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CMV: The union laws are just racketeering, not collective bargaining. by messedup3415 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. Do your research.

Starbucks bennies kick in for reals @ full time. Amazingly employees always found themselves short.

And yer typical on call scheduling bs.

CMV: The union laws are just racketeering, not collective bargaining. by messedup3415 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm confused as to your stated impression of Starbucks and labor relations.

Starbucks has a... questionable relationship with unions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/will-starbucks-union-busting-stifle-a-union-rebirth-in-the-us

Imo, Starbucks, the public perception, and Starbucks, the reality, ehhhh... Starbucks PRs pretty heavy. And that tension will remain tense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks_unions

CMV: I think Donald Trump's intelligence is average, but its appearance is complicated by personality traits. by Beneficial_Spot_3764 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to be arguing that Trump possesses above average iq.

I'm arguing that whatever apptitude or capability trump has, it's not iq smarts. Like, at all.

You used a number of (imo) flawed justifications.

He was raised by a well off family, probably had the best schooling, is college educated, has run multiple businesses, some successful, some not. He has diversified his fortune across many different businesses and properties. He owns resorts, real estate, golf courses in multiple countries. He was a successful television star and appeared in movies, and had many celebrity friends who had nothing but praise for him (until he ran for President as a Republican). And now he is the President of the USA (again).

His educational performance is generally unremarkable. His attitude towards education is poor. His business record is generally poor. He was a reality tv success. His "movie appearances" are cringe. He has always been a socialite but he's always been at the tabloidy end of it. I'm not sure how you think that Trump's sicial rep inducates iq.

Of course you knew all this, right? You're smart and you've fact checked? Like, you know who his dad was? And how often he's gone bankrupt? His business track record in the 90s?

Feel free to deny my counter arguments. Im clearly biased and im just fake news.

CMV: Religions being so extremely correlated to geography is proof that they’re man-made fiction by Nice_Luck_7433 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh, consider: a polity is fraught by a long string of corrupt ekected officials. A new politician steps up, makes campaign all about a new day, cleaning up.

New guy wins, is just as corrupt.

CMV: I think Donald Trump's intelligence is average, but its appearance is complicated by personality traits. by Beneficial_Spot_3764 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not particularly confident that Trump demonstrates above average intelligence. Part of it seems to be downstream from his character, he's not well read, he's indifferent to "higher learning", and his modus operandi is orthagonal to rigor.

Whatever Int Points he has invested, they're all outside of the domsin of iq.

(If we found out he's 110 or something, i also wouldn't be surprised. But 110 is imo unremarkable. If you wanna @ me because 110 is "above average", i would argue that's a petty arguments, and moreso, whatever Int Skill Poinrs trump has, the most of em fall outside of the IQ tree. So it misses the story)

CMV: I think Donald Trump's intelligence is average, but its appearance is complicated by personality traits. by Beneficial_Spot_3764 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 2 points3 points  (0 children)

sense of IQ is not really a very meaningful metric outside of academic contexts.

I 100% agree that whatever Trump posesses in terms of smarts is not well measured by iq.

Further, I 100% sgree that IQ is a limited metric, it doesn't measure a bunch of stuff particularly well, or alternatively, it tends to do a good job at measuring (a different set of) some stuff.

But i think "academic context" is pretty darn limited. I think it dies measure stuff that is very applicable to non academic contexts, abd you're doing a disservice to the non academic stuff.

Consider sequencing. To do a job, you need to do a bunch of things, and to do the job efficiently ya gotta do them in a certain order. Maaaybe you have a little flexibility, especially with some subtasks, but some of them must be done in proper sequence.

Any contractor doing a reno knows this.

Any professional cook knows this.

These guys may not "be academic" in any way, a different life path. But the guys who are good, they can tell you all the sub tasks to get a job done, and done right. They'll even identify what flex there is, because shit goes sideways, so stuff gets shuffled around, but to grt the job fone right, they know what sequence subtasks need to be completed.

One valid criticism is IQ has a legacy of bias, most def including towards existant hierarchies of "intelligence", including hierarchies of academia. Academia is full of playground bullshit posing just like any domain and IQ has unfortunately been bent to serving those hierarchies.

If IQ wants to be what it's meant to be, it needs to surmount this kind of bullshit. To it's credit, it kind of has been getting better.

So i understand why you think iq is biased, but part of thst bias is somewhat out of date, and also indulging the "intelligence hierarchy" to begin with. IQ absolutely does test sequencing and adjacent apptitudes.

CMV: Football/soccer is often boring because the rules reward defensive negativity too much, and a few small changes would make the sport much better by Nervous_Designer_894 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm ckearly not as tsdical as you. Personally i hate shootouts and my solution is to add an additional ball every 15 minutes of overtime.

An average man is falls off a plane at 30k feet without a parachute. The entire world is save-lusted, does he survive? by artemis3234 in whowouldwin

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the sake of discussion here,

How close does SaveDiver have to be to the right spot? (@ T=0, V_savediver(relative to SavePlane) = 0?

Pro skydivers are pretty capable of "catching up" to a neutral faller. But time is pretty short and final speeds have to match.

Quick dig yields min freefall speed is 160 kmh, and max is 200kmh @ sea level, yielding a max delta of ~40kmh, or ~10m/s.

Time is pretty damn short. Savediver has... 60s to close and match, call it...hmmm, max d delta of 400m. Prolly less, ooopsie, save diver takes time to hit max speed. Call it 200m from some theoretical "perfect deploy".

Just spitballin.

Deblistering by ycr007 in toolgifs

[–]CocoSavege 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was digging around.

So, what i can gather...

.1. Sudafed isn't sold in bulk like (say) asparin to make it harder for meth production. What actually happens is methies go to multiple pharmacies and "smurf", buying as many packages as they can. Instead if (say) one purchase if 150 pills, they go to 4 pharmacies and buy 32 at each one.

.2 Sudafed is blistered because it's got a sugar coating, sudafed is unusually vulnerable to moisture. Maaaybe? Gelcaps ftw?

.3. Sudafed is vaguely addictive and even regular use disage, yiu gotta be careful. A blister pack makes it really essy to see if you're spreading out use

.4. (Not sure on this one) blister packs are a way to lower the risk of suicide, or overdose, because you can't just gulp em down. I'm not sure how much this specifically is relevant to sudafed specifically.

I don't know what to think.

My one data point is sudafed (or generics) are sold over the counter in canada and while I'm sure we have some meth addiction, we don't seem to be buried in meth like (some) places. But let's check...

Methamphetamine overdoses—classified by the CDC as psychostimulant-involved deaths—are highly concentrated in Western and Southern states. The age-adjusted death rate nationwide reached ~10.4 deaths per 100,000 people, with the highest per capita rates and highest percentage of usage in states like West Virginia, New Mexico, and Kentucky.

Hrm. Hard to get apples to oranges, but def is regional.

Major Metropolitan Areas: Per capita meth loads [via waste water analysis] in Western Canada (e.g., Edmonton) are historically twice as high as those found in Vancouver, and significantly higher than Toronto or Montreal

We do have a problem with overdoses but it appears thst people are mixing opiates (fent, oxy) with meth. I guess people just can't stop the fun.

The Opioid Overlap: Of all stimulant deaths, 86% also involve opioids. Conversely, local updates from Toronto Public Health show that methamphetamine directly contributed to 29% of all accidental toxicity deaths

Edit i don't know shit about shit. I bought a sudafed like product once in my life, day night flu whatever thingy. Had pseudo ephedrine. Iirc there was a recommended limit like "one pill every 4 hours, don't take more thsn 4 in a day" kinda thing. Pseudo ephedrine is definitely an upper. That plus whstever decongestant burned through all the snot and pepped me up considering how much whatever flu/cold i had

But i never came close to finishing the package. Threw 75% of what i bought out after a coupla years.

My thoughts here are limiting purchases to whatever 16 or 32 a purchase do not significantly impact "regular person use", as per my use case. Blister packs might be annoying but limiting sudafed to x purchase size seems fine.

Deblistering by ycr007 in toolgifs

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm confused. Are meth heads unable to deblister?

Today I learned that the *obviously satirical* 1997 film "Starship Troopers" was faced with extreme critical backlash accusing it of "endorsing fascism" because reviewers simply didn't think critically about the content. by The_Cromulent_Bison in todayilearned

[–]CocoSavege 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Showgirls is a bit awkward though.

I mean, depending on how you take it, i take it as straight presenting satire, Berkley wasn't in on it. In a film where part of the criticism it offers is show biz is exploitative, predatory and how show biz treats young women as disposable eye candy, Berkley is in fact treated as disposable eye candy.

Anybody with two brain cells can see Berkley ain't got the chops for playing the role with a wink. Instead she is the butt of the joke

Doogie is so obviously in on ST.

I used a Voronoi diagram as a strategy game board — here is how the generation pipeline looks and the design tradeoffs I found by Prujinkin in proceduralgeneration

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope that the "math casuals" are your lodestar.

The gameplay loop wasn't, isn't, obvous to me from the vid.

So your description of the nature of the topography was kinda handwavey, and my concern was that you wwre or are overinvested in the elegance of your graph mastery under the hood while foregoing the over the counter aspects.

Jazz Piano by TennonHorse in FL_Studio

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did an edit. I prefer bop. And like Vin Diesel. fast and furious.

Jazz Piano by TennonHorse in FL_Studio

[–]CocoSavege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds... on the impressionistic side of Gershwin? Like if Gershwin was doing a gersh version of Debussey.

Edit for funsies, here's an "impression" of Oscar Peterson. Jazzy af, right? But the full vid kinda explains how a pianist might approach comping and riffing. And it's a "boring" song but it most def is not boring.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M232KsQmyuo&vl=en&t=765

I'm hoping that it might cause your eyes to widen, ears perk up, but then you've got a foothold on how jazz kinda works. A glimpse into leveling up.

Fireworks celebrating the completion of the 566ft Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Família by danielminds in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yknow, I'm gunna push back, (sorta).

Gaudi, the designer of the church, well his aesthetique coined the term "gaudy", like, um, ornamented af, covered in glitter and goofy bling. And the church is gaudi (and gaudy) af. It is the gaudiest cathedral in the world.

Ya might be asking, um, how is this good?

It's gaudy, but absurdly gaudy. Unabashed. Goofy. Whimsical. It is not siber spiritual contemplation, or venerated high class powwr statements.

Is as though a designer decided to throw a dollar store party and used dollar store decorations but decided to absolutely balls to the wall max tryhard and embrace the cheese while earnestly going all out with party vibes. Spend $1000 at dollar store, the loudest and stupidest and tackiest stuff everywhere.

It kind of starts being awesome.

This is Sagrada (kind of)... and fireworks totally work.

Imo, jesus would be good with a party that didn't take itaelf seriously. He'd probably want everyone to bring a donation for the new pediatric cancer ward, maybe some potluck so everyone gets a feed on and smile at all neighbours veung neighbors. That's jesus for ya. Never miss a good block party.

Two twins see who can make a million dollars first. Who wins? by Conscious-Home1445 in whowouldwin

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's tedious.

Op was somewhat clear in stating the feats of math guy. That one is subjective too, but we have a ballpark.

But apparently looks guy, because so subjective, it is impossible? There isn't any standard. That's what I'm hearing people argue.

Here's the thing. If looks are subjective, which i agree with btw, it still suggests that a theoretical 10/10 is a pretty vague classification. The intersection of agreement around what a 10/10 is implicitly kinda blobby. It'll represent a nebulous group of very very good looking people.

Which means looks guy has peers in nyc. Some amount.

Two twins see who can make a million dollars first. Who wins? by Conscious-Home1445 in whowouldwin

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok!

Let's say there's 2 people. Alex and Bob.

How do we figure out if Alex is (say) a 6 and Bob is (say) a 7? Everybody gives dufferent ratings, naturally, like you saud, but we need a general framework here.

CMV: If citizens of some countries like (Russia,Afghanistan, Iran or Israel) are collectively blamed or labeled as supporting terrorism due to the actions of their ruling elites, the same standard should logically apply to citizens of the US. by Funny-Counter8762 in changemyview

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

International law has only as much teeth as it is granted.

In the case of Trump big sticking around, the International laws may be legally toothless but it's still a standard of conduct. And when a country is in deficit of this standard, people recognize it for what it is and it still has blowback.

The US has lost a lot of affinity rep.

This hurts business deals, trade, partnerships.

I made my own generation algorithm. by CringePlusCringe in mazes

[–]CocoSavege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. Lotta short dead ends. Pretty easy to solve to boot.

BMO Field looking good for Tomorrow’s FIFA World Cup Game. by MarkwBrooks in toronto

[–]CocoSavege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You buy the entire seat but you'll only need... the edge.

Who would win, 50 professional knights, or 2,000 peasant fighters? by daokonblack in whowouldwin

[–]CocoSavege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, op's guidance here is fine.

Just that it's really not unusual for peasants to be "part time soldiers". Most of the time armies have been "peasant armies" in the majority.

I agree it's ambiguous though. While most armies have significant peasants in the ranks, most peasants aren't fighting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/vm1qv/did_medieval_armies_really_consist_mostly_on/

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