Walterodim
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This has been addressed repeatedly in this thread and isn't an original or interesting sentiment. I don't think you would have any trouble identifying what has been stolen were it your intellectual property.
Even that I know it's snarky and somewhat dumb, I always wind up returning to the same thought experiment with regard to free will - how do the people that believe in pure determinism (or determinism plus stochastic randomness) react to a physical threat? If someone stands in front of them and says, "if you deny free will, I will punch you in the face", do they behave as though they believe that there is no free will to be exercised on the part of either party, that everything that follows is a mere consequence of the state of the universe with possibly a roll of the dice to determine the outcome? Many will affirm that they do, in fact, believe that, but pretty much no one would be willing to bite the bullet and say that neither individual has a choice in what follows. I am aware of various explanations for this and it's possible that I'm just too slow-witted to fully grasp them, but they really do just seem like pure sophistry to me.
Here's the rundown:
When he was 13, Lanza was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by a psychiatrist, Paul Fox.[155] When he was 14, his parents took him to Yale University's Child Study Center, where he was also diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He frequently washed his hands and changed his socks 20 times a day, to the point where his mother did three loads of laundry a day.[166] He also sometimes went through a box of tissues in a day because he could not touch a doorknob with his bare hand.[167]
Lanza was treated by Robert King, who recommended extensive support be put in place, and King's colleague Kathleen Koenig at the Yale Child Study Center prescribed the antidepressant Celexa.[168] Lanza took the medication for three days. His mother Nancy reported: "On the third morning he complained of dizziness. By that afternoon he was disoriented, his speech was disjointed, he couldn't even figure out how to open his cereal box. He was sweating profusely ... it was actually dripping off his hands. He said he couldn't think ... He was practically vegetative."[155] He never took the medication again.[168] A report from the Office of the Child Advocate found that "Yale's recommendations for extensive special education supports, ongoing expert consultation, and rigorous therapeutic supports embedded into (Lanza's) daily life went largely unheeded."[163]
In a 2013 interview, Peter Lanza (Adam's father) said he suspected his son might have also had undiagnosed schizophrenia in addition to his other conditions. Lanza said that family members might have missed signs of the onset of schizophrenia and psychotic behavior during his son's adolescence because they mistakenly attributed his odd behavior and increasing isolation to Asperger syndrome.[155][162][169][170][171]
I don't buy the claim that this is such an ordinary history that the dragnet would catch Motte shitposters. I suppose it is true that his utterly amoral parents protected their precious psychotic baby as he devolved from merely being an isolated lunatic into a murderous lunatic and that there might not have been much anyone could have done about it after they elected to do so. In any case, there is simply nothing anyone could have done to make this guy less of an unloveable incel.
In other words: politics!
Not really. I honestly don't care very much what the local property tax rate is all that much. I have opinions, but it's not going to ruin my life if I get stuck paying an extra couple grand for some pointless makework project.
That's just a sleight of hand attempt on their part to move properly political questions into a sacred domain where their views will be beyond criticism. In exchange, they'll allow you to haggle over bureaucratic and administrative issues that no one actually cares about.
Didn't I just say that I have a bunch of things that I don't consider negotiable?
Your reply seems pretty unrelated to what I wrote. I don't get it.
I can see the appeal to formalizing a process and that probably does make sense overall, but the enormity of Trump really does demand exceptional treatment. This is true whether he remains banned or is unbanned - the impact of the size of his audience, his stature as the former head of state of the most powerful nation in the world, and his previous prominence (mastery?) of the medium makes him at least an order of magnitude more important than any other user. Holding the guy that could singlehandedly spark mass political violence to the same standard as Catturd just doesn't make sense to me.
I think my odds of being able to go to the farmer's market and buy beef with American dollars for the remainder of my life are quite high. Maybe I'll be wrong, but my general monetary plan isn't based on not desiring the ability to freely transact, but based on my evaluation that I can pretty much do so in the United States and I don't expect that to change any time soon. I'll be absolutely shocked if it turns out that in 2034 I can purchase brats with Bitcoin, but not US dollars.
Oh, I'm well aware of that. The point I'm addressing is the claim that exercise "cannot be easy, because the way it works is by being hard", which is just not even close to true. Aerobic fitness is developed primarily from easy efforts, not pain tolerance.
That's the counterargument I hear and it just sounds like unfalsifiable bunk to me. I flatly don't buy that whether I hit a guy or not is just stochastically determined by parameters plus randomness, I believe that it's actually a product of me electing to do so or not. My claim is also pretty obviously unfalsifiable bunk, but then we're just stuck at whose sophistry is more compelling.
"Needing" a couple beers to enjoy hanging out with your buddies at a bar is not, in fact, a terrible thing. This is particularly true for definitions of "need" that aren't fully compulsive.
Yeah, that's fair.
In any case, I only have a couple weeks in Australia, but I had a great time. It's the only country I've been to that had the visually obvious size and wealth that I associate with the United States. Really such an interesting thing of its own that it's hard to really group with other countries meaningfully. I suppose Canada has a bunch of similar traits, but sharing the continent still makes it feel less singular. Americans also tend to underestimate just how far it is to get to Australia - people know it's far, but a 16-hour flight from LA still shocks the senses. To be honest, I didn't even think about it in the post above - the places I had in mind were European countries, Japan, Korea, and South America.
How weird. That's not the link I dropped in! Fixed to a functional one now though.
High heart rates being 150s/160s?
This depends what your max heart rate is. Max heart rate is mostly set by genetics and age, it doesn't change much over any short period of time. If your max HR is 180, then 160s is high. If your max HR is 200, 160s is not that high - I'll spend a half marathon above that the entire time.
Yes, exactly, this is what I meant when I said that there are problems with treating betting markets as truly predictive. In sports, these are referred to as "public teams" and I wouldn't be surprised to see these sorts of effects among people that place a few bucks on Polymarket as a hobby. My objection isn't that betting markets are perfect, it's that conscious manipulation will tend to lose out to people that want to make a buck because it creates perceived positive expected value opportunities. People that think there is conscious manipulation or that they personally know which direction the market is biased in should simply bet against that position and enjoy the free positive expected value.
Why do you think people watch current NFL games, and would not view older NFL games if they were less expensive?
Because, contra your claims above, current NFL games are a source of civic engagement, discourse, and philosophy. Of note, people do watch older games. The other day, I went back and watched a fun Bills-Patriots playoff game while I was cycling on Zwift. NFL Network televises old games that people watch. The advantages to real-time developments are that it's all happening live, we're engaged with something as a community of viewers, and there are few shared experiences in the modern world.
Do you think a rational consumer making rational choices would pick a shoe because it has the name “Messi” attached to it?
Yes. In the area where I do buy expensive sports products (running shoes), I can observe that the best runners in the world wear a couple specific shoes - if it were possible to run faster and win prizes wearing something else, they would do so (or at least a few would). I can be confident that the shoes on the feet of the guys running 2:03 marathons really are as good as it gets.
Moreover, "rational" doesn't mean that someone doesn't enjoy aesthetics, in-group symbols, and branding. You might as well suggest that someone that's truly rational wouldn't prefer a green shoe to a blue shoe when they're otherwise identical.
As a Bills fan, I absolutely hated seeing that happen to Tua. May he get well soon, whatever that may mean for his future.
Is the general mood that the season is basically over, so you might as well roll with Thompson? I'm mildly surprised that there isn't something like a Ryan Tannehill reunion.
Yep, it was a new Gen 2 when it first came out. Had a corporate discount, so it was $800. So cheap I couldn't afford not to buy it! That and a buddy got one, so I had to keep up.
I like the data, but I mostly got it for the actual running features. The GPS accuracy is superb, the battery life is long, and the running dynamics provide some cool data (e.g. stride length, cadence, estimated power including wind, elevation of stride). The AMOLED screen was the nicest they were likely to have for quite some time, so on something that I wear all the time I valued that a fair bit.
Overall, not something I would recommend dollar for dollar unless running or another sport where GPS data is important. A huge amount of what you're paying for is Garmin's high-quality GPS. Their software used to suck, but it's now excellent as well and allows really nice integration with other platforms.
A Garmin epix watch. I would say the scores generally match my felt experience pretty closely. It's neat to see how quick you drop down to deep sleep when you're healthy but physically exhausted from the day.
It also gives HRV data and a stress score that's largely HRV derived. The data over the weekend was wild in general. On the flip side, it was actually nice to see some objective measurement of just how bad off I was dropping to help reassure me that I don't really need to do anything other than lie there, drink fluids, and get better when I get better.
Canada! Rockies are the start of the true West, Canada is the start of the true North.
You can easily build a Cyberpunk character to those specs. There are other options, but if you're willing to restrain yourself via a little bit of RP, it's easy enough to wind up with a character whose core competency is almost entirely quiet assassination.
But unless they're exceptionally rude, most girls won't say to your face that your height isn't good enough, so you might well be missing out on those, especially since you say you've only dated the ones shorter or just very slightly taller.
Oh, sure, I accept pretty much without question that genuinely tall girls are right out. They don't want me and I don't want them. Nothing personal. That just doesn't eliminate enough of the pool to really be much of a problem.
To be clear, I'm not claiming that height isn't a distinct life advantage, just that it's a sliding scale rather than categorical. Being doomed to date women that are mostly median height and below isn't really much of a problem. Like a number of other things in life, the good news is that if you get it right even once, you're all set anyway.
How do you feel about esoteric finishing and blending though? Things like what Barrell and Bardstown have done have produced pretty interesting results. I don't want Seagrass all the time, but when I do, it's really good.
...how fucking hard making great whiskey is and why MGP is such a dominant force.
Hilarious that there are people that want to skip out on MGP because they don't like sourced and finished whiskies. More bottles for me!
Why not just buy this little guy instead? Same price, low miles, only ten years old, intentionally designed to be that size, and it's even kinda cute. Come to think of it, I ought to buy my wife one of these.
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Failing that, I'm sure they can find a few more.
What a fucking stupid way to run an election.
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