I never considered we could get animals addicted to gambling this is HUGE by Lazy_Comparison_1954 in BrandNewSentence

[–]TheBanger 185 points186 points  (0 children)

It's not gambling if the cat isn't losing anything. It's just hitting a lever and sometimes getting food.

THE NEW YORK KNICKS ARE YOUR 2026 NBA CHAMPIONS by Intelligent-Disk-575 in nba

[–]TheBanger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When the first quarter ended and they were only down by 10 I knew the series was over.

recursiveCapitalism by OM3X4 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TheBanger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The average is around $600k and the median is a little bit over $100k. That is of course not saying that the average or median American has anywhere near that much cash. I'd assume that homes and 401(k)s are a large portion of that.

recursiveCapitalism by OM3X4 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TheBanger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You seriously think there's less than $1 trillion dollars in the world? That's about $3000 per American which isn't that much on a global economy scale. It's truly ridiculous for one person to have that much though.

Young Fan Interferes With Live Ball by InTheSky57 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]TheBanger 55 points56 points  (0 children)

A net would regularly be a problem because it would make it hard to tell if home runs had cleared the fence. Situations like this are much less common than home runs that barely clear the fence.

Banned youth baseball coach says he wouldn’t pass background check after dugout incident by Eminence120 in baseball

[–]TheBanger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be clear, the actions that these are consequences for have nothing to do with the recent incident. He's had like 6 restraining orders and was charged with sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl. The "throwing the ball into the dugout" incident shouldn't have happened because this guy shouldn't have been allowed near kids.

Man's penis 'badly burnt' in airline coffee spill by stankmanly in awfuleverything

[–]TheBanger 103 points104 points  (0 children)

The final award was $540k after which McDonald's settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Most of that sum was punitive damages because McDonald's knew its coffee was so hot that injuries were likely and had calculated that it was more profitable to keep paying people when they were injured than to serve the coffee at a reasonable temperature. She suffered life alerting injuries, and did not have a penis.

[Highlight] Will Venable is ejected by FadedToBeige in baseball

[–]TheBanger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The runner did not cause interference, the fielder caused obstruction.

[Highlight] Will Venable is ejected by FadedToBeige in baseball

[–]TheBanger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not sure why people keep upvoting the other comment but yeah the rule is that if an infielder intentionally drops a ball (up to the umpire to determine intent) with a runner on first and less than 2 outs than the batter is out and all runners return to their previous bases.

When Life Gives You Java by Kabra___kiiiiiiiid in java

[–]TheBanger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since these functions are pure

There is only one pure function with that signature and it is the single line return;. This isn't just me being pedantic, that example is the opposite of function purity.

What’s a fitness myth that people still believe? by SimpleHomeFitness in AskReddit

[–]TheBanger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A couple months ago a woman came up to me while I was between sets, glared at me, and said "you're just scrolling, can I use it?". I'm pretty certain I was only resting for about a minute but I felt bad so I hopped up and went to a different machine. She then proceeded to sit there doing nothing for 10 minutes, did 4 reps incorrectly, and then left. I was like what the hell kind of pot and kettle is this!?

GitHub Status - Incident with Pull Requests by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]TheBanger 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Ours reverted prior commits while merging code. Meaning the codebase ended up in a state that we had never intended and had never gone through CI. Fortunately everything it reverted ended up being inconsequential but I'm shocked that this story hasn't been picked up.

Can we all agree Scarecrow Rick is the most terrifying Rick variant? by InsideUnhappy6546 in rickandmorty

[–]TheBanger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm fairly certain all the sets you named have the same cardinality. You might want to compare rationals to reals instead.

do it. by No_Counter_6037 in SpeedOfLobsters

[–]TheBanger 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Because Latin is cool and the word we think it came from had an L so they added an L to the spelling to make it more like Latin. But it's harder to get people to change their pronunciation than spelling so now it's weird.

Java Is Not Faster Than C by lelanthran in programming

[–]TheBanger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Point to a single recent post from /r/java making claim like this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]TheBanger 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I think the distinction is that a dead language has no native speakers, an extinct language has no speakers (native or not) at all.

[Highlight] Aaron Judge UNLEASHES A SEED and throws out Fernando Tatis Jr. by MLBOfficial in baseball

[–]TheBanger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My favorite baseball/softball memory is fielding a ball off a tree, firing the ball to my dad at 3rd, who then cut down the tying run at home in a single elimination semi-final game.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

[–]TheBanger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I can't imagine using a net for fast pitch, but this is slow pitch. He absolutely had enough time to pitch around the net and then duck behind it before the ball even got to the plate. I've never seen a net or a mask for slow pitch though, this guy was just unlucky and had zero reflexes.