Mrroooowwwww!!!

I do the same to the robins that live on the porch light!

I mean yeah that makes sense given what they saw happen to the new steam controller. They want the devices in the hands of people who want to actually use them, not some scalper who only cares to profit off of the hype.

“Welcome to the hit new game show ¿Shop or Slop?!!”

Oki but raspberries are super tasty, especially fresh from the bush

Ooo this is the same situation I am in, love that nobody with the power to act actually cares about putting measures in place to hold people accountable. So now pretty much all my important data is out there forever and I can’t do shit about.

Yay…

While I get this is a meme, I do think the imperial measurement system deserves some credit. More the vast majority of humanity’s existence it has been an incredibly capable and powerful system. It’s only in more modern times where a system like metric is an upgrade. This is also ignoring the few ways where imperial still eke out a win, but that is besides the point.

Imperial’s weird gaps between units are pieces that come from a variety of different systems that got layered together over the centuries it lasted. 5280 feet in a mile? Based on the Roman mile which was 5000 paces from a soldier. 12 inches in a foot? From a different way people counted on their hands.

Length of an inch and length of a foot? From different parts of the body. Weird? Certainly. Practical? Amazing so. They were easier for day to day tasks and for measuring on the small, human scale. Metric is easier to calculate between different units and that is an amazing innovation.

Fahrenheit is weird today, but was more practical when it was first established. Even then it has value in how it is more granular without the necessity of decimals. Celsius is still the better unit, 0° being freezing and 100° being boiling for water is very useful. It gives you two easy to remember extremes.

Imperial had to walk, so metric could run in a way. Both systems are great in their own ways and in their own times. Imperial isn’t needed anymore, but deserves recognition for being good for its time and for being more practical historically.

The only dud metric really has is metric time, and that is because everything we have ever done has been based on the older time keeping system. Cultures have laid claim to certain dates and times of day within the old system that just have constrained us to it.

I definitely prefer metric overall, but I genuinely believe that imperial deserves more credit for getting us to the point where metric makes sense to swap to.

You know what else costs a fraction of traditional polling and takes a fraction of the time?

Lying, making shit up. Which conveniently is basically what AI slop does, and having a person lie is even cheaper than licensing some random AI to do it.

That’s what they are doing

More evidence proving private equity is a leech on society

Ginger ale my beloved

That’s… that’s not creativity though. You just typed a prompt, not made the thing yourself. It’s the polar opposite of being creative, you outsourced the joy of being creative to a machine that doesn’t understand what creativity even is.

All of the joy of being creative comes not just from the initial spark, but from the entire process. The fun and joy I get when I draw my pixel art comes from the whole experience. Not from the idea that I started with. The challenges and obstacles add to the experience, cutting them out makes it a hollow, meaningless thing.

All for what? Some instant gratification that you get because it can spit out some slop quickly? Slop that you will instantly forget about since you had no real role in its creation? People like you make a mockery of art and the creative process.

Yeah that’s about right for Fields’ value as a quarterback. He’s a bad starter, could be an elite backup. So at least he’s getting the opportunity to show that he can be an elite backup.

I was extremely pessimistic on McCarthy, he never did a lot to make me believe he had a high ceiling or a relatively high floor. He gave me Tim Tebow vibes, in that some team who is desperate will draft him far higher than he really should go.

The narrative I saw of him before, and after, the draft was that he was a handoff merchant. And at least thus far through his career it seems to be a more genuine concern about him. There was also talk about whether or not his body could hold up to throwing the ball at nfl numbers. Seeing that JJ McCarthy only threw it over 30 times twice and both times he looked bad, there does seem to be some truth to that talk too.

He’s just not a good starter from what we’ve seen, and moving on is the best thing you can do. Like with Tim Tebow you move on as fast as you can and hope you can get better.

He really wasn’t better in the last 4 games. Just had more favorable matchups.

While he does throw 3 touchdowns against the Commanders, this is a team who went 5-12 and scored nothing all game. 2 of 4 passes to Justin Jefferson for 11 yards and 4 of 7 to Jordan Addison for 62 yards. With the longest pass being for 21 yards. 16 total completions out of 23 attempted passes. There was 34 running play, the runs brought more yardage than the passing game did.

Cowboys game is probably the more convincing game if you want to argue that McCarthy is good. 250 passing yards (career high), 2 passing touchdowns, 1 rushing touchdown (tied for career high), 15/24 on passes. And just 28 rushing plays for low yardage he still throws a pick and it’s his toughest competition of the last 4 games he plays. The cowboys go 7-9-1 and still were trying to make the playoffs when this game happened.

The Giants game should not even have been remotely close but it was. Jaxson Dart threw for 33 yards and that’s all the Giants got all game. McCarthy throws for 108 yards and a pick, going 9/14 and getting injured again. Max Brosmer fills in and goes 7/9 for 52 yards. Oh 31 running plays in this game. The Giants finished the season tied with the worst record at 3-14. They were a tanking team like the Commanders.

Last game of the season was the Packers, who had benched a lot of their starters and were on a skid post the Broncos game. Jordan Love and Malik Willis weren’t playing, so it was McCarthy and Brosmer against 3rd string Clayton Tune. McCarthy goes 14/23 for 182 yards and gets injured again after missing the week prior due to the injury he got against the tanking Commanders. Max Brosmer goes for 7/8 and 57 yards after Nine goes down with the injury. Oh and 31 running plays here too.

While the Vikings won all these games it’s hard to really say that McCarthy was the reason why. The Vikings had a nasty defense last year and did the year prior too. With Sam Darnold in charge the Vikings went to a 14-4 record and were in real contender talks. But with McCarthy, Wentz and Brosmer the team was never really considered anything other than bad. Justin Jefferson had a steep falloff in production from the Darnold year to this past year and it’s pretty obvious it’s not on him being worse but on the quarterback play around him being for a lack of a better word, utter dogshit.

McCarthy was never really a first round talent and just got labeled as a winning quarterback because his team won a national championship. He never threw for even 3,000 yards in college and handed the ball off a lot to 2 quality running backs a lot. Add on that McCarthy has missed his entire rookie season, 7 games the following season and struggled to stay healthy in the 10 games he did play in. It’s fairly obvious that he just is not the type of player the Vikings need or really want.

Sam Darnold won it all with the Seahawks this year. It’s clear that he is far and away better than McCarthy. This isn’t just young quarterback troubles or quarterback struggling on a bad team. This is just McCarthy not being good enough. Maybe if he sits for a while longer he can be the guy for a team. I just wouldn’t bet on it happening.

Big upgrade over Nine, though that is saying literally nothing given that Nine is injury prone and can’t do anything but handoffs.

Okay, what are you going to do if he does send troops? Nothing? Call the election illegitimate and actually combat the fascists?

Good luck Malik Willis