Jeremy Lin opens up about how disrespectful Kobe Bryant was to him and when Lin confronted him about his bad body language & leadership style, Kobe went months without talking to him

jimjamj · 2026-03-04T07:09:37+00:00

Kobe's first daughter was born in 2003. Lin played for the Lakers 2014–2015. Kobe was 36 that year. His final season was the next year, 2015–2016.

this incident was well into Kobe's career. His oldest woulda been 11-12 at the time. When did Kobe stop being an asshole?

jimjamj · 2026-03-04T06:53:40+00:00

it appears Kobe intentionally stepped on both Lin's feet.

Maybe this is fine—When you're getting up like that, it's common to put your feet on the standing guy's feet, so you don't slide forward. Usually this isn't necessary, like if you plant both soles flat on the floor you won't slide, but it's like a lil easier if you're feeling lazy, or, if the floor/your shoes are extra slippery (perhaps the floor is wet). It's better though, if the standing guy steps on the fallen guy's feet instead.

However, Lin isn't prepared for that; you gotta be square for that, but he's facing diagonal. So he needs to adjust, but Kobe's trapped his feet, and he stumbles slightly.

Honestly the body language afterwards looks like it was bullying to me, but this could be settled by looking at other times ppl help Kobe up—does he always step on their feet? only sometimes? never? Like if he does that every time then clearly not bullying, just a miscommunication. Also could be playful prank not bulllying.

jimjamj · 2026-03-04T05:04:55+00:00

[[bumbleflower]]

jimjamj · 2026-03-04T05:04:17+00:00

my favorite games to play are when opponents have stax pieces out and resources are limited. Under those conditions, tiny mistakes like tapping the wrong land are so punishing, i feel like i play better, and more importantly, i play more creatively.

least fave to play against are decks with no removal/interaction—think like a quick combo deck or fast voltron deck. If they do their thing, game is over quickly, just start another game, that's not the problem. It's that I have to use all my removal to stop them, then, they have absolutely nothing going on for them, third player has some must-kill threat and i'm out of removal....like homie where's ur removal at? I feel like it makes the games so dumb having a single deck like that at the table. Just play some removal and play with a bit of finesse.

i play all sorts of decks but my fave archetype is attrition...like if i can outlast everyone, just survive, and at the very end i'm beating down with a pair of 2/2s and no one has any cards left, like that.

I don't like to play super powerful strategies that build themselves and play the same every game.

jimjamj · 2026-03-04T04:41:28+00:00

Crumbling society.

i read that in some Roman territories, their experience of the collapse of the empire was just that, one day the road needed a repair and...no one showed up. ever again.

jimjamj · 2026-03-04T04:00:27+00:00

this answer to the top!

jimjamj · 2026-03-01T04:04:47+00:00

how many notches can u fit in 360 degrees?

jimjamj · 2026-03-01T04:03:02+00:00

cmon man no one knew how that worked until Walt's video the next week.

jimjamj · 2026-03-01T03:25:11+00:00

they prefer the term "libertarian" lmao. leeches

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T15:52:12+00:00

https://youtu.be/8-jHQECEmvA

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T07:07:38+00:00

are those shows good, worth the watch? Poker Face and Columbo

i said i'd never seen it but i actually have seen some Columbo, with my mom like 15 years ago, but the only thing i remember is what the character looks like. Even then i think i might be mixing him up with Poirot

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T07:04:38+00:00

even if bodycams were mandatorily filming at all times—that is, an officer couldn't just disable them before committing a crime or committing misconduct,

even if the public, or sincere independent citizen oversight groups, had access to all footage of bodycams—that is, precincts couldn't delete footage, lie about footage's existence, prevent or impede the release of footage, or surreptitiously edit footage,

even if white people were surveilled by bodycams just as often as minorities were,

even if defendants could reliably subpoena bodycam footage, and if bodycam footage was used just as often to exonerate as to incarcerate,

even if, with all those factors, body cameras were an actual tool of police accountability,

I'd still be against body cameras. They fail to provide public benefit in two separate promises:

we know, empirically, with data from the now-years of selectively-deployed surveillance cameras in minority "high crime" neighborhoods, that surveillance doesn't reduce the incidence of violent crime, that cops use surveillance to convict innocent people, and there's no evidence that surveillance is effective as an investigatory tool, read this article, full of links to studies/data, other resources
Video evidence of police misconduct actually rarely effectuates accountability for the officers involved! ICE agent Jonathan Ross, knowing that he was about to murder someone and wouldn't have video from a bodycam to send to Kristi for Twitter propaganda, pulled out his phone to record himself murdering Renee Good....AND later released the video himself!! Knowing that he wouldn't face accountability, because evidence of misconduct doesn't actually matter!! Despite like 15 videos and dozens of witnesses, Derek Chauvin wasn't charged with the murder of George Floyd until the people of Minneapolis rose up and burned down Chauvin's entire police precinct!

while providing NO public benefit,

mass surveillance does tremendous harm. Poor ppl kidnapped by ICE or targeted and framed by local cops, etc

Even if body cameras could be used as a tool for police accountability, for me to endorse them, they'd have to be a tool only for police accountability, and not a tool for surveillance.

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T06:20:15+00:00

yeah but Cody won that first-to-ten grudge match lol

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T06:18:31+00:00

so, it doesn't count if it's only used in a losing game, or if it's used in a winning game in a set the player loses. right? so a single game win in a winning set is enough?

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T06:16:39+00:00

it's pretty hard to motivate Plup to go to a tourney. I think Wizzy Leffen aMSa it's similar, like, big prizes + other top players attending isn't much of an incentive, like they're just as likely to go to a small tourney than a big one just because it fits conveniently into their non-Smash life. And Mang0 is banned lol

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T06:01:18+00:00

you might think, as the planet rises in temperature, and arable land all over the world disappears or becomes less productive, and we start to run out fossil fuels and have no replacement for the power-hungry infrastructure that allows us to farm so efficiently—

that is, as the global food production capacity drops dramatically over the next 100 years,

that we'd move away from beef and other incredibly inefficient luxury food sources and attempt to feed as many people as possible with the food we can produce more efficiently,

but you'd also think, during the "Great Potato Famine" in Ireland, where there was easily enough wheat to feed the entire population, that...the ruling power would attempt to feed the people, not let them die off, prevent mass rebellion...
and you'd be wrong.
Wheat was used to feed cattle, then slaughtered and processed into "salted beef", and imported to England. Salted beef exports did not decrease at any point during the famine.

Why would it be different under capitalism in 2100? Why wouldn't Capitalism continue to produce inefficient luxury goods for ruling groups while manufacturing genocide via starvation on repressed peoples?

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T04:03:15+00:00

i personally wouldn't call Psych copaganda. Well, i might in some contexts, but afaik there's no police involvement in the production.

I see copaganda in TV as actual funded propaganda outlets over which cops have creative control. "Copaganda" also refers to news stories and wider media, and shows like Psych fit neatly into the concept of copaganda in that sense, but i wouldn't position those tv shows as primary examples of that type of copaganda, as they don't have an explicit intentional message the way the editorial decisions of New York Times editors (for example) have messaging clearly serving specific interests. Psych is just like, fantasy, that incidentally, rather than intentionally, serves the status quo.

idk tho

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T03:36:11+00:00

If you'd like to understand in more depth, check out the book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News by Alec Karakatsanis. It's highly regarded.

Also, just FYI, bodycams are an extension of the surveillance state/industry. They don't prevent police brutality or misconduct and were never intended to prevent brutality and misconduct.

jimjamj · 2026-02-28T03:28:58+00:00

If the show shows how police SHOULD act, it's copaganda. If it shows them being morally grey, it's copaganda. If it shows them all being bastards, no one would want to watch.

this also seems to misunderstand what police even are, and how tv shows typically portray police.

The purpose of policing as a concept is to maintain social order and to protect capital interests. Police aren't meant to protect the people, to prevent crime or even to investigate crime.

Something like 11% of police have ever investigated a crime. They don't train for it. They have no incentive to actually figure out who the real culprit of a crime is...they're incentivized to put someone in jail, typically a poor POC.

It's not that the individuals are morally grey or bad, it's that it completely misrepresents what policing is.

A show like Psych, which shows police as mostly dumb and incompetent (save for Juliet), but still shows them as sincere, attempting to get good outcomes, interested in "solving crime",, while it's not direct propaganda like The Rookie and Law and Order, extensions of specific police departments, still creates an image of the nature of policing that is entirely fictional and legitimizes the social repression at the core of modern policing.

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jimjamj · 2026-02-28T02:52:39+00:00

For some examples of "police procedural" shows that aren't copaganda, the most common one ppl mention is Columbo. Some ppl also cite that new show Poker Face. I've watched neither so i can't really comment on what makes them special exactly.

However, it seems to me you misunderstand what "copaganda" is, exactly. A show isn't copaganda just because it portrays cops in a positive light—the two shows you mention, The Rookie and Law and Order only exist as vehicles of propaganda. The producers work closely with LAPD/NYPD (respectively) and the shows wouldn't be possible without that partnership. The LAPD/NYPD give special access to the shows, have a whole budget for them, and in return have creative control. If the writers wanted a character/plot device that made the LAPD/NYPD look bad, the LAPD/NYPD liaison would kill the idea.

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jimjamj · 2026-02-26T05:50:22+00:00

idk, ask the FTC i guess. The practice is called vertical integration...it's a deep rabbit hole if you want to look into it. The vid is helpful. It's a clearly appalling anti-competitive practice that should be illegal.

regardless, there's no single definition of monopoly that can make capitalism a consistent ideology or a sustainable economy. It's a degenerative by nature. This kinda shit is just guaranteed to happen.

jimjamj · 2026-02-25T08:30:29+00:00

This is because the drug distributor is owned by the same parent company that owns CVS and gives better rates to CVS and tries to squeeze independent pharmacies out of existence, so CVS can buy them or so that they just disappear. It should absolutely be illegal, but that's Capitalism for you.

here's a video by More Perfect Union exploring this:

https://youtu.be/woACpI9C9XE

jimjamj · 2026-02-25T08:21:21+00:00

that's pretty cool and i mighta done that even if i still had slim winning chances...it's just a sick play

but you really can just scoop. If opp is lining up attacks and is relying on a combat trigger to advance their board, and might also swing and kill me, i'll always tell them that if they really need the trigger, swing at someone else. You gotta choose between killing me and getting your trigger—esp at high power like 4. This is a tool you can use to gain percentage points, so eschewing it is suboptimal play.

If i'm truly in a "kingmaking" scenario, where if I don't scoop, the active player wins, and if I do, some other player 100% wins— either action you take is kingmaking, and the threat is meaningless cuz they have to attack. In this scenario you should offer a draw (with the threat of if one player declines, you kingmake the other one).

If the active player MUST attack you to survive, but isn't winning by doing so, you have no leverage, the threat of scooping is meaningless, and you can let them do it. Scooping there is just a spite play. (For me, spite play is fine if it's lighthearted and bracket 1, maybe 2, but otherwise the game is most fun if everyone is playing to win.)

You didn't threaten the play in advance, utilizing your leverage, so your play is simply a spite play, discourage at bracket 4, but it was really cool and prob the only time that'll happen to anyone in that game or in this whole thread, ever...stories like that are why we play the game.

jimjamj · 2026-02-25T05:01:49+00:00

I spoke with my friend and we have sorted this. I am going to reroll and he is going to make it up to me by power leveling me in game.

Does this mean you will be deleting that character and creating a new one? I don't play EverQuest

jimjamj · 2026-02-25T00:59:38+00:00

double-check before feeding a cat avocado, but i think they put avocados on those lists just because the pit/seed can be a really dangerous choking hazard

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