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Comment Re: Or viewed from another perspective (Score 1) 37

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of students, those who love to learn and slackers who hate school.

This is exactly like saying there are two kinds of workers, those who love to work, and those who hate their job.

Fuck right off down the road with that bullshit. Don't even try to put school up on some weird pedestal like it's not exactly what it looks like. It's work. Like moving boxes is good for your muscles, hitting the books is good for your brain, but it's work. Acting like everyone is supposed to like it because it's good for them is fucking fantasy.

Most kids don't love showing up to play baseball or soccer or whatever either, but it's good for them and we motivate them to stick with it. School is no different. MOTIVATE THEM.

Hey, it's perfectly normal to not like getting up early to run too, but it's great for you. Calling people slackers for not wanting to do something that objectively sucks is stupid as fuck and guaranteed to backfire.

Imagine calling my running group a bunch of slackers because they didn't love showing up at the ass crack of dawn to get sweaty. Or saying that there are two types of runners, people who love to better themselves and people who hate running. Do you see how elitist and snobbish that sounds?

Man, go unfuck yourself, before telling someone else they're lazy because they don't love hard work.

Comment Re: Live by the Executive Order, die by the EO (Score 1) 149

At the end of the day, Congress should be legislating these types of regulations and not leaving it up the current person occupying the White House. They need to get it together and do their job...

No. They should be delegating the details to people that actually know their shit and are insulated from changing political winds to some degree. So people can do their fucking jobs, even if politicians don't like it. Like produce jobs statistics EVEN WHEN THEY'RE BAD. Because dividing up spectrum, managing water pollution, fiscal policy or countless other niches shouldn't take individual acts of Congress to achieve and shouldn't unpredictably change on the whims of every newly elected mini king.

They did do their job. They created the EPA. The problem isn't with Congress failing to codify every EPA, FTC, FCC, DOE, or what ever rule. The problem is squarely with executive branch power grabs and Congress being unable to guarantee any kind of political independence due to the Supreme Court being captured by goons that don't want the government to be able to do anything.

To the small government crowd they love it. They know congress can't effectively do those functions. They can barely pass a fucking budget, good fucking luck issuing spectrum. They don't fucking care, they don't want the government to be able to do those things. That's why we have a Supreme Court bending over backwards to take away the independence of congressionally created agencies but uhhhhh uh uhh the Federal Reserve is special, don't fuck with that one. Trying to have it both ways.

Comment Re: We have lost our ability to debate and decide (Score 1) 77

Yup. The difference was everyone had the same shitty social media feed. Word of mouth, church gossip, etc. Razor blades in your apples, vans with tinted windows, dungeons and dragons something something your art teacher is a satan worshipper, real estate only goes up, etc.

People didn't get dumber, they diversified. Now you can be part imminent disclosure fermented caveman diet, and your neighbor can be AI singularity bitcoin investor, all these different flavors of stupid bullshit.

Comment Re: AI burns out people around you! (Score 1) 61

That sounds like another spin of the white paper best practice bros we've always had. Or "the consultants said" appeals to outside authority. Nothing new there.

Like never mind reality or learned experience, or the particulars of our environment. I found this white paper that says do X, let's shoehorn everything into this one size fits all approach that is terrible, rather than using it as a reference and engineering our own approach... like where do they think baby white papers even come from? Try arguing with them and it's *points to white paper link*

Or they asked the outside consultants if we should do X and they said yes, now it's "the consultant says". MFer... I've been on the other side of the table, you could ask them anything, there's a hundred ways to solve a problem, and they'll affirm any of them if they don't totally suck. I love joining the next meeting early and getting the consultants all buttered up to my approach without explaining the disagreement on our side, then act like ... they said ... when my disagreeing coworker shows up. It's like two kids trying to trick their parents into taking a side without them knowing there were sides. I'll implement my solution anyway when that coworker is on vacation, and anyone deserves that response if they can't explain their position without leaning on some higher authority bs, myself included. Just don't do it, internalize outside advice and own it, with understanding.

I can see how AI might be used for that affirmation seeking appeal to authority bullshit because it pushes the same buttons, but I haven't seen it myself yet. Someday I'm going to give someone the look, the why did you do that look, and they're going to say "the AI said", and whoooo boy are they going to get some clever "the AI said" right back. It's the only way people learn.

Comment Re: Correlation != Causation (Score 1) 109

Dude I pull up to a four way stop and fully expect one of the other three people to not completely grasp how this thing works. Some advice is worth repeating because there's another moron born every minute.

But yah it's right there in TFS too, so ruling on the field stands, everyone gets a car analogy.

Comment Re: And this is the problem. (Score 1) 105

If you think HFT keeps you from making a profit on stocks, you are a dumbass.

You buy at one price, you sell at another. When the market is overall doing well you can close your eyes and invest randomly and make a profit. The only way to persistently lose money is if you FOMO buy everything high and panic sell everything low. It's not the market's fault if you persistently make bad trades. I mean it's kind of like blaming house flippers for you not making a profit trading properties. The fact that someone has room to buy low and sell high in a very short window means someone else left money on the table, it means as a seller you should have set a higher price and waited slightly longer. Faster and faster flippers take money from slower flippers. They move the buy and sell prices towards each other. They're not your problem unless you're trying to profit from the spread yourself, which is utterly fucking stupid if you don't know what you're doing. You could instead flip a stock by making educated guesses at price movement instead of closing the spread.

If you don't understand these things, it's your own fault, these are extremely basic market fundamentals.

Comment Re: Reverse causation? (Score 1) 172

This is basically a lie people tell themselves to put less focus on the calories in part of the equation. You take calories in, then you use or store or excrete them.

Yes, those other variables are different for everyone and vary over time and there are lots of stabilizing feedback loops in our bodies. Those variables don't vary as much as calories in. The variance in the nutritional value of your turds is mouse nuts compared to how much you can swing calories in. You can skip a meal, you can't shit a meals worth of calories. The variance in how much you use is also not that much. The difference in effort it takes to run off a can of Pepsi vs not drinking one is mind boggling, and if our brains could do what they do with less energy they would be already.

So yes, there are a lot of little dials and buffers and gauges you can control besides the giant adjustable dial for calories in. Yes all the dials big and small have little unconscious hands working against your conscious efforts sometimes. It's still the biggest dial you can control. Focus on unconscious ways of gaming that dial like increasing fiber intake, less on how nutritious other people's crap is or our superior brain energy efficient.

Comment Re: Wrong? No. (Score 0) 172

What they are advising against is cardio

What level of reading comprehension did you just fail? They did not advise against cardio. Get off the internet and finish your fucking homework.

I don't care if you are an old fart, you can have internet privileges restored when you pass sixth grade reading comprehension.

Comment Re: Wrong? No. (Score 1) 172

What exactly is unrealistic about eating an Apple, banana, and an orange each day, with some broccoli for each meal. It's good advice.

Or eat some Metamucil with each meal, it's the same idea, to reduce the urge to eat more by increasing fiber. The fruit is even better because it should help keep blood sugar stable between meals.

Comment Re: Wrong? No. (Score 1) 172

Equivalent in terms of what? The level of fitness it lead you to, no, not the same, but improved quality of life? Can't you enjoy hockey for what it is, instead of thinking you're somehow getting 10x more out of life than someone that didn't do all that?

You sound like a runner sneering at a bicyclist. If other people getting the same benefit for less pain subtracts from your experience... I mean that's like kicking yourself in the nuts and being mad at someone else because they got the same out of not doing that.

I like running because it challenges myself, not to feel superior to anyone hurting themselves less.

Comment Re: Repeat offenses have graduated penalty (Score 1) 37

I thought the government couldn't compel speech, the 1st amendment and all that. Removing the right to curate search results for quality purposes is so backwards and unintelligent, who came up with that? GeoCities is unarguably worth removing from search indexes. Send it right to the bottom of the bottom to be charitable.

Comment Re: This also helps my business (Score 1) 116

So you do admit they won't pass on any savings to you. They will split it between growing their business or giving it to investors, the only thing that makes sense. So it's one way, right? Taxes go up and they cut you deeper, taxes go down and they squeeze more juice. There's no upside. There's nothing for you to celebrate.

And you have to tax them or you can't use tax incentives to steer them the way you want like buying American, creating jobs not robots, whatever. Same thing you do with individual income taxes, reward for investing disposable income instead of mattressing it, reward for buying a home, reward for getting married, etc. If you're lucky enough to have disposable income. This is what happens when you have a bunch of one way valves that only go up.

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