Tywin et al.

Signs of aging: I want technical fouls called for signaling to review when a foul clearly happened.

You absolutely can. Just look at Baker or Geno's deals. Paying a dude like he's an elite QB when really on a good day he's top 10ish at best is a bad way to build a championship roster.

Exactly. You can win with Goff, but most likely not because of him. If you pay him middle tier starting QB money you're in a decent position, but paying him top tier money is going to limit the team quickly. They've got a lot of other young players to sign soon too and with the additional big signings they also just made they won't have a ton of flexibility now. Honestly if I ran the Lions I would have tried to sign and trade Goff before the draft then moved up to pick a QB. That roster with a good QB on a rookie deal could be very dangerous.

It has been for a while and in general I worry about the increasing externalities of reducing everyone to a data point on a spreadsheet. I wouldn't be so sure about this. The crazy has only swirled further down the drain. It's probably unwise to assume we've seen anything close to the worst of what these times may bring.

Yeah, OKC are playing tight as fuck.

Oof, Lions be spending as much at the bar as they'll allow. Making Goff the second highest AAV QB is a bad idea.

Translated to Thibanese: Grind the starters to dust to get them ready for game 5.

Back to back years Detroit gets the fifth pick despite having the worst record. Yikes. Meanwhile, Pacers out here throwing haymakers.

Obviously relationship lol. I can't have sex with the car. Or can I? Wish I could remember the name of that ridiculous SNL/MadTV skit where you could buy a car you could do it with (and by extension also have sex with your neighbor's car).

There's the rub. I want the fast car, but as I mentioned before in the dating thread, she's horrified by some of the past racing stories I've told her and my antics in general. She's very much on team Accord lol.

I thought there was a thread dedicated to this, but it didn't come up in the search, so maybe we need a new one. Currently I'm debating between a newer safe Honda Accord or a little older Acura TL that's a monster. The latter is a good bit cheaper, but will probably need a lot of repairs over the next few years. The former looks nice, should be easy to resell in a few years, but is a bit boring to drive. Anyways, this should serve as a good space for advice and also be interesting to see what cars cost in different locations (and what's more desirable based on where you live). ¡Vamos!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/us/appeals-court-catholic-school-lonnie-billard/index.html

They've made that kind of agreement before and backed out of it as well. Also, Israel wants living people, Hamas has said an unspecified amount of those returned may be dead. So not exactly a real, full, release of hostages, which could have always shorted this conflict.

What have they actually agreed to that they'd be willing to do tomorrow if that meant a deal could reasonably be reached? I haven't seen much reporting that suggest they're really willing to enter the ballpark of Israel's demands. As far as talking in circles, it's pretty hard not to. Neither side has really offered anything substantial that could move the needle, so everything remains on the table.

Journalism, like claiming Jews got a heads up where attacks were going to happen on 9/11? Al Jazeera does not have the greatest record, but hey, maybe you think RT does some good journalism too. RT's coverage coverup of the atrocities at the WC and Olympics was pretty much in line with what AJ did for Qatar during the latest WC. Because journalism! They shouldn't do it, but they need to keep it on the table for negotiations. Problem is both sides want to play chicken and are happy dying instead of finding another path. I think that ship has sailed. I've said this entire time I doubt many more hostages will ever be returned alive (many are probably dead at this point). https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-says-33-hostages-to-be-freed-in-1st-phase-of-a-deal-not-all-necessarily-alive/ They can't even guarantee 33 living people.