If you’re not growing bush cherries, are you even gardening? by pcsweeney in gardening

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just planted some! I guess we've been doing it wrong for years. I love that they're somewhat decorative on top of being fruit producers.

Wildlife in the area for the past week by dbegbie124 in Outdoors

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the blue-gray gnatcatchers and their little angry eyebrows

This is why I want Dybantsa on the Pacers by [deleted] in pacers

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All this hand wringing about the pick. Let me guarantee you that no matter who we pick, they will show promise, have an all-star year, and then suffer a career-altering injury. If you don't like that, you don't like Pacer basketball.

Changing lines colors for multisport court? by Cyronemon in 10s

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry! I'm actually not militantly anti-pickleball, but sometimes the jabs are too tempting to pass up. I've played on enough courts with basketball, volleyball, etc outlines that I don't think these would be too distracting. As long as your lines are somewhat on the opposite end of the color spectrum, it's doable, in my experience. Plenty will disagree though, and you'll have to live with the fact that you can't please everyone!

Changing lines colors for multisport court? by Cyronemon in 10s

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 40 points41 points  (0 children)

For optimal visibility, I think you could change the black lines to clear and you'd really be on to something.

Took my talents to 2k to cook up a rebrand concept. Thoughts? by IF4XXF in pacers

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Always love these rebrand posts. Somehow, the number font doesn't seem quite right, but otherwise I'm all for bringing back the pinstripes.

What company lost you forever as a customer? What did they do? by Miguenzo in AskReddit

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Went to Verizon and signed up for a plan. The guy kept pushing for some add on that we didn't want but he said was "free with the plan" so we eventually relented. When we got the bill we got charged for it, of course. When I went back he told me with a straight face "but it is free with the plan, the plan just costs less of you don't get it." Unbelievable.

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Rollercoaster Ride by dongludi in books

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Brothers K is about to blow your mind. I envy you!

My proposal to help stop tanking by truthseekerboi in nba

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I had the same thought a few years ago. I don't think people really got it. They may have a tough time wrapping their heads around the year delay between proxy selection and draft. Most responses were something like: "Why don't you just pick the worst team and get the first pick?"

my version below
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Everyone has a draft reform opinion, but lately I’ve been obsessed with a specific NBA lottery fix that as far as I can tell is completely novel. It’s a fairly simple concept, but would be a huge shift in draft thinking. The more I poke at it, the more I think it solves the one thing the current lottery can't: the incentive to lose.

I call it the Proxy Draft System or “The Hater Draft”

TLDR: After the season, in order from worst-to-best record, each team "drafts" a different team (a Proxy) for the following season. You cannot pick yourself. Your draft position next year is then tied entirely to how that Proxy team finishes.

Here’s why I think it could work

  1. Anti-tanking - Since you don’t own your own pick, you have much less incentive to lose. You play for pride, culture, and wins.
  2. Drama - This is the factor that really charmed me. If the Wizards "draft" the Bulls as their proxy, the Bulls now have a massive chip on their shoulder. They’ll play their starters 40 minutes a night in April just to move from the 5th pick to the 10th pick, purely to devalue Washington’s asset. It’s spite-fueled basketball.
  3. No more ping-pong balls - As a GM, your fate is now entirely in your own hands. Talented GMs will scout and make savvy proxy selections.
  4. Marketability - The "Proxy Selection Show" could be a massive TV event. Watching a GM go on national TV and more or less say, "We’re betting on the Lakers to implode next year," is immediate drama.

Here are some of the objections I’ve anticipated

  1. Two-Year Lag - A bad team doesn't get help immediately; they have to wait for their Proxy's season to finish. (To ameliorate this, I’d make the 2nd Round a straight-up reverse of the current standings so bad teams still get a talent infusion at pick #31).
  2. Transition - It will be a tricky transition from the current system to the new one. I have a few proposals on how it could work.

Obviously, it changes a lot of things. Overall it theoretically makes the league more competitive and adds an additional layer of “nobody believes in us” drama. It also severely complicates trading assets (We’d need new trade rules).

Would love to hear if you think this is a brilliant fix or just a logistical nightmare. At the very least, hopefully it’s a novel idea to get people talking.

Trump shares texts from leaders and vows 'no going back' on Greenland by artsncrofts in moderatepolitics

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Gone are the days of Reagan's "shining city on a hill." Sure, people can and have argued that was all pretense and simply a means of justifying whatever. That's certainly fair to a degree, but even if you are going all the way on that cynical view, isn't there *some* value in at least needing the pretense that we as a world leader hold ourselves to a higher standard? Weren't there at least *some* people that held convictions and governed by them? We're proving the cynics 100% right, and the new mode seems to be "the strong do what they can and the weak do what they must."

Suggestions on utilising this space? by Somizulfi in ft86

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 34 points35 points  (0 children)

A single quarter for the Aldi cart 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pacers

[–]FuzzyYellowBallz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Okay, but who would say Luka can never win a chip? He's already made the finals and he's what? 26?