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[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@BigKnickEnergy_ If I've learned anything this week - it's that Knicks fans love their image as tough New Yorkers, but tend to be very sensitive human beings. Does no one remember Charles Oakley? Just please don't ever romanticize 90s basketball after this - because you don't mean it.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@RedPantsUGA @TookeDaniel @RobertOBrien26 @KDimitratos Greek, Italian, whatever. He's a specific type of New Yorker - who will grab your arm or shout in your ear as a sign of love. Cheers, bud 🤝

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@RedPantsUGA @TookeDaniel @RobertOBrien26 @KDimitratos He's Italian. It's a sign that he likes you. If he doesn't grab your arm or shout into your ear at some point - that means he doesn't.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@jondoeuheard @DuncOnDemand I'll be here, dude. It's just my instinct. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But if I'm right - well, that'll be pretty cool.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@jondoeuheard @DuncOnDemand Okie doke. Sounds good :)

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@nypost I'm not a Spurs fan. Even I know this is so disingenuous. *Watch the video* He's pushed from the back and intentionally moves his leg to avoid hitting OG. He did the opposite of what you're claiming. Ugh.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@TH3FUll3ZT_ @chriiswavy @spiketeejoint @DavisThaGr8 Has it happened in Chicago? They've had Cubs, White Sox, Bulls, and Blackhawk championships - surely it would have happened once during those?

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@chriiswavy @spiketeejoint @DavisThaGr8 Were there hundreds, if not thousands, of people in the streets hunting down other innocent fans?

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@chriiswavy @spiketeejoint @DavisThaGr8 Then why hasn't it ever happened in another city?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

McConaughey just stumbled into the most studied result in game theory and presented it as a hunch about being a good neighbor.

In 1980, a Michigan political scientist named Robert Axelrod ran a tournament. He invited mathematicians and economists to submit strategies for a game where you repeatedly choose to cooperate with someone or screw them over. Fourteen entries, some hundreds of lines of code. The one that won was four lines: cooperate on the first move, then copy whatever the other person just did.

He ran it again with 62 entries, everyone knowing it had already won. Nobody could beat it.

The traits that made it win: never defect first, punish defection, forgive fast, stay predictable. "Slowed down, let her in" is line one of that program.

Here is the part Matthew got right without knowing the math. The reason cooperating first wins, and doesn't just feel nice, comes down to what theorists call the shadow of the future. Be generous to a stranger you'll never see again and you eat the cost for nothing. Be generous to someone you'll keep running into and the move pays itself back across every interaction left to come.

He thought he was playing a one-shot game with an anonymous driver on a highway. He was playing a repeated game with a neighbor. Same road every day, same faces, decades in front of both of them.

That is why the favor returned in 15 minutes, and why it keeps returning. A highway full of strangers looks like the one place generosity gets wasted. In a small enough world there are no strangers, only people who haven't repaid you yet.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@certifiedmaxey I don't know if I've ever rooted for a non-Celtics team this much. I really hated those videos.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@AMSavage62 @Keith_McPherson You're telling me that 50+ year old Spurs fan who got chased down was a streamer?

And I don't blame anyone for not jumping in. I get that. But I will blame them for filming, laughing, smiling, etc. They get zero sympathy from me on that - I actually hate it so much.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@TheWestbrookEra It's the most perfectly timed villain arc in sports history. Between the Thunder and Knicks fans - he could go full Heath Ledger Joker and still have my support.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@49erCarlos Same. I never thought I could root harder for them than against OKC. Knicks fans just leveled up my hate watching abilities.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@CollinReidPS Preaching to the choir, my friend. It's life - the vocal minority always gets to speak for the group - sports, media, politics (both sides). But the silent majority is still out there - we're quiet, but not extinct.

The one thing that could make that happen - USA World Cup run.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@CollinReidPS Yeah - totally fair. I just got irrationally mad watching those videos. I really hate bullying, never mind when it's literally middle-aged men. It was the people on the sidelines laughing and smiling that really boiled my blood. Thanks for being one of the good guys.

[Michael @JKMKSCI]

@98dmx @iggyreport @Raindropsmedia1 And they all think they're cool when doing it. It's so bizarre to me.