Peter Klecha

1 seems right, 3 seems wrong but understandable. 2 is just silly

4-panel comic. (1) [Person with white hat talking to another person.] PERSON 1 with white hat: As Sherlock Holmes said, When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (2) PERSON 2: What about the possibility that you forgot to eliminate a possibility? Or that you eliminated one incorrectly? Both of those remain, too. (3) PERSON 1: You’re being pedantic. It’s just a general rule for deduction. PERSON 2: But it’s a *bad rule*. (4) PERSON 2: How often have you thought, “I can’t find this thing, and I’ve searched the whole house. The only place I haven’t looked is the car, so it *must* be there.” PERSON 2: ...And then it’s never in the car. PERSON 1: *It’s never in the car!*

Eliminating the Impossible

xkcd.com/3210/

is that you

My dumbest sports opinion is that they should do Olympic speed skating on a really long, straight track instead of laps on an oval track

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

eventually chotiner’s god-tier reputation is gonna go to his head (like, it has to, it can’t not) and every additional one of these we get until then is a blessing

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

interesting. so iiuc the upper left is all teams that take their time to set up high quality chances, but there could be two kinds of teams in the lower right: those that take their time to set up highly recoverable chances (CAR) and those that just rip it first chance they get?

what’s the relationship between shot quality and time-to-reestablish possession? is the theory that carolina et al are specifically prioritizing recoverability over danger in their shots and thus tanking their own shot quality?

sounds pretty good! i’m almost tempted to dust off some python projects just so i can check it out

i would settle for the quality of node/npm, which by comparison to python, is absolutely effortless to use and understand

is it good by python standards or by normal standards

cnn headline reading “New ICE policy allows officers to enter homes without a judge’s warrant”

i believe the word we’re looking for here is “condone”. it’s not allowed and ICE policy can’t make it be allowed!!

a skeet by ed markey linking an article with the headline “Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize”. markey writes “Invoke the 25th Amendment”. the first reply says “Okay, I tried but nothing happened […]”

screenshot of several bluesky replies, one notably says “Do… do you think Trump’s cabinet is on Bluesky? Like who are you talking to, my dude?”

a screenshot of a bunch of replies, including “senator, with respect, no u”, “You’re in office, we are not […]”, and “I wish I could but […]”

a screenshot of a bunch of bluesky replies among them “Stop asking other people to do your job[…]”, “Will do, you just sit tight”, and “wow mr markey i don’t have that kind of power[…]”

extremely fascinating how many people apparently read this as a straightforward exhortation rather than an endorsement of a particular course of action.

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

i don't understand credit card merchant fees. why does a single API call cost 35 cents

yep years and months. it’s common in linguistics, especially child language acquisition

my kid (4;11) has fully generalized this and will call any non-electric thing “acoustic”

NYC Council employee detained by immigration officials in Nassau County, speaker says Speaker Julie Menin called the detention an “apparent overreach."

such absolute bullshit, very proud of my wife and her city council colleagues protesting this today

i’m think the whole “yzerman is bad at UFA” thing was totally overblown. free agency is slim pickings in the best of times and he’s done very well.

that said, yes

they left him in?????

is that good

when’s the last time the wings played an afternoon game 36 hours after completing a back-to-back? feels extremely unusual

Just once I'd ilke to hear a coach say "we're dying to get into a track meet with them. Our guys are better than theirs at that kind of hockey, so if we can trade chances with them that gives us the best chance to win".

until then i’ll default to the standard gen x blood lead explanation

looks like you’ve already started

3:10??? is that legal

big time moose-letting

wait why would you control for candidate experience

trump take time