Walterodim
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Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1mo ago
I train a lot and I don't think I've ever claimed otherwise. The easy part is identifying what needs to be done to gain muscle, lose fat, increase strength, or increase aerobic endurance. My claim isn't that people don't need to actually make changes, it's that failing to do so is a character defect. Denying that it's even possible to do so is even worse, diminishing people below the level of having agency over their own bodies. As with other addicts, it's easy to observe that they're telling the truth about their inability to regulate their own behavior, but it is a defect.
Walterodim
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1mo ago
I'm not referring to a general case, I referring to the specific case of the degenerates I see in the park that literally prefer to throw things on the ground than walk five feet to the garbage can. In many cases, they'll literally need to walk past the garbage can to leave the park.
Walterodim
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1mo ago
Leaving trash everywhere they go
This is the most striking feature of degeneracy. So many of the other things I can at least understand when I contemplate their lives. Stealing from the supermarket is bad, but the individual doing it does benefit. Drinking aggressively in the park until you pass out isn't great, but hey, I like drinking too and simply have a place to do it that people don't notice.
But just throwing things on the ground? What the fuck? Why? You are literally five feet from a garbage can, you could just as easily deposit your trash there, but instead you drop a glass bottle on the sidewalk where it shatters, leaving shards of glass for some unsuspecting dog to slice up their feet. This can only be described as wanton, casual malice for the world around them. This is the act that moves people from my mental category of pitiful into the category of despised.
Walterodim
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1mo ago
People marking their bodies in a way that they know leads people to make assessments about their personal characteristics and then complaining that people make those assessments tells me something about their character. Personally, I like quite a few tattoos, have had great friends and serious romantic relationships with tattooed people, but yeah, there are assessments that you can make based on tattoos that are reasonable.
Walterodim
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1mo ago
Fundamentally, people base their judgment not on their own, spontaneously generated values, but on the values they were taught by society.
I don't buy it. Society pounds me with messaging about how I shouldn't judge, that people could be fat for any reason or no reason at all, that we barely even have control over our own bodies. In stark contrast, my personal experience is that I can manipulate weight and body composition by simply making choices and developing consistent habits. This isn't difficult at all for me. The reason that I judge fat people isn't because society told me to, it's that my personal experience makes me believe that they have serious character defects. I can believe that making choices and developing habits is much harder for some people than others and still recognize that this is a product of poor executive function, which manifests as a character defect.
Walterodim
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1mo ago
I still don't understand how "a Montana voter living in the UK" isn't a scandalous notion in the first place. Why do UK residents need to vote in Montana? You don't live there! It's not your place of residence! I can see exceptions for American military and other foreign service roles, but if you're just an American that voluntarily elected to live in London, I find it baffling that anyone thinks you should be voting for the mayor of Missoula.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
How do I? I don't. Maximizing my earnings isn't a goal of mine and I've never structured my life to maximize them. For anyone that's tolerably well-off monetarily, I would suggest against earnings-maxing in a refined way, it's just not going all that likely to maximize life-satisfaction. I would strongly suggest thinking in terms of tradeoffs rather than extremes.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
Yeah, this specific report reads to me like either a literal crazy woman, or just kind of an idiot whose cat went missing that concocted a ridiculous tale about it. The chain of events that would need to happen for the putative cat butchering to result in there being meat, just meat, in her backyard seems much more improbable than the base rate of a neighbor killing and eating an apparently stray animal.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
The biggest thing that's bugging me about it is the continued use of "no evidence" when people mean "weak evidence" and are using "no evidence" as an attack on the credibility of their opponents in a way that makes me think of Russell Conjugation. Consider, for a moment, how the accusations Christine Blasey Ford were treated - the key word that stands out in my mind was the phrasing that she made "credible allegations". The actual evidence for her claims is reasonably on par with the Springfield allegations, which is to say that it's physically possible, not proven false by established facts, and not so improbable in a Bayesian sense to discard altogether. When someone wants to believe something, a piece of evidence like that police report makes it a "credible allegation"; when they don't want to believe something, eyewitness or firsthand testimony shifts from being weak evidence to being "no evidence".
I make credible allegations, you offer unproven claims, he asserts without evidence.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
I suspect that a lot of the negative association with it is from people that weren't doing great in the first place and spiraled rather than de novo generation of unwellness.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
Basketball games using the Elam ending are much better than the standard clock-based format, so I think there's some proof of concept for this being preferable, even though it's implausible that it'll ever be applied to the highest level of the sport.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
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.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
My biggest current pet peeve is the way quarterback slides work. The rulebook definition is:
when a runner declares himself down by:
falling to the ground, or kneeling, and clearly making no immediate effort to advance.
sliding feet-first on the ground. When a runner slides feet-first, the ball is dead the instant he touches the ground with anything other than his hands or his feet. Notes:
Defenders are required to treat a sliding runner as they would a runner who is down by contact.
A defender must pull up when a runner begins a feet-first slide. This does not mean that all contact by a defender is illegal. If a defender has already committed himself, and the contact is unavoidable, it is not a foul unless the defender makes forcible contact into the head or neck area of the runner with the helmet, shoulder, or forearm, or commits some other act that is unnecessary roughness.
A runner who desires to take advantage of this protection is responsible for starting his slide before contact by a defensive player is imminent; if he does not, and waits until the last moment to begin his slide, he puts himself in jeopardy of being contacted.
In practice, that last part isn't enforced. Defenders are expected to do a superhuman job of avoiding runner and this is ruthlessly exploited by rushing quarterbacks. They wait till the last moment, use body language that feigns a slide to cause defenders to pause, slide late and draw personal fouls, and so on.
My solution would be simply eliminating the slide rule. There is no need for an additional way to give oneself up. If it's important that a given player not be contacted, he can following the first part of the rule instead - fall to the ground and clearly make no immediate effort to advance. If this isn't physical possible because the player is running at full speed, that's something they should have considered prior to running full speed as a ballcarrier.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
I absolutely hate dark tints. The inability to make eye contact with drivers is frustrating and makes them less predictable. That the people with tints tend to be erratic young men that think they're hot shit probably doesn't help either.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
Things that are obvious and intuitive to one camp - “it’s wrong for police to treat you roughly you just because you’re being an uncooperative asshole to them” or “police are authoritarian bullies who must be vigilantly critiqued to prevent them from abusing their power” - are totally alien and clearly wrong to the other camp.
As someone that's generally not much of a fan of the police, it remains wild to me that people aren't capable of viewing an incident and electing to believe that there isn't really a good guy in the picture. The cops in this video seem like they probably are authoritarian bullies that were unnecessarily rough because they didn't like the way Hill was acting. Nonetheless, this is easily avoided by not being a total asshole that tries to roll up your dark tinted window in their face. Personally, I would want the car impounded just for the tint even if there was no other infraction. I hate that shit. It just isn't very hard to find Tyreek Hill to be a completely unsympathetic asshole while also believing that the cops are petty authoritarians that acted unprofessionally.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
From that thread, this dude had a pretty sensible take:
To me I see multiple things, officer was in the right in their actions. That however doesn’t mean it was the right decision. This is a situational awareness thing where there’s no threat to officers and pulling this guy out is just going to create headaches. Hill clearly didn’t want to wait, explain to him he can roll down his window and cooperate or this is going to take a lot longer. He’s detained either way, let him calm down and either waste more of his time or cooperates.
My opinion is if someone wants to make things difficult I’ve got all the time in the world, I’m on the clock either way. Only person who’s wasting their time is the one who’s not being paid to be there.
I do think this depends on the officer's assessment of whether Hill posed a threat to him. If he knew who Hill was (and he probably did), just taking this approach would have made sense.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
Hill's a lot easier to recognize if he's throwing the peace sign or beating up some guy on the docks.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
Let us assume that the officers knew who Tyrell Hill was, which isn’t a given because of the arresting officer’s thick Latino accent.
I would be shocked to find a Cuban police officer in Miami that isn't familiar with Tyreek Hill.
I think it's unduly charitable to describe Hill as (former) criminal. He's an absolutely terrible person that keeps doing things like this. He's a guy that beat the shit out of his pregnant girlfriend, broke his child's arm, and assaults people that he just doesn't like. If he wasn't the fastest guy on the field, probably ever, he would probably have been suspended.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
Man, that Yahoo article really trips my trigger. JD Vance lied they say! What did he say?
On X, formerly Twitter, Vance amplified bogus “reports” that “people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”
What's their refutation?
Springfield, Ohio, has been a hub for immigrants, and particularly Haitian immigrants, in recent years — contrary to Vance’s tweet, they are here legally — but there’s no evidence at all for these viral claims.
Whether they're here legally or not doesn't refute the claim that they shouldn't be in this country. Perhaps this is a genuine point of confusion, but I rather doubt it. There are many people that are here legally that I think should never have been allowed into the country in the first place. Their current legal status isn't even an attempt to rebut the claim that they shouldn't be here.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
What external problems did Liberia have?
Americo-Liberians are the colonizers. Despite the country having very few whites, they still wound up with internal political strife akin to Rhodesia, just with the descendants of American expatriates as the elite class rather than European colonists. Liberia is sufficiently odd from an outsider's perspective that it's hard to compare to other countries.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
I was at that Bills Eagles game.
Oh man, that's pretty cool. Wild game to be at. I was visiting my family back home, in a bar with quite a few people that shared my displeasure!
But anyway - my inclination is to think the Eagles arrow tilts back up this year. I'm unclear why the Matt Patricia experience happened to yet another team, but simply moving forward with actual competent coordinators should be a tremendous difference. If I was going to be pessimistic, it would largely about Kelce, because I'm a long-time center enthusiast. Usually the huge problems there are from mid-season changes though, so I'll be surprised if there's actually a disaster. You're absolutely right that there needs to be some sort of consistent answer to blitzes, but I tend to think they'll sort out some sort of plausible counter.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
Last season they were the best team in the sport for half a season and the worst team in the sport for half a season.
Nitpick here - none of the advanced metrics liked them even with the strong W-L record. They kept showing up at like 10th in DVOA and Aaron Schatz had to keep explaining that they're just not all that good on a play-to-play basis. As a massive Bills homer, I will also note that they needed absolutely absurd officiating to fluke their way to that win. I'm not an unbiased source and remain very salty :-|
On the topic of my beloved Bills, they're pretty clearly talent depleted due to a combination of some bad injury luck and poor contract choices. After Josh Allen, the next three biggest cap hits this year are Stefon Diggs (no longer on the team), Matt Milano (torn bicep, out till December), and Von Miller (old, injured, washed). You're just not going to have a talented and deep roster when you screw up like that. Even so, I'm excited to watch the young offensive core - James Cook, Dalton Kincaid, Khalil Shakir, and Keon Coleman are all at least enticing players with upside. Curtis Samuel is probably going to be useful in a limited role. Some of the defensive losses are overblown in the media (Poyer and Hyde were old and didn't look great last year, Tre White only played 3 games anyway), but there are enough talent gaps to have real concerns about them staying above water. I did bet them to win the AFC East because I think the Jets hype is just plain stupid and I ultimately trust the McDermott/Allen alliance much more than any other team in the division. Realistically though, they're not going to be on the same level as the teams we watched last night.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
My broken record, all-purpose advice for everyone everywhere all the time is to pick up endurance sports, take training somewhat seriously, and compete somewhat regularly. The ability to hold a precise, difficult pace during for a 6x800 meter set of repeats translates surprisingly well to other parts of life. If you can decide to push through the immense cardiovascular suffering of an all-out 5K, you can make the decision to clean up your room. In the event that running isn't feasible, cycling and swimming are great options.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
To return to the brewery example from the post above (and my post below), we can see that dynamic at work there as well. While it's not true that the market has homogenized and the big consolidated firms aren't actually crowding out competition, it's also true that there would almost certainly be many, many more little breweries all over the place in the absence of government regulation. Would someone on my block turn their garage into a little storefront if they were allowed to just sell home-brewed bottles without requiring a whole raft of government licenses? Almost certainly yes. If someone wants to argue that the licensing and inspection regime is necessary to prevent bad things, that's fine, I can probably find points of agreement, but the tradeoff in tamping down startups has to be acknowledged.
If there's a problem that's stopping startups, it isn't "western capitalism" that's going so, unless this is just calling out that western capitalism tends to have substantial regulatory capture.
The objection in these cases isn't that someone wearing a Star of David is identified as a Jew, it's to the antisemitism downstream of it. Likewise, if someone kisses their gay partner, it's reasonable to infer that they're not straight and that someone with a bumper sticker is a supporter of that candidate. All of these things are examples of appearances that lead to correct identifications of people.
I didn't write anything about bad reactions specifically. I wrote that people will make assessments based on tattoos and that this is a fine and reasonable to thing to do. Of course, I do think some bad reactions are legitimate - treating people with gang tattoos (or apparent gang tattoos) as threats is a good decision. But really, even the most mild, inoffensive tattoos imaginable still provide information about the individual with them.
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