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Verstappen’s pole position had a slipstream assist from Hulkenberg in sector 1 (the only sector he outpaced Norris and Piastri). I think the McLaren is comfortably the faster car this weekend. It should be competitive tomorrow, especially with both McLarens able to coordinate their pit stop strategies.

Been hearing about Bally’s imminent and now current bankruptcy since I moved back down here two years ago. I’m sure it will have certain repercussions but I think it’s silly to think it’s going to have much effect on local coverage of major sports. One of the major conglomerates is going to pick up the local NBA and MLB teams. Really, the only question is whether or not - or when - the NBA and MLB want to take that to streaming too.

Identical. We both had artistic inclinations as kids, but I ultimately chose a career in science, and never kept up my drawing.

Yep fair enough. As with all these rules of thumb there's a large degree of individual variance in them.

Even if you were going to do three films there's no need for them all to be three hours long. A trilogy still seems excessive but if they had been 100 minutes each they could have been a lot better.

I've heard this is happening all over the place with a lot of small to mid sized markets not really knowing what to do. My understanding is larger media companies are buying their rights on the cheap and Bally's will be all but dead soon. Glad Sinclair got it stuck to them, but a lot of people will be SoL for it. Philosophically it's rather interesting. There's joy knowing you can dance on a devil's grave, but is the devil that comes afterwards even worse? TBD I guess.

I saw The Fall Guy which I thought was a lot of fun. It did have some very funny scenes and the stunts were unsurprisingly good. I liked some of the sillier moments like the unicorn or Jody incongruously wearing the prop alien hand during the split screen scene. Gosling and Blunt have good chemistry although the writing of their relationship was lacking in any depth.

1,000 years from now, when my computer brain sits the Liberty Throne, no one's gonna care that I crotch-walked the 8 season box set outta WalMart.

The writing for her did seem inconsistent, she initially seems intelligent and resourceful enough to track down her father's location but then that all seems to go out the window.

I was a bit worried about the young girl's mental state. All this crazy stuff with robots and lasers is going on and she gets distracted by an AI-generated scrapbook? She was written to be about 6 but cast around 14, which seemed to create the discrepancy.

He does have to do most of the episode moving as little as possible which can't be easy but he was excellent. It was a very good episode, although it did sometimes rely a bit too much on the human characters being painfully stupid.

Identical or fraternal?

I'm not getting my hopes up too much, since the hype was all about 5 drivers being in the hunt and suddenly Max is on pole again. But the margins are much thinner than we are used to, so maybe someone else has a shot. My main concern would be Norris getting too over-eager at the start or Piastri not backing out of the first corner if he really should.

Yeah, maybe it's just because it never really worked for me. With 22 minutes for 5k I was never able to break 48 minutes for 10k and 1:50 in half-marathon. So in my case it was more than 12 seconds per km when doubling the distance.

Well, next week for their exotic next adventure they are going to the fabulously nonexistent world of Wales.

My twin brother is. So, genetically, yes?

Same is happening in Michigan, Bally's covers the Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons and it's struggling to stay on, app is apparently horrible also.

Any good? I enjoyed the first season. Hoping to get to it this weekend.

Out of curiosity [and a little more] because there must be more than a few, how many artists on the board? Put your hands up. [raises hand]

Enjoyed this episode, nicely paced less fluffy/stupid than Space Babies a better thought out than Devil's Chord. I also think it was an excellent showcase for Ncuti and why he deserves the role as the Doctor

Never really raced 5kms, more focused on longer distances, but strava puts my best 5km at 19:23 which sounds about right. Got pretty comfortable running in the low 4s/km when I was really putting in long training weeks, and could push much harder during intervals. 5km is a really hard distance. Short enough that you have to go really hard from the start, but long enough to start to really suffer. Always felt very sick after a hard 5km effort, would rather run 20-30km any day. Wouldn't be anywhere near that fitness now, haven't run seriously in years. @baxus @3CityApache I went with adding about 12sec/km when you double the distance which always held pretty true for my running (at least up to the 30km wall). So in 1:38 half form I'd be around 21:30 for 5km (4:18 kms), so 22mins sounds close enough to me.

Different thread subject, but isn't this what has some in MLB really spooked? The NFL will be fine and the NBA should be too, but some these regional networks crashing could possible hurt MLB (and some other minor sports, pro and college).

No.....but not because he's not important. I was trying to draw a distinction between the concepts of dangerous, powerful....and I didn't say it, but I'd add "influential" to the list of things. I think it'd be hard to argue that, in the last 100 years, Blood Raven has been the most influential person....and probably the most influential person in the last 4000+ years. I was trying to suss-out.....hmmm...how to put it. Out of every character, who would be the most dangerous if their specific mission was to kill you. Back when Bloodraven was not part of a tree...he'd have been my first pick. He killed the entire male family line of the Blackfyres himself...but he's in a tree now. That's why I picked who I did. If Jaqen's specific mission was to kill you....well....he's killed a bunch of people, including a King....and nobody other than the reader even knows it was him. You can run away from Cersie, Dany, Jon Snow....all of them. But if Jaqen wants you dead...and you don't know about it....well...you're dead.

He's definitely in the running....though, unless he's secretly a faceless man, he's more of an enabler. Not a bad pick though.

Imma thinking I'll enjoy this Bene Gesserit prequel more than the Two Dunes.