Mihow
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Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
1yr ago
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1572949584837767173
Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka is likely facing a suspension for the entire 2022-2023 season for his role in a consensual relationship with a female staff member, sources tell ESPN. A formal announcement is expected as soon as today.
The details aren't fully know yet but it's a bombshell of a news story for any sports fan, especially the NBA. It seems to be that the coach of the Boston Celtics had a completely consensual sexual relationship with a member of the Celtics staff and now the coach is getting suspended for the entire season. Not sure about discipline for the woman.
The Celtics went to the Finals last year (Heat fan gripe: the refs were the reason the Celts made it past the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals - I've never been as heated {ha!} In my life over anything sports related in 30 years of watching as I have over this series) and this guy is considered THE up and coming coach.
He's married also.
What I'm seeing a lot of online is something along the lines of: you can't have a relationship with a subordinate, he deserves this, if not to be fired outright. Personally, I feel the statement of ' it's non of your damn business ' would have sufficed. This would apply to this guy on the Celtics or some head honcho at GNC or Walmart.
What does The Motte think?
Mihow
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1yr ago
Did the US blow up the Nord Stream Pipeline?
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
That was linked to me and it appeals to my sense of - conspiracy? warmongering? ... But I also don't really understand if it could be true.
What's the consensus here about the pipeline?
(I don't really even care if we discuss the article, it's long and I don't know who the person is - just interested in all kinds of thoughts)
Mihow
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1yr ago
Louis CK lost over 50 million dollars after being cancelled ... We ended up doing the math on it on the old board ... If that isn't cancelled, nothing is.
Russian rockets crossed over the Polish border, killing two farmers.
Polish government official says national security meeting was called due to "emergency situation"
Pentagon is ' aware '
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-11-15-22/index.html
This stirred something in me that is rarely stirred (I was born in Poland). Some sort of patriotic anger. The Poles, along with the former Soviet states and most of Eastern Europe, absolutely loathe the Russians.
I imagine this isn't enough to send in the troops - but I could see myself reading a history book in 30 years about how Poland, and by extension, everyone else, were pulled into the Great Russian War by a bomb and two dead farmers.
Edit: Russia calls it provocation that Poland stated this
Mihow
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1yr ago
I've been over the doom porn esque feel of AI talk for years now it seems and it just keeps cranking higher & higher. We're basically on track with doom porn global warming catastrophe. It's just a race to the nonexistent finish line to see who can be doomier and gloomier on what subject.
Personally I'm ready to be told AI will cure blindness, and cancer, and give us 2 hour work days, and on and on.
I can't take any of these people even remotely seriously. AI will be fine. Our lives will be better. Just like having a fridge, or shoes. But just like food poisoning or dress shoes inspired plantar fasciitis - some shit will happen. Shut up and stop trying to retard the future (not to anyone here - just a general sort of want from me).
Mihow
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1yr ago
I mean is there anyone out there who didn't understand why Democrats were in shrill hysterics about fascism?
Most people here.
All my friends and I who used to be Jon Stewart liberals and now aren't.
Political narcissism I'm sure was present in the past, but the way it's played up via our exposure to it is psychotically unhinged.
This is political theater and the state telling us we have no freewill.
Mihow
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1yr ago
We're 50 years out from these people bombing things. We're not getting more radical, we're getting more squeamish about safety and death when one person dying possibly as the result of a delay caused by an activist is a large news story.
Can you imagine the hoopla if a climate activist blows up a bomb in NYC? As opposed to it just being another Tuesday in 1972.
Mihow
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6mo ago
it basically evaporates any amount of good will I had for them
I don't understand a lot of things in life - and thoughts like these rank among the top.
Israel is surrounded by people's who all basically want them destroyed. One group decided to invade them and kill (1000, 1200?) of them and take hostages. Said people store munitions in hospitals and schools.
By every conceivable human metric that isn't of the last 50 years, Israel has the absolute human right to completely glaze everything around them until they are happy and secure.
But they don't. They hold back. Always. For decades.
And you're upset they blew up a hospital ... Or didn't.
Mihow
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11mo ago
Are you saying that every single person who went through male puberty can beat any woman, including top-level female athlete?
No
Mihow
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1yr ago
Stated another way, politicians are doing a great job at convincing us that society is safer, and it's tempting to believe them.
There has never been a safer human being than a Western person currently alive.
Just because politicians are vile lying possible lizard people doesn't mean that they sometimes, on accident, don't tell the truth.
Of course I believe I should own a gun without a permit - because the bad juju still exists all over. Every home should own a shotgun.
Mihow
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1yr ago
The problem with whitey is that I was born on a rabbit farm in communist Poland and don't have anything inherently in common with a Frenchman, a dude from Cali, a Swede, nor a guy from Northern Florida whereas oftentimes, people with black skin seem to feel some sort of absurdist kinsmanship with other people of their skin color - most especially in the US.
I'm sure there's many good and valid reasons for this but for a simpleton like me it seems absurdly racist.
So I don't see a 'rising' of whitey but I also don't feel very strongly about being correct here. I see myself being pushed into the white sphere by what I consider anti white racism - which in turn makes me understand the brotherly plight of the American black better.
Mihow
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11mo ago
I love sports and I love women's mma but otherwise I have zero interest in women's sports.
I do, however, care about living in reality and living in a world that acknowledges some truths.
One of those truths is someone who went through male puberty will always, in every single case, have a competitive advantage over a woman.
I don't even really care that some weightlifting record has been broken or some high school girls might lose a scholarship. If anything, I think it's funny.
I just care that people are pretending about the realities of this situation.
Mihow
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1yr ago
is rather mild in the scheme of things and is probably much less than the same left would be censored by the people it currently censors if that group was in power
My personal rebuttal to this is always something like ' yes - it is very bad that my grandparents went through the Holocaust in Poland, it is bad that my parents lived through communism in Poland, but it still sucks for me personally that I have to pretend a man is somehow a woman, or that I have to pretend everyone in the US is my equal, or that ... ' so yuh, its relatively mild - but it's still living in unreality, and it's still bothersome.
Tipper Gore is the reason my CD's had parental advisory stickers and the left is the reason tweets and podcasts and truthteller marks are all over everywhere telling us wrong facts.
Mihow
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1yr ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/12/democrats-interfere-republican-primaries/
It's not allegedly - they spent real money (tens of millions) in several races to promote the nuttier R candidates.
Mihow
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1yr ago
Zero.
I have a friend who has been suicidally depressed all of his life. After he had covid twice, possibly three times (we all did - meaning my friend group), he now had all the symptoms that he's always had but blamed it on long covid while I politely kept silent.
I do think people who were / are overly worried about covid probably now have more depressive symptoms but I just don't know any of these people. I live in South Florida - not the culture.
Also, no one I associate with is getting their energy sapped from culture war fights. That's just a mega online thing that mostly doesn't happen in real life. Note however that I'm not saying the culture war hasn't exploded into our modern lives over the last decade, it's just different than what you're referring to here.
Mihow
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1yr ago
What a fantastic recap of the Lamar Jackson saga - thanks!
A couple quickies I'd like to add also:
He scored a 13 on the Wonderlic test (the test given all incoming QBs to the NFL from college) which is abhorrent and although he's clearly literate, it's hard to tell how literate. So he doesn't have an agent imo because he's a dumb guy. An agent that he would listen to would have set him straight last season - he's already lost millions by not signing last season and, like Bell and others, may never be close to recouping. But he is a QB - and he is great - and by all accounts he seems like a nice dude ... So you never know, which is what he's banking on. I just felt important to add the context of how not bright this guy actually is and why, imo, he doesn't have an agent.
Mihow
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1yr ago
We're often so bombarded with claims of faux xenophobia that when the real thing pops up upon reading you're like ' wait, what? '
As if Chinese, African, and South American subcultures are just ripe with mentally & physically healthy people.
Maybe your small part of the world is doing groovy, or has yet to succumb to the soda, pop & burger bombardment, but that's from a lack of access or (as it reads) you being in the tippy top of your people's (whichever that may be) class hierarchy.
Mihow
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1yr ago
My prediction is if one of your daughters is in daycare, she may be in charge of watching AIs who are watching the children.
20 years ago we couldn't imagine today even tho nothing has really changed ... Except literally the entirety of human interaction in the western world has shifted to a small device in your hand. It's why I'm shocked when some like Chuck Klosterman doesn't feel like much has changed in our culture in 20 years (not his exact point). It's that the way culture is produced, shared, and taken in has so completely changed that it feels like nothing has.
And when AIs are watching our children in two decades, it'll feel just like yesterday.
Mihow
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1yr ago
I hate all the tacky billboards and ubiquitous stores in my state promoting a vice
Donuts ... low mileage cars ... alcohol ... fast food ...
I don't believe you have thought through your statement unless you're looking for a blanket ban on sin advertising.
Mihow
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1yr ago
Ok but Amazon Studios is also the studio behind my second favorite film of all time, 2018's Suspiria. Which cost nothing and made even less. So I don't know if I'm supposed to root for this billion dollar bullshit of a show to succeed or fail so they make eventually better content that they are capable of producing, even if only on accident.
Mihow
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8mo ago
I feel that a part of the disconnect you specifically are having is when you call teachers teachers instead of government agents. Maybe you've never thought about them in that manner, or maybe you think that's silly, or possibly even unhinged. But the poster you're responding to calls then government agents in this context for a reason.
Mihow
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1yr ago
Shouldn't there be consequences from a government official threatening to silence a news anchor?
Mihow
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1yr ago
I get two bulbs for 21$ but I have a 2004 Chevy Trailblazer. My first car was a Geo Metro with 9$ tires that Tire Kingdom wouldn't sell me unless I also got an oil change or something because it was so cheap. I like safetyism and features but some things seem to have wildly swung in cost.
Do new car headlights really cost 200$?
I think you're noticing this because for the first time in my lifetime (I'm 38) there appears to be some sort of centralized white mainstream identity happening.
Mainstream racial appeals have been going on my entire life. Mostly from blacks, some, more now, from Hispanics. When white people do it it's called extremist and white nationalist. When some other group does it it's considered normal.
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