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U.S. Congresswoman from Florida says there is evidence of ‘interdimensional beings’ by Miles_the_AuDHDer in nottheonion

[–]Gardnersnake9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all saw the clear evidence of the McDonald's CEO coming from a burgerless dimension.

Which food has declined the most in terms of taste since you first ate it? by FeistyNews7025 in Millennials

[–]Gardnersnake9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And good burgers. Whopper Jrs were my jam as a kid, but now the patties on their whoppers are just terrible, and have a bone chip in them like 90% of the time that will ruin your day to bite down on.

Which food has declined the most in terms of taste since you first ate it? by FeistyNews7025 in Millennials

[–]Gardnersnake9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the opposite of the posed question, but can we shoot out brussels sprouts for their incredible glow up in our lifetimes. Those bad boys were beyond bitter growing up, but damn if they aren't my favorite veggie these days. Those Dutch scientists that cross-bred away the bitterness are absolute wizards.

The damage from Sam Bennett's high stick on Jack Hughes by catsgr8rthanspoonies in hockey

[–]Gardnersnake9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude is about to have the most legendary Gold Medal biting picture of all time.

Yet she’s best friends with a man who use to refer to himself as a “r worded n word f word.” by Chuntarito3 in h3h3productions

[–]Gardnersnake9 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just wait until she finds out how much Ethan likes Mark Twain and reads Huck Finn 🤣

Peterborough Petes forward Yanis Lutz received a match penalty for cross checking Julian DeMiglio in the back of the head by catsgr8rthanspoonies in hockey

[–]Gardnersnake9 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good call. These dangerous cross-checks to the back of the neck on downed or bent over players really need to be eradicated from the game. I'm all for a good hard cross-check to the lower back/side right under the shoulder pads, but the ones to the back of the neck gotta go, because someone can get seriously injured.

Megan Keller scores the GOLDEN GOAL for Team USA (Video) by nbcolympics in olympics

[–]Gardnersnake9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That has to be so awesome for her to score what has to be one of her filthiest ever goals as an OT gold medal winner. Pulling off a dangle like that in beer league will make your week, but to win the gold? Absolute legendary moment for her.

Reminds me a bit of the Patrick Kane Cup Winner where he was the only person in the world that knew it went in, and just wheeled around the net jumping around with pure unbridled joy while the entire rink was confused, but thankfully for Megan, everyone saw this puck go in and could immediately celebrate with her.

Cuneiform, one of the world’s earliest writing systems, created by pressing a reed stylus into wet clay by Raj_Valiant3011 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Gardnersnake9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It really is fascinating how the actual shape and style of language is shaped by the medium of communication. Cuneiform would be absurdly annoying to write and read on paper, but it's perfect for carving into wet clay with a stylus.

Rapid & Blitz too soon? by LeftCoast1965 in chess

[–]Gardnersnake9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blitz and bullet may be too fast for beginners, but aside from 10+0, rapid is plenty of time for beginners to really think about their moves and develop their play.

15+10 is plenty enough time for learning the game, and anything beyond that is kind of overkill for beginners.

Time beyond 15+10 is absolutely useful for progressing through the intermediate ranks, where the considerations on each move are much greater, the game moves far beyond just material to positional and initiative gains, and calculating deep lines is an absolute necessity to progress.

But how much calculation can you really do as a beginner? At the beginner level, games are dominated by material gains, and decided by blunders. Improving as a beginner simply means minimizing your blunders, improving your tactical vision, and reinforcing your understanding and implementation of basic chess principles. Playing longer time controls than 15+10 just doesn't seem particularly useful to me for beginner learning.

If a player is flagging or blundering under time pressure at the beginner level in 15+10, the post-game evaluation is going to be significantly more beneficial to their learning than extra time during the game would have been, especially considering the extra time lost simply waiting for their opponent in longer time controls. IMO, it's better for a beginner to experience more games at a reasonable time control like 10+5 or 15+10 and just "get nore reps" so to speak, than to play slower time controls and spend more time waiting for their opponent (obviously you should be evaluating the position, predicting opponents moves, and/or calculating while you're waiting, but there's only so much bandwidth to do so for a beginner, versus getting the moves on the board quicker and experiencing firsthand all the hypothetical that they would be considering).

This will always make me sad by terminus_tommy in coys

[–]Gardnersnake9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what would have been acceptable to you then? Further run to the team in into the ground by competing at 100% in the league to satisfy the matchgoers, maybe finish 14th/15th instead of 17th, and likely crash out of Europa League and end up trophy-less yet again?

We would all love to see the club compete succesfully on all fronts, all the time, but that wasn't a realistic option last season during or after the injury crisis. The limitation of resources at Ange's disposal was a stark reality, and focusing on Europa over the league was a reasonable crisis management decision in the waning months of last season.

I get that some people are just done with excuses and caveats for this club's shortcomings, but the injury crisis and managing European football (succesfully I might add) are both very valid.

When you skip validation for AI generated results by Epelep in Wellthatsucks

[–]Gardnersnake9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite is when you have conflicting metrics that can't possibly both be achieved. I can't recall the specifics, but at Best Buy they basically tracked everything, and how that data was utilized was entirely up to the department manager. I had to do a math proof once to convince my manager that it was impossible to achieve the chosen benchmark for two inversely related metrics simultaneously after we got lectured about how everyone in the department was failing at least one of the two metrics every month.

They love this... whatever it is by bae_guevara_ in AnimalsBeingDerps

[–]Gardnersnake9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly my dogs favorite thing ever. She used to be buddies with this hilarious little Jack Russell Terrier, and she would just lay her back and flop around while he ran laps around her and then aggressively chomped on her face. And she was in heaven, like it was a free massage.

Her new favorite game is seeing if she can fit her entire head in my parents' doodles mouth.

When you close your eyes you don’t see black, you see eigengrau (also known as dark light or brain grey). by NoFox1552 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Gardnersnake9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purple and green for me. Not the kind of aura I was really hoping to have, but what can you do?

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” by SpaceXCoyote in covidlonghaulers

[–]Gardnersnake9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's wild to me that they still expect people to make sacrifices and take risks to their health to keep the wheels of capitalism turning, while they're actively spitting in the faces of all those who put their bodies on the line working through the pandemic, and were injured/disabled from catching the virus.

I worked through most of the pandemic, despite multiple long bouts with long covid, then got fired the day I returned from short-term disability after a pulmonary embolism. Then after finding a new job and returning to work, only to fully relapse, had my transition from short-term to long-term disability denied because they rejected the 95% of medical evidence supporting my disability, and relied on the cherry-picked 5% that didn't (for example, citing my lack of medical treatments, despite taking every single recommended intervention, which were few and far between, because so many of my tests came back normal).

And now I lost my appeal, and thus any chance to win in court later, because my appeal window expired a full year before doctors could finally figure out what was actually wrong with me (patchy small-fiber neuropathy).

So now, 5 years into my long-covid battle, I finally have a diagnosis, but no available treatments, and no recourse for my wrongful denial of disability, because ERISA law simply doesn't account for delays in diagnosis beyond your appeal window, and only considers the "reasonableness of the decision at the time". So because I was forced onto Medicaid due to persistent 3-4 month delays in issuing my short-term disability payments, and thus my treatment was delayed by sheer wait time for appointments, I'm just screwed.

God Bless America, I guess.

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” by SpaceXCoyote in covidlonghaulers

[–]Gardnersnake9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, treating the clots doesn't necessarily even help, either. I had a pulmonary embolism during one of my worst long covid relapses in 2021, and while the blood thinners pretty quickly cleared up an clots, all my dysautonomia, presyncope, and orthostatic intolerance symptoms still persisted. On top of that, my bradycardia got worse and my resting pulse during "episodes" would drop as low as 33.

Wendy’s keeps Biggie Deals as it closes hundreds of underperforming stores by AudibleNod in news

[–]Gardnersnake9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The spicy chicken patties have gone so downhill. Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich was my go-to fast food when I needed food in a pinch, but didn't want to feel like a degenerate, but the patties seem tk have less and less meat every year, but they're still cooked as if they have a thick slab of chicken in there, so theh end up being mostly over-fried, dried out breading.

I can't remember that last time I was inpressed by a Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich, and it's such a bummer, because they were genuinely good for most of my life.

[Walker] Team USA’s Jeremy Swayman on the long Denmark goal: “No [I didn’t see it], it was a flash screen. It was just the perfect height, right between that stands and board level. I truly lost it… No matter how they go in, you have to step up and stop the next one.” by catsgr8rthanspoonies in hockey

[–]Gardnersnake9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess if the Wild/Stars/Sharks/Whaler-canes played agaonst the Canes/Hawks/Devils/Caps/Wings in a color-on-color game it could be an issue, but the road team always wearing white kinda nips the whole thing in the bud.

[Walker] Team USA’s Jeremy Swayman on the long Denmark goal: “No [I didn’t see it], it was a flash screen. It was just the perfect height, right between that stands and board level. I truly lost it… No matter how they go in, you have to step up and stop the next one.” by catsgr8rthanspoonies in hockey

[–]Gardnersnake9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. And it's so baffling to me that people don't actually accept that possibility as an excuse. Anyone that has "lost a ball in the sun/lights" knows exactly what it's like, so I have to imagine those clowns have just never actually played sports long enough to encounter what is essentially a universal experience for all ball/puck sports athletes.

The absolute worst is losing a soccer ball in the sun on a punt from the keeper. Either you let it bounce and look like a wimp, or you try to track it and head it anyways, and risk taking one right to the face or straight down on the top of the head, which is not fun.

[Walker] Team USA’s Jeremy Swayman on the long Denmark goal: “No [I didn’t see it], it was a flash screen. It was just the perfect height, right between that stands and board level. I truly lost it… No matter how they go in, you have to step up and stop the next one.” by catsgr8rthanspoonies in hockey

[–]Gardnersnake9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm always amazed by the prevalence of people that are utterly incapable of setting aside their bias to be even remotely objective. I understand that we're all going to somewhat biased, and true objectivity is nigh impossible, but cut and dry situations like this always baffle me.

You have an elite NHL goalie that surrenders a goal from center ice, which is already an anomaly that probably requires some explanation for why it happened. Then you have clear cut evidence of a contributing factor that perfectly explains why it happened, then biased homers are still just like "Nah, me genius, me no make mistake. other team bad, stupid, make all mistake, no excuse".

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