Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
16d ago
I was thinking about hunger strikes recently. And I figured out there are two things to be done - either force feeding them, or locking them in a room to make sure they won't cheat for at least 60 days.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
You have put quite a lot of links showing that single people are not trying, few that prove it is hard.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
Learn to cook and make cocktails. Create facebook events for house parties. Eventually someone will bring couple of girls they are hitting on. Befriend them. They have friends, they can invite other girls and they will vouch for you that you are cool guy and not a creep.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
My observations shows that the genz are as outgoing as the millenials and X-ers before them. They gather and drink beer in the park when the weather is warm, love going out clubbing, love going out on hikes and so on and attend shittons of house parties. There is probably selection bias since I drink quite a lot with the outgoing ones, but I don't think that there is massive epidemic of reclusive people.
Covid did move to house partying - but that is not a problem - you could obtain or host one.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
And this is why only clueless people use pure online dating. Meet girls IRL. Chat with her a bit. Take her contacts. Is it THAT hard?
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
Every induction hob I have used - and I have used a professional 3.5kw for my home for long years is bang bang for low power. This is not fun if you need gentle simmer. 300w/s and 1200 for a second every 4 is not quite the same if you don't have huge thermal buffer.
The other problem is that they have a quite stupid overheat protection and don't allow you to properly run hot something for searing.
If those two things are no issue for you - it's the best tech there is.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
Trump is good at identifying problems. Terrible at implementing solutions. Rise of china was fueled by hollowing of the rust belt, Europe is not paying for it's defense, multinational companies do take disproportionate profits from US and so on, immigration and birthright citizenships are loopholes, the universities are too woke ... he just doesn't have the proper managing capacity to solve them right. And he is just using brute force and clumsily.
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
I mean im pretty sure 1900s France was doing the “stop or I’ll send a letter to the League of Nations” up until they got invaded in WW1.
Your timeline is off. League of nations was created after WWI. And France was both massive colonial empire and they fought quite the good fight in WWI.
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
Israel doesn't have diplomatic relations with Iran, so for them the consulates and embassies are just buildings.
anarcho tyranny is a situation in which the government can get to anyone, but doesn't have the capacity to rule/subdue/pacify everyone. In a true tyranny the streets are safe, in a true anarchy the government can't shoot you at will. In an anarcho tyranny the government can shoot you at will but doesn't have the capacity to shoot everyone that makes the streets unsafe.
So what i am saying is that I don't expect the US to decline to even that stage on the road to ruin.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
I don't think there is going to be civil war. If the USA collapses it will be in a surprising way. Just a hunch. I doubt that you will even get to anarcho tyranny during Trump years.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
They are (not quite implicitly) concerned that if they go hard on the protestors, the protesting-supporting teachers will go abroad as well
I always enjoy when I read such statements. Go where? Everywhere else in the world they pay less. Almost everywhere in the world there is less tolerance.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
And with Hamas in control, October 7 will inevitably repeat as soon as the IDF is out.
Wasn't Oct 7 mostly IDF incompetence, and not hamas prowess?
Insights from Taleb and Mandelbrot about tail risks and black swans are another good example of something "obvious" that it took smart people a long time to come to terms with
Really? People have been quite risk averse since forever. The first thing and Eastern European kid learns in life is never to drink from Coca Cola bottle with a Fanta cap (there is something mild inside usually - no more than 120 proof, but kids and foreigners just can't drink) and from there on till the end of their life - first they smell then drink.
What Taleb peddles is mostly common sense. It is not great insights.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
Can anyone explain what is going on in Gaza? Israel seems to be doing another ground operation, but their goal and why are murky.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
A market has no objectives aside from matching buyers and sellers.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
Every government thinks price controls will work for them, just this one time.
The rationing systems during WWII I think were a success.
Every government believes that just a few subsidies and tax benefits here and there can build an industry.
And they are sometimes right.
Free markets are a tool. They are not ideology. They are not a goal. What governments don't understand is that to have price control you have to manipulate demand and supply one way or another for them to match at the price you want.
Lizzardspawn
26d ago
I last used ChatGPT-4o months ago and found the answers to be quite terrible, like what I might expect from someone who only watched a youtube video on the topic.
That is literally their training data.
But they improve fast - when it comes to lets say give diagnosis based on symptoms - they really hit the mark. I had a doctor friend of mine test it with real cases they had
Lizzardspawn
26d ago
Now wait to see extended version. It's not called Bored of the rings for no reason.
Lizzardspawn
27d ago
For some reason this reminds me of this joke but inverted. The day they think trough the promotion their sales will plumet.
A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you." The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?" The boy takes the quarters and leaves. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!" Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream parlor. "Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?" The boy licked his cone and replied: "Because the day I take the dollar the game is over!"
Lizzardspawn
30d ago
That they are foreigners.
Lizzardspawn
1mo ago
What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all?
Wanna have some fun times - think about whether it is different in medical and engineering schools nowadays.
Lizzardspawn
1mo ago
That is stupid test, made by people who think they are smarter than they are.
Ways to improve it - first instead of baby in the basket are drugs. A policy of - we save the baby and if the cost is letting a drug dealer go - well they are too stupid to take the warning and we will catch them anyway.
Second - the officer could just play some loud screeching noise and try to wake up the baby. Hear the baby cry and we are golden. Or he could kick the basket. Or he could just walk next to the person in the basket for as long as needed.
Third - the basket is the murder weapon. If the serial killer was called lumberjack harry killing his victims in central park - because he killed people with felling axe while wearing of those signature shirts, no court would say that patting down every recreational deforester in the area is infringing on their rights.
There is only one cohort of white collar worker that knows what is to be obsolete overnight in the world today - the Eastern Bloc boomers and oldest genx-ers. The ones that were in their 30-s and older when the berlin wall fell.
And they didn't took it easy. So I expect if we shed white collar jobs fast the shock to be painful. And few of the white collars today have the rural connections to be able to move into trades or something similar.
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