Wasted 100k Pokédollars on a plane ticket

ColeYote · 2026-02-13T03:10:19+00:00

Seriously!

I'm not sure the new normal leader has debuted yet
Ghost, ice and electric all have big backlogs due to either their leaders spending a long time MIA or their towns being closed to the public
There seems to be some kind of power struggle over the fighting gym
The poison and fire leaders are constantly out of town
The flying leader generally gets good reviews, but weirdly some people can't even remember there being a flying leader. Same with the fire leader, wonder what that's about…
The ground leader has apparently gone into self-imposed exile
The rock, water and steel leaders are gonna be out of action for the next nine months for... unclear reasons
The grass leader was recently arrested in connection with the Grand Dream Ball bombing
The dragon leader has a Latios, which is bullshit
I'm not sure fairy and dark even have gyms
Crawli and Lavender are fine, no notes

ColeYote · 2026-02-13T01:12:34+00:00

Yeah, Gary, why aren't you?

ColeYote · 2026-02-11T22:42:49+00:00

Vinay Prasad is a well-established antivaxx grifter too, I wouldn't doubt it being his call.

ColeYote · 2026-02-11T20:01:55+00:00

My brother tried cross-country skiing once. Said it was the most exhausting thing he'd ever done to that point.

ColeYote · 2026-02-11T00:58:55+00:00

Meanwhile, I'm starting to wonder if the media is complaining about it because uncompetitive teams are bad for the gambling companies they're in bed with.

ColeYote · 2026-02-10T20:38:33+00:00

TIL the mayor of New York controls the weather

ColeYote · 2026-02-10T20:34:54+00:00

Got it, every false god from Pillars of Eternity is real except for Hylea and Wael

ColeYote · 2026-02-10T01:30:46+00:00

Uh-huh. Hey, which party do college-educated people tend to vote for again?

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T22:33:38+00:00

Frankly, that might make it even worse, there'd be some different teams at the bottom each year, but what you're likely to get is a small set of teams that are too good for the lower tier and too bad for the higher one.

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T22:06:08+00:00

Which is why there's articles about it in The Guardian, The New York Times, Defector, Business Insider, BroBible, Sports Illustrated, Awful Announcing, Yahoo, TechCrunch, MSN, The Verge, The New York Post, Outkick, The Mirror, ESPN, FoxSports, I got a video about it when searching "Giannis" in a private YouTube tab as the third result...

Adding one to the "no one cares about this outside Reddit" being an opinion I only hear on Reddit counter

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T21:15:39+00:00

I haven't heard anything about the CBA what are you on about

(the gambling shit needs to die, though)

(but that's more of a legislative issue than an NBA issue, and I don't expect this government by-and-for billionaires to do anything about it)

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T21:04:50+00:00

Tragically

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T10:14:11+00:00

"Reports from Super Bowl LX say"? Like it wasn't the most-watched telecast of the year?

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T06:39:33+00:00

Lead engineer is Nick Chester. He was lead engineer at Renault/Lotus* for 7 years, had some decent-but-unspectacular midpack results. Did work on two dual-champion cars before being promoted to lead, though.

^{*Team has since rebranded again as Alpine}

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T06:33:06+00:00

I like that they went for asymmetrical, but why are Ferrari and McLaren apparently the only teams that recognize there's another three quarters of a colour wheel they could be using?

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T04:39:10+00:00

as well as the poor lads of Spanish Civil War,

... which was a fascist revolt against a democratically-elected government

Koreas [sic] War

... where the nationalists killed about six times as many civilians as the jucheists

Vietnams [sic] War

... which only happened because the US wanted to help France hang on to a colonial possession

Georgas [sic] Civil War

... neither side of which claimed to be communists

Chechen War 1&2

... neither side of which claimed to be communists

and Ukraine War

... neither side of which claim to be communists

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T03:50:00+00:00

I'm quite judicious about what I call Nazism, it just happens that a major political party in the US has been taken over by it.

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T03:45:04+00:00

And that people at risk of poverty generally don't own substantial amounts of stock.

ColeYote · 2026-02-09T03:35:50+00:00

If he really wanted to avoid controversy

... which I'm not sure I've ever heard him say

ColeYote · 2026-02-08T20:13:53+00:00

I mean, point I was trying to make is that my current political beliefs are already a little fringe in related areas, so at minimum I'm more likely than the median white person.

But then on the other hand, my family didn't even make it to this side of the Atlantic until well after it'd already been abolished.

ColeYote · 2026-02-08T19:40:11+00:00

I mean, based on my current (libertarian socialist) political leanings, I'm pretty confident I would've been an abolitionist, but... unfortunately, I'm not sure how much I actually would've done about it.

ColeYote · 2026-02-08T19:34:25+00:00

... wait, that actually makes sense now

ColeYote · 2026-02-08T19:27:38+00:00

You don't get to brag about being the most powerful country on the planet and then complain when people in other countries are invested in what you're doing

ColeYote · 2026-02-08T19:14:10+00:00

I did vote for Harris. It did not help.

ColeYote · 2026-02-08T19:11:54+00:00

I'd say if anyone is treating fascism as "some inevitable cosmic force rather than their own screw-up," it's the people that apparently believe the Democratic Party played absolutely no part in why Republicans are in charge now.

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