Recent content by MacMadame

I guess those are Biblical seconds then. ;)

This is what the ISU should have done with the Team Event in '22.

The WaPo did an analysis of these long cargo ships losing power and concluded that it happens a lot and often near bridges and ports: ‘We’re a dead ship’: Hundreds of cargo ships lost propulsion in U.S. waters in recent years While the ship that felled the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore...

Bob Graham, former FL Governor and Senator: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/politics/bob-graham-dies/index.html

Yes! I'm looking forward to Season 2 though.

We binge-watched Fallout last night. Mr Mac wasn't as enamored of it as I was. I got really invested in some of the characters. However, I spent most of the evening complaining about how stupid some of the characters were. Okay, most of the characters. :lol: How did they survive an apocalypse...

Elite athletes are crazy. :D

I haven't seen any evidence they intend to do that though. We don't know why FL fell through but there is more going on in FL than just being a red state so I doubt that was the only reason.

An opinion piece on the subject: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/12/oj-simpson-death-nicole-brown-domestic-abuse

It kind of sounds like a design flaw to me. Not a major one but if something continually isn't maintained properly over various airlines, there is probably something in the design that makes it easy to improperly maintain it.

I disagree. There can be multiple causes. Life is complex.

According to her book, there were issues before that with the pressure she felt. She mentioned how stories about her name put pressure on her, in particular. So I think there was a combination of things going on some of which was under USFS's control.

She kind of was but she didn't have to be. I hope USFS learns a bit from her story in that regard too. I understand that they are kind of in a bind that they have to market the sport and you can't do that without marketing the skaters but I think they need to do it differently. So first of all...

She does mention a therapist so I think she is. Part of me thinks this isn't any of our business but then again, she did write a book about it. I just hope she's okay.

I found the last section of the book concerning. She's still freaking out before competitions, for example. She also talks about how maybe she'll be able to do a 3x or a quad someday while showing up at 2023 Nationals with a hip injury so bad, it impacted her FS so she dropped a couple of...