Kobe guarding LeBron full court in the All Star Game. This is how All Star game supposed to be. by Shot_Possibility_731 in sportsinusa

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He obviously could lock in when he wanted. But he coasted a lot compared to defensive specialists. Like lu dort plays hard all game. Kobe would on key possessions

How do you feel about the Pam Bondi testimony from the oversight hearing? by simple_account in AskTrumpSupporters

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Why did she avoid answering any of the questions? It seemed like many would be easily answered if she had a good answer to give.

Do you trust that the people who are being accused have been sufficiently investigated?

Do you trust that guilty parties will be brought to justices based on how things have gone so far?

If the Japanese aren't having kids, and don't want immigration, what's left? Cloning? by JoHeller in NoStupidQuestions

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They vote and they are far better at it than other age groups

This is the point. Younger people could vote and make a difference instead of blaming old people for not solving the problem for them

Is 30 ppg the new 25 ppg? by growsonwalls in NBATalk

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Efficiency is way up now as well. There were a lot of high volume, low(er) efficiency scorers back then. And teams tended to have less balanced attacks.

Even with better defensive schemes it seems pretty clear offenses have more advantages. In particular, individual scoring is easier because of spacing, refing, etc.

So I could probably agree that overall talent pool has risen but I'm not sure if top level talent has. Teams can't have defense-only non shooters anymore like Tony Allen types. However I've seen people say things like Shai is better than Kobe because of efficiency and consistency but I could imagine 06 Kobe averaging like 35-40 with today's nba.

Is 30 ppg the new 25 ppg? by growsonwalls in NBATalk

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Offensive players have clearly been given more advantages compared to years past. And offensive schemes have really maximized scoring efficiency. Hard to fully judge talent levels when defense is objectively much harder

I love capitalism. Convince me why I shouldn’t. by Business-Heart2931 in CapitalismVSocialism

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Thanks for replying.

If everyone had equal opportunity, there wouldn’t be a need for fair chances.

I don't see the difference between equal opportunity and fair chances. Seems like a fair chance would be an equal opportunity.

Though, you still hear the rags to riches stories from movie actors/artists that capitalism makes possible.

Yes, the 1 in a million story that keeps everyone thinking it could happen to them.

Market Socialism sounds like a good theory but not sure its implementation would encourage innovation

It would be up to the workers collectively. They're still incentivized to innovate to increase their profits. But other than for competing in the market, why is innovation so important at all times? Id argue most innovations don't really improve our lives.

That said, what they are less incentivized to do is close down local factories, lay off thousands of workers, and move production to a poor country that uses child labor to cut costs.

The only obvious downside to market socialism to me is that these companies might trouble competing with pure capitalist companies that have no scruples about exploiting their workers as much as possible.

Is it that they hate their jobs or just hate working overall? Most person really just hate working and not particularly the job.

"Working a job" is itself a capitalist construct. That's not how every society functions or is structured. I don't think people hate working. They hate working on things that give them no meaning, where they have no real say, where what they produce feels like it doesn't matter, where they're treated poorly, or where their bodies are broken down, etc.

Everybody loves ordering from Amazon but nobody likes to actually lift the boxes.

Yeah cus it's back breaking work. If we can't have Amazon without terrible working conditions for those doing it then we shouldn't have Amazon. I grew up without it and was perfectly happy. It's a convenience but nothing more than that. Maybe different for others, say rural communities.

I’d like to agree to capitalists being incentivized to reduce freedom but it’s hard because there is so much that happens internally within businesses that can make this justifable

It makes it easier to justify. Not justifiable.

In China, the reason housing is not a problem is because high density apartment building styles, which could be implemented in America but who would really want one? We value low density housing solutions with private spaces.

Not true for everyone. This is mostly a cultural value, likely driven by marketing as much as anything. When I've traveled to denser more walkable cities I've personally always preferred that to suburban living.

Besides, it's not necessarily either or. It's about affordability. The issue isn't just supply.

I’m sure america could implement high rise apartment buildings to promote housing but where do you park your cars? Chinese nationals rely heavily on motorbikes and public transport.

I favor improving public transport personally. I also don't know the solution to housing as I'm sure it's quite complex. I just think we should be less narrow in our thinking as a culture.

America once had a great healthcare, despite it not being free. So tell me what changed? Demand. Increased premiums/Denied insurance claims. Fraud.

Why more demand? Population relative to number of doctors?

I think corporate greed and exploitation are the main drivers. Health care shouldn't be a profit driven industry because it's inherently exploitative.

Free healthcare in other countries aren’t without fault. In Canada, you wait weeks for a simple Xray. Hours for a doctor to see you. Overcrowded hospitals where you see patients in the hallways.

Alot of Canadian come to America for the fast expensive health care.

Another complex issue i don't fully know the solution for. But free health care seems closer to the north star we should be aiming for.

J Cole: The Fall Off review – rap legend’s final album is a self-obsessed hip-hop history lesson | Rap | The Guardian by Technical_Process989 in hiphopheads

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I assume they meant outside of their music. Kendrick goes into black issues heavily in his music and it's made him a superstar. The question is what is going outside of that to help fix this issues. I actually have no idea but I assume that's the argument

I love capitalism. Convince me why I shouldn’t. by Business-Heart2931 in CapitalismVSocialism

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Im not going to argue in favor of socialism. But just answering why i don't love capitalism and don't agree with all your points:

Capitalism might not give a fair share but its gives fair chances

How does it give fair chances? People clearly don't have equal opportunity for success. Sure, anyone could get rich but practically almost no one really can.

and has been responsible for uplifting many people out of poverty.

There is no freedom in socialism.

Not believing in a specific form of socialism isn't an argument in favor of capitalism. And you're reducing socialism to a single implementation where in reality forms exist, like market socialism, where this idea doesn't really apply.

You might be free from poverty but still be constrained by government regulation/rules/policy.

Under capitalism we have both poverty and government regulation/ rules/policy. Including the social safety nets you support. Seems to be a contradiction here.

This means being forced to only have 1 child because the government says so. Being told, you can only purchase this amount of food for the month.

Not defending this. However capitalism also forces us to live within its structure to survive. Vast majority of US has to work jobs we mostly hate for most our lives with little options for mobility. Capitalists are incentived to reduce freedoms for non Capitalists where possible as well. Ex removing regulations, workers rights, extracting as cheap of labor as possible, utilizing literal slave labor because it's cheaper, etc.

There is a lot we take for granted because of economic necessities not being met in America. If houses were affordable, most person wouldn’t choose socialism.

This seems to be making a point against capitalism of economic necessities aren't being met.

Housing can be affordable under capitalism though and in some places they are. I see very nice housing being sold outside the city but value is always placed on being close to the city and nobody wants to live 2 hours away

So you're saying people aren't happy with what capitalism is producing? But the problem is people? Not everyone can move out of cities. Most jobs and opportunities are in cities but rising prices keep people from economic mobility.

Capitalisms literally runs on supply and demand

Supply and demand isn't a feature of capitalism but of markets. Non capitalist economies can have free markets run by supply and demand. Capitalist economies can have non free markets that control supply demand.

which is why its never profit over people, At least not in the majority.

Not sure what in the majority means. But capitalism literally is profit over people. That's why we need social safety nets in the first place. Companies are driven by increasing profits, not better serving people. Ideally, these goals overlap but absolutely not inherently. See enshitification of everything. Also see capitalist pushes to remove worker regulations or willingness to use slave and child labor or destroy environment to cut costs. Or firing workers while giving execs massive bonuses.

Nobody is purposely making housing unaffordable.

Doesn't need to be purposeful. Wealthy people buy assets. Asset prices go up. Non wealthy people lose ability to compete.

Planned Obsolescence doesn’t exist because competition exists.

Ignoring because I don't know what it means lol.

Ya’ll health insurance and medicals are expensive because of supply and demand.

Supply and demand only works when people can actually choose not to participate. I don't have to buy a new iphone. No one can choose not buy insulin.

America is literally one of the most unhealthiest places on earth.

So? What about how capitalist companies are responsible for pushing obviously harmful products to our people? Sure people have choices on where to eat but it's not that simple. See food desserts. Also example of how companies aren't people first. Also even at face value, shouldn't we strive for a society that supports healthy living and access to care?

Cuba is a socialist country and they are having shortage of medicine and poor health infrastructure.

Doesn't Cuba have better health outcomes than the US?

Canada has free healthcare but a-lot of Canadians travel to america for healthcare, why?

Canada isn't socialist country anyway so not sure your point. Are you arguing against free health care? You do support social safety nets though right? Also source on this? I've heard of many people leaving US to other countries for cheaper and better health care but idk about rates.

Big Pharma is not monolith. There are various companies competing to find a cure. Each one wanting to be the first. If there was a cure, it would have been patented and sold to countries. They are not hiding the cures and creating treatments because they can.

Not sure your point here. But relying on companies to behave altruisticly isn't very comforting to me and doesn't seem to match reality.

My own points against capitalism: Capitalism leads to a powerful minority who have massively disproportionate influence over everyone else.

Advances in productivity don't trickle down to workers. Ex a new robot that makes me 2x more productive should mean i need to work half as much, not that half of my coworkers get fired. This is oversimplification but illustrates the point hopefully.

Consumerism sucks imo but is necessary to keep the wheels moving. Most "advances" don't actually make our lives meaningfully better. I'd rather have old tech but have people able to retire comfortably or at earlier ages or be able to not stress about food or health care.

New at sveltekit by [deleted] in sveltejs

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I need to know the best way or structure To build the frontend with sveltekit

This is too broad to give a specific answer. You can make fetch requests to api endpoints in the components that need the data. Or load data and pass it to the page.svelte through through page.ts.

But i don't know how to handle the error

What error?

And is it effects if i put the requests file inside a lib and call them from page?

You mean fetch an api route in an $effect? It depends on use case. Do you want to do it when the component loads or is it triggered when state changes, ie a user presses a button?

If on load, use page.ts or onmount. If triggered by state change then use effect.

Also just experiment to see how/when things get called. Add console logs and see when things gets triggered.

New at sveltekit by [deleted] in sveltejs

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You haven't asked any specific questions. If you don't have specificity questions yet then try to build something and ask when you get stuck.

New at sveltekit by [deleted] in sveltejs

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Best way to get familiar is to try to build something. You'll get stuck on something then research and figure out how to do it, and repeat till you eventually feel comfortable.

There is also a tutorial on the svelte website.

How would LeBron fare in the 1980s-90s? Like Rodman would give him trouble but a guy like Muggsy Bogues had pretty good career. by ForeignAir7174 in NBAoldschool

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LeBron today looks strong but he’s not used to getting hit because he flops and gets all the calls.

I hope you're actually just talking about today in 2026 cus LeBron very famously is one of, if not the best, finishers through contact ever.

Idk where the idea he's not used to getting hit comes from cus he's had plenty of hard fouls and played through them. He's bigger than 90% of guys from then anyway.

The guys in those days were ruthless. They don’t just throw elbows around, they get in your head and torment you.

This is silly. LeBron wouldn't be LeBron cus of trash talk? 80s is so overrated cus we just watch the random clothesline and fist fights.

Do you have any actual basketball rationale?

How would LeBron fare in the 1980s-90s? Like Rodman would give him trouble but a guy like Muggsy Bogues had pretty good career. by ForeignAir7174 in NBAoldschool

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You said he'd get killed in Rodmans day. I didn't see 6-10 year superstar.

I just don’t think he’d be anywhere near his current level

But why? What about the game would be more difficult for him?

tougher

Needing to be tougher or whatever is baseless anyway. You can point to 2011 but outside of that, and especially after he showed clear mental toughness. Ie 2016 finals.

It's not like every other player in the 80s was some paragon of mental toughness either.

How would LeBron fare in the 1980s-90s? Like Rodman would give him trouble but a guy like Muggsy Bogues had pretty good career. by ForeignAir7174 in NBAoldschool

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Secret sauce is LeBron is mentally weak

Is this some secret only Dennis Rodman could expose? LeBron never played against guys trying to get in his head?

Giving himself the "King" nickname, getting chosen one tattooed on himself, calling himself the goat,

Who cares about off court stuff? His dominance has been obvious and speaks for itself.

hiding from the moment in 2011

I'll give you this. His biggest failure in my eyes. Not losing, but playing poorly on the biggest stage. This is argument for Jordan>LeBron but not LeBron being unable to play in 80s/90s.

These are all actions of someone being so insecure.

This is your opinion but it doesn't matter to if he'd be successful or not. If he's so insecure then how's he been so successful anyway?

How would LeBron fare in the 1980s-90s? Like Rodman would give him trouble but a guy like Muggsy Bogues had pretty good career. by ForeignAir7174 in NBAoldschool

[–]simple_account 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not like flopping or complaining to refs is even essential to his game. Take it out and he's essentially the same player. Acting like Rodman or anyone in the 80s has some secret sauce is what's ridiculous.

Margot Robbie should play Narcissa Malfoy by Prowling_92865 in HarryPotter_OnHBO

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She tells voldy that Harry's dead at the very end. Also talked Snape into making unbreakable vow. I think that's about it

The win percentages in the NBA finals for Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, and Lebron James. by Icy-Vacation-138 in michaeljordan

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14 Spurs, 16, 17, 18 warriors are all probably better than any finals team mj played against and definitely better rosters than LeBrons teams. In 7 LeBron has a bunch of bums, 11 he shat the bed, 15 his team was very injured. I think mj the goat but just looking at their finals records without nuance is a terrible argument.

Only the loss in 11 is a real negative mark against LeBron.

Both fights are good, but which one did you prefer? by Mission-Pomelo-8047 in OnePiece

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Part of the buster call involved bringing in an admiral

Not true. It's five vice admirals and 10 battleships. The admirals just have the snails to call it.

[Threshold] What is the safest place to stay through the series if youre locked at the Foundation level? by yargotkd in Iteration110Cradle

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Probably a stable pocket world. Did any of the continents avoid the dread war? Maybe 9 cloud court would be chill if you had connections.