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@dancingbulldog8 @SpursReporter At least the Lakers woukd be bringing a center this year. That's gotta improve your odds!

Yeah I think I agree. You hope that Ant isn’t full speed and that Smart can slow him down (we didn’t have this last year). And you hope that Jaden/Naz Reid/Randle/Donte/Conley don’t all shoot 90% from 3P like they did last year. And that we don’t see a game where we make Gobert look like Wilt lol. Just typing all this out I’m not feeling great about Bron, Rui, Smart, Ayton, Kennard, Vando, LaRavia against… Ant, Randle, Jaden, Gobert, Naz, Donte, Conley But you are right— even if we have Luka/Austin we will lose by 40 points a game against OKC.

😮 The Spurs now have huge incentive to go beat Denver on Sunday. Why? Because a Nuggets loss combined with Lakers win vs. Utah could drop Denver to 4th seed and elevate the Lakers to 3rd in a tight seeding race. This bracket manipulation avoids a direct second round clash with Denver while OKC would most likely have to face each other in the second round.

@dancingbulldog8 @SpursReporter OKC is the one team LAL has 0% chance against, even at full speed. Better to take chances with Ant, hope Denver takes the 4 and knocks out OKC in 2nd, take your chances with Wenby's youth, and then Luka and AR15 are back to face DEN in WCF. It's LAL's most realistic path.

The whole thing is weird for LA: - you want Houston, but you DON’T want to be on the same side of the bracket as OKC - you also DON’T want 1st round against Ant (esp. w/ this clown team that is just Bron and co.) If the goal is just get out of the 1st round and pray Luka/Austin come back, maybe you want Houston? And so you go out and lose tonight? But even with Luka/Austin we are probably getting absolutely BELTED by OKC. Only way we win the chip is if the Joker takes them out.

@Fenrirtheicewo1 Kilmonger was right in terms of how Wakanda sat on its hands instead of using its wealth and technology to improve the quality of black life everywhere. T'Challa changes his behavior because of his cousin's views. The real problem was just how to solve that imbalance.

No, they absolutely were not right. One was Black Hitler, ready to start a war that ultimately, he was gonna lose and make the lives of black people a billion times worse after that war for association, not to mention those who joined him getting killed on the spot for it. The other was technically a nepotism baby who got pissed off and went bloodthirsty because he couldn't get what he wanted... granted, his father was to blame for turning his back on him. So, no... they were not right. They were the absolute opposite.

I have a boyfriend, this is epic 😂

@fandompulse Somehow, Maul returned ...

George Lucas on his original vision for Darth Maul: "At one point, when Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul, he just fell in the pit. I looked at it and thought this isn't going to work because, if people like him enough, they're going to want him to come back and they're going to assume somehow he gets out of it. So I had to cut him in half to say that this guy's gone, he's history, he ain't coming back. I'll come up with another apprentice. The whole issue of having apprentices, poor Darth Sidious trying to replenish his apprentice supply, is one of the main plot points." Should Star Wars have stuck to this original vision?

There are zero ways this is legal

@trinick @Wisdom_HQ Agreed, especially with no specific restaurant, city, or chef named. There's no verifiable proof that, even if part of a multi-course meal, that it cost $400. Very likely just made up.

@Wisdom_HQ That dish does not cost $400. Maybe the full meal is set at $400 and this is one course. Anyone who has been to a multi-Michelin starred restaurant would know this is not a $400 dish.

The chef: “Tonight we present… fruit.” Michelin-starred restaurant's presentation of a smoked apple for $400🍎

@yavanikashah I had a buddy who I would go out of the town with almost every weekend for 5 years. One night, he asked me to close his tab, and I realized I couldn't give the bartender his last name. It had never come up as part of our conversations, and I didn't even realize it until then.

Hot take as a woman who actually has really wholesome female friendships: male friendships are kind of… insane. two men can hang out for 4 hours, say maybe 17 total words, share a bag of chips, send each other one stupid reel, and go home like “great catching up bro.” no emotional recap. no post-hangout analysis. no “did I say something weird when I laughed?” they can go 6 months without talking, then meet again and immediately pick up the exact same joke from 2017. women meanwhile will do a full psychological autopsy on a slightly delayed reply. I’m not even judging. I’m just observing a level of emotional minimalism that feels both deeply confusing and… kind of powerful.

@sciencegirl The Windows 95 screensaver maze

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why

@JJWatt Psychologically, the average person feels obligated to tip simply if it's suggested. It's an easy way to boost revenues by playing on guilt over an underpaid worker, but you have no guarantee that your tip will be seen by any worker you encountered. The house could keep it.

Genuine question on a restaurant situation: You walk up to a counter to order. You find your own table and seat yourself. If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself. If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself. The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected. What’s your move?

@Deepu89hyd @PeopleOfTheInt @grok The spell was to forget who Peter Parker was, not Spider-Man. People still remember Spider-Man and everything that he did, it's just that nobody knows who he is anymore and the people who knew who Peter was have had his existence erased from their memory.

@PeopleOfTheInt @grok how did strange remember the spider man multiverse incident i think he cast a spell where everyone forget it.

She knows more than Dr. Strange about multiverse 😳

@Math_files 5/May seem counterintuitive, but I've seen lots of people get the right answer accidentally, because their process is wrong. Being able to solidify a specific operation has more longterm benefit, application, and flexibility.

@Math_files 4/Common Core may not be the answer but it at least tried something different by trying to lean more into the why. As for this question being wrong, math education is more about demonstrating specific processes, so if you used the wrong process, the answer is wrong.

Why kids hate Math

@AsapPuka If Kelce can manifest himself into marrying Taylor, no reason you can't manifest this.

Love skydiving

@NoahRevoy That wasn't my reason. I did it because movers are expensive and your friends are stupid and cheap, and when they become less stupid, you better have moved into a tax bracket that can afford professionals, or stop moving locations. Also reciprocity (you did mine, I'll do yours).

The whole point of having a bunch of friends get together when you move house is not efficiency. It is the community it builds. It is the bonding. It is the fact that you are doing something real together that actually matters. I have friends who will get together and spend an entire weekend renovating a friend’s house. I have friends who will show up to run fence on someone’s hobby ranch. I know men who have helped each other build barns in their backyards. Nobody is doing this because it is the cheapest or fastest option. They do it because it forges real bonds. If you want a male peer group that is cohesive and united, you have to do important things together. Not just talking, hanging out or consuming together. You have to build something, fix something, or carry a real responsibility together. Do things that matter. Things that bring value. Things where people can see who shows up and who does not. Take the Mennonites as an example. One of the main reasons they avoid modern technology is that it forces them to rely on each other. When something breaks, they call their neighbors. When help is needed, people come. Their way of life structurally forces cooperation and community whether anyone feels like it or not. Most people in the West today do not have a community because they have commercialized every single social transaction. If they need someone they pay for it, outsource it, rent it. And over time, they start to feel that if money did not change hands, the interaction was not real. But that is exactly backwards. Community is built by shared effort, shared responsibility, and shared sacrifice. You cannot buy that. You have to earn it together.

@JoeShmo32152716 @lip_philll @awfulannouncing The last five AFC championships were played by 4 QBs, Allen being one. During that time, he's been eliminated by one of the other three (mostly Mahomes). Conventional thought is that it would be much easier if your usual roadblocks aren't even there. And yet he still failed.

@lip_philll @awfulannouncing Why even mention mahomes burrow Jackson etc. they blew it, weren’t good enough. What’s that have to do with buffalo?

Here's the moment Get Up learned that the Bills had fired Sean McDermott, featuring Adam Schefter running back on set to discuss the news.

@MakadiaHarsh What would happen in my line of work is that you're now expected to answer the phone at 2 a.m. (you did it before), you're expected to solve other systems you don't normally serve (you did it before), and you're expected to do it for free (you did it before).

i once got a call from a client at 2am. their production was down. not my bug btw. not my system too. still - i logged in. dug through logs. fixed what i could. servers came back up. i didn’t invoice them for that hour. i didn’t even mention it later. months after that - they stopped questioning timelines. they stopped micromanaging scope. they started trusting my calls instantly. that night taught me this: you build leverage by acting like it’s your business too. that trust compounds faster than any contract.