It Was an Honor to Watch the Browns This Year...

relic2279 · 2021-01-19T21:10:04+00:00

Yeah, beating Pittsburgh twice in a row was pure honey.

relic2279 · 2021-01-14T15:08:05+00:00

Steelers are our first, best, and only true rival.

I think this is where our misunderstanding is rooted; I think the Steelers is our biggest & best rival. Hell, it's one of the best rivals in all of sports. I have great respect for the Steelers as our rival. And that respect is/was returned as Steeler fans were protesting the move with Browns fans. I still have a copy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and on the front page are protestors, half Steelers fans, half Browns fans. Rooney (Steelers owner) also voted against the move to preserve that rivalry.

Because of the solidarity between organizations, many Browns fans adopted the Steelers as the team to root for during the intermission we were without a football team -- and they accepted us. During the sports segments on the local news, they'd show Steelers highlights, etc. Virtually every Browns fan rooted for the Steelers (instead of, or over the Ravens). Not a single coworker, acquaintance, friend or neighbor rooted for the Ravens during that time that I'm aware of. There was nothing but pure loathing from a community standpoint.

That's why I hesitate to believe you lived through the move. Or at the very least, if you did, you weren't near Cleveland Ohio. What you describe doesn't sound remotely like the atmosphere that existed here during those few years. People were burning Ravens jerseys, effigies of art model, and you certainly didn't see a people driving around with Ravens bumper stickers or the like. Come to think of it, I still don't (despite seeing Steeler's fans everywhere in NE Ohio). Art Model didn't just try and move the team, he tried to take the team's history and name too. Thankfully the city sued & fought to keep it but he did have some "Baltimore Browns" merch mocked up (gag warning) ex1 & ex2.

I went on a bit of a tangent but to circle back around; I agree with you that the Steelers are our top rival. But being a rival doesn't require hatred or loathing. On the contrary, it can often breed a bit of respect. But my original question didn't ask who the Browns biggest or best rival is, it asked who people hated the most. I didn't even mention the word rival.

A little off topic but it's kind of a running joke around here in Cleveland that there are as many Steeler fans as Browns fans in the area, since you see them everywhere. I wonder if there are a lot of Browns fans in & near Pittsburgh? Somehow I doubt it, but I wouldn't mind being wrong.

relic2279 · 2021-01-13T16:24:27+00:00

I can’t possibly even understand Browns fans who say they hate the Ravens more than the Steelers...

If you had to live through the move, and art model, it's not that hard. :) There's nobody in the NFL I hate more than Art Model.

relic2279 · 2021-01-11T19:33:19+00:00

I loved the 90s. But don't forget that the Browns left Cleveland in the 90s. Not a particularly good time for Cleveland Football fans, it makes the trip down memory lane bittersweet. Speaking of, we did have the Arch Deluxe from McDonalds. I loved that burger.

relic2279 · 2021-01-11T12:35:41+00:00

I wonder who Browns fans hate more, the Ravens or the Steelers? For me, it's an easy choice. The Ravens. I lived through the move. Absolutely heartbreaking. However, I do remember Pittsburgh (and Buffalo) being the only two teams who voted against the Browns moving to Baltimore so I can't hate the Steelers. Or rather, it's not the kind of deep loathing I have for the Ravens.

relic2279 · 2021-01-11T12:08:44+00:00

I miss Topps and Upper Deck.

I could have sworn I saw Topps Baseball cards at Walmart the other day. Are both completely out of business? Or just not popular anymore? Whatever happened to Fleer and Donruss?

relic2279 · 2021-01-05T09:41:04+00:00

One of the reasons it went away was because we were getting so many of them, that the admins stepped in and asked us to turn on our NSFW 18+ tag if we were going to continue to allow them. That setting is kind of a death sentence for subreddits. You lose all your traffic as you will no longer show up anywhere. Not even in google's search as the subreddit gets a nofollow tag. In the end, we decided we were a Browns football subreddit, not a boobie subreddit. That doesn't mean someone can't create their own subreddit just for those posts; in fact we thought people would. Oh well.

relic2279 · 2020-12-29T14:33:22+00:00

So the same as every other paper about the Fermi paradox?

Not OP but I myself have never been a fan of Fermi's Paradox. It makes too many presumptions & assumptions. For starters, that aliens would be using radio waves to communicate (and since we don't detect them, aliens don't exist). I find it highly unlikely that aliens would use radio waves to communicate over vast interstellar distances. It's inefficient thanks to the inverse square law. Using light, lasers or some other technology we haven't discovered yet would be more likely.

From wikipedia: "it has been proposed that higher frequency signals, such as lasers operating at visible light frequencies, may prove to be a fruitful method of interstellar communication; at a given frequency it takes surprisingly small energy output for a laser emitter to outshine its local star from the perspective of its target

Other more exotic methods of communication have been proposed, such as modulated neutrino or gravitational wave emissions. These would have the advantage of being essentially immune to interference by intervening matter." Source.

relic2279 · 2020-12-29T14:24:20+00:00

could their collective power fry my brain?

I'm no expert but are you referring to things like television satellites? They use 10 to 20 watts per channel (last time I checked) and it's focused in a wide area (e.g. continental U.S), to cover the most possible territory. As technology evolves, so does efficiency. Meaning less watts required to produce a coherent signal, and they use higher frequencies to transmit more data. And therein lies one of the problems; satellites operate on different frequencies from one another. So having 5 or 100 of these pointed at your head wouldn't have a multiplicative effect. In fact, some frequencies may interfere with others lessening any damage. The odds are there will be more destructive interference than constructive interference.

I imagine any satellite in orbit meant to fry someone's brain would likely use lasers or the like due to energy requirements. Radio waves aren't at all efficient at that sort of thing thanks to the inverse square law. However, I'm no expert and this was more of a thought experiment for me.

relic2279 · 2020-12-24T16:12:40+00:00

Fun fact of the day (something some may not realize): When you create a post or comment, and see an immediate downvote/upvote, it might not be an actual vote. Reddit's anti-spam code "fuzzes" the votes purposefully. This is to thwart spam bots and the like -- it's done so bots cannot tell if their post has been caught by the spam filter, or if they've been shadowbanned. Bots will see the vote totals moving around and think their post has traffic/activity and all is well. Obviously more sophisticated bots could likely detect & subvert this but it works well enough I guess.

I mention this because I frequently see people say "Why would someone downvote this?!" When it's possible nobody downvoted it at all.

relic2279 · 2020-12-14T16:29:58+00:00

Sometimes I wish they started here in Cleveland at that time. I work third shift so it's very difficult for me to catch a full game live -- especially since I work on the weekends.

relic2279 · 2020-12-14T16:26:43+00:00

If you're in the Cleveland area, there's a store in Southpark mall that does custom masks. And they're not too terribly priced (they're not price gouging or anything). I had one made there. But now that I think on it, why the hell did it not dawn on me to get a Browns mask? I love OPs so I'm hoping he won't mind if I copy his...

relic2279 · 2020-12-10T15:39:17+00:00

No question, just want to thank you for bringing a silver lining to this dreadful year. Thanks!

relic2279 · 2020-11-25T14:57:18+00:00

Today, it depends on the jeans. I wear Alberto jeans and I have a pair that I've been wearing every week for 6 years and they still look brand new. They're expensive but it beats having to buy a new pair of jeans every year or two.

relic2279 · 2020-11-25T14:51:53+00:00

any chance anyone knows how to detect dark matter

The person that does this will win a Nobel. We can't detect it directly, but we see its effects. One effect is the rotation of galaxies. They should be rotating a lot slower if its was only visible matter interacting, instead we see them rotating as if there's a lot more mass than we see. Another effect is gravitational lensing; when we look deep into space we see something invisible creating the telltale gravitational lensing (see here).

Maybe some leftover by a black hole

There hasn't been enough time for even the smallest stellar-mass sized black hole to evaporate away. For that, it would take 10⁶⁷ or 10 to the 67th power years, or if written out: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

relic2279 · 2020-11-25T14:28:51+00:00

Are you asking if gravity only exists with matter? The answer would be no. Light and energy can also create gravity, if there's enough in a single place. It'd be possible (or rather, not theoretically impossible) to create a black hole using only light/energy if you could concentrate enough of it in a single spot.

relic2279 · 2020-11-25T14:11:25+00:00

This submission beat you by a few minutes:

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/k0qucs/sls_nasa_megarocket_assembly_begins_in_florida/

relic2279 · 2020-11-25T14:05:42+00:00

there are a lot of Browns fans in Florida.

I heard on the radio yesterday (WMMS) about a Browns backer bar in Tokyo. The radio host wasn't sure that they were familiar with the sport, but they had their restaurant full of Cleveland Browns memorabilia. I think it was more about being an American restaurant (serving American food) and they were using the Cleveland Browns as decoration.

I do plan to visit Japan within the next couple years, I was hoping to go this summer and visit during the Olympics but Covid put a stop to that. I'd love to check that restaurant out and chat with the owners (don't get many chances to utilize my Japanese here in Cleveland).

relic2279 · 2020-11-23T18:38:32+00:00

Just a PSA to you and anyone else reading:

I had posted and deleted this this thing like 5 times

Careful doing that. Reddit's spam algorithms look at user/self-deleted posts as one facet of your "trust". If you find yourself getting caught by the spam filter a lot, it means reddit's algorithms don't trust you very much. Spammers like to hide their submission history so they'll delete their posts to make it look as if they're not submitting 500 articles from spammywebsite.com or youtube.com/spammychannel.

Not that this alone will flag you as a spammer (or even suspicious) since there are legitimate reasons to delete posts, but a long history of it over a long time span looks fishy as hell.

relic2279 · 2020-11-23T18:25:52+00:00

but can you explain to me why it's such a big deal to troll on a rival's subreddit?

Excluding just not being a dick and remaining classy, brigading another subreddit is against reddit's site-wide global rules. It goes way beyond football and covers all of reddit. It is actually a huge issue in other subreddits (one political party trolling another's subreddit, xbox fans vs PS, intel vs amd, etc etc). The admins have zero tolerance for this behavior and can/will/have banned people for doing this.

I think it's going a little far to ban for simple trolling

Simple trolling is one thing, but it's never just one person doing it once or twice. It's many people doing it often, hence the term "brigading" (you might be a single drop but many drops eventually turn into a flood or torrent). Though if it makes a difference, this rule goes beyond subreddit mods authority -- it's coming from the admins (paid employees of reddit).

relic2279 · 2020-11-17T13:44:27+00:00

If vacuum decay were to be discovered has starting to happen

It happens at light speed, so there would be no way to discover it happening. It just happens, then we're all winked out of existence.

relic2279 · 2020-11-12T11:41:27+00:00

Mars is especially bright these days. "Mars: Closest, Biggest & Brightest in a Decade".

relic2279 · 2020-10-28T18:51:08+00:00

Question for "Mr Reliable", aka Donovan Peoples-Jones: I think I already know the answer to this, but did/do you ever regret forgoing your senior year in college to declare for the NFL draft? Given the production you had in the last game, I'm pretty sure the answer is "Hell no" but I figured I should still ask anyways. Sometimes people regret it for non-professional reasons, like leaving friends behind, coaches and teachers who you cared for, girlfriends, etc.

relic2279 · 2020-10-15T12:56:45+00:00

The Fermi paradox isn’t just about radio waves?

I agree 100%, but that's what people bring up as "proof" of the paradox.

It’s that we don’t see any evidence for advanced civilisation

I guess my issue is, have we even begun looking? If we ignore radio waves, what other big projects are out there looking for E.T? And perhaps more importantly, are we even technologically advanced enough to "look"? Again, if aliens are using some technology far beyond our own, we may not even know how to look yet. It's like that XKCD comic of ants on an ant hill, looking for a trail of pheromones and declaring the planet empty of intelligent life while there's a big city skyline in the background.

there are others eg the Dyson dilemma

I'm unfamiliar with this but I assume it's that we don't see any Dyson spheres? I don't think that really qualifies as any sort of proof; we don't even know if that's the most efficient way of sustaining a civilization. That is to say, it might be overkill compared to other sources. It's also just theoretical. And who knows, if an advanced alien civilization is capable of building a Dyson sphere, could they not they be clever enough to mask, hide, cloak or even reuse the "waste" infrared energy?

I think all of this kind of circles back to my point; we don't know enough yet to say there's a paradox.

relic2279 · 2020-10-14T20:28:16+00:00

Is the Moneyball movie any good? I downloaded it to watch later.

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