I thought there might be an outside chance team USA would give someone the ol’ Tonya Harding so Quinn Hughes could play. Glad that didn’t happen for many reasons lol

Just sat down in time to see the Bennet goal. Go Canada!

I’m gonna join in with everyone and recommend completely zeroing all the drives (make sure you unmount them before doing it). It will take a while but at least you will have drives in a known state and can eliminate that as a possible issue.

Have y’all been in contact with Chad over at mstdn.ca? Would be pretty cool if we could support the mastodon folks in some way as well!

Big tech has the resources to live without section 230 protection. All of its competitors do not. This will only serve to kill off smaller sites (like this one) and lock us into a social media monopoly.

So there’s a definite lack of a flare before touchdown. My instinct is that a sudden, last-second change in the wind caused the aircraft to lose control authority, and the pilots were not able to de-crab or flare the plane. It looks like it landed very hard, slightly sideways, and the landing gear immediately buckled and the plane started to roll.

I’m wondering if there might have been some wake turbulence on the runway. Particularly because the airport was already operating in chaos mode, after getting hammered by a massive snowstorm that forced 300 flights to be cancelled on a holiday weekend.

Asking out of genuine naivety, why do you do that?

Does someone have a link to the Tasha Yar one? I forgot to click save and I’m too lazy to comb through the meme haystack

Still waiting for the Pettersson Miller feud to pop off

Agreed. I hope that situation gets worked out eventually.

I really want there to be a Central Europe team in the next iteration as well, give players like Draisaitl and Pastrnak a chance to participate.

I love listening to solo piano or ambient music while reading. Any other type of music is too much for my brain to handle.

It’s an adjustment I had to make when everyone started working from home in 2020, and I find it works well on transit too. Might just be that I’ve trained my brain to go into focus mode when I hear that type of music.

Late push by Finland, we might have a game here

It sounds like he’ll be good for Thursday, but we’ll see when we get there. I agree, he’s kind of a spiritual leader on that team and not the type of guy to sit out over being banged up.

Dominant first period by Canada. We play this way against the US, I like our chances.

Also it’s weird to see McDavid and Doughty being pals

No family day where you live? Or work just not giving you the holiday? Either way I feel your pain, bud

McDavid and Mackinnon off to a hot start! Finland taking their timeout 5 minutes into the 1st.

This reminded me of Long Long Man

Ads are a bigger business than you might expect. Get enough eyeballs in one place and brands will be tripping over themselves to give you money just to mention their name. Take the superbowl for example. It’s usually the most viewed event every year in the US, so naturally there is a tradition of advertisers pulling out all the stops and making high-budget bombastic commercials for that specific occasion. You can imagine how attractive it is for brands to want to put their ads on big social media sites, where psychological tricks are used to capture as much attention as possible at all times, instead of just once per year.

Then there’s the user data angle. The big sites all have millions of users who constantly give away personal information without even being prompted, and that makes it really easy for the companies who run them to analyze what makes each user tick and serve ads to the people who are most likely to click on them. This elevates the rate brands are willing to pay even further.

Those two things, along with a suite of anti-competitive practices, are enough to get sites to the point of being mostly profitable. Venture capital and hype-based market speculation get them the rest of the way.

Yup. Oilers and this team have a very similar makeup. USA has has a bunch of players who antagonize the oilers as well.

Binnington coming up big on the PK, let’s gooo