You seem to discount that the yappers are good and convincing writers as well

I hate this analogy. NBA players can all hit 90% of their free throws shooting overhand too. Just some of them are much worse at handling the pressure and pace change of the situation in a game context.

The underhanded throw is mechanically just better for free throws. Much easier to put backspin, for example. It's just a shot that doesn't help anywhere else.

That’s beside the point. It wouldn’t help shaq or any of those big men hit free throws. They have no problems with mechanics.

> have no problems with mechanics.

What? Shaq shot free throws at 85% in practice. Players with good mechanics like Curry wouldn't be caught dead shooting 85% during the season, he's always 90%+ at free throws. Curry would probably shoot free throws at 99.9% in practice; there's plenty of stories of him swishing 100 3-pointers in a row in practice.

I'm not saying Shaq would shoot free throws as good as "90% in game and 99.9% in practice" if he threw free throws underhanded, but clearly Shaq had mechanics issues.

Block is a no

Blocking is a "no" and also a "I don't even respect you enough to deliver my answer to you or acknowledge your question". About as tactful as ghosting.

A lot of people think it was an anti-bot measure, and if that's true it was not a no to the human contributor.

there's this things that happens where blog boys love to say Big Important Stuff (that isn't true) and in the 1% chance that it becomes true they point back on it and say "I am a goddamned genius" and if it hits the 99% no one remembers their bullshit.

This doesn’t sound very much like like OST beyond the general concept of caring about problems to me

I don’t understand how you can make this statement in the midst of chatGPT being the fastest growing consumer app in history.

What did you buy

dude I think you’re one-shotted

Yeah it’s a lot of projection.

Make lots of predictions and write down your thought process (seriously write them down!) once the result is in, analyze whether you were right. Were you right for the right reasons? Were you wrong but had the right thought process mostly?

Do it every day for years.

I tried this! Made a list of long-term (10y I think) predictions. Posted it on social media so that I can come back to it later, and also so that it's public & keeps me honest. And by social media, I mean "Google Circles" - tells you everything you need to know about my long term predictions, I guess...