Yeah I think you’re right and it’s sort of the result of a long game of telephone. Soy is a complete protein but it’s a lower quality protein. For example whey protein, which comes from milk and therefore an animal product, is much easier for your body to process and use.

Studies have shown that while both are complete proteins, whey’s amino acid profile for example is superior for muscle growth. A few of the amino acids in soy your body can’t really use that well.

This simple fact slowly becomes “soy is dangerous” as one person tells another and shares a link on Facebook and so on.

People really need to learn to just search up research articles and read a few studies. It’s not that hard to do and it’s generally the most reliable way to learn about something.

However, I’m quite concerned about firearms being used for their primary purpose: killing people

Killing someone is not immediately against the law, though. It depends on your state laws and the context of the killing. In most states you can kill someone to defend yourself from a reasonable threat to your life.

The “primary purpose” is not murder. It’s to kill someone. I would perhaps agree with you depending on the weapon. Like if a company was selling a grenade that explodes with cyanide gas or something. I think they should be held liable for that.

It certainly doesn’t hurt! lol I’m headed to the kava bar soon

I don’t let external events impact my personal life. Only stress about things you can control. If the world blows up in nuclear war, so be it. Until then, I’m chugging along, enjoying the ride.

I’m hopeful that with the advance of technology there comes significant societal and political changes that will result in a more equitable society. It might get better before it gets worse, if history is any teacher, but there’s potential for great things.

That’s why psychological torture is preferred by a lot of “advanced interrogators”.

Keep someone locked in the same uncomfortable position for days while you’re blasting aggressive disorienting sounds and randomly flashing blinding lights in a room with mirrors.

Once in a while, take them and do a few hours of water boarding. Make sure they’re constantly sleep deprived and can never get more than a few minutes of sleep.

Then when you do want to inflict physical pain, focus on the feet very slowly. Feet is one of the most sensitive areas. Slowly start peeling the skin or stick nails through the toes, or practice some electroshock therapy.

Honestly torture is terrifying. I recently read a long form article about it. Worst part is, our “civilized” governments still do this with some amount of regularity. Would be more civilized to put a bullet in the head.

Then think about near future where we can read thoughts (like 1984 where the “advanced interrogator” reads the protagonists mind to figure out what his greatest fear is) or even worse implant thoughts. They could implant images of you murdering your family or something. There’s a lot of potential for some horrifying stuff.

$10k is not very much money to live on where rent alone is $2000~2500. I think if I had $100k I would be very picky. Or better yet, I would try to start my own business.

What I think is dangerous is terrorists or mass killers getting dozens or hundreds of small drones and installing explosives on them. Install these cameras and CPUs you mentioned that can recognize human faces and have them fly into someone’s face and then explode.

You could kill many people and unless we start installing AA turrets all over our populated cities, there seems to be little we can do to stop it.

Person you live with may have to pay more or exclude you from their policy depending on your driving history (for example if you have a past DUI)

But no, you can get a license and not own a car and you don’t have to pay insurance or anything like that. You do have to pay to renew your license every X amount of years (I think it’s like 10 years depending on your immigration status) and that costs like $45 or something trivial like that.

I recommend getting a license. Employers may look at you funny if you can’t provide a driver’s license when doing the initial background check. Of course if you live in downtown Miami you might not need a car so it’s different.

But generally speaking most of Florida you need a car to get around.

Kava bars. Meet lots of weird and interest people. Both young and old.

Are you talking to me??

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

It’s really too bad right wingers / incels love using the red pill as a metaphor

People have a tendency to automatically hate on things. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Downvotes are meaningless. I’m more concerned with the discussions. Downvote me all you want. I don’t mind as long as you accurately address my comments/posts.

I’ve read before that removing term limits for congressmen would actually increase influence of lobbyists. Reasoning being that greener politicians have less resources and would be more reliant on the help these types of lobbyists could provide.

Whereas someone who has been there 30 years likely has an established power base and set of alliances.

I don’t think an age limit would change much and would remove potentially good choices from the population. The older you are, the more experience and wisdom you pick up. Obviously at a certain age you start to lose mental acuity.

But that age is different for everyone. Chomsky is in his 90s and he still frequently gives interviews and remembers random dates and details from decades ago. It all depends on the individual.

When I used to work as a cable tech in my early 20s, I would go into people’s houses to install internet / cable TV. I’ve seen 70 year olds who look dead inside. They just sit around watching TV on the couch. They’ve essentially given up on life.

One time I met a guy who was 95. He answered the door smiling with his shirt off and holding onto a towel around his neck like he just got out of the locker room. Guy goes to the gym every day. Still serves as a board of director for a company. And he bragged to me about how he found a 75 year old girlfriend.

That 95 year old had more life in him than many of the 70 year olds I’ve ran into.

At some point age catches up with you. But I don’t believe in an age cap. Let the American people decide.

Having said all that, I agree with you that electoral college is a good idea in theory. I don’t really like the winner takes all set up, though.

I’m not really rude by default to anyone. If I’m in a bad mood I guess I can sometimes get rude when irritated. But I feel like all humans deserve some base level of respect and courtesy.

If it’s someone horrible like a serial killer or child rapist or something I wouldn’t even be rude, just not interact at all with them.

But generally speaking, people are all humans. Scam callers are third worlders from poor countries. If I lived in Nigeria making less than $800 a month in salary, I wouldn’t feel bad about scamming rich westerners. We live in prosperity and luxury whereas they get the shit end of the stick. I don’t blame them.

Debt collectors are just doing their job. They have a family to feed, have hopes and dreams, probably hate their job, etc.

I don’t like Trumpers generally but I try to be polite and friendly. I like planting seeds of doubt into their mind. Criticize Republicans in ways they can understand.

“Man Trump is such a shithead, he doesn’t believe in free market capitalism”

They hear the phrase “free market capitalism” and know it’s something they’re supposed to support, so they ask for clarification

“Well he put taxes on imports on foreign goods so now steel is more expensive for regular Americans. It’s anti-free market”

They sometimes just shrug and look a bit concerned. Republicans have a lot of little inconsistencies. “Fiscal conservatives” but they balloon the national debt everytime. “Freedom and liberty” but they try banning books, drag shows, abortions, trans surgeries, etc. Reagan is an idol but he supported getting rid of guns, gave amnesty to illegals, his economic advisor Friedman supported open borders, etc.

It’s really not that hard to throw a little cognitive dissonance their way. It only works if they see you as a friend though. If they think of you as an enemy or threat, they will immediately get defensive and you’ll probably just make them more set in their beliefs.

Ok I see now we are arguing semantics.

Problem- people were having jams

Solution- space out most commonly used keys randomly so jams are less frequent

Consequences-

• In theory assuming a perfect machine and a skilled typist you type slower because you have to move your fingers more

• in practice you type faster because the jams were a much larger limiting factor than the key placement

So they slowed it down in order to speed it up. Both of you are saying the same thing.

It’s not so hard to switch back and forth with modern operating systems.

You guys are pretty much saying the same thing.

keyboards were designed to slow people down … moving the most used keys out of the way

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would prevent jamming in mechanical typewritters

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I’m not sure why the hostility calling it non-sense. It’s common knowledge QWERTY was created because typewriters frequently jammed when you were quickly typing characters that were close to each other. By spacing out the letters, they effectively slowed down the typing speed and made the machine more reliable to use.

The reason for the layout is to have letters that are commonly typed together on alternating hands

This is a feature of Dvorak. QWERTY basically randomly places the most commonly used letters randomly across the keyboard.

How old are you out of curiosity? I read somewhere that typing speed had steadily been increasing in the newer generations until somewhere around 1995-2000 and then afterwards typing speed started going down again.

I find it fascinating. I grew up playing World of Walmart and Runescape (and later on League of Legends when it came out) so typing quickly was sort of a necessary learned behavior. That along with being online all the time either through MySpace / AIM / MSN Messenger / reddit (later on Facebook)…

These days kids just don’t have access to the computer like my generation did. My dad would go to garage sales and impulsively buy old computers. I would take them apart and put them together. Would install a different distro of Linux every week. All from the age of 11~12

Didn’t know wtf I was doing but over time you learn.

I feel bad for kids these days. They’re not growing up with desktop PCs. They’re growing up with tablets and smartphones. They will always be used to these closed down operating systems and never truly understand the mechanics of how an OS works.

To answer your question - no. Typing on a keyboard is by far my favorite way to get down information. I can peak around 160wpm and average around 130wpm give or take 20wpm depending on density of text. I can’t get anywhere close on the phone. Peak around 90wpm average like 70wpm.

I study my 5 min and longer games. There’s an open source chess game database where I input the games. I set it up so it runs stockfish and I can write annotations and notes.

I will go over each game and write notes on what I was thinking, potential things I could have done better, mistakes I made, tactics I missed, mistakes my opponents made, etc. That type of thing

Then after going through and writing a sort of summary of the game with a couple takeaway points I turn on the engine and go through a second time to see if my analysis was correct and see things I missed. One thing I learned very quickly that the engine makes you look like a dumbass 😅

Although from what I’ve read even people like Carlsen experience that.

Saving all my games in the database is useful because I can see my win rate in specific openings. So for example I’ll play an opening like let’s say French defense on White’s side. I play the Tarrasch variation.

1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. Nd2

Here the typical response, and one I have a good win rate against, is 3 … Nf6 which leads to the mainline. However, through looking at the opening statistics I saw I had a 30% win rate against 3 … c5 (terrible compared to the 65% win rate against 3 … Nf6)

So seeing this, I do some research on that specific line of the opening and I now have a response. Through this type of trial and error after game analysis you start to learn many sidelines of openings and you better understand the ideas and themes prevelant in those types of positions.

In addition to all that, I study openings using books. I play the same openings every opportunity I can. I always start with e4 and for example I have a response against the three most common moves.

1. e4 e5

Here I play the Danish Gambit

2. d4 exd4
3. c3 dxc3
4. Bc4 cxb2
5. Bxb2

I have read a book about this opening, as well as studied it through engine and of course the post game statistics.

Against the Sicilian I have the Smith Morra (excellent book out there called “Mayhem in the Morra” I highly recommend)

1. e4 c5
2. d4 cxd4
3. c3 dxc3
4. Nxf3

And of course against the French I have the Tarrasch Variation which I outlined earlier in this comment. I try to stick to the same openings every game and I try to learn more about those openings. This way over time I’ve picked up many many sidelines of openings and I know the best move to strange or unusual sidelines.

So… to finally answer your question.

It’s both. I study and I play. At the end of the day, you need to play otherwise you will never improve. However, you also cannot just play. You can play mindlessly for years and you will never get any better.

There are people online with tens of thousands of bullet games and they are rated 1000 still.

You need to study and analyze your games, as well as outside material, in order to be able to take that practice and internalize the lessons.

Streaming is getting shittier but that doesn’t mean it’s going away. It’s not like millions of people are going to jump back to paying for cable service. I’d be willing to guess a large chunk of people don’t even have a coaxial plug behind their TV anymore.

I think more likely is that levels of piracy will slowly increase. I’m considering just taking the money I pay for streaming services (HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu) and renting a VPS where I can host a Plex server.

Then I just torrent to my heart’s content whatever I want and can watch it on my TV as if it were Netflix.