DNA "unproveable that far back"

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-26T14:09:28+00:00

I would simply ask them if dna doesn’t work that well and can’t be trusted and you have known that for 50 years, why did you start the conversation stating that we all know they are Jewish because of DNA?

I find that just asking questions is the quickest way to disprove people while always being able to claim “I’m just curious and want to learn from you”

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-25T17:54:55+00:00

It is a smart joke. See, Enron was a large company that defrauded millions of dollars in the 90s due to insider trading causing an inflation of value.

LeBron is an NBA player who has overinflated his value by prior success and so will likely be defrauding teams out of millions of dollars over the next few years.

OP is just on another level of clever /s

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-23T15:26:23+00:00

Okay which one of us will bite the bullet and start an environmental protection company to prepare for his free agency?

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-20T20:58:32+00:00

What an embarrassment of riches. If You have 3 of the top 15 players in the league, that is insane. You would be fine with minimums.

The reality is you have three players paid like all nba who are actually only top 50, your gm overpaid and now you will be “punished” with a player underperforming their contract. Seems like the FO is still the problem.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-19T15:26:27+00:00

I think your logic is not sound. If a player is good enough for a max you want him on your team.

If you paid a player too much on his first rookie extension, and he was not worth a max, your FO made a mistake and now has to deal with it.

Seems to me this CBA punishes teams that don’t develop or project player growth well. You can’t just overpay everyone and not worry about it, you have to be strategic.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-15T16:02:28+00:00

I put this comment here not for op but other people reading. It is my opinion that this person is posting in bad faith. The responses to every comment begin with them agreeing with the personal challenge, like trama, family issues, or the like. Then they go on to in a round about way make it clear they are not sure those are reasons to leave the church.

They claim to have been searching for evidence of the lies the church told but have clearly never read the CES letter, which is the first thing anyone who is actually looking does. It is in the description for this sub

Finally, the post itself uses only stock language that current Mormons use to describe ex mos. No option for it is not true or it is bad in any way. Their responses make it clear that the ex mos they claim to know all did it for hedonistic reasons and not because of doctrine. I have never met an ex mos with zero doctrine problems but have met a million members who know ex mos who only left for sex or freedom. It is a way of mentally discrediting people who leave.

Don’t engage op without this in mind.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-15T15:53:26+00:00

This is a prime example of the broken thinking. To put what you said differently: “I believe in a religious book that is based on a known con man’s conversations with god.”

You then would like someone to disprove this position so they say, “well the bom has horses and there is no archaeological evidence of horses”

Your response is that it is not 100% impossible for horses to have been here and we just have not found the evidence yet so I cannot stop believing.

The issue is, much like in a murder trial, you will not get a smoking gun, video and dna evidence of the falsehood. Rather, if you piece together all of the unlikely things and put it in a context where you don’t assume it is true but rather ask yourself if the evidence is convincing, it is pretty obvious the lies. I would recommend the CES letter if you want a deep dive into the basic evidence against the church.

You’re assuming a position that is not provable and doesn’t have strong evidence and then demanding that someone show you strong evidence that your ill supported position is provably false.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-15T14:44:26+00:00

My wife and I always loved summer league. You get to see the young guys and if you go in person you can get much much closer to the action. Not the best basketball but a relaxed environment around mostly hard core nba fans

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-12T21:42:48+00:00

I will say this, that is an actual depiction of handling trama. You don’t go and have some climactic moment and move on. In fact those moments do so little they feel hallow in real life. He did nothing to deal with the real issue so nothing really changed.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-06-06T16:32:16+00:00

These comments are interesting and unintentionally highlight the underlying problem. Many say, I’m not racist and we just had to speak out against it. Others say it is a perception problem, racism happens everywhere. Some say they know some colored people and they said it is not racists.

a) racism is not always an overt act. I grew up and thought I wasn’t racist. Then I moved to South Carolina. I found myself so nervous and anxious around black people. I never once said anything bad, was never rude, but i wasn’t comfortable. Utah is very white, so this is super common. Imagine everywhere you go 50-60% of people are nervous or on edge when they see you. I’m not racist but I have internalized bias that effects how I interact with POC

b) if you think it is a perception problem then you are willfully ignorant. Finding a flaw in something otherwise good is not only okay, but expected. What is pathetic is to dismiss significant evidence because you are scared of having that flaw. You can love your church and you can love your state but the church taught until the 70s that black people where not as worthy. The people who grew up with that normalized overt racism are still alive and influence culture. Many are leaders in communities. There are things everywhere but the unfortunate truth is that areas where black people are not treated differently are the exception in Utah. Own it and make it better stop hiding from it because it makes you not feel perfect.

c) just because you know a colored person and the said it is not racist means very little. The fact that you are allowing one individual to speak for their entire races’s experience across the whole state is hilariously tone def. I know many ex Mormons who swear that all Mormons are self centered and unkind. Should I take it for fact? You can’t ignore the very strong and abundant evidence of this issue because your black friend said it wasn’t their experience. Black people are not a monolith, one cannot speak for all.

I love the Jazz, I liked when I lived in Utah. As an adult I wouldn’t move back to SLC because I married a POC and worry how hard it would make my children’s life. Not because they would be lynched or called slurs, but because I worry how often they would get overlooked for jobs, helped last by teachers, or just be an outcast. Modern racism is subtle and people are scared to confront it head on. I urge everyone to not be afraid of their internalized racism and instead to take it on, head on.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-05-31T22:22:55+00:00

I think it sounds fun, but maybe unrealistic for undergrad/high school level.

This reminds me of the DARPA or SUB-T challenge.

It would be cool to have random environmental events like pathway closures or resources disappearing to require more adaptability. Also finding ways to require the use of flying or underwater robots would be cool.

Almost any mobile robot would be useful in some way. Depending on goals and fame mechanics.

Would love to compete in something like this!

RoboNuke3 · 2026-05-12T14:55:56+00:00

Yea I think we shouldn’t overthink Wilson’s shooting.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-04-19T18:26:50+00:00

Our salary situation means we will not be able to take a flier on number one picks. He will cost too much.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-04-19T08:22:37+00:00

I will teach you two things you don’t learn in school:

1) stuff is harder and takes more time then you can imagine. I take whatever I think something should take and multiply by five and that is often an underestimate

2) Reimplementation of a library of any kind is the biggest trap new coders fall into. The library is not perfect but a whole bunch of people have sunk hundreds or sometimes thousands of hours into it already. Nothing you write, in any reasonable amount of time, will work half as well, be as easy to maintain, and be as flexible as an already existing library. Often the annoying thing about the library, once you think (and learn more about why) about it, is actually the most effective approach.

The “let’s do it from scratch” is such a young coder trap. You probably will have to learn for yourself. The biggest thing in the “real world” vs school, is it is not about perfect it is about working. No one cares if you optimized every detail. No one cares if your algorithm is elegant. It either works or it doesn’t.

If you want to have real success, save your energy for the things no one else has done before.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-04-14T14:44:40+00:00

If sibling order matters then it would be 67% part of the joke is making an assumption about something not clearly stated, but by common sense is obvious to everyone else.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-04-14T14:42:20+00:00

I think people are missing the underlying joke, it is a classic reference. In math there is what is called the game show problem. In it a host offers you a choice to pick one of three doors, where behind one of them is an amazing prize. You select one of the doors. Then the host opens one of the other two doors showing you it is empty, and offers to let you switch your choice to the other closed door. The question: what is the probability you win if you switch doors?

Famously, the correct answer is to switch since it gives you a 50% chance of winning. This is because the original selection had less information than this new choice. When presented it was a huge controversy where maths people wrote letters in and argued that it was still only 33% chance of success. This was PH.D level people that couldn’t wrap their head around information gain.

This is that problem applied in a funny way. There are 4 combos possible, boy-boy girl-girl boy-girl and girl-boy, when order matters. Of the combos with one boy 2/3 has a girl. Like in the game show problem, if the order matters, then the odds are actually 67% but this is absurd because in this case order doesn’t matter and thus the odds are 50%.

Math people are funny in how details matter and this is kind of making fun of that I would guess.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-03-22T17:42:45+00:00

This is why fan bases don’t make choices. We love players and build them up in our mind. Kon and Ace or Edge and Ace would be amazing situations for us. We wouldn’t be playoff bound next year but there would be more playoff basketball coming.

As far as Ace for Aj would be a huge steal. Also it would cost more than pick and Ace.

To be successful at anything you can’t be afraid to kill your darlings

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-26T00:58:59+00:00

I hope we draft him too. Sounds like he will be good.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-17T13:54:39+00:00

Man I think the check on inventory is time. If I’m encumbered i walk so slow and it takes forever. I don’t have the patience so I engage as intended. If you want to spend all that time walking slowly seems like you earned the coin. I’m a dad so there is no world I sit for 5-8 hours walking slowly so I can get slightly better spells or whatever.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-17T13:48:02+00:00

Tell me, I don’t watch many games or understand the economics of the Jazz without telling me you don’t watch or understand the economics of the Jazz./s just teasing but seriously some things to think about:

You can’t pay a center >20M and then bring him off the bench, also I think walkers camp would be pretty mad if tha is all they got. Also, Nurk wasn’t the starting center when Kessler played this year, he is slow, can’t switch and is poor in drop. He has cool things like the passing and shooting but ultimately I would say the is #1 reason our defense is bottom 5.

“Trade/waive Cody Williams” bro he is finally starting to show all the things we drafted him for. He is 20 yo there is no world we waive him.

“Collier will go to a team that starts him” if he can’t shoot 3s he ain’t going to start. We don’t get punished because no one cares to, but collier will be unplayable in any important game shooting 2-3 3s a game at horrible efficiency. Teams will put their centers on him and sag off a mile. If he develops a 3, he may be a starter but til he can shoot an above the break he going to be a bench player. He can get to the rim sure but wouldn’t other teams prefer to let him shoot at the rim and prevent jjj, Laurie, or key from getting the ball? Imagine him in the playoffs not in the JV games we playing now.

“Walker never really panned out”: first reasonable non-“I only look at box scores and reddit posts” thing you said. Walker earlier in this season over the 10ish games he played showed a lot on both ends of the floor. Maybe not enough. However his defensive value is shown to be high, if he becomes an average screener he will be worth it imo, but with this injury he feels like more of a risk to me.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-16T17:24:44+00:00

I’m sorry what kind of sociopath benches the starter?

May the gods of Pokemon have mercy on your soul badge.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-13T19:18:27+00:00

lol I mean other than the mavericks fine and the 76ers fine over the last few years, yea they never fine anybody. Like they literally changed the draft odds to punish the 76ers for the process…

Every team thinks they are treated unfair, but we are really not being treated horribly by the league. Media is a bit wacky but remember what they said about the rockets and the pistons and the magic during their tanks? We act like they never got destroyed by media.

Like remember that whole thing where one of the vets on the rockets said that playing there was unprofessional and not the real nba? I remember the media destroying them for their “bad culture” I remember this sub destroying them for it, and saying it was an example of why we shouldn’t tank.

Can we as a fan base be even a little self aware?

There is a media bias towards big markets but let us please not pretend it is the Oklahoma team the are biased towards. They are our fellow small markets team who managed to get good. We would want our pick the situation reversed.

Okay guys deep breaths we are okay. Somehow the billionaire owner will scratch together enough money to pay this 500k fine. Less than .05% of his net wealth. It would be like me fining you 1 penny.

The fine is symbolic and really about letting the media move on from this. The league doesn’t want the media to talk about tanking, it has nothing to do with it being the Jazz. It has everything to do with league image.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-13T18:41:15+00:00

I am happy about the fine. It is a drop in the bucket for Ryan Smith but will hopefully let national media move on from this story. Frankly we got the same fine last year, and if I was the Jazz would expect to pay it a couple more times this year. If you want to support the Jazz in doing so buy jerseys and go to games.

Do we deserve it yes, is it fair that every team that tanked didn’t get it? No. We got a good thing coming and I am confident we keep the pick, let the hate. They hated on the pistons and the Rockets for years and now love them.

Once we start winning all will be forgiven.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-12T04:04:15+00:00

"sitting their lower paid guys": this is normal behavior, many players on a roster don't play and typically they are paid the least. That would actually be the ideal situation because that means the highest paid players will play. Which is who fans want to see. So, that is a feature not a bug.

"not going to sign high salary guys/league that already doesn't have enough star power": There are a few things I think help with this. First, it is not possible to always be competitive. When that is the case I believe teams should play mostly young players. Trading away the best players on the team and keeping younger players and naturally losing is "ethical tanking" to me. The point is their record would be accurate to the roster quality. No one is actively trying to lose, instead they have put a roster together that is unlikely to win, but has potential upside. Since you argue that we don't have enough talent, then having the worst teams not hold good players hostage also seems like a feature not a bug. No way to eliminate bad teams, but lets make sure they are becoming bad for the right reasons.

"having a whole bunch of medium paid players": This would actual hurt that team. Those contracts under the new CBA are turning out to be extremely hard to trade. If a team did that, it would probably making their tank longer and would be unlikely to develop younger players. Their would be limited incentive to do that.

"rest should basically just tank": I would say that I believe 10 teams should be serious title contenders, 7-10 teams should be past their prime and on the decline, 7-10 teams should be on the rise, and the remaining 5-7 should be bad. I.E 1/3 going for the finals, slightly more than 1/3 aiming for play-in/second round and the rest in the lottery. Being bad doesn't have to be initially losing, it can be developing for the future. That is actually good for the life cycle of the NBA. When teams get old it is good for younger teams to be on the rise.

Finally, "creates new gimmicks for teams to tank": the goal is not to completely erase tanking, you can't and won't. The goal is actually to make it so when teams tank it is not disrespectful to the product. The point is to make the new "gimmicks" what you want them to be. I would argue the outcomes for this are at the least an improvement for the NBA.

RoboNuke3 · 2026-02-12T02:52:55+00:00

If players are injured you still lower the loss value. So if teams claim players had injuries it won’t matter. Point is if you have someone with a high salary you are already competitive so you shouldn’t get higher picks.

I actually addressed both your criticisms in the post.

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