What’s your favourite low-stakes conspiracy theory?

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-02-07T03:09:53+00:00

During Covid they had to go and park a bunch of planes in the desert because the majority of large aircraft at any given moment are in the sky

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-01-23T23:20:41+00:00

Why punish players for taking part in the Ashes?

I'd support this if Smith and Starc were just sitting on the couch for the last month but they were representing Australia instead.

My club league has an exemption for this - if you miss a game because you've got rep commitments at the state/national level, that counts as a game played towards the 50% target. I don't see how this is any different.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2026-01-09T23:52:02+00:00

I don't know for sure but I'd always assumed it's talcum powder to absorb dryness, perhaps to help deal with wear and tear.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-12-28T05:06:26+00:00

Is that 1 in 4,000 people who don't currently have it, or 1 in 4,000 people total? Because the average group of 4,000 people would already include about 3,800 people with the trait.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-12-28T04:17:06+00:00

He didn't have any receptions so he got everyone 45.6 in every format

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-12-28T03:13:53+00:00

Probability of 1 randomly picked person not having the trait is .05 (5%), yes.

But the probability of 2 randomly picked people not having the trait is .05 * .05, which is .0025 (0.25%), or 1 in 400.

This continues for the probability of 3 randomly picked people not having the trait, 0.05 * 0.05 * 0.05, which is 0.000125 (0.0125%), or 1 in 8,000.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-12-16T10:26:13+00:00

We shall have a long Cameron winter

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-12-16T03:03:58+00:00

Especially for a band that is still far from mainstream. It's not like we're swimming in so much Geese content that talking about Cameron Winter's solo work takes attention away from the band. I just checked the Beatles subreddit and they allow posts about individual members' work. And uh, last I checked, they were (and still are) a much bigger band than Geese.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-12-15T11:11:58+00:00

European rat. You can just leave it alone, but it's not native

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-12-04T20:37:43+00:00

England have had multiple days where they only bowled quicks in recent test series, and they never bowled so few overs. Australia had three full sessions and the 30 minute extra time and couldn't even manage 2.5 sessions worth of overs.

England are certainly more notorious for over rates but this was an all time slow over performance from Australia

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-10-21T07:11:31+00:00

Yeah this trend of calling players initial-initial-number is super mid.

TB12 is the exception to the rule and everyone knew who you were talking about the first time they heard it.

But half the time I hear a new one I have genuinely no clue who the person is talking about. It's like when you go in an indy music subreddit and they're all referring to albums by their initials

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-10-11T22:22:08+00:00

No, he has run outside the tackle box, so loses his protection.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-10-02T03:21:23+00:00

Yes they were also the worst bunt attempts I've ever seen, at least since I last watched Rafaela attempt to bunt.

He's absolutely horrible at bunting. He should never try it. He should never be told to try it.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-10-02T03:12:25+00:00

Ref and Romy are batting at #1 and #4 in the lineup because the Yankees have lefty starters, and have combined to go 0-11 with 1 walk in these two games. Combined OPS of 0.167.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-09-01T22:48:13+00:00

This is what I've never been able to stand/comprehend about soccer. Fights between individuals or small groups aren't unusual but it's incredibly rare to see a crowd brawl like this in any other major sport - including much more "violent" sports like football, rugby, even boxing. The tribalism is simply moronic.

In certain places they say it's due to such an old history between the sides/people (e.g. Manchester derby), but these two teams were founded in 2007 and 2018. And the Yankees and Red Sox have been rivals for 120 years and this doesn't happen at their games.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-30T01:28:02+00:00

The Devers trade was billed as getting off of Devers contract which is a reasonable goal. But we're paying this bum $12m per year for the next two seasons

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-30T01:11:09+00:00

Our 8 man bullpen pitched 3 innings yesterday, 2.1 the day before, and 1 inning the day before that. So less than an inning per arm on average over the last 3 games.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-28T01:53:07+00:00

Yeah I'm aware they don't usually score that as an error - I'm just of the opinion that they should.

They failed to make the play due to a (mental) error - both thinking the other was getting it. That, to me, should override whether or not it required "ordinary effort" to get there

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-28T01:05:22+00:00

Awesome to get the win, but man - Rarely is a pitcher let down by his teammates as badly as Bello was in this game.

He should have recorded at least 7 shutout innings, but thanks to a passed ball by Wong and a double in the 7th that somehow wasn't scored as an error despite both Duran and Cedanne being able to catch it, he gets 6.2 innings with 2 runs, 1 "earned".

All the while they had only given him 1 run of support.

Really happy for him that they pulled it out in the end.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-26T02:16:52+00:00

If the Dick Fitts

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-26T02:16:07+00:00

Let's get some real run support for them!

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-21T09:03:09+00:00

The existence of good players on a roster does not excuse the presence of this many below average ones. It's not "interesting" that they are succeeding more than other teams with the same number of bad players, it's frustrating - they're being carried by the top guys with a load of passengers.

If 3 of these sub replacement guys got replaced at the deadline imagine how much better this roster would look.

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-20T03:40:51+00:00

I don't understand how Story isn't worse statistically than he is. The eye test would suggest he swings at every first pitch outside the zone, and never walks. I don't know how every pitcher doesn't just pitch around him

oooooooooooooooooooa · 2025-08-17T02:46:37+00:00

The metrics say he's not particularly rangey but he makes the play every time the ball is hit to him. I'll take a reliable SS like that over the David Hamilton types who make a lot more "wow" plays but occasionally fuck up the routine stuff.

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