Pandas for Wizards Rebirth in 2025-26

@AndertonMol @zenahitz 100% agree that this is the case — we just went through the process. But it boggles my mind that smaller schools, seeing their own numbers and the overall landscape, continue to cling to an approach that isn’t working. They’d rather die pricey and “prestigious” than survive

@BermanatorNFT @zenahitz It's like an arms race I guess. It's not just liberal arts schools. Big state schools do it too. For non-financial aid qualified it's bizarro dynamic pricing. They only want to extend offers to those who will accept. So they offer "merit" aid as a discount. It's horrible!

With due respect: Everyone knows that *no one* pays full price at these institutions. Get serious.

@AndertonMol @zenahitz A humanities education is supposed to stress critical thinking, and yet the mindset here seems to be “well everyone else does it this way so it must be the best way, regardless of what our financials say.”

@AndertonMol @zenahitz Ok but … why? It doesn’t take a liberal arts grad to see this isn’t working. How many schools are gonna go out of business clinging to a sticker price out of vanity instead of just charging what the vast majority of people pay anyway and stressing value?

@zenahitz Ok but … nobody forces the schools to list that as the sticker price. They have nobody to blame but themselves for this narrative

@GilberteDSL @souljagoyteller Yeah, but the schools brought this narrative on themselves. Nobody forced them to list a $75,000 sticker price for something that most pay less than. The price tag is what people see, and what makes the papers when anyone wants to write about how expensive college is

@souljagoyteller I mean, the vast majority benefit from grant aid, only 35% pay sticker

How about this: people should be able to get an English degree from a quirky liberal arts school for less than $10,000 dollars

@souljagoyteller @judithslutler69 Humanities grad here! They are worth pursuing, but is it worth saddling yourself with crippling student loan debt for? The answer can’t be to borrow, get the degree, and then hope for a student loan forgiveness bill to become law someday

@judithslutler69 The humanities are not simply the “easy way out”. They are worthy pursuits in their own right

@TedStarkey @NickM_hockey If anything, the post-deadline numbers indicate the Caps should have made those deals earlier!

@TedStarkey @NickM_hockey So … the win-loss record post-trade doesn’t matter, it’s that the players were sad their friends got dealt? It makes me sad when people are so committed to the narrative that they ignore data that clearly contradicts it

Washington never filled the Top 6 hole all season long, and a strange trade deadline thinned the defense and strained the room. Yet Capitals remained alive until Game 81. Had they acted or even stood pat may not have missed.

@myunhingedtweet You aren’t!

Wish they took phones from ESPN talent along with Augusta attendees

@MainLineRover @KevinWillard One of those two sentences is true

@KevinWillard Willard is a great coach and a great guy. Coaches leave schools.

Let’s go! Incredibly proud of the dedication and hard work Jahmir has shown to achieve this opportunity!

@nourician Then maybe they should be studying something that requires less work and fits the time and skills they have. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

it doesn't rly matter if this much reading should theoretically be "easy" - at some point u have 2 contend with the concrete reality that ppl are not gonna do it and that theres a reason theyre not, nd theyre not gonna be bullied into doing it either

200-300 pages a week is fucking delusional. people have jobs and responsibilities – their time is less free than ever!!! a lot of the shit they assign as readings in the humanities is also total garbage lmfao, maybe 30-40% is worth reading

@MZavagno11 Well, if you’re incapable of responding to feedback with anything other than “what does this have to do with the NBA draft lottery,” it seems like a waste of time for anyone to try to convince you otherwise

So the actually bad teams get screwed and teams who are 11-15 have incentive to tank into the better 4-10 slots. We can do this all day long. Can we attempt to explain coherently why the NFL draft model is so heinous in the NBA

FWIW ladies in journalism, also know that there are people like Danielle who are ready to convict you of sleeping with athletes or coaches based on random pictures if there’s a 10% doing so will get them 2% more social media followers

@pamelam35 OK, but are most gamblers’ approaches similar to his, or similar to yours? You’re doing this for a living, the betting apps are taking money from guys like this for a living, and there are way more like him than like you.

“If you were given $10,000 to gamble away…” already tells you the story they want. It frames gambling as losing before anything even happens. From there, it’s just curation. You’ve got a beginner with no process, on a deadline, spending free money..and that gets positioned like it represents the whole space. There’s no separation between casual betting, reckless behavior, and actual strategy. That’s the issue. I work in this space, so I’m not pretending to be neutral but this isn’t a real evaluation of the industry. It’s the most predictable failure case presented like it means something bigger. If the goal was understanding, you wouldn’t run the test on someone who doesn’t even know basic bet types and call the result a conclusion.

@SmPotatoes Problem you have is that “me and the echo chamber I facilitate online” doesn’t match the impact of the apple ballot. Part of why people come to MoCo for the teachers. Not a shock that non-MAGA folks value their opinions here.

@BermanatorNFT Good for you. Most aren’t.

This is our local GOP in a nutshell. They’ve had no luck getting voters on policy, so their only tactic is to try to make a content voter base really unhappy. Hasn’t worked locally in decades, but when all you have is a megaphone and a lot of whines to release, this is the result

@SmPotatoes I guess we’ll see in November, but wishing that were the case doesn’t make it so. The BoE’s mission isn’t to make sure a few neighborhoods in Rockville keep their kids within walking distance of school. It may shock you to know there are students outside Rockville!

@SmPotatoes Each school building was not placed there on instructions passed down from God above and written on stone tablets that cannot be changed.

@SmPotatoes I do, but I’m happy with the BoE

@SmPotatoes They don’t and it still is great to live here. Otherwise I’d move

@BermanatorNFT Things do suck in MoCo right now. Has gotten worse and worse the past decade. Used to be a great place to live.