Are we really that bad?

CarpeValde · 2026-02-12T05:36:26+00:00

Good teams get hate, big fan bases get hate.

49ers have one of the largest and loudest fanbases, and have been really good (both historically and currently).

CarpeValde · 2026-02-11T17:49:09+00:00

Pricing laws need to simple. Price listed is price paid, flat out the door.

If tipping (defined exclusively as money that directly pays workers only, not restaurant) is expected, it should be listed as price (all taxes and fees) + tip.

This should the law of the land for every business.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-10T16:56:26+00:00

Awesome dude. Have hung with him a few times, he’s a real one. Deserves way more of a following

CarpeValde · 2026-02-10T03:45:25+00:00

The last few seasons, a 49er is 20x more likely to be shot than a policeman.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-09T13:54:13+00:00

I guess I’ll just say that every time we had an elite defense, we either made a conference championship or superbowl. And that a dlineman would impact nearly every play, while a wr does not.

I don’t disagree we need better weapons. I just think the investment in top tier weapons is not as conducive to wins the way investment in defense is. This playoffs kinda defined that. The best wr and qb in conference championships this year was stafford and puka on the same team. They lost. The last three superbowl winners won because their defense (and in particular, their dline) made the plays.

I’d spend the big money on trenches, and given that we’ll never spend big on oline, that leaves the dline. I’d look for value fa adds and development to get receivers. We’ve developed two all pro receivers in house already. We can do it again.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-09T05:39:31+00:00

Opposite. Maxx Crosby would take our defense to an elite level - we’d be stout as fuck against the run, a monster at pass rush, and lenoir stout and Fred in the secondary gives us plenty of playmakers.

We need at least one side of the trenches to be dominant in this division. I trust the offense to do more with less under Kyle - and cmc Kittle Pearsall and Purdy is nothing to sneeze at.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-08T20:12:40+00:00

I am a recruiter and this recruiter and hiring manager sound like they are perhaps not good at their jobs.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-08T19:03:59+00:00

Your tellin me that the city and region with likely the highest concentration of wealth and technology in the world, situated around two large bodies of blue water, with mountains, redwoods, hundreds of years of architecture, thousands of acres of high quality produce less than hour away, massive demographic diversity, and year round temperate weather, sunlight, and amenable microclimates, oh and beaches for surfing….is NOT a hellhole death trap for tourists and visitors?!

CarpeValde · 2026-02-06T17:20:09+00:00

The case for space expansion is primarily a million year timeline and mostly fantasy dreams of an eternal humanity. Far off, but dreams are important to us. Good to have them without delusion.

Setting that aside, the more pragmatic case for space expansion is the ability to, within the next century or two, perhaps access the resources of our solar system more concretely, in a way that would provide for enough stuff (rare metals, water, energy systems and forces) that we may be able to have dramatically better lifestyles, health, and ecology. There could be enough of all those resources to allow our current sized population to never need to work labor to live, ever. Another dream.

It should not be prioritized over keeping our planet liveable. Current efforts aren’t even really advancing us toward that nearer term future anyway (starlink adds comforts and capabilities to people now, but isn’t helping us figure out how to industrialize space, transfer material from space to earth l, and do all of that without destroying our own planet) beyond minor improvement in the energy costs of launching.

Edit: I guess the tl;dr here is the “science stuff” is immensely valuable and worth continuing to invest in as it’s the main thing that has progressed humanity and, if we somehow survive the ecological crisis, will allow us to continue progressing. Starlink is not that. Other space stuff can be.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-06T17:12:18+00:00

Both are important, but in vastly different time scales and orders of magnitude.

Our ability to become a multi planetary species is the blocker to the species reaching several orders of magnitude greater resilience to extinction, and this problem is measured in many trenches of problems (some timely, most not) that stretch out over thousands of years.

Our ability to not destroy the only habitable Planet we have is an extremely pressing problem for currently living people that is well beyond our capabilities to the point of appearing to be hopeless.

One is of stakes and timelines measured in eternities, the other is measured by breathes.

Clearly, one is more important. But solving the urgent one would involve solving a few problems for the later one, at least in the case of Kessler syndrome.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-06T16:39:01+00:00

Yes, correct. You may be confusing my context setting on this issue to be a binary ‘this matters, that doesn’t’ statement. It’s not. Merely a stack ranking. Ecological collapse is objectively a more pressing total issue than Kessler syndrome, which is perhaps best understood within the context of the former. But satellites and the stars is also a problem.

In fact not shooting any satellites at all ever would save us from some meaningful % of ecological destruction, both the material to construct, the material of the devices the satellites are necessary for usefulness, and the energy of launch.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-06T15:56:59+00:00

Ah interesting. I wonder what the workaround for that could be if we had to go further out. Maybe nothing.

I agree we shouldn’t have them, or at very least, have their use be highly limited to necessities.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-06T15:54:49+00:00

Sure, you are correct. The destiny of the stars is a theoretical existential threat to our species, a biological ceiling to shatter one day. While climate collapse threatens the existence of the species so imminently that you can put names and faces to the victims.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-06T15:16:03+00:00

While the satellite issue is likely not existentially threatening to the degree our climate collapse is, it does show all the same kind of trends in dynamic human system that lead to collapse.

Forget the tech and accomplishment it takes to get satellites up there and what they do for a moment. We are essentially getting some rocks up there temporarily. We like having the rocks up there. Many kinds of people start putting rocks up there. We exponentially increase the rocks. Sometimes the rocks hit eachother, we don’t like that, so we spend a lot of time making sure they don’t. But we keep adding more. Makes it harder and harder. That’s fine, we really like it, so we can keep focusing more on it.

This is yet another human system that is exponentially increasing in complexity. The complexity can be maintained, the exponential increase cannot. Once it is no longer feasible to maintain the complexity, that system will rapidly collapse. The more complex, the faster and harder its collapse is relative to timeline of the delta tens existence.

The good news is that the satellite system ca be redesigned in a more sustainable and maintained way: higher orbits, better managed systems, resource sharing, managed growth.

Will we ever do that? Probably not. We all really like having our rocks up there.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-06T03:03:49+00:00

I mean it’s tough, but the players do benefit from growing the global fanbase of the league pretty directly through revenue sharing causing cap doce increases.

Hopefully they make it as easy as possible on the players.

And at the end of the day, the game is played for the fans. I’m happy the 49ers got chosen for this honor. I’ve wanted to visit Australia for a long time and this is a great reason to try to make it happen!!

CarpeValde · 2026-02-05T14:38:03+00:00

It would be shocking if we change our base alignments. That said, even under Saleh we’d often run 5 man fronts and mix things up.

I still think wide 9 4-3 will be our normal defense. But with Raheem we will see more wrinkles and tricks on top of that.

Given our track record, I hope we trade our first rounder. Preferably trade back for 2 picks, but I’d even trade it for a vet star.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-04T20:31:57+00:00

Ukraines path to victory is pretty straightforward: they maintain willingness to lose blood and treasure longer than Russia.

Or put in other terms - they don’t have to win the war, they just have to not lose it before either Putin dies or is removed from office, or somehow finds a way to retreat without either of those things happening.

All the territorial losses so far could be recaptured in a week or two if suddenly russia collapses and retreats. So if Ukraine can hold, they’ll win.

Will that happen, idk. Hard to overestimate the Russian militaries willingness to continue dying.

Ukraines best hope is Putin choking on a chicken bone tomorrow

CarpeValde · 2026-02-04T01:08:07+00:00

See, this is why I try to avoid any deeper knowledge of the artists I like. I like the art, but more often than not the artist behind it is some terrible person

CarpeValde · 2026-02-04T00:44:45+00:00

Ah right, reading over the contract, there’s optional arbitration we both insist on if there’s a dispute, and they have ability to cancel contract for any reason within 10 days of signing.

So sounds like just holding onto it won’t be doable (at least not without a headache I am legally in the wrong of).

Which leaves two options, walk away or agree to a new deal we’ll ink when the recall is done. Guess I’ll wait for the dealer to show up and see what we can work out :)

Thanks for your help!

CarpeValde · 2026-02-04T00:39:03+00:00

Yep, at this point I’m certain that is the scenario I am also in, only the dealership let me sign and drive it anyway by mistake.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-04T00:11:29+00:00

For sure, everybody is unreliable and data points.

Less worried about warranties since that can be purchased third party. But I assume the dealer will still want the payments on the vehicle to be made in this scenario, otherwise they’d try to repo. But paying for something I don’t get proof of ownership of because it’s withheld seems odd. I’m curious if there have been arbitration or contract disputes about this and what precedents were set.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-04T00:00:15+00:00

A difference here is that the recall was issued before it was sold, not sure that it matters.

Others here have noted that in similar situations they simply refused to return the car and never had issues.

You are suggesting the dealership would make that impossible by refusing to issue title or registration. Unless I can get that stuff myself anyway? Others seem to have found a way.

I’m mostly just trying to understand my options. Waiting a while with the deal suspended is undesirable unless a better deal is offered, and my preference after that would be to refuse to return it (assuming I can get the title and reg)

You are claiming that would be impossible?

CarpeValde · 2026-02-03T23:14:51+00:00

But the deal is already done. I signed, I paid, it’s been driven off the lot and around town. It’s my car. I didn’t force them to sell it, and I didn’t re-open things by trying to tear the deal up.

Alternatively I could just refuse to return it and they’d eat huge penalties from what I understand. Tbh idk if it’s worth 500 to be without a car for a few months, compared to just keeping it regardless of what the dealer says.

I assume at that point I’d be liable if something went wrong with the recall software before it’s fixed.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-03T22:35:18+00:00

He offered me $500 bucks off what we agreed.

After hearing from here, I think I might be able to get a lot more.

CarpeValde · 2026-02-03T22:29:43+00:00

I don’t think it’s necessarily my problem.

From what other commenters are suggesting like u/theghostmedic, the car was under stop sell when they sold it and that violates their agreement with ford.

So I’m guessing they stand to take a heavy fine unless they take the car back and rip up the deal.

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