DaColonel

@TheKopHQ Famously a position where you can just stroll in and be at top form

Mamardashvili is fuckin shite

@JimChuong I am not the brightest bulb in the world but figuring out that most majors are dead ends and MBAs are a waste for 98% of people felt like low hanging fruit to identify.

To spend $230k on an MBA is a massive waste of money.

@JohnGuillermoC @WorldWideWob There are good traditions and bad traditions and things an archaic one with no actual benefit

@WorldWideWob you have a fixation, tradition is made to be broken. Things change over time and its ok, even if we dont like the reasons

I see we have some new players in the NBA jersey arena. Its ethos, and our fight, has been centered around one key principle: home basketball teams wear white at every level of the game, in every league in the world. It is quite simply a basketball tradition, without it being a written requirement. What Nike has done has not only oversaturated the market with mostly unpopular designs, but uniforms that get left behind after just one season. The constant turnover has one goal: sell as many jerseys as possible, at any cost, even at the expense of the franchise’s brand equity. It is a statistical fact and focus group tested/proven that children like new jerseys, and their parents buy them. Non-white City Edition/Classic uniforms are often worn at home, it has a minimum appearance mandate because of the NBA’s partnership with Nike, forcing the away opponent to have to wear their home whites when they’re chosen. Every NBA game that’s played where the home team is not wearing white is a papercut to the sport’s tradition. Not the NBA’s, but basketball’s. It won’t be a tradition that’s destroyed overnight, but as children grow up and it becomes more-and-more accepted because it was never something they cared about or understood, the home whites will eventually be perceived to be just another option. You will rarely, if ever, see an NHL home team in their away white sweaters. Even though it’s the opposite of basketball, NHL/hockey have always maintained the tradition of the home team’s fashion look. I like to think they do this because it is something their paying customers appreciate and continue to support with their wallets. What the NBA doesn’t understand is the sales spreadsheet may suggest that this new jersey strategy is working because so many people are buying them, but what they are sacrificing to achieve these short-term results is the legacy of the sport that made them so cool in the first place. This business strategy, undoubtedly, will lead to apathetic fashion, market dilution, and diminishing returns with no ability to revert back — because that culture, both literally and figuratively, will be dead.

@WorldWideWob Fuck this shit. It’s not 1965 with black and white 14 inch televisions. Bring on all of the colors except white.

@pathless__path @DougieCritchley You don’t just get minutes because of your name. He’s been given chances and looks worse and worse every appearance

Slot has repeatedly played many players when they were in poor form, but his treatment of Chiesa has been appalling. Of all the attackers we have, Chiesa is the one who presses most intensely, but he isn't given game time even despite poor form of Gakpo. Plus, Chiesa's finishing is also good. Slot even hasn't given him proper rotation minutes to keep him in rhythm. He only subs him in if we are losing and in the last few minutes.

You know who I feel sorry for? Federico Chiesa. Chiesa has shown his talent and quality over the years for both club and country... But after being signed by Liverpool for an initial £10m in August 2024, he's started 2 League games in the near 2 full seasons since. Yes, he struggled with injury in his first, but as far as I'm aware he's been fit for the vast majority of 25/26. And yet... despite Liverpool selling Diaz, Nunez and unfortunately losing Jota, despite Gakpo's poor form this season and the fact that Liverpool played in 4 competitions... He's barely got a look in... I just don't get it!

@normal_jake_ I know more nba referees than senators

You guys are way overestimating the amount of Senators people could name. Like by orders of magnitude I think

@tosinmm_ It’s both

@DaColonel3 It’s not true. At all. It’s a structure issue, not a talent issue.

@KeithCostigan He’s right but it’s exhausting getting into these weeds every couple of years haha

Jesus Christ

@TaylorTwellman He's probably right. The top 30 male(maybe 50 or 60) athletes in our high school were nowhere near a soccer ball or field. Sure, it'd have to start at the lower age groups but if american football didn't exist, it'd be a whole different story

Comical if you believe that. Truly

@bszern @6beerdinner ah yeah, that place had a nice vibe

@6beerdinner Sunset Grill and Tap, closed now

For anyone Boston/MA based what was one bar/venue in Boston you went to that you were actually like “this place is actually quite nice and i want to come back”

@SherwoodStrauss White uniforms mostly suck and should only be used in very specific color clash circumstances with the quality of viewing these days.

The uniform issue is arguably the most underrated issue across professional sports

@mixtureofmodels @CharlotteAlter Ai derangement syndrome in full swing in both directions

@CharlotteAlter horror story? jfc the things people get upset about these days

Want to hear a horror story? My very sweet husband emailed me a couple dinner options for our anniversary coming up. He listed a couple different restaurant/picnic options and asked which I preferred. I started replying to his email and that's when I noticed...

@incinaddled @RazzberryYams @Hezbolsonaro Customer service is about the same and software dev is better. Think a few shitty ai images and videos and tone deaf CEOs have ruined the perception of it

@DaColonel3 @RazzberryYams @Hezbolsonaro is either costumer service or software any better now than it was 3 years ago? the answer will shock you

So sick of this AI snake oil being forced down our throats by every single politician. Are they all on the take? There's no other explanation for this relentless techno-optimism about the shittiest product anyone has ever created.

@JSweetLI pretty brutal to do that but the thought of the people still wearing masks(that aren't immunocompromised and just crazy instead) reading this is hilarious to me

NEW: I discovered that a second American woman jet-setted around the globe after leaving the MV Hondius in late April, traveling through at least four countries before attending an international conference in Vietnam. It's unclear if health authorities in the US are aware of the NYC resident's time on the ship or travels. Link below:

@RazzberryYams @Hezbolsonaro This guy thinks it sucks though and he must know more than all of the top 10 companies that have laid off a whole layer of customer service and dev people

@Hezbolsonaro The thing about AI is that it's a very flexible product, and so for every good use there are a dozen bad uses. That does not mean the technology should be abandoned. It means care and effort should be put into sorting it out

@alpacinogrunt Paul pierce had famously won a title before the kg trade

Now time to take a big gulp of water and figure out how the Celtics stopped sucking ass in the 2000s

@AnthonyIrwinLA Stories where everyone involved looks unhinged>>>

Why can’t these people be normal lol

@Injured_Indiana @C2_Cooper Yeah wish we hadn’t gone from illegal to fully integrated into the broadcasts instantly. Surely there is a massive middle ground we should’ve landed in first

@C2_Cooper I love sports betting, I’ve won hundreds of thousands of dollars, however… I can admit it’s changed my fandom and changed sports as a whole. I obviously like that it’s legal, but I don’t like that they’re in business together. I don’t like seeing it promoted everywhere.

Pivoting from a remembrance of those who passed away in the NBA community today to a draft kings promo is dystopian

@thisistotespunk @Nerdspringbreak Yeah I think that crosses a boundary

@Nerdspringbreak Yeah there’s porn, but… what if the bf pays for… custom content?😬

Only an insecure 20 year old gets mad at a boyfriend who watches porn. lol