The Troys Are Back In Town

It's like if the CEO of Dole said to go looking for pineapples in the Pacific Northwest because someone told them that's where pine trees are.

A red flag at my last job was when leadership asked managers to check if anyone in their team had Java experience and when I asked why they said to help with the web dev team, and when I asked if they meant Java or javascript it took a week for them to admit they didn't know there's a difference.

Right but it's going to be deployed as a way to create a savior of supes, an off ramp from the violence and vengeance that has been core to the show. An unconsidered third way of peace and redemption, a path to forgiveness or whatever.

Or they won't, but it's an option the writers gave themselves.

calvin: HEY DAD, I'M DOING A TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR A SLOGAN? calvin’s dad: SURE! "CYCLISTS HAVE A RIGHT TO THE ROAD TOO, YOU NOISY, POLLUTING, INCONSIDERATE MANIACS! I HOPE GAS GOES UP TO EIGHT BUCKS A GALLON!" calvin: THANKS, DAD. I'LL GO ASK MOM. calvin’s dad: WHY ? THAT'S A GREAT SLOGAN!

every day he’s vindicated

getting two camera angles straight on Maher's bald spot which he's always a huge dick about hiding isn't nothing!

I don't a fleshed out top ten meanest bastards of mma but Yan, Anderson, and JJ are the obvious picks.

I'm confused what a "sexy AI worker owned coop" is. What is a "sexy AI lab"? Sexy for who, and how? Could one exist and displace the services of the overfunded juggernauts without the same moral issues? are you cynically deploying good labor words with no desire to provide that? Are you pretending?

For some convicted people, the consequences have been significant. Kimberly Prude, 43, has been jailed in Milwaukee for more than a year after being convicted of voting while on probation, an offense that she attributes to confusion over eligibility. In Pakistan, Usman Ali is trying to rebuild his life after being deported from Florida, his legal home of more than a decade, for improperly filling out a voter-registration card while renewing his driver’s license. In Alaska, Rogelio Mejorada-Lopez, a Mexican who legally lives in the United States, may soon face a similar fate, because he voted even though he was not eligible.

George W Bush, the founder of DHS and ICE, leveraged his staff's clearly fabricated accusations of widespread voter fraud to incarcerate and deport minorities and legal immigrants over clerical errors. You must point to the continuity to formulate what must be done about it.

I'd excuse someone asserting 'Trump created the voter fraud myth' if they were like, 17 years old right now? Maybe as old as 22 in a forgiving mood. George W Bush had the DoJ seeking election fraud for five years to support Karl Rove's baseless lying, and that still isn't close to the start.

oh I didn't mean that, I meant how they set up the now top tier powered character to have abilities that can kill as well as anyone... but also... she has the power to 🤗heal🤗

I have a theory about an incredibly earnest and cloying direction they might go based on what they focused on in Gen V and I don't know if veering out of the cynicism is more annoying than the cynicism itself.

Tracy Jordan: I saw a bald dude twerking in front of a Pac Man head on a pair of scissors. Scissors!

Delightful!

that and the eventual "they just talk talk they do nothing they just talk.... I just hurt them" clip are when it was clear she is absolutely not joking around, there's a demon in there ready to take the wheel and even other fighters can't truly understand it

Joanna Jedrzejczyk posing holding one finger up.

Carla Esparza posing with her UFC belt and a big earnest smile

Carla Esparza posing with her UFC belt and a big earnest smile but now she's holding up one finger

Joanna Jedrzejczyk turning her head, noticing Esparza copied her gesture, and apparently instantly making a note that the only proper recourse is tremendous, overwhelming violence.

Imagine a time traveler showing up the day before and just explaining that doing this will set off a chain of events that permanently changes the physical structure of her brain.

Anthony Pettis looking back over his shoulder because the trash talk is sounding a little too real.

remembering the time Joanna Jedrzejczyk got so genuinely mad at Carla Esparza for copying her hand gesture that the entire tenor of the event changed and Anthony Pettis was like 'oh fuck that is a serious problem brewing'

the one thing I'm looking forward to about the LA Olympics is the standoff between local Dems who always knew this was an excuse to expand surveillance and LAPD funding in ways that can't be fully rolled back and Trump refusing to commit federal funds to it out of sheer partisanship and spite.

Just a little protip: Daylight savings time can't hurt your sleep if you don't meaningfully sleep in the first place.

after the Rosas Jr. fight I realized the UFC's situation is near ideal for a measured, deliberate approach developing young talent. Events are basically already paid for, labor costs are capped, no real competition to poach talent, and they won't do it because they don't actually like combat sports.

Nick Diaz saying this quote burned into my brain; "what bitch get slapped right here motherfucker"

all combat sports titles are just marketing tools, and they only occasionally symbolize observable greatness because smart fans can recognize sporting achievement. The experience of watching the champion is actually what imbues meaning to the belts they are given. This was a flop in every way.

it sucks that he can be so completely correct about anything.

The stupid thing is they both joined the UFC as barely adults well over a decade ago and I'd guess you remember both of them.

I missed it, which part?

If someone doesn't want to fight like a bad motherfucker the promoter shouldn't put the bad motherfucker belt on that fight! A fighter shouldn't accept the bad motherfucker bout if they plan to fight safely to win on points! The point of this title is that it's not about pure sporting excellence!

He even ran away from the 10 second point! fine for a fight but when the fake belt is predicated on being a bad motherfucker then you should fight like it!

peaking at annoying little heel kicks to the thigh after 20 minutes of fighting and crowning them "the baddest motherfucker" is the biggest joke since the super edgy and politically incorrect UFC decided they could only say "BMF" because the word "fuck" was a bridge too far.

doing no real damage while racking up ground control points to avoid striking against a smaller guy should invalidate the BMF belt. Just don't give it to him.

what damage?

two