So how many men in the world existed who could beat Serena Williams more than 50% of the time in her prime?
I'm going to say somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500.
02-25-2021 12:36 PM
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So how many men in the world existed who could beat Serena Williams more than 50% of the time in her prime? | |
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02-25-2021 01:20 PM
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02-25-2021 01:24 PM
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go on... but if you go full banana, I will only respond to the first paragraph, because I value my time too much to read your wall of text posts. | |
Last edited by oskar; 02-25-2021 at 01:50 PM.
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02-25-2021 02:57 PM
#29104
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks. | |
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02-25-2021 03:02 PM
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I don't really see what people get out of being internet trolls. They remind me of kids who pull the wings off of flies, only they're grown-ups doing it to other people. | |
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02-25-2021 03:05 PM
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Last edited by spoonitnow; 02-25-2021 at 03:07 PM. | |
02-25-2021 03:55 PM
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I don't think I ever got over really enjoying looking at Jennifer Connelly. | |
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02-25-2021 04:00 PM
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Pulling wings off flies is actual harm, albeit to a fly. You seem to be implying that trolling is inherently harmful. Extreme trolling certainly is, like baiting suicidal people or grieving parents and stuff like that, and the examples you give are still pretty harsh, not the kind of trolling I engage in. My idea of trolling is poking my nose into a debate about JK Rowling and telling the idiots that I'm transgender and don't hate her, shit like that. I just talk out of my ass, I don't go out of my way to upset people. If they happen to get upset by my comments, I find it amusing because they're clearly an fucking idiot. | |
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02-25-2021 04:03 PM
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"an fucking idiot" | |
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02-25-2021 04:04 PM
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I think poop is suggesting that even making idiots angry is causing them harm [emotionally], and I'm inclined to agree. | |
Last edited by spoonitnow; 02-25-2021 at 04:06 PM. | |
02-25-2021 04:08 PM
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I don't see emotional harm as the same as physical harm. Don't be a fucking pussy. That one time you pissed me off, that is what I said to myself. Emotional harm is, for the most part, something you allow to happen to yourself, not something inflicted on you by another person. | |
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02-26-2021 12:10 AM
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I 100% agree with the spirit of what you're saying, and I used to think exactly like this in virtually all cases, but not all emotional harm is the same. | |
Last edited by spoonitnow; 02-26-2021 at 12:18 AM. | |
02-26-2021 03:36 AM
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Would they really? | |
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02-26-2021 04:51 AM
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When I was a kid I had a friend whose parents were Ned and Maude Flanders, and when I tried to introduce him to Dungeons and Dragons, they freaked out when they found out there was a character called an "evil high priest." So, if something like that gets them to call the exorcist, I would assume they'd get even more upset by something actually blaphsmemous. Small sample though. | |
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02-26-2021 05:17 AM
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02-26-2021 07:24 AM
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02-26-2021 07:25 AM
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Does anyone here actually play poker anymore? | |
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02-26-2021 08:14 AM
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02-26-2021 09:35 AM
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Sounds good. Badugi was always something I wanted to get into before I got out of poker. | |
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02-26-2021 10:19 AM
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I play a lot of micros of every game. I haven't been good enough to make money at competitive stakes since BF, but I do still get a lot of laughs out of things the microfish do. | |
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02-26-2021 10:33 AM
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I miss the good old days of the poker boom. Two or three fish at every table. To play against a bunch of droolers for real money was fucking great. | |
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02-26-2021 10:55 AM
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I'm not particularly good at badugi, but it's pretty easy to play badly, and the minimum stakes on stars is 25/50 limit, so if you have a solid grasp and some discipline, it's pretty easy to play +ev against half the table. Of course, regular cashouts means playing undrerolled, and that means variance is a cunt, but if I run out of money I reload and grind $0.02 zoom until I have $50 or so, which is probably a month. | |
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02-27-2021 06:38 PM
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This is funny as fuck: http://rumblr.webflow.io/ | |
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03-03-2021 12:22 PM
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03-03-2021 05:00 PM
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I hate that song. | |
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03-04-2021 10:35 AM
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Is it just me or is FTR super slow these last few days? | |
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03-05-2021 06:35 AM
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Slow as in people posting? Yes. | |
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03-05-2021 09:17 AM
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The latter. I guess it's just me then. It's only here, other sites loading up quickly. Here it's taking like five seconds of white screen before it loads up. | |
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03-05-2021 10:10 AM
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I'm having the same experience with slow loading lately. Maybe it's a transatlantic thing? | |
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03-05-2021 07:11 PM
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03-06-2021 08:57 AM
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03-06-2021 09:15 AM
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That's gotta be a hate crime from spoon there. I'm sure someone who was born a sea but identifies as an ocean would find it hurtful to the point of suicide to read such casual jokes about ocean identity. | |
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03-06-2021 11:38 AM
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03-06-2021 06:11 PM
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I don't really think it'a a hate crime. It's clearly a joke intended to make fun of transgender matters, but is it "abuse"? That's the language the govt use to define "hate crime". I don't think it meets that criteria, but I really wouldn't be surprised to see such a case before the court because the cops thought it did amount to "abuse". I can't see how a court can decide that amounts to "abuse". It does fall into "protected category" though. | |
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03-09-2021 07:13 PM
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This delay loading up FTR pages is getting longer every day. I think the site is under some kind of attack. | |
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03-15-2021 12:30 AM
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Do you think there are any reasonable implications to be drawn from a racial preference in sexual attraction? | |
03-15-2021 05:40 AM
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About what? | |
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03-15-2021 08:53 AM
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03-15-2021 11:03 AM
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If the question is: does a sexual preference for/against a particular race make you a racist, I think the answer is no. | |
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03-15-2021 01:24 PM
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I'd nail them all. | |
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03-17-2021 05:35 PM
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Well, I think it's an extremely complex issue and your absolute certainty makes me wonder if we can have a productive conversation around it, but I'll try anyways: | |
03-17-2021 06:16 PM
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There's an evolutionary advantage to breeding with someone genetically dissimilar to you. | |
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03-17-2021 06:27 PM
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Ok I lied. | |
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03-17-2021 08:46 PM
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I can't speak for others, but I'm pretty sure my taste in women comes entirely natural to me. My preference leans heavily Asian, primarily far east but also Indians and even Islamic women. I don't think it's a childhood fixation, and it's certainly not hentai. When I was a kid, the woman for me was Kylie Minogue, all other women compared to her. So it's not really a childhood thing either. I think my preference for Japanese women comes from me looking at them and thinking "fucking wow". That seems natural, not nurtured. | |
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03-18-2021 06:33 PM
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Ong, not only can you not speak for others, in this instance you can't even speak for yourself. The idea that you can know what is nature and what is nurture simply by thinking about it is absurd. Also the idea that p much anything is solely one or the other is also absurd. What is nature and what is nurture is not (readily at minimum) accessible to the subject simply through introspection. If you're not interested in exploring the possibilities, or if it's simply overly offensive to your sense of self, I think that's totally understandable. But the above is not a serious rejoinder to anything I said. | |
03-18-2021 06:49 PM
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I feel like I saw a reasonable rejection of that finding. Something like there are advantages and there are disadvantages on the genetic level. But, yeah, I don't have anything to site-- just a grain of "that may just be one of those things that sounded good and was wildfire in the dry tinder fields of thirsty scientifically ignorant journalists." | |
Last edited by boost; 03-18-2021 at 06:53 PM. | |
03-18-2021 08:26 PM
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03-19-2021 11:14 AM
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Not a biologist, but hybrid vigour is a pretty well-established thing that goes back a long ways in biology afaik. Maybe there are also advantages to sharing certain genes but I haven't heard of that. | |
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03-19-2021 01:36 PM
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I think there's a reasonable possibility that there are influences from our culture on our sexual preferences that we would prefer not to have. | |
03-19-2021 01:55 PM
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Yeah, now that you say that, I think it may have been something along the lines of the media treating genetic differentiation as synonymous with racial differentiation. So hybrid vigor can be a thing, but it doesn't necessarily line up with interracial attraction. | |
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03-19-2021 04:22 PM
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In terms of the nature side of the argument, hybrid vigour would encourage people to seek mates who are different from themselves. There would be an evolutionary advantage to having little biege children who are more fit. | |
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03-19-2021 05:27 PM
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Poop, you can have a deterministic view of the world and still entertain what could have been that did not come to pass. The point of this is, at least in this instance, is to understand or at least pick at root causes, or eliminate non-root causes. I happen to agree that you could not have done otherwise, but nonetheless your explanation for the preference is empty. We're kinda beating a dead horse here, but I feel like you're being intentionally stubborn on this point. There is a reason you sided with, for lack of better terms, comfort over novelty. Simply stating that the choice aligns with comfort does not get to the root of it. | |
03-19-2021 05:29 PM
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Oh, also, I should point out that there are plenty of black women who share cultural values with you, whatever those values may be. | |
03-19-2021 07:10 PM
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Are you sure? For sure there's evidence against the opposite, that is incest causing issues, but is there proof for as wide a pool as possible being beneficial? I think it's conceivable anything between those extremes could be more beneficial. | |
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03-19-2021 07:27 PM
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Maybe. I'm not trying to say my own preference applies universally (how could I?), I'm just saying what it is, and it feels you're telling me that I don't understand my own preferences or something. | |
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03-19-2021 07:30 PM
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You're conflating my two points here. My bias against black women is based on their social status. IOW, given several otherwise equal women, I would date them according to social status, which is largely determined by race. | |
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03-19-2021 07:38 PM
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My understanding is fairly basic, but goes as follows: There are harmful genes that tend to be bad for you. We all have some of these to more or less detriment. But these genes tend to be nondominant, meaning you need a matching pair for them to be expressed. The chance of inheriting a matching pair of bad genes is greater the more similar your mom is genetically to your dad. That's why cousins shouldn't marry because there's a good chance their kid will be sickly or retarded. | |
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03-20-2021 11:19 AM
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03-22-2021 11:19 PM
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"it's nature" | |
03-22-2021 11:44 PM
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I guess I should have directed it at both you and Ong-- this isn't you centric. I don't think anyone is good at understanding the causes of their preferences. In pursuit of our evolutionary goals, it's much more efficient to come up with a plausible story than it is to actually understand what shapes our preferences and actions. | |
03-23-2021 02:11 PM
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Don't get me wrong, I like challenging questions, but if the answers are purely subjective then I'm not going to waste my time on them. | |
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03-23-2021 02:27 PM
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03-23-2021 08:26 PM
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There are myriad reasons your cookie could have crumbled the way it did while, under seemingly indistinct circumstances, the overall trend of cookie crumbling crumbled the other way. That your outcome is exceptional does not necessitate that the method was exceptional, just that the inputs were divergent. | |
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03-25-2021 02:24 PM
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Haha oops | |
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03-25-2021 02:24 PM
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03-25-2021 02:27 PM
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I know how to refloat it. Isolate the section of canal using, idk, two large sheets of plastic, making the isolated section as small as possible and making sure little water can mix from outside, and then pour a fuck ton of salt into the water to increase the density, and thus improve the buoyancy of the ship. Might as well also pump the fuel out and unload what can easily be taken off to further improve buoyancy. | |
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03-25-2021 04:44 PM
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Ha, when the civil engineers or whoever the experts that are gonna fix this fix it, are you gonna Elon Musk them and call 'em pedophiles in a fit of jealous rage? | |
03-25-2021 08:18 PM
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03-25-2021 10:16 PM
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They could pour mercury into the canal, that would definitely do the job, but I think it might be quite poisonous so probably not the best idea to release it into a waterway. That said, it's pretty easy to contain and retrieve, it's not like it mixes with water. Fuck it, go full on mercury bath. That would have the added benefit of looking absolutely awesome. | |
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03-25-2021 10:22 PM
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My best work related fuck up was accidentally putting a horror movie on (Saw 2 I think) instead of a kid's film, it got about ten minutes in before they figured out it wasn't a trailer. There were four people watching... my ex gf's mother and friend, and some retard with carer. I got away with it, nobody made a fuss. But that could've landed the cinema a very large fine. | |
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03-25-2021 10:29 PM
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I don't recall any fuck ups when I was a ride operator at a theme park. That's a good thing. There was one young lad who was bored running the little train for the kiddies. He actually figured out how to speed it up (they didn't teach us), and caused it to derail and tip with kiddies on. Nobody hurt but you can imagine the horror on parents' faces as their crying child lies in a mangled mess. I have no idea how he made it go faster, fucker must actually understand mechanics, dunno what he was doing wasting his time running kid's rides. Needless to say, that was his last day. | |
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03-26-2021 01:14 AM
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Did you work with Elon Musk? | |
03-26-2021 10:51 AM
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This guy I mentioned once found out that a truck he was supposed to use that day had run out of gas, so he decided to siphon some out of another truck. He couldn't get a siphon going so he finally took a deep breath and gave the hose a really big suck, and ended up inhaling about a gallon of gas into his lungs. The boss found him lying on the ground gasping for breath, and took him to hospital, where he spent a few days. The best part was they made him quit smoking lol. | |
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03-26-2021 01:58 PM
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I believed you all the way until you said his name. | |
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03-26-2021 06:01 PM
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