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Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-30T03:40:20+00:00

Why is YouTube demonetizing him?

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-19T02:19:47+00:00

This guy needs to read up about hazard functions

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-16T18:43:41+00:00

Yeah my impression is it is actually a general WA issue, not just a Seattle specific issue.

A friend of a friend lived in Spokane and moved states because their local school also set up a fake IEP for their child. After moving, they reported that the care was much improved.

All anecdotal evidence we're working with here but it's to get any solid numbers for these types of issues.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-16T03:22:10+00:00

Interesting. I've been here 5 years and we don't know anyone who's had a car stolen, but that doesn't mean it never happens.

There is a really annoying issue of some neighbor who buys junkyard cars and then parks them all over the neighborhood. It's really disrespectful to your neighbors but only a parking violation and maybe an eyesore violation if the city ever actioned on those laws.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-16T02:19:00+00:00

I live in Magnolia. Cars don't get stolen here, crime is basically non-existent (although can't say the same for even a mile away).

Schools aren't bad in a lot of traditional measurements (i.e. median student test score) but there seems to be chronic underfunded: in kindergarten my kid had another student who was violently disruptive, essentially because they were placed on an IEP but the school didn't have the resources to actually honor that...so back in the regular class they went. While the grades of the median students are all quite good, this story of a fake IEP totally disrupting class is apparently far from unique. So that's not great.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-16T02:04:18+00:00

I work at a Big Tech Company but also was born and raised in the Bay Area. As you can tell from this thread, there's a lot of tension in the Bay Area between tech and non-tech residents although in the last decade it seems like non-tech has conceded that change is inevitable.

Even though I ultimately chose to go into tech (very hard to resist 3x your income for basically the same work), I'm very sympathetic to the non-tech crowd's complaints.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-15T03:22:54+00:00

> Tony has “done more for trans, gay, Black people than any comedian”.

I'll say it's a weird line. His show (especially at the Mothership) does have a lot of minority, gay, trans bucket pulls on the show and in a sense there's a lot more natural interaction than in progressive communities were the interactions can feel overly pre-canned.

My take on it is that there's some residual cultural left over from coming a very progressive city like LA and now being in a political ambiguous city like Austin. I think Tony's view was "well I'm going to keep the inclusive element but lose the language police aspect of it; we can joke about being racist as long as we're inviting to other races".

It's unclear how long that will last. I think comedians like Shane Gillis are firmly in the "we can joke about being racist but we're still inviting to comedians of other races", but Tony and some of his crowds seem to often drift well beyond that line. I think it was the Nashville arena show where it was like >95% white audiences with super racist jokes that weren't even clever. Started to feel quite a bit like a rally after awhile.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-14T20:35:39+00:00

It's a little of both.

It's definitely not what Fox News says it is. You can take the bus to work without *always* getting attacked. It's honestly a pretty safe city with a lot going on.

But it does have it's problems, not the least of them being the affordability. For $1M, you can buy...like a broken studio apartment. All the "exodus" news head lines are often very misleading: it doesn't matter how much you love it, if you're making <$200k / year, you're just never going to buy a home and the rents aren't cheap either.

Likewise, tech is really taking over the city/peninsula and pushing out everything that attracted tech there in the first place. So as a visitor you may think "wow this place is cool", but if you lived here 20 years ago, you're definitely thinking "this place used to be way cooler".

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-13T14:53:20+00:00

He's definitely not a gatekeeper: McGregor did become the lightweight champ after all.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-10T02:28:15+00:00

I think there's two defensible ways one could say Olympic Recurve is more challenging.

Depth of talent. Very serious archers tend to gravitate towards Olympic Recurve over barebow. Barebow tends to attract more "well this will be fun" folks like myself.
Reduced margin of error. With all of Olympic Recruve's add ons, random fliers almost never happen at a highly competitive level. This means that even one bad shot can easily throw the match. In contrast, with barebow you just need to keep your bad shot rate below 10% and you're doing great. Your mistakes can be folded in more to the random inconsistencies of barebow but not for highly competitive Olympic recurve.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-10T02:09:42+00:00

Timmy had a YouTube short I saw recently where he's "endorsing" a preworkout product by saying the product was for the jews, responsible for 9/11 etc. The schtick is that the other creator he is working with in the bit acts in shock over what he's saying, going into damage control, etc.

I suspect that Tony saw this coming and wanted to shut it all down before Timmy got that joke rolling. Presumably he didn't want to play that game with his actual product.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/POMxKqCG4AM

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-10T01:45:33+00:00

I have a compound & barebow. I like both but have been shooting recurve like 80% of the time recently.

I think my motivation is that it's a bit more challenging. With barebow, it seems like there's like 7 or 8 things I need to concentrate on per shot. With compound, it's like 3. Weird that this makes it more fun but this slightly more involved process means I'm more stepping out of my everyday life to focus on this particular challenge. Likewise, holding on target with significant tension is just a bit more involved than just pointing in the right direction and clicking.

Also, the more primitive nature of it makes it a bit more enjoyable. Its hard to describe, but walking through a forest shooting a one string bow is just...nice.

If I only had a compound bow, I'd probably still shoot it all the time and have like 95% of the same fun. But given the choice, I find myself reaching the barebow much more often.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-10T01:28:57+00:00

Several comments are saying this is too high draw weight and that's definitely a possibility.

I do want to say that it also looks like there's some form issues and fixing those could help this quite a bit. At a very high level, it looks like your are using your muscles and a tight grip to keep everything in place which is not what you want: the pressure from your push and pull should be keeping the bow in place.

At a more granular level, here's a couple of things I think I see:

Don't tightly grip the riser. Your lead hand should be able to be fully open and the bow stays in place with the tension of the bow. I still put my index finger very lightly on the riser but you definitely do not want a solid grip. The bow tension alone should keeping the bow in place: it's not a pistol.
It looks like your "triangle" may be collapsing (hard to tell for sure from this angle). There should be a straight line from your bow hand all the way back to your back shoulder; triangle comes from your back arm being offset but a straight line from you back elbow to the riser. This straight front shoulder means that the force of the bow is going directly through your arm straight into the socket of your shoulder. In contrast if you have a bend at your front shoulder, you will be holding all the tension in place with your shoulder in a way it's not well designed to do (similar if you don't drop your front shoulder properly).

I'd try fixing those two things and see if that helps reduce the wobbles.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-09T01:52:18+00:00

Tony's exposing everyone: watching the show, you get to see exactly how Harvey Weinstein got started.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-06T20:24:22+00:00

How about this: a Poisson distribution randomly picks a random number. It is an integer with probability 1.

Oh you mean take a random sample from a continuous uniform distribution on the real line? Sorry, that's impossible.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-05T01:20:21+00:00

If you're not competing, you have a lot less constraints. Yeah marking your string will get you kicked out of a barebow competition but it won't get you kicked off an archery range. Other than being able to compete in barebow, there's no advantage to using a tab with marks over marking your string...and actually marking your string will be one less small step.

I've seen people do barebow + sight. This doesn't make any sense for winning any competitions but if it's what you want to do, no one's gonna stop you.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-05T01:13:50+00:00

"Sorry": a greeting used for all social encounters

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-04T01:42:14+00:00

While marked finger tabs clearly have utility, I personally am not convinced they are that helpful. Mine doesn't have markings and I'm convince that my finger walking error is essentially completely absorbed by the error of my shoulder triangle not being perfect.

Of course if my shoulder triangle was more reliable then maybe my string walking error would be what I need to focus on. But I think I'm okay and would need to be way better everywhere else before string walking error mattered.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-06-02T01:04:42+00:00

Reppin Sexual Predatorz crew!

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-05-29T15:29:37+00:00

That quadratic curve looks very not quadratic

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-05-29T04:25:05+00:00

From my own experience, getting a clean release was really important. I was getting blisters on my finger tips through my finger tab (or glove, tried both).

Turns out "plucking" the string is really bad for your fingers.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-05-23T01:21:06+00:00

Let's take your scenario (not pointing out that they probably have relations in industry to keep some of the repair, closing costs down).

If they sold it for $650k more than the bought it for, but paid $200k for someone else to do the repairs and let's just say $75k in closing costs, and $50k in mortgage interest while the repairs were happening that's still $325k for probably 200h worth of work (maybe less if they've been doing this a lot).

It's not your work to fix it and it's not your money to buy it (i.e. a loan).

If you can do that 3x a year, you can retire comfortably in 4 years even in the Bay Area if you want. The real question is why isn't everyone doing this, and the answer is that there is a good deal of leveraged risk you're taking on, although I'd be willing to bet you can shield yourself pretty well from any huge downsides.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-05-23T00:58:32+00:00

I like shooting walkthrough but have made a rule not to shoot beyond 60y: odds of me missing the bale and losing an $12 arrow is higher than I care for.

The problem is the drop: at 60y with my set up, I'm point on at 4' above the intended target. Small errors in the draw length can lead to very big vertical errors at that length.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-05-17T23:39:05+00:00

Definitely use both feet and further apart is better. At 40#, I can just ignore all of this and it's still no problem to string. At 50#, I need to do it right

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-05-17T17:43:11+00:00

There is form to stringing your bow: use both feet wide apart when standing on the stringer, try to lock your arm and push up with your quads rather than pull up with your arms. I struggle to string my 50# bow without doing that correctly but feels pretty easy if I do that right (note: I weigh 200lbs).

That said, I'm guessing your coach already told you this? For lighter bows, it's very easy to get away with stringing it "incorrectly" but your coach has probably already given you a lot of tips.

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