campfireSmoresEaten
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campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
Nintendo is far past their prime.
Not in terms of profits. Or in terms of influence. BotW is probably the most influential game since Arkham Asylum.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
Reminds me of the "Art's not a competition" bit at the beginning of this
Hollywood Handbook:
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
A Japanese guy went to a stone skipping competition in the UK and won. Japanese people are really good at anything fun and quirky (quirky in a good way). They've got moxie!
There's also Kobiyashi, the competitive eater. It wasn't just natural talent and determination, he studied competitive eating and found out that he could eat more hot dog buns if they were dipped in water.
And in the 1920 Olympics (or some year, I forget) Japan won a bunch of swimming medals because they built a glass-bottomed pool and set up film cameras along the sides to analyze different swimming techniques. And they apparently made some discoveries which were adopted by everyone four years later.
Etcetera etcetera. I'm surprised you're surprised!
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
The problem isn't demand for real estate, it's the limitations on the supply which are unnecessary and should be disposed of.
This post really bothers me. Please value things other than raw intelligence more. IQ is good to have, but there's also work ethic, kindness, being pleasant to be around, various artistic disciplines that aren't that g-loaded, etcetera.
Elon Musk isn't literally the smartest man in the room, it's a combination of IQ and his almost pathological work ethic. Someone with his work ethic and a 110 IQ could easily still accomplish amazing things, just not quite as amazing.
Edit: Although in the world we live in I can see how one might become skeptical of the virtue of kindness, since the people who would have maybe been avatars of kindness in different circumstances are indoctrinated and crazy.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
The fact that he groped his first opponent after the match was terrible too.
I didn't hear about that, source?
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
Take up residence in places like Qatar, Egypt, and France
Wait, what? France? I haven't heard about that.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
The sad thing is that cooperate defect and defect defect are both bad.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
There are serious ethical concerns with this approach.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
Ah.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
On the flip side, I think the reason there's so much appetite for shunning the AfD is because a lot of center-right voters and politicians have left and joined AfD, so what remains of the center-right has shifted to the left.
That's my guess, anyway.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
There's a principled ethical difference. Terrorists vs dissidents.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
There actually originally was a "good" reason why gangsters held their weapons sideways.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-gangsters-hold-their-guns-sideways
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
idk. pick whoever you want for the third person, like I said
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
Reminds me of this:
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
I like Scott, but Matt Lakeman makes Scott Alexander look like Peter Zeihan! Or something. Pick whoever you think is funniest for the third name.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
Hang on, that gives me an idea for a romance novel...
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
I think the judge may have been playing the role of the stern disciplinarian more than the role of the cruel hand of righteous vengeance. But I don't know. They're both kinda dubious roles to play.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
If people loudly express fear of Iranian nuclear weapons then every country will want them.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
NBD. I wasn't criticizing you, really. Just discussing it.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
I always feel poignancy when I think about how most people in Japan have never had a good American-style inauthentic burrito before.
All they've had is taco bell, at most. I ate there once and found it to be extremely strange. Every random tacqueria I go to is similar to each other, even if they vary in quality, and taco bell was very different. In a not-good way.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
My understanding is that Dirk Gently is actually psychic, but is deeply in denial about it and so attributes all his "luck" (actually psychic instincts) to a made-up new age philosophy.
Is that not the reality of the books? I only read the second one.
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
Let's not forget Belarus forcing that plane down to capture that dissident journalist vs the US forcing a plane down over Europe because the USG thought Snowden was on it. (thankfully he wasn't)
campfireSmoresEaten
3mo ago
It does seem like kind of a strange choice to introduce her with a massive ad-blitz where she asks for money so prominently.
Shouldn't that come later? Isn't it weird to ask for money in an ad that costs lots and lots of money?
Just nit-picking.
Does Europe respect American drug patents?
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