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- Comment on Nuggets searching for offensive help via trade, eyeing Bulls’ Zach LaVine: Sources 3 days ago:
OOTL–did Murray fall off or get injured again? Haven’t watched much in a year or so, surprised to hear his name being bandied about.
- Comment on Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute 3 days ago:
There isn’t a struggling industry that venture capital money and lobbying can’t make much worse.
- Comment on Silver: NBA looking into 3-point volume critiques 3 days ago:
From people who can’t shoot them.
- Comment on Royal Mail remains based in UK in deal to bolster key services 6 days ago:
For a whole 5 years…then it can move its operations and taxes offshore.
US businesses wetting their lips for raping what little of the public services are left in US under trifecta trump.
- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 6 days ago:
For the basic plan, based on usage though it looks like you’d save more with our premium tier that allows unlimited flushes per day and includes our smellfesh scent subscription.
- Comment on Most Americans Feel Good About Their Job Security but Not Their Pay 1 week ago:
Arts orgs were devastated by the pandemic and have not made it back yet largely to prepandemic attendance/membership/etc. lots of non-profits are dependent on government grants and programs which may have ended or been reduced after funding that kept them afloat during the pandemic. Other than that what non-profit areas are you seeing cutting in?
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 2 weeks ago:
Up voted for the dark humor but sincerely it’s Feudalism. A central state nor laws cannot be relied on for order nor process so those with the means purchase or are anointed with safety and power.
- Comment on Filmmaker Oliver Stone on studios releasing older films on 4K Ultra HD 5 weeks ago:
Watch cruise in Magnolia too. I get what you’re saying and you’re generally right and I’m not much of a fan of his “cruise” films but the dude can act.
- Comment on KD Has Calf Strain 1 month ago:
“breaking news” 😞
- Comment on How did Luka Doncic complete this pass?? - ESPN Video 1 month ago:
Playing it as a bounce pass, with the ball moving up when received allows some of the inertial energy that is bouncing up rather than just literally to be used by the receiving player to take it up for the layup or dunk rather than have to corral that portion of the lateral energy in and still finish. Basically it’s the best way to move the ball as quickly to get it to that spot before defender notices and potentially intercepts it. Being a bounce pass also lowers the chance of control being lost as the lateral force is too great to handle quickly while also recipient is at speed.
Complex reasons why it was the perfect pass; doncic didn’t think about it, at this level it’s just intuitive that a chest pass is less ideal for a recipient on this cut. You see le ron make chest passes like this while misdirecting his eyes but those are often when the recipient is already on the block or more open.
How players pass in sports is often one of the best indicators of their skill: it can show not only awareness of the passer but when it’s perfect for the recipient it shows completely empathy and understanding of the recipients situation and takes it into account. E.g. in soccer, when an offensive player checks back/shows for the ball they often have their back to a defender coming at them; the passer however can often see the coming defender, and if there is a high level of trust and competency between passer and recipient, the passer will tell the recipient which way to turn their body when they receive the pass to avoid the defender’s tackle–simply by which foot/side of the body of the recipient the passer puts the ball on. There is not time for much verbal exchange and is all on trustz timing and feel, the advantage gained can be enormous for the attacking team and can lead to easily spinning around a defender for the pass recipient when executed–or a trip to the hospital if you’re an amateur. Passing matters.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 1 month ago:
That sniper rifle was so dope, but the accuracy of CPU players with an AK like across the map and then /gaspingsoundwhenhit was so frustrating lol
- Comment on pump up the jamz 1 month ago:
Goldeneye Surface level PTSD. Enemies beyond your sight horizon due to fog/snow, no map overlay for relative positioning, memorization was the only way to not get lost.
- Comment on The World’s Doomsday Plant Vault Gets Thousands of New Seeds 1 month ago:
I read the book Frostbite this year, which is the best book I’ve read in a few decades, think Fast Food Nation but for refrigeration. The final chapter was about the global seed vault and the authors visit to tour–thr tour was closed down because of water leaking in due to melt–wjich hadn’t happened before and had caused electrical and issues with the refilrigeration keeping the seed vault correctly temperatures and ventilated.
Even the grandest schemes won’t matter against the chaos ahead if we don’t drastically change.
- Comment on ‘The Terminator’ 40th anniversary: Remembering James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi classic 1 month ago:
- Comment on ‘The Terminator’ 40th anniversary: Remembering James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi classic 1 month ago:
The original is where he delivers the line and then crashes through the police station fam.
- Boeing workers reject contract proposal with 64% saying Boeing hasn't done enough.www.oregonlive.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Rudy Gobert, Wolves Agree to 3-Year, $110M Contract Extension; Updated NBA Salary Cap 1 month ago:
Right, I read the article, Rudy is loved and hated for different reasons and getting more money is likely disappointing and surprising to some. Retrospect will be all that settles the debate.
- Comment on Rudy Gobert, Wolves Agree to 3-Year, $110M Contract Extension; Updated NBA Salary Cap 1 month ago:
🤷 guess we’ll see how this looks in retrospect.
- Comment on NBA Rumors: Kawhi Leonard Out Indefinitely to Start 2024-25 Season amid Knee Injury 2 months ago:
Didn’t he come into a press conference after PG left and make a point to come and say he’s “not made about it” in a tone that seemed to say he was glad he left?
PG was at IMO his career best last year, moving on from Kwahi was clearly the play several years ago as he was never going to play substantial minutes again. Spurs knew it years ago and let him go and look where they are now?
I’m glad Kwahi got Toronto, it was a good storyline for him, and the city. Still thought he was overrated after Spurs.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 2 months ago:
More like ape-ex amirite
- Comment on Working-Class Men Are Not Okay 2 months ago:
Good news lads, you’re not “working class” if you have a college degree according to the rubric.
What 1960s bullshit is this? People with degrees might earn more but many are cuffed and strangled by loan debt. There is a Far Side I believe that has a panhandler and various folks passing him on the street with “net worth” bubbles over all of them and the panhandler is far ahead as he has no debt. Yes, it can work out that you finally get your college paid off and then have accelerated earnings, but the timeline has massively increased or even made indefinitely unachievable as MBAs started running institutions that formerly focused on education instead turned to egotistical expansion projects and luxurioxation of student experiences.
In a country where “at will” is the standard employment arrangement in 44/50 states, where layoffs have and increasingly do happen regularly with no notice, where there is anemic unemployment in most states that kicks citizens when they’re down…why the hell would anyone want to go to college and sign a multi decade, non-dismissable in bankruptcy debt contract? The same for housing. How are you supposed to feel confident in a 30-year mortgage when you get laid off ever 5-10 years?
I will completely agree, those who do not go to college often have even worse jobs, more physically brutal and dangerous jobs, but fuck.
We’re all working class if we have to work. Degree or not.
- Comment on The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South 2 months ago:
Been thinking about this and political implications of climate-driven migration this week.
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 2 months ago:
Tim walz–level confession
- Comment on Towns to New york 2 months ago:
I didn’t watch DVC in NY last year. NY definitely didn’t lose this trade, MN seems like lower odds of this being a good tradeoff for them. Unless Randle is exactly the same quality and fits the team, or they get super lucky on a mid first round pick, they basically gave away a big piece for multiple less good pieces.
- Comment on Towns to New york 2 months ago:
My first thought was MN won, but didn’t know Randle was hurt. Randle coming off injury and surgery is a pretty big gamble to take trading one of the top 3pt shooters in the entire league, forget among centers. In a league where it’s more valued each year, giving that up is enormous.
Divencezo, yes shooting 3 is great and a scrappy defender is high value but now who plays with/off Rudy?
Towns was kind of the odd man out in the playoffs with MN, his skills are wild but can see why MN let him go.
- Comment on Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure 2 months ago:
Healthcare, education, transportation…it’s like the opposite of the Life of Brian scene about the Romans talking about what they brought areas they took control of.
- Comment on ESPN lays off NBA senior writer Zach Lowe: Sources 2 months ago:
“just have AI do it”
- Comment on Whispers in the Woods 2 months ago:
Reminds of me and Edgar Allen Poe short story, Gold Bug.
- Comment on Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer. 2 months ago:
There are specific language in NLRA and other related labor bills defining terms of engagement, contracts, etc.
Just like the rest of business, they mean something. “Best and Final” doesn’t mean the last offer ever…it just means federal mediators might get involved. Corps won’t pay realistically and more and more are using mediators as a scapegoat so they don’t have to be the one to tell their board their approach is shit and won’t fly in a contact.
- Comment on Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer. 2 months ago:
Think of all the “extra” bolts that competent mechanics and engineers would put in airplane doors, you’d hurt margins…slightly. Hard no from Board.