Throwaway05
10hr ago
Thankfully it's pretty mild but that also makes it harder to suss out.
A deficiency in empathy or a refusal to "waste time" on vaccine adherence counseling are both meaningful and unprofessional and very real and at the same time kinda small potatoes.
Throwaway05
10hr ago
I mean it's not speculation, I've seen people provide worse care to people wearing MAGA gear
Throwaway05
11hr ago
Climate is weird. I think the stadium formerly known as Metlife was actually the hottest one last weekend (NJ).
Throwaway05
12hr ago
Yes you and someone else pointed out Chick-fil-a and now that you did ....no duh.
I've never had an exposure to individuals who think this way and I don't have a good handle on if they are anything more than a rounding error now. It's def part of Chick's brand at this point.
Throwaway05
12hr ago
The academy as it exists now is a very modern and new invention with some good parts and bad parts. Either the system will correct itself or we'll have a new phase of the academy.
People in the middle are going to be fucked but that isn't new.
Throwaway05
12hr ago
The Trunk Test (Or What A Stranger On The Street Made Me Wonder About Politics):
I was walking out of work today (which is not in a place known to be at all friendly) and a man leaned out of a car I was passing and asked me to help him close his trunk. I was in a public area and the guy looked old and frail and harmless, which seemed like good grounds for this to not result in my murder and grounds for him to need assistance, so I did so.
As I did so I noticed that he was wearing a MAGA hat, it made me chuckle since I was in my literal blue tribe uniform (scrubs) and I figured that most of my coworkers would not help the guy as soon as they saw the MAGA hat.
It made me wonder.
Every so often I try to assess myself for frustration and burn out and determine if I've become an asshole and I was pretty certain that I would help someone in BLM gear as much as someone in MAGA.
My MAGA friends? Would either help neither or both, and this guy clearly felt someone visibly identified as his adversary would provide assistance (or perhaps hasn't realized how bad medicine is).
My Woke friends though? A lot of them would actively not help someone in MAGA gear or would respond with verbal abuse.
The thought is rather depressing and black pilling.
So I ask some questions-
Do you agree with my characterizations, are the people you have access to like this? Or better, or worse?
Does this say something about American politics? Was it always like this? Is this a sign of other sicknesses in society?
My ramble is poor anecdote, any data on this?
Throwaway05
16hr ago
..... but they put in place a bunch of other time wasting rules that seem to have more of an impact????
It's not the break!
Also we are seeing wild momentum swings after the timeout.
Throwaway05
16hr ago
On paper that makes sense but I've never encountered any Christian who refuses to work on Sunday (I'm sure they exist but...), meanwhile many to most of the jews I know refuse to work on the Sabbath sometimes in comical ways, and Islam does the Islam thing.
Throwaway05
16hr ago
No no I think what you are saying makes sense.
Throwaway05
16hr ago
And I think you need to be more specific re:racism. In my lifetime there is no level of organized American sport where a white player calling a Black player
You're right, maybe I'm over indexing on the teammate experience, where we'd drop all kinds of insults and slurs on each other but very rarely say something to the other team.
Throwaway05
16hr ago
I've heard less of this after the first few days but it was hilarious when the commentators had the talking points and had to be like "yes, it's so hot they need water"
temp: 74
Throwaway05
19hr ago
General comments.
I think I skipped the "as a player" element (my bad). Yeah fans abusing players is more of a problem but as a player the shit we did to each other was heinous and we loved it.
The "no hiding speech" rule seems eminently reasonable, there's no reason to hide your lips unless you're saying something that you don't want publicized
In my mind the issue is that if sometimes you want to hide stuff from the other team, and while it's supposed to be only in confrontation with other plays, well bad rulings happen.
Iran team.
I think this is exaggerated and likely involves stuff we don't know, the Iranians likely try and smuggle in spies all the time under cover of sport and other things. Canada is outright banning players I heard though?
Throwaway05
21hr ago
World Cup Wednesday:
I've been really happy so far! Many exciting games and for a variety of reasons! With most of the first round over the usual suspects seem to be doing well, although the absence of Italy is a scandal again. The US actually looks good? I feel like I'm seeing a lot of older faces I expected to be gone, which is a treat and sad at the same time.
Some Football Culture War:
The expansion in number of teams has been a point of controversy but I'm liking it. You see some teams with no business holding on and drawing or keeping games tight, at the same time it's obvious who the eventual quarterfinalists are likely to be. On the balance of it I'm happy to let some of these smaller countries get to the stage.
On a less positive note...the hydration breaks. Yikes. Putting aside the American obsession with ads, which is not ideal and against the spirit of the game, I am concerned about the clear momentum changes these breaks seem to be creating.
Real Culture War: (These ones have the possibility to get a little heated, please try and keep it to the spirit of the Wellness thread).
Everyone online and some in the media are criticizing America hard for handling of logistics and immigration, however from what I can tell Canada and Mexico have both caused more serious problems. Putting aside the anti-US sentiment, I do think it is interesting that despite our increasing sclerosis we are actually doing better than our neighbors.
Racism continues to be the "worst thing in the world" one of the new rules is that you can get a straight red for talking near an opponent while covering your mouth. Supposedly this is to prevent racism and other bad-talk. One thing that is not apparently to me is this - growing up in sports in the US homophobia and racism was the default and beloved by all, being close to some of the generations younger than mine they all affirm this. Has this changed now in the US? Was Europe always different? Is it just ethnic tensions?
Throwaway05
1d ago
If AI becomes "Real" AI then...good?
Automated high quality research and scientific improvement is in all likelihood going to be a great thing for mankind as long as alignment is dealt with.
If AI remains like shitty LLMs.....don't worry?
The biggest use case in medicine for LLMs is for ambient note generation. It sucks for this. Far below the ability of a human scribe or an actual physician, however people like it because it's fast and many choose not to spend the time proofreading. But if you do then it doesn't really save much time (read: value).
The same thing occurs for quite a few of the uses case. It doesn't work or it requires so much verification that it isn't really that helpful.
The economy is often more or less run by tech and finance, and it does seem actually useful in those disciplines, that doesn't mean it really is going to have much use outside those when stress tested without improvements (and if it improves who cares).
People will realize how to reallocate Human Resources or get mad at the problems with the technology.
Throwaway05
1d ago
For France does that include the European French or is that entirely driven by immigration?
Throwaway05
2d ago
I think Soccer is less strategically interesting than many of the other sports, and has little logistical element, but it has a lot of tactics and can reward interest in the tactics.
The moment to moment play is less legible than some of others but no less interesting and is in someways more so.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Baseball is probably the most tactical sport. Each pitch is setting up the next pitch. Decisions about bullpen usage, when to steal, when to bunt, etc.
I'd actually argue Football (American) is the most tactical sport. On the field tactics and strategy mattes, as does the coaching battle which takes place over the entire season and has elements of logistics in terms of saving Strats and the way the season and injuries weigh on the team.
It's like the pitching element of baseball but for a lot of the positions on the field.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Not OP obviously.
It can be a bit rough and uneven, and it's going to look like the following won't happen at times: it absolutely nails the ending, and does some INCREDIBLE things with really intricate plotting.
It has some story elements that are really hard to handle in a smart and elegant way and it does not fail.
Some of the other bits are more mixed.
Throwaway05
3d ago
It's the same bullshit when soccer fans complain about commercial breaks in American sports, while buying soccer jerseys that are walking advertisements.
Lol well I'm sure they are all shitting themselves over the hydration breaks.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Non-soccer fans claim it is boring because there is little danger of anyone doing anything important for the vast majority of that time.
I know this isn't intrinsic to your point but it is something that bugs me about the Soccer discourse so I will rant.
Soccer players are constantly doing things that are dangerous and important to the outcome of the game, they are just less legible and it is a problem because the most popular American sports are focused on the score. Football is all about the points, big plays are exciting but ultimately considered subservient to scoring, individual points aren't as important in Basketball but it is a constantly scoring sport. Hockey is pretty similar to Soccer but I think Baseball is most instructive - it is also often a very low scoring game like Soccer. It has really intense non-scoring moments (like with Soccer) but at the end of the day outside of a few specific accomplishments Americans just focus on the score while watching and immediately tune out the non-scoring moments once the tension is released. Soccer is all about following the tempo, possessions, scoring chances, set pieces and so on. It requires much more attention and fan knowledge to notice quality play and actions that should be work "micro points" and because the numbers don't go up like we expect from our other stuff, it seems boring.
It can be not boring pricelessly because the numbers don't go up very often, but you have to pay attention to the whole scope of play. When you are used to chunked up Basketball and Football, well that's hard.
Throwaway05
4d ago
I think it's always important to keep in mind that the type of thinking that most posters here have is pretty rare in the gen pop.
Normie sports fan are a high percentage of the population (and I bet most of them know about Chalemet's Knicks habit, including a lot of women because of his lady) and theater kids are probably an order of magnitude more common than us.
This means the motivations behind attendance of high ticket price games involves quite the variety.
Same for the celebration - extraversion is uncommon here but very much a thing.
So is FOMO - my partner is smart and has a high level of educational and professional attainment, she also barely cares about sport at all - she still wanted to go to a local World Cup party last night "because everyone is doing it."
Some examples of people I know personally at the NBA finals or know about from anecdote and the news:
-Celebrities who go to most if not all home games.
-A guy who can't afford it but is taking his Dad who has been waiting for A Long Time and is on his last legs.
-A guy who can't afford it but is taking his kids because this is the thing that brings them together. '
-A NYC finance guy who got caught cheating and doesn't like basketball all that much but is taking his wife who doesn't like basketball at all because it's expensive and fuck him.
-A nerdy wealthy guy who bought a 30k gaming PC and a condo and has no idea what else to spend his money on and is trying out vices.
-Celebrities who have more money than they need and are just looking to spend (and some of them are theater kids looking to be in the moment).
-John Smith a boring upper middle class guy who is buying seats for 10k and just not doing an expensive vacation this year.
Yes some of the meaning comes exclusivity and costs, but it comes from other places too.
Also - interest in this NBA finals and World Cup are stupidly high, the former because MSG is a storied place in a high wealth town and hella small, the latter because like 6 billion people are passionate about football.
Throwaway05
4d ago
I also want to hear more about this.
Throwaway05
5d ago
I think he's like 6-7.
Okay actually an in inch or two shorter but still a giant.
Throwaway05
7d ago
How you ask a question matters a whole lot. "Did Dr. Smith make the right decision?" "What would you have done treating the patient with the information available at the time?" can easily point in opposite directions.
Apparently this kinda thing is basically how the Mafia got started.
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