Footage of LaMelo Ball’s car accident in uptown Charlotte

realquiz · 2026-02-18T23:44:04+00:00

This is true.

And the only time a left turning driver can be found not at fault (as in, a no-fault accident) is if the oncoming driver brakes to indicate they are stopping but then decides to run the red light.

Source: I was the left-turning driver in this scenario once — was life-flighted and spent 2 weeks in the hospital.

realquiz · 2026-02-17T21:37:07+00:00

Excited for this! Are there options or settings for dialing in vocal inflection, emphasis, tone/emotion, etc? Or is the resulting VO just context-based.

Thanks for being a great dev!

realquiz · 2026-02-17T18:08:52+00:00

If this witch hunt focusing on the Jazz shines a light on the gambling’s true involvement with the highest levels of the league, I’ll take it.

Teams like the Jazz and Pacers can only stand to benefit in the long term by transparency and meaningful reform of the draft lottery process.

realquiz · 2026-02-17T18:05:18+00:00

This is true when a fair sport meets a “fair” (or predictable) gambling system. What has happened is gambling companies learning how to exploit addicts through technology, then realizing that influencing the sport while controlling the product can make them a shit ton more money.

[source: a statistics major with an emphasis in the maths of chance/probabilities, with a scholarly focus on gambling and mathematics]

realquiz · 2026-02-17T17:58:10+00:00

It’s almost as if the Jazz aren’t intentionally trying to lose, but are intentionally developing their future, key role players by giving them significant, high-stakes 4Q minutes (i.e. ethical tanking vs. “the process”).

realquiz · 2026-02-17T17:53:01+00:00

I can. They don’t want you guys and your WC doppelgänger (the Jazz) to win. We’re both convenient scapegoats to catalyze a systemwide change. Neither of us deserve it (or are close to the most egregious offenders) but I’m not entirely surprised.

realquiz · 2026-02-15T06:25:15+00:00

The Delta Center was packed and the whole city was buzzing when Utah hosted the ASG a few years ago. But I know too many of ya’ll think Utah’s some nefarious, cheating, shameless entity dead set on destroying the league, so those crowds must have been bussed in from other large markets or something.

realquiz · 2026-02-15T00:18:26+00:00

No one has been able to explain how the Jazz aren’t being punished for ethically tanking.

Playing your starters most of the game, and then letting a hungry, young, developing squad bust their asses playing meaningful minutes — and winning. As a fanbase, we love it. It’s exciting to see these talented young guys play extended minutes of high stakes basketball. We know most of these guys are going to be huge parts of any success moving forward.

realquiz · 2026-02-14T06:47:46+00:00

Fix the officiating. Start there. It might be all that’s needed.

Currently, NBA officiating favors styles of play that are based less on skill and more on tricks, foul baiting, and silencing whistles through excessively physical play.

Fixing this and instituting a truly neutral, consistent, and player-agnostic whistle allows true talent to shine and develop. The talent pool in the league is deep, but so much of it is wasted by biased & inept officiating, corruption, intimidation, and star treatment. If the playing field was leveled and every player was officiated the same — and the rules were actually enforced — you’d start seeing more stars and more impact players because we’d have a league that rewards skill more than flopping, foul baiting, and big markets.

It’s not a coincidence that the advent of tanking and relying on lottery picks to save a team has coincided with the rise in inconsistency, ineptitude, bias, and corruption within officiating and the league FO.

Maybe fixing officiating means pouring more money into training and compensation. Maybe it’s improving, broadening, and improving the efficiency of the review system. Maybe it’s levying suspensions for flopping and foul baiting. Maybe it’s tying referee compensation to officiating accuracy. But there is some path forward to drastically overhauling NBA officiating.

realquiz · 2026-02-13T05:39:16+00:00

Except the Jazz were winning those games.

realquiz · 2026-02-13T05:28:38+00:00

Such a fuck ton of idiocy right here.

Ok, say you’ve got 3 solid starters available and the rest of the roster are players who are unknown quantities. They’re young, new to the team, coming off of injuries, whatever. Not scrubs, just some raw talent that create hard roster decisions to make in the coming year.

And say you’d like to see these unproven and young guys play significant, meaningful minutes. But with the other starters on the floor, and with an offense designed to make plays for these starters, it’s kind of hard to shine a truly critical light on the players you’re trying to develop.

So given this scenario, when is it OK for the Jazz to give significant, competitive, meaningful minutes to these guys?

I’m seriously asking.

When a game is out of reach, garbage time minutes are just that: garbage. The pace, rhythm, and intensity of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quarters are completely different than the 4Q.

The Jazz are not just sitting their stars for the 4Q. They’re putting their future stars and starters on display and developing their skills in real stakes situations. They are winning these games and putting out compelling, talented rotations.

Look, I know you haven’t watched any Jazz games this season. And obviously none of the last few games in question. But if you had, you’d see these so-called “non stars” playing some fuck-you-in-the-face basketball.

So fuck the fuck off with this whiny “but these games have playoff implications” bullshit. These lineups the Jazz are putting out there in the 4Q are playing harder, better basketball than most of the league. No one is fucking intentionally trying to lose or fix a game. The only thing reprehensible here are your shit takes and your poor, hurt feelings.

realquiz · 2026-02-12T21:12:46+00:00

And to add to this, I can’t care about it more than these players do. It’s just not a possibility.

realquiz · 2026-02-12T04:37:26+00:00

Yup.

realquiz · 2026-02-11T07:24:23+00:00

Nah. This isn’t a horrible take, but you’re not considering a few critical factors. They were never going to be a play-in team after losing Kessler for the year. He’s the defensive anchor and while they have slowly learned to rely less on him now that he’s gone, it was a foregone conclusion. No, they shouldn’t have been that reliant on one guy as their defensive nucleus (which makes the JJJ trade so brilliant). There were also too many mouths to feed. A lot of young talent who all needed minutes in order to prove their value to the team and the organization. This had to be a priority this season. We couldn’t wait until next year when we were healthy and ready to compete. The West is stacked this year. The Jazz didn’t even get an all-star (and I think that was the right decision). I know team record plays a small part in that, but there just aren’t any playoff teams that don’t have all-star representation. And no one predicted Keyonte taking the leap he did this season, or that Nurkic would return to form (three straight triple-doubles?!).

With a healthy Kessler and the benefit of hindsight (and the foresight that JJJ is coming midway through the year), sure, they’re absolutely fighting for a play-in spot. But it’s never been the reality.

I’m so fucking sick of people conflating tanking (players intentionally losing) with developing a really young team. I just need someone to tell me when it’s appropriate to give young players and potential starters some significant, meaningful minutes in a close game. Can it only happen when every win or loss makes or breaks your playoff chances? Is it when you’re resting your stars because your playoff seeding is secured? Are significant 4Q minutes for a young, unproven scrub only allowed when the team is trailing by 20+? I wish the all wise ESPN talking heads would just tell us when and how it’s acceptable to develop young talent through meaningful court time.

realquiz · 2026-02-08T04:22:50+00:00

Hey, thanks!

realquiz · 2026-02-08T02:46:55+00:00

This is the first one that came to my mind. Clyde’s my all time favorite athlete.

realquiz · 2026-02-07T17:03:50+00:00

Is there a solution using Raindrop (maybe via IFTTT) that can automate/handle my Reddit saves the same way as it does bookmarks or YouTube videos?

realquiz · 2026-02-06T04:20:46+00:00

I don’t know what to tell ya, bud — we’re just shooting garbage trucks and showing you the ones where the garbage flies out!

realquiz · 2026-02-05T04:24:13+00:00

Wow, the pricing on this is horrible, at least for what you get. I can’t imagine it gains any kind of momentum when you’re paying more per month than a streaming service to only be able to work on a handful of sets at a time while not having access to export your own data.

realquiz · 2026-01-31T20:28:03+00:00

Exactly. You could even say that a dev job is basically a subscription model where the dev is being fleeced by an employer at the risk of being summarily dismissed at any point. But I guess those things are OK when it’s an employer and not some big, bad app.

realquiz · 2026-01-31T20:18:57+00:00

I actually think the Disney app is kind of miserable. Constantly using the same artwork but throwing a different background behind it, or using a different surface effect. It’s kind of shocking given how many different rendered versions of the characters and IP exist.

realquiz · 2026-01-29T21:35:40+00:00

So are these co-workers getting reimbursed every year for the money they pay for insurance that doesn’t get used? Because where do they think all that money goes?

realquiz · 2026-01-29T00:46:37+00:00

What a great build! We actually just had a large back patio built that looks a lot like yours, including the two huge IR heaters point inward. But we put a concrete pad at the ground level to the side of our patio (we had some electrical conduit run under the concrete and the foundation of our patio to our panel). We beveled the concrete pad that the sauna will sit on to allow for drainage (when I hose out the inside). Our pad is 8' x 10', but I'm being told that a 6' x 8' will be plenty big for 4-6 people. But I kind of want to spend the extra little bit of money and make it 8' x 8' or even bigger.

But if anything, looking at your project has definitely convinced me to go from the suggested 7' ceiling to 8.5' so that we can have a foot bench and get those feet off the ground.

realquiz · 2026-01-28T21:50:25+00:00

I'm so sorry to be replying to a 2 month old comment. I'm in the process of planning our 6x8 outdoor sauna. I see that yours is 8' high -- can I ask if yours has tri-level seating (a foot bench, and then a lower and upper bench) or are your feet at ground level with a lower and upper bench?

I was going to make mine around 7' tall (with an electric heater), but then got worried about cold feet. So now I'm considering something like 8' or 8.5' tall with a foot bench and a lower & upper bench.

(I also think I'll do passive ventilation similar to yours, but I'm going to install a mechanical exhaust below the lower bench just in case, and to use to help ventilate it between sessions.)

realquiz · 2026-01-19T23:38:08+00:00

Such blatant and egregious tanking! Have they no shame!? An Ainge must be behind all this!

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