pigeonburger
18hr ago
Some comments I've been seeing however suggest that Republican candidates are simply held to lower moral standards nowadays by their respective sides and it won't impact him too much despite the severity. I guess time will tell.
That pretty much reads to me as just "Let's not forget that even if my ingroup might sometimes do bad, my outgroup are always worse (or so I've heard some guy whose opinion here is irrelevant say, see? I'm not the one waging the culture war, I'm just reporting on what is being said!)"
pigeonburger
19hr ago
One of my favorite RPGs series replace basically all trash fights with captcha fights: the SMT series (including Persona). Unless very overlevelled, and even then, you're not expected to auto-battle your way through any fight, and if somehow you are able to, you probably messed up by overoptimising to make it possible to do that with that specific enemies (for instance, enemies with physical vulnerabilities) and made yourself extra vulnerable to others in return. When you first enter a new dungeon/area, all fights against new enemies have to be treated as challenge fights until you figure out a reliable sequence, which will usually involve spending a scarce ressource (MP). Once you have your strategy to beat all the enemies in an area, it's a matter of balancing ressource spend and taking risk in fights with those enemies as your goal is to reach the boss with enough ressources left that you stand a chance as you probe and figure out a strategy against them.
Note that I do think technical analysis is useful, but that analogy is not really convincing. Because maps are useful because they directly chart observed land. In economic parlance, for a practitioner of fundamental analysis, charts are useful so far as they are representations of fundamentals. For the same people, charts and insights from technical analysis people are about as useful for navigation as maps from people who've never surveyed the land they're mapping and are just going by:
- There's a lake there? Sure, I can draw that, I've seen what lakes look like, they've got lines going like this. What do you mean by "have you ever seen a lake in real life?" how is that relevant? We're making maps here, not going on vacation!
pigeonburger
2d ago
I just don't get why europeans (and others, I've heard it from south americans say it too) immediately compare root beer to medicine. It's really consistant too, they all think it, even one who likes it like you agrees with it. To my north american palate, it's a completely distinct taste from any medicine I've ever tasted.
pigeonburger
3d ago
Starbucks I don't know, here they seem to be more around malls and their clientele for their extremely sweetened coffee inspired drinks is mostly affluent women, so it makes sense.
When I go to the office in person, or leave my apartment to head pretty much anywhere in the morning, the Tim Hortons and McDonalds are on the way, so I stop at either one of them every time, at the drive thru, to get breakfast to eat while waiting in traffic. A coffee and a tolerable breakfast sandwich is usually like 5-6 CAD, which I don't mind paying for the benefit of not having to wake up earlier to make myself breakfast at home. So that's between 1 and 3 times a week, I can imagine I'm not alone doing this, I think their business can be doing just fine in that context.
pigeonburger
5d ago
I stopped doing online dating about 8 years ago, but I had been doing it before that for over a decade and I had normal luck, which would invalidate the theory of a bimodal distribution. If I really wanted, I could get, if I used the online dating sites regularly, a date every couple of weeks and the girl would always actually show up. It didn't usually amount to anything, but that was more due to me than the girls or the dating sites.
pigeonburger
6d ago
I think for a lot of people, the thinking is that if they let the arrest happen quickly and without drama, they are accepting an L, but if they drag it on and make it as hard as possible, maybe something, anything will happen that can turn this into a W; they think maybe if they make it as excrutiating as possible the cops will in frustration do something they can spin into brutality or racism and they can use that as leverage. Usually in the end the leverage ends up going the other way, as in the description of the sentencing in the videos you often hear they end up pleading guilty at the initial charges to have the kicking and spitting and biting at the cops charges go away. You end up wondering how lenient the sentences could have been if they had just gone quietly.
pigeonburger
6d ago
My brother, there are youtube channels that do this now. Some are just raw footage, some are trashy and will have really unpleasant stuff like seeing a recently deceased's family being informed of the death of their loved ones. My favorite is Midwest Safety; straddles the line nicely between putting enough contextual information and keeping things relatively classy for the genre.
There's something darkly funny about the prospect of the profit motive of the cynical businessman being far more valuable than the truth motive of a good-faith academic for producing actual knowledge or useful research.
This is ultimately the lesson that needs to be properly taught as to why capitalism outperforms the alternatives. The profit motive, or greed if you prefer to phrase it in a negative way, is not in and of itself good for society, but it is reliable. Which is why it is a good platform to build upon, to align incentives with goals that are prosocial. Fear is the closest alternative, which is why regimes that reject capitalism will tend to reach for fear as their source of motivation for prosocial actions. It's not perfect though, and its inferior to greed; when abused the stick loses its sting. But "truth" is so far off that it's hilarious to think anyone serious would think it could do the job, especially when profit, power and influence are on the table for the taking if you were just bend your principles. And you won't even notice you are bending them, your brain will make it very easy to believe that "truth" aligned with whatever your employer wants to hear, whatever your political tribe wants to hear, whatever your peers want to hear.
pigeonburger
7d ago
There's other ways in which sports can suck though.
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Players do things that barely relate to one another. This is the reason Quiddich in Harry Potter is a stupid idea from someone who probably doesn't understand sports as a concept. But baseball also does it; the pitcher, the batter, the basemen, the fielders do things that outside of the direct level of ball itself, barely have anything to do with one another. Sure, the pitcher is is in direct opposition to the batter, but how does the pitcher affect the fielders?
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The sport is so optimized that large parts of the intended spectacle have become irrelevant. I don't know much about basketball but from what I hear people saying, that's its state now.
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Having so many players that are focussed on only one physical aspect because that's the only thing that's asked of them. Baseball and american football do that. In american football, you got your QB that's usually fairly well rounded, then you get a mix of big mofos and sprightly gazelles. In baseball it seems at this point all that people care about is pitchers (and star batters; I know, they play a position on defense, but that's just to keep them busy).
pigeonburger
7d ago
So no Leatherman? The "standard" one has a blade a bit under 3 inches.
pigeonburger
7d ago
At the limit where the city will go bankrupt from it sure, but below that level you're unlikely to convince the city not to put cameras to protect from crime by going on a property crime spree. Your actions will likely justify putting more cameras to try and catch you vandalizing the cameras.
pigeonburger
7d ago
While not exactly a bayonet, a typical multitool could easily be used to stab someone to death. And to me and most people I know the blade on a multitool is easily the most useful tool on it, by a lot. So your being ok with someone having a knife is dependant on them also having less useful tools stuck on it?
pigeonburger
7d ago
I mean, he's not wrong on soccer's inferiority...
But the real best sport that cannot become a real world cup sports because it's too advanced is hockey, and even then, there's 3 countries that can field an all-star team, and a few more that can field at least an NHL-level team, if not an all-star one.
pigeonburger
7d ago
fire
Does your widdle tummy goes ouchy and achy from eating a bit of raw meat?
pigeonburger
12d ago
Oh, I was simply concurring about the difficulty of having a doctor take you seriously, not asking you to answer for it!
I imagine the best solution is to have a family doctor who knows you and knows that you wouldn't bother him if the symptoms weren't well listed before you opened the damned medical encyclopedia, and that you understand and care about the statistical probability of zebras but sadly it seems this is a system we cannot afford here, so random dismissive generalist it is.
pigeonburger
12d ago
it's the strongest ammunition there is when it comes to making other doctors take you seriously and in convincing them to do the right thing
Maybe it's different for people who can build a relationship with a specific doctor that follows them, but here where you get whoever you're lucky enough to see, the second a non-doctor suggests they have a suspicion as to what they actually have, the doctors will update heavily against the probability of it being that and will do everything they can to dismiss it being what was suggested, as if their now tainted diagnosis should be your punishment for daring to think about anything medical as a stupid plebian. I mean, I know a lot of people otherwise would waste ressources because of Cyberchondria, but not everyone outside of the medical profession is a drooling moron either. And not everyone inside of it hasn't devolved over time into one since medical school.
pigeonburger
13d ago
We were more religious than most of the northern US and western europe. Something like southern europe would be a good analogy, until the 60s, where we caught up all in one shot. Having as many children as possible was heavily encouraged by the church, and was even regularly discussed as an act of resistance against the anglos, it was called "la guerre des berceaux" or "the crib war". And ultimately, it is probably why we managed to avoid what we refer to as "louisianisation".
pigeonburger
13d ago
In the most recent Olympics the single token minority on the team was a guy who is quarter-Japanese (I think?).
Nick Suzuki? Yeah he's quarter japanese, though as a Habs fan no one here ever thinks of him as a minority.
pigeonburger
14d ago
I mean, if he's capable of jumping right to it sure, but the ulterior motives means that there are stakes at play, which adds stress and nervousness which lower his confidence. At least that's how it was for me back then. Removing the motives, not even letting himself think about anything further than the current conversation makes it easier to talk confidently. Once's he's established he's as capable of confidently holding conversations with pretty girls without getting flustered or intimidated, then he can start thinking about flirting with them.
pigeonburger
14d ago
I doubt the goal is to actually collect that revenue, but these two objectives:
- Shame the countries (European, mostly) that refused to join into committing some ships,
- Dispell the idea that Iran is controlling the Strait since they demand tolls or collaboration; if the US is able to demand tolls instead then the US is demonstrating it is in control. Who this demonstration is for, Iran, American voters, etc... I'm not sure.
pigeonburger
16d ago
College will help, but you need to practice interacting casually with girls you could find attractive with no ulterior motives.
pigeonburger
16d ago
You're very tall but not deformed tall, it's gonna be fine.
Bartenders too can clear large amounts of money in tips in hip, expensive nightclubs. Tips for service as a percentage is rather non-sensical.
I'm sure some snobs would argue that the service in a Michelin starred restaurant is worth paying 10 times than that in a local diner, but as a thought experiment what would happen if you were to exchange the wait staff in both but keep the same food? You'd probably have a massively more popular "Michelin starred restaurant with diner staff" (probably barely less popular than it was with its original staff) than "local diner with Michelin starred wait staff", which tells me that the service is a lot less consequential than the food.
Ban is a bit strong, and there could be a discussion about the topic at hand here, but come on, that sentence at the end hiding behind Hanania to claim Republicans are held to lower moral standards is just waging the culture war.
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