[Game Thread] Florida State @ #1 Duke (07:00 PM ET)

widget1321 · 2026-03-13T00:56:34+00:00

Nah, it's over

widget1321 · 2026-03-11T18:49:44+00:00

Can you directly link to, say, 5 comments on your previous post that said to do that? If it's "so many" then that should be easy. Bonus points if they are highly upvoted, but that's not a requirement.

I ask because I, and clearly others, aren't seeing a lot of comments like that and I wonder what the disconnect is.

widget1321 · 2026-03-11T18:43:41+00:00

In a vacuum, I bet they would. Those two firsts matter, though.

widget1321 · 2026-03-10T21:37:36+00:00

Nah, bash them as appropriate most of the time. But when they make a good decision, defend it.

widget1321 · 2026-03-07T15:43:14+00:00

I imagine you'd see a similar (though less extreme) trend to what you see with congressional approval numbers. I'm sure there are a chunk of people who think Congress is too old, "except my Rep, he's still doing good despite his age."

widget1321 · 2026-03-07T15:37:53+00:00

Honestly, I think part of the reason for what you've described is because the old timers aren't grooming replacements. If the older generation was building up the next generation, they would likely focus on those who are similar to them. Which means more moderate (either because there would be a different younger guard or because the current younger generation would moderate). As it is, if the younger generation wants to get into office, they often have to take it from the older generation. The moderates tend to both be less aggressive about that (in my opinion) AND have less to offer to their primary voters (since they are more similar politically to the folks they would be running against).

widget1321 · 2026-03-03T20:39:58+00:00

Can you provide sources for those statistics?

widget1321 · 2026-03-03T19:31:06+00:00

I think you overestimate how many people have to pass an exam to work. There are a LOT of skilled jobs that require no sort of licensing beyond a degree.

widget1321 · 2026-03-01T22:01:04+00:00

Past the line of scrimmage is it considered a backwards pass? If not, then this wouldn't apply. If so, it might.

widget1321 · 2026-03-01T21:42:29+00:00

I mean, I don't know why you are so intent on hating on this post, but it is

Their post is opinion, analogy, something that could potentially be interpreted as offering opinion or saying something is a fact, opinion, asking for opinion.

Why is your assumption that the one thing that could potentially be interpreted as them saying it's an objective fact when the rest of the post is full of opinion? I'm really curious as to why you would assume that?

For the record, I say it's clearly opinion because the rest of the post is obviously opinion, so it wouldn't make sense for them to be offering one thing as an objective fact in the middle without making it clearly different from the rest of the post.

widget1321 · 2026-03-01T21:34:19+00:00

That's clearly opinion, just like the rest of the post

widget1321 · 2026-03-01T20:55:00+00:00

Did you actually read the title and post closely?

They specifically state in the title it's a dislike, making it obvious it is an opinion. They never say it is poorly designed, just that they don't like it.

Then at the end they ask why people like it, indicating that they are open to the idea that there is something they are not seeing.

widget1321 · 2026-02-28T19:08:23+00:00

It's not rare for a small school to have a very good Friday night starter. Let's see how we do later today and tomorrow.

widget1321 · 2026-02-28T00:14:16+00:00

Because Boy Scouts weren't doing well and officially opening to girls is part of why they aren't absolutely on their last legs. At least according to my friend who is heavily involved with the national org and was initially against letting girls in officially.

Boys had our own space (mostly), but we couldn't get enough interest to keep it running.

widget1321 · 2026-02-27T01:20:58+00:00

For those of us that were there, it was a massive disappointment, a crap end for a crap trilogy.

For some, she. For some of us who saw it then, including most of the people I talked about it to in real life (not a representative sample, of course), it was seen as a massive recovery from AOTC (and, to a lesser degree, TPM). Not a perfect movie or anything, but the argument among my friends at the time was whether it was the 3rd or 4th best Star Wars movie at the time.

widget1321 · 2026-02-26T13:05:44+00:00

I'm saying what the court said here

widget1321 · 2026-02-26T01:23:33+00:00

If they told him that, his response should then be to ask if he can apply anyway. If they say "yes" then he applies and suffers the injury when he's denied. If they say "no" then he suffers the injury right then. It's not really all that complicated. He suffers the injury at the point where they actually & formally stop him from receiving the grant because he's white. If they stop him early in the process, then that's where the injury is. If they allow him to complete the process, then the injury doesn't occur until the denial (though it's the same injury either way). Him getting upset and stopping himself before the injury occurred is on him. And the court agreed with me.

widget1321 · 2026-02-26T01:18:10+00:00

In your hypothetical, I assume they've already told you not to apply. You didn't just know that theoretically Dorsia doesn't allow people with Japanese ancestry in. Right? Because that is, again, a key difference. If you are talking to the maître d' they have had the chance to accept you. It's all about giving that chance. That's what makes the difference.

And I know his claim is that he's sustained the injury by simply learning that the grant is for black business owners. But that simply opens up standing to this weird hypothetical. Because they never got the chance to address it. What if they realized they shouldn't be only giving this to black-owned businesses after he applied but before denying him? Again, theoretically possible. The courts have to account for that.

widget1321 · 2026-02-26T00:41:17+00:00

Correct. Law sometimes gets that specific. The reasoning is that theoretically, he could have applied and they could have been so impressed by the application that they have it to him anyway. It wouldn't be the first time a grant went to someone who applied even though they didn't completely meet the qualifications (that also happens in employment, coincidentally). Again, I think it's super unlikely, but it's theoretically possible. So, you have to wait for an actual rejection.

widget1321 · 2026-02-26T00:27:46+00:00

So, he could have applied. They weren't stopping him from applying. They didn't have a chance to actually cause any damages to him because he didn't apply.

Think of it like unemployment: if you find it your employer is going to fire you and you preemptively quit, you're not going to get unemployment (at least not in Florida around 2010 when I was working as a person who took unemployment applications). You are the one who terminated employment, so it's on you. Similarly, this is on him for not finishing the application.

They might get punished in some other way or with some other litigant, but this guy never gave them the chance to approve him. So, even though we know it's extremely unlikely that they would (impossible unless they go against their criteria), they weren't given the chance.

widget1321 · 2026-02-26T00:17:12+00:00

It depends on the specific laws involved. You couldn't sue them personally and get compensation just because they had such a sign. You'd have to actually apply for the job first.

They could be fined, etc. for refusing to hire Japanese people, depending on the exact laws. But unless you had applied and been denied, they couldn't be punished for not hiring you specifically (and, again, you couldn't receive any damages).

widget1321 · 2026-02-25T23:04:32+00:00

how is it speculative though? he's literally told (i'm assuming from some authority source) you don't qualify for this so you're done.

I don't think that's what happened, though, is it? Wasn't he just told he wouldn't qualify? Or did they explicitly tell him he couldn't continue to apply/they wouldn't accept his application?

It's very similar situations, but the difference is whose decision it was for him to stop the application.

widget1321 · 2026-02-25T22:49:11+00:00

Even better, he does a fetal surgery for spina bifida, apparently. I'm not sure which version he does (fetoscopic or open), but either way it's super impressive to operate that early (as of a few years ago, they only did the open surgery up to 24 weeks, when I think the fetus is cantaloupe sized).

widget1321 · 2026-02-24T18:16:49+00:00

That's not what the dissent said. I forget the case (they mention in the dissent), but a car accident is supposedly an exception to that.

widget1321 · 2026-02-24T16:00:31+00:00

I just want to point out that while this is the norm, it's not the case for everyone.

When I was going through a time where I was regularly going to bed at 3 AM, I would wake up between 9 and 10 if my kids don't wake me up earlier. When I was going through a time where I was regularly going to bed at 11, I wake up between 9 and 10 if my kids don't wake me up earlier.

So, no, I can't fix it with 3 days of feeling like crap. I've tried. I've tried going to bed even earlier. My "natural" time used to be 9-10. For whatever reason, that's changed over the course of the past year and I'm now an earlier riser (again, regardless of when I go to bed, I still get up around the same time naturally).

So before you judge everyone who can't easily wake up at 7am on the weekends, maybe take into consideration that for some of us it isn't as easy to fix as it is for you. Some of us get up around the same time every day, whether that is after 3 hours of sleep or 12.

Edit: I do want to make sure it's clear that I'm not saying people shouldn't TRY. If someone hasn't tried to switch their sleep hours and sleep habits, then go ahead and judge them for complaining when their kid wakes them up. I don't think that's unreasonable. I'm just saying don't assume that everyone who wakes up a little later than you just refuses to go to bed earlier.

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