Didnt you once post a pic of you in a thong?
yeah im sure you're not joking
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01-06-2018 10:02 PM
#25051
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Didnt you once post a pic of you in a thong? |
01-06-2018 10:07 PM
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01-07-2018 09:26 AM
#25053
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Thongs are ludicrously uncomfortable. | |
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01-07-2018 10:17 AM
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01-07-2018 04:22 PM
#25055
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"India was at a crossroads in the mid-seventeenth century; it had the potential of moving forward with Dara Shikoh, or of turning back to medievalism with Aurangzeb." Eraly, Abraham (2004). The Mughal Throne : The Saga of India's Great Emperors. London: Phoenix. p. 336. ISBN 0-7538-1758-6. | |
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01-07-2018 09:29 PM
#25056
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Speaking of Bailey Jay, it's a strange world when a dude is prettier than most chicks. |
01-07-2018 09:48 PM
#25057
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120V/60Hz tilts me | |
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01-09-2018 12:50 AM
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James Damore just filed a class action lawsuit against Google, saying it discriminates against white male conservatives | |
Last edited by spoonitnow; 01-09-2018 at 12:53 AM. | |
01-10-2018 03:48 PM
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I just learned about the most gangsta shit ever: stereotype lift. It's when you get a legitimate and measurable boost in performance due to a negative stereotype about someone else (generally framed as a competitor of some type). | |
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01-10-2018 04:04 PM
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01-10-2018 04:33 PM
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01-10-2018 04:46 PM
#25062
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01-10-2018 04:57 PM
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It sounds like a form of positive affirmation. |
01-10-2018 04:58 PM
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For what it's worth, stereotype threat is the most studied by far. It's the type of thing the left tries to use to prove once and for all that men and women are equal on math tests and similar. | |
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01-10-2018 05:05 PM
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I should have just said affirmation since I meant positive in its correlation sense not its "good" sense. A stereotype threat is an affirmation. The subconscious says "These blacks did bad, I'm black, I'll do bad" |
01-10-2018 05:06 PM
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I mean affirmation in the sense that having thoughts affirms the "reality" of those thoughts, roughly speaking. |
01-10-2018 05:07 PM
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01-10-2018 05:16 PM
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Something that may be interesting on that is the idea that an affirmation like "I am" may be more powerful than "I will". For example, if you're struggling with the desire to cheat on your wife and you're a Christian, you can tell yourself "I am a good Christian" and it will probably be more effective than if you say "I won't cheat on my wife." The stereotype thing may be similar. The Christian example is a stereotype too. In the examples you gave, thinking that blacks do poorly on tests and that you are black may be a stronger affirmation than normal since it affirms "what you are" instead of what you want or what you plan to do or whatever. This could be a longer way of saying that when you "are" something, you are less likely to deviate from that than if you "want to do something". Wanting to do something takes effort. Being something is already what is, it almost takes effort to not be that something, so to speak. |
01-10-2018 05:26 PM
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I think you kinda goofed up the positive framing having more efficacy thing. Maybe this isn't what you were going for, but it does appear that "I am a faithful husband" not only works better than "I am not a cheater", but the "not" in "I am not a cheater" pretty much gets lost, and so affirming in the negative ends up backfiring, in this case making your more likely to act on your impulse to cheat. | |
01-10-2018 05:34 PM
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Yeah I agree. | |
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01-10-2018 05:50 PM
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Heh. I saw that as I typed it up but wasn't sure if anybody would notice, and I didn't change it because I don't think it affects the point even though like you pointed out it makes it less clear. I'm glad you saw that. |
01-10-2018 05:56 PM
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01-10-2018 05:58 PM
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01-10-2018 06:40 PM
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Just played some 4-player chess. The fuck is with people? You're up against 3 other people, so it's pretty fucking obvious that trading pieces is bad. Like, yeah let's trade queens and both be a queen down against the other two. | |
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01-10-2018 08:17 PM
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01-10-2018 11:41 PM
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Modern cars are tilting me. Technologically everything has gotten better, but cars have gotten progressively worse. Probably the worst car I've ever driven this year was my bosses 200+bhp $50k shitbox. I don't know if stability control was terrible, or malfunctioning, or off but that thing understeered more than anything I've ever driven. I've driven vans that handled way better. The way you deal with understeer in fwd is you just left foot break a bit in the corners and you can balance it out. But you can't do that if you're fighting always-on traction and stability control because the computer will shit itself and just understeer more. And the turbo on that thing... I don't know how you can go out and spend that kind of money on a car with 1s turbo lag and be fine with that. | |
Last edited by oskar; 01-10-2018 at 11:43 PM.
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01-11-2018 03:37 AM
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People who pay $50k for a hunk of shit, it's purely status. It doesn't matter that it handles like a tank, it says "I'm wealthy and successful". I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume he's a cunt of a boss. | |
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01-11-2018 03:42 AM
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01-11-2018 08:45 AM
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Turns out I don't know shit about car prices. Was probably closer to 20k. For 50k you can get an M-series. Not going to sit here and say those are shit cars. I think the hatchback and super compact segment is a sad place. In what world does anyone prefer the new mini to the old mini? Or the new golf gti to the old golf gti? | |
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01-11-2018 09:33 AM
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This is a common misconception. | |
01-11-2018 10:06 AM
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This can't possibly be right. |
01-11-2018 10:41 AM
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It does seem a bit odd- like saying there's just as much friction when you rub your finger over sandpaper as when you rub your entire hand over it. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 01-11-2018 at 10:45 AM. | |
01-11-2018 11:11 AM
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I did not know that! | |
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01-11-2018 11:22 AM
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The fuel consumption bit is a little hard to read. They're talking about friction of using the suspension to move the tire, not the friction of the tire on the road. I.e. they're saying that turning a bigger, heavier tire to the left or right has more friction on the road, but that's not really true. They correctly said it has the same friction earlier, it's just that, looking at the cross section of the tire's contact with the road, a wider tire expresses that equal friction further from the axis of rotation, providing a greater torque. | |
01-11-2018 11:26 AM
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01-11-2018 11:37 AM
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Keep the learning out of this thread please. |
01-11-2018 12:03 PM
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Retard autistic cuck alert up above. | |
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01-11-2018 12:06 PM
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It was random learning, so it's allowed. | |
01-11-2018 05:35 PM
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I've done some more research on this and discovered that I was wrong about something in the bold. All research indicates that it would actually lead to a drop in performance if being white was blatantly made the focus in this way. Instead of inducing stereotype boost, it induces anxiety about living up to the standard of the group (in this case being white). There are some cool studies that show this. | |
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01-11-2018 05:36 PM
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01-12-2018 05:31 AM
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01-12-2018 08:45 PM
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Why is no one in the ftr discord channel? It's golden. |
01-12-2018 09:30 PM
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01-13-2018 12:05 PM
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01-13-2018 12:12 PM
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01-14-2018 07:05 AM
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I'm currently playing a game of chess on an infinite plane. | |
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01-14-2018 07:55 AM
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01-14-2018 08:38 AM
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I'll link to the game but please don't discuss the game as it progresses, or any tactics that might help me. | |
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01-14-2018 09:54 AM
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There's a man who really likes his hawks. | |
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01-14-2018 10:05 AM
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Very much so. | |
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01-14-2018 10:07 AM
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01-14-2018 10:18 AM
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Yep. Based on the relationship between bishop and chancellor, 2*infinity+8=infinity. It's easy to visualise, and easy to conclude there are an infinite number of different infinities, because you can make an infinite number of different pieces, all with different moves that all have an infinite selection of moves available to them. To really fuck things up, there's a piece that jumps a prime number of squares, although thankfully we're not using it. | |
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01-14-2018 10:20 AM
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First one to point out the flaw in my post wins a t-shirt with "fucking nerd" on the front. | |
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01-14-2018 10:44 AM
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infinity+8 and infinity would be absolutely equal in the same number plane, but if you look at it as if every square on the board has it's own numerical value, then the subset of two diagonals and 2 diagonals + 8 would have different sizes. | |
Last edited by oskar; 01-14-2018 at 10:50 AM.
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01-14-2018 11:06 AM
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The prime number piece was designed to stop computers from ever being able to solve it, since the set of prime numbers is itself unknownable. The "infinity" aspect of it can be mostly solved by placing ludicrously large limits on the board size, there's just no strategic need for pieces to be on (googolplex,googolplex), other than to waste a tempo in absurd fashion. So computers will be able to anlyse it for the vast majority of, it not all, practical purposes. | |
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01-14-2018 11:17 AM
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ha! I love that. I know it's a petty, but one of the reasons I geek out over Starcraft is that computers still shit the bed when it comes to RTS with limited information. | |
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01-14-2018 11:19 AM
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You don't have to worry about that. | |
01-14-2018 11:33 AM
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If someone makes this into a playable mod, this sound needs to play every time a hawk is moved: | |
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01-14-2018 12:00 PM
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Chess needs artillery (or archers) imo. Something that can kill at range without moving. | |
01-14-2018 01:10 PM
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01-15-2018 05:25 PM
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The other night I brought up the concept of end game with a group of friends. I was surprised that when I said the name of it one of the girls was proper into the idea. |
01-15-2018 06:35 PM
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01-15-2018 06:51 PM
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01-15-2018 06:54 PM
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We were talking about relationships and jobs. And how people felt that they were making progress with their job goals but not necessarily their relationships, a few of whom had been in relationships for >3 years. My point was that most people have somewhat of an end game with their jobs, especially when they are doing something towards that goal (it was a group of trainee teachers). So lots of people have different end games in mind, some want to run schools others want to get into SEN related stuff some want to get into the politics of education, it also helps that its' a bias sample in that by definition we are actively doing something career wise. |
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01-15-2018 06:57 PM
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Why is this though? Because you realise relationships don't last (which they overwhelmingly don't) so look for easy exits? Why not look for better opportunities? |
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01-15-2018 07:05 PM
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01-15-2018 07:11 PM
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It's interesting that a lot of people as they come to the end of a relationship try bigger and grander gestures that don't make ending a relationship smoother. I know plenty of people who have had kids because they think that'll save a relationship. People who have split up then come back together and got married really soon only to find out that actually they split up for a reason. Moving in together and getting a mortgage etc. |
01-15-2018 07:12 PM
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But if you're talking about endgame as in goals (I was thinking chess, like the end of the game), then it seems to me much easier to quantify progress in a career than in a relationship. | |
01-15-2018 07:21 PM
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Ya, i don't understand why people have this magical way of thinking about relationships sometimes. Probably watching too many corny movies or some shit I don't know. Also, sometimes it's fear of being alone that keeps people together more than anything positive about the relationship itself. | |
01-18-2018 12:39 PM
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I could call up any pizza/sub shop right now and say "Large Turkey on white, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle" |
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01-18-2018 01:22 PM
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Make your own fucking sandwich. | |
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01-18-2018 01:28 PM
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01-18-2018 01:36 PM
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I work now, and I make my own fucking sandwich in the morning so I don't have to eat shit from some random place in town. | |
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01-18-2018 01:38 PM
#25124
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"professional sandwich makers" | |
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01-18-2018 01:39 PM
#25125
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