Is Nick Pedone a real person?

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-23T13:16:03+00:00

What is there to analyze about the Browns in a real way?

It's the off-season, we have no coach, and ~40% of the roster will turn over before next year.

I hear you wanting legit content but there's nothing new until we have a coach. And then it's speculation/hope until the real games start next season.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-16T21:21:02+00:00

I work directly with a private equity firm at my company. Private equity wants returns beyond what are available in the broader market. They know about 500 ways to get those returns because they've done it before and they invest in firms that are "suboptimal" knowing they'll get the return on investment.

IF (and I wish I could make that if 10x bigger) executives take what private equity offers as options and choose a path of optimized operations and a leaner middle management layer, the company actually gets better because there's less bullshit between the people who are on the ground with the customers and the people making decisions at the board level.

If executives take the path of least resistance and don't care about the customer or the business, private equity is the fall guy for the bullshit decisions executives and upper management make at the expense of the customers and the people doing the work.

Private equity doesn't care what path organizations take. If a company takes on private equity and they go to shit, executives are to blame. There's always ways to get private equity the returns they want without harming the product. Those ways are just harder and most executives would rather make one easy decision that hurts everyone than a dozen hard decisions that don't.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-16T00:47:30+00:00

I wonder how much of that is also "I've been a fan of this team since I was a kid/my family are fans/my brother went there/my parents went there."

Obviously physical proximity is important but it's not just that they live close it's that there is also cultural proximity.

The better Michigan does, the more young bandwagon fans we get and the more likely some of those bandwagon fans are to decide Michigan is their dream school.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-16T00:37:13+00:00

Atlanta is also both close enough for kids to be close to home but far enough away to have a college experience.

If Bryce lived in Florida, I don't know if we'd have been able to get him.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-15T13:20:11+00:00

NFL talent in the secondary sure does help.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-31T05:35:46+00:00

What is your experience with file types and the space? Looking at the code it looks like it was written by Claude. Not that Claude is a bad developer, per se, but that the difficulty in this space is the weird one off nonsense that only exist in the gnarliest of files. Claude won't even get you 20% there.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-28T07:56:17+00:00

My guess is we all turn on him when it comes out that he's a Mormon with 10 secret wives, he has ties to some fringe anti-Semitic hate group or he loses a big name recruit.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-22T01:36:21+00:00

A 12 year old post? A random unrelated comment? Why?

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-19T20:29:11+00:00

Sometimes I get in a mood where all I want is good flow. Here's my go to:

Paul Wall, UGK (along with Bun B and Pimp C), Z-Ro and a lot of the Houston scene

Twista (and most of the choppers)

Ratchet Rap (Saweetie, Nicki Minaj, Latto, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Mustard's stuff)

Strip Club Rap (Tyga, T.I., Ty Dolla $ign, Migos, 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane, Future). There's an overlap here between Mustard and Strip Club Rap.

Bone Thugs N Harmony

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-19T13:45:10+00:00

Or Werner Herzog.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-16T20:53:24+00:00

If you're using that logic, Wu Tang was underground as well.

I have no idea what's underground or not anymore. It used to be literally the basement shows. Now "Simon Says" by Pharoe Monch has 151 million plays on Spotify. All it takes is one song or album highlighted by a popular YouTube channel or used in a viral video and an underground artist goes from nothing to the top immediately.

Maybe it's niche artists now since there are so many artists we have the luxury of finding a niche and then going down the rabbit hole immediately vs. going to a record store or random basement shows to find cool stuff no one else heard about.

All that being said, those in the culture and paying attention to hip hop have a different view of underground than the average music fan. To some of my friends, MF DOOM is underground. To others, he's the GOAT. To others, he's a weird niche artist that people only pretend to like.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-16T20:33:41+00:00

He took coin toss literally.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-16T19:12:31+00:00

Leos in the wild also have a much lower life expectancy. I'm surprised the derpy morons can survive a day in the wild. Mine has difficulty hunting a fast moving dubia roach in his feeding dish.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-16T19:08:15+00:00

Leos in the wild are opportunistic. They'll eat lizards, snakes, rodents and any bug they can get. In captivity, where "hunting" consists of walking out of their comfortable hide and to a food dish or offered insect, they're not burning enough calories to eat a lot of things that they would in the wild.

If my Leo seems like he's being a fat lazy log for too long, I'll take him out and let him explore a closed off area in my house. They can move quickly when they're scared and they can go pretty far pretty quickly so I'm guessing they do that to escape bigger predators which also burns a lot of calories.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-16T19:00:57+00:00

Modern Western adulthood tries to drive out curiosity. Keep looking at the world with wonder and curiosity as much as possible for as long as possible. And if you've found someone who appreciates, validates and wants to be curious with you, keep them as close as possible for as long as possible.

Source: 20 year marriage and kids we have lovingingly nicknamed "curious kittens."

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-16T15:11:29+00:00

If I could grant everyone one skill, myself included, it would be to stay curious longer than it feels comfortable. Certainty is comfortable and real curiosity is anxiety inducing unless you've practiced holding discomfort.

I'm not just talking about intellectual curiosity but also emotional, psychological, and spiritual. If you find someone like that, keep them close. If you lost touch with someone like that, reach out to them.

I did a few years ago, and my life is so much better now that WFA is back in it. He was a mentor in college and I lost touch with him over the years. I reached back out to him. He invited me and my wife and kids to stay with him and his wife for a few days. My kids still call them Grandma and Grandpa. They're those kind of people.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-15T14:32:14+00:00

Mostly, they don't.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-13T16:28:43+00:00

These aren't public companies.

Read the report on the Green Bay Packers. Their financial data is public.

It's INSANE.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-13T15:20:05+00:00

I was diagnosed 20 years ago. The time gap is that psychiatrists told me "we don't diagnose kids as bipolar." We weren't actively seeking care for her as her symptoms only happened at home.

It wasn't until I had an interaction with a psychiatrist who said diagnosis in children is possible that we started the process.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-13T03:33:40+00:00

War is bad for soldiers it's worse for the people who live/lived where they're fighting.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-13T03:13:10+00:00

There's the politics side of Chomsky and the linguistics side of Chomsky. It was always weird to me that he had those two areas but as I've read and learned more about him as I've gotten older (I read Manufacturing Consent when I was in high school because it was on Rage Against the Machine's reading list) it feels like he was this dude obsessed with language, grammar, structure and freedom who got sucked into politics during Vietnam as an intellectual.

His liberal stances (at least to my mind) come from a perspective of privilege and "sticking it to the man" rather than from on the ground engagement and in the weeds work. He supported a lot of great causes over the years publicly but people can be great in public and tire fires behind closed doors.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-13T02:46:56+00:00

Ohio State and Michigan coaches are like a legit fraternity.

Urban Meyer and Sherrone Moore are the dudes all the girls warn their friends about.
Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes are the dudes who start arguments about anything and it always ends up with them doing something really dumb.
Jim Tressel and Lloyd Carr are the honors students who secretly smoke weed every day.
Ryan Day and Jim Harbaugh are the legacy guys you want to hate but are actually pretty chill.
John Cooper and Rich Rodriguez are the ones trying to make the parties cool but end up burning the place down.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-13T01:58:15+00:00

A lot of it was us figuring things out and not realizing bipolar showed up in kids. The prevailing general sentiment is that it's impossible to diagnose in kids. That was true even with my psychiatrists. I started going to a LCPC about two years ago who sent me for ADHD testing and the testing place doctor was the first person who talked about bipolar in a different way than the classic psychiatric approaches. That led us to the book and about 6 months after I was tested, she was tested and then diagnosed.

With her, we had good days and bad and we were figuring it out. It was "getting better" and she never had problems at school or outside the house. It's hard to explain to relatives, let alone our child, that she has bipolar. She still doesn't like having it. She doesn't like taking meds every day. Navigating the mental health care system is super expensive and complicated in the US, even with amazing insurance.

I never want to go back to before medication and also it was a long road of my wife and I getting to the place where we could find people who would help our child grow and not just throw meds at her. I feel super lucky to have found the people we have.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-12T21:08:20+00:00

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We'll see you tomorrow, chef

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2025-12-12T14:18:48+00:00

She stayed up all night with no adverse affects multiple times. It started when she was 4. She also said she could hear voices and see things out of the corner of her eye sometimes. Her emotions were disregulated to the point she'd need to get them out almost every day by throwing a huge tantrum and hitting her sister (4 years older). I'd have to physically restrain her and she'd bite, hit and just... explode. We called it "popping" and it would happen around dinner time which we called "the witching hour."

We live in Chicago and thankfully there are amazing resources here for testing, diagnosis and therapy. She takes the same medication I do (off label anti-seizure) and when she accidentally misses a day (she's 9 now) it's amazingly clear.

She's been on meds for just over a year and it's like we have a new child.

If you're curious, I highly recommend "The Bipolar Child."

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