Autumnal Dunks
@dunks.bsky.social
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i’m chris, your nice friend from basketball. maine by heart, boston by happenstance. host of enjoy your day, thursdays at 2 ET @ uncertain.fm
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dunks.bsky.social
nah nah, not like that - like how the second apron killed trades and free agency.
dunks.bsky.social
it’s interesting but not a transaction or anything involving team construction
dunks.bsky.social
“we accidentally figured out why men are increasingly insane”
paris.nyc
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
dunks.bsky.social
i definitely don’t miss the other place, but i miss the kind of youthful goofiness that was often found there, if that makes sense.
dunks.bsky.social
a dead offseason, star injuries, plus inevitability about a charisma-free OKC team going back to back. the nba needs some juice
andytobo.bsky.social
I AM really struggling with how little NBA talk there is on here and I'm tired of pretending I'm not. Ratio me, it's a badge of honor.
dunks.bsky.social
it was just mike johnson saying something stupid and a lady just saying “fuck” a bunch of times. wasn’t even a rebuttal
dunks.bsky.social
my mom reposted some lib slop video on instagram and my trumper aunt texted her to say she was unfollowing her. my mom told me about it and i replied to her:
don’t post if you can’t take the heat
dunks.bsky.social
me going to a Magic The Gathering tournament and talking to a friend on the phone about an unmistakable musk as i pinch my nose
dunks.bsky.social
oh you’re not a listener to all kinds of stuff??
dunks.bsky.social
goddamn, nephew kyle and ceruti are coming to the new ryen russillo venture - the goodbye to the ringer is on this afternoon’s show at about 75 mins in.
dunks.bsky.social
my buddy just dresses like this and he was like “ah, crap” when he saw some photos of leo
dunks.bsky.social
it’s time for bill belichick to save the tennessee titans
dannyheifetz.bsky.social
it is not an accident the Titans fired Brian Callahan a week before playing the Patriots and Mike Vrabel
dunks.bsky.social
that’s cool but my friend joe played with 6 broken ribs
fantasynflnews.bsky.social
Jauan Jennings said he's playing with 5 broken ribs.
dunks.bsky.social
yes that’s what i said, have some balance in your literature consumption you goddamn dork
dunks.bsky.social
tired of pretending that people that take ideological inspiration from comics and manga are fuckin smart in any way
sharonk.bsky.social
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
dunks.bsky.social
i dropped this one in the boys chat the other day and i think it’s my credo
naw i don't watch "web shows" i am an adult man
dunks.bsky.social
remember torpedo bats haha
dunks.bsky.social
but also the celtics are going to be ass
dunks.bsky.social
yeah it rocks. i’m happy to just have a bandaid on my thumb instead of like a big piece of gauze sponge
dunks.bsky.social
i also got a tetanus shot and was fevered and fucked up the last couple days, but i got a celtics preseason game now that i am alive
dunks.bsky.social
i have before! good for ny!
dunks.bsky.social
good lord, that is anemic as fuck. mass’ benefits are like $900/week
dunks.bsky.social
right here just got me big time