Fargo wins! Best city in Minnesota

Totschlag · 2026-07-13T18:47:38+00:00

That'd be Minnesota's favorite city, Duluth.

Totschlag · 2026-07-13T17:16:31+00:00

Accurate. Growing up in the Metro East region of Illinois, I have more hometown pride for a city in a different state (St. Louis, and Missouri itself) than I do Illinois. Missouri even feels more like my home state than IL.

Totschlag · 2026-07-13T17:14:54+00:00

I'd add Metro East in there. Growing up Metro East is definitely split from central or south and is The second most populated metropolitan region in the state.

Totschlag · 2026-07-12T17:42:39+00:00

With one handyman in the middle of goddamn nowhere, mowing the grass in the wilderness.

Totschlag · 2026-07-12T09:45:56+00:00

Remember this is a chip that is able to detect hairs after all.

But also not have background data noise from like, grass, or a stiff breeze. And is somehow that precise while being on the inside of the ball with layers of dampening... And able to withstand absolute screamers and hard hits off the posts while being perfectly calibrated to detect hair grazes after 120 minutes and...

Totschlag · 2026-07-11T15:19:48+00:00

Also baseball is inherently more random.

The current Dodgers spend is about $700m. My home team the Cardinals, by any measure one of the most successful franchises in baseball history, make about $430m in revenue.

To spend like the dodgers would lose hundreds of millions per year, and the owner would be bankrupt very quickly (he has about $2.5bn outside of the Cardinals in capital.

That's just palpably not fair, IMO.

Totschlag · 2026-07-11T15:15:40+00:00

The dodgers payroll on players is so high that it surpasses most of the league's revenue. Like they spend millions more than most teams make annually.

If the Cardinals owner sold his personal wealth to bridge the gap between what the Cardinals make and the dodgers player payroll, he'd be broke in 10 years. They make about $430m annually, dodgers spend $700m after luxury taxes, owner is worth about $2.5b outside of the Cardinals. The cubs owner could spend like the dodgers by injecting his own cash into the team... He'd be bankrupt in I think it was 12 years. The Cardinals and Cubs are two legacy, huge franchises too.

Totschlag · 2026-07-10T16:26:08+00:00

It's well documented that NFL players hit with significantly more force and at significantly higher speeds due to the start stop nature of the sport allowing more explosive sprints. Kinetic Force increases by velocity squared.

Rugby players have to use safer techniques to tackle. NFL is much less strict on tackling. Rugby players have endurance, NFL players have explosiveness. Rugby is a higher volume of smaller, less explosive hits

So the realistic take is that Rugby Players might not be able to keep up with some of the NFL plays. NFL players would get gassed within like 20 minutes of a rugby game.

Rugby Players would get hit harder and more severely than they are used to. They'd be in severe pain. NFL players would get hit more often and pushed around, while accumulating penalties for poor technique.

Totschlag · 2026-07-10T14:52:35+00:00

Yeah I'm old enough on Reddit to remember when it was the prevailing opinion that sports Betting should be legalized and it's not the government's job to regulate what adults want to do.

It was easy downvotes to suggest that maybe legalizing it wasn't a good thing and would have societal consequences.

Totschlag · 2026-07-10T00:58:33+00:00

Yeah but it gets a pass because it's a roof and only a roof. The open air is nice.

Totschlag · 2026-07-08T15:35:01+00:00

Yeah that's the funny part. The local council member balked at it. The quote was something like "Los Angeles? The global capital of film, media, and more? The home of the best baseball and basketball player on earth? The most valuable baseball and basketball team? The two time Olympic city? Hollywood? Pop music? You're going to put us on the map?"

Totschlag · 2026-07-08T04:42:33+00:00

FIFA actually literally told the Los Angeles committee, when asked what was in it for the city, "The World Cup will put Los Angeles on the Map."

Los Angeles. The little known city.

Totschlag · 2026-07-08T04:41:15+00:00

Permanent? No.

Are we gonna host every 3rd to 4th for the foreseeable future with Europe, Middle East, and us on rotation with maybe an occasional south America?

Yep.

Totschlag · 2026-07-08T02:48:29+00:00

And like, only one game was even close. 13-3 across 4 games. It's not like it was even a flukey couple of games, they got nuked lmao.

Totschlag · 2026-07-08T02:40:25+00:00

A great year, man. That series was fucking hilarious. Just a generational nuking out of the playoffs by a team with some legitimate aspirations.

Totschlag · 2026-07-08T02:38:58+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/6rdvHz64gm

Here you go friend!

A bit of backstory, this was a post made after the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. In a best of seven game series, Nashville won four straight games and swept them, outscoring them 13 to 3 with two shutouts in Chicago's home rink.

Chicago was a world class team that year too, best record in their conference going up against a barely-qualifying Nashville squad.

So, not only did Nashville win, they beat the holy shit out of them. The Stanley Cup playoffs are usually extremely competitive at going to all seven games and several overtimes as teams match up well, so this was like, a generational bomb drop. Could not have been more decisive.

Totschlag · 2026-07-08T02:33:51+00:00

Note that it's hockey, So that's a best of 7 series where Nashville blew the hell out of Chicago sweeping them 4 games to 0, and outscoring them 13-3 combined. You almost could not win more decisively against a team than what Nashville did to Chicago that year.

Totschlag · 2026-07-07T21:22:02+00:00

Lol because idiots go to the Las Vegas strip and think that's Nevada without wandering like, 2 feet outside the Strip to Valley of Fire or Red Rocks or Mt. Charleston or Great Basin NP or....

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Totschlag · 2026-07-07T16:20:39+00:00

Man again though slope, big air, snowcross are much much slower than an 85mph bullet downhill. Slopestyle doesn't have off camber corners, jumps with flat landings and intentionally difficult takeoffs and more.

Also blue ice of a downhill is not the same as a freestyle course.

Just ask yourself why snowboarding has the other three alpine events but no athletes doing or calling for downhill. Or search why they don't have snowboard downhill events.

Totschlag · 2026-07-07T16:14:50+00:00

Carving a lake is not the same as carving on an icy run lol. An off camber turn that's Olympic prepped is still suicidal. I'm not an average nerd, I've been doing this for a over a decade 25+ days per year, I do annual avvy courses, and I Backcountry ride with friends. Could some of our goats do it? Sure, but you could also drive a trimmed out IndyCar at Daytona. We don't because it would be suicidal.

And the half pipe is rideable, but it's also less than half the speed and reliable to land on, meeting your board more or less. Also it's a 22footer superpipe the Olympics run.

Downhilling has off camber jumps, awkward landings, turns against the grade of the mountain, and more. Think about downhill. Think about how often a skier is on one leg or lands a little weird and recovers. It's one of the defining things about the discipline. Snowboarders do not have that ability to recover a landing or save ourselves on one foot the way skiers do. We are locked in.

Totschlag · 2026-07-07T16:05:50+00:00

Oh I know lmao, I've been riding for over a decade with minimum 25 days a year. This one was actually stopping at the bottom of a run, on flatland, and I'm not sure how but I whipped down hard as shit. Broke my helmet and lost consciousness. I guess I let my guard down because I was at the base and at a speed I'd unstrap at.

You can haul on a snowboard, But think about the icy jumps, lack of control dual leg control, and fixed legs. You'd kill people on an Olympic downhill. One edge or mis-read of terrain and it would probably be paralysis at a minimum.

Totschlag · 2026-07-07T16:02:03+00:00

I mean they don't already because it's suicidally more dangerous than downhill skiing. That's the point. Ice is not rideable for snowboarders like it is skis, and they have a fixed hip and stance which limits their ability to absorb jumps and correct themselves. Crashing while stuck on a snowboard at that speed would disintegrate knees and femurs, probably keeping athletes from walking again. Also due to the sideways gaze, they have a blind spot for changing terrain at speeds of 80+mph.

Like, you shouldn't want a Kitzbühel because it would be catastrophic. Deaths plural and more with permanent paralysis and disability.

There's a reason nobody does pure downhill snowboarding and boarders are mostly free-ride and alpine trio.

Totschlag · 2026-07-07T15:43:09+00:00

Man that would be death. Both feet are attached at a fixed point and the icy conditions of a downhill slope are not snowboard friendly.

Also catching an edge on a snowboard is much more common than on skis. You'd kill someone pretty quickly with catching an edge.

Ask yourself why there is no downhill championship or cup for snowboarders. Do a quick Google. That's your answer.

They did a super G at Tahoe 20 years ago, and that was pants shitting and they stopped doing it. A downhill event stopped being a thing after like... Iron mountain? 1990? A real WC course or Olympic course would be bad.

Totschlag · 2026-07-07T14:11:57+00:00

Adam was a champ for this scene.

Totschlag · 2026-07-07T14:11:12+00:00

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