CombatWombat

Lots of things would happen, but the specifics wouldn’t much matter because there’d be no-one left to tell the tale afterwards.

We don’t lose to Canada:

The victory brings the U.S. to 55 wins over Canada in 67 meetings.

Nice to see the NHL do something nice:

The donation comes in recognition of International Women's Day by the NHL and NHLPA. Keller will work alongside the NHL Foundation U.S. and ambassador Haley Skarupa to identify the organizations, which "will have demonstrated impact, sustainability, and alignment with NHL Foundation U.S.’s commitment to growing the girls’ hockey pipeline."

Honestly, I’m mostly excited to see what Caicedo is gonna get up to:

Linda Caicedo will play a big role in any surprises that the Las Cafeteras have in store for the USA. According to the Guardian, she will be the best player on the field and it’s hard to argue that an athlete scoring goals and creating assists for Real Madrid while pushing her national team deep into the Copa America isn’t worthy of that distinction. She scored the lone goal against Argentina and will be a player the American defenders need to contain in order to ensure a win.

It’s kinda weird that we know Seattle will have the attendance record up until 4/4 and no longer, but I bet Madison Square Garden’s gonna be rockin.

There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.

If you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.

lol

Phil Neville

Seat Temperature: Smoldering

He’s going to be on sack watch until the summer. If by some miracle he survives, he’s probably going to survive the year. Portland had an unexpectedly good performance against the Crew to open the season, but laid an egg on the road against Colorado. They’ve performed in line with expectations to start the year but meeting those expectations will still get him fired.

I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:

Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.

I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.

I definitely feel this to be true:

Paschakis says there is a growing perception from the public that criticism of these organizations, and of the sport as a whole, is often managed through avoidance rather than being addressed.

“The media and the organizations continue with routine public relations messaging until the audience's attention shifts,” she said. “Formal apologies or corrective statements seem to only occur when sponsors withdraw support or when revenue is impacted.”

Sounds like Brian and Jackson are on the same page:

“It’s definitely a dream and it’s a big goal,” Ragen said. “I’m focused on the day-to-day here. I know the only way to get into the picture is to perform in the defense and win games here and perform individually well here.”

“(Jackson) has the potential to get there,” Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer said. “But him and (left back) Nouhou on that side for that second goal, (Jackson’s) not gonna play his way into the national team picture if those types of goals go in.”

This was particularly interesting:

One older adult female burial was particularly unusual. Hers was the only female skeleton the researchers found buried with polished stone tools, and her toes revealed a kneeling activity pattern more like that of the males in the cemetery. According to the researchers, this burial suggests that "females may have assumed roles traditionally associated with males" in the society and that gender roles "were fluid and shaped by multiple intersecting factors."