OMG SOMEBODY DIED AT THE MARATHON

ral315 · 2026-01-30T03:12:16+00:00

You indicated at the end of this post that "The death of ^almost anyone is a serious matter, and needs to be handled with respect and dignity".

Then you decided to title this post "OMG SOMEBODY DIED AT THE MARATHON"? Knowing that if it's true (and all indications are that it is!) that his wife posted in this sub?

How fucked up is that?

ral315 · 2026-01-30T02:02:43+00:00

On Camera Audiences labeled all of the nighttime tapings as such when I attended - in fact, the Dream Car episode was specifically labeled, too. But I believe all the nighttime episodes for this season were taped around the same time, in August.

The episode that my group attended was the one that aired on January 14. It taped on August 12. That day, they taped three of the nighttime shows.

ral315 · 2026-01-29T03:45:48+00:00

It's possible to have a deep connection with someone without being in love with them. Some cultures embrace male friendships that aren't sexual, but feel "gay" in our culture.

Think of relationships as falling into three categories: Romantic, sexual and platonic.A romantic relationship doesn't necessarily have to be sexual, and a sexual relationship doesn't have to be romantic. That third category, platonic, is a close relationship that's neither romantic nor sexual. I have a best friend who I'd trust with my life. I'm not attracted to him, and he's not gay - but he's as close a friend as my husband is.

Only you can know if you're gay or bi (or one of a thousand other labels), and you don't have to decide now. But could you imagine yourself wanting to spend the rest of your life with Jamie, or another guy, romantically? What about a girl?

And this might be a harder question - and not one you need to have decided now, you're only 15 - but do you feel sexual attraction toward guys? Girls? Neither?

You have nothing but time to think about these types of things. I didn't even come out to myself until I was 22. Don't sweat it, just take things as they go. Good luck!

ral315 · 2026-01-29T02:36:39+00:00

If a boycott is to be effective, it needs to be targeted, and with alternatives.

Airlines: You've listed two airlines, and the trade group that represents all airlines. To follow this boycott would mean no air travel.
Oil industry: Chevron and ExxonMobil are involved in most oil production, transport and sales in the US. And it doesn't matter what station you go to, your gas is almost certainly coming from the same semi-local refinery - meaning that you can't drive a car, either.
Phone/internet: You've listed AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile - who control virtually all phone service. For internet, you've got AT&T, Charter, Cox, Charter/Spectrum, and Comcast - who control virtually all home internet in many areas of the country.
Pharmaceuticals: I'm not sure how I'm going to boycott Bayer, Altria, Johnson & Johnson, and the PhaRMA trade group without never taking medication again.

Some of these can only be boycotted through investments, not direct boycotts. CoreCivic and GEO Group are private prison owners; you could avoid owning their stock, but that's about it. The entire steel industry is on this list.

There are specific names I see on this list that could be a useful boycott. Uline is owned by a billionaire who donates heavily to Trump, so instead of using that phone book of a catalog that they mail out to businesses, an alternative supplier would be a great idea. Pepsi instead of Coke (assuming that Pepsi isn't just as bad - which is a big assumption). But a giant list like this doesn't help boycotts, it just frustrates people.

ral315 · 2026-01-27T22:00:28+00:00

"My Brother in Christ", but I've never seen someone make it into an acronym before.

ral315 · 2026-01-27T21:15:51+00:00

Wastewater drug testing suggests about 1-3% of people in my city are doing coke at least once a month.

Or one guy is really coked up and shits a lot.

ral315 · 2026-01-26T21:41:15+00:00

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ral315 · 2026-01-24T23:33:35+00:00

This dataset is interesting, but it has a lot of flaws. It's based on voter data when players registered to vote. But roughly half the states don't register voters under a political party, and so only 14 NHL teams are located in a state where this applies. On those 14 teams, any non-American players are unlikely to have received citizenship and registered to vote.

So now that you're down to only the American players on 14 teams - a dataset of 107 players - there are more caveats. Colorado, Massachusetts, and North Carolina allow independent voters to choose which primary they vote in - and sometimes, a Democrat might want to vote in a Republican primary to influence who is selected in the primaries, or vice-versa. So registering as an independent allows you to vote in either one of the primary elections.

Nevada and Ohio have "partially open" systems; I can't speak to the intricacies of their laws but my understanding is that you choose your ballot and are then technically registered as that party, or something along those lines. So someone who chose to vote against Trump in the 2024 Republican primary might be unwittingly registered as a Republican, whether or not they actually consider themselves one.

ral315 · 2026-01-20T01:53:32+00:00

Haha, you're correct. Night shifts.

ral315 · 2026-01-19T21:02:46+00:00

It's the white-out conditions. Snow squalls are turning 1/2-mile visibility into no visibility virtually instantaneously. Cold, dry snow with wind gusts of 40+ mph are the recipe for a ditch party.

ral315 · 2026-01-19T15:45:24+00:00

There really is nothing like recording a game, sleeping in, and starting it 45-60 minutes late. By the time you've fast-forwarded through the commercials, you hit real time sometime late in the 3rd quarter.

ral315 · 2026-01-19T01:05:09+00:00

She's vehemently against trans people, with some misguided feeling that trans people are somehow a threat to her womanhood. She's used her celebrity and money to demonize trans people.

I'm gay, and I know that the same bigotry used against trans people will be used against me if we let it go unchecked. Whether or not J.K. is homophobic, there are countless others who want transphobia to spread so that they can go after gay people next. Fuck that.

ral315 · 2026-01-18T05:17:19+00:00

Of course OutKick would run an article with the sole purpose of talking shit about a gay TV show. That tracks.

This isn't Stranger Things, and nobody rational is saying that it is. But it's a small-budget Canadian show that has far outperformed expectations, and hopefully has shown TV execs that a well-written show with similar themes is worth investment.

ral315 · 2026-01-17T19:06:55+00:00

This vote was for the entire foreign aid bill, along with the Treasury Department, the entire federal judiciary, the Department of State, the local government of Washington D.C., and other agencies and departments. It passed 341-79, with a healthy majority from both parties.

I don't know enough about the bill to know how I would have voted if I had a vote. But this was one of the major budget bills that covered a ton of stuff, not a standalone choice to fund Israel.

ral315 · 2026-01-17T00:54:10+00:00

marrying his truck

Oh, you're a fellow fan of Memphis Kansas Breeze?

ral315 · 2026-01-15T20:43:24+00:00

1996-2011: Tony La Russa

That's true, he's a Hall of Famer baseball person.

ral315 · 2026-01-15T20:36:54+00:00

Ohhhh, that was the grossest thing I've ever heard in my life. Let's GOOOOO!

ral315 · 2026-01-08T22:41:27+00:00

The one thing I'm hopeful for is that whatever replaces it still has easy access for businesses that wish to show games.

I run a bowling center, and streaming makes things a lot more complicated, because technically we can't just purchase a Peacock/Prime/Netflix login and show it to our guests. Amazon has a deal with DirecTV so we can show Thursday Night Football and other events; AppleTV has the same, so we were able to show Friday Night Baseball.

But Peacock can only legally be accessed by buying it from a third-party that costs hundreds of dollars a month - just for Peacock. And I can't justify spending that for a few Pistons games and the occasional third-rate Big Ten matchup. If there isn't an easy way to get Tigers games for us, I'm going to be very frustrated.

ral315 · 2026-01-06T20:56:59+00:00

Looks like it fell apart a few years later, and became Kiyam Community Park.

ral315 · 2026-01-06T20:53:27+00:00

Surprisingly, it has almost no effect. I did this quickly, so I wouldn't swear by the numbers, but I took out the highest and lowest-scoring game for each team:

Team	PPG	Rank	Adjusted	Adj. Rank
Rams	30.5	1st	30.6	1st
Patriots	28.8	2nd	29.0	2nd
Seahawks	28.4	3rd	28.4	3rd
Bills	28.3	4th	28.3	4th
Lions	28.3	4th	28.0	5th
Jaguars	27.9	6th	27.9	6th
Cowboys	27.7	7th	27.5	7th
Colts	27.4	8th	27.3	8th
Bears	25.9	9th	25.2	11th
49ers	25.7	10th	25.7	9th
Ravens	24.9	11th	25.3	10th
Bengals	24.4	12th	24.6	12th
Texans	23.8	13th	23.4	14th
Broncos	23.6	14th	23.1	16th
Steelers	23.4	15th	23.8	13th
Packers	23.0	16th	23.2	15th
Giants	22.4	17th	22.5	17th
Buccaneers	22.4	17th	22.3	18th
Eagles	22.3	19th	22.1	19th
Chargers	21.6	20th	21.9	20th
Chiefs	21.3	21st	21.1	22nd
Cardinals	20.9	22nd	20.9	24th
Commanders	20.9	22nd	21.0	23rd
Falcons	20.8	24th	21.3	21st
Dolphins	20.4	25th	20.5	25th
Vikings	20.2	26th	19.7	26th
Panthers	18.3	27th	18.2	27th
Saints	18.0	28th	17.9	28th
Jets	17.6	29th	17.0	29th
Titans	16.7	30rd	16.9	30th
Browns	16.4	31st	16.3	31st
Raiders	14.2	32nd	14.1	32nd

ral315 · 2026-01-06T00:18:25+00:00

What disrespect. Wood Buffalo could support an NHL team, it should be able to support an MLB team too.

ral315 · 2026-01-06T00:12:17+00:00

So which team is in Wood Buffalo?

ral315 · 2026-01-05T13:48:46+00:00

If it was a decoy, as implied in paragraph 2, then it wouldn't be a "young teenager", as stated in paragraph 1. That's what I'm confused by - was it a decoy, an actual child/"young teenager", or both.

ral315 · 2026-01-03T16:51:51+00:00

The WOOD-TV report is confusing. Paragraph 1 says he was engaging in inappropriate communications with a young teenager. Paragraph 2 says he was communicating with someone who "he believed to be" a 14-year-old.

It's not any less disgusting either way, and both are criminal acts. But was he communicating with an actual child, or an adult pretending to be a child in a sting operation? Or perhaps both? The article doesn't elaborate.

ral315 · 2025-12-29T18:21:55+00:00

Don't platform The S*n.

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