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I am supposed to turn in a major project, and I'm so far behind. I have adhd and my executive dysfunction has been out of control for weeks. I am already two days past the deadline, and nobody has called me on it yet, but the minute they do shit will hit the fan.

I'm scrambling to pull something together, but it's not going to be enough.

I know everybody is probably sick of hearing that the lotto is a tax on people who are bad at math, but it's far more deceptive than just a complicated expected value equation. Powerball and Mega Millions advertising the sum total of a thirty year annuity as the value of the jackpot is simply a lie. It is false. No, the Powerball is not $248 million dollars. That's literally not what the value of the jackpot is worth.

Advertisements are prohibited from being deceptive because people are gullible. If you were selling jars of tomato sauce, and when people opened them up, they find a bunch of tomato seeds, that would be less of a lie than the current promotion for lotto tickets. You wouldn't be able to say "well, everyone knows that the jars don't have the sauce yet. Eventually, the tomatoes will grow and you can make sauce with them, or we can plant them for you and send you a few tablespoons of sauce every year." You'd be laughed out of court and right into jail, because that's fraud.

You could still have the lotto without the fraud. It would still be a tax on people bad at math. $70 million dollars is functionally equivalent to $248 million, in that it's enough money to change your life forever. People could still purchase the dream of a better life for $2 each, and most of the same people still would because gambling is an addiction. You could be completely honest about how unfair the game is, and people would still happily play.

And that's what bugs me about it. It's so unnecessary. No other casino or gambling establishment could get away with something so transparently dishonest, and they don't have to while still making money hand over fist.

Haven't seen any posts all year.

“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

Look, we're obviously not the best team. We have significant flaws, and Embiid cannot carry this team by himself.

But how can you not be hyped after watching Batum raining threes and Tobias on the bench? Embiid took his time getting it together, but he got it done when it mattered.

We can beat the Knicks. We can beat anybody if we play our best.

Maybe we don't. Maybe we lose again and everybody starts thinking about next year.

But we are still in this. The Philadelphia 76ers still have a chance to show the world what they can do as a team. So let's get hyped and enjoy the ride!

I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

Basically title. I'm curious how others are watch the game. I cut cable a long time ago, and have Hulu live for this season, but it's just awful. Their app sucks, the unskippable ads are all over the place, and tonight it started recording at 4:30.

So what is everyone else using?

Has this ever happened to you? There's a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he's back, taunting you.

Ok so obviously flies don't taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I'm holding a deadly weapon?

Anybody else want to see all five on the court together and just have them make a giant wall around the paint? No? Alright, me neither then.

So what the fuck is Morey doing?