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... and it's in the books! The season is now [archived](sportsclubstats.com/2023/footb) but I can make corrections if necessary; just let me know if you see any errors.

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@mjambon I'd guess it's because it's not very useful to quote a number when you can see "to the nearest cloud", so Yahoo only reports it on a clear day.

Another possibility might be humidity, but I wouldn't know why it's only sometimes shown in that case.

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The season is updated at [Sports Club Stats](sportsclubstats.com/football/C). There's still a week to go, but the remaining games can't affect the teams' finishing order at this point. As always, please let me know if I entered anything wrong.

@freemo on mobile, the key fingerprints are too wide and cause line breaks in places that make things hard to parse. Perhaps this would be clearer if you formatted them as two lines, each of five blocks, each of four characters, instead of all ten blocks on a single line.

@Bahais_Mexicali block them, wait a few seconds, then unblock them (so you don't have a block list filled with meaningless names of deleted accounts).

@mitch I think I'd prefer something in person to start with, at least until I know what I'm doing, and I also just don't do especially well with videoconferencing in general. It's probably moot though; at this point we're at different stages in our lives after all.

@mitch fun! I'd been recruited to play by a friend a couple years ago and I was excited to try it out, but the pandemic broke it up before we really got going.

@freemo At a quick guess, you're close, but it's energy, not moment. The nuclear decay processes are very short range and all the electrons know about it is via electromagnetism (since they don't participate in the strong interaction, the weak interaction is too short-range, and the electron's mass is too small for gravity to be important). If you want the electrons to leave their orbitals, you need to pump some energy into them. The less-negative electromagnetic potential energy from the reduced nuclear charge isn't necessarily enough for that to happen quickly - the atom just exists as a -2 ion for long enough that the alpha particle has time to escape.

I'm not a particle physicist; just trying piece together what I remember from undergrad physics.

@graand I think Dave's been a reasonable head coach over his tenure; a team unused to losing is just a bit on tilt. I'm less sold on Dave as the GM - time hasn't proved moving on from Bo to Maier to be a wonderful decision.

@graand yep. Cheering for the Stamps - I'd hoped for a Hamilton win so that Calgary's last two games would be meaningless for their opponents, but no such luck.

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If you're blind:

Does it help if we tag abstract art images in toots with an "alt" description? What kind of description do you appreciate?

(my take is: I label abstract paintings with just "abstract painting" so as to make them easy to ignore but I don't try to describe them because it would be futile in my opinion much like summarizing poetry)

@mitch that's not unreasonable, I guess, for someone attempting to transcribe the name by ear.

@mitch I have not seen that one; do you know how they arrived at that spelling? There was a Canadian satirist who based a fictional Eastern cult called Boohooism on Abdu'l-Baha's visit to Montreal - that's the closest I've seen.

@mitch It's always fun to read stuff published in Abdu'l-Baha's time, before Shoghi Effendi standardised the transliterations. You get weird spellings like Baha O'llah, as if He were Irish.

@LouisIngenthron It might actually be pipes (well, the hydraulic hoses) making the noise. Low-cost carriers like Spirit tend to have fleets of very uniform composition, so if that model normally has loud landing gear you'd expect to hear that on nearly all their aircraft and a smaller proportion of mainline carriers'.

@freepeoplesfreepress I'd guess it's a [gopher snake](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_). It's hard to tell scale from that photo, though; if it's much less than two feet I'm probably wrong.

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> things that will immediately prove worthless for their intended purpose

Those are the things that don't get repair tutorials made because the guy who bought it either didn't keep it long enough to need repairs, or when it broke he said "good riddance" and rather than waste time repairing such a lemon he replaced it.

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