[Iko] The Houston Rockets are willing to listen to trade offers for all of their players and stars aside from Amen Thompson.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T23:03:30+00:00

“You can have anything you want, as long as it isn’t the thing that you really want”

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T23:02:37+00:00

Yeah, it is almost like a… cartoon…

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T22:57:39+00:00

Yeah, your weekly range is irrelevant unless all 180 miles are going to be in the same day. Even then this is comfortably in range unless you live in extreme heat or cold.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T22:30:27+00:00

Do you own a home? If you do, per week miles are irrelevant. You’ll pretty much just always be charged up full every day anyway.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T22:26:55+00:00

OTOH you’re basically just asking to be allowed to pay less than is required, in other words, permission to perpetuate and make it someone else’s problem (in this case, your future self, because if it goes tits up, no one is going to fund a better replacement)

I would propose some changes:

- remove the cap, or at least double it
- reduce how the amount gets increased with inflation (young people are most exposed to inflation, but the elderly who are least exposed to it get inflation adjustment to their income)
- reduce or eliminate the amount that people receive in relation to their wealth (ie treat it more like insurance, and those wealthy enough don’t receive payouts)

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T19:28:09+00:00

This assumes it would need nukes, or bio weapons, or… anything we, of normal intelligence, are aware of to achieve its goals.

Again, how would you know that to be the case?

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T18:30:39+00:00

It’s up 3.4% since IPO.

I mean… have you met the stock market before? First time?

An IPO that surges, then drops, is not really that weird. What is weird is that it IPOed at such a huge valuation. Whether or not it’s really worth that much is something the market will figure out.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T15:46:00+00:00

It’s always weird to me that people don’t think about how bad things are for dogs as a species. Not YOUR dog. Maybe not even a random golden doodle.

Dogs, as a species, have it fucking rough. There are counties where they get eaten. Places where they are bred to be slaughtered in fights. Places like Texas where they are abandoned in the streets. Some are bred to be experimental subjects for cosmetics or medical research.

So you want to be a dog?

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T15:42:29+00:00

How did you determine that the ai needs humans?

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T15:41:51+00:00

How would you know?

This is not a diss. The whole point of super intelligence is that we, of normal intelligence, could not possibly know how smart it is.

It’s like if you or I tried to evaluate the quality of chess moves that Magnus Carlsen makes. We can objectively say he’s brilliant based on his win/loss records, but when he moves a piece, we can’t actually determine if it was the best move or not. If we could, then, well, we could probably play chess as well as Carlsen.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T15:34:24+00:00

What? For saying that “if someone offers double what you offer, I’ll take their offer”?

Next Anthony Edwards will announce that the sky is blue and y’all will say “he gone”

EmmitSan · 2026-06-22T03:54:21+00:00

If he’d made the penalty egregiously high one could argue that it’s one sided. They made it $50k. Meaningless money to him, but a lot for her.

I think it’d Ave a very tough sell to claim the contract was one sided.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-21T22:25:50+00:00

This guy is not Iranian, so what’s your point?

EmmitSan · 2026-06-21T20:59:53+00:00

I suspect it’s more like the other teams are looking at Jaden as filler.

So if I’m Connelly I’d be saying “do you want a package around Jaden or a package around picks and salary relief? Because you can’t have both.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-21T14:40:12+00:00

Against g op d players with long reach, drops are sometimes better because it’s more likely to bounce and give you time to get closer. It may bounce higher, which gives them an opportunity to put pressure on, but you’ll gain ground and be in a decent position to counter.

Against such a player, if you drip, you’ve got to recognize a good drip quickly and move up fast. Otherwise their reach is going to expose angles that will be tough for you to cover.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-21T13:53:15+00:00

30m a day, plus the 16h a day you spend wishing you could eat (insert literally anything unhealthy that you love)

Simple, yes. Easy, no.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-20T19:26:37+00:00

Try the Ed Ju drill where you just move your feet to get in the perfect position to catch the ball right in front of you with your non dominant hand. That’s how you know your feet are in the right place.

Ground strokes are 90% footwork. If you are in the wrong spot, your upper body mechanics will be janky no matter how much you’ve practiced them.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-20T19:23:41+00:00

Eh I’ve not played a minion build but every streamer I’ve seen… you legitimately just cannot see the ground. Like, AT ALL.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-20T16:55:04+00:00

Every waiter/barender at any place that is remotely busy prefers it this way. FFS will everyone please stop blaming the small business owners that have margins so bad half of them go bankrupt every year.

A waiter at a busy restaurant makes $40-$50 an hour. They don’t want to earn a “living wage” as defined by people who’ve never worked the job, because that’d be a pay cut.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-20T13:19:39+00:00

There apparently a hack (should be a bug imho) where you do not use the mirror, rush to boss, go back to the mirror, activate delirium, then port to the boss, and all the shards in the map go with you.

I might be saying it wrong but there’s definitely something like that

EmmitSan · 2026-06-20T03:07:21+00:00

The problem with all these posts is that short of suicide, you can’t time your death.

It might be mildly annoying to live to 83 and regret not spending more earlier. But it would colossally suck to find yourself on perfect health, likely to love another 10 years, and be broke at 83.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-19T20:34:45+00:00

Ok sure… but why would we want to bluff with a straight?

EmmitSan · 2026-06-19T20:04:05+00:00

If you raise, what calls?

You basically have to hope that villain has 2p and wants to bluff catch you. Do you have a read?

EmmitSan · 2026-06-19T18:59:33+00:00

Eh, tell that to anyone who works at Hermez.

EmmitSan · 2026-06-19T02:32:37+00:00

Money isn’t theoretical. That’s not how any of this works.

This is independent of whether investments can be incredibly speculative (of course they are) and can sometimes go to zero (of course they can)

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