I wrote about the record profits oil companies are taking in.
Chevron, Exxon and Shell netted $46 billion in Q2, and over $70 billion in 2022—a 275.6% increase from this point last year.
neverleave.substack.com/p/big-oil-sees…
Trading away Juan Soto will definitely for sure make your team worse in the short term, long term, any term. Trading for Juan Soto will definitely for sure make your team better. Trading him is just not a competitive, strategic, or acceptable move. Leagues broken folks.
I see the haters and losers (sandhill cranes) are once again praying on my downfall (predating the focal amphibian species in our translocation project)
the ecological collapse you thought might happen in your children or grandchildren’s lifetime is in fact happening right now theguardian.com/environment/20…
The Islanders out in BC already doing this and it’s worked very well for sponsorship (name has a tie to their community on Vancouver Island) and sounds cool. I’d love to see more teams adopt it
Curling Club of Virginia has released an open letter regarding Jeff Plush and the USAC Board.
NOTE: The letter in this tweet has been updated to correct an error.
WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?
The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”
If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.
A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀
Since 2010, there have been two teams to win the World Series with a payroll outside the top 10. The '15 Royals (good luck repeating that) and the '17 Astros (who jumped to 11 the very next offseason). We should not allow teams who do not invest to keep saying their goal is a WS
How tf does Pete Weber have two of the hardest lines in sports history lmfao. “Who do you think you are? I am!” and “hate me or love me, you watched. That’s all you could do” are INSANE bars
I object to this chart, because it turns out that the reconstruction of a single location based on an ice core drilled 40 years ago in Greenland that ends in 1885 is not a good representation of global temperatures. If we use hundreds of sites and proxy records worldwide we get:
Welcome to our current pandemic paradox.
About two-thirds of the world is vaccinated, which prevents death and disease, but not reinfection.
And, their effectiveness wanes against immune-evasive variants.
Andrew Nikiforuk explains Pandemic Year #4.thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/…
Here are the big takeaways from the IPCC Synthesis Report released today.
First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.
Absolutely beautiful. Fans and players are what the game is all about. Owners are fortunate mediocrities profiting off something special between those two parties.