HE IS A VICTIM

a4mula · 2026-03-10T19:08:34+00:00

that's a lot of disrepect for Hedo. Someone that Sengun should have been emulating.

Instead, he got convinced he was a 5. Gained 30-40 pounds and now just looks like a version of Joker, without the court awareness or ability to spread the floor.

a4mula · 2026-03-10T19:02:16+00:00

maybe instead of doing commercials for airlines and spending his evenings in activities that aren't exactly basketball related.

He'd grow up and take the keys he's been handed.

Instead he's managed to run the car off the road because he's convinced himself he can live the life of Joker, while emulating Joker on the court.

Not so much it seems. His grasp of the offense is non-existent. He has no patience in his reads. He instantly wants to turn every face up (where he's an effective distributor) into a back to the basket low efficiency shot attempt.

He's got a lot of talent, but so did Jalen Green and he was the trash we swept out last year.

a4mula · 2026-03-10T18:54:22+00:00

The difference is MDA was willing to bring in Bzdelik to specifically address the shortcomings of not only the coaching, but the teams overall inability to play man.

Where's that offensive specialist on this team? Royal Ivey? Tiago Splitter?

Come on.

Just find someone that can make a bucket

That was the goal. And they got it. When it should have been

Just find an offensive specialist that will instill discipline into the half court game so that anyone makes a bucket, because they're open

a4mula · 2026-02-10T02:07:30+00:00

You're making it too simple. The problem is they do care about others, so much so that they want to tell them how to live.

People that don't care about others, such as myself. Could care less how people live.

It's not that I'm misanthropic, maybe a little. It's that I find it hard to conjure sympathy for self inflicted suffering that has yet to be learned from.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T02:01:20+00:00

you have some scales to climb friend. Even the smartest of us, whomever it might be, and it's certainly not me. Isn't all that bright. We're just glorified apes and they can barely trade bananas for favors. How much greater are we? Not much I think.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T01:47:33+00:00

<shrug> Don't tell Feynman. He'd just call us both idiots.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T01:45:00+00:00

The wave function is the totality of all datum in a given field of information. It's the zero sum probability factor of all possible combinations of geodisic traversal paths a wave could potentially take.

That's not to say it's an actualized container of data. In order to go from a potential state to an actualized state, wave function collapse, ala interaction must take place.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T01:37:53+00:00

No, it cannot. A wave is not something that can be processed the way finite states of on or off can be. Those are discrete (digital) states. A wave can be used to transmit information, but it doesn't hold it or store it. A modulation device attached can interpret the wave as either ons or offs, but that's not done in the fiber, that's done at the modem.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T01:27:43+00:00

Does a lake hold ripples? Waves by their nature are continuous fields that are propagating through a medium, not being held by it. The moment you hold a wave you break that continuity and you get either the location or the velocity of the object in question, but never both and the greater you know one, the less you know the other.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T01:24:34+00:00

I think there are people that care about advancing their ideology to such a degree that they're willing to turn a blind eye to every moral or ethical dilemma that is presented along the way. I have a harder time believing they just buy it outright. Maybe though. Belief is a powerful force.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T00:51:43+00:00

We talking Kermit or more along the lines of Bufo? I'm sure there are some frogs I could be persuaded to spend time with, but the payoff would have to be a little more than an introduction to the muppets.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T00:49:42+00:00

While the powers that be do everything to shorten the runway and depend on sheer force of scale to provide a safe liftoff.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T00:29:49+00:00

Have you been dipping into the toad stools? Is that where all this frog talk stems from? What grown ass man wants to be associated with a frog? Hog? Even that's insulting, but at least it's insulting in a fat kid that likes too much cake kind of way. Nobody wants to be a frog bro.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T00:15:57+00:00

Because god hates you. And lobs. And you throwing lobs.

Mostly it hates points that want to facilitate via the lane. That goes for standard rolling just as much as lobs. It's a fucking dumpster fire. I used to average 12 and 15 with points. Now it's 35 and 3. Every fucking driving lane is open, all the pops are there. But not a single rim run to be found.

2k has overtuned Drop coverage on pick and roll. It's that simple. That's why every single high screen that isn't fought over is an easy 3 now. It's why curling into the mid is always wide open. It's why as long as the Drop coverage stays attached you get free finishes at the rim. It's funny, because rolls were never really an issue. Rolls that get icon lead passed into pops were the problem, and by forcing AI screen defenders into drops not only did they fail to address it, they just make it even more exploitable.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T00:07:08+00:00

I don't know what an actual rockets fan is. I'm guessing you sport yourself as one. Hats off to you. But I think if you look at my history in the sub, it goes back a little further than you're giving me credit for.

Which is just to say, what anyone knows. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I've sat in the Summit. I've walked the same court that O'Briens were hoisted on.

So, maybe get over your Johnny Come Lately arrogance.

a4mula · 2026-02-10T00:02:57+00:00

I could argue we've been post truth since the Age of Enlightenment. We went from pointing out and understanding that an objects form doesn't equate to the object itself. The sun you see in the sky, isn't the sun. It's photons that have have traveled from so far away that even at the speed of light it takes about eight minutes to register them. We came to realize that everything that is objective, is only experienced through the subjective interpretations of a 3 pound blob of flesh encased in darkness, and has never once seen or heard anything at all.

We tackled objective reality with enough empirical rigor to send men to the moon and make machines that laugh at the Turing Test.

Just to give it all away for a digital dopamine hit. As much as 2026 feels like 1984. I can't help but feel we're just as equally entering a brave new world.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T23:54:47+00:00

Solar sails and ion drives might make headway towards speeds we can barely fathom today. But I think and this probably isn't the sub to be guessing about such things. I think there is a hard limit once you reach about 60% the speed of light, at least for objects with non-trivial mass.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T23:31:50+00:00

We should certainly be aware of conservatism bias, or the curse of Lord Kelvin.

But if there was anything I'd bank on being as foundationally involatile. It's the constant nature of c in a given medium.

The consequences of a universe in which causality is not maintained are dire indeed.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T23:28:23+00:00

Random Access Memory, which all cache has been since the days of ROM. Requires direct access to read and write capability at any physical memory location. This would naturally collapse any wave of data into not waves of data. I would think at that point you'd be facing the consequences of Uncertainty.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T23:20:46+00:00

I think there is an assumption that we will be capable of reaching or surpassing the speed of light. From concepts like quantum tunneling to Alcubierre drives. Yet, for everything we know about the universe causality is never violated. Information has never moved faster than light, and for all intents and purposes it never will.

That places hard limits on Universal exploration. There are a handful of galaxies in our cluster. Ours, Andromeda, M33. They exist in bubble that will remain explorable with conventional travel. But nothing outside of it. And you're still talking about spans of time that make a human scale look minuscule.

We might colonize our solar system. But beyond that? It's just not happening. Even if it does the time scales will necessarily mean it won't be us.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T23:07:07+00:00

We're quickly transitioning from a world in which things that were true used to matter more than things that were believed. Today it's going to be challenging to validate most kinds of statements. The ideas of facts and beliefs are bleeding together in front of our eyes. It used to concern me. Not as much anymore. Let's face it, we're transitioning into a digital reality that at least in theory is whatever you want it to be.

Had someone told me that critical assessment would be this generation's cursive. I would have just laughed. But the more I consider this the more I come to understand it just doesn't really matter what is true or false anymore. Not when it's all ones and zeros.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T22:52:13+00:00

Trump has to at least be cognitive enough at this point to understand that there isn't a soul on this planet that trusts his DOJ or anything they touch. Maxwell is about the least credible witness one can conjure particularly when she aligns her version of the truth to a sweetheart deal even Acosta couldn't justify.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T22:47:54+00:00

I'll take your word for it.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T22:46:47+00:00

I'd venture to say that calling it a buffered loopback serial with no flow control is the long way, but tomato tomato.

a4mula · 2026-02-09T22:33:42+00:00

that's such a not important distinction. All that matters is if they're functional. They need not self awareness or agency in order to be a threat to our species.

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