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- Comment on Sources: OKC's Gilgeous-Alexander wins NBA MVP 1 week ago:
That’s how 20/20 perspective works.
TbF, I think George has played his best basketball with the clippers. Kawahi ruined the team before it got started, though that was on the clippers. Should have moved him years ago.
- Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism 1 week ago:
Found the anti-feminist! /s
- Comment on Celtics star Jayson Tatum has surgery on ruptured Achilles; no timetable for return 2 weeks ago:
Yeah cavs have yet to show mettle with a few good chances in their recent runs so they’ll probably look to mix it up. Where does Giannis end up? The East seems like it’s all falling apart.
- Comment on Edwards' halftime talk sparks Wolves to 3-1 lead 2 weeks ago:
If you didn’t already know Ants caliber from his weird rookie season due to COVID, his first playoffs in his second season 21-22 against Memphis showed all you need to know about what to expect next. It seems the general public started to catch on only in 23-24 because he simply is too talented and icy to ignore.
He is the absolute complete package.Honestly lots of Kobe and Jordan vibes, and that is almost never fair nor appropriate to say.
Min has the ability to beat OKC or Den if they made a comeback and they should absolutely beat NY (And I think Indiana) but would be super fun to see two new teams to the finals and NY would lose its mind even getting there. Min might just get a ring and be decently setup for a repeat.
- Comment on Celtics star Jayson Tatum has surgery on ruptured Achilles; no timetable for return 2 weeks ago:
Wow Tatum and Lillard, 2 top 20 players within a round of each other and we probably won’t see either during the regular season. with Giannis on the prowl for a new team, Lillard may be traded and have played his last game in. Bucks uniform, he’s not going to waste his last few years in MIL if Giannis bounces and MIL would be happy to be rid of his contract while rebuilding, though he’d be a great mentor if he stays.
Boston will have to shake things up around Tatum while he’s out.
Crazy how much different things could look a year and a half from now when both Tatum and Lillard return.
- Comment on Mavericks win NBA draft lottery with 1.8% odds 2 weeks ago:
Watch the video you’re responding to. This is the drawing.
They may theatrically reproduce it later but there is a reason E&Y rep and the speech happens at the beginning of the linked video. Billionaire money is on the line.
- Comment on Mavericks win NBA draft lottery with 1.8% odds 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mavericks win NBA draft lottery with 1.8% odds 2 weeks ago:
If I’m Spurs I call up Milwaukee and talk about Giannis.
My God what a team the Spurs would have, also not a terrible exit from relevance for Milwaukee. It was inevitable, might as well go gracefully.
- Comment on Giannis open to exploring best fits outside Bucks 2 weeks ago:
Where are possible fits that wouldn’t have to hit their talent or future to land him? If I’m Giannis, I’d plan an extra year in MIL to be able to go to a team much richer in talent and future and guarantee my next 4 or 5 are more successful.
- Comment on Unable to complete training videos, because the password reset link doesn't work. 2 weeks ago:
You are probably caught in a catch-22; many such HR systems didn’t used to require security questions to make resetting passwords easy. Then, of course with modern data breaches the companies over time added in the requirement. The problem being when they added the security question requirement, they didn’t do the critical piece of requiring all current users to update/create security questions so any login attempt outside SSO and you’re screwed. Someone else’s problem boss!
- Comment on Draft Executive Orders Aim to Speed Construction of Nuclear Plants | Potential actions could include overhauling the Nuclear Regulatory Commission & leaning on the U.S. military to deploy new reactors 2 weeks ago:
Oh good, a new Godzilla plot.
- Comment on No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines 2 weeks ago:
The irony of this great piece being published by the NYT as opinion rather than front page news and a rallying cry is the sad irony of the NYT business putting it’s political, advertising or financial fortunes ahead of the country it was founded in that is deeply wounded. That is of course the point of the oped.
It’s ok for papers to have a voice and a direction; if the NYT really presented progressive news with the same presumptive entitlement of its coverage of pro-business and it’s practices, unquestioningly hegemonic crap it has spun out for 30 years or more we wouldn’t be here.
- Comment on Gregg Popovich stepping down as Spurs coach to become team president 3 weeks ago:
Classic and classy dude. Impossible shoes to fill, he was as smart as he was honest and intolerant of bs.
- Comment on US House of Representatives Votes to Repeal California’s Clean Truck Policies | Lawmakers voted to stop the state from requiring that an increasing share of new trucks sold there have zero emissions. 3 weeks ago:
All christofacists want is to have it both ways, what’s so hard to accept?
- Comment on Damian Lillard tears Achilles, ending his season with Bucks on brink of elimination: Source 4 weeks ago:
A Portlander, I was rooting for him so hard to get one with the bucks. Seems like it never has lined up the way they needed to, real shame.
Who can afford Giannis if he decides to leave, I guess everyone but where would he want to go? He’d not want to loot his future team so may wait until he’s out of contract to leave so they get him on the free agent. Who would he want to play with who compliments his weaknesses? Who has enough to make it interesting for him?
- Comment on Todd Howard Reaffirms Bethesda Is Currently Developing The Elder Scrolls 6 5 weeks ago:
On the back of a wagon? More like back of a 🐉 we are dragonborn not some Falkreath yokel. Into 6 we go riding in style!
- Comment on Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen 5 weeks ago:
Plausible reasons for petty theft while the actual handoff of whatever was given to the Russians or whoever paid for the USB payload of data sewed inside it goes unknown. She gets to claim it must have been hacked when her purse was stolen, the thieves get out data or crypto keys or access or etc. and she has a big crypto wallet with her name on it waiting for when she exits government…if she does.
- Comment on Baby Bonuses, Fertility Planning: Trump Aides Assess Ideas to Boost Birthrate 5 weeks ago:
…And affordable housing, childcare, education, public transportation, affordable, accessible healthcare…any and all of these are necessary to create an environment someone would want to raise a child in. They take money away from the ultra wealthy and military contractors though so are anethema to the conservative monster.
- Comment on NBA awards finalists 5 weeks ago:
When was the Clutch player of the year introduced? Am I getting senile? Maybe this has been around a long time and I just thought it was an informal title, not an actual award…
- Comment on Democrats Step Up Trump Resistance as Base Hungers for More of a Fight 5 weeks ago:
Concepts of a plan
- Comment on ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible 1 month ago:
Who doesn’t want 800 versions of “it’s fucking connected” for home Internet like we have for cell phones? Innovation! Think of the unnecessary choices, gotchas, customer service queues, class action lawsuits that are much more difficult thanks to the supreme Court a few years back… what’s not to love?
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Rises 4% to Nearly $52 Million 1 month ago:
And then one day the shareholders will wonder why they GE or Boeing or Sears.
Short-termism can be seen not only in corporate raider practices but embedded into “best practices” of management since the 80s. Sell anything for a short-term stock boost, bail before it implodes, the vacuum left behind us someone else’s problem. It’s wild that boardrooms, having this as fully visible, aren’t structured to have longer-term incentive pay packages. Pay them what they make now but have it wholly depend on variables outside of stock price. Do the right things and success often follow, it’s when “investors must be satisfied” becomes the management guidance that it all turns to shite.
- Comment on Tariff Live Updates: Trump Backs Down on Reciprocal Tariffs for 90 Days 1 month ago:
Just yesterday’s announcement, if you had bought short term options on a stock based on the inside information of the announcement, and it went up 12-20% could easily have returned hundreds or thousands of percentage return on the bet. It’s already happened. Full dictator casino.
The question is, how often will it happen and how broadly will the withdraw from a shit country’s stock market be?
- Comment on An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter | The global trading system is one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan to replace it 1 month ago:
Concepts
- Comment on Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern 1 month ago:
Totally give in. Invite federal Truth Police on campus. These institutions have no duty to their mission, only making the line go up, just like the insanity they used to be able to critique. It’ll get worse, but also better much sooner with capitulation. We should speed run this part. Might have armed revolt by memorial day.
- Comment on Wall Street Bursts With Anger as Trump Tariffs Cause Wild Stock Market Swings 1 month ago:
Businesses need “certainty” in the boardroom. It’s why they support Republican candidates who focus on “the economy”.
I hope they choke in the absolute certainty they’re being delivered.
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- Comment on Report: Disney Is Putting the Live-Action Tangled on Hold 1 month ago:
Narrator: “they are all pointless cash grabs”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Action in general is what audiences have been conditioned to accept for blockbusters, when language barriers and dubbing and subtitles and regional release dates were more of an issue 20+ years ago action is what international audiences came for. As international box office receipts can far outstrip local revenue, it’s regression to the mean or maybe “lowest common denominator”. Visual spectacle, after all is what movies can do in spades…but since everyone has been trying to make a “matrix” action moment for almost 30 years again it just means scripts and plots get subsumed by “needs more adrenaline for audiences”. Like an impatient teenager.
The best movies will always have balance, and build to action where appropriate, but we’re nearly 3 decades in to “lacking plot, directoral skill, acting, good dialogue?–throw special effects and long action sequences in”. It’s like a highschool story paper that needs to be 5 pages and you wrote 2 so add a bunch of filler. It’s a shame, visual effects, cinematography and a good action sequence are as impactful as anything else, but have been given an outsized role that boils down to “what can a casual, normal moviegoer be impressed by”?
- Comment on Steph Curry drops 52 in close win vs Grizzlies 1 month ago:
12/20 behind the line, 4/11 2-pointers lol. Absolutely solid playable game if you reverse those for an average NBA player.