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There is one good takeaway from this kind of article and it is that parents of children in childcare age should receive more assistance

Its died down a bit from the 1990s, but growing up surrounded by the same Oregon anti-Californian stuff makes it easy to realize how dumb all these versions of xenophobia are.

another big number in retail sales growth the fundamental story of the American economy for the last several years is that the American consumer a) has enough money to buy ~all the goods and services they want even at continuously increasing prices, but b) hates it

three hundred and thirty million books

Spain just set the record for fewest goals allowed by a World Cup champion while playing the most World Cup games of any World Cup champion.

I did it I wrote the article wish me luck Lionel Messi is the GOAT, Ronaldo is not, why just about every statistical analyst agress www.expectinggoals.com/p/messi-rona...

a lot of people in my mentions who clearly have not watched Belgium play at this World Cup and probably don't watch all that much European soccer this is a better team than the US, absolutely could beat a US team that played well unlikey this one, but not by any kind of absurd amount

there are obviously a lot of issues with the use of replay in modern sports officiating but also one of the most famous moments in soccer history is when a guy just straight-up used his hand to punch the ball into the goal and the ref didn't notice it

Easily, my most millennial complaint is that many are simply too young to remember 9.9% unemployment in Q4 2009.

suspect this is a job listing which might appeal to some people on here- go fight the Feds for Oregon

The dark beer on the tap list thats not Guinness

Here’s how to put yourself in the mindspace of these people: imagine you don’t lik or follow sports but there’s a strong stigma against this, so when you get polled about the best team in the league you say something like “I think LeBron’s steroid scandal is really bad for the Mets”

This is Missy. She escaped from her backyard and ran straight to daycare, where she had a spa day and got to play with her boyfriend. Lessons were learned, but not the ones her parents probably hoped. 13/10 (TT: spotsplaceyqr)

If you need to distract yourself for a few hours, no better way than diving into this darkly comic, hopeful sci-fi classic, even if you could not give one iota of a shit about football:

I did a deepish dive into the legacy of Bidenomics--why it worked economically quite well, but politically not so much prospect.org/2026/04/07/a...

"Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs." open.substack.com/pub/verysane...

Nothing about this dunk changes if you replace Waymo with Uber and yet I am unaware of an attempt to ban those

This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

This fucking guy

The problem with slopulism is that it always tends toward “you, the saintly innocent voter, and anyone who is even vaguely sympathetic to you, will not have to change anything or sacrifice anything, just the Bad People”. Which is an easy sell at the ballot box but bad when it’s time to govern.

I'm selfishly glad that while I enjoyed making sports bets in Vegas and would still play online poker if it were 100% legal, I get no joy from computer sports betting. And I can't even really tell you what makes them different

i sort of think way more social problems could be solved by tripling every city's parks and rec department budget than we might expect

If you think developers are making too much money building homes, you should raise taxes on their incomes instead of imposing de facto taxes on new development.

This is a little muddled by soccer managers having a little more control over personnel than is typical in American sports, but I pretty firmly believe if you've gone through two coaches, you should fire the people picking the team before you get rid of a third

great example of centrists using lobbyists to bypass serial communication restrictions btw

gas prices going up but @trimet.org is still $2.80 :D

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

Ugh, Merkley is in on this one? At a minimum it would be so much better to target vacation/second homes with this kind of stuff.

@bobbygough.bsky.social This is the movie I was referencing Saturday that spawned all the Keanu Reeves is nice stories in my hometown. I believe this is a representative review

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just got a free coffee by telling the owner The News.

I would assume it was somehow related to ska and still not really get it

become ungovernable

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

the fact that early-stage automated vehicles that still occasionally require remote operation assistance are like several orders of magnitude safer than the average American driver should be the real wakeup call here, not the idea that these vehicles still sometimes need remote operation assistance

a friend of mine who left DoJ early last year told me that, traditionally, when someone leaves after a long period of service they're given a seal as a going-away present but she didn't get one because they'd ran out of seals this is what's happened to the people who didn't get out

if it was happening you could prove it in an afternoon with a prepaid phone and wireshark and the fact that no one has ever done so speaks for itself

here's a longer form housing post, with three proposals for housing policy ideas portland could pursue in 2026 to increase housing production: urbanpdx.blog/a-2026-portl...

The Philly District Attorney compared ICE to Nazis & publicly vowed to hunt them down if they broke the law/harmed their people. If a DA rules against an ICE agent, that ruling stands IN SPITE OF the supremacy clause. Where is DA Vasquez in the conversation? Where is the pressure on his office?