I always thought I hated rice. Turns out my dad's first wife was a lousy cook.
In a similar vein, I thought my stepmom was a great cook. Then her daughter moved out, and the quality of the meals dropped dramatically. Except on days when step-sister was there and helping cook.
It wouldnt do it when i tried to super-script^2^ the ^TM^ after the already superscripted ^🚫^ in a recent post title, nominally to my exceedingly mild chagrin.
I cannot overemphasize the mildity of said chagrin...
A "dog bites man" story from the #NYTimes. Apparently, most AI investment is taking place in rich countries. As opposed to investment in housing, car factories, coffee shops etc ? AI isn't creating the divide between Haves and Have-Nots, it's reflecting it.
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As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.Adam Satariano (The New York Times)
Both the pandemic and the massacre in Gaza have shown the rise of the independent “expert,” who has no connection to any solid institution. Join…Strategic Culture Foundation
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Trying to get a word in between Corbett and AC would be brutal. Would have to slow it down to .75 speed.
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🚨🚨 Experts CONFIRM Barack Obama Birth Certificate is FAKE !!
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Trump on social media hails the “great victory” for his “great, big, beautiful bill”.Reuters (DAWN.COM)
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” President …OffGuardian
Had a great chat with @ac3f6afe about decentralization in practice. I hope you enjoy this deep dive on their project as well as the tech freedom space as a whole.
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Talking the finer points of freedom tech with Simplified Privacylibresolutions.network
New medical research shows that men and women have different food cravings. Men preferring meat, and women preferring sweets.
Scientists trace this back to caveman days, when men had to go out and hunt for food, while women sat on their fat asses eating chocolates.
I dunno, a loss might serve him right… just another failure in what I feel certain is a long-term trend.
If he loses I’m going to #NASnotes him “Not quite the worst Fedi-Fag”
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea: what’s the story behind this confusing nomenclature? Why are there three Guineas? Here's our guide!Morgan Bourven (Young Pioneer Tours)
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Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree formally withdrawing Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention on anti-personnel landmines. The move coincided with the exit from the treaty by countries along NATO's eastern flank, including Poland and the Baltics.Sputnik International
I was 16 when I busted my face open from a bicycle ramping accident, without a helmet. I ripped my chin flesh off my jawbone when that happened.
I've always wondered what's the deal with helmets having that visor part in the front. If I had been wearing one of those when that happened, it would have pushed my head further back and broke my neck..
I'm still alive today, because I wasn't wearing a helmet.
I'm still alive today, because I wasn't wearing a helmet.
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Helmets (at least when properly designed) absorb impacts and even rotational force with MIPS.
Also, if you're doing jumps, you should be wearing a full face MIPS helmet.
Not only would you not be dead, you might've come away completely unharmed (minus a dead helmet).
A MIPS+Spherical helmet (Bell Super Air R) saved my life last year too.
Don't be a dumbass: Wear a helmet.
Yo, even the emergency room was surprised I didn't break my neck. The only reason I didn't was literally because I didn't have a helmet on to push my head further backwards.
I survived a concussion and facial injuries, no broken bones. I would not have survived a broken neck..
I did stop doing jumps after that though, counted myself lucky, not stupid.
It's like when someone goes on about their friends mom's college roommate's sister's cousin was in an accident and the EMTs and hospital definitely told them they would have died if they were wearing their belt or they died because they were wearing a belt.
K. You're still wearing it or you're getting the fuck out of my car. End of discussion and if you want to keep spouting dumb shit everywhere then we have nothing more to talk about.
Helmets save lives. Period. Anyone saying otherwise is an idiot.
I've kicked people out of my car for that shit: An unbuckled idiot is an extreme danger to everyone in the car during a crash.
IDGAF if their entitled ass doesn't want to wear a seatbelt, they sure as fuck aren't putting me at risk because they refuse to use or understand basic safety.
Of course I wear a seatbelt when in a vehicle, but we're not talking about seatbelts nor passengers to even kick out. We're talking about a bicycle, my bicycle in my case, which I'll ride however I choose.
I'm 42 now, been riding bicycles since I was 4. As long as I keep the wheels on the ground and don't do stupid stuff like ramping, I have never once hit my head.
Sure I've busted my knees, shins and elbows a few times doing flatland balance tricks, so if I went for protective gear, I'd go for the gear I actually need, shin guards, elbow guards, and kneepads.
If I was so worried about any little chance of busting my head, I'd wear a helmet every time I walk up and down the stairs. Hell, a friend of mine just last month missed a single 4" high step coming out of a gas station and busted his head wide open and needed 10 staples.
Point is, you can trip and fall practically anywhere, even just on foot. With that said, why don't pedestrians wear helmets? They're just as much at risk, especially if walking near or across road traffic..
Do you walk at 20+mph?
No, you don't.
Walking and riding a bike are not even remotely close to being the same thing, at all.
Are you trolling or what?
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I don't even ride my bicycle over 15mph, unless I absolutely have to for some reason. I don't race, and at absolute max my single speed low geared BMX bike can only achieve is 24mph, which I practically never ride that fast.
Read my other comments, my usual cruising pace is ~11mph, and when I do BMX flatland tricks, those are only usually around a mere 5mph. I don't ride any faster than my feet can stop me in a pinch. Brakeless rider here no less.
Try watching a BMX flatland video or three, flatland isn't about speed, its about balance. Sure some riders like to speed, but not me, I just like to cruise and pull some occasional bike tricks.
You might as well insist that the Olympics make ice skaters wear a helmet, equally as dangerous at such low speeds.
15mph is plenty fast for a fatal head injury, never mind 24.
You are not an Olympic athlete, you apparently a delusional helmetless person doing tricks on a bicycle, possibly with a prior head injury that is clouding your judgement.
I'm done arguing with you though, there's no point arguing with a person who disregards reality.
Byeeeeee!
You're right, I'm no Olympic athlete.
I think outside the box, have no brakes, and don't even need shoes.
Don't try this at home, but it's almost the 4th of July, so I might as well share. Yes this is me...
Occasionally I'll practice a few tricks barefoot, this is about as hard as it gets. When I put my shoes back on, suddenly things seem easier for some reason...YouTube
Did you miss my point about the visor? If I had been wearing a helmet with a visor when that happened, the extra protrusion from the visor sticking out from my forehead would have pushed my head back about an additional 20 degrees and would have snapped my neck.
Did anyone catch the actual article about the helmet recall? Those helmets have... visors
I never said helmets are a bad thing, I said helmets with a visor are a bad thing.
Either way I still would have busted my chin open, that was the initial main point of impact, and I don't see too many bike helmets out there with chin guards.
You are operating under multiple layers of ignorance and frankly, I just don't have the energy to correct everything you've said but suffice it to say:
1: Properly designed visors will actually protect you and most definitely will not "break your neck".
2: There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of bicycle helmets with chin guards. I would strongly encourage anyone doing jumps, downhill, or even e-bikes at higher speeds to get a good MIPS full face helmet and wear it every time. If you're going to go faster than 25 frequently it's probably even time to get a DOT/SNELL certified moto helmet.
You don't know what would have actually happened if you were wearing a properly designed helmet because you chose not to wear one, which was an objectively foolish decision no matter how you try to justify it.
I have no interest in debating this further though, believe whatever you like: It's your brain to protect (or not).
I was 16, you think I was thinking much back then? Like I said, I've since quit ramping. My current bike's cruising speed is about 11mph, and is a single speed geared low where even at absolute max it simply cannot exceed 24mph.
I'm not into racing, If I'm not cruising around 11 to 15 mph, I'm doing BMX flatland balance tricks probably around a mere 5mph.
I do thank you for the thoughts and advice though, but you're assuming I'm going way faster than I usually do. If I somehow manage to hit my head doing anything at 5mph, I'll just retire from riding altogether.
I'm nowhere near as skilled as these riders, but I took lots of inspiration from these professional riders. Note what the pros don't even use in flatland...
Enjoy the video clip, or not, up to you. Have a good day.
The pro finals at JoMoPro 2012 showcased 10 of the best riders in the world competing for $3,000. With money up for grabs, along with valuable points towards...YouTube
I'm pretty sure that's part of the general design intent yes, but you'd have to know the exact angle of my impact. Chin first, left side, dragging upwards, from about 6 feet in the air, tire level, which means my head started off about 9 feet in the air. It also jammed my glasses into my forehead, which is how I know the angle I hit. It only takes about 7 pounds of force to snap a neck, and I impacted chin first with all ~150 pounds of my body weight from pretty high up.
I could have largely avoided the chin/face impact if I had put my arms and hands out in front of me, but I would have ended up with broken arms and my handlebars stuck through my gut instead.
Yes things would have went differently if I had been wearing a helmet, perhaps could have been better, perhaps could have been worse. No way to truly know, and I'm damn skippy not about to try it again.
The reason that happened was because the ramp wasn't secured to any sort of frame, it was just a sheet of plywood laid on a ~4 foot high dirt mound. There were 4 of us taking turns ramping, and as my front wheel came off the ramp, the next friend was just hitting the ramp behind me. That caused the plywood to flex, pushing my back wheel upwards as I was leaving the ramp.
I had a whole second or so to say "OH SHIT!" and decide whether to keep hold of the straight handlebars or not. I didn't want my handlebars stuck through my gut, so I held the bars.
Anyways, from that sort of height, chin/face first, I don't think a helmet would have made all too much of a difference. But if I had been wearing a helmet with a visor, my glasses probably wouldn't have been jammed into my forehead, which would have meant that my head would have been pushed back at more of an angle. Even the ER doctors noticed that.
Not saying it's right, but in my 42 years of life, I've never met a bicycle rider that even owns a helmet. To even obtain a helmet, you gotta ride to another city to even get one. And the intersection at that Walmart is one of the absolute most dangerous intersections out there for bike riders. So oddly enough, its safer to avoid the only place we can even get helmets.
TL;DR - I was 16, doing stupid shit and ramping a rigged up ramp with 3 other friends, and nobody out there wore or even had helmets. What did I learn? Don't do stupid shit, don't ramp, keep the wheels on the ground. So I switched to flatland.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Senate GOP finally grew a spine and sent a message to the unelected bureaucrat trying to tear apart President Trump’s big, beautiful bill.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Senate GOP finally grew a spine and sent a message to the unelected bureaucrat trying to tear apart President Trump’s big, beautiful bill.Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Andrew Korybko- Skeptics might speculate that he’s playing “5D chess” as part of some “master plan” to “psyche out” the US but that doesn’t make much sense.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
@BasedLunatic @SiRrogueKnight My friends this tournament has 6 hours left...and SiRrogueKnight has been winning this tournament since close to the start, maintaining a consistent lead of between 5 and 10 votes.
Currently the score is 52-44 - which is not insurmountable by any means! However, despite the consistent efforts of Sui/Owl to push for Dicey, SiRrogueKnight himself has spent the last two days CRASHING THE ACTUAL FUCK OUT, undermining their efforts! Can Sui scrape up votes for Dicey to keep a win out of the hands of NAS, or will SRK maintain his lead?
Finally getting some structure. After 1 year of pushups and then bying more and more equipment, adding exercises along the way
Until I had no structure. So today I just wrote down all the exercises I wanna do. Splitting them between Dedlift squats and benchpress
It was a lot easier once I wrote them all down. So today was my first training with my new schedule.
-Deadlift
-Biceps dumbbell hammer/curl
-Lats pull down and seated cable row.
-chin ups
-Ab wheel
Great feeling
#NALC
Chinese Kung Fu dance drama captivates Romanian audience-english.news.cn
Kyrgyzstan (Sputnik) - Russian top diplomat Lavrov is on an official visit to Kyrgyzstan on June 29-30. In addition to meetings with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Kulubayev, Lavrov will also attend a meeting of the Council of Foreign...Sputnik Africa
I did not know Mamdani’s mother was a Bollywood director worth tens of millions.
He’s a perpetual theater kid who never had to worry about a dime.
Makes so much sense now.
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Have you tried helping in the kitchen while she's making it and gaining the recipe by stealth? Is your dad bribe-able?
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