@TroyGilstrap63 @howatdk Yeah, there was less time between Brennan’s first and Streep’s first than between Streep’s first and Penn’s third.
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@hackerjay
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@hackerjay @howatdk I was about to say, Streep won her 1st Oscar many many years ago....before Hepburn won her fourth.
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It took 70 years of Academy Awards for four individuals to win three or more acting Oscars: Hepburn, Brennan, Nicholson, Bergman.
But in the last 14 years, that list has doubled: Streep, Day-Lewis, McDormand, Penn.
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@tangotiger @BWH85 The three batter minimum has been the best rule change in my lifetime. Nothing killed the moment worse than a pitcher change after every batter late in the game.
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@BWH85 3-batter minimum is fine, if you think it through
The extra-inning runner is part of the American landscape to:
(a) not accept ties
(b) need accelerated scoring rules
They all do it...
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3-batter minimum and extra innings ghost runner are still awful though.
Tangotiger 🍁@tangotiger
These hot takes will soon be thing of the past Like pitchers-as-batters, throwing-4-for-IBB, radical-shifts, no-clocks, infinite-stepoffs and all other stuff that simply does nothing to advance joy of baseball No one ever talks about this stuff, year after rules wiped them out
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@cafreiman @timurkuran This is slander! There is no way he would ever have paid for such a thing!
He probably made Engels pay for it.
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Since Marx died on this day in 1883, here’s a reminder that he bought a spot in a private cemetery rather than leave his remains to a state-owned one.
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@Ducknty @Legal_Fil Would you believe Bart itself when they say things are in a tough spot? They claim ridership is down 50% and they will need to close up to 25% of track miles.
bart.gov/news/articles/…
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Let’s unpack this:
1. Sensationalist publication full of shameless yellow journalism
2. Based in NEW YORK and therefore not likely to be in the weeds on the BART
3. I take the BART regularly and almost never find a place to sit during work commute
Yep, seems like bullshit to me
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I realize that one tends to see only negative news, but what, precisely, do the governments in California actually do well?
New York Post@nypost
Bay Area's beloved BART system on brink of collapse as riders vanish and deficits soar trib.al/Rf08LLV
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@LauraRbnsn I definitely didn’t hate it, but PTA is a favorite of mine, and I felt this was a disappointment. It felt ham-handed at points, the pacing and feel of the movie just felt off, and I don’t really understand why people are so excited about Penn’s performance. I found it unmemorable
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It wasn't even my favorite movie of the year but I genuinely do not understand disliking OBAA.
Every criticism I've heard of it makes me feel like the critic and I just don't even agree what a movie is.
"The characters are bad people." Yeah, it's not a moral treatise.
"It's
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@tangotiger If you got to choose before being born the one year your favorite team would win the championship, what age do you think you would pick? I feel like I'd go with something fairly early on because you get more years to reminisce. 7 is probably too early, but maybe like 12-15?
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@hackerjay I mean, you get to have McDavid/Draisaitl for two seasons all the way to the Finals... that has to be worth... something
To suggest it's ALL about the actual Cup, even if that Cup was 30 or 50 years ago, seems kinda outlandish to me
Imagine being born in 1960 as a Leafs fan
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I agree for 4 years ago #1 v last two years #2
BUUUT.... how about 10 years ago? 20? 40?
After all, ask someone who is 30 years old today would they prefer the Cup from 2003 (Devils, when they were 7) or back-to-back like Oilers, and they'll chose back-to-back
Drew@Avsfan37
I can’t believe this even has to be said…. Winning a Cup 4 years ago is a billion times better than losing in the Stanley Cup Final two years in a row
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@tangotiger I think one problem with multiple lost championships is that at some point I think it's almost worse than being a basement dweller, so, yeah, I'm not sure any number of lost championships is worth more than a win you remember.
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@hackerjay Yes, I meant they were a fan when they were 7.
So this is the question, the value of a championship and number of years ago and how much that is worth. To you, you are saying it's infinity basically. To the point that even a SECOND one will add no value!
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@ClaymoreKwaram1 @tim_cato I want the Heat to throw away every other goal this season and focus solely on getting Bam a 101 point game, just so I can hear all the whining.
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@tim_cato Tim, the pettiness in me wants to see Bam come back and hit 85 or even 90. Can you imagine how disgusted they'll be 😭🤣‼️
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@politeabox I’ve personally not seen all the movies and I’ve not read the books, but it’s obvious that it’s a cultural touchpoint that will be talked about for probably 100s of years. Nothing has come out since 2013 that has come close to the cultural impact HP had in its first 13 years.
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@politeabox I took the “stand the test of time” to mean something that’s still relevant 50 years from now. Whatever you think of the quality of Harry Potter, there’s no doubt that it will stand the test of time. I would be shocked if anyone beyond film buffs remember Get Out or Sinners.
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just hit me that the millennials haven’t (yet) made great art
a lot of hyper-successful brands & commercial products, but no millennial literature, music or film that so far looks like it’ll stand the test of time
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@_PaleblueDot__ @EllaYurman I grew up with Star Wars, it was a phenomenon when it came out, and never really left. There were a few lean years in the late-80s, but by the early 90s there were tons of books and comic books.
Silent Generation goes from 1928-1945. Boomers start at the end of WWII.
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@hackerjay @EllaYurman They really didn't! My parents grew up with Star Wars. When they watched it again together in the 90s they were surprised that it was actually good and not just something nostalgic from childhood.
Also Star Wars wasn't the Silent Generation, Lucas was born in 1944
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@coasterlo0p @Duderichy You could push the three point line back a few feet to make them more difficult.
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@Duderichy Racing has the benefit of being able to change both cars and tracks and limit testing and funds to deplete data usefulness. idk how you're meant to do that with sports where the players and courts can't really change at all.
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the solution to this is to keep varying the rules of the game significantly: see F1
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
Bizarre looking optimization happens in every competition, war, video games, sports, shooting doesn’t matter, the path of least resistance is eventually found.
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@EmiTheGrant2 @zakfilm I haven’t seen Lenny or Nashville, so I can’t speak to those two, and Jaws is better than Inferno (though it’s closer than people would expect), but the top tier of ‘74 is just so much better.
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@hackerjay @zakfilm Lenny drags the line-up down, though. '75 is still the most uniformly strong set of nominees.
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No year beats this lineup
The Cinéprism@TheCineprism
Year 2020 had the strongest lineup for best picture ever.
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@_PaleblueDot__ @EllaYurman I think people knew right away that things like Star Wars (Silent Gen), Jaws (Boomer), and Harry Potter (X) would stand the test of time. I’m having a hard time thinking of any Millennial art that was that influential, that fast.
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@EllaYurman I would say it's definitionally too early to tell if any millennial art is going to stand the test of time.
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@politeabox @karthikpuru91 Spielberg (Boomer) made Jaws at 29 and Rowling (X) made Harry Potter when she was 32. Was any Millennial art anywhere close to that influential by 2013?
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@karthikpuru91 Okay... many artists "stood the test of time" long after they lived, and you want to judge the work of millennials when they are in their 30s/40s?
For someone seemingly preoccupied with timelessness, you are strangely insistent on seeing instant results. That's not how it works.
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@jon_garfield2 @WembyCentral Do you have a source for that chart? It isn’t what I would have expected, especially with the MLB and NHL being less popular in the South.
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This graphic could probably predict someone’s political affiliation with 90% accuracy
Onyx@OnyxOdds
You can only watch ONE group for the rest of your life ... Which one are you choosing?
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@notgaetti He would have been great anywhere, but if he started his career in KC he would be looked back on the same way people look back on Carlos Beltran.
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@AndThatsBB Michael Lorenzen career HR rate allowed: 3.0%
Michael Lorenzen career HR rate (as batter): 4.8%
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Bob Gibson career HR rate allowed: 1.60%
Bob Gibson career HR rate (as batter): 1.61%
Mike Petriello@mike_petriello
@DANCAMPBELLSZN @greggtmasterson what are we calling 'modern' here, because I have a Bob Gibson to introduce you to
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