@infraredviolet so it's more important to stay in front of your opponent, which is easier if you're both set as a team, and also not having to catch up to a guy from all the way across the court.
@infraredviolet They sometimes do, but the reason it's infrequent is because it's quite physically taxing, and it's also more risky, since you're opening up space for the offensive team to drive. I think in comparison to soccer, it's a lot easier to hold someone on your back after you beat them
gonna actually read hegel soon. meaning that i'll have to give up one of my favourite pastimes, abstractly signalling towards my almost entirely secondhand understanding of general hegelian ideas.
the roko's basilisk guys are so funny bc they correctly intuit that our lives will be controlled by a psychotic, amoral algorithm that hates humanity but they think some nerd in SF is going to build it on his macbook. it was already built, in 1602, by the Dutch
Whoever can first synthesize Chinese and Mexican food will become a god among men. For so long these 2 great cultures have been enemies when they should be Allies.
there is an increasingly large class of people on here who would squirm if you put it this way, but their unironic answer to the question of "is there too little or too much gambling in society?" is "there is not enough gambling in society."