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IF we continue to keep seeing footballers, and tennis players having heart attacks on TV, and more of us have friends taken out randomly by heart attacks and strokes eventually the genie will be all the way out of the bottle. I think we are already there. It's just a matter of how bad does it get.
the human mind has a tendency to look for patterns, even when there are none. heart attacks in sportsmen has been an issue for a long time. here's a rudimentary list of notable sportsmen having sudden cardiac death by the age of 40: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_cardiac_death_of_athletes#Notable_casesnote that the list goes back as far as 1906. a paper written by the guys from American College of Cardiology in 2016 ( https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2016/06/28/07/06/sports-participation-and-sudden-cardiac-arrest) reads: In the United States, there are approximately 100 to 150 sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) during competitive sports each year. The estimated incidence of SCD among athletes versus non-athletes was found to be 0.44 per 100,000 person-years, and 13 per 100,000 person-years, respectively. Despite the higher risk of SCD in the general non-athlete population, SCD among athletes garners intense scrutiny by the media and represents an emotionally charged medical topic. Indeed, the incidence of SCD in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes may be higher than previously thought |
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[stupidity of people]
The whole reaction to Covid nailed down these points for good; we are utterly lost as a species if group intelligence is the standard of measurement. I also tend to think of Winston Churchill's famous quote in this respect: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. People rather stick to convenient, simple lies than handle the complex, inconvenient truth  what's even more mystifying is how people will stubbornly clutch at even the most contrived, conspirational, unrealistic lies when it fits their misguided, imaginary convictions, instead of facing the simple, bare, but uncomfortable reality. |
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you meat lovers are fucking psychos.
...and you vegans are fucking hilarious.  and you carrion-devourers are deplorable. i'm not vegan btw. |
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Another city boy who knows sweet FA about producing beef.
Not all of us city boys are clueless about our food.  The Angus steer on the right is Murray, being held by the lad who lovingly raised him like a pet, knowing full well that he was destined for slaughter. He was reserve grand champion at the prestigious Royal Winter Fair a few years back. The guy with the glasses, second from right, is my local neighborhood butcher in downtown Toronto. He sources his meat from small, humane producers like the happy family in the rest of the picture. Happy meat is good meat. Of course it's free of artificial hormones and unnecessary antibiotics. Murray was raised on forage and silage and finished with barley. Needless to say he was harvested humanely, locally. I was lucky to get a couple of steaks from the front part of his rib section (with large spinalis dorsi muscles), plus a couple of flat irons (infraspinatus muscles). While we were enjoying him we had his picture up on the 55" display and toasted him, thanked him, and complimented him on his fine flavor and texture. He was delicious. disgusting. you meat lovers are fucking psychos. |
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thats a simple statement, while almost all simple statements turn out to be false. Brazil got quite a number of gunshot kills per 100.000 nationals. Too low for Nutsonaro? Gunshot kills made by criminals to unarmed citizens who can't defend themselves, That's what he is changing. If you know that you might get shot yourself if you shoot someone, you just might think twice before you shoot. If good people have guns, bad people will hesitate to shoot them = fewer gun kills, how is that so hard for the stupid left to understand. hmmmm The facts and data don't really back that up at all though do they. I've lived in the USA, and I've lived in Australia. Much, much, much less chance of being shot in Australia. That's a cold hard fact, no matter what you want to believe. There is a decent argument to made about the enslaved by tyrants thing. Maybe a lot more gun deaths are worth that. But arguing from a "safer with more guns" perspective is not backed by anything except your feelings. The problem I saw whilst living in the USA, was the people most likely to want a gun, were the people the least likely to have the mental or emotional ability to handle said gun responsibly. I completed a few courses, enough for concealed carry, and the majority of people in my courses couldn't hit a barn from 10 feet. Like not just bad, but fucking terrible. Knowing they owned guns was way more scary than a theoretical "bad guy" You can't compare two very different countries, you numnut. You have to compare the same country before and after. You had much less chance of being shot in Australia before you became collectively stupid and banned guns too. I'm pretty sure that gun deaths didn't change much at all in Australia before and after the ban. There is a lot of research on the issue, and as far as I recall, the verdict is: More guns in the hands of good people = less gun deaths. If you do want to do the country comparison I will raise you Switzerland, where every citizen gets his or hers gun with him home after military service and where they can go in to any gun store and by any gun they damn well please, and yet, a very peaceful country. |
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it's been, like, 8 years like this, same goddamned clunky-ass opaque interface
Armory is pretty fucking secure, slow ass release cycle, they at least manage to give you a configuration tab where you can...oh I dunno...CHOOSE A NON DEFAULT LOCATION FOR THE FUCKING 280GB YOU HAVE TO STORE?!?!?
I'm over it
i don't think core is aimed at your average retail user. everybody else can just use -datadir as an argument or in a config file. |
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I am just gonna leave this here for those who know what's what.  Wow, cAPSLOCK, your post has just fired some old memory neurons in my brain... Dungeon Master! I've spent countless hours on this game. High school, with a classmate and friend. On an Amiga 500. We were even making maps on paper for each level. We're talking hours of non-stop playing, we didn't eat or sleep until we were completely exhausted... I remember we used to eat those damned plant things in your screenshot, which upped our stamina/power/abilities. After we finished eating them, we went outside the room and slept (in-game) for some time and these things kept regenerating, so we could eat some more and gain more abilities. It was a way to raise your level. Also, the small squares with the symbols on top-right were for casting spells. Those graphics were breathtaking at the time, a truly immersive experience (IIRC, the Amiga had better graphics than your screenshot -- this is probably from a PC or other computer). Good times... check out Return to Chaos to scratch that Dungeon Master itch. http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/801 |
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When I was little in school we had to learn all the continents, countries, capitals of countries, political maps, seas, rivers around the world, today they don't teach any of this.
Geography and history do not matter, the educational system is disastrous.
I could easily name somewhere between 50 - 100 countries, and have been able to since the 5th grade (could probably name more then than now). The problem is, its just not a skill you need for anything, unless you want to be a participant on Jeopardy some day. knowledge is power. |
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I just wish someone had a counterargument.
china has a counterargument called nukes. Ours are bigger. Supposedly, the american military doctrine is to be bigger than the next ten countries combined. If that actually is the case then it is a mere choice. usa is known as a country that's managed to win a single war throughout its history: the civil war. ^^ |
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I just wish someone had a counterargument.
china has a counterargument called nukes. |
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it was always a low-volume coin.
there's always the risk of delisting, even with higher-volume coins. even xmr got recently delisted from the exchange i'm using.
but if it comes to that, there are quite a few other exchanges where pink can be traded.
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