DC United's cheapest *seated* ticket for next season is $880. That would give them the 3rd most expensive "cheap" ticket IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE MLS clubs are charging prices for season tickets as if they were THE top league in the world. It's unbelievably greedy and stupid.

Exhibit number one on why Wall Street, private equity, and profit motive in general should be removed from healthcare

Only 25% of kids regularly play out on their street. This number used to be 80%. Adults have ruined play. Why? Fear & Safetyism. When we see threats everywhere, we default to avoid and protect mode. And it's ruining our kids mental health. Here's why:

“what do you want to be for Halloween” in bed by 10

Best of 3 is such a bad idea……

There's an order of monastic Orcs that punch demons back into hell. There's a country where halflings ride dinosaurs into battle. There's a place where the dwarves dug so deep they pissed off Cthulhu. Saying it's just all Sharn and magitech isn't fair #Eberron

Ban Congressional stock trading. It’s corruption.

Allowing members of Congress to trade stocks is like allowing referees bet on sports. It’s corruption. Democrats do it. Republicans do it. It must end.

Why the fuck did people let companies replace pensions with terrible 401ks. Why was there no backlash to that?Why didn't anyone stop what is abundantly a terrible thing?

If MLS wants to play these games with US Soccer, then if I was US Soccer I’d do everything I could to give USL a pathway to D-1 status and help establish them a viable alternative to MLS USL will never be as big as MLS but it could get big enough to be interesting with some help

The 3 day weekend should be the standard. We need to change full-time culture to 4 days and 30 hours a week max. Our bodies need rest.

Weird concept that paying your employees more money and providing them more flexibility leads to higher employee happiness.

Real question: Why is UBI resulting in people working less bad? People can spend time on leisure, arts, hobbies, other non-monetary pursuits, no?

If Wizards of the Coast failed to release their core D&D rulebooks in physical form and went all digital, I suspect that their audience would drop to a fifth of its current size... before the realities of network externalities drove it even lower.

Tapping the sign

Great work by Dakota Lindwurm and Emily Sisson representing the US at the Olympic Marathon. Fiona O’Keefe dropped at 5k due to injury. If you knew you were injured, why not let the alternate run? #runchat #olympics