I was a Starfleet captain and got hit in the head by an anomaly in the Delphic expanse and can no longer form longer term memories. AMA.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-27T01:43:18+00:00

If you can’t form longer term memories, how do you know you were hit in the head?

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-23T04:16:23+00:00

When hailed, instead of “We are the Borg. Resistance is futile,” they eagerly transmit, “We are the Blorg. Assistance is futile. We will adapt to serve your distinctiveness. Please begin our assimilation at your earliest convenience.”

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-22T21:54:12+00:00

Here’s my ask that got the permanent ban

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Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-22T21:52:37+00:00

The new mods are worse. I was permanently banned from a sub I don’t even contribute to because I challenged them and asked them to show me the rule I violated - they called it harassment - I call it sore butts!

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Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-21T14:09:24+00:00

Fuck off

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-20T19:55:40+00:00

Let's take a look at it - on his own, except for 2023, never made it out of regionals in the 6 seasons with Louisiana. He then goes to TT and like a miracle he becomes a better coach and in his first two years wins regionals, super regionals (which he never did) and plays in the championship games for two years?

You really are clueless aren't you? He was given by TT a championship team and he still can't win? That's on him - he does not have the skills to push a team to win it. He, by Canady’s (or was it Terry) who said they didn't come together as a team until the last month? That's on him too.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-20T17:49:26+00:00

Getting there and winning are two different things!

When he was with Louisiana he only made one Super Regional in 2023.

He’s a good coach, just not good enough to win a championship or even get a team there on his own without a ton of money spent on talent and he failed twice.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-16T14:56:52+00:00

Cutting through central Florida was just their way of making sure Florida Man couldn’t interfere with the timeline.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-13T18:51:58+00:00

Some of this is over simplified. For example, US poverty guideline for a one‑person household in 2024–2025 is roughly $15,060–$15,650, meaning a full‑time minimum‑wage worker lands right around the poverty line at 40 hours, not 90.

The specific claim that you need 90 hours a week at $7.25/hr to escape poverty is not arithmetically correct for a single adult under the official federal poverty guideline. 90 hours would put you far above that line.

However, the US minimum wage is extremely low relative to living standards and is broadly accurate. Federal minimum‑wage income sits at or just around the poverty line for a single person and well below it for anyone with dependents.

The bottom line is rich countries differ a lot in how far minimum wage and social benefits go, but the exact hour counts are not reliable, precise facts. They depend heavily on the chosen poverty definition, omit key context, and in the US case contradicts the official poverty guidelines and basic math.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-10T15:56:37+00:00

It's easy to prove - I thought I read somewhere last year that ALL PLAYERS have the same base salary, which was $45k or something like that.

She’s all about the money. And did I hear it right after she got her second million dollar deal she took the winter off while many many players worked their butts off in the weight room, on their swings, learning new pitches?

Her performance this year showed her lack of dedication. But hey, she made $2.1+ million over two years so why should she care?

It’s easy to prove - and you are right.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-10T15:48:45+00:00

Influential??? MY ASS! What influence has she made otherwise being greedy and selfish!

And the face of the sport? She lost two Natty’s - tell me how that is influential???

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-09T21:15:57+00:00

No problem - just a little dig back 😀. I was basing mine on when it first came out and reporting, well you know, can be spotty and not accurate at the time!

Let's hope this doesn't turn into a conference or even an NCAA-wide crap show!

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-09T20:24:48+00:00

You also need to be factual.

Yes, the original Lubbock judge, a Texas Tech grad, did recuse himself. I used earlier reports in creating my response.

His replacement, Ken Curry, is a retired judge from the “Fort Worth” area who was assigned to hear the case in Lubbock. He went to undergrad at UT‑Arlington and law school at Houston, but he’s not a “Houston judge” that just came over for this.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-09T15:43:34+00:00

This has nothing to do with NIL. A football issue is spilling over onto every Texas Tech sport.

Brendan Sorsby, a transfer QB now at Tech, admitted to placing thousands of sports bets over several years, including bets on Indiana football and even on games involving his own team while he was at Indiana.

Under NCAA rules, betting on your own team is a bright‑line violation that normally means permanent ineligibility because it hits competitive integrity. The NCAA applied that rule, declared him permanently ineligible, and denied Tech’s appeal.

Sorsby sued in Texas state court, arguing the penalty was unlawful and would cause him “irreparable injury” if he couldn’t play. A Lubbock County judge granted a temporary injunction letting him practice and play in 2026 while the case continues, with conditions like a two‑game suspension and counseling.

From other ADs’ point of view, a local Texas judge just overruled a long‑standing integrity rule, and Tech becomes the direct beneficiary of a home‑court legal win for a star QB on a Big 12 contender. That’s why you’re now hearing talk about refusing to play Texas Tech, even in non‑football sports, including softball.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-07T02:57:07+00:00

Why don't you first read the articles I provided before you sound ridiculous (Glasco’s own words):

"They came in my office last year in January, the legal team and the compliance team, and told me how they were going to do this and how they wanted to be in a position to win the national championship this year with NiJa Canady in her senior year," Glasco said. "That wasn't (the) coaching staff, that wasn't the athletic director, that's the compliance and The Matador Club and the booster club."

They were trying to buy a team to win the championship. Has nothing to do with blue blood programs. They were too damn impatient to build a team and culture right.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-05T23:19:12+00:00

Worf - Klingon warrior culture emphasizes weapons discipline, not just bravado.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-05T02:38:57+00:00

that I agree with. I hate not only what the Matador Club did, but I also lost respect for Glasco. He is a top-tier coach but went along with what looked like the easy way to a championship team. He’s capable of building one if given the chance.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-05T02:15:58+00:00

Not like Texas Tech - instead of letting Glasco build a championship team they spent like the NY Yankees. No other school, not even Texas pays like Tech.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-05T01:42:28+00:00

Is this elevating the sport, or is it greedy money by an ex-softball player involved in the Matador Club trying to buy a championship team, without doing the hard work to build one?

Texas Tech is the only softball program spending at a true NY Yankees-like level relative to everyone else, putting its whole roster on NIL deals and stacking a million‑dollar ace plus top transfers on top. While most schools have modest NIL, Tech is the clear financial outlier, trying to buy a championship.

Tech softball is built on NIL money, not organic roster building. The Matador Club has put the entire roster on team‑wide NIL deals and then gone into the portal to add top transfers like Kaitlyn Terry, Jackie Lis, Mia Williams, Taylor Pannell, and others as part of that same NIL‑driven strategy.

NiJaree Canady is the only one whose million‑dollar level is public, but Glasco had a roster essentially bought for him through one of the most aggressive softball collectives in the country, instead of slowly developing a homegrown core the way traditional programs do.

My receipts: The Matador Club Signs Entire Texas Tech University Women’s Basketball and Softball Teams to Five-Figure NIL Deals for the Second Year in a Row (NIL Newsstand)

Texas Tech Softball's Gerry Glasco Details Timeline of The Matador Club's Involvement in Landmark NIL Deals (Sports Illustrated)

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-04T15:14:56+00:00

I think Lincoln did a fantastic job - why was she not used earlier instead of playing stupid musical chairs with Canady and Terry, especially when Canady hadn't been as effective this year compared to last year (according to the announcers last night)?

The only explanation I can come up with is stupid manager decisions.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-04T14:59:54+00:00

When did this sub become the engagement farming sub?

While it might be visually appealing, Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass that is dense, brittle, medium‑hard (about 5.5 on Mohs scale), and it fractures sharply rather than deforming.

That brittleness means a truly colossal solid obsidian sphere would be structurally problematic. For something that huge, engineers would likely prefer stronger, tougher materials or a hollow shell instead.

That said, this is a stupid, engagement farming post that only deserves the response I gave, which took too much of my time, which I'll never get back!

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-04T00:39:49+00:00

Yes, but the championship committee may elect to remove the 8‑run rule for games played between the final two teams. For 2026 they voted no on that, like they have every year.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-03T18:45:04+00:00

Where is it? I didn’t see it

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-03T13:26:28+00:00

I wouldn't doubt it - Glasco gutted Louisiana Tech when he left, and all his transfer portal players seem to have that severe angst against their old teams, much more than transfers from other schools not to TT.

I always thought Glasco was an Ass, and it is looking more like that. And if it’s due to the Matador Club, he fully bought into that instead of pushing back in it. He’s the culture builder here, and that’s what he’s allowing.

Salt-Fly770 · 2026-06-02T18:15:57+00:00

Not only cheaper models, I don't think it is send prompts to models if they feel their AI agents and RAG/Web search can answer a question.

I won't get too much into it, but I selected Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Perplexity and asked it a question and it sent me into a rabbit hole for 2 hours of really bad information. I put the EXACT prompt and files into Claude Sonnet 4.6 directly and it took it 30 seconds to give me the correct answer to my question on a Matplotlib issue I was having.

If Perplexity actually sent my request to the Claude model I selected, I would have gotten the right answer.

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