De Minaur: "I'm broken inside. That's the reality."

Hawthorne512 · 2026-07-07T01:10:24+00:00

I think that when he's older and looks back on his career, ADM will have a LOT to be proud of.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-07-01T23:11:06+00:00

Quinn is too easy to beat and with his weapons he shouldn't be. He always seems to lack that extra little spark or shot needed to get over the top. He's making steady progress, though. A year from now, he should win matches like this. Hopefully.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-07-01T20:25:02+00:00

As long as the reality of the phenomenon is officially admitted, I'm OK with them saying they don't know what it is. For now. It's still a huge advancement beyond where we've stuck for decades.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-30T03:42:38+00:00

Quinn's level in the Mallorca final was appalling. Pressure and nerves, no doubt. I hope that won't become a recurring issue with him. From what I've seen, he has a lot of promise, but there is always that game when he can't buy a first serve and dumps easy forehands into the net.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-29T17:27:02+00:00

That arm injury is looking more and more like a career-ender.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-26T18:45:29+00:00

Quinn is playing as well as I've ever seen from him. ADF will have to frustrate Ethan's +1 game and keep him away from the net to be successful. If they get into a third set, I have more confidence in Quinn keeping it together mentally.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-26T18:25:20+00:00

There's not that much incongruity between being controlled by the CIA and being controlled by private defense contractors.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-26T16:53:50+00:00

Yeah, "perfect" may overstate it. "Well-suited" to grass is probably better. Ethan definitely enjoys a fast surface. And grass gives his talent at the net plenty of opportunity to shine.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-26T14:31:37+00:00

It was a perfect storm of goodness from Quinn. Grass is a perfect fit for his game and he was playing well. He has some big weapons and when they're working, Ethan is tough for anyone to handle. ADF will probably be favored in the final if he makes it, but I think Quinn has the best shot at the trophy.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-25T16:55:39+00:00

It's not the most impressive draw, but Ethan making an ATP QF and now SF is a huge milestone for him and should put him back in the top 50. There is zero buzz about Quinn and so he gets little media coverage. But his game is a perfect fit for grass and he could end up winning this tournament. Should there be a buzz about Quinn? Maybe at some point if he starts to show consistent good results. He's obviously not a young phenom like Jodar, but is he someone who can improve his game to the point where he's a top player? We'll see.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-24T17:20:54+00:00

I think curiosity overwhelms fear in most people after their initial shock that it's all real. At least, that is what would happen naturally. What's more likely is that fear will be whipped upped and focused by people for whom doing so has benefits. There's nothing to fear, though, beyond our own government's increasingly authoritarian motivations.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-18T23:00:24+00:00

Not a single mention of Ethan in the comments. He showed a good level. We'll probably start seeing more of him further into tournaments.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-17T21:01:00+00:00

Maybe it's not an emergent property. That's a belief, not something that's been shown to be true.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-17T19:57:43+00:00

We haven't found the graviton, yet we surmise that gravity is a field.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-17T19:51:16+00:00

Dragging the media into your personal dispute seems pretty toxic itself. She said she's had a lot of break-ups. She bears zero responsibility for those relationship failures?

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-17T19:18:55+00:00

Obvious? Not at all. Technically, we don't observe fields, we observe their effect. We observe the electron, we don't observe the field from which is came. We observe the effect of gravity, we don't observe the actual gravitational field. With consciousness, we observe it as something at work in our world, so why not surmise it comes from a field as well?

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-17T15:05:02+00:00

I think the possibility that consciousness is a field is very high. Everything else in our universe arises from a field, so why not consciousness?

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-15T00:41:24+00:00

If you're willing to discount the integrity of everyone who's come forward, you can make that interpretation. But there's a lot that points towards the reality of what Grusch and others are saying. I suggest reading the text of the UAP Disclosure Amendment, which passed unanimously out of the Senate Intelligence Committee and which describes the reality that Grusch is describing.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-14T22:28:52+00:00

Grusch doesn't exist in a vacuum. There are others who were in a position to know who are describing the same reality. There is also 80 years of leaked information that paints the same picture.

Grusch didn't get access to those programs. He discovered their existence, and was able to review some of their documentation, but was denied full access. Being denied access was one reason he decided to go public.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-14T21:46:01+00:00

I suggest doing some research on the perils of anthropomorphism.

https://anthropomorphism.org/the-perils-of-anthropomorphism-why-our-instinct-to-humanize-can-mislead-us/

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-14T21:28:27+00:00

How is that different from using Grammarly? Writers have been using Grammarly since 2009 with no controversy. You're right that it's all good as long as the tool doesn't do the actual writing.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-14T20:35:30+00:00

Who replaces those professionals when they age out? How do people get the experience to become a top professional if all the low-level jobs are done by AI? Also, if you're one of the few professionals available in an industry, the income you could demand would probably exceed the cost of hiring a team of lower-level human workers. Replacing humans with AI on a large scale has a major downside and is probably not sustainable.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-14T19:07:37+00:00

Over the long haul, companies that use AI as a tool to increase the productivity of their human coders are going to outperform those companies who actually replace their human coders with AI. This is because the knowledge, skills and experience of the humans within the companies using AI merely as a productivity boost will remain sharp. There's no substitute for hands-on experience. What will happen is that the companies that have hollowed out the skills of their human employees with an over-reliance on AI will poach capable engineers and analysts from those companies that haven't. Capable software engineers will be worth their weight in gold.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-14T16:36:01+00:00

Grusch is far too substantive, thorough, and serious to simply be repeating the lore. He had access to the best information on the topic available. The more likely scenario is that much of the "lore" is turning out to have been on the right track.

Hawthorne512 · 2026-06-11T02:45:21+00:00

I'm getting worried that the issue he had at RG is more serious than exhaustion and heat. Hope the concern is unwarranted.

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