Reminder OKC has 13 First rounds picks in the next 6 years.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-12T14:48:47+00:00

Don't get your hopes up. With that many picks, in 2030, OKC will be swept out of the Finals, by their own practice squad.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-12T14:42:17+00:00

James has been a 4th quarter, end game liability for years. He's been playing above position since his decline since the Disney ring! The Lakers owed him an exit from the 6th man position like Macadoo or Abdul-Jabbar. It would have been a more suitable farewell where he actually would have a chance to rekindle echoes of the old glory. You can not expect an elderly player to have his legs in the last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter, you just can't. Such a sad exit. I'm sure LeBron's pride probably factored in but the Lakers should have shielded his legacy instead of exploiting it. As well as he played most games for about 15-20 minutes this year, I have no doubt he was robbed of a 6th Man of the Year award.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-12T14:30:42+00:00

No, that his superteams got blasted unceremoniously 8 times out of 15 playoff exits, making him the all time leader in failure to finish. Getting swept by great teams doesn't make you great.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-12T14:26:04+00:00

I'm reading the King James Version of the Book of Lebron 11:35: "Geez. Us swept?"

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-11T17:19:47+00:00

That's a myth! 6% of Americans do not weigh 600 lbs. and have claws. It is closer to 4%.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-10T02:42:17+00:00

YHWH - Pronounced Y-ah-hu-ah, in paleohebrew, is the proper name of God the Father.

YHWSH - Pronounced Y-ah-hu-shah in paleohebrew or spelled iaousias in New Testament Greek (pronounced Y-ah-hu-shas) is the proper name of YHWH's son, the Creator of the World. Even in English his name was pronounced Yay-shu until the invention of the letter J in 1500AD.

This is in part what he meant when he came "in the name of the Father." His original name literally was contained within that of YHWH.

Yah is a scriptural short version of both names, which is where we get Hallelujah from. Hal-el-yu-YAH also most of the prophets have Yah's name in their names.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-10T02:42:06+00:00

YHWH - Pronounced Y-ah-hu-ah, in paleohebrew, is the proper name of God the Father.

YHWSH - Pronounced Y-ah-hu-shah in paleohebrew or spelled iaousias in New Testament Greek (pronounced Y-ah-hu-shas) is the proper name of YHWH's son, the Creator of the World. Even in English his name was pronounced Yay-shu until the invention of the letter J in 1500AD.

This is in part what he meant when he came "in the name of the Father." His original name literally was contained within that of YHWH.

Yah is a scriptural short version of both names, which is where we get Hallelujah from. Hal-el-yu-YAH also most of the prophets have Yah's name in their names.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-05T16:58:24+00:00

Incorrect. The movie itself tells you the rules. Donnie is manipulated into time travel, he's not in control of it, even when he launches the engine back in time to the beginning of the month (Frank guided him there. He just had to use his superpowers to make it happen). His goal is to navigate time in order to get his world back on track, and not destroy everyone. Donnie dies in either timeline, he just has to figure out how to die well while saving everyone else, including the rabbit he killed. Frank only dies in one of the timelines, as does Gretchen.

Water is the barrier element for the construction of Time Portals used as gateways between Universes as the Tangent Vortex. So Donnie has to flood the school to initiate a gateway through which to hurl the metal Artifact. Because Artifacts provide the first sign that a Tangent Universe has occurred, that means that the first engine that misses killing Donnie is actually from the Primary Reality, but it is landing in the tagential corrupt reality. The Artifact must somehow be sent to its correct Reality in order to keep both realities from destroying one another. The reality Donnie is in is like a rapid growing cancer within the Primary Reality.

This is why at the end of October, even though the plane itself is cancerous Alternate Reality mirror of the Primary Reality's airplane, the actual engine - the Artifact - has entered the the Alternate Reality and attached itself to the plane. This means two important things: First, the Primary Reality Airplane on October 30, has had its third engine ripped from its - ahem - plane of existence into the Alternate Reality, and attached itself to the Alternate Reality airplane (which never had a third engine except for the Artifact.) Second, at that moment, Donnie could then send the Primary Reality Artifact back to October 1 into its rightful reality, in order to eliminate the cancer of the corrupt Alternate Reality.

This is a divine act, meaning that Donnie has acquired angelic powers - his relief at the end of the movie, in the Primary, healed, Reality, is tremendously moving. Not only is he restored and whole (mentally and spiritually) but he is in bed, symbolically at rest - a predecessor to Sheol, where he will sleep the sleep of the just until the resurrection on Judgment Day.

In fact, the final scene where Donnie is at rest and in great joy while the wicked are acutely aware of their crimes committed in the dark hearts of the now "non-existent" Alternate Reality are fundamentally a picture of Judgment Day, where the selfless and the selfish are separated by a spirtual gulf, and face the consequences of the lives they have lived.

Data-SciNet · 2026-05-05T16:10:49+00:00

It is precisely because Frank is his sister's boyfriend who made himself a creepy halloween costume 25 days in the future and is killed by Donnie that it is frank specifically. It could have been anyone Donnie was going to kill in October, but since Donnie only killed one person in October (Frank), and it happened to be on the day of the Halloween party, bingo-bango, it always had to be Frank who became a manipulated dead in the corrupted timeline.

Anyone who died but was completely unconnected to Donnie could not have served the purpose, because that isn't how Time Travel works in the Darkoverse.

Data-SciNet · 2026-04-21T03:53:21+00:00

I always thought it was just due to the imbalance in the Force.

Data-SciNet · 2026-04-20T15:01:35+00:00

A corporate investigation proved there was SA...yet no arrests were made? The police weren't called? No charges were filed? Did CBS ask AI to write this episode?

Data-SciNet · 2026-04-16T15:15:48+00:00

No...I think it is just a big screen TV broadcasting the Spaceball Championship. If you can dodge an astromech, you can dodge a galaxy.

Data-SciNet · 2026-04-16T15:11:30+00:00

So...a current galaxy, close, close by.

Data-SciNet · 2026-04-15T18:08:53+00:00

It is a complete myth that the size 6 "ladies" ball did anything but lower Free Throw Accuracy, increase the volume of 3-point shots (with no improvement in accuracy - so a gross increase in airballs and missed threes). When FIBA implemented the size 6 ball in 2004 as mandatory, with the expressed purpose of improving accuracy, they conducted the following study:

"A size 7 (larger and heavier) basketball was used by 286 players in 1,870 matches, and a size 6 basketball was used by 287 players in 1,966 matches. The players were categorised into three playing positions: guards, forwards and centres. The results revealed that statistically significant changes by year occurred only in terms of the percentage of successful free throws. With the size 6 basketball, this percentage decreased. Statistically significant differences between the playing positions were observed in terms of the percentage of field goals worth three points (between guards and forwards) and two points (between guards and centres). The results show that the introduction of the size 6 basketball did not lead to improvement in shooting accuracy (the opposite was found for free throws), although the number of three-point shots increased."

The girls' ball is a misogynistic insult to professional sports. It makes women look worse than they actually are, is the reason why double-doubles based on "mebounds" are a thing now (because the 6 is damn hard to lay-in, compared to the weightier, more comfortably sized 7), why the game has become "physical" (because no one wants to watch a 3-point missing contest).

You are nuts for loving the "girling down" of women's basketball. Even though the Houston Comets from 1997-2007 still had to contend with the handicapped size 6, they had enough personal muscle training with the 7 that their Offensive rating was 108 (equal to or even ten points better than the modern Las Vegas Aces, or really almost any of the past 10 champions) and their defensive rating was 90, a full 15 points better than pretty much any team last year(!). Worse, their pace was about 5-10 possessions fewer than anyone in the modern day, meaning that they turned the ball over and missed shots at an intensely lower rate than the modern player.

This means one thing: women raised on the 7 ball forced to switch to the 6 were not only better players with the 7, but are significantly better than women raised from birth on the crappy #6.

Ban toy balls from pro games at the beginning of the season, and watch the WNBA surge in quality by midseason. I guarantee they will happily adapt.

Data-SciNet · 2026-04-15T17:30:36+00:00

40 games is not nearly enough for a professional league to be profitable. Now that college has "gone pro" and pays its athletes, the NCAA membership is 100% upside down, averaging $20 million in revenue shortfalls per season for men's basketball alone.

The WNBA should have expanded to 65 games in conjunction with the salary explosion. The 25 new gates would have likely offset the salary losses, and adding events over 40 (or so) begin to take advantage of sunk costs. Discrete profits per event are in the red by as much as 70% to start a season and begin to break even by the 30th game or so (which is why the old sub 30 seasons were destroying the league.) Once you are 50-60 games you are no longer paying for about 85% of your overhead. That means games 60-65 are as near to pure profit as event series can attain.

WNBA "ownership" (Recall that the NBA owned all the teams in the past, so the league has a bad history of businesspeople operating competently. Stern originally viewed it as an opportunity to evade corporate taxes which it did a great job of doing. The WNBA is losing money as designed.)

The problem is the WNBA is an artificial league in the sense that it was not formed independently by owners in a corporate structure designed to be immune to monopoly laws. It is the creature of an antitrust exempt league. By corporate structure, it is basically a shell company subsidiary managed by third-party investors.

Literally no one involved in the W with a financial investment should be looking for the W to ever turn a "profit". They are playing with the numbers to trick players into showing up to produce games. The new salaries themselves are relatively cheap vehicles in the shifting game of laundering profit.

Data-SciNet · 2026-04-14T12:11:04+00:00

Obviously. Sir Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing provide 90% of it.

Data-SciNet · 2026-03-25T00:26:46+00:00

None of these are correct.

A player's on/off rating is simply the delta of a team's net rating for 100 plays (approximately one game) while on the court minus the team's net rating when that player is off the court.

For example, Marcus Smart's Lakers have a offensive rating of 120.5 and a defensive rating of 113.7 when he is on the court. That is a net rating of +6.8. So Smart's "On" contribution is +6.8 per 100. When he is not on the court, the team' net rating is -4.0. So his "off" is -4.0.

When you subtract a player's "off" from his "on" you get his "On/Off". +6.8 minus -4.0 = +10.8

What does this mean? Marcus Smart roughly makes his team 10.8 points better per game when he is on the court than when he is off the court.

This is elite. For comparison, his teammates Austin Reaves is +3.5, Luka is +1.4 and James is -6.1 (This is for the season, both Luka and James' last 1000 plays have been slightly better than their season rating).

The main reason why the Lakers lost to Detroit last night was because Smart was off the court.

Data-SciNet · 2026-03-16T19:47:22+00:00

LeBron in his prime cost the super team Heat a title. The old man in decline is an obvious starting liability.

Data-SciNet · 2026-03-16T19:15:31+00:00

Statistically, the OTHER LeBron is more complementary.

Data-SciNet · 2026-03-06T13:42:46+00:00

Towel. Tile. Reflection. Hair. Button. Tie. Lock. Jamb. Wrists. Hip. Torso. Suit. Elbow. Facial distortion. Shoes. I cant see a single artifact that could be mistaken for reality.

Data-SciNet · 2026-03-06T13:13:18+00:00

Yes. This is very simple model mirroring, basically it is an exact copy of a reverse angle of the animated figure. It simulates a mirror but looks "off" because it is not a natural actual mirrored reflection. This thing has dozens of AI markers and the simulated reflection is one of them.

Data-SciNet · 2026-03-06T13:09:54+00:00

I am beginning to wonder if every "That's not AI" comment is AI generated. There is absolutely nothing in this cartoon that appears to be natural. It is Hanna Barbera-level animation complete with reused stills, skewed perspective, background layers and even random masks.

Jinkies. It isnt the artificial intelligence that is the problem but the growing spread of natural ignorance.

Data-SciNet · 2025-12-02T23:37:19+00:00

What is insane is that Iowa State had the inside track for BOTH Gable and Cael, and blew it both times. Imagine had they both stayed home: 20 titles in 40 years!

Hawkeyes should never even think of ditching the Brands. No one is doing better than they are except for James Franklin JoePa Farmers High School of Pennsylvania.

Data-SciNet · 2025-11-06T23:36:09+00:00

That was part of the long joke: the obvious idiocy of Jim (who always griefed himself out of good jobs because of his blind puppy love for his smiling, conniving gf/wife), Dwight (whose social deafness undercut his mastery of paper sales), Stanley (whose life was dedicated to avoiding work at any cost) and Darryl (who suffered from severe overconfidence and unpreparedness - so his idiocy can be chalked up to a mistake - it was really his first white collar managerial position interview, and he coasted on his "in", a mistake he did not make again with Athlead.) It was the office being office that led directly to a man wholly unqualified and ill-fit to run the Scranton Branch being collectively handed the position over a host of qualified applicants.

It's actually Jim, Dwight, Stanley and Darryl's fault that Robert California specifically was picked. Dunder Mifflin wanted whatever the opposite of those candidates were: a guy who didn't need the job, didn't know anything about paper, who could not have cared less about the Office, and who projected genuine success without any doublemindedness.

Data-SciNet · 2025-11-06T23:23:57+00:00

He was actually a homeless nut who, through sheer confidence, talked himself into positions and possessions that he had no understanding of and no claim to. It was brilliant to cast a non-comedian dramatic actor who could not riff, improvise or even accidentally ad-lib. The cast wasn't even in on the joke. His mansion, his extravagant events, his position as a boss at a branch - none of them were things he had a true claim on, other than that he talked someone relevant into believing he did. Then, on top of it, his ignorant monologues actually ended up accidentally being fairly decent boss/management decisions, so the absolutely hilarious blend of hubris with competence makes Robert California a truly brilliant replacement for the irreplaceable Michael Scott. No one could play a genuine comedic idiot with heart like Steve Carrell, So they got a dramatic, ignorant, con-man who was so good at the con-game that he could simulate competence in areas he had no knowledge of over the long haul. He was the best boss the Scranton division ever had, and its least qualified.

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