Skeletor
3d ago
You possess no knowledge on this subject. That's fine, most people don't. But no one who does has been especially surprised by the actual outcome of any of Jake Paul's fights. He's defeated some over-the-hill MMA guys, the elderly husk of Tyson, and even a couple of random journeyman boxers here and there, but then he fought an actual serious world-tier heavyweight and got crushed.
That said, personally I really don't mind him. Honestly for how late he got started on the sport he's not bad, and the slobs he's fought are the type lots of guys start out fighting, especially guys without amateur experience. He might be some kind of edgelord by YouTube standards but until he rapes someone or gets some mob ties he's still a cuddlebug by boxing standards.
Skeletor
6d ago
In C, you may get away with not checking the return value of a function that could error. In Rust, that is completely unacceptable and will make the compiler cry. The path of least resistance in C is to do nothing, while the path of least resistance in Rust is to handle the error.
This reminds me of learning BASIC on a Timex/Sinclair 1000, AKA the US release of the ZX81. It had this stupid gel-tab keyboard that made real typing impossible, but it would turn single keystrokes into full commands, even multiple commands per key which it would select contextually depending on where you were in the line you were typing. That and it called out syntax errors on the spot and wouldn't accept them until they were fixed.
This is all relevant to nothing, I'm just waxing nostalgic. For a machine with 2k native RAM (expandable to 16) it was an awesome kid's first computer to learn how to program out of a book.
Skeletor
9d ago
Now you know what women have to put up with.
Apparently not much, if things like this mild troll post elicit a comment like this.
For all you guys complaining about women not responding on dating apps, imagine our friend above times a hundred.
Who cares? You can still scroll past the dongs and go on a date. Or, if you really think "no responses" is a preferable state of affairs compared to having see random dicks, you can always just... not use it.
Skeletor
13d ago
Or else you continued to get laughed at and have power moved away from you because the rest of the (western at least) world stops accepting you as the primus inter pares
Aw jeez, and you're saying this won't happen if we show some cultural sensitivity? Liberal Europe can be as indignant as it wants while it finishes crawling into the grave, but why should anyone really care? No soothing they find acceptable would matter to the people they're busy handing their countries off to anyway.
Skeletor
14d ago
As we move to a more and more multi polar world US citizens need to realize that the rest of the world doesn't think like them and while in the past they had the luxury of being able to ignore what we said without much consequence this is fast dissipating and they will now need to learn some cultural sensitivity like the rest of us.
Or else what, exactly?
Skeletor
14d ago
Could you elaborate on this scary future? I'm getting sick of Indians being portrayed as an amorphous pestilence. Like a brown mongol horde dipped in shit that's about to destroy western civilizations.
Clearly you (or people who make such comments) find something about the character of Indians to be revolting.
Indians are what convinced me that there's a genetic component to filth-tolerance that's separate from general intelligence or conscientiousness. Africans in tin shacks post videos mocking their food handling practices.
Skeletor
15d ago
Europeans since the invention of the internet: You silly Americans, why do you think you need that huge military now that the Cold War is over? I bet it's just to oppress oil countries. Here in Europe we enlightened souls prefer to spend our budgets on our social welfare systems.
Russia: (rolls over and farts menacingly)
Europeans:
As far as European weak military goes, this is has been fully devised by US policy.
Yeah remember when Trump went over there in his first term and asked them to hit their NATO spending obligations and they basically laughed in his face? I do.
Skeletor
18d ago
Saddle the cable TV assets with impossible debt, spin them out for almost nothing, ride off into the sunset.
I know I could just go ask ChatGPT or something, but does anyone want to throw out even just a few sentences on how this is legal? What measures prevent every company from just pinning their debts on spinoffs meant to die, and why did those measures fail here?
Skeletor
21d ago
Oh sorry, obnoxious progressives and this one GOP guy with a retarded child. Nonetheless, this was never a real slur.
Skeletor
21d ago
My personal belief (so I guess a bad bet that I'm willing to commit to) is that within 10 to 30 years, we'll see major upheavals in Africa as it "comes online" so to speak.
People said this kind of shit about South Africa thirty years ago and look how that worked out. Just like the large heavily-black American crime shithole city I live near, ten years away from a big comeback for the last fifty years.
Skeletor
21d ago
terms that are considered slurs today
It was never a slur except in the minds of obnoxious progressives. Normal people don't give a shit and this kind of slur-hunting is way past expiration.
Skeletor
23d ago
"The point I am trying to make is that cheap, mass-produced slop has existed in the music industry for as long as production costs were cheap enough to justify it."
This conversation felt way too cute to me. Lots of describing Record Industry Facts as if they're more important than they are. Plus stuff like the following.
If the record companies wanted to, they could have always signed as many of these musicians as they could, pay for a recording session, pay the musicians a low flat fee, and completely spam the market for little cost. If they get a hit or two out of the deal, great. If not, they're only out ten grand.
Hearing that the requirements have gone from a group of trained people and ten thousand dollars to something a kid can do on their phone for free did not make me feel the way I think it was supposed to here. By this logic everyone concerned about AI visual art can just relax. After all, visual media companies could have always hired infinite boardwalk sketch artists to spam the market, but they didn't.
Yeah but him losing a narrow decision to a reasonably okay boxer wasn't the payoff people wanted at all. They wanted to see him get pulverized.
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