MistaBallWizard

I’ve pumped all my money into this fucking lizard.

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@Ihatesteaksauce @AlexHormozi As long as you don't pass down your awesome ability to completely misunderstand the difference between being remembered (ego) and making a difference, we'll be ok.

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Not really. The assumption a lot of people make, that he could have won slams if he worked harder and was more dedicated, is not something I agree with at all. He likes to ride on that thinking too, but it's not true, and dozens of players could make that claim. At the absolute top, to win even one slam in your career, the margins become miniscule. Tennis has seen dozens and dozens of wildly talented players who accomplished little, relative to their talent. There's no firm reason to believe with some more hard work and dedication he would have been much better. Not working hard was his way of hiding from finding out. As Nadal rightly said, "If, if, if. It does not exist".

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Cue all the retarded dog owners... "I want mail and packages delivered to my house", but I also want to leave my dog unleashed and now I'm mad when my dog runs up on you aggressively and you do something about it. "I want to take my dog for walks unleashed", but I'm mad when he acts aggressively towards you and you do something about it. "Mailmen, UPS and FedEx drivers shouldn't do the job if they're afraid of animals". It's always about what everybody else should be doing, never about them taking responsibility for their dog. It’s so fucking childish.

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@_AshleyRichmond Send

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It’s odd you felt compelled to post this, as if childless people are just wandering around expecting free eldercare from the next generation while contributing nothing. Plenty of childless people invest heavily in future generations — teachers who educate them every day, pediatricians and nurses who care for them, researchers who improve their world, and volunteers who mentor them. They also pay taxes that fund schools, infrastructure, and programs kids rely on. Reducing “investment in the next generation” to only having biological children is a very narrow view. Many of history’s biggest contributors to society had no kids of their own. Framing it this way mostly seems like an attempt to rank your own life choices above all others.

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@Post40_ @albertanforlife So not having children automatically means the person did not invest in the next generation?

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@shaguncrypto Most people cannot fathom the concept of different people wanting different things in life. It's rooted in deep insecurity. Everybody must choose what I choose otherwise it threatens me.

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"The absolute calm with which they destroy people's lives". First offense, differing accounts of how the visit to her home was conducted, no actual test conducted (yes, I agree this alone warrants a stiff penalty) and boom: we end your career. Psychopathic by the @itia_tennis.

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@Codie_Sanchez Ya.

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This whole debate is about proportionality. Everybody understands she committed an offense and must pay a penalty. And everybody understands that the sanctions increase in severity for each offense, but 10 years, 15 or 20 years and death by hanging would all be increasing in severity too. The question is, what is proportional, in this sport? Let's work backwards from the current rules; a lifetime ban, we know what that means. Eight or six years? What planet is anybody living on not to agree this is equivalent to a lifetime ban in elite professional sports? Four years? Probably also a career ender and if somebody ever managed to come back from such a long time off the tour, they are nowhere near the same player and it's just highly unlikely they ever do come back in the first place. So, with the current rules, that's your first offense penalty for a test refusal: career almost certainly over and permanently altered downward. I'm unaware of anybody making a comeback to the highest levels of any sport after being away for four years. But hey, if you think those penalties are proportionate to the "crimes", you're entitled to your opinion, fair enough. For me, we cannot detach ourselves from reality in assessing these penalties.

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This whole debate is about proportionality. Everybody understands she committed an offense and must pay a penalty. And everybody understands that the sanctions increase in severity for each offense, but 10 years, 15 or 20 years and death by hanging would all be increasing in severity too. The question is, what is proportional, in this sport? Let's work backwards from the current rules; a lifetime ban, we know what that means. Eight or six years? What planet is anybody living on not to agree this is equivalent to a lifetime ban in elite professional sports? Four years? Probably also a career ender and if somebody ever managed to come back from such a long time off the tour, they are nowhere near the same player and it's just highly unlikely they ever do come back in the first place. So, with the current rules, that's your first offense penalty for a test refusal: career almost certainly over and permanently altered downward. I'm unaware of anybody making a comeback to the highest levels of any sport after being away for four years. But hey, if you think those penalties are proportionate to the "crimes", you're entitled to your opinion, fair enough. For me, we cannot detach ourselves from reality in assessing these penalties.

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@AMPopps @Scienceofsport Oh, well maybe it’s because I never said any of those things, you did.

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@DreyerChina @Scienceofsport It means I think it should be considered, as well as other things, such as first offense for example, in the penalty phase. If these kinds of things merit consideration in the criminal justice system, and they do, why would they have no place in sport?

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@TravlosKat15913 @jon_wertheim Schadenfreude.

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@trtsporyildiz That backhand down the line by Federer with Nadal up match point at 8-7 has to be the coldest shot in tennis history.

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I love people scrolling on their phones on X and talking about this so casually, as if we're not talking about the effective ending of a 26-year old's career. This rule, that rule, ho-hum, sorry 26-year-old, the career you've spent two decades building through a work ethic and passion that few human souls will ever be able to comprehend, is now over before your 27th birthday. Oh well, what's for dinner...?

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Exactly. Penalties do not exist in a vacuum. Anybody who knows tennis knows this penalty is essentially the same as "we end your career now at the age of twenty-six". It's psychotic to do this to a person. People convicted of manslaughter often do less time than this.

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@jonas_creteur Oh, hold on everybody, some dude who writes about stuff is going hard on an elite professional athlete whose dedication and achievements he can't touch with a thousand foot pole. Sit down.

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@fullpadge Why is everybody talking about this as if it's known with certainty that the female police officer shot the civilian? Nobody knows yet. It sorta kinda looks like it, yes, but you don't know.