DBort

Financial Risk Manager, Data Scientist at heart. Have taken too many python and machine learning courses to not code fluently. Former Democrat, now #AltMiddle

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.

Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.

“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.

“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.

It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: https://t.co/zHcKsPYfeC

[Alexander Duncan @AlexDuncanTX]

Accurate.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

We must ban golf courses immediately…

Golf courses vs Data centers:

[DBort @DBort_925]

@VigilantFox Bill is so close to getting it…..

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

This scene is a master class of comedy

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Ben Stiller: "War is not a movie."

[Riley @Ri_S_OB]

LeBron never did that

[Johnie Homeless, EuroR3tardio @Johnie36149708]

My wife clogged the shitter the other day.

I called the plumber, some 63 year dude.

When he was done I asked him: Why don't you use a RAG vector db on your own vibe coded app to onboard the clients and increase ARPU.

He looked at me like a cow, had no idea.

We are so early.

[JPCampbellBiz @JP_Biz]

Ok brother, do you think you could make Outlook search work when you have a minute?

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER. This is unironically an amazing advertisement for Waffle House. Roll this out nationally IMMEDIATELY. 💀💀💀

[Karl K. Wuckert @KarlWuckert]

Real.

[Daniel Lubetzky @DanielLubetzky]

Here’s how this Super Bowl ad should’ve gone:

We stand tall, we keep building, and we bring light to the world.

Hate against any group is wrong.

Hate against Jews has exploded over the last decade.

Builders channel the hate and resentment from others as FUEL to make us stronger.

We refuse to be Victims.

We are Protagonists in our own lives.

Builders - of all religions, ethnicities, races and nationalities - join to Build a Better World Together.

Builders turn darkness into light

#BeABuilder @BuildersMvt

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Learning the alphabet with ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

When your new Partner doesn’t have ANY Social Media! 😮 😱

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

FAREED ZAKARIA: “if America has an affordability crisis, it tends to be in places Democrats govern like in New York, Illinois, and California, which all feature high taxes, soaring housing costs, and stagnant outcomes in education and infrastructure.”

“The result is a paradox which defines blue state America: a government that promises more, costs more, but delivers less.”

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

Conspiracy theories are just movie plots.

Psychologically, we are drawn to them for the same reasons.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

If you are supporting a murderous Muslim theocracy that is killing thousands of its own people with heavy machine guns because its collapse might help Israel, you have lost the plot

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Four years ago, 30% of Democrats believed children should be taken away from unvaccinated parents.

Nearly 50% of Democrats believed the unvaccinated should be sent to camps.

Democrats call what they did during COVID "science".

And they call Trump supporters "fascist".

[DBort @DBort_925]

@lady_valor_07 Tony hawk pro skater series on PS2 not even close