Small bets that make you root for something is my betting philosophy. Paraguay-Türkiye became the surprise thriller of the day watching Paraguay defend a 1-goal lead for 105+ minutes and 1 man down for over half of them. Great fight Paraguay!
@DKThomp Built a site a couple weeks ago to bridge people’s drive to work out with volunteer opportunities that serve pro-social benefits at the same time https://t.co/zjpfiKR6PO
I am 100% behind Devin Booker here. Last night was not a good look for our league. Let me be clear, we didn’t lose because of officiating, but that doesn’t make last night any less important. If the referees are going to demand respect from the players - as they should - then the players should demand respect from the referees. When a referee is missing calls and clearly disrespecting the players, almost mocking them, they must be held accountable. Nobody who loves this game enjoyed watching that last night. They want to see the players compete at the highest level. The league needs be far more aggressive about this kind of thing. All players and all fans deserve it.
Honestly loved watching the Olympics as “Primetime in Milan” recaps… all the premier events of the day condensed into 3 hours.
Only challenge was avoiding spoilers, mainly from ESPN’s bottom line which is a general drain on enjoying sports
The feds said they wouldn’t pay as much as providers expected for Medicare Advantage
The stock of insurance companies tanked.
Why ?
BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH MONEY THEY COLLECT FROM TAXPAYERS !!!
Hey @grok , what percent of premiums do the big 3 healthcare insurance companies get from federal contracts ?
Last year at Cal, Fernando Mendoza was knocked out on a controversial hit by Wesley Bissainthe in a crushing loss.
In last night’s national championship…Bissainthe was the last defender Fernando ran through on that 4th down TD.
This movie will have to be a trilogy to properly convey all the absurd storylines.
Fun fact: The 1998 paper that introduced Google and PageRank to the world ends with this acknowledgment:
"Supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding also provided by DARPA and NASA."
Sergey Brin was on an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Larry Page was a PhD student on the grant.
Google—now worth $2 trillion—exists because American taxpayers funded "the Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project."
Not a startup garage myth. A government grant.
Every time someone says public research funding "picks winners and losers" or "crowds out private innovation," remember: the most dominant technology company of the 21st century was incubated entirely with public money, inside a public university, by researchers on federal fellowships and grants.
The private sector didn't see it coming. VCs passed. The government funded it anyway—not because it would become Google, but because fundamental research into information retrieval seemed worth understanding.
That's the point. You can't predict which grants will change the world. You fund the science and let researchers explore.
The internet (DARPA). GPS (DoD). Touchscreens (CIA/NSF). mRNA vaccines (NIH). Google (NSF/DARPA/NASA).
Public investment in basic research isn't wasteful spending. It's the seed corn of the entire modern economy.