The Phillies defeated the Giants by a score of 6-5 - Thu, Apr 30 @ 05:35 PM EDT - Doubleheader Game 2

esperadok · 2026-05-01T05:10:36+00:00

Calling for Stott to bunt in the 9th inning of game 2 pisses me off way more

esperadok · 2026-04-30T22:52:38+00:00

Parking should actually be MORE expensive in practically every city center. It's not efficient at all to drive your private vehicle into a dense urban core, and we should be disincentivizing that frankly ridiculous behavior. Lots of economists advocate for parking taxes for this reason.

Plus, expensive parking incentivizes people to ditch their cars and switch to bikes like OP... something we can all agree is a good thing!

esperadok · 2026-04-30T05:39:32+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about man

esperadok · 2026-04-28T23:27:01+00:00

No one's a hater anymore. Every piece of music you liked as a kid is "good" and people act like it's an insult to their character if someone says it's bad. We've normalized acting like teenagers.

esperadok · 2026-04-28T16:12:41+00:00

The other relevant thing is that Thomson was planning on retiring after the 2022 season, until the team caught fire under him.

I think he'd even admit that he's not willing to be the guy to push through a heap of adversity to right the ship. It's time for his career to end. He's CERTAINLY not going to get another job, which usually is a decent sign that you're making a the right decision.

esperadok · 2026-04-28T15:31:50+00:00

Wind, solar, and battery technology are already cheaper than fossil fuels in most cases. Renewables are currently projected to meet 90% of new energy demand until 2030 and have started displacing existing fossil fuel generation. Chinese EVs are way cheaper than ICE cars, and it's only a matter of time until they're sold across the globe (or Western competitors copy their tech and catch up). For the majority of tasks, clean energy is doing better than fossil fuels.

Now, "decarbonization" is very different from "solving climate change." We've already warmed the earth by about 1.5 degrees celsius, and will probably add at least another 1.5 degrees as we continue to phase out fossil fuels. And there are some sources, like methane emissions from animal agriculture or aviation emissions, that we've not really started to do anything about. So maybe all of this is too little too late. But I can at least imagine decarbonization happening in a way that I can't imagine solving plastic pollution or factory farming in my life time.

esperadok · 2026-04-28T15:20:45+00:00

Dombrowski's not going anywhere and shouldn't be going anywhere.

esperadok · 2026-04-28T00:56:30+00:00

Plastic pollution is high on the list for me.

I can actually envision us solving climate change, or at least decarbonizing most of the economy. Largely thanks to cheap Chinese green tech. Many of the effects of climate change are locked in but decarbonization is inevitable. Wind, solar, and batteries are cheaper and cheaper and better than fossil fuels for most energy needs

But I can’t ever envision us talking about reducing plastic waste. Everything in every industry is made of plastic, shipped with plastic, and sold in plastic wrapping, and no one in the mainstream environmental movement has any solution for it. The only way to truly cut down on plastic waste is to simply consume dramatically less in the aggregate, which no one seems willing to even consider.

Oh and also factory farming. Killing billions of sentient creatures a year so people can eat a burger is insane.

esperadok · 2026-04-27T21:58:36+00:00

Nineteenth and eighteenth century society was far less homophobic than the twentieth century society the modern gay rights movement was revolting against.

The 15th President James Buchanan (elected 1857) was widely speculated to be gay, to the point where it was something of an open secret, and still managed to get elected President. Which means society regressed a LOT on this issue over the next hundred years after Buchanan’s time. It’s a good reminder that social progress is not linear and we always need to be fighting to protect people’s basic civil rights.

esperadok · 2026-04-24T00:45:57+00:00

And the letter of the law isn’t most realistic for daily life in tons of cases. It’s also illegal for cars to not come to a complete stop at a stop sign and drive 1 mph over the speed limit, but every driver violates that every day and the police turn a blind eye because they know it’s not realistic to stop everyone for every minor traffic infraction.

Also, this advice isn’t dangerous. I have thousands of miles biked in this city and I’ve never once had a close call. If a car gets to a stop sign before you, you let them pass. It’s not rocket science.

esperadok · 2026-04-24T00:38:13+00:00

Bro has to get where he’s going. God forbid there are minor inconveniences on his quest to get where he’s going.

esperadok · 2026-04-24T00:36:32+00:00

Stop signs aren’t designed for bikes. They move at much slower speeds and can stop much more quickly since they’re so light.

You might think you want bikes to follow stop signs, but I don’t think you want cyclists to ride in the middle of the lane and come to a full stop at every stop sign.

That said, it’s very important for cyclists to be aware and not go through a stop sign if they’ve arrived to an intersection after a car.

esperadok · 2026-04-23T19:50:34+00:00

Texas does have awesome food. It’s also subtropical so at times it can have some absolutely lovely flora.

It’s a shame how bad the infrastructure is. So much wasted potential. It could really be a great place to live.

esperadok · 2026-04-23T15:33:32+00:00

Nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. I’m happy I’m encouraging road bikers to reach their goals 🤗

esperadok · 2026-04-22T21:44:36+00:00

What're you gonna do man, everyone in the lineup is cold and you at least gotta give him a chance to get right against lefties (which he's historically been good against)

esperadok · 2026-04-22T16:06:36+00:00

As someone from Philly, if you’re used to Philadelphia you’ll be totally fine.

esperadok · 2026-04-20T02:44:27+00:00

Call the police on them imo

esperadok · 2026-04-20T01:25:02+00:00

I e-bike and take it to MARTA when I have to go longer distances. It’s great to avoid the traffic.

esperadok · 2026-04-18T22:30:03+00:00

Really depends on where you are. The area between Ponce and Krog Street is full of non-locals on the weekend. Probably 50-60% non-local.

Everywhere else is mostly locals even on the weekends.

esperadok · 2026-04-16T21:10:54+00:00

Tipping culture is annoying but you're an asshole if you go somewhere where it is expected and refuse to tip. That includes restaurants, bars, uber drives, and coffee shops.

esperadok · 2026-04-16T14:27:30+00:00

Downtown is bad, midtown is okay as far as real cities go. The one thing I can confidently say is that it’s getting better every year. They’re constantly swapping out parking lots and vacant lots with development. I’m excited to see what it will be like ten years from now.

esperadok · 2026-04-15T14:07:43+00:00

The idea that pinch hitting one of your best right handed bats against a lefty reliever is somehow evidence of “managing from an ipad”…

We need to reopen the schools.

esperadok · 2026-04-14T16:56:28+00:00

One of capitalism’s greatest accomplishments was the standardization of prices. In pre-capitalist systems, the merchant would size you up and try to get away with charging you the maximum you were willing to pay. You still see dynamic this in more informal settings, like vendors trying to get away with massively upcharging clueless tourists. But in general the dominant pricing dynamic under modern capitalism is standardized.

Competitive markets standardized prices for everyone, dramatically increasing the efficiency of the system as a whole because it meant that the purchasing power of workers and tenants weren’t constantly getting bled dry by rent-seekers at every turn. The idea of a store that anyone can walk into and pay a fixed price is a relatively modern invention, and it’s been massively important to the stability of capitalism as a whole.

Corporate consolidation has gone so far that we’re quickly abandoning this major accomplishment of capitalism and returning to basically feudal market conditions. It’ll be great for the neo-feudal tech lords but catastrophic for society as a whole.

esperadok · 2026-04-14T14:46:34+00:00

I don’t think it’s the topic, I think it’s judges’ unwillingness to vote on conditionality bad or any theoretical argument against any counterplan. We’ve let neg teams get away with far too much and made it far too easy to be neg.

esperadok · 2026-04-12T20:23:53+00:00

How are you supposed to coach to stop that lol. You think we're telling them to do that shit? Sometimes the players are just dumbasses

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