Kind of Guapo

@LairdStuff @lilyofurvalley @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint Cool story. Bye

@KindOfGuapo @lilyofurvalley @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint So? You can make excuses all you like. It doesn't change the fact that the only reason to not know those words is a lack of reading and education. Pick up a book sometime, it'll do your brain some good.

Guys, high schoolers should be able to read the word silhouette. That statement isn't controversial. We can argue all day about causes and solutions, but there's no point pretending the problem doesn't exist.

@LairdStuff @lilyofurvalley @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint Do a search on word usage in the New York Times and you'll find that this word has dropped off significantly in the past 50 years

@KindOfGuapo @lilyofurvalley @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint Those words didn't go out of use. I know you might think the topics discussed here are deep and complex, but they're not. It's mostly just rage bait and trolls. You're seeing an extremely TINY portion of language when you visit Twitter or any other social media site.

@LairdStuff @lilyofurvalley @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint But they're often related. And then if certain words start to go out of use, new readers are less likely to be introduced to those words or even have a chance to learn them using context clues.

@KindOfGuapo @lilyofurvalley @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint Yet I knew what both of them meant... Funny how that works. You don't need to use a word frequently to know what it means.

@lilyofurvalley @LairdStuff @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint Combined, the two of you have about 80 thousand posts on this site. I can't even venture a guess as to how many unique words you have used in your posts. But not once have you used this particular word until today. And yes, I agree this argument is a distraction

@LairdStuff @KindOfGuapo @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint It seems weird that because HE has never used the word commonly, no one, nowhere apparently does. I'm sure we ALL use words others do not. Regardless, the argument is a distraction from the real horror of our youth being completely illiterate.

@lilyofurvalley @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint No I'm glad you had a large vocabulary and know this word. Good job for reading. Still doesn't make it a common or essential word.

@KindOfGuapo @StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint My vocabulary in high school would have made you seething fucking mad then if you think that word is so unimportant lmfao. Not all of us refused to read, angry little man.

@babytroublebabe @9mmballpoint A lot of people are hung up on the word - and bragging about how they learned it shortly after they graduated from Dr Seuss books

@KindOfGuapo @9mmballpoint The point isn’t the word, the point is that they couldn’t even figure out how to attack the word.

@StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint You seem really attached to this word for some reason. No clue why. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news that this is not on the essential word list for high schoolers.

@KindOfGuapo @9mmballpoint I asked you because you claimed the word was unimportant. To make that claim, you need to know something to replace it with. “Use whatever you want” doesn’t answer the question. “Awkward” is never a suitable substitute.

@StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint Use whatever you want. Sometimes "awkward" will do. Sometimes not. Just don't talk to teenagers and expect more than a few of them to understand that word.

@KindOfGuapo @9mmballpoint What synonym for gauche do you recommend be used in its place?

@Senninsage Because we all realized long ago that counting championships to compare players in a team sport is retarded. It's a factor but so so much depends on your teammates.

If Lebron is such an amazing player, and everybody agrees the dude is an amazing all-time great, why do people not hold him to a standard of actually winning championships? Seattle swept the two-time defending champ Houston Rockets, but they lost to the bulls in finals.

@Daniel86Cycles @TerraDraca Whatever. This has been a waste of time. Have a nice day

@KindOfGuapo @TerraDraca Oh I see. So we know for a fact that it will be 100% blue then.

@KindOfGuapo @TerraDraca We. Don't. Know. The outcome.

@Daniel86Cycles @TerraDraca You don't have access to either You know a threshold that must be achieved. That's not a probability. You don't know the outcome. But you know that there is one.

@KindOfGuapo @TerraDraca You're talking about outcomes, not probability. As a voter, you only have access to probability.

@BWH85 Jordan would have made up a better fake hate crime

Remember when LeBron made up that hate crime lol?

@Daniel86Cycles @TerraDraca Are you under the impression that if everyone else votes 6 billion to 2 billion one way or the other, your additional vote can make a difference in the outcome? Whatever your logic for making a decision, you get 1 vote. Don't call it "wasted" - but it's still inconsequential

@KindOfGuapo @TerraDraca No. It's very, very wrong. Saying that extra votes are wasted is like saying that any armor that wasn't hit by a bullet was wasted and then pulling it off next time. The objective fact is that probability represents our state of knowledge, not the outcomes.

Today's thoughts on the red and blue button question. People who pick blue claim reds are killing people but is that actually true? If 60% of people have already decided to pick red, does me picking blue actually change anything? No, aside from my own death, it changes nothing because nobody knows my vote and I have no ability to influence other people and change their mind. I can only control my choice and nothing else. In fact, there is only ONE scenario where my decision could be argued to matter beyond my own survival: If the vote was completely deadlocked and I was the deciding vote. The odds of that happening: Basically never. So no, I am not basing my decisions on a scenario that will never happen anyway.

@Daniel86Cycles @TerraDraca It's a perfectly fine way to look at it, since you just have 1 vote, don't know the others, and have no impact on the others.

@KindOfGuapo @TerraDraca In the same way, having too few votes is similar to having a catastrophic car wreck and finding out that you don't have enough coverage for a new car/health. Seeing "too many" or "too few" votes is the wrong way to look at it.

@Daniel86Cycles @TerraDraca If the side you vote for wins by 1, you can consider that your vote was decisive in the outcome, because if you had flipped votes the other side would have won. In all other cases your vote made no difference in the outcome.

@KindOfGuapo @TerraDraca Talking specifically about #3: There is no way to determine who's vote was the tiebreaker in a simultaneous ballot. It isn't like a race over the finish line. People are accustomed to "election night" scenarios where counting is by time zone. That's not how this situation works.

@Daniel86Cycles @TerraDraca All votes count the same. But assume for a moment that there are an even number of other voters. There are then 3 possible scenarios when you tally up the simultaneous votes: 1. Red won and your vote didn't change the outcome 2. Same but blue won 3. Your vote was the tiebreaker

@KindOfGuapo @TerraDraca >If 60% of people have already decided to pick red- He's operating from the premise that the number of votes is known and sequential and that a vote can be assigned causally to a specific voter. In reality, all votes are logically identical in satus and necessary to the outcome.

@Daniel86Cycles @TerraDraca Same difference. Unless you're under the impression that you get to vote for other people or influence them in some way.

@TerraDraca There's no "already". All votes are simultaneous, instant, and private.

@SerenadingVoid @JarrodCMaloney Exactly. Half the population will not "just", either.

Not to point out the obvious, but the difference between 'everyone just' and 'half of everyone just' isn't as significant as you think. You get the same problem, the bar you require is just different. People aren't just going to behave how you want them to, and there a million and one reasons why. Blue still needs everybody to vote blue, it is just a little bit forgiving.

The problem with the red button