

So they’re really more like a switchubus

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What is it with people trying to turn the entirety of October, November, and December into Christmas?

It’s one single night, it’s not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

What’s next, celebrating other holidays in the actual month that they fall in?

Just some donkeys with paper towel rolls taped to their head

I can maybe see a way to recovery, but it doesn’t look pretty.

Go 1-16 this year to secure the number one pick, trade all our picks away to amass 2026-27 draft picks. Tank the 2025-26 season, secure the number one pick again, trade all our picks to amass even more 2026-27 picks. Tank the 2026-27 season to secure the number one pick for a third year in a row, force Haslam to sell the team, fire Berry and the rest of the scouting team, and hire a GM and scouts that can actually put all those picks to use. Draft a superstar surefire QB at one, and then fill the rest of the holes with the glut of picks amassed from the previous years. Trade picks for a superstar here and there if you can. Maybe, just maybe, after all that we go 8-9 (but like 6-2 in the division somehow, in classic AFCN fashion), and we sneak into a wildcard game.

We’re still going to be paying Watson a shitload the rest of 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27 because of the void year cap nonsense, so we’re definitely fucked until then. But maybe, just maybe, in 2027-28 we’re finally able to use our freed up cap space to sign some big names to supplement our young team, end up with a winning record, and maybe even a playoff run.

The way I see it, there’s two options:

1. Pay people more. 300k, 400k, 500k, whatever it takes. Surely there’s a number that people would feel is worth the risk. The obvious downside is that increases the cost of construction.

2. Make the process of roofing safer - invent new safety gear or safety practices, automation equipment that can be operated from the ground, introduce legislation that encourages those practices or subsidizes the new equipment. The obvious downside is this requires upfront investment and cooperation between government and industry.

Either way, the current practice of “throw cheap immigrant labor at it until it goes away” is not tenable.

I guarantee you more people would find themselves wanting to do the work if it paid more.

Or the Midwest United States during pumpkin spice season

I think it’s time for me to go to bed, you almost had me

He coulda just slipped the word “sentient” in to the monologue where he explains his plan. I don’t think that would have impacted pacing at all.

Thanos’ snap wouldn’t kill 50% of each survivors’ gut microbiome, it would kill 50% of all the lil buggies that compromise all gut microbiomes, and if the snap effects individuals randomly, you’d see a normal distribution (I think, I haven’t taken stats in a decade). So some survivors would retain 100% of their microbiome, some would lose it all, with a bell curve in between, probably with the peak around 50%.

because, without words we communicate with our eyes

IDK, the original and the edit both communicate way more mystique and mischievousness than the one with her eyes visible

She looks like a cougar Demi Lovato sent from the future