@wjmaggos For real. How much of that 36 trillion dollar debt is maintaining bases in countries that haven't needed an American base for 70 years?
@intengineering I can already foresee this being used by woowoo crystal people to claim engineering can't possibly work.
@lichelordgodfrey @DerSauerkraut @deprecated I guess even more benign could be that the airspace restriction comes with the biohazard. Bit of an overreaction, but not an impossible one if that's just the procedure.
Government officials: "we are definitely humans and not lizard people"
Also government officials: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-wear-a-mask-while-having-sex-dr-theresa-tam-suggests/
Also government officials: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-wear-a-mask-while-having-sex-dr-theresa-tam-suggests/
@realcaseyrollins @JewishSpaceLazorOperator @jeffcliff it's not true in every way, but it's apparently true in terms of lgbt acceptance.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/24/lgbtq-acceptance-millennials-decline-glaad-survey/1503758001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/24/lgbtq-acceptance-millennials-decline-glaad-survey/1503758001/
@djsumdog @deprecated Ironically, I agree that it would be really neat doing some actual science on this bullshit juice.
@Jdogg247 If they learned critical thinking skills, then there's going to be a lot of resignations in the LA schools when everyone comes back and they can't wrangle kids with bullshit.
@deprecated Seriously though, I bet this shit is poisonous on a level you can't even imagine, even if you assume it's meant as a medicine.
If there's a lot released into the environment, I bet it kills virtually everything it touches.
If there's a lot released into the environment, I bet it kills virtually everything it touches.
@jeffcliff @JewishSpaceLazorOperator
You're goddamned right!
Gen Z was the first generation in 100 years to be more conservative than its parents, and *this horseshit is why*.
You're goddamned right!
Gen Z was the first generation in 100 years to be more conservative than its parents, and *this horseshit is why*.
@JewishSpaceLazorOperator The "Workers unite" left and the "take all the immigrants" left are directly at odds in terms of their goals. If you have one you're directly hurting the other.
The "Let all the immigrants in" left and the "workers should rise up in solidarity" left are directly at odds with each other.
@11112011 The Trump administration spent more money in 4 years than Obama spent in 8, and they voted for it.
@11112011 "Over 100 house republicans want it to be THEM who raises the debt ceiling, not THOSE guys!"
@cake-kun
Remember that reddit is pozzed af, it's bots speaking to bots speaking to bots at this point.
Remember that reddit is pozzed af, it's bots speaking to bots speaking to bots at this point.
@einziggurat I wrote yesterday about the Pareto distribution. You can get 80% of the benefit for 20% of the work, and conversely, 20% of the work will take 80% of the effort.
The initial work to get to 80% went at a breakneck pace, but now the most important and difficult work needs to be done. Its not as sexy or fun because it's slow and painful, not fast and obviously paying off.
There are still innovations happening all the time. Klipper just included the innovation of adding a movement sensor to the print head to eliminate ringing.
Besides that, affordable SLA printers were a pipe dream a few years back, now you can get some really good SLA printers really cheap.
Materials have also been slowly improving. Whereas before you basically had pla and abs, there's been a slow expansion of materials available, particularly composites.
Overall, these are important improvements, but they aren't just taking existing patented technology and building it. It's slow and steady to get steady improvements. Not dead, but it's unlikely we'll see the breakneck pace of the past without some world changing innovation that PhDs around the world haven't thought of yet.
The initial work to get to 80% went at a breakneck pace, but now the most important and difficult work needs to be done. Its not as sexy or fun because it's slow and painful, not fast and obviously paying off.
There are still innovations happening all the time. Klipper just included the innovation of adding a movement sensor to the print head to eliminate ringing.
Besides that, affordable SLA printers were a pipe dream a few years back, now you can get some really good SLA printers really cheap.
Materials have also been slowly improving. Whereas before you basically had pla and abs, there's been a slow expansion of materials available, particularly composites.
Overall, these are important improvements, but they aren't just taking existing patented technology and building it. It's slow and steady to get steady improvements. Not dead, but it's unlikely we'll see the breakneck pace of the past without some world changing innovation that PhDs around the world haven't thought of yet.
@alex Don't look at it too long. Don't think about it too long. It's a Lovecraftian cognitohazard, meant to drive good men mad.
This is a message for the upcoming generation.
As a relatively humble person I don't like to talk about this too much, but there are things that people spend their entire lives wishing that they had been able to do that I've done. I went from being so overweight I stepped on the scale and saw "to be continued" to having a six pack, I learned a lot of respect for myself. This is something that is sort of considered a miracle today.
Besides that, I've been able to reproduce the miracle in others. One friend of mine was working at compUSA, it was a computer store that has long since gone out of business, and with a little bit of advice I was able to help him go out and get some serious career jobs. Today he's a top it guy for a major US university. In another case, I knew someone who was quite overweight and didn't think that they'd be able to lose that weight. By giving them a little bit of advice I was able to help them lose massive amounts of weight and become physically fit to the point that they became a black sash martial artist. There's been a couple of times where I took virgins and was able to help them very quickly find not just hookups but relationships.
The reason I've been able to pass on the miracle is that miracles don't happen by accident. To be totally honest, as long as you put the time in and the effort in, most people can make miracles happen. The thing is, most people don't want to put the effort in, often because they don't realize that it can work!
So the first step of making any miracle happen has to be the pre-planning. Whatever you're trying to do, somebody has probably done it before. If they haven't done it before, maybe they've done something like it. The thing there then is to look at what others have done and try to boil it down to a few key steps, something that you can do.
When I was losing weight, I ended up reading all about the science and it basically told me to eat less. Even better, I was able to figure out more or less how much less I needed to eat. From there, I had a very simple game plan. Eat less. In the case of losing weight, that first step is the most important and the one that most people get wrong. For whatever reason, most people end up focusing on exercise. Now exercise is great, it makes you feel better it strengthens you up it has a lot of good things about it. The problem is using exercise as weight loss. There's two problems: first, exercise doesn't lose you that much weight. If you are comparing the two methods, eating less is infinitely easier than working your ass off. You could work every single day forever and it would be the same as not eating a couple bags of chips. Second, the point that you need to lose weight is usually the point when you can't really exercise all that much. It's all good and dandy to say you'll go out for a 10 km bike ride, but if you weigh some absurd amount you just don't have that kind of strength. The amount of effort goes way up as the amount of mass you represent also goes up. So it's always best to start off with weight loss by managing your diet, and then later on switching to exercise as diet eventually as diminishing returns and your body is more capable of actually doing exercise without harming itself.
As for a career, that was a little bit more difficult. Sometimes you have to change plans midstream. When I was going to high school, we were in the middle of the dotcom bubble and everybody told me that computer skills were going to be the thing that made me my fortune. The year I graduated from high school, the dotcom bubble had already burst and a lot of computer guys were having a very hard time finding work so I had to change plans. Instead of getting into high technology, I went to sort of mid technology. I ended up saving up a whole lot of money and working really hard for a terrible job, and with that money I was able to go to college. Unfortunately, that wasn't really the end of that story because going to college the first time ended up ending in failure because my plans hadn't accounted for the fact that my college in the city that I was living in was simply too far away to succeed at college. I spent 5 hours a day driving, or riding a bus, or riding a train. So that was never going to work. I ended up going back home and saving up some more money before trying again under circumstances I was much more in control of, and then it was just a matter of putting my nose to the grindstone and working hard.
You should note here that the hard work is really important, but it's only really important once you're in a situation that is something you can succeed at. There is simply no amount of work that I could have done in the remaining hours of the day to pass the program I was going to the first time. In spite of a lot of hard work I ended up having to turn right around and try again somewhere else.
And it was hard work! I always say that I am borderline retarded, and people think I'm a lot smarter than I am because I work really really hard.
So once you have the plan, you have to start executing it. That's where the hard work comes in, and the most important thing during the execution phase is to keep at it. Human beings are very peculiar evolutionary branch. Most people don't know why human beings lost all of their hair, the reason is that the hair follicles became sweat glands. Human beings ended up becoming creatures with the most endurance out there. A human being in good shape probably can't outrun anything else out there, but it can run longer. There are races between horses and humans, long distance races. Whereas the horses need to be under constant veterinary surveillance, the humans may get tired and sore but generally speaking they're just fine. This is our superpower as a species, and that's superpower extends to everything else. Yes, human beings will spend 12 hours a day building something for months or years at a time, and just consider that to be normal. Yes, human beings will spend 16 years in school, and that absurd amount of work is just considered normal. Yes, human beings will dedicate their entire lives to studying some tiny little facet of this great universe and that's just considered normal. Human beings have written documents that are hundreds of pages long that virtually no one will ever look at. I've done that a huge number of times. It's just a matter of sitting down and doing it, and putting in the time and putting in the effort. This key element, endurance and sticking to your plans over the long term is how you make miracles happen. A lot of people look at people who have accomplished great things and assume that it was something that just happened. It didn't just happen. What inevitably occurred was someone put in a whole lot of work for a really, really long time and little by little they got better, and little by little they built something amazing.
I once got into long distance cycling. At the peak of my physical fitness I could easily go for hours at a time, I rode well over 100 km in a single day and the next day I was just fine and ready to go again. You might look at me in that time and go "well this guy was just born like that" and absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, when I hit that peak performance I had just a few months prior been so overweight the scale wouldn't measure my weight. Losing the weight was obviously a big part of it, and that took a lot of sticking to the plan. It was very difficult, but that miracle didn't happen on its own. It happened because every single day I woke up and followed the plan all day, and then a week occurred, and then a month occurred, and then 6 months occurred, and then a year occurred, and at that point I was skinny. The thing is, just cuz you're skinny doesn't mean you're in good shape. So, I went out and started with a little tiny bike ride. I just went into town around the block a few times and came back home. And then over the course of months I would slowly increase the amount of distance that I would ride. And eventually, that distance got so far that it wasn't my endurance holding me back, it was literally the amount of time that it would take for me to ride my bike back home because I had driven so far away from home. It took a really long time, and I had to stick to it, and there were a lot of things that I wanted to do that I didn't get to do because I was focused on achieving my goals. And eventually, I hit my peak of fitness.
Along the way, it wasn't easy. Human beings maybe blessed with a mighty endurance, but that doesn't mean that difficult things are easy, it just means that if you power through it and do your best you can put all of that effort in, and sometimes you're going to get sweaty, and sometimes your muscles are going to ache, and do you know what happens when your body uses up all of the sugar? Oh, it's terrible! Sugar is a very high energy fuel source, and it does things very fast. You can move really quickly in short bursts if you have lots of sugar. However, eventually your blood runs out of sugar because it also gets used up very fast. At that time, you end up hitting a wall. Seasoned athletes call this bonking. It's incredible, you can still move, but you literally don't have any power. Everything goes slower, and your vision starts to change, it turns green from the lack of sugar. You just feel exhausted, it feels like there's something seriously wrong with you when in reality it's just your body has switched from burning sugars to burning fats. It isn't pleasant, but you're going to live. In the process of switching from burning sugars to burning fats, you go from being able to move around for a short period of time and quick bursts to being able to move for a very long time steadily and consistently moving forward. And it'll hurt, and it'll suck, but at the end of the day in our time before agriculture it would mean the difference between living and dying. Everyone that came before you is around today solely because they were able to push through that.
So you have a plan, and you're following it. Seems like that's where the conversation should end, right? Well, almost. The third step has to be being prepared to change plans.
In my professional career I've had to do this a couple times, but to me the most important example was before I started my professional career. I had been saving for a long time and I moved in order to go to college but unfortunately what I didn't realize is there was simply no way for me to graduate from college under the conditions that I was in. The commute was too long, I didn't have enough time to just buckle down and do the work, there was simply no way for me to succeed. So I came up with a new plan. I went back home and saved up some money for a few months and applied for a new College somewhere that I could be more in control of how my life went. After that pivot, I was able to successfully graduate from college -- even though it wasn't easy, don't get me wrong -- and I was able to move on to the next step.
In another direction, just now I talked about becoming a long distance cyclist. That wasn't in the original plan. Originally, my plan was focused almost exclusively on diet because when you're very fat you can't really exercise. Moving around too much when you're too overweight will physically damage your body and it's counterproductive. My original plan was focused entirely on losing weight through diet. What happened along the way is I suddenly realized that by losing all that weight, I had all of this new energy. All that energy wanted to go somewhere, and that's where I took the opportunity. I knew that I had all this energy and instead of just letting it go to waste, I started riding my bike to burn it off. That's what let me take that moment in my life and not just become skinny, but to overall end up reaching the best physical shape of my Life by not just being skinny but also being muscular.
So the final step is something that I think is important because I know that I've been guilty of this, you have to make it to the end. There are people who have half finished miracles everywhere. A half-finished miracle isn't a miracle, it's just an abandoned plan. It is very easy, and most people end up making this mistake, doing 90% of the work and when they see the end in sight they give up. A mathematician named Pareto in Italy discovered that 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the landowners. This distribution has been called the Pareto distribution. People don't realize it, but the Pareto distribution applies to a lot of different things. In general, you can always expect that 20% of the work is going to take 80% of the effort. Therefore, a lot of people will end up putting in the 20% and getting to 80%, and then stopping because they're happy with their progress. This isn't how you perform miracles, this is how you waste your time not accomplishing things. If you're going to do something, do it right. See it through to the end. The thing that you want, if you really want it, then be prepared to put in the effort and cross the finish line. Once you've crossed the finish line, you've got that forever. Even if it's something like fitness where you have to keep it up forever or you lose it you will always be able to look back and know that you succeeded in creating a miracle. And just like I said at the beginning of this, miracles don't happen by accident.
So, how do you make a miracle happen? It really isn't that complicated. You do your leg work to make sure that you have a plan that can work, you follow your plan and keep following your plan for a really long time, you course correct along the way to fix things that aren't going to work and to take advantage of new opportunities that have presented themselves that you didn't know about earlier, and you stick with it till the end to make sure that your miracle actually happens. That's how you make a miracle happen. It isn't an accident.
As a relatively humble person I don't like to talk about this too much, but there are things that people spend their entire lives wishing that they had been able to do that I've done. I went from being so overweight I stepped on the scale and saw "to be continued" to having a six pack, I learned a lot of respect for myself. This is something that is sort of considered a miracle today.
Besides that, I've been able to reproduce the miracle in others. One friend of mine was working at compUSA, it was a computer store that has long since gone out of business, and with a little bit of advice I was able to help him go out and get some serious career jobs. Today he's a top it guy for a major US university. In another case, I knew someone who was quite overweight and didn't think that they'd be able to lose that weight. By giving them a little bit of advice I was able to help them lose massive amounts of weight and become physically fit to the point that they became a black sash martial artist. There's been a couple of times where I took virgins and was able to help them very quickly find not just hookups but relationships.
The reason I've been able to pass on the miracle is that miracles don't happen by accident. To be totally honest, as long as you put the time in and the effort in, most people can make miracles happen. The thing is, most people don't want to put the effort in, often because they don't realize that it can work!
So the first step of making any miracle happen has to be the pre-planning. Whatever you're trying to do, somebody has probably done it before. If they haven't done it before, maybe they've done something like it. The thing there then is to look at what others have done and try to boil it down to a few key steps, something that you can do.
When I was losing weight, I ended up reading all about the science and it basically told me to eat less. Even better, I was able to figure out more or less how much less I needed to eat. From there, I had a very simple game plan. Eat less. In the case of losing weight, that first step is the most important and the one that most people get wrong. For whatever reason, most people end up focusing on exercise. Now exercise is great, it makes you feel better it strengthens you up it has a lot of good things about it. The problem is using exercise as weight loss. There's two problems: first, exercise doesn't lose you that much weight. If you are comparing the two methods, eating less is infinitely easier than working your ass off. You could work every single day forever and it would be the same as not eating a couple bags of chips. Second, the point that you need to lose weight is usually the point when you can't really exercise all that much. It's all good and dandy to say you'll go out for a 10 km bike ride, but if you weigh some absurd amount you just don't have that kind of strength. The amount of effort goes way up as the amount of mass you represent also goes up. So it's always best to start off with weight loss by managing your diet, and then later on switching to exercise as diet eventually as diminishing returns and your body is more capable of actually doing exercise without harming itself.
As for a career, that was a little bit more difficult. Sometimes you have to change plans midstream. When I was going to high school, we were in the middle of the dotcom bubble and everybody told me that computer skills were going to be the thing that made me my fortune. The year I graduated from high school, the dotcom bubble had already burst and a lot of computer guys were having a very hard time finding work so I had to change plans. Instead of getting into high technology, I went to sort of mid technology. I ended up saving up a whole lot of money and working really hard for a terrible job, and with that money I was able to go to college. Unfortunately, that wasn't really the end of that story because going to college the first time ended up ending in failure because my plans hadn't accounted for the fact that my college in the city that I was living in was simply too far away to succeed at college. I spent 5 hours a day driving, or riding a bus, or riding a train. So that was never going to work. I ended up going back home and saving up some more money before trying again under circumstances I was much more in control of, and then it was just a matter of putting my nose to the grindstone and working hard.
You should note here that the hard work is really important, but it's only really important once you're in a situation that is something you can succeed at. There is simply no amount of work that I could have done in the remaining hours of the day to pass the program I was going to the first time. In spite of a lot of hard work I ended up having to turn right around and try again somewhere else.
And it was hard work! I always say that I am borderline retarded, and people think I'm a lot smarter than I am because I work really really hard.
So once you have the plan, you have to start executing it. That's where the hard work comes in, and the most important thing during the execution phase is to keep at it. Human beings are very peculiar evolutionary branch. Most people don't know why human beings lost all of their hair, the reason is that the hair follicles became sweat glands. Human beings ended up becoming creatures with the most endurance out there. A human being in good shape probably can't outrun anything else out there, but it can run longer. There are races between horses and humans, long distance races. Whereas the horses need to be under constant veterinary surveillance, the humans may get tired and sore but generally speaking they're just fine. This is our superpower as a species, and that's superpower extends to everything else. Yes, human beings will spend 12 hours a day building something for months or years at a time, and just consider that to be normal. Yes, human beings will spend 16 years in school, and that absurd amount of work is just considered normal. Yes, human beings will dedicate their entire lives to studying some tiny little facet of this great universe and that's just considered normal. Human beings have written documents that are hundreds of pages long that virtually no one will ever look at. I've done that a huge number of times. It's just a matter of sitting down and doing it, and putting in the time and putting in the effort. This key element, endurance and sticking to your plans over the long term is how you make miracles happen. A lot of people look at people who have accomplished great things and assume that it was something that just happened. It didn't just happen. What inevitably occurred was someone put in a whole lot of work for a really, really long time and little by little they got better, and little by little they built something amazing.
I once got into long distance cycling. At the peak of my physical fitness I could easily go for hours at a time, I rode well over 100 km in a single day and the next day I was just fine and ready to go again. You might look at me in that time and go "well this guy was just born like that" and absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, when I hit that peak performance I had just a few months prior been so overweight the scale wouldn't measure my weight. Losing the weight was obviously a big part of it, and that took a lot of sticking to the plan. It was very difficult, but that miracle didn't happen on its own. It happened because every single day I woke up and followed the plan all day, and then a week occurred, and then a month occurred, and then 6 months occurred, and then a year occurred, and at that point I was skinny. The thing is, just cuz you're skinny doesn't mean you're in good shape. So, I went out and started with a little tiny bike ride. I just went into town around the block a few times and came back home. And then over the course of months I would slowly increase the amount of distance that I would ride. And eventually, that distance got so far that it wasn't my endurance holding me back, it was literally the amount of time that it would take for me to ride my bike back home because I had driven so far away from home. It took a really long time, and I had to stick to it, and there were a lot of things that I wanted to do that I didn't get to do because I was focused on achieving my goals. And eventually, I hit my peak of fitness.
Along the way, it wasn't easy. Human beings maybe blessed with a mighty endurance, but that doesn't mean that difficult things are easy, it just means that if you power through it and do your best you can put all of that effort in, and sometimes you're going to get sweaty, and sometimes your muscles are going to ache, and do you know what happens when your body uses up all of the sugar? Oh, it's terrible! Sugar is a very high energy fuel source, and it does things very fast. You can move really quickly in short bursts if you have lots of sugar. However, eventually your blood runs out of sugar because it also gets used up very fast. At that time, you end up hitting a wall. Seasoned athletes call this bonking. It's incredible, you can still move, but you literally don't have any power. Everything goes slower, and your vision starts to change, it turns green from the lack of sugar. You just feel exhausted, it feels like there's something seriously wrong with you when in reality it's just your body has switched from burning sugars to burning fats. It isn't pleasant, but you're going to live. In the process of switching from burning sugars to burning fats, you go from being able to move around for a short period of time and quick bursts to being able to move for a very long time steadily and consistently moving forward. And it'll hurt, and it'll suck, but at the end of the day in our time before agriculture it would mean the difference between living and dying. Everyone that came before you is around today solely because they were able to push through that.
So you have a plan, and you're following it. Seems like that's where the conversation should end, right? Well, almost. The third step has to be being prepared to change plans.
In my professional career I've had to do this a couple times, but to me the most important example was before I started my professional career. I had been saving for a long time and I moved in order to go to college but unfortunately what I didn't realize is there was simply no way for me to graduate from college under the conditions that I was in. The commute was too long, I didn't have enough time to just buckle down and do the work, there was simply no way for me to succeed. So I came up with a new plan. I went back home and saved up some money for a few months and applied for a new College somewhere that I could be more in control of how my life went. After that pivot, I was able to successfully graduate from college -- even though it wasn't easy, don't get me wrong -- and I was able to move on to the next step.
In another direction, just now I talked about becoming a long distance cyclist. That wasn't in the original plan. Originally, my plan was focused almost exclusively on diet because when you're very fat you can't really exercise. Moving around too much when you're too overweight will physically damage your body and it's counterproductive. My original plan was focused entirely on losing weight through diet. What happened along the way is I suddenly realized that by losing all that weight, I had all of this new energy. All that energy wanted to go somewhere, and that's where I took the opportunity. I knew that I had all this energy and instead of just letting it go to waste, I started riding my bike to burn it off. That's what let me take that moment in my life and not just become skinny, but to overall end up reaching the best physical shape of my Life by not just being skinny but also being muscular.
So the final step is something that I think is important because I know that I've been guilty of this, you have to make it to the end. There are people who have half finished miracles everywhere. A half-finished miracle isn't a miracle, it's just an abandoned plan. It is very easy, and most people end up making this mistake, doing 90% of the work and when they see the end in sight they give up. A mathematician named Pareto in Italy discovered that 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the landowners. This distribution has been called the Pareto distribution. People don't realize it, but the Pareto distribution applies to a lot of different things. In general, you can always expect that 20% of the work is going to take 80% of the effort. Therefore, a lot of people will end up putting in the 20% and getting to 80%, and then stopping because they're happy with their progress. This isn't how you perform miracles, this is how you waste your time not accomplishing things. If you're going to do something, do it right. See it through to the end. The thing that you want, if you really want it, then be prepared to put in the effort and cross the finish line. Once you've crossed the finish line, you've got that forever. Even if it's something like fitness where you have to keep it up forever or you lose it you will always be able to look back and know that you succeeded in creating a miracle. And just like I said at the beginning of this, miracles don't happen by accident.
So, how do you make a miracle happen? It really isn't that complicated. You do your leg work to make sure that you have a plan that can work, you follow your plan and keep following your plan for a really long time, you course correct along the way to fix things that aren't going to work and to take advantage of new opportunities that have presented themselves that you didn't know about earlier, and you stick with it till the end to make sure that your miracle actually happens. That's how you make a miracle happen. It isn't an accident.