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“It’s just every family trip.”

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@thismomisoverit Deep cut, highly online joke:

“Women must be *so confused* when they read about the Abilene Paradox.”

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@MrWBond I assume when someone applies to become a liberal the entrance exam is they show you that map and ask why we can’t have the same in America then see how good you are at coming up with reasons that aren’t the reason.

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@Steve_Sailer @Bnicklaus7 Moneyball spoof where it’s the equipment manager of a little league team and he stumbles upon a controversial new method for keeping track of stuff, called a “checklist”.

At first he is mocked for carrying around a clipboard and using a pencil, but one day at a key away game…

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Guys you gotta read this it’s hilarious.

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Lisa Kudrow says the "Friends" writers were "mostly men" who reprimanded the cast for forgetting lines and stayed "up late discussing their sexual fantasies" about her female co-stars:

"Don't forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers' lines or it didn't get the perfect response they could be like, 'Can’t the bitch f---ing read? She's not even trying. She f---ed up my line.'"
https://t.co/sqxQES3yml

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@ElonBachman @GarrettPetersen Not when you come correct with a sweater vest.

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@EricRichards22 Everyone at ADL must have been on heavy mood stabilizers in the 90s if Quark could exist on an advertiser dependent TV network for six seasons and they forgot to get mad.

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@EricRichards22 My point is we should either kill them, or milk them.

Some kid finds a glitch in a video game and just keeps smashing the button, you take him outside and beat his ass in the name of sportsmanship.

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@ElonBachman @mugzypayton Majestic.

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Optimists wanna credit culture or grit and cynics wanna blame drugs.

But you can make both mad by saying the truth: these people are mutants. A freak accident of history gave them a gift they were unaware of, and it made them the best at a game they didn’t invent.

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It took over 100 years, and many predicted it was impossible, but today Sabastian Sawe broke the two-hour barrier for running a marathon.

Since 2002, all of the record-holders have been from high-altitude regions of Kenya/Ethiopia.

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@JesterLaureate @UsingLyft More or less, yeah. Definitely a typa guy.

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@oldsweat7789022 @BarneyFlames Who was that guy on here everyone had figured for a Silicon Valley founder or at worst a Stanford prof with pieces of many tech firms but then he got doxxed and it turned out he lived in a flyover state doing IT in some sector that barely seems to need computers for like $45k?

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Oh I don’t mean it in a moral sense. I’m not claiming no one has the right to win at another tribe’s game. Though I know plenty of lowbrow Hustler cartoon type racists think that. Me I’m more of a Playboy when they just only showed tits longform article gentleman ethnocentric.

I’m saying the default practical assumption would be that devising a contest confers an advantage. One would naturally expect members of a group to have a leg up in games that group invented and long practiced.

People expect Persians to play good chess, Thais to know more than most about kickboxing, Scandinavians to crush it across a wide range of fake gay sports involving frozen water, etc.

If they ever invent a contest where the goal is to maintain an erection while having sex with strikingly ugly women, Eskimos and Aborigines would surely be out of the gate favorites.

But if culture and habit had anything to do with it, Bostonians would dominate the marathon.

“I’m gonna run 26 miles without stopping” does sound rather more like a drunken dare than a sport anyone would ever want to watch, or cross the ocean to take part in, etc. But here we are.

Obviously now we have more than default assumptions to go on. I personally wouldn’t bet against blacks in any sport. It can no longer be considered an upset when Africans or especially diasporan Africans come in naive to an athlete genre asking “Can I play?” and quickly reveal a prodigious talent for the game.

So far I’ve never seen a brother kayaking down a mountain, but I’m not gonna risk the possibility some Richard Williams type woke up one morning 20 years ago and decided conquering white water was the key to defeating white privilege, then hauled ass to REI and bought his kids some oars.

Look what happened to the Japanese with sumo. They got bigger backed out of their national pastime. But they also took rather charmingly to ours.

Hurdles were obviously rigged to favor English twinks, but that didn’t last, etc.

Really what we need to do is start moving away from the idea that merit in these contests (especially in the more niche ones) is deserved in any normal sense of that word.

Michael Phelps has a freakish torso that calls to mind the deformity produced by Fragile X syndrome. He’s the opposite of admirable. We shouldn’t tell kids with normal proportions to futilely chase his records.

But take the most obvious example: basketball. When China comes out with a 9 foot embryo selected player, no one will be able to mine inspiration from his triumph. The sport will become a joke and the next season no one will watch.

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@chi_street_crew @Steve_Sailer @content_grinder Don’t forget those 3 masters of teen comedy: Robert Zemeckis, John Hughes, and of course William Friedkin.

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@ItalianChud @ElonBachman No to get that you must risk choosing (b) for the chance to groom her into the subculture of mimedom while she’s still young enough to learn a new language quickly.

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@LiteralMurderer I was trying to convince a doubter of this (her theory was I just recall early 90s L&O as smarter because I knew less then).

So I dug up an ep where the McGuffin was collateral estoppel, and she made that face everyone makes the first time they consider Idiocracy might be real.

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Writing this reply reminded of something that makes me sad.

When Law & Order first started, there was clearly a commitment to add some increment of realism beyond the (admittedly rock bottom) standards of crime television.

For one thing, now and again the good guys lost.

But more importantly it was the first show any of us had ever seen that featured plea bargains. You could watch every cop show from 1960 to 1990 and never know such a thing existed.

But during the Michael Moriarty era it seemed like half the cases ended with plea deals, and even in ones that went to trial they would show plea negotiations.

Normies did not like this. Not one bit. So by the mid 90s the state was always going to trial, and winning. The Sam Waterston successor character only discussed plea deals long enough to register his disgust with the concept.

This seemed then like a depressing impoverishment of culture, and it does all the more so now.

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Efficacy. Confession is the fastest, surest path to a conviction that +/-matches the offense, and can be obtained with a non Lindbergh Kidnapping level effort.

When a guy says “Ok look I did pistol whip the old man during that home invasion last Tuesday, but I’m innocent: the robbery was Daquan’s idea”, the report can be simplified to 3 main items

Probable cause: why we thought it might be him.

Confession: him saying “yep it was me”.

Corroboration: other stuff he said vs known facts, just to be sure.

Plus now they can call Daquan in and tell him, and his lawyer, “Dude, yer fucked! Ray Ray gave us everything.” Which fast tracks that to a reasonable plea bargain.

But if Daquan and Ray Ray both stick to their denials, no matter how incredibly and incoherently, then the investigation turns into an open ended affair. Now they gotta get every camera that might possibly have a frame of them coming or going. Now they need that old man’s story and suspect ID to hold up under repeat battering. Now they need the crime lab - narrowest bottleneck in the whole system - to do a bunch of tests whose results are never in doubt just so on the off chance a jury poisoned by CSI, true crime, and Netflix gets involved, the defender can’t say “Let me understand this, there is a test and you DIDN’T run it?”

Now the report is 37 pages and it’s taken 9 weeks to compile, and the prosecutor is saying…”Er, feels thin. You know what would help. A video of Daquan pawning the old man’s wedding ring. Bring me something like that, we’re in business for sure.”

You can see where this is going:

At some point everybody who was working to ensure fit punishment for this crime accepts there is a very real risk of it getting NO punishment. So when Ray Ray’s lawyer comes in offering UUW + receipt of stolen property, they say “I can’t believe we’re doing this”, and they do it. And Daquan goes scot free.

You imagine…it doesn’t take many experiences like this to turn a hard hunting detective into an energy conserving ambush predator.

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@pstein4 “Extinction, after a brief detour into world shaping hyper significance.”

If they ever unfreeze Hitler he’s going to feel so stupid to learn that all he ever had to do was unleash co-education, birth control, and abortion.

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I’ve given up hope of ever truly understanding what it is about Trump that makes Jews forget how to argue.

But it remains a fascinating question and was in his first term a consequential one.

Now all I can think is Trump and the Ashkenazim have something big in common: by 2030 both will exert so little influence on the future it will be hard to believe that either was ever accused of ruling the world.

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Fran Lebowitz on Trump: “He’s not a person. He’s not even a squirrel. And yet he affects the whole world. A squirrel would be a much better president. If he ran against a squirrel, I would vote for the squirrel”

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@ElonBachman @BarneyFlames At first I was sure this reply was meant for my Aella joke…

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@neolithicrumba2 @StatisticUrban The Malthusian cap on black people was removed.

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@ElonBachman @BarneyFlames Ireland: “How do we do it? What’s the secret to having sweater weather last the whole year round?

In a word: moss.”