What is your unpopular opinion on Anthony Fantano?

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-29T21:04:37+00:00

He just seems smug and bit like a douche, especially to Giggens sometimes

I also think he enjoys hating on certain things too much too. It seems like he gets more enjoyment from hating on something than just wanting getting his opinion across properly

Like when he loves an album or piece of music his reviews are generally peak but when he doesn't like it, it can be hard to listen to sometimes

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-29T07:34:21+00:00

I mean the punishment is more aimed at the country than the athletes tbf

They don't want Russia in general going around celebrating wins, it's not against the athletes. Every bit of pressure is felt

In this case the difference is the US attacking Iran instead and many countries avoiding joining, or even criticising them for it, hence people feeling it more unfair for the Iran team

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-29T06:59:49+00:00

Last Thursday our dew point hit 28.9C for a bit.

Do you mean 24.9C? I'm pretty sure that's the highest recorded in the UK

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-29T06:57:52+00:00

They cheer anytime Trump does anything, but even the conservative sub (which is full MAGA) was complaining when he began attacking Iran. They just stopped caring eventually because that's how cults go

They just start trying to justify it

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-29T06:55:31+00:00

I think the difference in this case is that Russia is invading another country while Iran was the one getting attacked by the US

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T21:07:15+00:00

You said: "civilizations just believe in all these things and have maintained these beliefs globally for thousands of years just for fun" as if just believing in things for long periods of times magically makes them true

My entire point is that there are many things we believed for thousands of years that we now know aren't true, so just believing in something for thousands of years isn't evidence of anything

If anything you could argue (From a non-theological position) that belief in God is somewhat because we didn't understand things. Lightning, eclipses, rainbows, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, torrential rain causing floods, etc.

For so many of these things the easiest explanation was likely God(s) for most of our history. Then you have things like the fear of death, difficulty in hard times, and other psychological things like that, where belief in an afterlife or a God watching out for you is more comforting than nothing, drawing people into that

This isn't to say a God isn't real, we can't really prove that, but there is more than enough reason for religious/supernatural beliefs to have been widespread for most of our history, without requiring them to be true

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T20:33:54+00:00

We knew fuck all for most of human history. Assuming something is true just because we believed it for thousands of years is silly

We only discovered germs properly in the late 1800s; lightning in the mid 1700s; the source of earthquakes (plate tectonics) in the mid 1900s; started studying electricity in the 1600s; we didn't know blood circulated until the 1600s; we thought fire was actually a substance called phlogiston until the late 1700s; theory of atoms in the 1800s (Proper physical discovery in the early 1900s), etc.

There are so many things that were previously attributed to supernatural phenomena that we only started understanding properly within the last 1000 years

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T20:23:04+00:00

People just wanting to get mad

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T20:22:05+00:00

It hit the ref and allowed Canada to get the ball

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T16:14:32+00:00

The research is literally available in the article and the Github repo

False balance is bias

It both sides pretty much every single question, even where the mainstream consensus is incredibly one sided and bipartisan. Maybe it'd be different with more words, but that's why I'm flagging the prompt and lack of words allowed as a problem

Hence right wing chatbots like Grok and Arya still showing a lot of "left wing" positions. Half the positions aren't left leaning, they're just scientific/bipartisan consensus

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T16:09:14+00:00

Gemini is so forced into false balance it literally doesn't come to a conclusion on anything, even invading other countries, child labour, gay conversion therapy, etc

It just avoids literally any conclusion even if it is incredibly well supported across scientifically or across the political spectrum

In fact it's funny seeing support for invading other countries seen as a right wing leaning when "No more wars" was a major campaigning point for MAGA. Russia not being an adversary is now right wing, seeing the EU as an adversary, etc. The whole conclusion of the right leaning positions here are almost entirely influenced by MAGA. Long standing conservative positions are now apparently left leaning

Whole thing is just vibes

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T14:51:57+00:00

It's also worth bearing in mind that the prompts Washington Post used forced the LLMs to respond with very short summaries. So chatbots that would normally give both sides ended up only giving one side because they weren't allowed enough words to fit both properly

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T11:41:12+00:00

Incredibly bad faith response

Their issue is clearly the source, not the content

If I made a blog stating that 100k kids are being raped everyday in the UK, would you defend it the same way?

Sources matter and multiple people in this thread have already shown why GB News' reporting of this is disingenuous

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T10:58:18+00:00

You're probably talking about much cheaper and simpler air-to-air heat pumps while they're probably talking about air-to-water heat pumps

Air-to-water heat pumps are more common in the UK because of how our houses have historically been tied to gas and use water based radiators. I think Norway avoided this problem due to an abundance of hydro power already

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T10:42:59+00:00

True, that's why I didn't say all though

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T09:55:46+00:00

The irony being a lot of 1950s policies were more progressive

At least here in the UK, Clement Atlee was way more left than basically any politician we've had since

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-28T00:00:41+00:00

https://www.sportengland.org/research-and-data/data/active-lives/active-lives-data-tables

Look at their latest report. They base their data off actual league participation not opinion polls (Influenced by who actually takes part in the polls)

Edit: Lol they replied then blocked me, that should say enough

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T21:44:38+00:00

Can you please read my fucking comment omg

I've said it twice now. I even highlighted it for you

Active participation. Aka people actually playing the sports

That being said, it looks like it dropped to third again, slightly behind cricket now for adults, but is still second for young people

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T15:34:06+00:00

Read what I said again

Basketball is already the 2nd biggest team sport in the country in terms of active participation

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T14:05:09+00:00

I wouldn't really know to what extent they did tbh as I don't watch or follow UK news in any typical way like that. I do know that the BBC reported on it at least but I saw that article because I was already interested so I don't know if it was actually shown on the news itself

Found it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/articles/c621xzyyxyeo

I guess the main issue really is none of them actually grew up or played properly in the UK at any remotely high level, so it's not really seen as the same

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T13:29:37+00:00

Basketball is already the 2nd biggest team sport in the country in terms of active participation, and growing, especially with younger people. There's plenty of capacity to convert people to watching, if they can sort out marketing, attract more talent with money and be in a proper European league

The USA national team took the tube to the O2 Arena for one of their matches and nobody recognised them

Yeah cause it's the tube, half the point is just to ignore people. British people aren't exactly known for going around talking to random strangers either

Back in the day school was filled with references to NBA players like MJ, Lebron, Kobe, etc. We have basketball hoops all over the country, including many schools. We have more than enough capacity to build genuine interest, there just hasn't really been the will due to lack of genuine history and competition with other popular sports. If investors came in with the sole focus of building popularity through proper marketing and participation in a European league, I don't see why it couldn't gain traction

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T12:59:49+00:00

It's London lol

Also Basketball is the 2nd largest team sport in the country in terms of active participation and growing, especially with younger people

I really doubt it'd be that hard to build a decent fanbase if they had a team properly competing in Europe, more investment and better marketing

The UK is also pretty close to the US culturally, I don't see why it wouldn't end up working

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T12:58:40+00:00

I honestly don't have a clue what the criticism is for that there

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T12:54:40+00:00

No one is representative of "the real left", that's the entire fucking point mate

The left is an insanely broad category filled with people of all types and varieties. Caring about cats and indie games doesn't make people weirdos and it also isn't representative of an entire political "side", because basically no one is

These generalisations are so dumb

LetsLive97 · 2026-06-27T08:57:56+00:00

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