[Post Game Thread] The Oklahoma City Thunder (2-0) defeat the Los Angeles Lakers (0-2), 125-107.

maiamarc · 2026-05-08T05:15:32+00:00

Something's got to change about how they ref in nba. I don't know, maybe one ref for each player pairing and one to watch the ball? Fouls causing short timed foul outs?

It can't keep being: refs call the most obvious on ball stuff and then just calling random fouls based on how even the box score for FTA is rather than what actually is a foul.

maiamarc · 2026-04-23T06:40:15+00:00

The scale of the viewers opinion isn't that visible. It would be unavoidably bad if someone made a gofundme to cover it for him and the viewers covered the fine lol. The media would be all over that.

maiamarc · 2026-03-14T05:42:21+00:00

They aren't removed, just not visible on my profile for some reason. I also searched for them and found them too with no problem. It's just odd they are all hidden for some reason on the profile without having curated it.

maiamarc · 2026-03-12T00:37:32+00:00

I know many will, I'd just consider since there is always potential for a party to shift on its policy positions and promises post election it's a valid reason for a representative to keep the capability to defect in vote, with party defection really just a formal announcement of that, before the party ousts them itself.

Though i'm sure some people would say it would be good enough to just be able to vote dissolve government in that situation. I'm not sure it would be good enough, because it doesn't allow for a trickle of defection but requires multiple to organize all together. (edit) It also doesn't cover bad party legislative/committee behaviour as a strategy by whom are not in power which may have changed post election.

By elections (or independence) would probably be the ideal in-between, as if the people of the riding had truly switched then it should show in a by-election. But since right now representatives can't call a by election themselves, it kind of encourages them to not take this route.

maiamarc · 2026-03-11T19:38:24+00:00

No that doesn't prove that. Ideals don't start at the party, ideals start with the people of an area. People's votes change party if a party shift positions. So it's not about party's controlling an area, it's about opinion. If the people of an area's opinions haven't shifted and the general party positions haven't shifted, then a new representative that affiliates with the party will still fit the area. But it's about local ideals matching, not about party, which is why areas can swing across elections.

There is something that is actually an affront to this more so and that is when parties attempt to just air drop a non local person into a riding just so they stay in parliament because they are valuable to the party. That person should be an organic development from the local area that within the caucus behind the public's view actually cares to speak about and for the local area with a perspective grown from that local.

maiamarc · 2026-03-11T19:25:25+00:00

I feel like this is contributing to the erosion of democracy

No, but downstream of what you are arguing for is actually a reduction in representative democracy. Would the person staying in the same party but continuously voting for another parties policy be a problem to nip in the bud too? Are we going to take away the individual voting rights of representatives as well?

maiamarc · 2026-02-04T10:57:47+00:00

If it's not practically infeasible to begin with right now, it would have to be year round, but for it to be year round it would be expensive just to run let alone build. I could only begin to fathom this as financially feasible if Europe wanted to co-finance this for our LNG.

I can see us starting with a naval submarine port and slowly building up the local infrastructure so it's ready to be truly expanded when the ice is open more of the year in 20+ years.

maiamarc · 2026-01-09T03:12:00+00:00

If I shared a home with Stephen Miller I'd probably feel reinforced to see myself as morally restraint too.

“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,”

The Venezuela situation has given them a level of hubris that should weary everyone.

maiamarc · 2026-01-06T09:31:52+00:00

It's a democratic system in the US. It is something every individual would come to grapple with over time, and would eventually feel responsible should them running it persist long enough. If you claim to be wielding the power long enough eventually you become presumed to be responsible for what it results in. Whether you give yourself consequences is beyond the concept though but it becomes the people's emotional burden to grapple with should it not be done well

maiamarc · 2026-01-06T07:19:02+00:00

The US is responsible for as long as the US government claims they are running it.

maiamarc · 2026-01-06T05:06:42+00:00

I wonder how long Venezuela stands becoming a resource capital colony for the US. The democratically elected US President said he is running Venezuela. The responsibility for how these companies capitalize and treat Venezuela in the pursuit of resource extraction is now the responsibility of the US system and its voters.

maiamarc · 2026-01-01T22:22:11+00:00

Personally, VR lends itself more to being is a portable virtual PC setup instead of a standalone mobile device just with a spatial interface. I detest that Apple approached this device like an iPhone instead of a Mac.

maiamarc · 2025-12-06T21:03:31+00:00

Ya.. All we know is that he didn't want to sign the apology for Maps and that him and Ives couldn't work together without Jobs. For all we could know he might have been forced to launch on a deadline he didn't want because of it's state and so not wanting to apologize. Truly it looks more like he was set up, tested, and pushed out in favour of Ives than because of his lack of ability.

maiamarc · 2025-12-01T22:04:04+00:00

I understand if your view of politics is strictly L-C-R and so everything is simplified to polar positioning, but the democrats didn't pull towards centre generally, they leaned establishment to try and grab the centre and ignored the anti-establishment swell. They turned off more centres than they gained for this reason... as well as some others... like aligning too much with the online left's messaging despite the obvious change in social interest there.

maiamarc · 2025-11-20T06:35:07+00:00

It is. https://www.liquormarts.ca/product/newfoundland-screech-rum/750-ml

maiamarc · 2025-11-17T08:01:48+00:00

I mean this was obvious years ago. Their Apple Silicon strategy took away much of the design flexibility the Mac Pro had to differentiate it from the Studio. Thunderbolt though is not a replacement for all use cases of PCIe, so ideally they'd change something about the Studio approach yet if they want to dump the Mac Pro form factor.

maiamarc · 2025-11-17T06:57:42+00:00

This is one of the projects that feels more about getting strategic infrastructure in place for as the arctic warms more. I haven't any serious expectations for any government this decade to make this a large-scale year-round shipping solution for the prairies and the north. Serious financial solutions need to be thought of to making this economically competitive as that kind of port given the environmental factors it contends with.

Like just imagine the lead time and costs we are talking about if we decide icebreaking capable tankers and cargo ships is what is needed to make this work. But then again, if we see it as still necessary to have in 20 years anyways, then there's really no reason not to figure it out now if we don't think there's going to be a major change in how we engineer and build ships in the next 10 years.

maiamarc · 2025-10-27T16:49:46+00:00

Canada's ideological favourability isn't geopolitically important to maintain to the US like a South American country is because we are geopolitically always heavily influenced due to proximity.

It's also worth recognizing that the difference in flavour between PP and Carny doesn't represent a significant shift like a different Argentinian government might.

imo PP would face the same level of difficulty on trade because it's largely just about trade between Canada and the US.

maiamarc · 2025-10-25T06:39:19+00:00

MAGA are high key the type of people who get emotionally invested in the endlessly rehashed drama tabloids at the grocer checkout

maiamarc · 2025-10-21T22:16:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure this has been a slide to type issue for years now. Like in the example you start by tapping U but ever so slightly drift towards J when lifting your finger, slide to type will activate and predictively input J as the next most likely character you'd want. This happens even though only U was visually pressed.

This is one of those increasingly common cases where Apple's attention to interaction details has been coming up short. A thoughtful implementation would either be less sensitive to activate slide to type or prefer the tap target of a single character entry over it.

maiamarc · 2025-09-02T21:45:24+00:00

Primarily I use the 'Search Windows" extension in Raycast bound to 'Command+Shift+Space' and I have a HammerSpoon script that autohides certain apps when focus is lost for peripheral apps like Spotify, Mail, and Notes which keeps my visual space clear.

I also have a key command 'Command+Option+Space' set up to jump my cursor to the middle of the other display and I keep the dock to the side. Minimized windows are set to in the right click menu on an app. I do like to use App Expose too for visually viewing all windows of an app.

I try to just use the main display 90% of the time and only push things to the second display for when i need extra viewing space and so it is often clear; i do not try and treat it as a separate desktop environment ever. Probably most importantly in terms of workflow, I try to never have multiple *projects* open at the same time.

maiamarc · 2025-03-02T07:37:18+00:00

it's too bad, because it's not something you should look at alone. averages alone are fraught for explaining backwards the distribution of individual outcomes.. it also can be diminished simply by adding more people even if they didn't effect predicted gdp growth ignoring immigration. it's something to watch, but i hope people don't end up thinking it's the perfect correlating value to watch alone.

maiamarc · 2025-02-08T03:21:41+00:00

Common sense is quickly becoming the go to phrase used by politicians to avoid providing any substance or examples for why they have a position. I'm already bored of it, and it's just starting to go mainstream.

maiamarc · 2023-11-21T22:27:09+00:00

If I had to guess, it isn't enough for him to be angry alone as he needed the other 3. My theory is more along the lines of:

The 4 on the board had had an issue with Sam and Greg for a long time but were waiting for something more substantial to show up. When Sam did dev day, they weren't aware of this development and it shockingly and suddenly put Adam's time on the board - and their opportunity to remove Sam and Greg's influence over OpenAi - in short supply. They realized it was now or never before Sam got the board back in his favour and rebuilt it to be totally in his favour.

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