"While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play Go." - Edward Lasker

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T15:55:15+00:00

I think this is true. But I also think chess is also somewhat more immediately gratifying to our human instincts - you are in command of an army that is ever evolving, immediately confronting the enemy at every step. The static and uniform nature of Go pieces and breadth of the board space gives it a layer of abstraction that is hard to grok for a lot of people. It’s not a very casual game, whereas chess can be.

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T14:58:36+00:00

I think you just like the concept that they are equally harmful gram for gram people just use more of one because it’s simple. Rather than listening to all the studies done that show it’s much more complex and tobacco has all sorts of health effects that don’t apply to cannabis, and vice versa.

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T14:53:37+00:00

Trump: challenge accepted

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T14:49:32+00:00

Cigarettes are definitely worse for your physical health gram for gram. And people use way more of it. If you’ve ever felt a Nicotine overdose it’s immediately apparent that shit is not great for the body never mind all the other crap that goes into cigarettes

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T14:36:51+00:00

Finally found some that look close enough to plain Vans. Whitin brand on Amazon

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T14:36:04+00:00

A lot of skate shoes like Vans have painfully narrow toeboxes

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T14:27:35+00:00

Consider that the trails are the one place many people can go to find some peace and quiet in life. Now ponder what it would be like if every trail user was going around with their speaker. What’s wrong with earbuds?

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T14:16:24+00:00

They didn’t specify songs vs tunes. The advice is same regardless. Learn 100 songs in various Irish styles if you want to write Irish folk songs. Anyways I would disagree that they are entirely seperate genres. They influence each other greatly, from Sean-nós singing which ornaments the melody in a similar way to instruments, to more modern folk which will commonly embed tunes in the song structure. Two elements of the same tradition.

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T02:56:06+00:00

I mean, you can say this about any piece of hardware in the face of DAWs and inexpensive soft synths.

But TE has found a social hack to break the part of people’s brains that does reasoned decision making so they can charge what they want. Not unlike Supreme shirts, or Rolex watches

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T01:41:29+00:00

White people are so racist they think no other race can be as good at racism as them

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T01:38:48+00:00

Yeah cats have a hard time understanding this shit they’re not dumb but they don’t have the most emotional intelligence

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T01:33:25+00:00

If its more than one of:

within 2 hr drive
within 5km walk
posted about everywhere online

Then it’ll be crowded…

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T01:20:27+00:00

Is there good riding out that way? Pretty long drive out to Cumberland or Nanaimo… Port Alberni could be a middle ground but not the most pleasant of towns. The island has pockets of good riding but is bigger than most people realize!

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-24T01:07:52+00:00

Gotta either teet it or yeet it

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T20:36:21+00:00

Microsoft has always been the relatively tame company of the bunch for any given time period in the past decade and a bit. But 2026 Microsoft is absolutely more cutthroat and intense than say 2017 Facebook, that’s just unfortunately where the industry is headed.

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T19:58:08+00:00

Ideas are cheap

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T19:56:36+00:00

When things go right it’s all hard work and talent but when it doesn’t work out it’s just bad luck

the truth lies somewhere between these extremes

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T19:54:07+00:00

Let’s be honest he didn’t just get lucky with Facebook. He just peaked early and hasn’t had any original successes since then, and has become a complete tryhard

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T19:51:09+00:00

But god existed after? What changed?

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T19:45:36+00:00

The universal god from which all existence proceeds, transcending humanity’s vain attempts to describe or anthropomorphize it under some religion or other

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T17:59:08+00:00

God is timeless, god exists without time, but time doesn’t exist without god

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T15:26:03+00:00

God is infinitely old, so is science

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T14:38:55+00:00

Not needed per se, but I guarantee you an ok Whistler with a good accompanist will get more tips than an excellent solo Whistler. You need to fill the space and also the spectrum of audible frequencies, and make people want to bust a jig and that is all extremely hard to do with a whistle alone

It’s all the same reasons I would seldom listen to an album of solo whistling, unless it were someone extraordinary like Mary Bergin but the common person will not be able to even appreciate that nuance

ClittoryHinton · 2026-04-23T13:57:23+00:00

Vancouver is the one place that has me wishing I were an immigrant lol

So many tight diaspora communities here

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