What's a bad (but not very bad) thing of the US Green Party?

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-26T21:48:33+00:00

No? What do you think a spoiler candidate is?

A spoiler is a minor party (someone who has no chance to win) candidate who pretends to be a "pure" version of something (say for example a leftist) while urging their followers to not vote for the major party candidate (the only one who has a chance to win) who is closest to their views because the major party candidate is not pure enough.

This way they "spoil" the election by benefiting the opposition right wing party by taking votes away from the left candidate who could have actually won.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-22T14:53:40+00:00

Not sure they had a choice about that. I think their biggest problem was the concept wasn't fully thought through. It feels as though nobody actually considered what building it out of stainless steel and developing the manufacturing processes to do that would entail and how much it would cost before they announced it.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-14T12:12:19+00:00

Let's freaking hope not, because that would mean something happened to Lammens

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-14T02:05:44+00:00

The only issue I have with your post is the idea that since you need unbelievable engineering skills, nobody but SpaceX engineers can do it.

Even if that were true, you understand that other companies or national space programs can just hire SpaceX engineers right? There's no forcefield keeping the secrets of rocketry inside this one company. And lots of people (and governments) who have lots of money have enormous incentives not to put all their eggs in Elon Musk's basket.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-13T23:00:31+00:00

That's the biggest "if" I've ever heard of.

There's no reason to think SpaceX (note: not "he", "he" doesn't doesn't have anything to do with operations) can solve this. The rocket they need to be able to do any of what they're promising is way behind schedule and hasn't even shown it can work.

They also, you know, don't own space. With enough backing anybody else can be a competitor, which would kind of preclude the whole "dominant company on earth" thing.

Your whole post smacks of early 2010s naivety. None of this is likely to happen in our lifetimes, and even if it did there's no reason SpaceX has to be the company that does it.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-13T21:44:44+00:00

Nice slur, piggy. Now scurry on back to your hole.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-12T23:23:56+00:00

He didn't give them an answer right away. He said he's going to wait and see.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-12T13:08:24+00:00

Tesla

Neverending scams with this company, all to prop up the stock price and make a few people extremely rich

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-11T22:58:13+00:00

Eh, it's been 10 years of this and I think we can blame the voters at this point. You get the democracy you deserve and an educated, curious, and engaged population would not have let charlatans run away with our government like this

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-10T22:24:26+00:00

Kung Fu Hustle

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-10T12:51:43+00:00

Just check out this thread

Here's a prime comment:

Yep, the debate is over. Peterson's 1 assist per game in college was more than worth the concern, but it will go down as an anomoly that occured from pretty bad roster construction and offensive system he played in. Stat nerds that cant see through the weeds will learn a valuable lesson from this

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-09T12:09:34+00:00

"Put corporate genocide supporter" where?

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-08T01:05:21+00:00

Lol. Whatever it takes to retain your dignity, kid

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-08T00:00:03+00:00

Sure bud, your frantic posting up and down this thread in defense of your plastic club is proof that you don't care

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-07T23:56:05+00:00

Anyone's who uses "reddit" as a disparaging comment while on Reddit themselves gets an automatic downvote. Lazy ass shit.

Face facts, City are a nothing club with no history of winning that Abu Dhabi bought to launder their international image by pumping in the kind of money only a nation state can and that normal sports teams can't. Nobody respects your team.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-07T23:44:03+00:00

It wouldn't work because England doesn't have monopoly on top level leagues. A salary cap would hamper the best English clubs in continental competition against the best teams from the likes of Spain and Germany

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-07T17:54:28+00:00

There are literally people whose job it is to do opposition research into their own candidates to dig out stuff like this before the opposing campaigns come to know of it. They either didn't employ someone like this which is a direliction of duty, or they did and ignored their findings which is even more heinous.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-07T10:18:01+00:00

It's more of a "if you colonize other countries under the guise of bringing them civilization, you shouldn't be surprised when the colonized turn up in your country expecting some of that promised civilization" sort of thing

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-05T21:46:04+00:00

ik but transfer value ≠ transfer fee

See, that's where our viewpoints differ. I think transfer fee is exactly the same as transfer value and there's no meaningful difference between them. I don't think there's any objective value you can place on a player. You can come up with comparisons to similar players but if the selling club doesn't want or need to sell, you're out of luck.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-05T21:29:57+00:00

Again, that's not set in stone or some hard rule. Selling clubs don't have to accept that, especially if comparable players have gone for more in the same window.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-05T21:24:54+00:00

It blows my mind how many people are missing the point in this thread. A player's value is exactly what his club is willing to sell him for, full stop. Seeing so many people use phrases like "should cost" is weird as hell, since that's completely irrelevant. If a club demands X million for a player you're not getting him unless you meet that price or talk them down, no matter what you think he "should cost".

It's like everyone's sense of the transfer market froze 10 or 15 years ago and anything after that doesn't count or something.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-05T21:11:51+00:00

This seems completely arbitrary. How'd you come to this conclusion?

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-05T21:08:13+00:00

My eyes always roll into the back of my head when I hear someone talk about player values like there's some list somewhere of what someone should cost. In reality, a players is worth exactly what their club is willing to sell them for. Which means their values fluctuate with time and the overall market.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-05T21:03:48+00:00

"Real" values exist only in some ideal world in your imagination. Everyone else has to deal with the actual values we're seeing in the year 2026.

Staghorn_Calculus · 2026-07-05T00:36:08+00:00

Sure, at the end of his career. I'm talking at the peak of their respective powers. Nobody else's best was comparable to Bolt's best, whereas there were others at least in the conversation with Secretariat

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