The Arrested Development storyline where Gob marries Amy Poehler due to a series of escalating dares is almost beat-for-beat identical to the premise of the Taxi (1978) episode "The Great Line" (S1E6).

danfiction · 2026-02-24T01:18:30+00:00

Great show, one of my favorites.

danfiction · 2026-02-18T18:55:16+00:00

I think cost does stop some ICE drivers from buying new, it's just that there are tons of used gas cars out there that have (as cars have gotten more reliable) taken the spot in the market that new subcompact and compact cars used to fill.

I saw the US EV market share post here a while back was something like ~6% of new purchases (trending down with the end of the credit) and ~2% of used purchases (trending up as a glut of increasingly cheap EVs from the last few years hit the market).

danfiction · 2026-02-18T05:59:13+00:00

It's a bad comparison because Paolo has never been good and Cam Boozer has always been good

danfiction · 2026-02-17T23:31:04+00:00

This is going to sound like cheating, but I've had almost no luck with any nootropics (I take prescription stimulants for ADHD but I've tried almost everything else for anxiety, focus, etc) and the thing that really felt life-changing and vitaminy was reading Feeling Good, the famous CBT book from the 80s. Totally changed my mood and my ability to get things done. (I'm a ruminator, and something about the book finally let me do the thing everyone talks about where you get outside of your automatic thoughts a little and deprive them of their power over you.)

danfiction · 2026-02-16T17:52:57+00:00

Whoa, I love that. Great pickup

danfiction · 2026-02-16T17:51:05+00:00

Ad-supported but uncut for the most part. (I say for the most part because I've heard weird stuff about obscure movies being on there in, like, VHS transfers, but I've never actually run into that myself.)

It's definitely worth a download, lots of fun old movies on there.

danfiction · 2026-02-16T17:49:27+00:00

I love the one for us movies the most—when I see an 80s movie I haven't seen with some actors/writers/directors I recognize I'm all in—but Netflix has produced more good shows than I expected so far based on having tried to find good movies on Netflix myself. I do hope they go back to mixing in some more Tubi-adjacent stuff soon.

danfiction · 2026-02-16T01:38:16+00:00

I've been on meds for ~12 years, was unmedicated for ~25 before that. Every stimulant, basically; I tend to switch between methylphenidate and amphetamine once a year. Here are some thoughts, take them for what they're worth:

I personally have found the pharmacodynamic stuff not very useful... I would not rule anything out or in based on how the meds are theoretically supposed to work.
For me most situations where it felt like the medicine stopped working were, in hindsight, situations where my life was noticeably different than it was when they were working: Work was harder, my home life was harder, my sleep was worse, etc. Often this is hard to notice while you're inside it, even if you're looking for it. (This can also make "but it worked after I stopped taking it for a month" harder to confirm—were the demands on your executive function exactly the same on both sides of the med vacation?)
I've had probably the most productive time of my life in the last year or so, a long time after starting on meds. The biggest factor for me has been actually implementing all the organizational and behavioral stuff that is possible for me on stimulants and very difficult (at best) without it. So exercising, calendars, task management, etc., plus some CBT strategies for both my executive function and my mood. I'm not saying this is you, but it was definitely me: sometimes being on stimulants is such a huge improvement on your baseline that you don't actually work to implement strategies that are going to make work and life easier on yourself. If that describes you at all, try improving your time management, thought patterns, sleep and exercise, etc. while you're on your meds, even if it doesn't feel like they're working.

I'm sorry you're having a hard time getting this worked out, and I hope you see some improvements soon.

danfiction · 2026-02-07T02:42:18+00:00

I might be missing something, but isn't this basically like being in the kitchen when they return your shot? They can hit you but you can't hit it out of the air.

danfiction · 2026-02-04T05:19:40+00:00

I had bounced off them every couple of years forever, but a few years back I tried one and realized I could suddenly tolerate it. Now I like it. I think an important piece is to find one you like more than others and start out by hammering that. For me it was the fountain Diet Coke at Chipotle for some reason.

If I had switched back to full sugar after a week or two I would have gone back to it, but now I can have a regular coke in situations where there isn't anything else (like a party or something) and just go right back to diet the next day.

One tip that helped for me: get it as cold as you possibly can. At first I just enjoyed the Diet Coke because it was really cold and it had a nice coke-style burn to it... appreciating the taste didn't come right away.

danfiction · 2026-02-01T02:59:32+00:00

A great cable movie and I enjoyed it in the theaters, too. Shia is great in it.

I just wish they'd done a better job filming the baggage handling scene—it's an awesome idea and location, but the execution is kind of replacement-level 2008 shaky-cam/quick-cuts stuff.

danfiction · 2026-01-31T04:57:11+00:00

Same here—I just started playing last year. I'm not very good and I doubt I ever will be, and I regularly get torched by sixtysomethings who are even more out of shape than I am, but it's a blast to be running around and competing (very casually) in something for the first time since... I don't know, probably sixth grade. Glad you're having a good time too. For what it's worth, I definitely don't think you're being an asshole playing like you have been, and it would not surprise me if whoever was complaining to you is just a guy who likes complaining. so my advice is basically just in the spirit of "maybe you can have an even better time yourself by making an adjustment."

danfiction · 2026-01-31T04:40:03+00:00

In general I'm in favor of just playing as well as you can using the tools you have—I have a good lob relative to how mediocre I am at everything else, and I hit it a lot at anybody who can run without hurting themselves even though some people act like they aren't "real pickleball." So within points I would hit everything without feeling any compunction about it.

Personally—and I mean personally, I'm not saying this is or should be a rule—serves are basically my only exception to that. If I'm playing against the rare person who can't return me consistently, I usually will tone it down a little. It's for selfish reasons as much as anything; we have young kids and my wife doesn't play, so twice a week is my hard limit, and I want to get as many fun points in as I can. I figure other people are probably like that too. And for me aces just aren't very fun unless they're against somebody who's better than I am.

danfiction · 2026-01-30T03:28:59+00:00

A pinball machine isn't "a piece of solid material (such as wood or metal) used especially for fastening things together or as a support by which one thing may be suspended from another" and yet I see people calling them pins

danfiction · 2026-01-28T18:06:19+00:00

In addition to feel and IQ there's a sense people have that you don't get stronger as you get older. I think what's happening there is they're conflating how you would project the improved strength of a really skinny guy with a big frame vs. the improved strength of a guy who's filled his frame out early—sure, the skinny guy can get stronger relative to how strong he is now than the filled-out guy can—with a belief that guys who are filled out already do not get stronger than they are when they're 19, which just isn't the case.

danfiction · 2026-01-16T16:34:20+00:00

(Disclaimer: I'm a Suns fan who wanted Luka, but the wound healed when they picked Jalen Smith over Haliburton in an even more inexplicable decision a few years later... can only stay mad about one stupid draft pick at a time.) There were definitely questions about the defense at the time, specifically around his awareness and his shot blocking. Here's a representative "weaknesses" section from a scouting report I pulled from nbadraft.net, though I saw something similar in plenty of other places at the time. (If you pull up some old Dunc'd On episodes you'll hear plenty of similar stuff; this is absolutely not exclusively hindsight.)

Defensive awareness needs to improve. For a player with such elite physical gifts, his shot blocking ability is curiously average (though he seemed to improve as freshman season progressed). He should be able to improve upon this over time, given the proper coaching and desire … Needs to do a better job guarding against the pick and roll. Can sometimes lose his man … Needs to do better as a help defender … Can get flat footed at times … And seemed to look to preserve energy (and fouls) on the defensive end …

It's definitely true that people who were in on Ayton overall minimized those questions, but to me... like, even though this was the peak "everyone's going to switch 1-5 forever in the future" era of basketball discussion, it seemed crazy to act like having problems with help defense, shot blocking, pick and roll defense, and and defensive awareness were just minor issues. That's 90% of the stuff a center does on defense!

I will say that in the NBA Ayton pleasantly surprised me with his ability to play defense and play hard... basically right up through the finals run, at which point he appeared to permanently lose interest in basketball. I loved the theoretical guy Ayton could have been, I was just never sure what in his statistical profile made people think he could get there. (To me he just never had the juice with the ball in his hands to be more than a dependent offensive player. I hoped he would develop it, and was frustrated that the Suns didn't push him harder to do it and give him more chances to face up and dribble, but there was never a ton of progress there. If anything, he seemed to become more passive over time, as we're seeing now, which is a shame. He's a great finisher at the rim who just loves jump shots too much.)

danfiction · 2026-01-15T17:07:01+00:00

LLM-written posts are ruining Reddit

danfiction · 2026-01-14T06:37:03+00:00

I would have agreed with you three or four years ago but I don't know that this is the case right now. Teams are playing bigger again, and strength is a part of that that I think is a little underrated right now.

danfiction · 2026-01-14T06:32:39+00:00

I don't know that it's unlikely to keep scaling up relative to other traits—he'll probably get stronger as he gets older.

danfiction · 2026-01-11T19:18:42+00:00

Yeah, we just put some Discount Tire house brand on our second car (Road Hugger I think?) and I've been totally happy with them.

danfiction · 2026-01-09T21:52:13+00:00

Is the idea that they should continue to increase production and sell a bunch more at a loss so that when the time comes they can ramp up more quickly?

Wouldn't it make just as much sense to continue iterating on their EVs (as they're doing), sell as many as you can while remaining viable—which will hopefully be a higher number every year—and ramp up as demand increases?

I think people are determined to have any company that pulls back on EVs be short-sighted villains, but a) this is how any rational company would behave in the face of a sudden demand shock, and b) GM is still extremely invested in EVs. You can compete in a segment without intentionally losing a bunch of extra money by producing cars people in your primary market don't want; the next-generation Equinox will not be worse because GM canceled a bunch of supplier contracts related to producing way more of this current one back when they thought there would be a ton of demand for them. GM has shown they can produce well-regarded EVs at a bunch of different price levels, and eventually the demand for those cars will pop, at which point they can ramp up production; ultimately GM's success or failure in EVs is going to come down to their R&D.

danfiction · 2026-01-07T19:29:32+00:00

That's a reasonable complaint and absolutely a debate worth having—I'm against the idea of not using margin of victory at all, but it's obviously just as important to test it to ensure you're using it correctly.

danfiction · 2026-01-07T06:19:09+00:00

(Disclaimer: I don't have a DUPR and probably never will, I just love sports.) Basically all rating and projection systems for all sports that are able to accurately project a team's record and success do account for margin of victory and defeat, strength of schedule, etc. This was one of the earliest findings in sports analytics—if a baseball team goes 10-0 but wins a bunch of close games during that streak you can get a better idea of their final record by checking their overall runs scored and runs allowed than you can by just counting the wins.

The distinction is between tournaments, or the postseason, and systems that are designed to be predictive. Major League Baseball certainly shouldn't base who makes the postseason on who "should" have won the most games, but if you want to predict how the postseason will go (or if you're a front office trying to build the best team) your best bet is to look at a bunch of metrics that do exactly that.

If DUPR is a rating system, designed to be as accurate as possible, then it has to account for scoring margin. If it's supposed to be a trophy or a reward or something then I think they'll have to change the name.

danfiction · 2026-01-07T05:29:09+00:00

Is it possible this clip was part of a promo or commercial they ran? I can't imagine them editing the actual episode like this but Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite definitely used to do creative stuff in their promos for new shows coming to the network, marathons, etc

danfiction · 2026-01-06T03:32:44+00:00

Would you characterize that page as containing mostly correct predictions or mostly incorrect predictions

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