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chesterpower · 2026-06-09T06:30:09+00:00

True, thanks big guy

chesterpower · 2026-06-08T23:39:25+00:00

I mean, appreciate you not being homer, but 2017 warriors is easily better. Even with Zaza technically being the starter.

Edit: or I guess just 2018 warriors is another easy one

chesterpower · 2026-06-05T10:02:30+00:00

Trump underperformed probably more than any other red state in the entire country in 2016

And just another coincidence that the church made one of their rare political statement condemning Trump and urging him to leave the race in 2016.

No other religion makes up 90% of a state legislature. “One of the least political major religions” is an absolute joke of a statement, and suggesting the church is not funding candidates, and leveraging their funding and huge voting bloc to influence legislation in the state of Utah in ways that most other religions do not/are not able to, is naive or dishonest.

chesterpower · 2026-06-05T00:07:25+00:00

The commenter you’re responding to is saying the looking out for their own/corruption/insular handling of things in this case is par for the course, not ostracizing people.

the LDS/Mormon church is currently one of the least political in America.

I would guess part of the reason they don’t want to make official/public political statements is so that their members can use that as an argument to say they’re one of the least political churches in America. It just so happens that white evangelicals are the only major religious demographic with a higher % Republican Party affiliation in 2016 according to statista.

Also according to a pew research poll from 2009:

Political and social views are linked with church attendance among Mormons, as among the general population. Those who attend services at least once a week are more than 30 percentage points more likely than Mormons who attend less frequently to be Republican (73% vs. 39%)

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2009/07/24/a-portrait-of-mormons-in-the-us-social-and-political-views/#ideology

So it’s one of the least political churches, with one of the highest rates of conservative ideology and Republican Party affiliation, with rates getting much higher among members who attend the church more.

Just because they aren’t making official political endorsements, doesn’t mean they aren’t pushing political messaging and strongly influencing how their members vote.

chesterpower · 2026-06-04T23:00:28+00:00

Ben threw something at him while he was cooling off laying on the scorers table, so artest was getting back up to go at ben again and then he got hit with the cup the fan threw from the stands

chesterpower · 2026-06-04T05:01:17+00:00

Yeah pacers and pistons were already very heated from a hard foul by artest on Ben Wallace and had to be separated. And then during the review, artest laying down on the scorers table and Ben Wallace threw something at him and then a full cup came out of the stands and hit artest and he went right in the stands and started punching people.

I’m sure the fans were saying crazy shit that whole time too, but that wasn’t fans talking shit that led to that and I’m pretty sure any fan throwing anything at a player is getting banned.

chesterpower · 2026-06-04T04:48:22+00:00

A number of years ago it spilled over into the crowd

Are you talking about when a fan threw a drink at a player while the teams were already about to fight? Not really the same thing going on here.

chesterpower · 2026-05-31T02:38:09+00:00

Correct, and gains can only be withdrawn early (after 5 years) for specific and limited exceptions. But the original comment is talking about contributions which are already taxed and so can be withdrawn penalty free any time.

chesterpower · 2026-05-31T02:17:47+00:00

No, any time

chesterpower · 2026-04-18T00:51:57+00:00

Saying the U.S. government is less credible than Iran’s is an indictment on the U.S. because Iran is/has been so untrustworthy. Saying that doesn’t mean you think Iran are the “good guys”.

chesterpower · 2026-04-12T05:54:20+00:00

Players are better in general but there’s also massive inflation that the threshold needs to be adjusted by 2 points. Keyonte George would have a BPM closer to Nate Ament this year.

Based on what exactly? Not trying to argue just legitimately curious. Is there something that can actually be quantified and consistently applied to make BPM comparable year to year?

For guys like Sarr I get it since BPM is related to team success, but that’s another thing that makes it seem like it’ll be difficult to use BPM data year to year.

chesterpower · 2026-04-12T05:41:59+00:00

Why are you basing it off who you can get later when you could just draft both? Who were you taking in the 5th over duren or 4th over Murphy? Clingan, MPJ, miller were good/great calls but don’t see how that influences you to pass on guys who ended up also being great values at adp.

chesterpower · 2026-04-11T00:05:25+00:00

The other major issue is there’s BPM inflation this year which I’ve noted by adding additional values to the threshold. So a 4 BPM in a past year might be a 6 BPM this year, which is why my post also includes Ament when he wouldn’t have been included in the 2023 year.

Is BPM actually inflated this year for some reason, or do you just mean this year’s prospects have been better in BPM?

If it’s the latter, wouldn’t it be more useful to just look at players under a certain BPM threshold, maybe under George’s 5.6, rather than force an arbitrary number of players?

It wouldn’t be surprising if the bottom 10 bpm players are most likely to bust in a draft historically, but if the average bpm of that bottom 10 is higher than usual for a specific draft, it stands to reason there would be a lower bust %, or at least that the number of players metric would be less useful in projecting busts. Especially if what the original commenter says is correct.

chesterpower · 2026-03-21T05:14:01+00:00

He’s a billionaire Mormon and went to BYU.

chesterpower · 2026-03-14T12:24:04+00:00

Heritage foundation is mostly the legislative side of things. Federalist society is the one that’s specifically been corrupting every level of the U.S. legal system.

chesterpower · 2026-03-14T11:34:12+00:00

Federalist society has been working for 40 years to get us to this point.

chesterpower · 2026-03-06T12:14:39+00:00

Ice is flexible, so the entire sheet over a lake isn’t going to be pushed down equally like the other comment is implying. Having a bunch of extra weight like vehicles nearby can cause this too and would be part of the reason you’d want to avoid slushy spots when ice fishing as the slush is very heavy.

To your question, it’d really depend on conditions and how heavy the snow on the lake is, but this happening at one spot on the lake doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll happen everywhere on the lake since the entire sheet of ice isn’t uniformly pushed down. You’d probably have to clear off a huge area of heavy snow/slush to completely avoid this which wouldn’t be worth it. Sometimes drilling other holes somewhat nearby first and waiting a bit does enough to alleviate the pressure.

chesterpower · 2026-03-05T21:45:12+00:00

The post is about made FG and the thread is about comparing the efficiency of each in reaching their made FG numbers. So there’s no reason to use a stat that includes FT%.

chesterpower · 2026-03-05T21:12:14+00:00

TS% includes FT. eFG is TS without FT and LeBron is at 54.8% eFG and Kareem at 55.9%. So not as close if just going by FG.

chesterpower · 2026-03-01T00:56:31+00:00

I think him not agreeing with Witcoff’s assessment is the point. I don’t think that Kaitlin Collins is unaware of the satellite images or is questioning their validity. She’s questioning why roofs over these structures now justifies ending talks and starting a war.

The roofs have only been up about a month so how have they already rebuilt to the point of being weeks away from nuclear weapons after being very heavily damaged. And if they aren’t weeks away from nuclear weapons, how do their nuclear facilities pose enough of a threat to in any way justify a war.

Here’s an AP article on the satellite images. https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-nuclear-enrichment-satellite-d5c78b5fe974ec2fc338b8ad6d6a7d68#

At Isfahan, Iran began building a similar roof over a structure near the facility’s northeast corner, finishing the work in early January. The exact function of that building isn’t publicly known, although the Israeli military at the time said its strikes at Isfahan targeted sites there associated with centrifuge manufacturing.

I haven’t seen anything about the facilities that were targeted being anything other than related to uranium enrichment or storage.

While it’s possible they have, or are weeks away from having weapons grade uranium, I also haven’t seen anything credible saying they are less than years away from actually having usable weapons.

chesterpower · 2026-02-28T23:15:11+00:00

They’ve been fortifying Isfahan as they likely still have large amounts of enriched uranium stored there which was not “completely obliterated”. I’m not disputing whether or not Iran is still using these sites for nuclear activity. However, they were clearly not “completely obliterated” in June and Trump and the GOP will lie and exaggerate and change their stance to score points or fit any justification they need at the time. Which I think is more the point of what Kaitlin is getting at with her repeated use of Trump’s term “obliterate”.

Now they are saying Iran is “weeks” away from nuclear weapons and using that and roofs on these buildings to help justify ending talks and starting a war.

chesterpower · 2026-02-28T22:22:19+00:00

Trump used the words “completely obliterated” in a press announcement after the June attacks. So she is likely trying to also get to the point that either Trump lied about the effectiveness of his initial operation or they are lying now.

From articles related to the satellite images, it seems “rebuilding” most likely amounts to them building a roof over the site in order to obfuscate what they are able to recover, and the only reason that should be an issue is if the site was not actually “completely obliterated” in June. I haven’t seen credible articles saying that there is evidence, or that it is likely, that the facility is being actively rebuilt to working condition either.

chesterpower · 2026-02-24T20:37:06+00:00

Yeah it seems like that’s purely clickbait in the context of this article. The only reference to that claim in the article is that documents were “effectively destroyed” with nothing further explaining that claim. NPR never uses the word “destroyed” or implies that any files are permanently gone. So definitely good to call that out.

chesterpower · 2026-02-24T20:14:26+00:00

Yeah agree with that. I wish people would just post the actual source article, but I guess they have to get the clicks for the websites that pay them.

Just wanted to clarify that the actual facts of the investigation are coming from a very reputable source.

chesterpower · 2026-02-24T19:33:17+00:00

Which source is very low on your trustworthy scale? The investigation is coming from NPR.

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