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Comment · 3 years ago
In my own experience, ice (either the frozen water kind or the compression and elevation components) doesn't do a damn thing. For soft tissue injury my usual plan is movement movement movement. Getting the blood flowing and using the affected area (lightly) is the best way to get back in the game I've found.
Comment · 4 years ago
I guess I'll go on record and say I think this is a great idea. There's too many journalists who just spew hot takes all day - at least make them pay for the privilege
Comment · 4 years ago
The NPR news hour is, mmm, sort of OK (better than something like WashPo or Fox News anyways). But their non-news programming is unlistenable to me.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not really sure how to square this analysis against this op-ed from the WSJ today: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-lawsuit-against-elon-m...

(The WSJ article was clearly written in a professional tone, and it made eminent sense - whereas I have a hard time believing the person who wrote this blog got their J.D.)

Matt Levine has also done his usual whiny sarcastic coverage of the event and come up with something more akin to what this person (and Twitter armchair lawyers) think.

I guess I'll wait until the dust settles but I think the guys from the WSJ are gonna be right.

Comment · 4 years ago
In Minnesota anyways, the schools in lower-income areas get more money per pupil than the "good area" schools. In some cases dramatically more. For example, the high school in north Minneapolis (a not-good part of town) get's $20k per student. Whereas the southwest Minneapolis high school (nice area) gets 13k. This is common across all grades.

So the disadvantaged area schools get 35%+ more money per pupil, and the outcomes keep getting worse. And the politicians keep doubling down on the same policies and wonder why things aren't changing. Money isn't everything, or apparently even most things. What a mess.

Comment · 4 years ago
This kind of tone really doesn't engender sympathy:

> We get it, Microsoft sucks, we should all be fired, rah rah rah.

> I just don't know what else he's asking for here. Credit? Us to die screaming? The blog post is matter-of-fact, and Casey is right: however, he said himself that it was trivial to do this. Is it not acceptable that we use the same language?

Your "apology" really is anything but. If anything you and your team come off as combative, thin skinned and hostile to outsiders. But, you do you bro.

Comment · 4 years ago
So, he was drunk, high, and riding on a sidewalk without a helmet. And now it's the City's fault?

Do we blame the city when drunks crash their cars in to lane barriers? Or trees?

I don't like those scooters and I think they are dangerous - but even the man in the story admits he rode them many times previously, and knew he was not supposed to ride on the sidewalks. He knew what he was getting in to.

This trend of "no one is ever responsible for their own actions" is not going to end well. When do we start holding people accountable?

Comment · 4 years ago
Why the focus on the fact that it was a Republican strategy firm? Why does that matter?

Being the Washington Post, I'm sure it's to insinuate that all the bad things that happen are Republican-led. Only the GOP plays dirty tricks, right? After the Steele dossier, the Biden laptop, the Russia collusion misinformation campaign, and willfully hiding the mental decline of the current president - you'd think we'd get past the whole "only Republicans bad" narrative. But I guess that just goes to show how successfully the WashPo and others are running their own strategies to push agendas...

Comment · 4 years ago
Taibbi had a great take on this: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/worlds-dullest-editorial-launc...

Why the hell did this editorial get the reaction it did? I can’t understand it and this “rebuttal” should not be front page HN.

Comment · 4 years ago
Based on the headline alone, I'd add Twitter and Reddit too.
Comment · 4 years ago
I dunno, I think it was really spectacular. It's "standard Hans Zimmer" in the way that it's a bunch of new sounds no one has ever heard before - but they are also close enough to normal sounds and cinematic themes to be familiar. To me it's the mark of true skill. It sounds like something out of this world, but also something I'm already comfortable with.

I bet there's maybe 5 people on Earth who could score a movie like this and make it as credible as Hans did.

Comment · 4 years ago
I don't condone this law, but I think people here are missing an opportunity for understanding. I see so much black-vs-white moral righteousness on HN lately when really, the world is a sea of grey. And understanding a thing does not mean agreeing with a thing. But a little empathy might soften the inflammatory rhetoric.

Israel is proud of their Jewish heritage, and are generally surrounded by millions of people from other ethnic and religious backgrounds who hate them. I mean, it is very common to hear people in countries near Israel openly calling for death to the Jews or destruction of the Jewish state (essentially advocating genocide). Hell, I remember tweets from the Ayatollah promoting violence against Israel, and Twitter just let it fly.

In light of all the historical context and current geographical situation, I can understand the motivation to have a law like this. Whether it's morally just, effective, or just openly racist is certainly up for debate, but to me it is not so clear-cut as others would say.

Comment · 4 years ago
It's not that he's worried about being invaded tomorrow, it's that he doesn't want to let the slippery slope get started.

I don't know how old you are, but when I was young and idealistic I felt the same way you seem to. Now I see a world of grey and I can, at least a little bit, empathize with (though not condone) the Russian position here. From their perspective the West is being intentionally belligerent, and we know it.

Despite what the media and the talking heads say, the west poking the bear is not about democracy or western values. It's about power and control. And Putin is repaying us in kind. And the Ukrainians are left to pick up the pieces.

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