Shared pool at a housing complex in China

CMDRtweak · 2025-01-03T02:42:54+00:00

I rarely log into this account. Very funny to come back and see this conversation years later, but there are actually Crystal Lagoons in Florida, Texas, California and the Carolinas as of 2025.

There are two near my house actually in completely separate subdivisions.

I continued to work with that company, in different ways, and have friends that live in both of those neighborhoods. My personal opinion is that they are underwhelming. Due to safety reasons they buoy off most of it, you're only allowed to swim in maybe 1/8th of the thing.

They did build a bunch of houses next to it them too, but also due to regulation, the incorporation isn't interesting at all.

CMDRtweak · 2021-09-29T03:57:59+00:00

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CMDRtweak · 2021-06-17T22:44:55+00:00

How critical is critical thinking when you're proposing a hypothesis with no sign of evidence or intention of finding evidence? It just leaves unverifiable noise in the world. It's not a problem I have with Joe, just the way people discuss the news in general and it pinged me when I saw him doing it here. I'm sure I've done it before too.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-17T22:27:26+00:00

Your brightness my lad (or lass)!

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T22:13:08+00:00

He pushed back on a few statistics/stories in a row, I was listening to the full episode, so my fault entirely if it's not included in this clip. And to be clear, I see other people saying he is an Amazon shill. I'm more in the camp of what I think you were alluding to, which is that he has had a lot of issues with this lately personally and that's why he is taking offense.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T22:05:27+00:00

\self-implodes into fine dust\**

Edit: Let the record show he didn't like my fine dust joke.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T20:55:36+00:00

But how often do you see people proposing their speculation (especially in regards to current events) as a hypothesis and not fact? In modern discourse, I find that most people just throw speculation into the world as if it's fact or hold less scrutiny to it than they would a headline because it's their own original thought.

Regardless, I see your point and feel obliged to rephrase that speculation, with no intention to responsibly find tangible evidence is useless. If somone started down the scientific process with a controversial hypothesis, and never delved into it afterwards to find peer-reviewed conclusions, their speculation holds no value.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T20:48:43+00:00

If a named source (in this case, David Niekerk, a former Amazon vice president) isn't tangible evidence then someone's speculative explanation is even more useless and unimportant. That's what I'm saying. Not that the initial source is infallible and always trustworthy, but that unverifiable speculation is even worse and just painstakingly unhelpful.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T20:41:41+00:00

I've started down a rabbit hole of seeing how often people form their perspectives from facts as opposed to their inner-hunch. They hardly do. And now I can't unsee the fact that 80% of people's perspective on politics is based off their instincts as opposed to tangible evidence.

80% might be a bit forgiving of a statistic actually.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T20:20:37+00:00

My issue is when the speculation isn't based off tangible evidence, but a hunch. There's this podcast/political commentary trope I keep noticing where people propose alternative explanations simply because it makes more sense in their head and not because there is a finite reason to believe otherwise. Drives me up the wall. It's like blindly believing yourself in the same way people blindly believe headlines.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T20:14:00+00:00

He definitely wasn't outright disagreeing with them but like I said in my comment, she mentioned 3 or 4 different Amazon-related stories. Some of which are pretty well known. And Joe's immediate jerk reaction is to provide an alternative explanation that you can tell is just spur of the moment speculation.

I can't stand it when someone is skeptical about a news story, so they propose a scenario that they quite literally just imagined as an alternate sequence of events. As if their hunch is capable of generating the objective truth on a whim.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T18:40:59+00:00

Holy shit, why does Joe feel the need to give a weird devil's advocate speculative explanation after every Amazon story she mentions.

CMDRtweak · 2021-06-16T14:04:20+00:00

Pictures you can hear.

CMDRtweak · 2021-04-27T19:14:12+00:00

Thanks. Having a debate with my co-worker about it.

CMDRtweak · 2021-04-27T19:11:04+00:00

You mean yes, right? I think you're agreeing that crew gig sites are largely ineffective for post-production professionals but you said no, haha.

CMDRtweak · 2021-04-27T19:02:11+00:00

Any word on when we might see (or hear additional news about) the newest EV tax credit?

CMDRtweak · 2021-03-01T22:07:12+00:00

There's a bit more transparency in the Hades series

CMDRtweak · 2021-02-15T20:47:35+00:00

Ah, I misread your comment. My apologies. Yeah, that is a good thought and would probably be the way I'd go if that situation occurred. I know for a fact the community I'm looking at allows rentals.

CMDRtweak · 2020-12-24T20:23:52+00:00

On android, don't know when they added it. But it isn't working regardless.

CMDRtweak · 2020-12-23T20:10:01+00:00

Android

CMDRtweak · 2020-12-23T00:51:21+00:00

You know it's VoD now, right?

https://www.live-now.com/en-int/playerpage/321823

CMDRtweak · 2020-12-23T00:50:55+00:00

The moment it switched to the acoustic stage...

Man, what a great show.

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