cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
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cjet79
4d ago
Ave Xia Rem Y (A Very Cliche Xianxia Harem Story!)
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15193/ave-xia-rem-y
The title doesn't do it justice. It is very cliche in many ways, but it does the tropes honestly. And it can also subvert the tropes in fun ways. Angry young masters have been converted to friends and allies. The powerful masters that rule over everyone can be all too human in their flaws and prejudices. Characters in the story grow and have motivations separate from the main character.
Its a great rationalist story in the sense of having rational characters. Idiot ball plot points are rare. The main character is absolutely not a murder hobo, but instead a doctor and one of the kinder cultivators around. It's easy to like him and want him to succeed.
cjet79
5d ago
Firing squad is the way to go. That or ground zero of an explosive with enough force to instantly destroy your brain.
cjet79
5d ago
I don't know if I've ever seen double white lines outside of an airport runway.
I recently just went on an 11.5 hour road trip.
cjet79
5d ago
You joke, but the underwater rugby team is much more successful at recruiting and in that sport you can hold people underwater.
cjet79
5d ago
Going out after practice is difficult, but I try to make it happen. The main options are Hooters or Denny's.
My own charisma as a coach is hard to judge. People thank me for the coaching and give me compliments, but that could just be politeness.
The people that play are often eclectic. Usually smart people, it's an interesting team sport because you can't easily communicate underwater, but it's absolutely essential that you help your teammates.
Being in shape and able to swim well helps a lot. If you can't do those things but keep playing you will become a good swimmer and at least a little in shape. I've seen and coached people up from 'cant reach the bottom of a 7foot pool with flippers' to 'can swim most of the pool length underwater on the bottom'.
There are three different learning curves for the sport:
- Fitness and water agility. Being an athlete and good swimmer helps this, but coming out to practice consistently also helps
- Positioning and team play. Being in the right spot for passes or stealing the puck from others. People that have played other team sports like basketball, or soccer pick up on this stuff better. But just being smart helps a lot.
- Stick/puck handling. It's possible to do drills and rush to get much better at this. It is very satisfying when you have these skills. They are the least important of the skills though. You can be pretty bad at these and still be a great player. If you are good at these skills you can be a lazier player. They allow you to maximize the benefits of the other two skills.
With a new player I teach them these things:
- How to get down to the bottom easily
- Pushing the puck along in a straight line
- Turning around with the puck
- A simple push pass.
There are usually a few things to correct with each of those. If someone can get to the bottom easily the other items are pretty simple to teach.
We are short on players so just last week we had a brand new player being legitimately useful and scoring a goal against people that were trying to stop him. He is somewhat of an exception. Almost like a track star that played soccer for the first time in a rec league and just ran past everyone even while they sucked at dribbling.
A good athlete or swimmer can be ok at the sport within a few practices. They can be good at it in a year. A person could find the sport their freshman year of college and be selected for an international U23 team by their senior year. That is not an outlandish tale, that is one of the guys I play with.
The learning curves are there. It can take time to get good at the sport. As much time as it takes to get good at any sport, and in some cases less time, because there is less competition. But no one has ever heard of the sport or played it. Meanwhile everyone learns other sports in elementary school. Where they can get the boring basic stuff out of the way. By the time they get to highschool they can choose to play on a team where everyone has a minimal level of good fitness, understanding of the sport, and a basic to intermediate level of experience in the specialized skills of that sport.
cjet79
5d ago
Northern Virginia, USA.
But the sport is international. Best place to be is New Zealand, where its a high school sport. Best place to be in US is Lake Tahoe where Elon Musks' billionaire cousin is building a super team and paying people to live and play there. That last part might sound like a joke, it's not.
cjet79
6d ago
People are not allowed to express an interest in committing suicide without being subject to a whole of oversight and interruption to their life. This can be a good thing to prevent suicide, but it makes all survey data about suicidal willingness a little suspect.
I'd also say that every suicide that happens via someone torturing themselves to death via one of the harder methods is something that could have been prevented with more painless methods being available. At least they could have had a more peaceful death.
cjet79
6d ago
What is it gonna take for you play underwater hockey?
I need help getting new recruits and keeping them around.
cjet79
6d ago
Knew an East Asian looking woman with a Hispanic looking last name, but an accent that only sort of seemed like a Spanish accent. Then met her white friends that she went to college with that all had the same accent.
Felt more comfortable asking them and finally got the obvious answer to her origins I should have realized sooner: Brazil.
cjet79
6d ago
You can be a software dev in a small 100% male company in Eastern Europe that has a chat channel for sharing porn.
This is both mind-blowing and completely believable.
I remember there was some controversy around Godot but I entirely forgot what it was. Censorship issues?
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