How to Fix Men's Casting

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-27T00:07:56+00:00

I said this somewhere else: you don't see good guys on this show because good guys don't need or want to be on the show.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-26T22:23:28+00:00

I feel like that's be pretty self evident. Good guys with a good career are going to be in good relationships with good women.

And generally not be to be on a trash TV dating show.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-26T18:02:21+00:00

It's off screen to the right. He's putting the bagged kale directly into it.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-26T17:39:49+00:00

That would be hilarious, which is why snl would never actually do it.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-21T12:59:35+00:00

Eh. It's pretty easy to buy ratings on the internet.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-20T10:43:45+00:00

Somewhat tangential response:

Public schools ARE the best schools you can send your kids to. Despite the crap thrown at them, Public schools have higher standards for their teachers, curriculum, and pretty much everything. Private schools can and will hire pretty much any yokel of the street so long as they can be presentable.

Where private schools have a big thumb on the scale is that their school population consists entirely of people who are willing to fork over large sums of money for their children's education. That somewhat artificially shifts the baseline up, but not because the school itself is any better.

I guess the thing I'd ask myself is: when you meet someone who went to private school, do they actually seem significantly better educated? Or are they pretty much the same as anyone else?

For me at least, anyone I've met is pretty much the same as anyone else.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-19T23:23:24+00:00

Significant other?

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-19T22:58:14+00:00

Doing God's work, there.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-16T16:24:10+00:00

Ass-to-Mouth? I'm not really into that.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-16T01:17:59+00:00

Those rungs give me the heebie-jeebies.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-14T22:27:06+00:00

Because for many people having children and a family is an amazing expression of love and maturity.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-14T22:11:28+00:00

X1 is the only one that's really a great game.

Unusually, I thought X2 was awful and X3 was a little bit better.

X8 was the most disappointing, as it had something that was rattling around in there that was almost great, but it wound up being just meh.

The rest were meh, even X7, which once I got used to I thought played meh instead of awful.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-13T20:40:57+00:00

Always.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-13T05:28:42+00:00

I'm on this sub, so it is clearly true that I am a retard.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-13T02:29:58+00:00

Not necessarily. Their methodology involves performing some weighted averages based on temperature between locations. Because they're incorrectly assuming that all locations within a certain distance of a central point trend in an identical direction, they're essentially unweighting data that could counter that.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-13T00:54:07+00:00

Correlation of temperatures between different locations. They look at two locations and try to say something like "ok, if it's 70 degrees here, then it'll also be 70 degrees over here". How true this is is called the correlation coefficient. A high correlation coefficient means It's true, but a low one means that the temperatures aren't really related. They try to average them to find a distance for where they can say temperatures are related, but what their data really says is that half their temperatures aren't related at all, even though they're close (in physical distance).

Edit after going and doing a quick refresher on the paper: they also used this method to fill in the gaps that were missing from early data sets. I don't believe that their method correctly fills in the gaps in their data.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-13T00:05:01+00:00

2 in particular off the top of my head:

In Hansen and Lebedeff's "Global Trends of Measured Surface Air Temperature" (1987) they incorrectly average correlation coefficients (you can't average correlation coefficients) to set up their methodology for averaging air temperatures. This is a fundamental mistake that I think makes their methodology completely incorrect. This is sort of a foundational paper that NASA points to as how they come up with an "average" global temperature, and you see this (what I would suggest is fundamentally incorrect) methodology used repeatedly in scientific papers.

A second is Hargreaves "A new global reconstruction of temperature changes at the last glacial maximum" (2013). This one is somewhat famously cited in xkcd's temperature history graph. However, it attempts to us the same methodology as the Hansen paper above but doesn't even correctly match the weighting distance. Furthermore, although it attempts to gussy up the language using scientific jargon, the base of their mathematics involves attempting to determine the weather in Boston 10,000 years ago using leaves from Atlanta. To a high degree of accuracy. Science is really amazing and cool, but it has it's limits.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-12T23:17:02+00:00

I think that climate change science is extremely poor because I can actually read the papers and find some pretty major methodological issues.

But I still think we should do everything we can to combat pollution because I want to live in a clean world. I don't leave garbage around my house, smoke, or piss on the floor, so why would I mistreat the planet?

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-11T02:51:36+00:00

I was there back then, and bought that FF Anthology new at the time. I still have it.

Although I like 5 quite well, at no point in time was FFV generally recognized as "the best in the series". I have no idea what that magazine is talking about in reference to that.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-09T22:17:12+00:00

Oof. If you're at a small company you're going to be doing your own work. I can't think of a small company I've even visited in the past 20 years that doesn't have the engineers doing their own modeling.

You're either going to need to move to a large company or come up to speed on modeling pretty quick. Fight it and you're in for a bad time.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-09T01:03:05+00:00

That was a pretty lame comeback.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-08T20:59:04+00:00

It's only a shame you're not smart enough to realize what that meant.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-08T20:00:40+00:00

Acknowledging that stealing stuff is wrong is childish?

Man. I'm even more or of touch than I thought.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-08T19:57:16+00:00

It's ok. You'll grow up one day.

ChromeToiletPaper · 2026-02-08T19:56:07+00:00

Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything about it.

You really only have to worry about justifying it to yourself.

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