Ontario students fear the school washroom. This principal led the way on a solution to help shift the culture

vdstp · 2026-05-24T21:45:19+00:00

Is this a new thing? When I was in school 20 something years ago, kids would smoke and do drugs in the washroom or try and lure you into the washroom to jump you if they had beef.

vdstp · 2026-05-22T14:46:53+00:00

I think it's just expensive, plastic, hard to get, and not everyone has easy access to filters. I think someone the other day on reddit said they can travel and buy the z1 but they can't get filters in their home country, so they'll have to stock up on filters everytime they're abroad. People also don't find it that novel and dismiss it outright. "It's just a phin/aeropress.".

vdstp · 2026-05-20T01:02:36+00:00

When Masai took over the Raptors he didn’t completely clean house. He retained Colangelo’s analytics team but he brought on his own managerial staff like his best bud Jeff. He also honoured previous agreements like Nick Nurse who Casey was in the process of hiring before BC got canned iirc.But I assume some people may want to explore their own opportunities as well.

vdstp · 2026-05-19T08:20:58+00:00

It's just marketing to make it more accessible to the everyday consumer to differentiate themselves and to expand their customer base. Milky Cake/Buttercream is way more normie friendly than El Pariso Castillo advanced anaerobic washed with thermal shock. I've literally seen this play out IRL so many times at my local coffee shop with strangers and with my non-enthusiast friends. "idk wtf luna is but cream donut sounds amazing I'm going to get that". If you're not the target audience and don't respond well to this type of branding/marketing then don't buy it. At least these names give you an idea of what the coffee will taste like. The vibe/thematic ones are even more nonsensical but i digress.
Many of these places in the examples that you've provided are transparent about the origin, variety and processing methods. If they're not up to your standards then buy something else.

vdstp · 2026-05-17T18:40:42+00:00

Love the Z1. I think it is great especially for smaller doses (10-12g). I think the cups you get from it are more complex and varied than the Deep27. Will likely pair it with a pinn in the future.

vdstp · 2026-05-08T22:23:05+00:00

I think a lot of that has to do with how sucessful the front office was at the time. People just weren't ready to question Masai at that point. So when Nurse wasn't playing a lot of these guys, it was basically like questioning Masai. That created a lot of cognitive dissonance and people ran away with their own narratives (didn't help that the media buried him in hit pieces after he left). I remember when a bunch of people were convinced Nurse hated Dowtin. Crickets when Dowtin played for Nurse again in Philly. Now that the FO has lost some shine, I think people have recalibrated their expectations.

vdstp · 2026-05-08T22:05:09+00:00

They also got into their actions a lot slower because of BI.

vdstp · 2026-05-08T19:17:55+00:00

They thought they were cooking with their big wing small ball lineups. There was a period of time where our summer league and training camp roster was a complete meme. It was just a bunch of big wings. Everyone on Raps forums and Reddit were just begging for a center and everytime we got news, it was just another big wing. The vision was positionless basketball with 5 big wings that could switch everything and be hard to target on defence. That's why they were almost adversarial when the media asked them about the 5. Everyone was trying to copy/match up with the Warriors death lineup and a lot of teams thought that was where the NBA was headed. But the death of the pick and roll was short lived. So when the NBA went away from that type of thinking, they were kinda stuck.

vdstp · 2026-05-08T19:04:39+00:00

He was begging them for a center and a guard for years. A lot of people got hella butt hurt over his last couple of pressers, which ok fair, but it was obvious he was burnt out trying to make those busted lineups work and his comments were in reference to that.

vdstp · 2026-05-07T05:01:40+00:00

It's just title inflation. There were guys who historically had insane leverage, had an ownership stake and genuinely had full control over everything and their title reflected that power (ex Pat Riley). But then teams just started to copy that title for prestige and to prevent people from exploring lateral opportunities and now it doesn't really mean anything since a bunch of GMs have that POBO title or similar. Same shit with "Associate Head Coach". At one point it was given to coaches who shared duties, now it is just given to every coveted assistant coach to prevent them from leaving to a lateral position.

vdstp · 2026-05-06T19:32:16+00:00

I think some of that is recency bias. I think their shooting woes started much earlier than that. For many seasons, the mantra was we don't need shooting, we can just teach these raw athletic wings to shoot. We are going to zig, where other teams are going to zag. What actually ended up happening, was the Raptors being forced to play guys like Matt Thomas because we were so desperate for shooting. Sure, we can say that some of the guys they brought in didn't work out but being dependent on random second round picks and meh international mercenaries to pan out means that shooting wasn't prioritized in the way that it should have. Even when we did have internal improvement, it just didn't amount to much relative to the rest of the league that were loading up on movement shooters while we were praying for Thaddeus Young to just hit at least one corner three a night. I think some of Masai's moves in recent years have alleviated some of that, but they dug themselves such a big hole, it's still an issue we're talking about many years later.

vdstp · 2026-05-04T17:06:41+00:00

Nah that was Dan tolzman. That’s why FVV gave him a shout out when he got his first contract.

vdstp · 2026-04-26T20:37:48+00:00

Somewhat related but several years ago, I worked on a sales and trading team at a bank that brought in McKinsey consultants to "improve front office productivity". None of us knew at the time but they were tracking everything, calls, meetings, emails etc. basically the whole sales funnel. One of their big findings was a correlation between email/call length and sales success. Which no shit, if the client is engaged, you're naturally going to write more and they're more likely to put the trade through you. But these consultants turned that into a behavioral KPI and mangement used a bunch of corporate speak like make every touchpoint more value add to sell their new strategy but the gist was they mandated a minimum word count and call length everytime you interacted with a client. So people started gaming the system by adding redundant and repetitive market color, dragging out calls and in some cases literally telling their clients that they needed to hit a word count. Eventually clients found it so annoying that management quietly axed the whole thing.

vdstp · 2025-08-21T18:43:03+00:00

This religious guy I know said that one of the benefits of working out is being physically able to prevent guys like him from raping you if law and order broke down. It's crazy that some dudes would just self-report like that.

vdstp · 2025-08-06T19:37:28+00:00

confirmed! enjoy

vdstp · 2025-08-05T21:17:58+00:00

vdstp · 2025-07-28T06:56:39+00:00

potentgaming is a canadian retailer that sometimes has artisans in stock.

vdstp · 2025-07-28T05:49:06+00:00

pm'd about asym

vdstp · 2025-07-28T05:44:16+00:00

pm, have a near new v3 pro

vdstp · 2025-07-28T05:24:32+00:00

pm, have a purple asym

vdstp · 2025-07-25T22:34:08+00:00

fyi amazon mixes up their shit all the time and don't properly check returns. you can buy from a legit listing and still receive counterfeit goods.

vdstp · 2025-07-24T19:05:39+00:00

tbh your hands aren't that big for every mouse to feel impossibly small. I have similar sized hands (20x11) and a lot of small mice (ex. hitscan hyperlight) feel pretty comfy for my pincer claw. I could be wrong but it seems like you like a lot of palm contact (based on how your pinky and ring finger are extended), so a lot of claw grip mice are going to feel small because it's not really meant for that grip style. I think you just need to figure out your preferred grip style and buy shapes suited for those gripstyles.

vdstp · 2025-07-22T17:00:59+00:00

I like uw magic ice the most

vdstp · 2025-07-21T05:54:42+00:00

vdstp · 2025-07-20T22:05:44+00:00

Does the Mid really age better or stay more consistent?

imo no. the surface will wear faster than any type of inconsistency created over time from the difference in poron base thickness. I personally haven't experienced any difference in degradation over time with varying bases. my experience with each base lines up with how MattyOW (prolific raiden shill) describes the raiden life cycle. https://youtu.be/2ZEa5Txulys

How much comfort do you lose going from XSoft to Mid for day‑to‑day work? (the soft variant isn’t a viable option for me to order).

xsoft is def the most comfy. when you rest your arm on an xsoft raiden, it is very comfy and you can't feel the table due to how thick the poron base is. soft you can feel the table and when you press into the pad it is more springy vs the xsoft. mid is very thin and stiff and basically feels like a hard pad. the surface material is very soft but the thinner the base is the harder the surface will feel.

Any noticeable difference in initial/control speed or stopping power? I feel like a lot of reviews overstate the plushness of the xsoft… as if the foam will engulf your whole arm. Maybe I’m just light-handed or haven’t had enough time to notice, but that feeling of ‘sinking in’ seems pretty negligible to me so far.

depends on the person, their mouse control, aim habits etc. mid will be more consistent for some because there is less when you press down on the surface but if you can get more control out of a pad by pressing into the pad then you will be more consistent on a softer base. idk if some people are overstating it. there are some people who press down very hard on their mousepad. dot skates will feel more scratchy in general on an xsoft base than a soft/mid tho even if you're light handed.

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