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Playing through small injuries leads to larger injuries. If your coach were paying you thousands or millions of dollars per game, they would not want you to wreck yourself and end up missing games.

I wonder how the valuation is calculated. I assume there is some estimated “brand value” on top of each team’s hard assets.

Got a little rust on there. Should have gotten the Trucoat.

Socially, the plan aims to engineer a “new baby boom” by providing baby bonuses to encourage family formation.

A central feature of the proposal is providing “regulatory relief” to spur innovation and development. According to draft legislation, these cities could be exempt from major federal laws, including:
The Internal Revenue Code
The Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA)

The draft legislation suggests that residents of Freedom Cities would be prohibited from voting in state elections, and the cities would be operated and maintained by the developers who won the initial bid. Political consultant Gil Duran predicted these would be “cities where the owners […] have all the power and everyone else has no power.”

This reads like something out of a comically bad dystopian novel. Such freedom! This is truly the dream, folks!

Even as a white guy with citizenship, coming back into the US was a pain in the ass 10 and 20 years ago. And my friends with student visas and green cards were occasionally hassled for no clear reasons. I can’t imagine how stressful that experience would be now, especially for anyone without a US passport or who lands on the wrong end of the color card in that Peter Griffin meme.

Product R&D engineer here. I have a product manager who only knows how to give one piece of feedback: make it smaller and slimmer. What requirement is driving this? Can’t say. What user need are we trying to address? No idea. But smaller=better for some reason.

The candy canes on The Festive are all upside-down.

Chuck Norris can tie his shoes with his toes.

Nothing ever just works. You must make it work, and keep it working. If you aren’t making it work yourself, then someone else is doing that for you.

About two months ago.

Chuck Norris doesn’t lift weights. They rise out of respect.

Light doesn’t travel faster than Chuck Norris - he gives light a head start.

Chuck Norris made his cowboy boots himself from real cowboys.

Chuck Norris once killed two stones with one bird.

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

The sign even turns on and off at different times of day. I assume it’s on a timer that is set to the store’s old operating hours.

When Chuck Norris walks into a bar, the bar says “Ouch.”

This is how it starts. Denny’s is slowly dying. Its revenue in 2025 is half what it was 20 years ago. Denny’s is trying to stop the bleeding by scaling back, but it’s too little too late. Private equity smells blood in the water. This will end just like Toys R Us, Sears, and so many others.