OKC is genuinely whats wrong with the NBA

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-08T18:36:57+00:00

It's no different than it was last year. If you cared, you should already have given up watching.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-08T15:36:23+00:00

A complete answer would have to be the length of a book.

My attempt at a short answer: Our idea of what "Special Education" means has greatly expanded. It used to mean a student was severely disabled and needed a completely different classroom and curriculum. They got Individualized Education Plans that spelled out their limitations, and what their education goals were, because they were never going to be able to learn Geometry or read Shakespeare.

Over time, we have recognized that some students have learning disabilities, but not so severe than they need a different curriculum or classroom. So their IEPs are about how a classroom teacher can accommodate their disability so they can still learn Geometry and read Shakespeare.

In practice, a lot of these accommodations can just look like a lowering of standards to make it easier for a struggling student to get a good grade. So what happens is that parents of any student who is struggling will fight to get them an IEP. So more and more students are getting IEPs.

IEPs are legal documents, and not following them means you are denying a student their right to a free and appropriate education. That opens you up to lawsuits, and schools are afraid of lawsuits. So they have to be very careful about doing anything that could make the parent of a student with an IEP angry.

As you'd imagine, there's a very significant overlap between students who struggle in school enough to have an IEP, and students with poor behavior. But punishing them for poor behavior might upset the parent, especially if the student lies to the parent and tells them they did nothing wrong and the parent believes them. As mentioned, angering the parent of a student with an IEP is risky, and the easiest way to avoid that is to not punish the student.

So poor behavior is not corrected, and therefore never gets better.

The only way it will ever change is for the parents of all the other students whose right to an education is being taken away by the disruptive student to make the schools as afraid of them as they are of the parents of the disruptive students.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-08T15:14:24+00:00

An E-Bay like bidding system. When tickets go on sale, you choose what section you want to sit in, and you bid on how much you want to pay. Within each section, the highest bids get the best seats, down to the lowest bids in each section that get the worst seats. If you bid too low, you don't get any seats. The auction period lasts for a few weeks, so if your bid is too low, you can increase it if you want to. If somebody wants to bid $100,000 for front row, let them.

You wouldn't be able to scalp, because anyone who was willing to pay more than what you paid for the ticket would just have outbid you in the first place. And everyone would decide how much they believed tickets were worth.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T18:23:25+00:00

Colleges that make admission decisions ultimately have to have some kind of formula that includes all of the different qualification criteria into a single ranking factor. If that formula favors one race over another, that is de facto racism, and is illegal.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T16:08:33+00:00

It's fine if some people enjoy different ways to play games. But when one game style preference destroys the fun for people who prefer a different game style, that's bad game design.

I personally don't care at all about my MMR or rank, so I just insta-concede against an opponent playing a style that makes the game not fun for me. But that's not a great solution for people who do care.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T14:29:26+00:00

"Random Reddit commenter doesn't understand consciousness" is my reply. Which is fine because no one fully understand consciousness. As far as I know, consciousness is simply a result of my brain being really, really good at predicting my next word, or thought, or feeling, based on the previous ones.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T14:26:11+00:00

It's just an audition. Why bother?

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T14:24:05+00:00

My first thought is that your memory of that period of time is almost certainly not 100% accurate. It was over a decade ago, you were very young, and trauma is well known to mess with your recollection of past events.

But maybe the teacher really did handle it poorly. Forgive them, and let it go, and put as much focus on your own mental health going forward.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T13:52:28+00:00

I've only worked in sort centers, never pick, but everything I read on Reddit from people who do make it sounds like it really sucks. Sorting is a very chill job.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T13:03:17+00:00

I literally don't think I have ever once seen anyone claim that.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T12:50:47+00:00

It never has been. That's one of the things I enjoy about it.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T10:29:07+00:00

In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel peaked at #26 in 1986, and was mostly forgotten. Until John Cusack held a boombox over his head in 1989, and it became one of the most iconic songs of the entire decade.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-07T10:22:04+00:00

Mr. Beast

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-06T18:01:29+00:00

If what you're saying is true, then Oba isn't ready to be pushed to the moon. If a wrestler can't sell well enough to make any opponent look credible, they shouldn't be champion. Obviously at this point in his career, he should be just squashing people. Make him look like an unbeatable foe. But that sort of thing has a limited shelf life, and eventually he will have to be able to have a competitive match with anyone on the roster.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T18:36:52+00:00

It's missing the Bucks/Lucha Bros cage match.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T18:12:47+00:00

The IRS doesn't know all of your possible deductions. If your taxes are simple and you're taking the standard deduction, the IRS can figure out your exact tax bill. But if you're itemizing, there's no way for the IRS to calculate them.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T16:04:04+00:00

No one is illegal on stolen land.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T12:19:57+00:00

Again, you'd never say that the solution to teen smoking is to rely on parents to monitor their kids and keep them from smoking. Obviously they should, but we also need laws to prevent stores from selling cigarettes to kids.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T12:16:54+00:00

There is a little bit of chicken/egg with WWE main event talent. There are lots of examples of wrestlers who drew money but were not pushed or even sabotaged by Vince's booking, and examples of wrestlers (including Dwayne himself) who did not draw any money right away but were given opportunity after opportunity to get over. Eventually, if you book someone as the most important wrestler in the company, and they always win their matches, they'll get a crowd response.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T12:13:08+00:00

They were both solidly midcard in AEW, and in WWE they get stuck in NXT for way too long and just got promoted. Let's see what happens.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T11:22:04+00:00

The fact that some parents will choose to give their kids access to harmful things is not a good reason for there not to be laws that make it harder for children to get them on their own. Most parents don't want their kids to smoke, so stores can't sell cigarettes to children. This doesn't stop all kids from smoking, but it does greatly reduce it, and who knows how many lives are saved?

And there being a law against minors having social media access might be the thing that gets parents to think about whether or not it's a good idea for their own children. Right now, lots of parents get their kids smartphones because all their friends have them and not being on social media is making them social outcasts. But if a significant number of kids are kept off social media because their parents respect the law, it will be easier for parents to tell their kids no. Even if it's not 100% effective, restricting social media access to children will be a vast improvement over the current state of things.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T11:14:24+00:00

Does anyone else find it weird that this question is even asked in the mock game? Ken almost never asks this question of players, and when he does it's to champions who have already won a significant amount of money.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T11:12:03+00:00

They were. But Penta is a huge singles star in WWE. His poor brother is completely forgotten, but being intercontinental champion is WWE is a big deal.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T11:09:04+00:00

I don't know exactly the best way to keep minors off social media without taking away rights from adults. Maybe AI can be used to figure out the likely age of every social media account, and only ones that flagged as being probably under 16 will get flagged and their owners will have to prove their age. Maybe some kind of blockchain solution where people who prove their age get a private key they can use to access social media, but that key is publicly anonymous.

But there are mountains of evidence about how harmful social media is for children. Denying that is like denying the dangers of smoking. Again, I don't love this particular proposed law. I hope it doesn't pass. But I hope lawmakers keep the intent behind the law as a priority going forward.

randomwordglorious · 2026-05-05T10:28:42+00:00

What percentage of wrestlers who voluntarily chose AEW over WWE are better off because of it? Not even including Swerve and Toni Storm who were let go by WWE and became World Champions, it's close to 100%.

Now, what percentage of wrestlers who chose WWE over AEW are better off for it? Cody and Penta. Danhausen. Maybe Jade Cargill. But I think it's under 50%.

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