If you thought muricans were gonna get mad because you accused us of smushing a bunch of European countries’ cuisines together to produce something new, you have fundamentally misunderstood our national character and cuisine.

Unlimited charters in the next CBA, please:

The issue in the PWHL, where such supports are not readily available, is compounded again by travel conditions for PWHL players compared to other professional leagues. In other major leagues, athletes enjoy luxury accommodations and chartered flights, PWHL players fly economy, and are only guaranteed two-star hotels on the road.

+5 to hit for 2d6+3 plus a DC 13 con save against being dazed is quite the wallop for a CR 1 creature, especially one that can hide for a bonus action with a +7 to stealth checks.

It’s bananas to me that “people don’t have to work overtime at McDonald’s anymore” is evidence of policy failure. Spokane is not sending it’s best:

The study finds that while the higher wage has drawn more job applicants to fast-food restaurants, businesses have responded by slashing shifts, reducing available hours, and limiting hiring. One McDonald’s owner reported an 11.5% drop in hours worked, equivalent to losing about 62 full-time positions. Restaurants raised menu prices by 8-12%, accelerated automation with self-order kiosks, and cut overtime, leaving many workers with fewer opportunities and even jeopardizing benefit eligibility. National Bureau of Economic Research papers echo this, showing roughly a 3% employment drop and up to 18,000 jobs lost statewide.

What do we say to KK Harvey? Not today!

Can you imagine how cute it must have been to have a couple’s pronoun? You’re a ninth century peasant boy at the may pole festival and your crush is like “come on” and you’re like “where are we (3+) going?” and they’re like “we (two) are going exploring deeper into the woods” and all of a sudden you feel all the blood rush to your face and you’re blushing like a maniac because they’re using the couple pronouns. Bring them back!

Seriously, just block them. It’s not a punishment, it’s a curation tool; you’re allowed to block people who haven’t done anything wrong just because you don’t want to see their content. If you don’t like women’s sports, block me! It’s fine — you should have the social media experience you want, and you can use the block button to get it.

Moderation. We had a big influx of users with the Reddit api drama that created a bunch of communities, and then all returned to Reddit shortly thereafter, leaving most of the big communities largely unmoderated. The threadiverse isn’t going to become less toxic until new moderators step in and clean up the worst of it.

Does he know he can just call a press conference basically whenever as HHS secretary? Cabinet members don’t have to launch podcasts, they can just say stuff over a podium and actual professionals will make a bunch of podcasts for them out of the audio.

Turns out ending a war is way harder than starting one; who could have foreseen? (/s)

I’m confident Google could figure out how to hire great aunt Ethel, should they so desire.

Low quality and easy to digest are orthogonal concerns. You can have high-quality posts that are easy to digest and low quality posts that are hard to digest. We shouldn’t make grocery bags heavier to increase the average person’s upper body strength, even if it would work.

You can tell the llm companies aren’t serious about supporting their products long-term because these kinds of projects still rely on volunteers. If Anthropic or OpenAI or Google or whoever was serious about building better LLMs, they’d have paid employees digitizing every written word in every corpus on earth to increase the size of the training set.

Sure. What words am I allowed to use when relating this anecdote in the future without being called a nazi? A simple blocklist and allowlist is the easiest format for me.

I was pretty angry about this one. To me, it seemed pretty cynically targeted at a player just coming off the ltir:

“Fecteau was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for an illegal check to the head at 17:48 of the first period on opponent Mikyla Grant-Mentis. In their review, the Player Safety Committee determined that while the head was not the main point of contact, Fecteau delivered a dangerous body check with no intent to play the puck when she had ample opportunity to do so, and with sufficient force that warrants supplemental discipline,” the PWHL wrote of the incident.

You could probably have a good male announcer, but in practice they talk about NCAA men’s basketball on the call way too much for my taste.

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“They said it was the coolest thing they had ever seen in a hockey game, and the best hockey they had ever been at,” Savolainen said of having her family at the game. “That was a cool experience, and I was super happy that they got to see that one and be here at the same time when we had the game. I was happy and a little proud to be on the ice with them there.”

It’s not enough to have women on the ice, we need them in the coaching staff, front office, medical staff and officiating:

Coach and referee education is one of four pillars of the organization’s ALL CAPS ALL HER program, and the ‘Stripes For Her’ program marks the first time the Washington Capitals have hosted a clinic targeting women and girls in officiating.

Splitting the MLS academies out from USLC and into MLSNP has been an improvement to the US pyramid, so my intuition is to keep the academy sides out of the pyramid as well:

Keehlan Panayiotou, assistant coach at the third-tier club Gwalia United, and formerly a coach at Bristol City’s girls academy, wrote: “The worst idea in FAWNL is rehashed, repackaged and tried again. No B Teams in the Pyramid. Use the loan and dual registration system which isn’t being effectively used enough. U21s in the pyramid won’t provide that First Team environment that Tier 3 and 4 sides will.”

By “Germans” I mean “the early Germanic peoples who occupied the region that became Germany” and “Russians” I mean “the early Slavic peoples who occupied the region that became Ukraine”. I kinda just assumed folks would understand the modern federal German state didn’t exist when early Slavs first encountered other ethnic groups and could work backwards from there.