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  • As a person who can do basic math (not an expert by any means, but it’s something you should have picked up pretty early in grade school). But even at 1 minute for a set that’s 3-5 minutes by any math I have ever learned.
    So, even if we pretended that we all want to play hot potato with barbells covered in other people’s sweat, that still exceeds the 1-2 minute estimation by double or more.
    However, normal people don’t go to the gym expecting to spend their time swapping sweat with a bunch of roided gym bros. So, not only is their set going to jump to something like 12-20 reps per set, but they won’t expect to have to hand over equipment they are in the middle of using. Which means they won’t be planning to put the bells back when they are doing their alternate reps. Here’s another shocker for you, normal people alternate muscle groups rather than standing around talking about gains for 5 minutes after each set of reps.
    So without getting too complicated, you can trust me when I tell you that puts us at something significantly higher than 1-2.





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    15 days ago

    Exactly! For 16 years in a row the “don’t bother to vote” people got direct and repeated proof of just how useless and stupid that plan was.
    It wasn’t until people got so sick of it that they finally decided to do something useful instead of just sitting around and complaining.



  • I hate to tell you this, but the code running most critical systems out there is already completely fucked.
    Most people assume that just because software developer has been a degree for the last few decades that everything has been rewritten by professionals, but there are a crazy number of systems still running 3-5 decades from when they were first created. A vast majority of this shit was written before “programmer” was a profession or a degree. So, everything was written by some person who had a job doing something that had nothing to do with computers, but either dicked with computers as a hobby, or was forced into it because no one else wanted to do it.
    People point at Y2K as the point when everything had to be rewritten and replaced, but most Y2k solutions just involved patching the software and nothing else. All that shit is still out there and running.
    And let’s be frank, every profession has people that are just aren’t capable but seem to stay in it no matter what. For every bad waiter you have ever dealt with, there is a developer who is just as shit at their job.
    And that is on top of companies who just don’t give a fuck and who knowingly put shit software out because it is more profitable to cheat people than provide what they promised.

    So, don’t worry about AI causing some great collapse. We were already well on our way there without AI.





  • I fully agree with you, but I think we are picturing kids at the opposite ends of childhood. In my head we are talking about little kids that are very young and just learning things like impulse control and what is fair. The smear of the very few pixels left in the OP’s image gave me the impression that we were dealing with someone pretty young. But if we’re dealing with older kids, then the dynamic does change dramatically. If your teenager is physically lashing out at other kids then we are dealing with someone with behavioral problems (both child and parents) and that does need a much stronger correction.


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    21 days ago

    Violence was the wrong answer. But a swift and strong reaction to defend someone being bullied is something to praise. At a time when a large portion of society is actively trying to demote women to the position of being property instead of people with equal rights, that instinct is even more important to encourage.
    So, while violence would normally be something that is met with swift punishment of its own to try to correct the child’s behavior, in this case, the balance tips a bit the other way. In this case the kid was already ejected from the game and the parent decided that was enough of a punishment without needing to add additional punishment. Some people feel that there should also be some reward to encourage the instinctive feeling.
    I have not seen any response so far that denies that ejection was not warranted as a punishment for the violence.
    As a parent you have to be conscious of the lessons you teach your children. Harsh retaliation to anything that the kid does wrong will end up squashing their ability to act for themselves or stand up for themselves. In fact it may even lead to them becoming a bully.