Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is, what, the third straight year they've had him host SNL? Is this guy really driving ratings so much they have to keep bringing him back? 030
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I do think that decreasing in-season variance might be a goal of ownership (flatter results = more teams competitive deeper into the season), but fans who want a salary cap are mostly just angry about the Dodgers being good every year or the Pirates being the opposite. 020
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Generally on board with your arguments on this subject, but FWIW I don't think this study measures what people actually want from salary caps - they're less interested in in-season variance between top and bottom than in long-term success rates between low-revenue and high-revenue teams. 120
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Same - if I'm in a location for more than a couple days, I like to try to (mostly) wean myself off the GPS, and I learned pretty early on in my travel life that if I'm relying on turn-by-turn directions, I am not able to build that mental map. 010
Reposted by Jarid KvaleEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/10/2026PALPATINE: I have cloned you from my body. You are like me SNOKE: why am I so large PALPATINE: I have two torsos of yours in a big jar over there SNOKE: why do I look nothing like you PALPATINE: I didn’t grow the legs yet SNOKE: why do the clones have a scar PALPATINE: I haven’t done the feet either 2368446
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026alternate universe chain of events where Tawny Kitaen has been nominated for a Cabinet position 040
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The trailer includes the Fantastic Four referring to "Victor" (Dr. Doom's comic book name) but it would indeed be very funny if the big reveal is that his full name is Tony Victor Stark. 0130
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I realize that all sounds like a joke and/or the rantings of an insane person; we are living in very weird times. 120
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Actually it's maybe somehow worse? Yudkowsky is the figurehead of the "rationalist" movement, an AI doomer cult whose holy text is an enormous piece of Harry Potter fan fiction that he wrote, and the cult encompasses a huge swath of the AI industry including much of its leadership. 121
Reposted by Jarid KvaleMonster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think my favorite JJ McCarthy moment is when he was drafted and everyone who watched him at Michigan laughed at me. 3261
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was also extremely troubled by the fact that the kid's "offensive line" were all wearing RB/WR numbers and included no beefy lads. 010
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You see so many First Whatever businesses/organizations that I think it's always fun when a "not first" actually survives - I was delighted to see a Second Presbyterian Church in a nearby town this summer. 010
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That's me, GPT the Brain Supreme, and my man Claude Rollin'! 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That's good stuff but I am worried about the possibility of your opponent hiring Devin Hester for attack ads. 120
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Every few years a version of this survey goes around and every time there is a wave of flabbergasted posting about this question. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My primary memory of Rick Reed is attending a terrible start after his trade to the Twins (that was pretty much all he did after they got him) where he got knocked out pretty early, and the biggest ovation of the night was for Tom Kelly coming out to pull him. 010
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Don't forget Little Big League legend Mickey Scales! (although I am reasonably sure they gave him that number for Knoblauch; they also used 34, 14, and 24 for prominent characters) 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026That said, I think you're right that it'll be a much worse year for Republicans, it probably helps Bengs not to have the (D) by his name, and I think Rounds is much less popular than Thune. I am really curious what my TV is gonna look like this fall when spending ramps up. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026FWIW I was referring to the governor race, not senate - I don't think Bengs ever polled remotely close to Thune, but there was a Noem-Smith governor poll that was like 49-48 and got rubes like me excited for a while. 100
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For what it's worth, I'm treating this as a "fool me once..." situation after getting excited about a similarly close poll in a similar time of the 2022 governor race and then Noem won like 65-35 - this might be more a statement on Rounds' approval rather than actual voting preferences 100
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026He was the Democratic candidate against Thune last time, not a total unknown. 020
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I would like to think that @davidjroth.bsky.social and @drewmagary.bsky.social willed this post into being by mentioning him on the final Distraction today. Also, thanks for letting us hang out with you guys. I'm sad it's over but glad that this time you got to go out on your own terms. 040
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I don't know if I'm gonna be putting on this clerical collar again. 010
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It is! I wouldn't care as much if it were still the case that position players pitching was a few-times-a-year sort of thing, but I think the combination of "everyone is doing it" and "they are very much not trying" has made it a detriment to the game and we should discourage it. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026My idea is to make it punitive - if a position player gives up runs, the opposing team can defer them to the next game between the two teams. You can "save your bullpen" and let your backup catcher throw meatballs only if you're also willing to risk starting tomorrow's game down 5-0. 100
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Minnesota lawyers gotta be licking their chops, pre-drafting defamation suits to file on behalf of the poll workers and equipment companies he's about to accuse. 011
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As I am someone who thankfully has children old enough that I have been able to ignore Paw Patrol, can you elaborate on that? 100
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 05/08/2026100% agreed, plus it provided an excuse to rewatch his Obama video. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Along the same lines, Denny Hocking got spiked during the celebratory pileup after the Twins won the 2002 ALDS and missed the ALCS.espn.comESPN.com - MLB Playoffs 2002 - Infielder's finger spiked in post-ALDS celebrationInfielder David Lamb will take Hocking's place on the roster. In another move, the Twins will insert right-hander Bob Wells in the bullpen in place of Tony Fiore. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I came very close to quitting Fallen Order several times but plowed through, then when I tried Survivor I started it down one difficulty level from the default and had a MUCH better time (also the sequel didn't have all those damn "go down a slide then jump and catch a tiny rope" sections) 110
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 28/07/2026For some reason my brain processed "American hotels" in your first post as "American League" (no, I don't understand it either) and then I was trying to figure out if this was about Skydome. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I grew up 10 miles from where Hugh Glass was mauled and often think about how weird it is that there were bears there a hundred (well, now close to a hundred fifty) years ago. 000
Reposted by Jarid KvaleEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/07/2026Just found one of the Bored Apes trying to go through my trash. I called animal control and I assume it's dead. I hope so, at least. It seemed in terrible pain 1796998
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Ed's post was how I decided "nope, don't need to go reboot my router" 020
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Class of '97 (extremely rural) here, that all tracks - literally no out kids at my school, homophobic jokes and slurs thrown around extremely freely. Heck, it wasn't THAT much better at college - I knew several people who didn't feel comfortable coming out until after we graduated. 0130
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The problem is that the (mostly imagined) nostalgia is not just for "factory jobs", but for HIGH-PAYING factory jobs, and those aren't coming back no matter how many new factories we build. 011
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I would like to read an interview with these three people. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"engineered to hit pleasure receptors in the brain" is a very scary-sounding way to describe making things taste better, one of the primary pursuits in human history. 240
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Also they appear to be raising the bear for meat? 200
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Sons of the Desert! The original is FINE (and the Chicks did a pretty straight cover), but after twenty years of hearing the Chicks' version it was weird to hear a guy singing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wg...youtube.comGoodbye Earl - Sons of the DesertYouTube video by minihaha538 010
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Was absolutely mind-blown a couple years ago learning that "Goodbye Earl" is a cover, because it sounds so perfectly theirs. (also, I took my daughter to see the Chicks a couple years ago and it was GREAT, and I'm not much of an arena concert guy) 100
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I gotta say, Torv looks more like a "Brooks Herring" and vice-versa. 010
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I enjoy the different things they bring to the table (Hayes as a more traditional beat guy, Gleeman being Gleeman With Access), but it was always pleasantly surprising to me that they had two guys for this market. 000
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 07/05/2026My dumb-guy idea was that Obama should have had Garland just show up and seat himself, on the grounds that the Senate's "consent" was implied unless explicitly revoked (which would mean they'd at least have to do a confirmation vote). It was already a Constitutional crisis; why not escalate it? 130
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 06/05/2026came into this thread to see if anyone had mentioned CHANNEL 17, leaving satisfied 020
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"Explain your answers" sounds like something that would involve some level of self-reflection, a thing that Andreesen is explicitly opposed to. 110
Jarid Kvale @jaridkvale.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This is a very good and smart opinion. Just "Earth-2" (Space-2?) the EU back into existence and stop insisting that everything has to be CANON. Give us some Kyle Katarn content! 000
