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@JeremyWingert79 @AiG Forgot 3: it’s entirely made up. The existence of small floods led people to imagine the idea of a huge flood. Much like the existence of large lizards and/or dinosaur bones led people to imagine dragons.

@JeremyWingert79 @AiG 2 equally likely scenarios: 1) a flood covered the globe despite earth not having enough atmospheric water to do so. 2) a big flood hit an early civilization, probably Mesopotamia, and people kept talking about it for generations because before books/tv stories is all they had.

Noah’s flood was global.

@TheAndrewNadeau I’m in if he reenacts his cameo from Extras word for word uncomfortably early in whatever episodes correspond to book 1. Are they doing one season per book? Actually nevermind. I don’t care and won’t watch.

He also very clearly doesn’t want to be there. Openly drinking a beer in some shots. In 3 episodes he introduces himself as “I’m Dan I mean Harry.” During a quidditch scene his broom is clearly a Vespa because he wouldn’t leave the set parking lot.

I wouldn’t have watched either way but I’m a bit disappointed the Harry Potter series didn’t use my idea of keeping Daniel Radcliffe as Harry and never addressing that he’s 36.

@sansaver23 @thejagepage It doesn’t count as high leverage if you’re 1 run down. Or something.

@thejagepage I mean it’s game 1 in the year, in a 1 run game, and Dan is going to allow Legumina to throw 30 pitches?

Oh shit. Casey Legumina is Dan’s new Trent Thornton, isn’t he?

@MarinerMuse Really hoping Wilson eventually learns down by 1 in the 8th is also high leverage.

Gabe’s gotta do his job better first and foremost, but that probably should’ve been Brash

@skillissuesf @zachkowalik Made in Los Angeles. $168. “Helping with the demand side” is a hell of a way to spin selling goods made overseas for twice the price of comparable goods made here. american-giant.com/products/class…

@zachkowalik We tried for 3 months to find a factory in the US that could make it. Reindustrializing is going to be a process—we’re helping with the demand side. Hope to someday sell you a sweater made in the USA.

The REINDUSTRIALIZE sweater. 100% cotton, to look good while you’re working to reindustrialize America. Made by Skill Issue, a luxury brand for technologists. Buy: skillissuesf.com/products/reind…

@prairiefawkes @skillissuesf @zachkowalik They’re “helping with the demand side.” In other words, selling foreign-made goods at ~3X the price of American-made goods from quality brands like American Giant.

@skillissuesf @zachkowalik Gross. I would simply not sell $300 sweaters to people if it required me to totally violate my own principles. "Reindustrialize is a process." Ok, so what's the process? Where are your plans for the factory? Clearly we need an American clothes factor more than your graphic tees

@DeepNotShallow Longest coastline though.

In no way is Maine considered a "massive state" . . . it is TINY. It's actually the 11th smallest state in the country.... East coast people have such skewed perceptions of reality.

@METS2026 @JeffPassan TBF at least 27 teams regret missing out on him (I think Pit’s happy with its choice and not sure Texas can really complain about Langford but that’s about it).

@JeffPassan The Mets drafted Colin Fucking Houck over him Billy Eppler destroyed us

Kevin McGonigle is not going to be hitting sixth for very long.

@TheAndrewNadeau Pass. Give me Zero Mostel's What do the Simple Folk Do from Season 2.

So who’s your favorite muppet? Cool, cool. Aaand, what would you say was your favorite sketch from the 1978 Muppet Show episode that got Peter Sellers an Emmy nomination? Top 3 is fine.

A surprisingly challenging part of making friends as an adult is when you both say you like the muppets and you have to play it cool until you find out if they mean a regular amount or the way I like the muppets.

@bryancsk TIL McKinsey invented dumpsters.

Before McKinsey and co, versus after McKinsey and co. You can be a hater all you want, but McKinsey WORKS

@NoahMeier1470 @snakeeyes182 @enjoyer_liberty Devastating to out him as a Kevin Smith fan.

@snakeeyes182 @enjoyer_liberty This you?

“go find a girl and get married!” average zoomer girl:

@DistrictORD @MrAlonzoFont @Kasparov63 Now do victims of crimes committed by multigenerational white Americans. I guarantee you it won’t take you long. We punish crimes, not categories of people.

@MrAlonzoFont @Kasparov63 These people didn't get to keep theirs. What about the Loyola U, 18 yr old girl executed last week at school? How are you fine with thousands of known criminals running around?

Reminds me of the Soviet classic - only bad guys should be afraid of the KGB! After all, you should have no issue with an unaccountable militarized security force pushing into every aspect of your life unless you've got something to be afraid of, right comrade?

@watson1787 @Jeepsteratti @Kasparov63 Alex Pretti.

@Jeepsteratti @Kasparov63 Which American citizen was shot 10 times in the back?

@keysmashbandit Some people still choose to wear wool.

The thing I feel most cognitively dissonant about when thinking about history is how much time everyone spent being physically uncomfortable. Heavy itchy wool, greasy hair, too cold or hot. If I try to imagine myself doing daily life circa 1704 I get immediately blocked by that

@jwhittenbergK5 On a related note everyone should watch the Seawolves. Rugby’s awesome. Football-level action with soccer-level pacing/constant motion. And if you’re worried you won’t understand the rules I guarantee you’ll it’ll take less than 2 minutes to find someone happy to help you out.

Here's why Seattle is a sports town... If the Sonics return, Seattle will be one of 12 U.S. cities to have teams in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL and MLS. Atlanta, New York, L.A., Miami, Chicago, Denver, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Washington D.C...and Seattle. 🏀Add the WNBA...and it's 7. Atlanta, New York, L.A. Chicago, Minneapolis, D.C...and Seattle. ⚽️Add the NWSL...and it's 4 New York, L.A., Washington D.C. ...and Seattle. 🏒Add Women's pro Hockey... and it's 2. New York and Seattle. Need one step further… add pro Rugby. Only one City remains…. Seattle has them all covered. Seattle is a sports town. ✊

@JamesNull181 @jimhamilton4 I agree with the last thing you said and nothing else.

@jimhamilton4 We should have a ten team British and Irish league, no relegation, reduce substitutions to create more tries and more vital moments, lots more pageantry and market towards the working class for exciting crowds which adds to tv viewing experience

Rugby is being dragged toward NFL franchise economics whether people like it or not.

@JMikeMLB @Pogojar @PeterAttar33 @MLB Except you pretty clearly can. If you were right at least one of the 30 teams would buck the trend and revert to old-school tactics and coaching. The last 2 who tried (CO until recently, AZ under Dave Stewart) were the laughingstock of the league.

@nwcodad @Pogojar @PeterAttar33 @MLB Analytics have been way over the top in these last 10-15 years. These orgs are coaching with analytics. You can’t coach that way. You just can’t

Hitters have just as much talent as ever before but are being taught to focus on the wrong things. EV, LA, pull the ball in the air. All terrible advice. Hitters today mostly care about HR or nothing. They don’t care if they K. Annnnd the strike zone is tighter than ever! @MLB

@Pogojar @PeterAttar33 @JMikeMLB @MLB Logically, it makes way more sense to assign run values to each event (single, double, etc.) based on how many runs they're actually worth, as demonstrated by sample sizes in the 10,000s, than to treat a single and a HR the same (or a double as worth exactly twice a single, etc).

@Pogojar @PeterAttar33 @JMikeMLB @MLB I buy into analytics because of simple regression and logic. OPS correlates ridiculously well with run scoring, and wOBA correlates even better. Batting average and strikeouts don't.