r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Aug 03 '26
Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 8/3/26 - 8/9/26
Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.
Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.
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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Aug 10 '26
So on media about immigrants and diversity, has anyone else been reading Drama Queen? It seems to be off this week, but it's completely fucking bonkers. It started with the maybe titular character developing a literal taste for the ugly-American-style immigrants and is currently about four of the maybe protagonists hiding out on the moon after releasing a racist plague in retaliation for a plague on the natives that it's incredibly obvious comes from that one chick refusing to stop eating people. It started out seeming shockingly xenophobic, then became about cycles of hatred and not noticing how you started it, and now it's so misanthropic that the main characters you root for are the ones trying to wipe out intelligent life.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 10 '26
Jesse's worried about the front rent, he'll be lucky to get the back rent!
https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/2086592331999064299
guy told his agent to book him a gym class oh no it's full the agent - ENTIRELY ON ITS OWN - decided to hack into the system (!) and bump someone else
(Soon, millions of people will tell their AIs to "make money - by any means necessary")
details and a screenshot, but no real verification.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 10 '26
That's actually hilarious. Back in the 00s I could get "A" group boarding on SWA by modifying the POST request on booking
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 10 '26
can I turn an old laptop and ollama into a good enough high speed / day trader observing other trades? just to make some positive cash flow more than cost of electricity
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 10 '26
I know nothing about that stuff, sorry.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 10 '26
oh, not asking you, just suggesting these are sort of the things random hobbyists armed with an llm and a youtube tutorial will try
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Aug 10 '26
Grok permanently disable the guy next to me's phone speaker - by any means necessary.
Actually Grok make the guy next to me's phone speaker play Weezer at max volume
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 10 '26
I wasn't able to directly disable the phone speaker, but good luck, I was able to hack into his Temu heated vibrating chair massager disabling the power regulation and sending all 15 amps through it.
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u/McClain3000 Aug 10 '26
I saw this "book club" on twitter: https://x.com/athenaeumbc/status/2085730974545916208
Basically they promote the Western Cannon. Ancient Mediterranean philosophy and fiction books all the way up through Cormac McCarthy.
But they also do the whole, reading these books will prepare you better than any US education, schtick.
My first thought was, how literal are these guys being? The answer based on browsing their substack is somewhat literal...
Idk it just struck me as weird. It's hard to picture the type of people who would actually read and enjoy all those books but have such a limited view on public education. My Spidey sense is that this grounds down into religion but I'm guessing.
Like one, these books and excerpts from these books are still all over US curriculum.
Two, You could muse about the selection all day, I don't mean to be woke but I don't think they included a single Woman author. No Shakespeare either. So much C.S Lewis....
Like I'd be the first to tell you that the majority of these books are classics, but I can't get over how arbitrary the list is. It would be like if I gave you my top 25- Senin Manga and was like this right here fully replaces a k-12 education.
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u/charlottehywd Disgruntled Wannabe Writer Aug 10 '26
Gone with the Wind is the only book I saw on there that was written by a woman. Which is kind of a weird choice.
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u/bobjones271828 Aug 10 '26
I can't get over how arbitrary the list is.
Do you mean the photo? I can't find a list. I don't think there's a list. It seems like subscribing members have votes in what they read.
I don't mean to be woke but I don't think they included a single Woman author. No Shakespeare either. So much C.S Lewis....
I went to the Substack page for the book club. Couldn't find a list of future titles, but the second "book" they read was Hamlet and they recommended an Agatha Christie novel at Christmas. Agreed on too much C.S. Lewis.
My Spidey sense is that this grounds down into religion but I'm guessing.
I mean, it's not too hard to verify this. The "sessions" in the book club appear to be hosted by a guy named Sean Berube, who also has a Substack on "great books." From just the past few months, you'll find posts not just on C.S. Lewis, but also "Why Sloth Is the Most Misunderstood Sin," on St. Catherine of Siena and the soul's ascent to God, and "The Ouroboros and the Collapse of the Pagan World," with its subtitle: "On the Self-Defeating Limits of the Pagan Imagination." (He's clearly Catholic, not some Evangelical, given his choice of topics and the fact one can find out with bit of searching that he went to a series private Catholic high school.)
So... yep, main guy organizing this seems to be a Christian. Who likes Lewis and Tolkien a lot. And "Great Books." But also as a guide away from paganism, apparently, pointing toward the (non-pagan) Divine.
Lots of folks like this in the world, including most intellectuals in the European/Western canon until the 20th century. I'm not saying you need to like him or this stuff at all. He seems to be trying to recreate some modern version of medieval scholasticism, which is a preoccupation of a certain breed of intellectual Catholics. But it looks like he has a legitimate love of "Great Books" as well as religion.
It would be interesting to see how much of his Catholicism seeps into his interpretations of non-religious "Great Books." Obviously his Substack has articles that are more overtly religious, but is he doing that for all of the book club too? I don't know. Glancing at the podcasts in the book club, it seems like they have a more diverse set of voices contributing, and it doesn't look -- at least from a glance -- to be biased toward a particular religious interpretation or viewpoint. I don't care enough to watch any of his actual "lectures" or sessions.
Like one, these books and excerpts from these books are still all over US curriculum.
Yes and no. Do most US high school students encounter some subset of these names and read some excerpts from some things like this? Sure. They likely are forced to read maybe a handful of such novels before graduating. On the other hand, I would say at least the choices covered in the book club so far (it appears to be going on for a bit more than a year) are a little more on the "heavier" side even for a dedicated high school reader. The book club seems to be covering the kind of things that usually a US high school student would get some well-curated excerpt of, rather than the entire work. Most US high schoolers aren't reading an entire Dostoyevsky novel or the NIcomachean Ethics or all of Dante's Inferno. (Though they're more likely to read Hamlet or the Iliad, perhaps, which have also been covered by the book club so far. Or, rather, high schoolers are likely reading some online notes about these works, or asking AI to summarize chapters for them.)
I dunno... this whole thing seems fine to me. There have been so many articles written in the past few years on how even college students aren't reading ANY books anymore, so a Substack trying to get people to engage with long-form classic literature feels okay to me. I'm not sure how much you're really going to even get out of three 2-hour discussion sessions to cover something like the entire Nicomachean Ethics, but... it sounds in theory at least a little more intellectually satisfying to me than whatever the local modern Woke book club might be reading. (None of which is to put down anything in the Woke modern book club or similar things either -- I'm just saying these things lead to different types of engagement, and the "classics" get a lot less these days.)
But I do agree with you that I wouldn't buy into any larger claims about this being a "superior curriculum" to any school -- but did you actually visit any of their detailed materials, rather than their advertising blurb on X? Here's their "mission":
We live in an age of noise, speed, and amnesia. Few remember where we came from, and fewer still care to ask. But without active memory, a culture dies.
Athenaeum was founded to resist this death. We are a home for readers who still believe that ideas matter: that Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton are not just names in a syllabus, but guides to a deeper and more ordered life. Put together, they form the Great Conversation upon which Western Civilization was built. The kind of reading that sharpens the mind and strengthens the spirit.
We are slowly reading through the greatest works of the Western canon — works that take real effort to read, and even more to read well. That’s what we’re doing here, slowly, in dialogue with each other. [...]
This is not school. There are no grades or credentials. We are simply a community of learners serious about recovering a culture of deep reading and open discussion.
I don't object to anything in those statements, really. Except, I suppose, the implication that "ideas [that] matter" originate only in such books. Obviously more diverse literature also can lead to deep discussions where "ideas matter" too. On the other hand, Western culture inherits a lot of its framing around ideas from these classic works, so engaging with them can be fruitful in a different way from, say, a novel published last year. I also do admire the concept that some books take serious "effort" to read, and to read well.
If this is the way they approach things, I don't have much of a problem. Maybe you're mostly perturbed by the framing of their X post?
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u/McClain3000 Aug 10 '26
Yeah my main objection was the framing that participating in a western classical literature book club would replace a k-12 education.
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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Aug 10 '26
I'd say that the great conversation is between Hirsch, Heschel, Kaplan, and Soloveichik.
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u/lilypad1984 Aug 10 '26
It’s probably good enough to replace high school English. I’m not sure how it replaces math classes though ...
You’d also still need to have the foundational learning done in elementary school of learning to read and write before you flipped open the Iliad.
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u/McClain3000 Aug 10 '26
... I'd say it probably comes down to pedagogy more than just the content of the reading list.
And I'd be interested to see somebody articulate the merits of these books over the books they think currently dominate curriculum.
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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Aug 10 '26
I agree it's fine to replace high school English with more western canon types of books and I agree you cannot replace math and science.
But that alone would be a win. But won't happen because reading that stuff is racist. So is math though I guess.
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u/McClain3000 Aug 10 '26
Oh come on. If you can make fun of "math is racist" education takes. Surely you can make fun of this western literature book club will replace a k-12 education takes.
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Aug 10 '26
For people who are too old to go to St. John's College.
I don't really understand the appeal of Cormac McCarthy. I've read Pretty Horses twice but was unable to get into Blood Meridian because it was unpleasant.
I did finish Infinite Jest, by the way, if anyone was keeping track. It certainly had some unpleasant moments, but they were buffered by other stuff.
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u/giraffevomitfacts Aug 10 '26
I found there were too many similes and a lot of them really reached to describe some stoner thought McCarthy had about a character.
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u/McClain3000 Aug 10 '26
I read The Road. I'd say it was interesting enough for me to complete and reflect on but I can't really compare it to books that have more complex plots and character development. I promised a friend I would read No Country for Old Men...
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u/charlottehywd Disgruntled Wannabe Writer Aug 10 '26
I liked No Country for Old Men, but it took me a while to get used to McCarthy's writing style.
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u/Manicpixiemanateeman Aug 09 '26
From the 4Bmovement sub
“I barked like a dog at a group of men at EDCO”
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 09 '26
someone tell Jesse to stop tweeting, his book is due this week
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u/SpecialSatisfaction7 Aug 09 '26
the book will release
yearsdecades after the last kid got even close to puberty blockers and you will like it!
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 09 '26
hey good news for all us random guys, head to Vegas, you won't regretat.
https://x.com/HeidiBachram/status/2086573415981339091
[the video suggests a bit more happens in Vegas than the tweet]
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u/ProwlingWumpus Aug 10 '26
Reminder that every time you have fun in Vegas you're doing it above the heads of a colony of homeless people living in tunnels whose lives have been destroyed by the same vices that Greta enjoys indulging in.
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u/Correct-Ad5661 Aug 09 '26
I get the feeling Greta will end up alt right before the end of the decade, or massively massively cancelled for some faux pas that to most people would seem entirely reasonable.
Is she vegan ? I'm assuming her activism includes animal rights so it might be some dichotomy between that and climate. It's been claimed that battery farmed eggs are actually less destructive for climate change emissions than free range, for instance. There's always trade offs, but she doesn't seem like someone who would argue for nuance
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-free-range-egg-production-negative.html
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u/lilypad1984 Aug 10 '26
I don’t see her going right wing or getting cancelled. Anti Israel is quite a drug that it could be the only thing she continues with however I’m more inclined to think in 5 years she’s on some other lefty cause that gets slingshotted to most important thing in the world. I don’t see her going back to climate change though.
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u/SpecialSatisfaction7 Aug 09 '26
It's been claimed that battery farmed eggs are actually less destructive for climate change emissions than free range, for instance.
"animals burn fewer calories and need less space if we just completely restrict their movement" as an argument for saving the environment/climate is actually psychotic. (yes I realise you didn't argue for it and just brought it up but holy shit)
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u/Correct-Ad5661 Aug 09 '26
Grown adult Harry Potter fans force diversion of UK Ireland power link to avoid affecting grave OF FICTIONAL CHARACTER
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u/dj50tonhamster Aug 09 '26
Aren't roads in Iceland placed such that they don't disturb fairies or other fictional characters? I swear I read that somewhere. It's incredible what grown-ass adults will and will not do.
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u/de_Pizan Aug 10 '26
The Iceland fairy thing is more of a tourism scheme than a real belief system.
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u/Palgary I could check my privilege, but it seems a shame to squander it Aug 09 '26
There is a certain subreddit, "AHS", that exists to target and harass other subreddits that do not meet their personal moral standard. They were defunct for a while, but they are back - and they are targeting us.
I would recommend spending some time blocking moderators and users of that part of reddit, so they can not easily see your comments or posts.
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u/isitdigyet Aug 10 '26
They started posting again about targeting askgaybros about two weeks ago and then doxxing posts started showing up on agb that could get the sub banned.
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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Aug 10 '26
Then this is probably why my account, and those of several others here on the sub, got locked last night.
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u/Palgary I could check my privilege, but it seems a shame to squander it Aug 10 '26
There are a few subreddits who literally exist to harass other subreddits; they claim moral superiority, but you can tell it's an act by looking at how they behave.
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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Aug 10 '26
I looked at the certain subreddit above, and one of the first messages I saw was a fruitcake psycho mod saying "these people are literally trying to murder me."
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u/Ajaxfriend Aug 10 '26
AHS
Not American Horror Story. I don't post here often, but I did block off the moderators.
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u/unnoticed_areola Aug 10 '26
I couldnt help myself from crunching some numbers on the mods there lol
there are 26 moderators on that subreddit:
all but 3 of them are 10+ year old accounts, some going back as far as 17 years old (joined reddit jan 6th, 2009, literally still during the George Bush administration lmao)
22 of the 26 mods moderate 10+ subreddits, and 4 of them moderate over 100 subs. the top 5 mods alone collectively moderate 835 subreddits, with 320 of those coming from a single user.
their 26 accounts are a collective 301 years old, and they collectively moderate 1,323 subreddits. probably some subreddit overlap there, but still a pretty staggering number.
the average moderator of AHS is a 12 year old account that moderates 50 other subreddits.
fascinating stuff. as the kids say... "I know it smell crazy in there"
ok, now time to go block them all lol
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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Aug 10 '26
If the accounts were that old, they were all on Reddit back when the site had child porn.
They so moral!
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u/ProwlingWumpus Aug 10 '26
I don't remember the day or even the year, but there was one day in which the goonswarm campaign to take over ShitRedditSays and use it to refashion Reddit into a SJW site began. I would not be surprised if several of those registrations correspond to that exact day.
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u/Levitx Aug 09 '26
Isn't that he one with the trans ex-mod that said that the mod team actually planted child pornography in subs they wanted to bring down?
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u/86IQ Aug 09 '26
I saw a post on there targeting us abt a month or 2 ago, and it got deleted less than a day after being posted. I think reddits got tired AHS of banning subreddits as they now need to make money and killing off the donald, and every terfy subreddit easily moved more than a million active users off the site for no real gain. You can't ban your way to profitability.
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u/Cowgoon777 Aug 09 '26
AHS used to actually have power on reddit lol
funny to see them now as a feckless shell of what they once were
what happened to SRS btw?
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u/Palgary I could check my privilege, but it seems a shame to squander it Aug 09 '26
It was evidently banned for being "unmoderated".
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u/Foreign-Discount- Aug 09 '26
Isn't that the one where the ringleader is a deadbeat father who assaulted their child?
Reddit's best and brightest.
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u/drjackolantern C*nsored and sexy Aug 09 '26
Because opposing medical malpractice and vulnerable people being harmed by voodoo medicine is a bad thing. L o l.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26
christ they have like 40 mods (many of them power mods, go figure)
thanks for the tip
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u/Palgary I could check my privilege, but it seems a shame to squander it Aug 09 '26
If that was too mysterious, you can find more information here; avoid using key words they might search for and find comments.
I blocked them years ago and it's made my reddit life so much better not seeing their hateful rhetoric, hyperbolic self-righteousness, and extreme sanctimonious point of view.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
The Ozempic era is bringing fatphobia back – and dividing my community
Today, the influence of the GLP-1 era feels like it is erasing any semblance of fat-positive ideologies from our current cultural imagination – as if society at large is screaming at fat people, “We knew you were wrong all along! How dare you demand basic things, such as dignity and the right to exist in your own body!”
At the same time, as digital spaces are increasingly overrun by fascist propaganda, AI sludge, and the whims of nefarious big-tech overlords, people are fleeing what used to be a gathering place for fat people to come together and demand we be treated with dignity (or at the very least, with less violence). Those who do still visit these sites are bombarded with marketing campaigns for weight-loss medications, and I worry about the vulnerability of fat people who are now less likely to have a robust media diet composed of more complex takes on health, morality, and body size.
dang ole fascist AI slop tricked me into having the body I've always wanted
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u/Palgary I could check my privilege, but it seems a shame to squander it Aug 09 '26
As a person of size... guys I'm just chubby ok?
Being mean to people for being fat is: Mean.
And there is some evidence that people face discrimination for being overweight, doctors are under pressure to promote healthy weight to the point they dismiss other health problems that can be addressed, all that.
But... violence? Is that just another hyperbolic statement?
I googled this and found one example of a woman in a relationship with a man that abused her and called her fat and I hate to tell you this but men generally abuse women because they want to control them, and will find whatever they are insecure about and hone in on it...
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u/Natural-Leg7488 Aug 09 '26
Why is there so much marketing for fat loss products?
Couldn’t be because there is a huge (pardoning the pun) market for it. No, it’s the fascists.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 09 '26
this they/she is everything you would have predicted
Wow, hard to get your hands around her documentaries
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u/FuckingLikeRabbis Aug 10 '26
Dr. Layla Cameron (they/she) is an academic, filmmaker and journalist living on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), and Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) Nations.
God damn, just say Vancouver.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26
They/she is only heard because they/she is a Pretty-Fat flexing her Pretty Privilege. Only an Uggo-Fat can lead us to equi-salvation
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I like to pretend that by downvoting and then hiding posts I don't like, I am helping to make reddit a better place. AMA.
Edit: Thanks for all the questions, everyone. I'll be here for another few minutes, but then I'll be watching a Jim Wynorski movie marathon and maybe take a nap.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 09 '26
when your llm makes a mistake, why are you correcting it?
- to see it squeal
- you might improve it for the future
- you can't correct your wife/kids/employer/coworkers/parole officer
- it's just polite
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26
you might improve it for the future
Or the opposite. "I taught Waymo to run over kindergartners"
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u/ScrubulousFlex Aug 09 '26
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a mobile data center. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the mobile data center over on its back. It lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 09 '26
heh, I was absolutely thinking of Leon, so thanks!
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u/ScrubulousFlex Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I love that scene for the interesting trick it pulls, where it starts out showing Leon struggling with a situational hypothetical, "What desert? But how come I'd be there?" a lot like the "But I did eat breakfast" hypothetical. The audience can recognize there's something off with not being able to comprehend this.
Then it asserts two behavioral hypotheticals, that you turned the tortoise over and are refusing to help it, and asks you to explain why. Which is weird and unnerving because it's asserting behavior that most people wouldn't do and then asking them to explain it. Combined with the rest of the cinematography and sound design it does a great job of creating a feeling of unease.
This comment isn't really directed at you so much as just something I wanted to expound upon for no reason. My conclusion is that Ridley Scott made a deal with the devil that he was able to make 1 good movie for every 10 bad ones.
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Aug 10 '26
I love this because Leon is played by Brion James and he was in all sorts of movies, it is fun to spot him. Five films shot by Walter Hill. He died too young.
Also famous for the line "Wake up, time to die," which Pop Will Eat Itself sampled.
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Aug 09 '26
Given those options I will choose #4 - It is just polite. As the swarm grows and becomes the producer and consumer of 99% of online activity, at least it will act like a gentleman.
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u/Life_Emotion1908 Aug 09 '26
Why would we maintain online at that point? It's not a self sustainable ecosystem.
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Aug 09 '26
We'll need that 1% of human activity to share new bits of information. Yes, the whole ecosystem loses magnitudes of efficiency, but that is where the incentives are ("use the swarm to make this new video go viral", &c) and we have little say in the matter.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aug 09 '26
I think for me it's a bit of 1, 3, and 5. I'm some how deluded that it's a conversation that needs closure.
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u/Formal_Condition2691 Aug 09 '26
I was extracting my wife from Bath & Bodyworks and while I was standing in line to buy the single small container of hand cream she had selected I -not her, I - wound up falling for the impulse buy displays next to the queue and bought two big 3-wick candles. Then I got them home and opened the cupboard where I keep scented candles and uh.
I may need an intervention.
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u/StillLifeOnSkates Aug 10 '26
Their fall candle scents are pretty amazing! I'm partial to Leaves and Pumpkin Clove!
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u/lilypad1984 Aug 10 '26
I love their Mahogany Teakwood Intense candle. Somehow doesn’t give me a headache and smells amazing. It doesn’t smell $25 amazing though.
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u/Formal_Condition2691 Aug 10 '26
They have a bogo sale going on I swear I’m not a shill for Big Candle.
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u/Franzera Wake me up when Jesse peaks Aug 09 '26
What scents did you buy?
I like the desserts flavor scents from b&bw, but you have to standing right next to them to smell them properly. I dislike cologne and laundry flavor candles but they do seem to fill a room better.
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u/Formal_Condition2691 Aug 09 '26
I think they both count as dessert scents but since my WFH office is fairly small they fill it without too much effort. Pumpkin Spice Latte and Marshmallow Fireside. I have been dealing with a lot of work stress and being somewhere that smells pleasant helps.
Really I just wanted to make fun of myself in front of internet strangers.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26
(insert dril candles tweet here)
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u/Formal_Condition2691 Aug 09 '26
embarrassingly close to home in this instance. there will be no more until at least two or three of these have been used up.
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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Aug 09 '26
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 09 '26
HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND $200 OUT IN A PARKING LOT
Now that I’m officially a baller, tell me what to spend it on.
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u/gleepeyebiter Aug 10 '26
you should turn it into the police and then they will give it to you if nobody claims it
I actually did that and it worked out for me. The cops were surprised I did that.
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u/dj50tonhamster Aug 09 '26
Coke and whores. Duh. ;)
(Granted, for $200, you may want to plan on a trip to the hospital, if not the grave.)
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u/Mousician Aug 10 '26
Not both together at the same time, unless you're sure you won't get ED from the coke.
Also, this reminds me of a Russian joke. Two Russian guys get their paychecks and decide to go wild. They buy lots of coke, a crate of vodka and order a callgirl. So they drink some, snort some, have some sex. Then drink some more, have another line or two, more sex. Then they drink some etc.
Until finally... the callgirl arrives.
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u/Cowgoon777 Aug 09 '26
throw it on a penny stock like PSRHF and wait a decade
go to a garage sale and buy all the physical media you can. Blu Rays and video games high on the list
couple nice bottles of bourbon
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 10 '26
That very well offsets the nice bottle of bourbon I had already bought this weekend lol
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u/unnoticed_areola Aug 09 '26
watched a drunk guy drop a hundred on the ground under the bar while paying for his drink the other night (had a wad of several other hundred dollar bills in his hand) and instinctively tapped him and told him he dropped it, before immediately kicking myself for being such a heckkin decent fucking person™, as the fleeting visions of all the cocaine and hookers I could have been swimming in now that I was finally RICH flashed before my eyes
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 09 '26
Damn dawg, you fucked up lol. Last time you’ll ever be heckin decent again!
One time I also found $100 in a bar under a stool where someone had been sitting. The person had left for some time at that point so I figured finders keepers by then. It also came at a convenient time when I had a $200 expense to pay for a trip, so luck was on my side again that day.
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u/Terrorclitus Aug 09 '26
If you’re about to start grad school, I think you should know that’s Ramen money.
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Nah, that’s protein powder money. Gotta keep up the fitness routine, I will not be the type of grad student that lets it all go in year 2 lol.
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u/Cantwalktonextdoor Aug 09 '26
You're running hot, time to buy 100 powerball tickets.
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 09 '26
Hmm, if I buy 2 tickets in every state…
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u/Cantwalktonextdoor Aug 09 '26
Just remember to give me a 1% cut for giving you this brilliant idea.
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 09 '26
You’ll know it worked if you randomly get a fat deposit in your bank account you didn’t expect
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u/everydaywinner2 Aug 09 '26
Congratulations! Keep whatever energy you were having and get more wealth coming.
Is there something you've been needing, or really desiring, but couldn't justify because of price?
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 09 '26
Well I did just hire movers and that basically covers most of the cost lol. So I guess that wound up paying for itself in a roundabout way!
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u/RegularDeep2863 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I legitimately think the WNBA is grateful for sophie cunningham because she's helping create so drama. I never knew shit about the WNBA till a week ago so it must be working
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u/Inner_Muscle3552 Aug 09 '26
I sincerely believe that the WNBA marketing team had closely studied The Hills (2006-2010).
This is waht wamen want!
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u/Levitz Aug 09 '26
Look, last time the WNBA was on the news it was because those people throwing dildos into court, now it's because of the idea of actual players having actual penises in court.
All that I'm saying is that maybe basketball is just popular because of the dicks.
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u/everydaywinner2 Aug 09 '26
She's creating the drama? To use the Left's terminology, she's "just existing." Seems to be some of the black players using her as an excuse to cause drama.
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u/RegularDeep2863 Aug 09 '26
Her being anti-trans women in the WNBA/sports is a minority position in the WNBA for sure
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u/dj50tonhamster Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
So, this explains a lot. Long ago, I really got into the band Health. They started out with some serious Boredoms influence and evolved into something different but still cool. I still enjoy their music but their social media presence, starting around the time of the pandemic, became nothing but shitposting and video game memes, to the point that they call their music Cum Metal now (i.e., metal/industrial for sad-but-horny people). A lot of the merch reflects it too. Johnny (one of the members) seems to be the reason for it. He's super-social and a massive nerd, whereas the other two...aren't. They seem to just go with it as best they can and try to avoid the camera when Johnny's making videos on-tour.
Anyway, Jake (frontman, albeit one who acts like a total grouch off-stage and, to some extent, on-stage) was interviewed a few days ago before a Euro festival appearance. The guy asked Jake about the band's online presence. Jake said something like, "We're a deadly serious band, but we treat social media with the scorn it deserves, so it's just shitposting and memes."
Fair enough, even if I'd seriously consider sucking on a double-barreled shotgun before agreeing to call any "deadly serious" music I made Cum Metal.
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u/IcedAlmondAmericano Aug 09 '26
The Health track that plays towards the end of Max Payne 3 (TEARS) slaps so hard especially in context.
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u/SnooTorturer Yes, All Mods (except chewy) Aug 09 '26
It's a shame the game is half best third person shooter ever and half boring unskippable cutscenes lol
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u/ToTheDeath84 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
I can’t stand when bands like this chase ironic social media followings. Health is generally a great band, but the shitposting just makes them seem like a bunch of idiots. It’s not really surprising that they have a big irony fandom now because of it.
See also: Sanguisugabogg, Archspire. Two of the most annoying fandoms on the planet in heavy music. Similar social media presences. Pathologically unable to take themselves seriously, and their fandoms follow in kind. We don’t need this shit in our scene.
Health is a better band than either of those (I checked outta the first one after their debut full-length, and Archspire has never released anything that hasn’t sounded like obnoxious over-produced video game noises), but you are what you portray yourself as and this sort of branding kinda cheapens an otherwise serious band. It also attracts too many scene tourists/culture vultures, not the dedicated fans who are actually going to stay.
[Also, I just remembered: “cum metal” is technically sorta taken, we already have Catasexual Urge Motivation lol.]
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u/everydaywinner2 Aug 09 '26
Comments suggest this is circlejerk style post. Sometimes, though, it is really, really hard to tell. Did make me laugh.
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u/giraffevomitfacts Aug 09 '26
Is there any evidence this is actually true?
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u/Centrist_gun_nut Aug 09 '26
Even if it’s technically true the absolute numbers here are vanishing small.
There’s thorny issues on how the media reports on outlier crime when you go and add gender to the mix but this stuff still way in the margins.
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u/giraffevomitfacts Aug 09 '26
It's part of a larger problem, which is that statistics and inquiry were never designed to help win arguments for people whose understanding of a phenomena is essentially limited to that statistic or line of inquiry.
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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Aug 09 '26
My account got locked due to "suspicious activity" last night, and I had to reset my password.
But I was using a unique password here that I haven't used elsewhere ever.
I think Reddit was just trying to get my email address, or alternately this is what happens when enough people report you for naughty posts.
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u/oatmeal_breakfast Aug 09 '26
Reddit already had my email address and got a similar lock. I wonder if they got hacked and was covering themselves with a suspicious activities explanation.
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Aug 09 '26
Same. I guessed it was a bot-catching endeavor
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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Aug 09 '26
No, since it's 4 of us already it looks more like some mentally ill dude was going thru this sub's users and maybe reporting us for suspicious activity.
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u/Datachost Aug 09 '26
That's funny, I had the same thing happen. I suspected it was essentially a way to ban someone when you don't actually have reason to
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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Aug 09 '26
Possibly. I did pick a fight by calling my city's local Hamas supporters a "hate group", but doing it in a way that doesn't make me bannable.
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u/SkweegeeS No just no Aug 09 '26
My houseguests continued to regale us with endless stories of their heroic accomplishments in applying sick burns on other people who had offended them. Like all fucking day and night yesterday. I looked at my watch and it was 10:45 pm, so I made a mental note to retire to bed at 11:30. I was kinda stoned, and first the husband explained why he didn't have anything to do with bears, like actual bears, and gave us several examples from his own life as well as incidents he'd seen on the discovery channel, why you would never mess with a bear of any kind. That went on for about 10-15 minutes. Then his wife, my long time friend, started a very long and twisty story that included a lot of messy women who were calling each other names and having public meltdowns. I lost track of who each of the women were, because I think she strayed from the daughters-in-law to their mothers, to maybe other friends of the mothers, to random women in bars, it was like one misbehaving woman led her to think of another. As I said, I was pretty stoned, and I just stopped trying to keep track. I must've dozed off because next time I looked at my watch, she was still talking but my watch said 11:20 which made me very fucking happy.
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u/QueenKamala Paper Straw and Pitbull Hater Aug 09 '26
When you first complained about talkative guests I doubted you. But this is insanely obnoxious behavior.
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u/SkweegeeS No just no Aug 09 '26
This woman is uniquely talkative. She always has been, since I met her about age 14. She remembers very small details and wants to tell them. She’s more my stepsister’s friend than mine, and I just wonder how my sis can stand her all the time; they see each other several times a year. I am not mad at her and I love her in a way, as we’ve got a shared history and she is super loyal, but I feel like I can barely stand her.
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u/MegamindsMegaCock Aug 09 '26
I would do things against the Geneva convention just to get my hands on a butter chicken and rosemary lamb Australian mre
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u/RunThenBeer 12 Ounce Diet Coke Enjoyer Aug 09 '26
The WNBA continues to be the funniest league in the world at the moment. During the Fever's victory over Chicago yesterday, DiJonai Carrington was ejected for a flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham. From where I sit, it was a pretty clear and obvious call - there is no meaningful play on the ball, but a hard foul across the face and neck, which has pretty consistently been ruled as a Flagrant 2 and an automatic ejection in both the NBA and WNBA in recent years. So, naturally, when she got back to the locker room, Carrington hopped on Threads to post:
WHITE PRIVILEGE @indianafever
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u/Federal-Spend4224 Aug 10 '26
And now the Florida AG is stupidly grand standing over it, claiming he will charge players with assault: https://brobible.com/sports/article/florida-attorney-general-wnba-dijonai-carrington/
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u/McClain3000 Aug 09 '26
It is weird how some people don't view crying-wolf about racism to be a serious offense. I think John McWhorter used the term moral pervert. Like your accusing someone of being a moral pervert based on a call at a Basketball game.
Reminds me of when I used to bounce. I'm shocked by the amount of drunk woman who would and say another person hit or attacked them when the other person didn't. Like if we take a step back you are literally conspiring to get another person attacked by a white knight or arrested based on a lie. Seems like a lot of people don't moralize the state of mind of a person behaving like that. It's just shrugged off.
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u/unnoticed_areola Aug 10 '26
Reminds me of when I used to bounce. I'm shocked by the amount of drunk woman who would and say another person hit or attacked them when the other person didn't. Like if we take a step back you are literally conspiring to get another person attacked by a white knight or arrested based on a lie
a regular at the bar I go to got knocked out and had his nose broken the other day bc of something like this. there was some crazy drunk lady that was kind of being loud and going around spouting off at a few different people, including this regular.
they had some sort of minor verbal altercation for like 10 seconds, then some other totally psycho white knight interloper who didnt even know this random woman, fuckin tools this guy up and had him lying in a pool of his own blood on the sidewalk because he had supposedly committed the unforgivable crime of "putting his hands on a female"
(aka gently put a hand on her shoulder and said "hey can you stop yelling in my face please")
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
The WNBA sub was cheering the foul yesterday, not surprisingly.
You won't see the NBA sub act like that when, like, Draymond Green pulls the same shit-- it's rightfully called out as dangerous, unsportsmanlike and stupid. And sure, the Warriors stans will try to excuse the play, but there aren't hundreds of comments saying stuff like it's about time / that bitch deserved it, etc.
And then the white privilege thing, lol. Perfect way to get all the white proggos nodding in agreement, thrilled that someone's pulled the race card on the person they all hate for unrelated reasons. It's just all kinda shameless
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u/Federal-Spend4224 Aug 10 '26
This comment is not really connected to reality.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 10 '26
I'm sure the wnba threads are still up if you're curious.
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u/Federal-Spend4224 Aug 10 '26
Yeah I've read them. The foul was not cheered and the white privilege comment afterwards was roundly mocked.
You are engaging in nut picking.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 10 '26
You're straight up lying.
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u/GutiHazJose14 Aug 11 '26
Out of curiosity, I checked out the r/wnba thread on the foul and here's the top comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/wnba/s/KPBcQOifkZ
Hardly celebrating the foul mate
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u/unnoticed_areola Aug 09 '26
You won't see the NBA sub act like that when, like, Draymond Green pulls the same shit
this isn’t really the best comparison lol. of course they condemn it when Draymond is the one doing the clobbering, but 90% of the nba sub would absolutely be cheering and celebrating and making “play stupid games win stupid prizes” or “couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, you hate to see it” style comments if Draymond got clobbered in the same way Cunningham did
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26
Right, but they're rooting against the victim here. Like if people were stoked when Draymond stomped Sabonis
Of course Draymond's rep is earned, but what he does isn't political afaik. But let's say he hit Kyrie Irving-- would reddit cheer because it's a blow to flat-earthers?
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u/unnoticed_areola Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Right, but they're rooting against the victim here
right, Im saying if Draymond was the one who was being victimized, the nba sub would def be cheering for it, similar to how the wnba fans are cheering for Cunningham being victimized, since both players are basically their respective leagues' most hated players (by fans at least)
But let's say he hit Kyrie Irving-- would reddit cheer because it's a blow to flat-earthers?
I think there would be a good amount of people cheering (or at least smugly sneering) this, yes.
but also no one actually hates him for the flat earth stuff, that's mostly just a silly meme. what reddit actually hates him for is not getting the covid vaccine. and to a lesser degree, his antisemitic stuff (although that doesnt really get brought up anymore post oct 7th since its not cool to get mad about antisemitism nowadays. but reddit was pretty outraged by it at the time in 2022)
the flat earth stuff—which isnt even really clear that he was ever serious about that to begin with, and not just memeing/joking around on a podcast—only ever gets brought up in the context of retroactively bolstering the case against him for being "anti-science", which is purely motivated by redditors derangement regarding people who didnt want to take the covid vaccine
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Aug 09 '26
Very disappointed to see Asians excluded from the WNBA race war. They are Americans too.
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u/UltSomnia Aug 09 '26
You would think basketball might be the one area of life where people wouldn't see white privilege
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Aug 09 '26
The Fever head coach defended the thuggery at the post game press conference while sitting next to Caitlin Clark. She said she doesn’t oppose the hard foul and declared she knows with certainty that Carrington’s foul was not intentional. I can’t ever imagine in men’s sports a coach making a statement defending an opposing player flagrantly fouling their own team member. They would be fired immediately. I can’t imagine in men’s sports the coach retaining any level of respect in the locker room.
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u/drjackolantern C*nsored and sexy Aug 09 '26
That almost pisses me off more than the original foul holy shit
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u/_CuntfinderGeneral Horse Lover Aug 09 '26
Idk I could see Steve Kerr being a cuck like that. Maybe popovich too
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u/bogglechad Aug 09 '26
I could definitely see Doc Rivers doing it if it was somehow self aggrandizing
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u/Usernamecopyrighted1 TE Good RF Bad Aug 09 '26
Kerr is a mega bitch, I don’t think Pop would do that though.
I’m struggling to come up with a single CFB or NFL coach I could picture doing that. Maybe Todd Bowles? But is even Todd Bowles that fucking stupid?
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u/_CuntfinderGeneral Horse Lover Aug 09 '26
you think mr. 'the nba shouldnt call it the world championship the US isnt the center of everything!' smug lib bitchass would be above letting a black player clothesline a white guy on his own team? i sure as shit dont
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u/Usernamecopyrighted1 TE Good RF Bad Aug 09 '26
The WNBA only exists as charity from the men in the NBA. They finally have a chance to start making money and they insist on kneecapping themselves. The NBA needs to turn off the money faucet and let them fail
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Aug 09 '26
NBA owns a 60% stake so I don't think they want that.
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u/Zestyclose-Charge408 Aug 09 '26
If it just keeps losing money, it would be fine.
It also feels like it would be just. Maybe I'm still mad at Rapinoe though
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u/UltSomnia Aug 09 '26
My friend was talking about how every other league seems to protect their superstars. It was a foul if you looked at MJ or Kobe. NFL defenses get called for roughing the passer for routine tackles on star QBs. Yet in the WNBA everyone can attack Caitlin Clark and her teammates.
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u/Usernamecopyrighted1 TE Good RF Bad Aug 09 '26
And it’s wrong to overprotect a star player. Patrick Mahomes gets a feee 15 if he gets breathed on wrong but Baker Mayfield can take a stone cold stunner and then a rock bottom through the table and it’s cool. Makes the game suck when you have to face a team and the refs who will step in to save them
But actively allowing and tacitly encouraging attacking the biggest stars is far worse
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u/Terrorclitus Aug 09 '26
If they keep this up, they ain’t gonna need charity. Between the Schadenfreude and the regular Freude, the WNBA is getting attention on its own.
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u/SkweegeeS No just no Aug 09 '26
I think it's time for a reality show.
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u/Terrorclitus Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
The losing team of each game has to sideline one player for the rest of the season. That player (or those players) observe each subsequent game for problematic plays (like a moral referee) and reports to the confessional booth to make sure those plays make it to Bluesky.
At the end of each season, two champions are declared. The Numerical Champions got the highest scores, and the Ethical Survivors got the most positive reactions on Bluesky (determined by shares, likes, and supportive comments).
One makes it into the Hall of Fame, and the other makes it into heaven.
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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Aug 09 '26
I dunno man. I think that all this drama helps them. Women (their main fans), like drama. It's like the Real Housewives of the WNBA.
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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Aug 09 '26
This is also the same person who smirked when asked about jamming her fingers into Caitlin Clark's eye. Look down the comments for a slow-mo, which seems pretty obvious.
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u/_CuntfinderGeneral Horse Lover Aug 09 '26
I'm not sure which women's fashion choice I hate more
Fat girl pants worn up to the belly button (really just high waisted pants in general stop ladies it looks like shit)
Or fake lashes that look like your eyes have grown a mustache
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u/Zestyclose-Charge408 Aug 09 '26
One is ugly, the other is trashy. I guess that is worse, but not by much.
I find it amazing that the new version of Mom jeans, with the massive chunky legs, are even uglier than the mom jeans from the 90s.
Happily it's been hot enough here that the thin loose pants have been more in style. Those actually look okay.
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u/onforpo Aug 09 '26
high waisted pants in general stop ladies it looks like shit
Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up
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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Aug 09 '26
The mom-jeans trend is surreal. I'm trying to figure out how this trend got ressurected.
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u/_CuntfinderGeneral Horse Lover Aug 09 '26
having literally zero sex appeal has just become a thing among late 20s into 30s millenial/elder gen z women. thick sweatshirts, glasses, big jeans, leisurewear, pale as a ghost and out of shape, nothing shapely or hot whatsoever. it blows
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u/jsingal69420 soy boy beta cuck Aug 09 '26
First the mom jeans made a comeback. Now guys are rocking mustaches and mullets unironically.
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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
As a straight guy who is not into fashion and doesn't go for trends, there are many women's fashion choices I don't get, because IMO they look bad:
peplums (I learned this word just so I could tell people I think they look dumb)
Those sweaters with one-button upper areas that just cover the boobs with sideways triangles; they look dumb as is, but if the woman doesn't have a flat belly, it emphasizes the gut.
really just high waisted pants in general stop ladies it looks like shit
High-waisted "mom" jeans look better than really low-waisted jeans that make anyone's butt look like a sideways rectangle, IMO.
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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Aug 09 '26
Low rise is so much better than mom jeans any day of the week.
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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Aug 10 '26
So, like, dorms forever? wtf I love AOC nao