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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 11:42:21 PM
#89
I'm sure it's a massive coincidence that every single team the Caps ever face in the playoffs suddenly plays like 3 standard deviations above their own average
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 11:40:05 PM
#87
we always had a series

EVERY series involving the Caps is a series

there is no team bad enough that they can't play down to the level of

they could be playing the Avalanche right now and the series would probably be tied
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 11:36:35 PM
#84
fuck these pathetic chokers

they dont deserve to win this series, much less the cup
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 10:17:05 PM
#145
TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 10:03:19 PM
#82
I hate this so much. Even if they win I'm going to be fucking pissed off.
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 8:00:10 PM
#144
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/opinion/sunday/charles-murrays-provocative-talk.html

exposing SJW psychosis

The talk that the political scientist Charles Murray attempted to deliver last month at Middlebury College in Vermont must have been quite provocative — perhaps even offensive or an instance of hate speech. How else to explain the vehement opposition to it?

Before Mr. Murray’s arrival on campus, an open letter to the college from several hundred alumni protested that his scholarly opinions were “deceptive statistics masking unfounded bigotry.” And when it came time for Mr. Murray to give his speech, which was based on his 2012 book, “Coming Apart,” an analysis of the predicament of the white working class in the United States, he was shouted down by student and faculty protesters. In chants they accused him of being a racist and a white supremacist. Some of the protesters became unruly and physically violent, forcing Mr. Murray to flee.

Mr. Murray ended up giving a version of his talk later that day, via livestream, from another room. How extreme were his views?

We have our own opinion, but as social scientists we hoped to get a more objective answer. So we transcribed Mr. Murray’s speech and — without indicating who wrote it — sent it to a group of 70 college professors (women and men, of different ranks, at different universities). We asked them to rate the material on a scale from 1 to 9, ranging from very liberal to very conservative, with 5 defined as “middle of the road.” We also offered them a chance to explain why they gave the material the score they did.

American college professors are overwhelmingly liberal. Still, the 57 professors who responded to our request gave Mr. Murray’s talk an average score of 5.05, or “middle of the road.” Some professors said that they judged the speech to be liberal or left-leaning because it addressed issues like poverty and incarceration, or because it discussed social change in terms of economic forces rather than morality. Others suggested that they detected a hint of discontent with the fact that Donald Trump was elected president. No one raised concerns that the material was contentious, dangerous or otherwise worthy of censure.

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TopicWhat would you do if you found out your significant other was your sibling?
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 7:13:33 PM
#11
insist on anal to limit the possibility of inbreeding
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 6:27:37 PM
#142
I agree those two should both be treated with about the same level of respect and legitimacy as Milo is!
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 5:18:33 PM
#140
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/14/kelly-osbourne-i-was-disappointed-that-i-wasnt-gay/

Almost as good as that time Lena Dunham said she was jealous of women who had abortions.
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 3:17:49 PM
#139
Lauren Southern is streaming some sort of protest at Berkeley. There's literally an alt-right dude dressed as a Spartan Warrior trying to protect some old Trump supporter from the antifa mob, lol.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 3:08:24 PM
#73
I'm tempted to throw some change on the Wild, who are down from "tied with the Pens for third favorite" to +1600. There's plenty of precedent of teams losing their first two games in the first round and coming back to win the cup!

That said lol @ betting on Boudreau....
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 3:02:29 PM
#71
Odds have changed significantly in the last few days!

Caps +300
Pens +400
Hawks +500
Bruins +900

Basically if you want to bet the Hawks, now is the time! And the Bruins are the 4th favorite to win it all!
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 11:27:43 AM
#254
When 9/11 happened they added the TSA and increasingly militarized the airports, which probably contributed to this incident, which you don't seem so happy about!
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 10:52:35 AM
#251
ZeldaTPLink posted...
The likely outcome is that they will just change their policy.

Not to eliminate overbooking, but to ensure it never escalates to that again.


They already have policies to "ensure this never happens" That's why out of the millions of flights that have taken place, this has only happened once. Sometimes you have cascade failures. You have six safeguards and they all fail. So maybe they add two more safeguards. Maybe that "fixes" things such that instead of being a one-in-a-million occurrence, it becomes a one-in-two-million occurrence. But two million flights later when it happens again, will you be satisfied? Of course not.
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 10:34:58 AM
#246
The fiery explosion didn't count because like I said, it only happened once.

Well if we count every individual person in each plane dying, it actually happened like 300 times.

Getting beat up for not leaving your seat is actually the thing that only happened once.
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 10:17:45 AM
#242
You gonna ride in the car to Hawaii? To New York if you live in California?

Of course some marginal customers can switch, just not enough to matter. And if they didn't switch because of the possibility of death in a firey explosion, and they didn't switch because of the constant videos of children being groped and fondled, they aren't going to switch because some obstinate loser got punched by the cops for failing to obey simple instructions.
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 9:59:37 AM
#240
You'd think "Don't publicly and horrifically beat up your customers" would be a given business strategy

The government is not a business.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 9:55:42 AM
#70
ExThaNemesis posted...
anyway, I think Calvert should only get a game suspension. That's a super common thing at the end of games in the playoffs I think he just got unlucky his stick broke.

Not like he's relevant whether he's playing or not.


Dude the optics of that one are REALLY bad. It's stick to the back of the neck, like, exposed skin in an area where if you applied sufficient force you could literally paralyze someone. THEN, while the guy is keeled over, he starts to skate away, and is like "nah that's not enough" and comes back and sucker punches/tackles him down to the ice.

I'd probably give him 5. To carry over into next year's regular season.

Fights are fights and I have no idea what the Pens player may have done to provoke this, but you CANNOT have something like this.
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 9:53:50 AM
#238
The latter definitely.

lol @ the notion that people can just choose not to fly

everyone claimed that would happen because of 9/11, then they claimed it would happen because of the naked x-rays, it never happens
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TopicMuffin's Mass Effect: Andromeda review/discussion topic [big spoilers]
SmartMuffin
04/15/17 12:19:47 AM
#44
when you first meet the krogan shes like IM A KROGAN come on bioware stop being so racist as if any krogan would actually just come out and say that?
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 11:27:29 PM
#234
The thugs were government employees, not airline employees. I'm not changing the subject at all.
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 11:20:53 PM
#232
Now, what if this same concept applies to the case of being beaten up by thugs?

People will stop paying taxes?
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 10:53:24 PM
#65
I feel so bad for Minnesota. Feel like I've seen this movie a million times. Average goalie playing great beats great goalie playing average. Period. Nothing else matters.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 10:35:48 PM
#63
So, how're things going for Columbus?

https://twitter.com/BradyTrett/status/853060589815439360

"oh"
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 9:57:28 PM
#229
its especially fun when people compare him to rosa parks

except for the part where like five other black people in montgomery had already been arrested for refusing to give up their bus seats but the NAACP wouldnt take up their cause because they weren't photogenic enough and wouldn't make a good enough spokesman for the movement that white people would feel sufficiently sympathetic for
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 7:47:15 PM
#138
TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 7:34:39 PM
#226
What's this about canceling/re-scheduling flights? Cheap airline tickets are non-refundable from the second you buy them. There is usually an option to reschedule, but that already comes with a steep fee built in.

Eh they say that but it's not really true. You can almost always at least get airline credit or a re-schedule*

*depending on what you mean by "cheap." If you booked on priceline and got some crazy deal than yeah, probably no flexibility. If you went through the airline or a pretty respectable travel agency and paid full price, then they're going to work with you.

I've gotten full reschedules from "THIS IS TOTALLY NON-REFUNDABLE WE ARE NOT KIDDING" offers before just by asking for them.
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 7:29:54 PM
#224
That seems totally reasonable.

I'd also like to insist that Apple gets better at their jobs such that they produce an iphone that is just as powerful as the current one, but also only costs $100 and has a 5-day battery life.

Because that's what I demand.
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 7:22:32 PM
#222
Kenri posted...
SmartMuffin posted...
they are going to HAVE to bump someone

Why?


Because people demand cheap tickets and the ability to cancel/re-schedule flights, which cannot exist without some degree of overbooking
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TopicWho do you think was in the right in this united airlines situation?
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 6:36:03 PM
#219
What, exactly, is the point of offering more than the legal minimum once you've firmly established that it's a non-voluntary bumping.

Like, say during the voluntary negotiation phase, they offer ten thousand dollars and nobody takes it. And they're simply unwilling to pay any more. At this point, they know they are going to HAVE to bump someone who is NOT volunteering, and that person is presumably going to be pretty mad about it. They've already rejected an offer of ten thousand dollars. If you aren't prepared to offer them more than ten thousand, and the legally required offer is $1350, then why wouldn't you just give them the $1350. They're still going to be mad (and if they happen to be a drug dealing rapist, they might be so mad that they go limp and refuse to live the seat until you call the police)
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/14/17 8:46:04 AM
#61
Wedge Antilles posted...
If Calgary loses, every Canadian team will have lost the first game.


as it should be

actually, picks-wise, I do have them all losing their series
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 10:13:42 PM
#56
Gonna guess nobody had Tom Wilson, lol

Hopefully that's a demoralizing enough loss for the kids that they'll just roll over and die
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 9:49:01 PM
#53
I feel like every stoppage in play NBC is going with shots of distraught Caps fans.


... they're giving us the Cubs treatment
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 8:31:29 PM
#134
Overheard on conference call:

"Can you change that picture? It kinda looks like a swastika."

It's a series of interlocking pipes.... but he's not wrong!
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 405: We're All Shook Up
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 8:11:42 PM
#238
I saw that earlier today and almost posted it!
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 7:48:17 PM
#133
sanity check for foolmo:

is it reasonable to apply agile to like, all business processes?

because my partners keep talking about it and it sounds really dumb and stupid

reminds me of how every company adopted the "open office model" just because google did it
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 405: We're All Shook Up
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 7:40:58 PM
#231
TheRock1525 posted...
Actually, I think they're trying to position themselves for a proper Shield reunion by sticking all 3 back on the same show, though I'm not sure if it will be for any other reason than "to get Reigns over" and I wonder if it'll just end up making people hate Rollins and Ambrose, too.


Yeah, if they run "THE SHIELD REUNION" vs ANY three people at the next PPV, the Shield is getting booed.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 7:36:34 PM
#43
I am now really glad something just came up and I have a lot of work to do over the next few hours.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 405: We're All Shook Up
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 7:30:45 PM
#226
Jakyl25 posted...
I'll take Orton over Drew as a worker, to be honest.

I feel like the Orton defense force now


For a long time Orton was as mediocre as Drew is, but I feel like Orton really found himself in like... I dunno, 2012 or sometime around then, and got a lot better.
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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic 405: We're All Shook Up
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 7:04:23 PM
#215
Drew is one of the people I think I have the biggest disconnect from the rest of you guys on. I've never found him even remotely entertaining. Like, at all.
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 5:47:03 PM
#130
You're misunderstanding the word "debate." Very little debating went on at the "presidential debates." It was mostly just Hillary calling him a racist.
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 4:51:20 PM
#128
And to apply it to the election - the left couldn't beat Trump pre-election because they (mostly, not exclusively) stuck to shame tactics that weren't working.

Since his win, they're doing a much better job (as evidenced by his polls) because they've largely learned their lesson and cut that out, and have adopted a much more debate-focused strategy.
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TopicFreedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Freedom isn't dead, it just smells funny [dwmf]
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 4:48:34 PM
#127
From an SSC comment. I think there may be something to this model

I have a theory that there’s a rock-paper-scissors effect on different modes of argumentation. It goes debate-shame-defy.

If you want debate your point of view calmly and reasonably, you get beaten by someone who refuses to engage with you as an equal and instead takes your opinion and presents it in the worst possible light and howls shame upon you.

That strategy however is then beaten by the Milo Yoannopoulus/Donald Trump strategy of simply refusing to feel shame. Another example might be the “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it” chant. “Yeah we’re gay/right-wing/whatever, what are you going to do about it?” appears to me to be a successful counter to shame tactics. It tells other people who disagree with the shamers that they have nothing to fear by ignoring them.

What defeats that simple defiant approach is debate. Going into the detail and asking difficult questions makes the defiant look intellectually shallow and like they are raging against a machine that isn’t there.

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TopicNintendo is discontinuing the NES Classic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 4:44:13 PM
#36
snailien posted...
Don't worry guys, the *new* NES Classic will surely be available soon.


Yeah, if you're planning on selling, I would do it soon. Don't wait too long!
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TopicNintendo is discontinuing the NES Classic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 3:17:45 PM
#19
Nanis23 posted...
Also yay now their price will skyrocket on ebay


Banking on Nintendo's incompetence - the investment strategy that can never fail!
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TopicRomania has legalized CORRUPTION
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 12:46:56 PM
#3
How does this affect the Romanian camgirl market?
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 1:04:08 AM
#39
Classic Caps/Boudreau playoff loss.

Playing the part of Matt Murray is Jake Allen, the part of Braden Holtby will be played by Devan Dubnyk
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 12:47:33 AM
#35
TopicNHL Discussion Topic
SmartMuffin
04/13/17 12:15:35 AM
#33
That game was giving me some serious Caps in the playoffs flashbacks.
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TopicMuffin's Mass Effect: Andromeda review/discussion topic [big spoilers]
SmartMuffin
04/12/17 10:28:12 PM
#41
It is kinda weird that, as SJW as Bioware is, there isn't more racial diversity. Or I guess I should say, there's diversity, but the representation levels are super unrealistic. In a futuristic story where humanity has united under one world government to explore the stars, it's super weird that you ever only meet like, one Chinese person, one Indian person, etc. But of course there's always one Irish person and one Scottish person too. As if in the future the Irish will be equally represented in the one-world government space Navy as the Chinese?

Is Firefly the only sci-fi series to actually address this?
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