ArmchairCornerback

@popsbabyiv @rcondiscord @ayeejuju You are talking about the number of possible outcomes, not the probability of a particular outcome. Two different things. What do you think the numbers mean in the phrase "50/50"?

@rcondiscord @ayeejuju Why is it difficult for you guys to accept that in the moment it either happens or it doesn’t? What’s with the extra calculations?

@r_u_thinking @NickRebornTV I'm considering getting youtube premium, but in no way do I believe that I'll "never worry about it again." I fully expect that in a couple years the ads will sneak back in, and I'll be offered a costly upgrade to only see ads at the beginning rather than in the middle of videos.

@NickRebornTV you can play cat and mouse constantly with addons and extensions that don't always work as intended or you can spend a few bucks a month and never worry about it again, regardless of what device, operating system or app you're using

@zenno @Heavenly_Race_ I actually came back to read this again. I love how you described it! "Doesn't recognize any of the clues..."

@ACornerback @Heavenly_Race_ Oh boy, that works for me too. You should try telling my sister a joke, she doesn't recognise any of the clues that it's not a true story. "3 men walked into a bar ..." Cuts in " What's unusual about that?" I don't understand why I keep trying. Humour is the cruellest loss

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

@leisdum @ZoddtheUndying @Heavenly_Race_ Exactly.

@ZoddtheUndying @ACornerback @Heavenly_Race_ He never said he used a "bad" word. This type of meaningless aside can get triggered by entirely ordinary words too. The miscommunication arises because the counterpart focused on an unimportant detail in a sentence that is only supplemental to a point that comes later.

@muhendisIiktr This has to be AI. There's no way a person could survive inside of a piston like that.

Bu eski çizgi film, benzinli motorun nasıl çalıştığını günümüzdeki videoların çoğundan daha iyi açıklıyor.

@TaraBull Get 'em while you can!

The newest Adidas running shoe just dropped. The Adizero Prime X Evo - price $500

@Sourceofboxing The missing frame right at the moment of contact doesn't help. I love the retarded social media editing that has become normal.

61 years ago today, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in the 1st round in one of the most controversial fights in boxing history… The punch that dropped Liston became known as “The Phantom Punch” 🥊

@RCPavanzado Use wood like our ancestors did. Don't pay too much attention to panic merchants.

@famous_scottwj @atensnut I have to admit that I saw this video many months ago and didn't bother to re-watch it.

@ACornerback @atensnut Cop had been there for a half hour per the longer video. Already towed another car.

Where do these young people get their fcking attitude? I guess they’ve never been told “No, you can’t do that”.

@KrcMillie @JimHuguenard @moltke44 @500Indy1911 Thank you.

@ACornerback @JimHuguenard @moltke44 @500Indy1911 All used up trying to defend.

This is the best single lap in Indianapolis 500 history. Absolutely incredible. And by Turn 2 he said he wishes his wife and 3-week-old daughter was there. Indy, man. #Indy500 || 💕

@TechOperator One problem is that most people don't differentiate between: "I routinely take long trips so an EV wouldn't be a good choice for me," and "An EV can't do long road trips, so they're dumb."

@EJNorden @Simon_Ingari That's why I like to have a bunch of junk laying around my property. Keeps the taxes down.

@Simon_Ingari The pictures your country property assessor has will astound you. I don't ever remember a drone flying over but they have every sq inch of your property mapped out. I put a very nice grill outside, my property value jumped $37K according to them. Battled for a year, ugh.

how is Google Maps allowed to have aerial photos of all our homes without ever asking permission?

@ShawnBl68530703 @Heavenly_Race_ My wife and I have dumb arguments as a joke. We'll go back and forth on something stupid and then start laughing.

@ACornerback @Heavenly_Race_ That's not an intellect issue. That's talking to your wife.

@gothburz TLDR

I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought. In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian. We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce. His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015. Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management. But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted. Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction — telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work — correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment. I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn — they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation. The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference. A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management. Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it. We made our audience worse at politics. Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed — because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation — they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band. If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary. I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved. Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief. Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer. Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band. Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year. A comedian — whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say — became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too. Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night. The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product. We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church. Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over. John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death. The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty. He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience. The President of the United States — the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous — posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert. The Strike Force Five — Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver — appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church. I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone. We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own. They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty. Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act. The metric went up.

@samuelmiller64 @TheStingisBack Reminds me of waiting in line a couple hours on opening day of "The Last Jedi". When I got to the window I asked for a ticket to "Breathless" and the look I got was worth it.

@TheStingisBack I was one of the very, very few who saw 'Star Wars' on its Opening Night. And it was only because the ticket guy wouldn't sell me and my brother tickets to the 'R' rated movie we wanted to see.

Star Wars is 49 today One of the biggest gripes with George Lucas tinkering with the original trilogy: removing Han shooting first, an action that instantly defines him as the scoundrel we love I tracked down the original cut, and here it is. Balance restored. Thanks, George.

@JimHuguenard @moltke44 @500Indy1911 Why wouldn't Malukas (or any other driver in that position) also hit the hybrid?

@moltke44 @500Indy1911 Yes. He was telling him to use the hybrid to give him extra HP to hopefully pass Malukas at the line. It worked! What an absolute classic finish to the greatest race in the world!

@TheLucyShow1 Where do you get the blades that go all the way through? I can only find the 94%-through versions.

Having owned rental property for over 20 years there are some things that you can hire other people to do or you can do it yourself! Tile is expensive so vinyl flooring is an option and it’s perfect for a rental property!! 😮‍💨

@UnequivocallyA1 @scottastevenson No kidding.

@ACornerback @scottastevenson You just proved the point. Original post is written from landlord's perspective.

The golden years of AirBNB were a temporary arbitrage on depreciation. There was a universe of beautiful well-maintained properties and hosts that had not been worn down by short term guests. And the AirBNB hosts didn’t properly estimate the cost of depreciation to maintain that standard, so costs were irrationally low That era fundamentally cant return, it was a temporary arbitrage opportunity There was once a supply of fairly pristine unused space and now there’s not If a space does manage to hit the 2014 standard, it must charge a lot more to fight depreciation And at that point a hotel is generally better