Epper

It was not a joke.

[Epper @Eppur13]

@PaulSkallas "No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

[Epper @Eppur13]

@mhartl @DanRosiak On another thread I compared this to musical ear training. You can give toddlers the exact same ear training and only some of them will develop perfect pitch.

Rick Beato of YouTube fame actually did this, and only his son Dylan developed perfect pitch.

[Epper @Eppur13]

@davidbessis Ehhh, Rick Beato put his son and daughter through the exact same world-class ear training as babies and toddlers. His son developed perfect pitch, his daughter did not. Could be something similar for math aptitude.

[Epper @Eppur13]

...did the US government just tell Andrej Karpathy he isn't allowed to use the thing he just invented?

[Epper @Eppur13]

@mtracey @JacobMalhotra What if the murderer was 8 military men in fatigues with the full force of the government backing them? That is the situation here.

[Epper @Eppur13]

@mtracey @JacobMalhotra It seems by this logic that any slave who does not rebel does not actually believe themselves to be a slave. 'You will probably die or be horribly injured if you fight the system' will keep most people obedient, even with great evil going on.

(Related: my taxes)

[Epper @Eppur13]

@NoRagrets99 @CigsMake Saved thanks

[Epper @Eppur13]

There's almost always a dumb, nitpicky, anonymous comment at the top of any quality post. Especially posts about how to improve the USA.

It's clearly astroturfing and it derails this site. @nikitabier this is worth fixing! It's very patterned.

[therealguyfromthemoon @guy_fromthemoon]

@RepPatHarrigan You aren’t paying for the knob, you’re paying for the certification of the part which sometimes includes a lot of engineering testing and validation.

[Epper @Eppur13]

A nice thing about ordering stuff online is you don't have to deal with anti-theft tape/etc added by stores. Much more pleasant unboxing experience.

[Epper @Eppur13]

@CubsJCarl @FelipeBunevf @Y0lkix @JamesEsq85 @Gunslinger127 @MattSmethurst Y'all need to get back on subject this personal stuff is lame

[Epper @Eppur13]

@FelipeBunevf @CubsJCarl @Y0lkix @JamesEsq85 @Gunslinger127 @MattSmethurst I'm enjoying this argument

[Epper @Eppur13]

@cremieuxrecueil That headline could be front page on the Onion

[Epper @Eppur13]

This is sorta all downstream of John Mew

[wally b kleeposting @kleeposting]

What find interesting is that the PUA culture of the late 2000s/early 2010s didn't care about looks at all. They would even suggest wearing borderline goofy stuff and weren't afraid of making a fool of themselves. Ego was the enemy.
Attitude > appearance.
Now the exact opposite is popular and we have high-ego looksmaxxers who can't interact with women without drugging themselves.

[Epper @Eppur13]

Post/scroll ratio might matter here? It's probably fulfilling to build a little audience of readers in your retirement, not so much to just doom scroll all day.

[Paula Pant @AffordAnything]

The WSJ just ran the most depressing headline in human history.

The piece is a first-person column from two retirees.

They say that without bosses, deadlines, or meetings, there's nothing to interrupt zombie doomscrolling.

"We retirees have a particular vulnerability," writes one of the co-authors, Stephen Kreider Yoder, a retired WSJ editor.

"We have time on our hands and no external authority telling us to snap out of it."

"Let's have a show of hands:

"How many retirees have ended a day looking up from the phone, wondering where the time went and feeling the mental equivalent of having finished off a family-size bag of potato chips?"

"Yeah," he writes. "That's what I thought."

We spend decades trying to buy back our time ... and then spend it staring at our screens.

[Epper @Eppur13]

If gambling is going to be legal, basically everywhere, states should run their own casinos/sport books. They already do the lottery, just add table games.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Imaginary exchange with a state legislator:

Me: Why did you vote to legalize online sports betting?
Them: It will generate $100 mln/year for programs that benefit our residents.
Me: Where does that money come from?
Them: A 10% tax on total gaming revenue.
Me: What does that imply about total revenue?
Them: Easy, $1 billion.
Me: And where does that $1 billion come from?
Them: Umm...

[Epper @Eppur13]

@FusaGl @DKThomp @domineeringDom Great. In America, Congress is supposed to declare war, which hasn't happened. So that's why I don't consider it successful.

[Epper @Eppur13]

@ludwigABAP @redtachyon The last sentence is an advertisement for beer

[Epper @Eppur13]

@h17253 @avidseries @JamesSurowiecki You don't think the US could take the Chinese approach? You think Iran has beef with us not rooted in our support for Israel? Do tell

[Epper @Eppur13]

@h17253 @avidseries @JamesSurowiecki Spam or shilling, not sure which