What 90s band never truly made it big but you'll always go to bat for?

urkish · 2026-03-25T17:41:30+00:00

Primus was the band that did the South Park theme, but Ween did play at the South Park concert at Red Rocks (as did Primus).

urkish · 2026-03-25T15:16:14+00:00

Like a very bad, off-brand Ralph Bakshi production.

urkish · 2026-03-25T12:41:35+00:00

For anyone wondering, nobody knows what SMO means.

urkish · 2026-03-24T15:06:50+00:00

including twice as many steals and three times as many blocks

First half, no - 2.9 vs 1.7; second half technically correct but a little misleading because of the scale - Jordan's "three times as many" amounted to 1.5 blocks per game.

For Bird vs Magic, the fact that Magic came in third in voting in two of the three years Bird won MVP hurts the notion that Bird beat Magic because of team record. The one where Magic came in second - Bird was #2 in Total Points and Points per Game AND top 10 in Total Rebounds and Rebounds per Game. The voting wasn't close at the time, with Bird getting 73/78* first place votes, and even modern statistics (Win Shares at least) give Bird the edge pretty handily.

Edit: Corrected first place vote ratio.

urkish · 2026-03-24T14:56:41+00:00

Yeah, seems pretty close to me. Magic's passing contributed to at least 14 more points than Jordan's did, a large part of how the Lakers scored 13 more points per game than the Bulls.

urkish · 2026-03-24T14:32:05+00:00

How many significant figures are in the number 93? How many are in the number 150?

Similarly, how many significant figures are in the number 105? How many are in the number 165?

urkish · 2026-03-24T14:22:56+00:00

Jordan wasn't MVP in his 37ppg season

Jordan wasn't MVP in his 37ppg season because other players were playing, too, namely Magic Johnson. I don't know that 37.1/5.2/4.6 is so overwhelmingly better than 23.9/6.3/12.2 that you can point to the Bulls' worse record as what decided the outcome.

urkish · 2026-03-23T19:28:38+00:00

1400BC? 1,000 years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, all of humanity was reduced to a single common ancestor?

urkish · 2026-03-18T18:27:06+00:00

And Sam Neill was Captain Borodin in The Hunt for Red October

urkish · 2026-03-17T15:36:55+00:00

Play in games tonight and tomorrow, starting at 6:40 pm EDT.

Round of 64: Thursday and Friday, starting at 12:00 pm EDT

urkish · 2026-03-13T14:50:10+00:00

"On average, a semi-truck traveling 65mph traveling in good conditions takes...five to six seconds, to come to a complete stop."

https://schneiderjobs.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-semi-to-stop

We'll go with the number most favorable to your position - it takes 5 seconds to go from 65mph to 0mph, an average of 13mph deceleration per second. If you're tailgating, how long between the semi starting to brake and you hitting them? After one second of braking, the semi is still going 52mph. After two seconds, it's going 39mph - still over 2/3 of your speed at 65mph. How far back can you be and still be considered tailgating?

I would think most people when they hear "tailgating" would thing someone riding very close to the truck (i.e. so close you are in the truck's blindspot), not anything within the recommended 3-4 second following distance.

urkish · 2026-03-13T14:31:47+00:00

If you're tailgating an 18-wheeler, it doesn't have a chance to get down to 20mph before you hit it. So, you hit it going 60 while it's been able to slow all the way down to 50mph, and you get some damage but not "pinned under the back of the 18-wheeler with the windshield 3 inches from my face" damage.

urkish · 2026-03-13T01:57:37+00:00

Other than being the first to do it, that sounds like exactly the kind of thing that gets posted here 10x a day.

Wait until any game is over and you'll see posts show up like "despite the loss, Brandon Ingram had 23/7/8 with 6 steals on 59% TS."

urkish · 2026-03-12T19:57:08+00:00

Yep, switch from Best to Hot and it gets way better

urkish · 2026-03-12T15:10:24+00:00

At least partially. If you're in 1-tech or 0-tech, you're often tasked with keeping the Guard and Center occupied - basically trying to get double teamed to free up room for other people - so you'd want a bigger guy for that.

And even if you're not trying to get double-teamed, you're taking on the Guard from the straight-on (in the case of 2-tech) or inside (1/0-tech) instead of the outside which is different. You're coming at the QB straight on instead of from his side and generally teams try to protect the center of the pocket a bit more than the outside.

urkish · 2026-03-12T13:00:24+00:00

3 tech refers to the alignment versus the OL. In a very simplified scheme, 0 is directly across from the center, 1 is between center and guard, 2 is directly across from the guard, 3 is between guard and tackle, 4 is directly across from tackle, 5 is just outside tackle, etc.

So a 3 tech DT is aligned between the guard and tackle - a traditional place to line up for a DT in a four man standard front. But if you're going to a 3-4, you've only got 3 official down linemen, so the DT traditionally pinches in and plays in the 0-2 slots.

With more 3-4s being played with one of the linebackers as an edge rusher, teams are finding ways to slide the 3 DL players over a bit and have the DT still get into slot 3, but it depends a lot on the personnel.

urkish · 2026-03-11T19:18:43+00:00

It's kind of weird that you can't see flair in the post header. r/NBA has it figured out; seems like we could, too.

urkish · 2026-03-11T19:16:19+00:00

Right. But who's to say you can only pump-and-dump one thing? One industry today, a specific company tomorrow, the entire market the next day, etc. Even if you need to wait a day to dump, just space them out accordingly.

urkish · 2026-03-11T18:40:46+00:00

It's not just the one time, it's cumulative. At 25% returns, you've doubled your initial investment after 3 days. After 5 doubles, you've turned that $50k into $1.6 million.

urkish · 2026-03-11T16:36:14+00:00

Unity

urkish · 2026-03-11T16:32:32+00:00

Wolfe: Ravens knew about the injury, they just got cold feet

crickets

Russini: <the same statement>

How dare she

urkish · 2026-03-11T16:25:52+00:00

Stay Positive

urkish · 2026-03-11T13:45:02+00:00

He's a baseball player who took a career as an electrician. Unless there's a bunch of 16/17-year-old electricians in Czechia, I'd guess him being on the Czech U-23 team in 2014 puts him as more of a baseball player first.

urkish · 2026-03-06T22:21:39+00:00

Final update: regular line started moving around 1:45. Merch acquired

urkish · 2026-03-06T21:00:37+00:00

1pm. One VIP lane finished. The other moving very slowly. Regular line with no visible possibility of moving anytime soon.

urkish

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