But some immunity fades even for the same strain. That was the reason for the first COVID booster. They couldn’t guarantee if would last longer than six months.

But is that anything new, though? For as long as I can remember (and I’m in my 50’s), NBA refs have let big-name stars pick up the ball and run to the net.

And many of them never get the opportunity to move up because less competent refs are locked in by their union and never have to retire.

Sometimes? Maybe? But whenever I see test cricket on ESPN+, the stadium usually looks abandoned. There's no shortage of "test cricket is doomed" articles to be found on the web, and the ICC has even tossed around the idea of shortening the match time limit from 5 to 4 or even 3 days to add a sense of urgency and more aggressive play.

Wouldn’t be surprising. There are a great many rabid collectors of anything with the Coca-Cola logo on it.

TIL Digg is still limping along. I wonder…

Yep, Slashdot is still there, too. And it hasn’t changed at all in decades.

I’ve never understood how any individual can play that much basketball without their bodies falling apart.

Yeah, but in baseball you’re generally more concerned with a series than an individual game. Your rival comes to town to play three, you hope to take two. There are fewer series in baseball than games in the NBA.

Interesting. Somehow I’d gotten it into my head that the original meaning of the name was cardinals as in bishops. But that may actually be true. The Cardinals wear red and white, the same two colors as a Catholic cardinal.

Right, now that I take the time to think about it, a “swallowing” wouldn’t look exciting at all, even observed from within the galaxy. The doomed star’s light would just red-shift as it approached until the wavelength was unobservable.

Wow, has this been observed?

I thought it was tidal forces, not the simple strength of the gravitational field, that destroyed objects as they passed the event horizon. I’ve read several times that you could fall into the event horizon of, say, a supermassive black hole and not feel a thing. The event horizon for a black hole of that size is so far away from the singularity that tidal forces are almost non-existent.

I was attending grad school in Buffalo during the first of those Super Bowls, against the Giants. The campus was a ghost town. I think there were more Giants fans on campus than Bills fans.

When you hold the highest office in the land, every economic crisis is your fault and you get to take credit for every good economic thing that happens. No matter how little you actually had to do with either.

Or maybe make deflation a different color, like purple?

Yeah, note that the European country with the darkest green is Greece, hardly the epitome of economic health.

Somehow I misread that as “furry pit stop” and was expecting something different.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Check out those murder mittens!

Check out those murder mittens!