American here. Assuming we muddle through the next 3.5 years (a fairly big assumption, I admit), I think things will get better, but in a qualified way. The tension will dip and you can even make short term changes that will be welcome to everybody like easing border restrictions and increasing communication and cooperation, but it’s going to take literally generations of non-crazy American administrations to rebuild the trust to where it was, and that’s 100% fair.

Large infrastructure projects are going to get delayed or shelved, treaties will not be negotiated, money will be spent on duplicating efforts because the US may be a better or worse partner in future administrations, so we’re no longer a reliable partner in any way. All because half the country thinks you should never have to deal with anything you don’t immediately understand and approve of, and anything that’s mildly unpleasant in your life is the fault of people who don’t look or speak or pray like you.

Stick to football, bro.

Having seen Tuberville as a college football coach, that’s a hard no. Tommy is an idiot and an asshole.

How about the cop who decided to pop a (right leaning apparently!) Australian reporter from close range with a rubber bullet, just for shits and giggles?

I’ve never played crokinole, but I made a carrom board (mentioned in the article) years ago and it’s a lot of fun. Mine was not from very good plywood, so it needed extra starch, but while messy, I could get (what the internet said was) an acceptable number of rebounds. We still have it, but its last use was to hold a partially completed Harry Potter jigsaw puzzle whose many dark areas stubbornly outlasted my daughter’s interest in the franchise. Given ol’ Jo’s proclivities, that’s just as well, though there’s still a few wand and such floating around, a few of which I made on my lathe.

No! Not Jordan Catalano!

Actually, totally yes. Leto is a walking hollywood predator cliche.

The part where the baby shoves their hand in your face when you can’t do anything about it is actually pretty accurate. The face you then make as the grown-up is also spot on.

Don Perlin on pencils. I originally thought John Romita Sr, but yeah, that jawline is a bit too dashing.

I agree that the idea they were teaching was “is it reasonable for 4/6 to be larger than 5/6”, but it was too sloppy to be in a word problem with cultural context. Sometimes if you’re the teacher and a kid stumbles onto a loophole this big, you have to take the L and update your materials for the next year. Just add, “Marty and Luis ordered small pizzas at Joe’s,” and this goes away. This feels like the question writer had been in a groove with drafting more abstract problem sets, and didn’t do a good job when shifting gears into the word problem section.

“Reasonableness” as the heading implies that they’ve been working on whether a word problem makes any sense at all. It’s, perhaps ironically, an attempt to help them build critical thinking skills. Then, elementary school teachers are not all brilliant minds themselves, and even the ones who are incredibly gifted educators are overworked, and their schools are generally underfunded. You get a cheap resource, maybe even a free one, or one your former mentor threw together late one night three years ago, and you can end up with a sloppy question. If you yourself are having a bad moment, or are not particularly talented, or the kid is a known shitass, then yeah, you could overreact and respond like this.

Having just sat with my kid through a year of 5th grade math homework, it is completely plausible that this is a real quiz and a real response. Some of the question writing even in the professionally made materials is just not good, partly because it presumes a laser focus on a single “instructional variable,” despite mandates to teach holistically.

Also, ngl, that’s pretty solid freehand sign routing.

It’s implied in the music.

The best way tot think of American parties, particularly if one is better versed in parliamentary systems, is to think of them as semi-durable coalitions that come together pre-emptively because of the structure of the US system. They can and do change over time, because the party apparatus itself is just there to (try to) win, and in the interest of doing so nobody is going to say the quiet part out loud. Party doesn’t mean anything, other than that for the moment, the various interest groups in each major one can tolerate each other.

On the one hand, yeah, that means identifying with and voting for your “team” is inherently stupid, and that anyone whose job involves winning elections for a party is likely a dangerously amoral person, especially if that’s their only job. On the other hand, the interest groups inside those parties, and the bedfellows they make, absolutely matter and are not the same at a given point in history. Any actual democracy that happens in America happens slowly by interest groups pushing the party they’re currently in and, when sensing that incompatible voices are driving policy, moving to the other one. – or, occasionally (like once a century), by forming a third party that will push out a legacy party within a couple of election cycles.

That, of course, is assuming that the system is not being completely dismantled to avoid even baseline “free and fair” elections where you’re allowed to safely vote your conscience for the lesser of two evils.

That was like, half of the kalkite, at most.

My kiddo had a brief phase of watching these. They’re quite bad, but when cheap CGI cartoons result in plasticky textures and unnatural movement, I have to admit that using it on Barbie of all things is low-key clever.

Dagwood’s got a pretty nice table saw, though Mrs. Mullican needs to use the fence and a fuckin push-stick.

The old ZAZ movies were great because they knew to hang the constant gags on a plot that, threadbare as it was, made it a silly movie and not a tedious collection of parody sketches where the actors just don’t bother changing costumes.

Jack Donaghy approves.

Not immune, but let’s say resistant. Due to federation, they couldn’t lock down existing federated content; due to open source they couldn’t lock down the user experience; and due to those two, nobody’s going to offer them a check for a couple million dollars.