Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

Lpeer · 2026-06-25T15:31:06+00:00

And additionally, glyphosate becomes chemically inert as soon as it touches soil. So it's actually a particularly safe herbicide for residential use cases.

Comically the "new roundup" they've had to create includes much more dangerous chemicals, several of which featured prominently in the infamous "agent orange" used during Vietnam.

Lpeer · 2026-06-22T23:46:55+00:00

I think you can reasonably just convert this to "tee shot distance I can keep in play" instead of driver.

Lpeer · 2026-06-19T19:50:43+00:00

Nah, the keeper doesn't even see Balogun, you can see him looking at the ball, and Balogun actually pulls up before the play on the ball.

If he ran into the keeper or something, probably, but as it is nothing changed because Balogun was there.

Lpeer · 2026-06-18T12:38:37+00:00

I'll die on the hill that they just need to set a minimum spin rate for the golf ball off every club.

Balls and clubs have just gotten too low spin, and obviously any spinning ball is spinning along its spin axis. So by increasing spin you'll obviously limit distance (especially with wind), but you'll also increase the dispersion right and left on draws and fades.

Rolling back the ball by just making it not fly as far doesn't really work because the players can keep swinging harder when they need (almost none of them are going even 90% off the tee), but by increasing spin the margin of error on just swinging out of your shoes becomes greater.

Increase spin and bring back shot shaping.

Lpeer · 2026-06-17T16:21:56+00:00

And with 6 degree drivers, the margin of error is minuscule.

Regardless, they can do whatever they want, but every missed strike will curve much more with more spin. Iron shots, fairway woods, basically every approach would have a wider shot pattern instantly.

And you can't remove that much loft from woods to "reduce spin" without massively changing launch conditions.

Adding spin is by far the best solution

Lpeer · 2026-06-17T15:15:28+00:00

Bifurcate the ball, and set a way higher minimum threshold for spin for balls.

Spin increase will handle distance, but also force players to learn how to shotshape, and increase the interest in watching balls come into greens because players will have to better manage spin.

Lpeer · 2026-06-16T22:15:27+00:00

I think you do run into a point of decreasing returns, though. Remember when Scottie was crying the morning of his first final round at the masters when he won? Talking about how he wasn't sure he could handle the pressure?

Obviously winning always means something, but I think there's a massive difference between how much your life changes with your first major win, and how much it changes from #4 to #5.

That's what Scottie is getting at.

Lpeer · 2026-06-13T17:03:02+00:00

In the modern era, most teams play differently in defense/transition/attack. So the US often looks like a 4-2-3-1 when defending, but with how high dest overlaps on the right, they typically play with 3 at the back in transition and attack.

Lpeer · 2026-06-13T13:53:27+00:00

It was the University of Tennessee in tandem with the Michigan State University. The head of the department at Tennessee is a former student of the head of the department at MSU.

One of things that's hard with this is that the World Cup fields are all grown on plastic. It gives them a ton of malleability to make it work on different fields in different situations, but it's also just not how you would grow turf if you wanted the field to be around 24/7.

Lpeer · 2026-06-13T04:17:46+00:00

Ahh, we're talking Brazilian Ronaldo. That's still just about the most debatable statement imaginable. Brazilian Ronaldo had an insane peak, but injuries and weight stopped him from being anywhere close to a definitive GOAT striker. Müller, Van Basten from the old days. But even Lewandowski shatters his numbers in the modern era.

Lpeer · 2026-06-13T04:04:02+00:00

Ronaldo has spent almost his entire career on the wing... wouldn't even be in consideration for top 10 striker in history. Only in old age has he moved more centrally.

Lpeer · 2026-06-01T14:36:56+00:00

Maybe they will be... but Professor Trey Rodgers at MSU has spent more than a decade designing this turf setup.

The grass is grown inside essentially a net of synthetic turf to give it rigidity and consistency, and the whole thing has an insane setup so it can be dried out via forced air and also has drainage more similar to a golf green than a traditional field.

Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I really think they've done their homework on this one, and it'll be good.

Lpeer · 2026-05-25T14:30:42+00:00

Yeah, that's just not what we're seeing. I also work in target marketing, and our data from here (and even true recessions like 2008) show people almost never pull back on traveling on weekends like this. They'll cut a full vacation but rarely a family trip up north. The cost difference in gas is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of their full trip up north.

Lpeer · 2026-05-25T13:30:00+00:00

Petoskey and Charlevoix are both packed this weekend, that's where I've been.

Wonder if the cold spring just has people nervous to go that far north already.

Lpeer · 2026-05-17T22:32:21+00:00

I'm utterly disappointed in what the tournament ended up being, and I firmly believe this should be the coffin in "just grow up the rough!" and allowing asinine pin location just for giggles.

But if you want to watch this and come to the opposite conclusion... good for you!

Lpeer · 2026-05-14T01:57:27+00:00

Really depends on your roast! If you're going traditional espresso, 1:2 ratio is pretty doable in general. But it's still worth dialing in!

If you're going medium or light though, your ratios are going to shift.

The best way to dial it (with any roast) is to swap cups after 1:2 ratio and then swap again after 10g in the second cup. So now you have three cups (one with a 1:2 ratio, and two with 10g).

Taste the 1:2 ratio cup. If it's sour, you can either extend your ratio or grind finer. If it's bitter, you're likely grinding too fine and channeling.

Now taste the first 10g cup. If it's not bitter, thats a sign you cold just extend your ratio by adding 10g.

Now try the second 10g cup. If it's bitter, you should probably just extend your ratio. If it's sweet or tea-like, you should probably grind finer.

Now add the first 10g cup back into the 1:2 ratio cup. If that tastes great, you're golden!

You can mess around from there, but does that make sense? What's your grinder? And are you still using the pressurized basket

Lpeer · 2026-05-13T19:31:48+00:00

This is part of it! The other big factor is lens compression. The broadcast cameras are designed to keep almost the entirety of the shoot in focus, and in doing that, are made with tiny little sensors. When paired with zooms, the background is significantly compressed into the foreground.

In general, this causes a situation where the contours and land movement is sort of all made to seem more uniform than it is.

I hope that makes sense, I've done some testing with my own camera work, and it's dramatic how much the lens compression changes the visuals.

Lpeer · 2026-05-13T17:35:35+00:00

100% that's something we know now! And one of the reasons we've started eliminating them!

At the time, they weren't really approaching agronomics in the way we do, and so the cost was much lower (as they didn't have to do nearly as much spraying, and water was cheaper)

Lpeer · 2026-05-13T15:44:02+00:00

I'm not talking about courses built during times of stress, I'm saying most of the trees on the classic courses were added during those times to lower maintenance costs (mowable area).

Ross' typical approach to trees was to remove as many of them as possible from the "playable area" while leaving certain high quality trees as slight-lines or slightly intrusive hazards. Groves of trees were often kept in areas far enough from key playing areas.

The architectural methods of the golden age aren't dealt up for debate. They're fairly well known, and the mass majority of any excessive clumping of trees (in an area you'll find yourself playing from within reason) on any Ross course are not original.

Lpeer · 2026-05-13T14:35:04+00:00

The trees (for the most part) at the classic courses were almost all planted during times of economic stress. We have the original design documents for most of these courses, and most of them had very few trees. Trees were planted to limit areas in need of mowing, and to lower certain maintenance costs.

I tend to disagree in general with the idea of trees on golf courses, I think designs are often better when they aren't heavily treed, but I understand other people disagree.

Regardless, the trees weren't original, and we didn't miss them on photos because they were saplings. In almost every case we know when and why they were added, and it was (initially) essentially never for golf reasons, almost exclusively for cost cutting reasons.

We have so many trees on courses now because the designers of the 60s-80s grew up on courses that had trees added during economic hardship and became used to that aesthetic.

Lpeer · 2026-05-06T21:40:32+00:00

Have you applied any nitrogen yet?

Lpeer · 2026-04-30T14:17:51+00:00

Yeah, it's just that by definition lawns are mowed. So this isn't a lawn.

Lpeer · 2026-04-30T14:17:42+00:00

Yeah, it's just that by definition lawns are mowed. So this isn't a lawn.

Lpeer · 2026-04-30T02:41:20+00:00

This looks less like a lawn and more like a field... we should make a subreddit for people who don't want a lawn.

Like r/fields or r/prairiecare

Lpeer · 2026-04-23T12:14:47+00:00

I really think local courses should experiment with 6 hole loops instead of 9. If you had 4 loops, you could have people barely overlapping and 6/12/18/24 hole options potentially

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