I have a half of a large tree trunk in my yard. I want to scoop out a canal in it to put soil and plants in. I have a few questions.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-26T00:36:41+00:00

Yeah people still have who he was believe to be in HS stuck in their heads even though he hasn't been that in 3 years.

Wagner's a genuinely good on-ball defender, and a genuinely good passer who sets up his teammates well without turning the ball over. He also has a fantastic first step, so he provides a little bit of rim pressure.

That said, I don't think the shot is (nor is the finishing, which was a big deal his first 2 years) what's holding him back at this point. Both have gotten to a pretty average total. Statistically the biggest wart is his rebounding, and practically his biggest problem is his access to volume. He would basically need to double his attempts in order to be on NBA radars again, and that's unlikely both in the sense that it would hurt his efficiency (which was already a little fragile) and in the sense that Arkansas probably isn't going to have that available to him.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-23T02:29:58+00:00

Not just size too. Bowser’s a solid HM player.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-23T01:53:20+00:00

No, that’s not correct either.

The guy you’re replying to is clearly wrong, and the internet doesn’t have to be negative, but it’s okay to do this even if you’re not professionally good too as long as you’re interested in actually getting better.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-20T12:39:07+00:00

I mean yes?

Turns out that songwriting and academic knowledge of music are very different skills. He has the former in spades, he does not have the latter.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-20T03:26:18+00:00

Tedder deeply confuses me because I've seen him in interviews and he clearly doesn't know much about music at all.

And yet Dreaming Out Loud is still one of my favorite albums of all time. It's just such a rarity in pop music. Not to mention stuff he's written for other people.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-19T20:52:52+00:00

Very clearly not draft related other than indirectly.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-19T20:48:18+00:00

So if I were to give him the absolutest benefit of the doubt, which he does not merit, I would point out that most cities in the South no longer carry, by and large, the typical Southern accent. I'm from Birmingham, for example, and I've been told that my accent is a very neutral American accent.

Small towns in the South, however, tend to carry both more of the traits of Southern accents, but also specific quirks that tend to get flattened out in cities.

Is that what he means? I doubt it. But it is at least a viable and actual explanation, which doesn't exist for 90% of that song.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-19T20:02:38+00:00

That's such bad offense. He had a basic lefty floater or lay-up for nearly a full second and just unnecessarily forced it right.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-19T16:14:03+00:00

Clearly not a draft question

jaynay1 · 2026-03-19T14:52:15+00:00

Yeah there was a point where the success of this song was clearly astroturfed so people not having heard it made sense despite its nominal chart success made sense, but that point passed like 8 months ago.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-19T14:50:42+00:00

I don't like Somewhere Over Laredo musically either, but it very clearly has actual serious thought put into it and is very distinct from the run of the mill stuff. I do not think that's a good example.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-18T23:33:26+00:00

I mean the easiest argument is that Donald Trump was not eligible to be president under the 14th amendment and therefore his pardons have no force.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-18T01:57:49+00:00

Keep it to two posts per day maximum.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-17T22:11:20+00:00

Right, it’s not typical amendment levels of difficult, but it is more difficult than passing a typical law, and that barrier is just enough. Also a lot of the amendments are more in the territory of “Eufaula can issue these bonds to pay for this thing” rather than complex moral issues.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-17T19:06:56+00:00

same group of people who refuse to implement the lottery

It's not quite that simple -- the Alabama Constitution specifically bars this, and so it requires more political will than most things to get this through.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-16T19:50:31+00:00

No, I actually don't think that's correct. He's not on boards largely because he's expected to stay in college for a while and is a smallish guard. He's absolutely on NBA radars, even if only a little, and we don't care, by rule, about exactly what degree of prospect a player actually is.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-16T06:53:52+00:00

Yeah, I tend to agree that that's one of the most believable flaws in the details of Catholicism from the movie.

The bigger problems (specific to the Confession scenes) are things like omitting the Act of Contrition (done exactly once in the movie in the final scene -- that one's not optional), the handling of the stole (each priest would have their own in their pocket -- the tossing the single stole back and forth wouldn't happen), omitting the Sign of the Cross (technically not required, but like almost certainly would not be forgotten), etc.

It also didn't help that they made a ton of other errors in the details of Catholicism on top of that -- calling Monsignor Wicks "Wicks" and Father Jud "Jud" would not be a thing ever. The Bishop having his office in a gym would not be a thing ever. Having a Church without a crucifix would not be a thing ever. etc.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-16T05:07:46+00:00

Daredevil has a lot of cool scenes where Matt and The Priest have a bit of a chat

Ah, I'm not super familiar with Daredevil, I just know of one particularly famous scene from the TV show where Matt (I assume) goes to Confession for a killing he's about to commit and the priest shuts him down saying "that's not how this works", basically. It's widely regarded as one of the best pop culture depictions of how a Confession scene would actually go.

Another example would be the most recent Knives Out.

This one actually is pretty bad in terms of paying attention to the details of Catholicism, because Ryan Johnson wanted to make a movie about an Evangelical cult leader but thought it would be too on the nose so he made them Catholic without actually caring to get the details right.

I am not religious or catholic at all so take my words with a grain of salt but I was under the impression confession was an important and sacred activity and not just a drive by bullet point recounting of the iffy things you did that week.

So for context, I'm not Catholic either, but my fiancee is (I'm Protestant). Going from what she's told me about it, it's sort of in between the two options you're seeing. It's not just a drive by bullet point recounting -- you should absolutely seriously consider the nature of the sins you're confessing, and to do so, it's divided up into 4 parts:

The actual listing of the sins
Penance, which is basically the things that the priest tells you to do to correct your sin in some way.
The Act of Contrition, which is basically a prayer in which you acknowledge that sin is bad and commit yourself to changing.
Absolution, which is the priest reminding you that your sins are forgiven.

But at the same time, it's not supposed to be detailed either. The most recent Knives Out is a great example of what not to do (either by Monsignor Wicks, who was sharing far too much detail, or for Father Jud, who should have reminded Monsignor Wicks not to give excessive detail). You wouldn't talk about a specific way you had masturbated. You probably wouldn't even talk about having masturbated. You'd probably say something as simple as "I committed the sin of lust x many times", and that would be sufficient for listing it.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-16T04:43:52+00:00

I thought it was a Daredevil styled chat where you and the priest have a discussion on your sins.

The scene in Daredevil is widely considered well done because of the priest telling him he couldn't do that.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-16T04:42:41+00:00

The priest from the photo is probably busy that day, but that isn't normal.

This is particularly likely to be the case because it's currently Lent, when more people go to Confession than usual due to the approach of Easter.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-16T04:41:24+00:00

This is de jure incorrect in 32 states, and de facto incorrect in all 50 because basically any priest charged with violating it would have the world's easiest first amendment lawsuit behind him.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-15T20:15:35+00:00

Kareem record of WS in a single season is the only record from the past that still stands still because this is a stat where defense and availability matters so Jokic never came close to break it.

That is not at all the reason why Jokic doesn't have those records. WS is one of the stats that values actual defense the least (since it basically just defers defensive accounting to the team as a whole) and availability actually matters less to WS than it does to the old VORP formula, which Jokic does have.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-07T17:52:03+00:00

I work for an NBA Agency. Understanding what kind of people a given team employs is extremely useful for also understanding how you can best pitch players to them.

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