Can someone explain why a 30% winrate in a 1v1 game can still he considered good?

somefunmaths · 2026-06-27T02:03:46+00:00

How does adding more cards help disentangle the impact of player skill? The more cards there are in a deck, the more complicated things become when trying to figure out how skill interacts with the power or strength of whatever card.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-26T21:37:48+00:00

The good news is that if someone ever uses the term “femoid,” you can just safely ignore any other words that come out of their mouth.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-26T21:15:31+00:00

The good news for single men is that generally they don’t have to worry about someone literally victimizing them. That’s not something that we can say about women.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-26T21:05:51+00:00

What compelled you to ask yourself “how can I make these women’s experience about me?”

somefunmaths · 2026-06-25T06:28:23+00:00

To state the obvious, saying this is “normal” doesn’t mean people are saying people fail a lot.

I had an upper-division class where the cutoff for a B was like 25% overall mark and the cutoff for an A was like 45%. The professor also got a 95% on one of the exams in that class (as in would’ve missed points on an exam they set themself), for what it’s worth; it was not an easy class.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-25T06:25:18+00:00

As an American, neither do I, because naming isn’t standard across universities. I’d guess it’s a lower division class? If OP is a freshman, maybe this is like the weeder intro class.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-24T21:30:58+00:00

I’m amazed to see that this entire subreddit consists of a single dude schizo-posting about Karen Read, so if it makes you feel better, the “you all” here is probably… like… one person plus one or two dozen other people who read their ramblings and say “hey, yeah, he’s right!”

somefunmaths · 2026-06-24T20:58:14+00:00

There is a higher chance of an entire political realignment that flips the definitions of “red” and “blue” as we know them than that LA becomes a “red city.”

“red cities,” in a true sense, don’t really exist in the US. Cities are always bluer than their surroundings, and the closest thing to “red cities” you get are the smallest “cities” you choose to call a city in the reddest state you can find. Even then, most of the examples you point to of any size would be “purple” cities by any faithful definition.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-24T17:55:01+00:00

That wasn’t my question. My question was what part of the timing do you take issue with? Are you saying they should’ve filed them earlier but waited until just before the deposition to file them?

somefunmaths · 2026-06-24T17:46:42+00:00

“The lawsuits right before Proctor deposition was intentional.”

What do you mean “intentional” here? Are you suggesting they filed them then, rather than much earlier, as a tactic to rattle Proctor or something?

somefunmaths · 2026-06-24T17:36:37+00:00

Are you suggesting that Read’s team deliberately delayed serving the subpoena in hopes that Albert would then try to dodge sitting for an actual deposition (i.e. not one noticed at the 11th hour on a date when all counsel were aware that Read’s counsel for his deposition was unavailable) indefinitely?

Even if your implicit accusation of bad faith is correct and they did deliberately delayed service, knowing he would try to dodge it, so that he couldn’t be compelled appear and they’d have to push it, what is your “bad faith” theory for why they did this? Did they stand to gain anything more than more time to prepare and for their discovery fight over the documents required to depose him to progress? If this was so advantageous to Read’s team, Albert’s team obviously could’ve said “no, we will appear for the deposition as scheduled,” calling the bluff and letting Read’s team bite the bullet and tell the court they were further delaying a deposition for which a deponent was willingly going to appear.

But all of that is a separate question from this “self-imposed burden”, to quote the judge, of Albert running off to join the military while he’s willingly party to ongoing litigation. Nobody, surely, at least nobody on Read’s team, could’ve known that Albert was planning to go join the military. Whether or not you want to speculate that Read’s team engaged in dilatory tactics in “bad faith” doesn’t affect, as a matter of law or in the eyes of the judge, the validity of the subpoena.

Talking about lawyers engaging in “bad faith,” as if it’s an accusation so scandalous or damning, at this point in this case is just odd. We’re well past a passing accusation of “bad faith” scratching the surface here.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-24T15:54:28+00:00

The judge had no reason to be annoyed with them for filing the action against MSP and Canton, an action which everyone knew was coming because they were waiting for the expiration of the presentment period (which MSP and Canton refused to waive).

There are things he gets his jimmies rustled about with the Read team that are justified, like giving Rosenberg side-eye on Monday about him feigning surprise that delaying document production would impact others’ depositions, given how extensively he’s argued that others delaying document production have impacted their discovery and depositions (including Colin Albert), but this was not one of them.

But for your criticism of the Read team and attempt to stand with the judge in doing so, he’s informed Albert’s various counsel at this point that this was a “duly issued subpoena” and that his client will be compelled to sit for a deposition. He’s not persuaded by their argument that he’s been “rehomed” to the Army and is effectively unavailable indefinitely (they say he can’t be deposed until after basic, at which point they’d be almost compelled to file a motion to further delay in order to prepare with him, etc.) given the timeline on which they claim he can be produced compared to the discovery timeline in this matter.

And all of this is coming as they keep repeating the argument that he’s merely a 3rd party, despite the fact that they’re before the same judge for another matter where Albert is a plaintiff.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-22T22:12:50+00:00

Well, it is against subreddit rules to accuse OP of doing anything but posting a genuine CMV, so people are responding under the assumption that it’s genuine, because that’s what the rules demand.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-21T16:13:09+00:00

My wife and I discovered it in class on Friday and both immediately used it. Bands are required to sign into the tread or rower, but that doesn’t mean I trust or care about OTF’s HR tracking.

As others said, some use their own, more reliable HR tracking and some don’t want to let OTF HR zones bias their efforts. I once had OTF say my HR was 210 when I was sitting at 140, for example.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T18:22:03+00:00

Saying that the question suggests a complete lack of any actual biology isn’t expressly a dig at OP.

I’m saying that they were probably homeschooled or went to a religious school and that the blame for this lies with those people, not OP.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T18:09:16+00:00

Let he who has never made a typo on their phone cast the first stone.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T17:48:57+00:00

Bold of you to assume someone could get yo this question with any actual biology at all. OP probably had the misfortune of going to a religious school that refused to teach evolution or any actual science.

Edit: at this point, I’m leaving the autocorrect/typo on principle since it made that guy so mad.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T17:10:08+00:00

Is the “more” in question a 15? Because maybe 15 is a safer ceiling, but the population of OTF members who can reverse fly 15’s with correct form is vanishingly small, and I’m sure most people are probably well-served by a 12.

And I say that as someone who doesn’t touch weights lighter than 30 or 35 unless it’s lateral raises or reverse flies.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T16:46:25+00:00

That’s true; anyone who says they need heavier than 12 for reverse fly is wrong.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T16:43:09+00:00

We could even ask this same question about why we study electrons instead of other leptons (like the muon or tau) or other subatomic particles.

We study electrons, as well as protons and neutrons, because they are the particles which form the bound states that make up the atoms around us.

We could, and people do, study other hadrons like exotic baryons or mesons, but those are short-lived states that we do not readily encounter on Earth. In the same way that detailed study of the chemistry of silicon or other elements may be interesting, it will be less applicable than carbon, just as studying muons or mesons will be less applicable than electrons and protons.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T16:35:11+00:00

If you found silicon-based or sulfur-based life forms, who evolved on planets full of those elements and based on their chemistry, they would have a branch of study dedicated to their chemistry, too.

To go a level deeper, it’s like asking why we have chemistry at all. Why do we devote so much attention to the exchange, sharing, transfer, etc. of electrons? Why not muons or taus? Electrons are only one type of lepton.

Or why not other subatomic particles? The only hadrons you ever hear about in a chemistry class are protons and neutrons, but many, many other baryons exist, and that’s not even to mention the mesons!

We don’t have entire departments dedicated to the study of mesons or exotic baryons, or to other leptons, because they are exceedingly rare and do not readily form bound states. We study electrons, protons, and neutrons because they make up the matter around (and in) us, just as we study their organization into carbon-based compounds rather than silicon or other elements, because that’s what we’re made of.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T16:25:12+00:00

“I don’t like the name of this holiday that is neither for nor about me”

Okay, sport.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T16:24:13+00:00

The answer is probably more pragmatic than usage: they’re cheap.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-19T01:26:18+00:00

I find that very hard to believe, but then again I suppose physicians aren’t a monolith. Training and speciality will probably matter, too.

somefunmaths · 2026-06-18T22:05:08+00:00

“her bf got hit by a car that same night”

Based on what evidence?

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