@pmarca Remember when @AjitPai was supposed to have ended the internet a few years ago?
There’s something so inherently interesting about people staring straight faced and stoically at their phones as moral panic armageddon occurs in their mind.
@BravoKiloActual He’s bringing the “not sure if anybody else can see him or he’s a figment of my imagination” energy.
Very rare find for an on the street interview.
Most Americans don’t even know who Ilia Topuria is, much less Power Slap.
There’s a very small handful of legitimately household names in UFC’s history and they still dwarf Power Slap. Every survey and data collection has shown this.
Don’t confuse what the online MMA community that follows MMA knows for what the average lady behind the grocery counter knows. Go ask her who Justin Gaethje is and let me know what she says.
@MsMelChen On God, I was expecting it to be a class on how to be an adult when I first started reading it and then it veered off the bridge and became a crazy verbal kaleidoscope.
Naylor’s very good normally, for what it’s worth.
It’s been years but I recall a guy (I didn’t know personally) ejecting on a runway during training and getting cleared fairly quickly. Couldn’t tell you how long he was DNIF exactly, and it possibly required a waiver, but it was for sure within a 5-week window.
If somebody really wants to get after it and a flight surgeon medically clears them, I’m not familiar with any regulation that specifies a minimum down time.
I tend to agree, specifically with the microscopic use. An environment where a home invader being gently told to leave and then not having charges filed is far more likely to create home invasion than the threat of violence and prison.
However when we get to that almost abstract tribalistic range, where we say “white people” or “black people” or “Americans” or “Brazilians,” and you are essentially trying to blanket cover large groups with the successes, failures, traumas, crimes, etc. of individuals, that is where I believe it’s necessary.
Tribalism seems to only cool down when somebody does the incredibly unpopular thing of getting metaphorically hit in the face and not hitting back. You have to lie a lot, like pretending you’re good friends when you’re not, or appreciate their insight when you don’t. And you are gonna take a ton of heat for it. But I do believe it’s what ultimately leads to reconciliation and I do believe we occasionally see it in events like US meetings with China and North Korea, but very rarely domestically.
@SojuConnoisseur@elonmusk Been trying to tell people this.
It takes incredible discipline to have an open shot for a punch and not take it. And the more tense the environment, the less often we see people demonstrate discipline.