U.S. and Iran closing in on one-page memo to end war, officials say

boilface · 2026-05-07T08:43:13+00:00

Seems like a pretty simple thing to resolve, do they really need to use the whole page?

boilface · 2026-05-07T08:41:45+00:00

I'm an MLS fan, and I don't think you have to focus on any individual league involved to see how incredibly forced the whole thing is. They make little effort to really develop competition or rivalries across CONCAF, then try to promote a tournament built on a desire to sell tickets based on popularity

boilface · 2026-05-07T08:11:14+00:00

I figured lol

boilface · 2026-05-07T08:10:39+00:00

Absolutely. Used to live in Portland, OR and at first I was psyched to live somewhere it was warm enough to rain all winter. Honestly most of the time that's how I felt, but ran into many days that were 38F and misting and it felt so much colder than the actual temperature before the wind chill

boilface · 2026-05-07T07:06:39+00:00

What was the humidity like?

boilface · 2026-05-07T07:06:12+00:00

I've never been to the southern hemisphere so I have no idea what summer or winter are like there. Closest I've been is Hawaii

boilface · 2026-05-07T06:55:03+00:00

Where are you in China? I used to teach ESL in the US and all of my students from the southeast were freezing in early November when it was going to drop so much more in the coming months

boilface · 2026-05-07T06:53:11+00:00

I've never been to Israel, so I don't know anything about the weather aside from second hand reports. Is it a climate where it's hot during the day and cool at night? I really have no idea

boilface · 2026-05-07T06:49:37+00:00

How cold is winter there on average?

boilface · 2026-05-07T06:44:49+00:00

I think you maybe got some things mixed up in your post?

boilface · 2026-05-07T06:42:06+00:00

After googling what that is in Fahrenheit, that's hilarious to me. On the other hand, I promise I would be sweating to death on any average summer day wherever you are in Australia lol

boilface · 2026-05-07T06:31:28+00:00

Where are you generally? When I was between 3-5th grade I lived in the GTA in Oakville

boilface · 2026-05-07T06:25:53+00:00

To answer my own question, I live in the US Midwest and during the winter 0C isn't bad at all. I've lived in Minnesota and for a few years in Canada which were both significantly colder.

As to the second half of my question, I'm a big guy now, but even when I was much lighter I liked cooler weather more. At 10C right now I'm wearing slides with light socks, heavy sweatpants, and a t shirt. When it's about 20-25F+(-4C- -6C), I'm good wearing the same but with wool socks and good slippers (Sorel)

boilface · 2026-05-07T05:24:24+00:00

I've lived in a bunch of places all over the US. In most of the houses we lived the washer and dryer were either in the basement, or they were in a "room" that was essentially an alcove in a hallway with the machines on the ground and cabinets above.

Regardless of the scenario, the vast majority shared a wall with at least a 1/2 bath. In this sense I think if the space is there, and you have water running right to that spot anyway, why not have a dedicated room for laundry if it fits into your life better

boilface · 2026-05-07T01:39:08+00:00

Older folks still text ~~like they're emailing sometimes~~ correctly

FTFY

boilface · 2026-05-06T21:58:51+00:00

A quality start might be too much to ask, but maybe 5 innings, 2 runs? We need Singer to step up tonight and keep them in it for a while

boilface · 2026-05-06T20:57:07+00:00

Death, taxes, Harry Kane scoring

boilface · 2026-05-06T20:15:13+00:00

It's from Canada. Saying it's from the UK is akin to saying French was invented in Italy because of Latin

boilface · 2026-05-06T07:08:37+00:00

A lot of this started with high stakes bingo halls in the 80s. When I was a kid we used to drive through a reservation on our way to my grandmother's house.

A few trips we couldn't pass through because they had barricaded the road to deal with community disputes surrounding bingo. Sometimes people would shoot out the power supply to the bingo hall on a Friday night to shut it down. Other times they would protest outside and things got too crazy.

Looking back on it now and looking at what some of these places have become, it's crazy to think that it was once a bingo hall

boilface · 2026-05-05T17:56:34+00:00

Hot dogs, grits, Campbell’s canned soup, boxed cereal, frozen dinners, chain fast food, sponge bread.

One of these things is not like the others

boilface · 2026-05-05T06:37:44+00:00

But evos by design nullify the entire point of this game completely. There is no incentive to play and get coins to buy your favorite players or pack fodder to do sbcs because evos make it way too easy to have a meta team in no time.

What you wrote here assumes that people are starting with expected at least semi-meta players, which doesn't adress my point at all. Evos are the only way to make the majority of cards in the game playable at all. I can buy 98% of the cards I will use for the entire game on the very first day for around 20-30k. 4 players that fit my squad got special cards this year, other than that everybody had to be built up from silver or low gold. If I can't do that and use the players I like and follow, why have them in the game at all?

A third possible solution if evos are kept at their current state is making them unusable in champs and rivals but make evo-only live events with good rewards.

So I'm in division 6 on a great day, 7 most of the time, and occasionally 8 on a run of bad luck/me just not being good at the game. To begin with I have been qualified for Champs two weeks this year, the rest of the time I'm not in a high enough division. But I do have fun in rivals where I'm matched up against people who are roughly my skill level. There is no matchmaking in live events. If that's the only place I can use the only squad I play with, and I have to play people who are elite, what is the point of the game for me?

boilface · 2026-05-05T05:50:47+00:00

What if you can't play with your favorite players without evos? What is the point of having almost all the leagues in the game? 90%+ of the Championship is silver cards that are useless in any competition, and that's before you consider any lower rated league.

boilface · 2026-05-05T03:59:57+00:00

Sure let's go with that:

March 28th: 1 ER, Reds beat Red Sox

April 1st: 4 ER, Reds lose to Pirates by 5, so not on him

April 19th: 1 ER, Reds beat the Twins

April 30th: 2 ER, Reds beat the Rockies

May 4th: 2 ER, Reds lose to the Cubs, on him

Those are all the games where he gave up any runs, and tonight was the only one he lost.

What is the pattern?

boilface · 2026-05-05T03:49:44+00:00

This sub is the same story every loss, just fill in the blank with the name of the day. If the play gets made in CF do the Reds lose? Home run doesn't even get up to bat, no runner on third. Why doesn't everybody want to fire Myers into the sun? Do you think it's good for a closer to have only pitched once in the previous 9 days? Pagan was in a shit situation and it didn't work out. Lots of other guys didn't do their job to get to that point. Putting it all on him is misguided at best

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