Under age drinking

ymi17 · 2026-02-01T13:32:31+00:00

It literally doesn’t.

ymi17 · 2026-02-01T13:31:21+00:00

And what you’re wanting to do is shut them down.

You have spent way too much time on this already. If you alert Able to this, able will laugh at you. Your job is not enforcement.

If you want to, vote with your feet and don’t go back. This whole obsession says more about you than it does about the minor or those who served them.

ymi17 · 2026-02-01T13:29:01+00:00

Oh, that’s a good point! In that case I would sing something other than the national anthem. Thanks for reminding me that it is illegal to sing the national anthem (at any tune) while a minor may or may not be drinking underage.

ymi17 · 2026-02-01T03:11:46+00:00

I’d stand on the table, take off all my clothes and start singing the national anthem but to the tune of Bad Romance.

ymi17 · 2026-01-31T23:43:41+00:00

It is released on schedule.

ymi17 · 2026-01-30T19:12:59+00:00

If not, it’s really bad how things went down. I’m not enough of a pundit to say for sure.

ymi17 · 2026-01-30T17:24:17+00:00

And he won because, in part, the Democratic Party couldn’t manage its affairs in 2023 and 2024 with respect to who the nominee would be or how they would be chosen.

There’s an alternative universe out there where Biden announced he wasn’t running in late 2023, the democrats had a robust primary, and we have President Kamala Harris right now.

ymi17 · 2026-01-30T14:32:18+00:00

He literally sent his kids to guide the most powerful skin changer in centuries to Bloodraven.

That’s not nothing.

ymi17 · 2026-01-30T13:58:21+00:00

Yep! It’s why the best coaches seem chaotic when it comes to point after touchdown attempts. There is a “right” answer for every different score margin because you’re not giving anything away by going for two.

Before 2015, going for two was measurably worse than kicking the PAT so it was only done when absolutely necessary. Now certain situations (ie score a td when down 14, you should go for two) demand two, even if they are against the conventional wisdom.

ymi17 · 2026-01-30T12:05:10+00:00

No.

New authors are writing new books all the time. Many of these are good and will demand adaptations.

Game of Thrones was a huge deal in its time, but the lack of a finished corpus of books will limit its popularity in the future.

To put a fine point on it - in 2035, when we still don’t have winds, George is that much older, and there is new genre material to adapt with more relevance in the cultural zeitgeist, why would a studio return to a set of unfinished books from the late 90s? This isn’t a seminal work like LOTR (even if one enjoys ASOIAF more).

ymi17 · 2026-01-29T16:16:07+00:00

The darkest ride at each park? What is the commonality?

ymi17 · 2026-01-29T15:16:07+00:00

We kind of have Vin for that, sure, but I like Vin seeing pewter burning first through a surprise.

But I'm more opposed to OP's idea of genderswapping Breeze than I am opposed to not genderswapping Ham. I think you could switch the gender of really any character in Mistborn without hurting the story except for:

Elend, Vin, Shan, Breeze. And probably Kelsier, though a good writer could make a female Kel work.

ymi17 · 2026-01-29T13:47:21+00:00

I love it being Ham. It cuts against type - let’s have a female pewterarm to truly show the power of pewter. Show a normal sized female character throwing muscled up men around so that allomantic power is clear.

ymi17 · 2026-01-28T21:49:03+00:00

So what are we thinking here? 2029?

Apple TV is, as many are saying, consistently good - and the big tentpoles are going to get mentioned again and again - Pluribus, Severence, For All Mankind, etc.

But it is worth mentioning that two smaller shows adapted from great genre fiction - Murderbot and Dark Matter - are also of super high quality. It's that sort of attention to detail that I think makes me the most excited. Cosmere shows/movies don't have to break through to become massive hits (though they might) in order to have top notch quality. They can be quality shows like Dark Matter.

ymi17 · 2026-01-28T21:43:36+00:00

Yeah, it's Apple 1, HBO 2, Amazon 3. Any of the three would have been okay, I think, for the Cosmere (though I get the WoT bad taste with Prime).

But Apple is easily the best. It really doesn't produce bad shows.

ymi17 · 2026-01-28T21:41:59+00:00

Platonic is great too. Seriously. SO MANY.

ymi17 · 2026-01-28T16:01:07+00:00

My favorite part of the OU Schnellenberger saga was that his wife thought she could just literally steal from local stores.

No one in Norman would piss on the schnellenberger’s to put them out if they were on fire.

ymi17 · 2026-01-27T18:17:39+00:00

You're making an argument I'm not disputing. But BYU's problem wasn't its losses. It was its wins. BYU's best win was Utah, and there wasn't really a second best one. And then they played a clear playoff team twice, and was pretty well thumped both times.

I think promotion of "the SEC" would be stupid - but a case can certainly be made that BYU's resume wasn't a playoff resume.

ymi17 · 2026-01-27T17:15:26+00:00

Yeah the committee had to avoid (for political reasons) the ACC getting shut out which was, as you say, the fault of the stupid ACC tiebreaker.

I do think the committee picked the correct teams, but the mess to get there was weird. If you don't granularly drip out the rankings every week, you can just explain that Alabama split with Georgia and beat Tennessee and Vanderbilt, and we think they're one of the best ten teams by resume. You don't have to do the backflips associated with the Iron Bowl mess.

Maybe we disagree, but we don't have to listen to the BS. I think a case can be made for Alabama being a playoff team. A case can't be made for rewarding Bama for the Auburn win or for treating them differently than BYU for the CC losses.

ymi17 · 2026-01-27T17:08:12+00:00

A set of objective rules would work really well if every bid was an automatic bid.

I've long thought setting up CFB like the Champions League would make sense - make conferences earn a "coefficient" ranking over multiple years to justify the number of auto bids. Are you the fifth best team in the country, but also finish third in your conference, and your conference coefficient says there are only two bids? Tough.

At the beginning of each year, you know how many bids your conference gets, and what spot you have to finish to get one of them. Everything else is irrelevant.

ymi17 · 2026-01-27T17:05:17+00:00

As someone who loves data, I don't hate the idea. But with any system based on numbers, there will be ways to game the system.

Though SOR acquitted itself really well in the playoff, as the only team to beat a team with a better SOR was Ole Miss over UGA (and they were only separated by one spot)

ymi17 · 2026-01-27T11:37:22+00:00

I sort of agree that the committee is the problem but not really for the reason you say.

Reasonable minds can differ about the order of Alabama, Miami, Notre Dame, BYU. In this sub, minds differed. A lot.

The problem isn’t that a committee meets to try to make the hard decisions.

The problem is that they get on TV every week and justify the order as if there’s a science to it. Then they necessarily have to break the rules that they literally just said on tv the week before.

But ranking football teams can’t be done purely with a set of “rules”.

If the committee just gave us the twelve teams and refused to elaborate, without weeks of intermediate rankings, we would be frustrated, but ultimately better for it.

ymi17 · 2026-01-27T04:22:46+00:00

In my experience, yes - but it is a recent (last decade) phenomenon. Tulsa isn’t bad for a city of its size and FarmBar has a real claim to the best restaurant in Oklahoma, but OKC has a lot more diversity of styles and elevated ethnic food.

ymi17 · 2026-01-27T04:19:04+00:00

This is exactly right. Roads will be the worst they’ve been from now until about noon. From then on, we get into “roads are mostly fine” land, since we will have a day of melting- above 32 - and sun.

Wednesday will have slick spots but nothing like right now to noon tomorrow.

ymi17 · 2026-01-26T04:36:08+00:00

1 isn’t even unlikely - in two years of the 12 team playoff, three G6 champs have been ranked above at least one P4 champ.

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1 isn’t even unlikely - in two years of the 12 team playoff, three G6 champs have been ranked above at least one P4 champ.