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Pro basketball has a ratio of about 2:1 hoop-to-ball cross-section area (56.5:29.83 square inches) and 145 goals in a 48-minute game.

A soccer (football) ball and goal have a ratio of 1000:1 (27648:28.2 square inches) and an average 5 goals scored in a 90-minute game.

Discuss.

Guess the author and year

And the Best of 2024 award for

PLANET

goes to… <sfx: envelope rip>

EARTH!

<vo: This is the 125,000th consecutive win for Earth in the Best Planet category>

Same energy

One of the major scientific achievements of the 19th century was milk that didn’t kill babies.

People seem to have forgotten the importance of that.

It’s probably institutionalist of me but I just don’t think that one’s entire presidential cabinet should have conflicts of interest with their personal businesses, be unable to pass an FBI background check, and not be allowed within 100 feet of a schoolyard

The NYPD is searching Manhattan for all persons insured by United Healthcare who have been denied coverage for ruinously costly treatment of debilitating conditions.

A snare drum beats a tattoo of sixteenth-note triplets for four bars in 3/4 time. It’ll do this for 340 bars.

Accompanying it are a viola and violoncello, plucking staggered quarter notes, pianissimo.

Then a solo flute comes in, also pianissimo, playing a melodic theme 1. It’s two 8-bar phrases. When it’s done, a clarinet plays melodic theme 2, also for two 8-bar phrases, while a second flute mirrors the snare’s tattoo.

You’ve heard the whole piece in 38 bars. From here on, it’s repetition.

• Two retired generals who served in TCF’s administration describe him explicitly as fascist

• Both TCF and billionaire henchman Musk are in frequent communication with Putin

• In a GOP administration Musk would control expenditures and Kennedy the well being of the citizenry

• Harris garnered endorsements from Schwarzenegger, Beyoncé, CharliXCX, Nicky Jam, Samuel L. Jackson, Bad Bunny, Mark Cuban, Bill Gates, 23 Nobelists in economics, Bush’s daughter, and McCain’s son

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Let’s sum up the October surprises.

• Jack Smith unseals backup information on re-indictment

• #TheConvictedFelon says immigrants have “bad genes”

• Hurricane devastates North Carolina; wingnuts say it was manufactured and FEMA aid is sinister

• Inflation, jobs, and markets all improve

• #TheConvictedFelon holds increasingly bizarre rallies, incoherent interviews, and embarrassing cosplay photo ops

• Vance straight out says that TCF did not lose the 2020 election, which he did

1/

It’s been seventeen years since the invention of none pizza with left beef

there’s a very efficient thermonuclear reactor that generates about 470 terawatts of power 24/7, uses no fissile material so there’s no waste, comes with a built-in lossless global distribution mechanism, and won’t run out of fuel for another 5 billion years or so.

So far its main customer is agricultural, with indistrial and residential use increasing. Sadly it’s implicated in certain cancers, but that risk can be managed with inexpensive fabric barrier technology.

Yes it’s BuzzFeed and a listicle but this is really good insight into the varieties of thought processes in the independent sector.
https://apple.news/AaeRVzQ9yTiyGERTyVwTZ7g

@drahardja

The classic liberal fallacy is the belief that what the low-information voter needs is more information.

Brilliant.

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our golf courses are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our golf courses. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to hide in the bushes and kill an ex-president they’re not able.”

See how much sense that makes, Senator Vance?

“One has ambitious but controversial plans for healthcare, housing, and education. The other proposes a bloody removal of tens of millions of people, admires dictators, and refuses to accept the results of legitimate elections. We’ll help YOU decide which is better for America”
https://press.coop/@nytimes/113120007041148914

Well, Chet, the steaming pile of filth delivered as expected, in fact, it was almost a Greatest Hits of steaming filth, delivered in an even more intensely spittle-flecked rage than normal. At the other lectern, the overly competent lifetime public servant struggled to contain her amazement, pity, and all-too-human joy, which is something we don’t normally see on the debate stage and may have shocked some viewers. So I’d say it was a draw, all in all. Our advertisers want this to stay close.

The soft bigotry of negative expectations
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113073597454618081