it’s always mystified me why the wordcel crowd has so much difficulty with this turn of phrase, which can be understood very easily through the primary definition of “arbitrarily” rather than some specialized definition. what is being conveyed is that the level of “smartness”…
[guy who doesn’t know what arbitrarily means]: you don’t need to read books
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…is unbounded above. but an arbitrary quantity cannot be bounded above, because that would impose a constraint on it that would render it non-arbitrary! really not that hard to reason this out.
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this account should just rename themselves to “ed fatalist”, being a public school teacher 10 IQ points higher than the rest of the staff has broken his brain
Kelsey: I optimize my $45k of charity.
Me, coping: Extraordinarily impressive. But maybe it's more important to raise a smart and well-rounded family first and okay not to get around to donating until later in life."
Kelsey: I raise four children and my 2yo can read.
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this is what he blocked me for previously; of course he doesn’t have the slightest theory of mind for how any of these things work
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on one hand, you have a bunch of small N studies on non-elite athletes. on the other hand, you have 40 year old Laurel Hubbard winning World Cup weightlifting events. not hard to figure which of those data points should matter more, and you need ~0 knowledge of biology to do so.
not to be too centrist, but i think the most frustrating part abt the trans sport discourse is that no one has any idea what theyre talking about. this is a sort of complicated biology question, and everyone thinks they can solve it by thinking abt it for a few minutes
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but if you want to talk about the studies, even the most sympathetic reading of them is that only aerobic performance equalizes (not strength or muscle mass), and only after several years, and of course many sports also select on height and frame, which is fully retained
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internet poster retweeted
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Patrick Stewart is, by an enormous margin, the actor who has had the greatest influence on me as a child growing into an adult. He also seems to have been universally beloved by his colleagues. But…
It can't be overstated how much Patrick Stewart carried Star Trek: The Next Generation on his back through those rough first two seasons until the show finally found its footing. Without his absolute conviction, Star Trek probably would have quietly died by the early 90s.
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…he also appears to have had a very strained relationship with his kids, now going on 60, and it’s hard to imagine how any amount of acclaim or professional respect can compensate for that. He did a lot of good and I hope he felt at peace with the state of the ledger at the end.
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ironically my feelings on this are best encapsulated by another Star Trek captain: open.spotify.com/track/7toIkbLD…
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maybe the best part of the great X cricket debate is that many people believe that it's *pitching* that's less impressive in baseball, when the archetypal modern MLB pitcher is a huge 6'4" dude throwing 98+. I live next door to one such guy (threw a MLB no-hitter, hit 100mph)...
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And the list goes on and on, Misiorowski is 6'7", Skenes is 6'6", Skubal 6'3", Ohtani 6'4", Kershaw 6'4", Verlander 6'5", Scherzer 6'3". These are not normal human beings doing things that normal human beings can do, even with unlimited amounts of training or access or nutrition.
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(to be clear the same is also true for hitting, but you can at least facially argue that 5'6" Jose Altuve is not as physically exceptional as his pitching counterparts, even though there are only a handful of people on the planet who have that level of hand-eye coordination)
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“deport all illegal immigrants except for my low-skilled co-religionist who also almost certainly committed immigration fraud” is an incredible bit, would make for an above-average Babylon Bee joke
I really do love how an appeal to help Samuel’s wife and kids got picked up by the internet retardosphere and misrepresented as some sort of call to flout U.S. immigration law.
We all support ICE and the law. If the law is broken, there should be consequences. Samuel would agree.
Also, help out our dear brother and sister in Christ during this trying time! You can donate to this worthy cause here: givesendgo.com/support-for-sa…
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