@HeRo20157390268 @WarmupServer @Reddit so asking a question now is considered whining and stubborn 😭😭
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goldpheesh
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@WarmupServer @Reddit and this is why high skill FPS games died years ago. the whiny player that just won't accept gitting gud for an answer and would rather cry and piss and moan and not improve.
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@LouisgrandR @jaynitx singapore was under military occupation. many civilians worked for japanese-run institutions to survive. that does not automatically equal ideological collaboration.
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@jaynitx You have no idea what you’re talking about, right ?
During WW2, LKY was an English-to-Japanese Translator: he worked for the Hodobu (Japanese propaganda dpt). He monitored Allied radio broadcasts and translating them into Japanese.
He was a direct collaborator with the axis.
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In 1942, the Japanese rounded up all Chinese men in Singapore.
They were filtering out the healthy young ones to execute.
Lee Kuan Yew was 18. A guard pointed at him and said: "Go to that lorry."
He knew what that meant. The lorry went to the beaches. The beaches meant machine guns.
He asked: "Can I collect my other things?"
They said yes.
He walked away, found his family's gardener, and hid in his quarters for two days.
When they changed the screening inspectors, he tried again. This time, he got through.
The ones sent to that lorry were taken to the beaches and shot. Somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 didn't survive.
60 years later, he sat down at Harvard to explain how he built Singapore from a tiny island into one of the wealthiest nations on Earth:
On what the war did to him:
"We lived in happy, placid colonial Singapore in the 1920s and 30s. The British Empire would have lasted another thousand years, so we thought."
Then the Japanese came. In less than one and a half months, the British collapsed.
"Three and a half years of hell. Butchery. Brutality. Many didn't survive. I was fortunate. I did."
"But it changed us."
"What right did they have to do this to us? Why did the British let us down so badly?"
When the war ended, Lee went to Cambridge to study law. But he was watching with different eyes.
"Can they govern me better than I can govern myself? Because they scooted when the Japanese came in. And why shouldn't I be running the place?"
On learning languages to lead:
Lee was the best speaker in English. But only 20% of Singapore spoke English.
The masses spoke Hokkien, Mandarin, and Malay.
"So every day at lunchtime, instead of having lunch, I would sit down with a Hokkien teacher and laboriously and painfully learn to convert my Mandarin into Hokkien."
"Had I not mastered that, the battle would be lost by default."
His first speech in Hokkien, the kids laughed at him.
"I said, please don't laugh. Help me. I'm trying to get you to understanding."
By 6 months, he could get his ideas across. By 2 years, he was fluent.
"Believe it or not, at the end of two years I could speak better than most of them."
"That came respect."
It showed two things: how determined he was, and how sincere. Here was a man doing all these other things and still learning their language just to talk to them.
On fighting the Communists:
The Communists had been organizing since 1923. The year Lee was born.
"Here we were in the 1950s trying to beat them. And they are professionals at organization."
They had elimination squads. Guerrillas in the jungle. Killer squads in the towns.
Lee stood up and said no.
"They denied that they were Communists. 'We're just left-wing socialists.' So I did a series of 12 broadcasts to set the scene. And I made it in three languages."
English. Malay. Mandarin. 20 minutes each.
"When I finished each broadcast, the director of the station couldn't see me. Went into the room and found me lying on the floor trying to recover my breath."
"But it was a fight for survival. Life or death."
On where trust comes from:
"It's difficult to establish trust in times of calm. You just say, 'Well, it's an argument, therefore I'm a better guy than you.'"
"But when the chips are down and you can get eliminated in a very unpleasant way and you show that you're prepared for it and you'll fight for them, it makes a difference."
"Without that trust, we could not have built Singapore."
On IQ vs EQ:
Harvard asked him: would you prefer high IQ or high EQ in a leader?
"IQ, you can get beautiful paper done. Complex formulas worked out. Elegant solutions."
"But when you've got to get a team to work and put that formula into practice, you're dealing with human beings."
"If you're not good at EQ, you can't sense that A doesn't get on with B, and you put them in the same team. It's no good."
He rated his own EQ as 7 or 8 out of 10. His IQ as "maybe 120."
But he had colleagues who could sense a person instantly.
"He shook hands with the man and said, 'I recoiled when I felt his palm. Evil man.' And he was. How does he know? I don't know."
"So I learned whenever I had to do interviews to choose people, I would get people who are very good at seeing through a candidate."
On corruption:
Singapore in the 1950s was full of deals, bribes, and organized crime.
"When we took over, we decided that this was the critical factor. If we did not make it so that every dollar put in at the top reaches the ground as one dollar, we're not going to succeed."
"We came in and made a symbolic act. We dressed in white shirts, white trousers, and said we will be what we represent."
He put the anti-corruption bureau under his personal portfolio.
"I gave the director the authority to investigate everybody and everything. All ministers. Including myself."
One of his own colleagues took half a million in bribes. When the investigation started, he asked to see Lee.
"I said, if I see you then I'll be a witness in court. So best not see me. Better see your lawyer."
The man committed suicide. Left a note saying: "As an oriental gentleman who believes in honor, I have to pay the supreme price."
"It's a heavy price. But it reminds every minister that there are no exceptions."
On consistency:
Lee had three journalists analyze 40 years of his speeches.
He asked them: what was the dominant theme?
All three said the same thing: consistency.
"What I said at the beginning, throughout all that period, the theme stayed loud and clear."
"That made it simple. Because you know where you stand with me. And you know what I want to do."
On delivering results:
"We deliver the homes, the schools, the jobs, the hospitals."
"Today, 98% of our people own their own homes. The smallest would be about $100,000 US. The biggest about $300,000."
"Once you own that amount of assets, you are not in favor of risking it with a crazy government. Your assets will go down in value."
"But that was planned."
Why? Because Singapore is small. Everyone does national service. If you're going to fight, you better be fighting for something you own.
"So we give everybody a stake."
On changing culture slowly:
Lee wanted Singapore to speak English. But he couldn't force it.
"Had I passed a law and said you will all learn English, we would have had mayhem. Riots."
Instead, he let parents watch who got the best jobs. The jobs were already there, from the multinationals and banks. They all used English.
"They watched and saw who got the best jobs. And they switched."
It took 16 years.
"I did not want to have said 16 years. Because in those 16 years I lost 20,000 Chinese graduates who had poor jobs. I wanted to make it shorter. I couldn't. I would have run into flack."
On whether leadership can be taught:
Lee quoted Isaac Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Yiddish literature.
Someone asked Singer: "Can you make a writer write great literature?"
He paused. Then said: "If he has the writer in him, I will make him a good writer in a shorter time."
Lee's version:
"Can you make a leader of anybody? I don't think so."
"He must have some of the ingredients. He must have that high energy level. He must have the ability to project himself, his ideas. He must have the desire, almost instinctively, to say 'let's do something better.' Of wanting to do something for his fellow men and not just for himself and his family."
"You can't teach those things. He's either got it or he hasn't got it."
"But if he's got that, then you can save him a lot of trouble."
On sustaining yourself:
Harvard asked how he managed despair over decades of leadership.
"If your message is one of despair, then you should not be a leader. You must give people hope."
"But there are moments when you feel very down. Either because you're physically down, or emotionally down, or because the world has turned adverse against you."
"When you are in that condition, the first thing you do is get a good night's sleep. Then get a swim or chase a ball. Get the cobwebs out of your mind."
"If you're not fit, you're going to make mistakes. Physically fit. You must stay physically and mentally fit."
In his later years, he learned to meditate.
"At the end of 20 minutes to half an hour, my pulse rate can go down from 100 to about 60. You can feel yourself subside. You still your mind. You empty your mind."
"Then when you are rested, you resume quietly. You still got the same problems. Maybe you sleep on it. Come back. Look at it for a few days. Then decide."
This 2 hour Harvard interview will teach you more about leadership than every business book you've read combined.
Bookmark & give it 2 hours this weekend, no matter what.
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@fran_kane94 @Deis1k this gonna sound dumb asf, but how did you lose with eon zed, i have been facing issues with killing it fast enough
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The best unconditional board was found:
- reroll at 7 for Samira, Ornn 3* (lvl 7 board in first comment)
- the best stargazer buffs are stage 2 Mountain > Boar > Altar > Serpent > Hunteress >>> Fountain
- hard prio Samira items (Shojin + DB / Crit build)
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@pyker_1 majority of riot employees are just side questing, fixing actual issues aren't that important
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@marks_wong so where's the line? anyone even know what he did that warranted a ban?
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Riot is making it clear what type of community they want to establish and what level of behaviour it will tolerate. Its drawing a clear line in the sand.
If you don't like that, then maybe you aren't the type of people they want to stick around.
Valorant News@ValorINTEL
🚨 Canezerra's contract with Envy has been terminated Canezerra has received a 12-month hardware ban from Riot Games which prevents him from playing or competing on any Riot Games title
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@TOnlypulse @Plerto_ isnt it easy to get champ now? i've seen a few acquaintances who used to be plat/diamond-ish, just hitting champ after spamming a shitload of games. feels so misleading, but i guess its a rank2.0 thing
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@goldpheesh @Plerto_ Yes hidden mmr but I play champs and diamonds at least those are the banners and charms they have but yeah believe all these dorks that play 500 games a season and can’t get out of diamond.
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Likely mooda situation:
- used to main siege before Val
- had 2k hours probably around high diamond.
- got bored and started cheating cuz he got sick of playing cheaters all the time
- quit and went to Val
- came back and lied about hours to not expose old account/ ban.
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@EbunVibes @NeverteIImeodd yea, the parents probably refused to beat their child
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@NeverteIImeodd Sometimes it’s not just “bad children”… it’s years of things going wrong in that home that nobody addressed. Situations like this don’t just start overnight.
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In an Asian family, after the father suffered a stroke, they reported their only son to the police for constantly beating his mother and father, as they had raised a cruel demon instead of a child.
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@lolski87060096 try using metatft comps instead of tftacademy, worked for me. tftacademy comp rankings feel stinky
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@TOnlypulse @Plerto_ is it accurate to compare rank vs rank in rank2.0? isn't matchmaking for rank2.0 mainly based on hidden mmr instead of the actual shown rank?
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@Plerto_ I hit emerald in my second season ever in 90 games with a higher kd then him but I’m no cheater lol couldnt even tell you how to cheat if I wanted to. He hit emerald in 60 games with a lower kd. I think it’s just cope. Ppl are mad they suck
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@Englishtiip idk man, feels like i've put in so much more effort than you. but you do you
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@goldpheesh @SolRuck "no pc" do you not see "tweeted from web"
the whole point of his project is for faking mobile screenshots as they are automatically trusted due to web screenshots being known for being faked via inspect element.
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@Soenba141552 You misunderstood what I built. This isn’t webhooks or the discord dev API. It modifies the client locally. I can create persistent fake messages as any user/bot, edit existing messages, and change cached user data locally. All without touching the API.
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Bitch, you only become an “Asian Tiger” by bathing in the blood of us Vietnamese. This is why Singapore is the Israel of Southeast Asia, foever the fleas under colonial boots.
archive.ph/2022.09.09-195…
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Exactly what people from a place spiritually Israeli like Singapore would say
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@genHCM seems like the victim mentality has gotten out of the states 😭😭
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