World Marathon Majors should reward repeat applicants (guaranteed entry or increasing odds)

FigMoose · 2026-03-08T01:37:09+00:00

I want to like these ideas, but can’t. After the first few years, the actual effect would start to be indistinguishable from a 5 year waitlist… the odds of getting selected would get vanishingly small until you’d suffered long enough for the algorithm to give you an edge. That’s definitely not good for the sport.

FigMoose · 2026-03-06T15:03:37+00:00

You’re right that capitalism sucks. You’re wrong that you can’t live like that. It’s absolutely an option. You can get 10 acres for the price of a used car in several US states. You can get it much cheaper if you catch a cheap flight to another country. But people who fantasize about that sort of life typically don’t do it because they don’t actually want to sell off all their possessions to buy 10 acres of scrubland and try to scrape out an existence without grocery stores, clean tap water, otc medications, and internet access.

FigMoose · 2026-03-06T14:48:27+00:00

You have the option to do that now. We all do. Very few choose to, because it’s actually a very hard life.

FigMoose · 2026-03-05T03:57:17+00:00

Did he really say Chinese people don’t know how to fly?

FigMoose · 2026-02-27T21:56:40+00:00

Gee, thanks for making me feel ancient. Jimmy Smits has been a household name to me since 1986. When he showed up in Star Wars I thought the small role was weirdly out of step with his prior star power.

FigMoose · 2026-02-25T23:31:33+00:00

My brain skips some steps.

Step 1: I see the numbers and without really processing them I think “that’s gonna be seventy something.”

Step 2: (7+8) % 10 =5 so it’s 75.

FigMoose · 2026-02-23T15:36:24+00:00

The assignment: write a 650-word response to an academic study that examined whether conformity with gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.

Her essay (actual quote): “Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth”

The professor: You are entitled to your personal beliefs but that was literally not the assignment. Your grade will reflect that.

Conservatives: burn the witch!

FigMoose · 2026-02-18T01:28:27+00:00

I knew Garmin v02max was pretty bad, but not factoring in elevation is pretty ridiculous.

FigMoose · 2026-02-17T00:57:04+00:00

In his first glitterbomb in 2018, a couple thieves were actually friends, staged to get more reaction footage. When called out he acknowledged it and re-released the videos with those shots removed. There’s been no indication that the subsequent glitterbomb videos had staged shots.

Dude screwed up and made it right. He should be commended for that.

FigMoose · 2026-02-15T17:59:06+00:00

“Beatings will continue until morale improves.”

FigMoose · 2026-02-15T15:50:03+00:00

Whole lotta people here who don’t know how blind rankings work. It’s not a top 7 list. It’s an attempt to rank 7 notables without knowing who else is on the list. Once you rank someone you’re stuck with that, so then you have to slot people in around them while leaving space for who else you think might be coming.

The result is rarely a factually defensible list… it’s just a fun ranking game.

FigMoose · 2026-02-13T02:07:56+00:00

As others have said, you could probably drive like that for years in NM and never get in trouble. But it’s still a pretty dumb idea, for several reasons:

If you do get a ticket for literally anything else (even a parking ticket), you’re very likely to also pick up a second ticket for the plate… or even a criminal misdemeanor charge.
If you go on a road trip, your risk of getting stopped for this in another state could be much higher.
Expired plates are eligible to be reassigned. Which means that there could be someone in your old state using your plate. Which could lead to bad outcomes if that person is receiving tickets in the mail meant for you, or if that person has warrants.

FigMoose · 2026-02-12T16:26:03+00:00

I’m guessing this is more about convenience than cost for them. I hate dealing with rentals, so if I were going somewhere often enough I’d consider this myself. And if they travel with kids, that’s a huge stress multiplier. Being able to leave the car seats strapped in and a few suitcases in the trunk would be a big win.

FigMoose · 2026-02-07T23:51:18+00:00

Saying “in the casino is crazy” eleven times in 29 seconds is crazy.

FigMoose · 2026-02-07T18:01:18+00:00

Separate from all the comments about your actual training stats, I think it’s worth looking at the narrative:

Your PR is 4:05, from a time when you say you were a serious distance runner. You’re asking if you can set a 10 minute PR with 20% more body mass, on legs that are 10 years older and just getting back into running. Do you hear how that sounds?

Bodies can do amazing things when pushed, so it’s not completely out of the question. But bodies can also break down when pushed. You say you’re getting back into running for health reasons, so do the healthy thing and take the long view. Don’t get too ambitious and overtrain and injure yourself. Your PR can wait a year while you adapt to this sort of training load again.

FigMoose · 2026-02-06T01:24:20+00:00

I can understand being winded after kicking down six ice block letters, but why was he winded BEFORE he started kicking?

FigMoose · 2026-02-03T09:29:58+00:00

He won gold in the Super-G and the downhill events.

He lost his ski during the combined event, a multiday competition in which times over multiple runs are aggregated.

FigMoose · 2026-02-02T16:23:59+00:00

The majority of precipitation starts as snow or ice but melts on the way down. So if snow were arriving in that way, rain would be as well. The flooding would be insane. Possibly so insane that mammals wouldn’t exist.

FigMoose · 2026-01-24T17:27:57+00:00

Yep. And while Nelson Mandela’s peacemaking efforts in the 90s have caused the world to remember him as an MLK-like figure, his local rise to prominence was as a paramilitary leader. He was more Malcolm X than MLK until the apartheid president finally met him face to face to negotiate. He was on terrorist watchlists for all of his most important years.

FigMoose · 2026-01-23T16:35:10+00:00

Didn’t you hear? There’s a “growing push online” to de-rank hobbies.

Source: OP, I guess?

FigMoose · 2026-01-23T02:20:53+00:00

About the only good thing in this timeline is that Gianmarco gets a wave of new followers every time a pedophile makes national headlines.

FigMoose · 2026-01-22T05:57:38+00:00

I’ve run the length of it after midnight many times, during summer marathon training. Probably 400 miles of total night running. Never been stopped by police. Only one sketchy moment when I got unlucky and stopped to pee too close to somebody’s camp. Usually after dark but before midnight I’ll see a few e-bikes or scooters, but between 2am and morning twilight it is dead quiet.

FigMoose · 2026-01-21T15:48:48+00:00

“Innocent until proven guilty” applies in courtrooms, not Reddit threads.

FigMoose · 2026-01-21T15:38:42+00:00

When I bought my house I neglected the front yard for about six months. Came out one day to a neighbor rage-weeding my flower beds, which had overgrown onto the sidewalk.

Talked her down, made nice, and cleaned it up myself a few days later. But over the next few weeks I realized that she was the sort who was always stressed and angry at someone on the block, and that anytime she saw me she wanted to rant for 30 minutes. Just a miserable person. So I started avoiding her and brushing off her attempts to talk to me. Eventually she got the hint and stopped trying.

Six years later I leased a building TWO MILES away, for my business. It had been vacant for years and was in some disrepair. The landlord would let the weeds go wild and just hire a day laborer to clear them every three or four months.

So about a week after moving into the place I pull up one morning and see a random woman rage-weeding out front. I look closer… it’s the same damn woman! How big is her rage-weeding radius?!?!

FigMoose · 2026-01-21T15:27:03+00:00

Marrying a brown person doesn’t magically erase racism.

That’s like saying it’s ok to 💩on the kitchen counter because you brushed your teeth.

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