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@rnparks @pascalkrauss I think it is stupid. One step from “ouch my balls” from the movie Idiocracy. I am surprised Dana White got behind this. Marketing to the lowest.

Why is this even legal? Giving our young folks TBI shouldn’t be a money making exercise. @pascalkrauss and @iamwjs67 what is your opinion on this as two pros?

@VigilantFox This guy’s face and mannerism have an awful influence on the enjoyment of X.

Sam Harris says his “friend” Joe Rogan has had a “f*cking awful” influence on society. “It’s unignorable at this point.” Harris says he’s reached out to Rogan privately about his “truly terrible” effect on culture, but Joe hasn’t responded. “I’ve tried to reach out to him privately, and he hasn’t responded. But I felt the need to say things about him publicly that I’m very uncomfortable saying about a friend.”

I think @SunKowboy is mostly right about this. There are big differences. I do have children. But I think he is taking it a bit too far with the high five’s and stuff. I would not be happy with the women, and, depending on exact details of the case (boy’s maturity, circumstances, motivations for ex.) I might try to enforce some legal or other penalty. Anyone thinking that it’s the same with the sexes reversed is either living under some equality fantasy philosophy, does not have children, or both.

@SunKowboy @RedPillOJCoin Why isn't he a victim? He's 12. I could easily see the argument if he was 17. Think of it this way: There's a reason we have make special circumstances to try someone like that as an adult. It is physical, but you're missing the other part

Let's make it interesting. Does your answer change if it's a pretty 28 year old woman on your 12 year old son?

Like alot of these, it is how you interpret the words. 1 $ “more than” the ball could be interpreted as 1 $ “in addition to the ball’s cost”. The words “more than” are ambigiously used enough that rewording it as “in addition to” is common. The precisce wording in the example sets up the simple algebra type calculation which is technically more correct I guess, but I do think it depends on how you interpret the words. And word meanings are derived from common usage. Your mind interprets the words into something people would actually say. This is correct in a way because the goal of everyday language for most people is to engage with the “thinking fast system” for easy, clear communication, not to make people do algebra. It’s more of a word problem/trick than math.

@BowTiedTrance I’ve read every comment and I still don’t understand. And I’m very good at math. Why can’t it be that the bat costs one dollar and the ball costs ten cents?

One of my favorite riddles for explaining pattern recognition and cognitive processes.

Among an amazing, really unprecedented group, Jax stands out. He has something different from even the other great freshmen of 2026 in his style, transitions, balance between defense/offense, competence in all positions, and aggressiveness. He will probably go up in wt at some point. Ono and Basset will be in the mix. Stanich is very good and seemingly getting better. PJ Duke may still be the second best sophmore coming into next season at any wt.

Which freshman champ from this year has the best chance to be a four timer? Forrest - Looks damn good but there’s so many young studs between 125-141, hard to think he won’t get some friction in the next three years. Valencia - helluva story but with 7 losses you have… (1/2)

@archeohistories @grok tell more about the capture of Micaela Bastidas

They tried to break her in front of a crowd—but Micaela Bastidas refused to give them anything. In 1780, as rebellion spread across the Andes, it wasn’t just Túpac Amaru II leading the uprising against Spanish rule—it was Micaela who made it possible. She organized supply lines, coordinated communications across vast and dangerous terrain, enforced discipline among troops, and pushed for faster, more decisive action when hesitation could mean defeat. This wasn’t symbolic leadership. This was strategy, command, and control in the middle of a revolution. And she understood the stakes clearly. Micaela warned that delays would cost them everything—that the Spanish would regroup, retaliate, and crush the movement if they weren’t relentless. She was right. When the rebellion began to falter, she did not run. She stayed. She fought. And when she was finally captured in 1781, the Spanish made an example of her. They demanded names. Plans. Weak points. Anything that could dismantle what remained of the resistance. She gave them nothing. Even under extreme torture, Micaela Bastidas refused to betray the cause she had helped build. She was executed publicly, in an act meant to terrify others into submission. Instead, it did something else—it turned her into a lasting symbol of resistance, not just in Peru, but across Latin America. She wasn’t standing behind a revolution. She was helping lead it—and she chose to die before she would see it destroyed from within. #archaeohistories

@Math_files @grok give a summary of the meaning of each symbol in this equation

There's an integral so elegant, so mysterious that it shows up everywhere—from physics to probability to quantum mechanics. It's called the Gaussian integral. This integral defines the shape of the normal distribution, also known as the bell curve. It's why test scores cluster around an average, why errors in measurements behave predictably, and why the universe tends to have a most likely outcome even within randomness. And its answer—this is it. Not an approximation, not a coincidence, just pure mathematical magic.

@NoBickal @NlwcFan Yes!

I think it’s time for a push out in Folkstyle. I was against this for a long time but it has become clear this is the way.

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I like it. Although I do like the moving cites for venue. Conference tournys for qualification and seeding? Maybe a one point pushout/shoot out rule. Lots of stuff on the edge. Controling the space is a skill. Maybe first ot is 1 min 3rd period extension if tied and second OT 1 min sudden victory from neutral. Then ride outs.

Sick weekend overall. I still would like to see: 1 semester sport Jan-April. Change from singlet to 2 piece. Lose the headgear. Lose in season tournaments. Dual natty title. Team is focus. Unlimited neutral in OT takedown wins. Stallings reset in OT. Permanent site for NCAAs.

@Benaskren Yes!!!

Wow what a performance for Sergio Vega!!! I wanna pay for a livestream of Jax vs Vega. Point scoring machine against someone who can’t be scored on!

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@grey4626 The Netanyahu quote was misrepresented and edited from him referencing a Will Durant quote. Whether or not you agree with or like Durant, Netanyahu, Israel, or Jesus, this is still manipulative journalism all the way and hoping for outrage .

You clip-chopping, context-murdering fucking pricks... this is peak intellectual dishonesty, the kind that would make Machiavelli blush and Goebbels nod in professional approval. Netanyahu didn’t pull some anti-Christ soliloquy out of his ass. He was quoting Will Durant...the towering American historian, that Christian humanist who spent a lifetime dissecting civilization in The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History. Durant observed the brutal ledger of history with merciless clarity: “Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives, and bad as that which goes under; and the universe has no prejudice in favor of Christ as against Genghis Khan.” That’s not blasphemy; that’s unflinching realism, forged in the blood-soaked pages of every empire that rose and every prophet who fell. Netanyahu, staring down genocidal fanatics who rape, behead, and hide behind their own civilians, was driving home the philosophical truth that ideals without iron are suicide pacts. Your precious moral posturing means jack shit if you lack the power to enforce it. Evil doesn’t yield to sermons...it yields to superior force. History’s classroom is soaked in the blood of the unprepared. This clip is pure venomous manipulation: a surgical strike at the Christian id, engineered to bypass reason and ignite tribal outrage. “How dare he say that about Jesus!” they say, conveniently forgetting the historian’s name, the strategic context of existential survival, and the fact that Christianity itself survived not merely by turning the other cheek but by becoming the faith of empires that knew precisely when to wield the sword of Constantine. Selective amnesia, fragile egos, and algorithmic rage-bait at its finest...classic playbook for grifters who traffic in sacred triggers because nuance doesn’t farm engagement. Will Durant understood the tragedy of the human condition: nature and history are indifferent gods that crown survivors, not saints. In a world crawling with modern Genghis Khans...jihadist hordes dreaming of caliphates...the Jewish state doesn’t have the luxury of naive pacifism. Fuck your decontextualized outrage. Fuck the dishonest framing that turns a profound historical insight into cartoon villainy. Grow the fuck up. Read Durant. Study power. And truly, fuck off with this selective fucking bullshit. 💀

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@Amelia558rs Grace Kelly! I thought she was beautiful before I even knew I liked girls 😄. Elisebeth Taylor close second.

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?

Lived with my family (two children) in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, for 6 months. Definitely some good and some bad. You are right about the prices! And I’m certainly not a budgeter penny pincher type. The heat was bad for two months but I have been going to the area for many years and it is usually not so bad that I want to stay inside. There where lots of schools and interesting expats we made friends with. Roads are bad. Some traffic. Driving is stressful. Food is good.

Beach living in Latin America... Many people think they want to live at the beach full-time before they move abroad But after 2+ years doing exactly that in various places, like Guanacaste, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, here's what nobody tells you: → The infrastructure is terrible — everything takes 3X longer, hospitals are hours away, good schools are limited → The heat is relentless — you're not "enjoying the beach lifestyle," you're hiding inside with AC on blast → The tourist economy drives up prices — you're paying California costs for third-world convenience → The isolation gets old fast — beach towns are fun for 2-3 months, suffocating after a year Here's what actually works: Live in a functional city 8-9 months a year (Monterrey, Santiago, Panama City, Buenos Aires) Then escape to the beach for 2-3 months during summer break You get the best of both worlds without the compromise The digital nomad "paradise beach life" is a marketing myth Real life requires hospitals, schools, infrastructure, and functionality Choose accordingly

How can normal (not ultra wealthy) investors give thenselves a chance to increase their wealth or worst case preserve some of it if we are in the stage of the large cycle that you believe the world is moving through? And a separate but possibly related question: Do you believe increased pace of technological innovation will speed up the small and larger cycles?

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Disagree. A gun is a weapon that takes at least minimal space to deploy. If you can run you have space. What I’m saying is that if there is a scenario where you cannot run certain fighting skills, particularly grappling and close striking, can decide whether a gun can be deployed and, if depolyed, it is not used against you. Of course learning to use the gun in these scenarios is necessary also. In addition to this primary concern there can be other issues like bystanders and escalation of force decisions in using a gun. All of the top security, special opps, and elite firearms experts I have spoken with or worked with agree on this. It’s not the primary reason to do combat sports/martial arts. Training in these is not always the most direct work towards a self defense goal. Arts and schools are not all equal. But saying just get a gun and learn to shoot to protect yourself is not good advice.

I always say that learning combat sports for self-defense is a waste of money for this EXACT reason. If that's the only reason you want to learn how to fight, invest in a gun, lessons, good shoes, and sprint training. Because the smart move is to either run or, if you can't...