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Otis Anderson

@oldjacket

Californian in New Hampshire. Very much a dad. Several seemingly unrelated topics! Data, analytics, SF Giants baseball, health care, econ. Occasional political outbursts. Sorry.

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“Do you think it’s because of my OCD?” My 14 year old, who wears the same clothes every day and has been in many many hours of therapy for OCD.

12.03.2026 12:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Young Sheldon is good, Big Bang Theory is bad, I will not be taking questions

12.03.2026 02:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lost my vote

11.03.2026 23:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.03.2026 20:18 👍 72 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Blue cheese sucks

11.03.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am more than a little sympathetic to Mark DeRosa.

11.03.2026 18:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why isn’t David Festa extremely good?

11.03.2026 03:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Japan Forms Alliance with White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme

Japan Forms Alliance with White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme

This headline pops into my head whenever I think about the modern right wing political coalition

11.03.2026 03:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hayden Birdsong didn’t walk anyone??!?!

10.03.2026 22:58 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🫡

10.03.2026 18:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How unexpected do you think it would be relative to Ramos’ development in 2024?

09.03.2026 16:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Moral panic

09.03.2026 15:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The parents who get nuts about their kid’s performance are plentiful in rec league, and many travel coaches are more apt to cut an annoying parent than a struggling kid

07.03.2026 21:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Paid travel sports is a source of healthiest relationships in my younger kids life, and even though a lot coaches make choices to prioritize winning over development, many do the opposite.

07.03.2026 21:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I guess I have a hot take that youth sports culture is far less toxic now in a mostly paid environment than it was 35 years ago in mostly free one - though I’ll admit paid or free may be irrelevant to the changes

07.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It is incredibly normal

07.03.2026 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That one is probably the worse piece of scholarship though

07.03.2026 03:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Skynet defeated by pointing at the right yaml file

06.03.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is very funny

06.03.2026 21:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Life would be better if, when a CEO made a statement about their product’s capabilities, you gave it about the same level of credence as a parent talking about their kid’s athletic potential

06.03.2026 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He just said people switch sectors, and he is right?

06.03.2026 16:05 👍 40 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Spilled some on my pants - pretty sure they’re done for

04.03.2026 19:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes please

04.03.2026 19:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why exactly did I chose to eat a lunch that included harissa chickpeas at my desk?

04.03.2026 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With extremely mixed success

04.03.2026 17:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

within software I would say the argument is mostly over, despite the occasional “as a software engineer, it only produces shit code that you have to spend twice as long reviewing as it took to write.” very few people actually think this and they’re all on this site

04.03.2026 14:18 👍 168 🔁 13 💬 13 📌 4

The other, better hitting catcher is fine though

03.03.2026 17:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is this a thing ? Have I been unknowingly carrying around an attractive trait and learning about it in my late 40s?

03.03.2026 17:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My informal impressions from al anon meetings was that most of their qualifying relatives and spouses preferred beer or white claws , though perhaps this is a good time for the airplane with holes graphic

03.03.2026 12:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m shocked that Harrison Bader isn’t an Eric Byrnes style dipshit

03.03.2026 04:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0