jayrot

Bingo.

It goes without saying that the physical damage of being punched in the stomach is a metaphor for the psychic damage of having your soul sucked. You can bare it for a while but it starts to add up. And, like many wounds, it CAN heal over time.

Yeah this is absolutely worthless and should never have been done, much less shown to anyone. I want the money I spent on this back.

/s

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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To be clear, I'm personally of the "nazis need to be punched in the face" mindset, but I still love this quote. Life is nuanced and people are complex. Even Solzhenitsyn knew.

Anyone particularly excited about this concept might be interested to know that it already exists (for a little less than $400).

PikaBoost[1]

It works. But not nearly as well as an ebike, of course. Here's a youtuber doing a fairly in depth review and test of one [2].

[1]https://livall.com/products/livall-pikaboost-2-electrify-you... [2]https://youtu.be/m_wVzoNrDL8?si=gCwvHZgrsV3klZ49

"No plan survives contact with the enemy". --Helmuth von Moltke

or, if you prefer,

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" --Mike Tyson.

I truly am hesitant to ever criticize someone else's parenting style since if I've learned anything, it's that kids personalities can be very different and circumstances are always more complicated than you might think.

That said, I hear stories like yours (from friends) and it always baffles me because that's just now how our family operates. I have a downtime pin on devices for the same reason I lock the door to my car even though it's like 50% breakable glass windows.

My kids know the rules. One of them for sure knows the pin. But they also know that if they use the device outside of our agreed upon guidelines, they're in trouble.

I'm sincere in asking, aren't behavior controls a lot better than technological ones?

I honestly wouldn't worry about that aspect of it too much. Effective understanding and use of tools is important for this next generation (which is why we have restrictive but reasonable rules for tech use for our kids). However, unless ChatGPT and other such tools start being allowed in SATs and in the classroom and etc, there's no substitute for true education and understanding.

The essay my 8 year old can currently write in scribbly handwriting certainly won't compete with the essay a classmate "writes" using ChatGPT. But the facade is paper thin and ever so short lived. Seeing how much better my kids write now, vs 2 years ago, proves how much they're learning and the incredible power of practice. Someone relying on such a serious crutch will be left behind. I guarantee it.

Unless there's some dystopian future where every aspect and communication in our lives are managed and filtered by some kind of AI middle layer. I doubt it.

Tech advancements always lead to this struggle, but it's rarely as stark as you might think. My kids are still learning cursive in school, though I can't imagine when they'll ever use it.

Another very likely explanation is that it WAS taught, but was simply forgotten. Which is completely forgivable.

It's not like 6th grade had an intensive 3 month unit on Hammurabi.

As Shaw said, “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

Things can be, and often are, both at the same time.

Right? Also there are an awful lot more totally boring and simple things that “if brought together” make exciting stuff happen.

Sodium and Chlorine? Potassium and water?

> i think this has everything to do with the fact that learning chess by learning sequences will get you into more trouble than good. even a trillion games won't save you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number

Indeed. As has been pointed out before, the number of possible chess positions easily, vastly dwarfs even the wildest possible estimate of the number of atoms in the known universe.

> There are weird structures that we discovered and haven't yet made sense of as well.

Do you mean biological structures? Or do you mean physical/geological/natural structures? If the latter, can you give some examples? Specifically of structures we haven’t made sense of that could be “intelligent design”, as you seem to be suggesting.

Quick plug for anyone who may be interested in ham but a little intimidated by the license that’s required. Contact your local ham club or group (I guarantee you there is one). Ours had a fast track to getting people licensed. It amounted to a one day cram course immediately before the technician’s exam (the oddly named entry level license) with a 90+% pass rate. The philosophy is to get people licensed and on board and interested and THEN start learning. It’s kind of a counter intuitive strategy but it certainly got me involved where I wouldn’t have been otherwise.

You don't need an anthropological study, friend. There's already an apt slang term for it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitch_eating_crackers

Personally, I absolutely despise Trump but he's been firmly in that realm for quite some time now.

>Just make absolutely sure you trust your government

This sentence stings right now. :-(

Nature, uhh, finds a way.

Also, for what it's worth, the idea that betting lines and odds are set to make "equal money on both sides" is a very simplistic and often ignorant talking point. It is quite possible if not common, especially on big games like the SB, for the books to have significant exposure to one side.

Making betting lines is a crazy complex mix of the house essentially betting on an outcome themselves, tempered by a limit to exposure/liability as well as the need to keep lines in basic accordance with other linemakers.

It's unreal how good these guys are most times.

That's the sign of a truly great "content creator". I've found myself watching a lot of different YT channels on topics I would NEVER have thought I had any interest in.

How Things Work was extremely formative for me

Miss me with that “Too big to fail” nonsense.

I’m racking my brain hard to try to imagine how someone uses the blockchain everyday

Hope you're sitting down, because the next iPhone is going to be the Best iPhone Ever.

It warms my heart to see that Steve's website appears frozen in time (and works just fine). I bought Spinrite nearly two decades ago and it saved my bacon more than once. Also loved to listen to him and Leo on Security Now in the very early days of podcasts ("netcasts" lol).

The potpourri of a youtube channel, Atomic Shrimp, has done a couple interesting videos doing just that.

Wasn't familar with the "Reid Technique" so I had to look it up. One of the opening wikipedia paragraphs is just perfect.

>In 1955 in Lincoln, Nebraska, John E. Reid helped gain a confession from a suspect, Darrel Parker, for Parker's wife's murder. This case established Reid's reputation and popularized his technique.[3] Parker recanted his confession the next day, but it was admitted to evidence at his trial. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison. He was later determined to be innocent, after another man confessed and was found to have been the perpetrator. Parker sued the state for wrongful conviction; it paid him $500,000 in compensation.[4]

Literally from your link :

> Conclusion: In randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled trials, presumably with minimum sources of bias, placebos are sometimes associated with improved control of symptoms such as pain and appetite but rarely with positive tumor response. Substantial improvements in symptoms and quality of life are unlikely to be due to placebo effects.

I've seen that too when it was making the rounds. It's certainly interesting in that it opens your mind to the concept of reference frames. That said, I don't think the 2D representation is really all that inaccurate (and certainly that "vortex" animation isn't particularly MORE accurate either).

That's the thing about reference frames. There is no absolute and there can be multiple that are equally valid. Frankly, using the sun as our reference frame makes perfect sense to me.

When you're trying to visualize a car trip on a map from one city to another, is it really useful to visualize the car, the city, and the planet all spinning around, moving through space in the same kind of vortex?

Shades of Rimmer being prosecuted by the Inquisitor.

The metal nametags is a very poor example of the point being attempted since I would venture a guess that there are 1000s of companies or shops in the US that can make metal nametags.

> Even in USA that likely could be legal with an appropriate court warrant

Can you expand upon this? I'm not particularly familiar but it doesn't seem right. Obviously LEO agencies are allowed to subpoena private information, but can they legally use exploits with a warrant? Are there recorded examples of this?

[Based on your reference to warrants, I guess I'm excluding the NSA or other supposed state-level spy agencies that supposedly secretively deploy such tactics]