Brodie-Sangster is also like preternaturally youthful looking. 1999 Kyle Chandler in Early Edition at age 34 sort of splits the difference, and Jesse Plemons at 36-38, after he lost some weight, is closing in on Connery levels of character in his face.

Ahhh, the sweet void of a bye week. Can’t lose on the bye week. Go Gators.

Lol, I know everybody buys their teams now, but it is pretty satisfying to see the Cody Campbell Red Raiders take an L in B12 play. Cincy rubbing it in playing All my Exes and Deep in the Heart over the loudspeaker.

WVU at TCU

Frogs are so very blah this year. Not much fun to watch.

Eventually, but meanwhile the BBC is spending, at least indirectly, the British taxpayer's money just to maintain a shred of journalistic independence while reminding them that there is a price and his base that they're "fake news".

I assume that this was a very satisfactory "plan B" all along. Harassing via litigation is the one thing he's proven to be very good at over the years.

Just to clarify why the anti-vax idiot was for this trial, it was going to withhold the known effective and safe vaccine from the control group for six weeks to see what happens, without even checking if any mothers tested positive prenatally. Due to limited resources, Guinea-Bissau has been slow to enforce their new guidance to align with other countries and administer the vaccine to all newborns.

It was basically leveraging the fact that the test subjects lived in a poor country to do something they'd never be allowed to do in a richer country, even MAHA's America.

I am particularly glad it landed well and they are getting a second season, because

::: spoiler spoiler otherwise that ending would have been both super anti-climactic and deeply depressing. I am not even sure who the guy was who got accidentally offered up to the island. :::

I did like that from time to time, the humor moved beyond subtle. It was a pretty funny show.

The brief order did not detail its legal reasoning. Justice Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would have allowed the policy to be enforced as the lawsuit played out in lower courts.

Jesus, these two don't even pretend anymore. The prison healthcare system was (mal)functioning already without the new guidance. The new guidance will do something that an interested party says will harm them. You don't change things until you settle the question. Knowing this fuckin' court, it's just a matter of time until MAGA gets what it wants here, but Thomas and Alito already know best, apparently.

Yup. The scale and scope of the damage would hopefully have been less, but it strikes me as an incredibly apt analogy.

Not the commenter you responded to, but while you're absolutely right that it's not just Greek System men, they are in a unique position where they have a certain amount of historic and administrative power, sometimes have their houses as part of the campus, have collective resources even beyond their individual school, have a demonstrated culture of circling the wagons, have power over the social and living situation of their members, and also take literal oaths of secrecy and brotherhood. It's taking the same toxic masculinity that all young men are learning to deal with, and building a fortress around it.

The Greeks need to go, or at least have as much of that pared away as possible, starting with the special treatment by and access to the campuses' levers of power.

My wife and I watch The Diplomat a lot, and though I think sometimes the writers forget that it's not Felicity and they don't have to have powerful characters leave public policy hinging on high school crushes. Generally, it's really good, though, and I appreciate that the crises generally come down to smart people being toxic, but not overtly evil.

And, I mean, the first part is just source-accurate.

Oh yeah. Federal MAGA bullshit bites actual hurting Texans in the ass. If it's not already on his socials, I'll be surprised, and I think they need to get this one on the air. They don't have Elon money, but they've done a pretty good job of buying up enough time that they're getting him on in most ad breaks I've seen lately.

In progress: The Diplomat, Avatar Seven Havens, VisionQuest, ST:TOS (I'm about halfway throufh s3), Helluva Boss, new Ranma 1/2, Silo (most recent season... I am sure it will gather steam, but I just keeping picking other things to watch), Somebody Somewhere (just started).

Finished: Widow's Bay, Ted Lasso, Ninth Jedi, Slow Horses.

Abandoned: Ghosts (Australia), Eternally Yours. I guess my fondness for Ghosts (US) really is just a guilty pleasure. I had no interest in continuing either of the related shows.

BBC will be able to recover their costs from him

In an academic sense, yes, but more likely is that he stalls and appeals and leverages every excuse his job offers him and every weasel word in the Rules of Civil Procedure, and then drops the suit at the last possible moment before there's an order, and then appeals any claim for attorney's fees because it was dropped due to some fig-leaf explanation and not because it was without merit.

Eventually the BBC walks away vindicated in the eyes of anyone paying attention, and maybe with some settlement of their own, but almost certainly not made whole and their speech is at least somewhat chilled because they have to be good custodians of their budget, just as was always intended.

Maybe I'm jaded, but litigation with a ratfuck is ratfuck business. It can be a worthwhile investment if you have something other than money at stake, but it's inherently wasteful and awful.

Dada Center, LOL.

Anyway, on the one hand, fuck 'em. On the other, extracting community value from any industry is the only way it can possibly work, and data centers don't provide long-term employment in any reasonable number, so it needs to be taxes and other more direct aid.

The local residents and their governments "just" (that word's doing a lot of heavy lifting, I know) need to hold them over a barrel until they get enough to truly make it worthwhile. Making the tech industry pay their fair share would also suppress the number of datacenters down to what actually matches the realistic demand estimates. What we're seeing right now is undercapitalized bullshit trying to externalize the costs and retain the profits.

Easy to say, hard to do so, so I guess what it comes down to is this: fuck 'em.

Ted Lasso season 4 did very well in Apple's publicly released metrics. I'm surprised it's taken them this long to dust off a similar property, and Burrell is flyover-friendly without the MAGA stink of Craig T. Nelson.

As an aside, making it a basketball team instead of football (any kind) is smart. Much easier to cast and to film game action with a smaller team and a sport with indoor facilities everywhere.

Cameron Hamilton

This is the guy who got fired for daring to suggest that his agency actually matters. He then got re-hired, presumably on the understanding that he not do that again. The bar is really fucking low for these people, but part of me hopes it's malicious compliance, in the face of a disaster in a state that Trump will not want to piss off, to get some authority for FEMA to do its job.

I feel bad for any of my affected fellow Texans who didn't vote for this state of affairs, and let's be honest, part of being a bleeding heart liberal (American definition) is that even the faceless leopard-victims should get what help you can give them.

• Patient diagnosed ~5 years ago.
• Disease presents similarly to several neurological disorders and has a known misdiagnosis rate between 5 and 20 percent (15% for the study mentioned in the article).
• Disease has seen developments in imaging and interpretation since original diagnosis.
• Prominent person announces they were misdiagnosed, but the symptoms persist.

With the way things are, I've just started assuming that they often do the inverse: we want to do a sitcom about a coach, so which property's branding can we dig up? It also helps me make peace with it when adaptations and reboots are not particularly faithful.