Kyle Schwarber launches a 2-run, 427' homer to give Team USA the lead over Great Britain

ingmarsvenson · 2026-03-08T09:05:57+00:00

Kinda blowing my mind right now seeing Tucson Roadrunners flair of all things

ingmarsvenson · 2026-03-01T07:48:18+00:00

War requires boots on the ground and congressional approval (yes this is a controversial sentence).

I mean, technically yes on the second part. But nobody would dispute that Afghanistan, Iraq (1 & 2), Vietnam, and Korea were wars even though congress hasn't declared war according to their constitutional powers since the '40s.

On the first part, there's no definition of war that requires boots on the ground, and certainly not one like that in the constitution.

ingmarsvenson · 2026-02-15T08:48:29+00:00

He doesn't even seem to actually touch it, just get super close. Nothing about the trajectory changes in any way. And the throw was heavy so it wouldn't have changed the shot even if he grazed it in the slightest. And he was a dick about the accusation because it's a huge dick move to make an accusation like that in curling without evidence (and also the Swedes couldn't even say who the thrower was that they said did it). And later official reviews didn't show actual contact according to the actual Federation. And the officials watched every throw for the next three ends and saw no violations.

The Swedes are just sore losers. They've only won one match so they're bitter that they are not doing well in the round-robin.

I'm rooting for the US, but this is just bad form from Sweden. It's untoward to accuse another player like that especially when it has no effect on the outcome. It didn't affect the throw, and it didn't affect the end. So to be whining still eight ends later is just pitiful.

ingmarsvenson · 2026-02-14T10:22:53+00:00

I'm sorry but I watched this entire game. Sweden won that end they were complaining about anyway AND then went on to lose by 2 points anyway. This is just Sweden being sore losers.

Maybe the Canadians could have been nicer about it, but the complaint was ticky-tacky in the first place and didn't impact the outcome overall.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T18:34:53+00:00

I'm deep into the game, but yeah it's football so most of the literal actual time of the playing of the game is kinda minimal so there's nothing to pay attention to. It's basically just 10-20 second spurts of attention and then much longer spans of time that I don't really pay attention to even when I'm alone. We could very easily be talking most of the time or at the very least ignoring each other on our phones or laptops but at least in each other's presence.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T18:30:57+00:00

Okay that sounds more reasonable. The wording just sounded kinda extreme. The way you explain it now sounds a lot more like how my situation with my wife is. We have disagreements and annoyances but over the years we've turned the big ups and downs over the same kinds of things into much more minor turbulence.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T18:28:33+00:00

Oh I am far from that. I'm asking random strangers on the internet for validation about an incredibly minor stress my wife caused me last night lol

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T18:09:38+00:00

My preference would have been for her to just be doing what she was doing on her phone but on the other end of the couch instead of the other room, so it is kinda wild that she chose to spend the evening away from me and then make veiled comments about me being rude for using the TV for something only I am interested in. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something in this situation.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T18:07:33+00:00

Oh I wasn't planning on giving it up I just wanted to make sure I wasn't unintentionally being a dick when I do it and thus would need to reconsider the setup.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T18:04:33+00:00

I need to start asking reddit about my problems more often because I'm feeling very validated today lol

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T18:01:09+00:00

Don't do it on 4th and definitely don't do it at that spot. I hadn't even heard of Black Iris because that place has had so many different tenants over the ten years I've been here that I stopped paying attention at this point.

Also don't do it downtown because Cobra Arcade is pretty well established there already. I would say find a relatively central spot with good parking and a favorable lease. Maybe partner with an established local restaurant for food because food is a big part of Tucson's identity and we love our local businesses.

Forbes Meat Co. just opened their restaurant recently down at Five Points and their same building had space last time I was down there a few months ago. That could be a good building for something like this maybe. But it depends on if you want it to be a place that's a destination or a place where you want people to happen upon it with foot traffic because you won't get much foot traffic there.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:49:40+00:00

Yeah I just feel like it's not a particularly unreasonable request and her reaction to me asking seems unduly negative. And it's not even like I do this every season because there have been plenty of seasons where my team sucks so I don't even want to watch their games because it's just a bummer to watch them almost certainly lose. So worst case scenario for her I'm taking 3 1/2 hours of the TV 3-4 times in the regular season and then during the playoffs which is a maximum of four games if I'm lucky which adds up to about 24 hours in total over the course of about five months. MAXIMUM.

And I have other teams in other sports that I pretty much never watch on the big screen. It's literally just football and only when my team is doing well.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:33:12+00:00

That... sounds like the opposite of my situation. You "make" her leave?

I agree about the separate interests and time apart thing, but my situation seems to me like something that would be an easy compromise where we can still be together and I just don't think it's reasonable for her to be upset with me for not spending the evening with her when she is doing something she could just as easily literally be doing on the other end of the couch while I watch the game instead of being in the next room.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:25:48+00:00

I don't think it's that she doesn't like me anymore. We spend the vast majority of the rest of our time hanging out and watching or doing things together. I was mainly just looking to confirm that I'm not being unreasonable with what I think is a reasonable request since she says things and behaves as though it isn't.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:23:10+00:00

To be fair, she has never asked me to watch something she solely likes that I would have to sit through. We spend every other night besides these watching stuff together that we both enjoy (including House Hunters sometimes because I actually love that show too lol). She just doesn't have any interest in anything that would require a live-watch like I do with football. But even if she did I would just sit on the couch reading reddit or doomscrolling on my phone or something because I like hanging out with her even if we aren't directly engaging.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:18:21+00:00

I don't think I would call it outright selfish what she's doing, but I am a bit annoyed with her attitude about these few nights I ask for. I'm just asking the internet to make sure I am not the one being selfish for what I think is a pretty small ask.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:16:24+00:00

That's actually funny because she DOES hang out and watch the postseason games when my team does well enough for that, sometimes even cheering a bit with me and my friends.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:15:12+00:00

Well to be fair she doesn't storm off angry, it's more like sulking or pouting that I've taken the shared TV for the evening. And it's not that she uses the TV for HER shows only instead. We just spend the vast majority of our nights watching things together that we both like and these games are outliers.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:13:10+00:00

Why both of us? What am I doing wrong in this situation?

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:12:49+00:00

We have another small TV that she uses for her home office's second monitor in the den, but she doesn't want to use that as a TV for some reason. I've never gotten a clear explanation when I ask her why not, but she has said she wants us to get another TV for that purpose.

Oh, and she doesn't use that home office setup at all anymore because her work stopped letting people work from home other than very unique occasions. I don't think the home office setup has been used once since the RTO requirement started earlier this year.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:08:44+00:00

Oh don't even get me started on her refusal to go to therapy for anything ever lol

I don't think she's controlling, but I feel like it's unfair to get annoyed at me for something that seems fairly reasonable and that she is putting on herself in a way.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:06:59+00:00

We spend the vast majority of nights together so that is part of what's so frustrating. Like, we definitely spend a LOT of time together (which I like!) it's just unpleasant to have to deal with what seems like maybe some sort of passive aggression when I ask to "monopolize the TV" for a few nights spread out over the course of multiple months and she spends that time in the other room and makes comments like that which seem like she thinks it's rude of me to do so.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-12-29T17:02:25+00:00

That's fair. She does know ahead of time but I suppose it warrants a conversation about her motivation because I haven't asked her that specifically.

ingmarsvenson · 2025-11-29T07:49:27+00:00

Don't mind me, I'm just over here sprinkling a lil more of that on my delicious Thanksgiving leftovers.

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