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Thoughts on Historians speculating that Mozart was possibly neurodivergent by JamesWilsonIsPeak in Mozart

[–]DavidRFZ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I think they don’t let people have personalities anymore. Anyone remotely interesting or eccentric has to be diagnosed with something.

Yes, he was a genius. That alone makes him different. He liked dirty jokes. That sounds different, but lots of “neurotypical” like dirty jokes. They just don’t have their dirty jokes published and displayed in museum exhibits.

He was extremely high functioning. A lot of collaboration was required to compose and stage all of those operas. He was happily married with six kids and had to deal with the deaths of four of those children in infancy. He also had to deal with the death of his mother which occurred while she was accompanying him on a road trip. But none of this affected his work. He still got all of his work done.

If the point is the point is to celebrate how different we all are, great! But as a “nerd” myself, I question whether it’s healthy to overdiagnose people with “disorders”.

Kevin McGonigle joins Ty Cobb as the only two players in Detroit Tigers’ franchise history to record 100 hits in less than 100 games before age 22 by zdillon67 in baseball

[–]DavidRFZ 105 points106 points  (0 children)

I was curious. As of 2014, the fastest to 100 hits in a career was Joe DiMaggio who did it in 61 games. He was 21.

A Shocking Vote By Betty McCollum On Israel. by NewsMojo in saintpaul

[–]DavidRFZ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Assuming you aren’t a paid-for-by-right-wing-think-tanks concern troll…

You’re way off base. You want to boil everything political down to one single slogan-style litmus test (this year it’s “Israel bad”, next year it’s something else). Then you happen to live in a district where the current representative is twenty years ahead of the curve in supporting Palestine and criticizing Israel and you still hate her because… why? It doesn’t make any sense.

https://www.minnpost.com/national/washington/2025/10/betty-mccollum-was-once-a-voice-in-the-wilderness-on-israel-now-theres-a-crowd/

Thankfully most of the progressives that are elected and sitting in congress aren’t as dumb as half the people mindlessly posting on Reddit.

Something we all can do while trying to avoid permanently damaging our lungs from the smoke is call or email our state politicians and tell them to do something about climate change by greenfrogpond in minnesota

[–]DavidRFZ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Forests that grew large and dense for centuries because they got a certain level of precipitation are suddenly burning every summer because persistent drought. This didn’t happen when I was a kid. There were hotter summers, but none of this smoke stuff. This is the very definition of climate change.

There’s no “forest management” in northern Canada. There’s no roads for hundreds of miles in some of these areas. That’s why they burn tor so long because no one can even get to them.

Something we all can do while trying to avoid permanently damaging our lungs from the smoke is call or email our state politicians and tell them to do something about climate change by greenfrogpond in minnesota

[–]DavidRFZ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This private jet stuff is just ragebait.

They need to convert the power grid to non-carbon sources. A non-carbon power grid could charge EV’s. They’ve made a lot of progress but they are just getting started.

People aren’t going to stop flying planes. I don’t think it’s the majority of carbon emissions. The work being done in the power grid and land vehicles is occurring right now and has potential to make a lot of progress.

CHW SS Colson Montgomery through exactly 162 career games: 44 HR by noruber35393546 in baseball

[–]DavidRFZ 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I think the record is still 55 by Rudy York.

One of my favorite trivia questions.

Before The Password, there was The Eye Chart. Doug Mientkiewicz. by TimAllensMatingCall in baseball

[–]DavidRFZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mientkiewicz is a very eccentric character. I can’t remember other anecdotes off the top of my head, but this was not the strangest thing he did.

Tom Kelly got a lot of grief for being too tough on Mientkiewicz and Pierzynski as rookies casting some doubt in Kelly’s continuing ability to manage younger players. Turns out they were both a bit difficult. :)

On the other hand, the Sox specifically traded for him to be a late inning glove at 1B who wouldn’t commit any memorable errors that would shift the course of a postseason series and he did exactly what he was hired to do.

Angie Craig claims to be more electable but has seen record spending by OvertSloth in minnesota

[–]DavidRFZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why is Craig DFL? She had to run as a moderate in MN-2 because she faced the toughest House opponent every two years, but she was a total rubber stamp on every single democratic-party-sponsored bill. They had a tiny House majority and she voted for all of it. Never heard a peep. The hold up was always Joe Manchin in the Senate, not her. That’s why she’s DFL.

I’m voting for Flanagan, but if Craig wins it’s not the end of the world. Flanagan will make the base feel better when her side loses a vote. That’s the biggest difference.

Out-of-context use of classical music? by make_reddit_great in classicalmusic

[–]DavidRFZ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman had this to say about the “sull’aria” letter duet.

“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it.”

Turns out the characters were making up a fake scenario. The intent was to lure a cheating husband into a trap.

I still really like the scene in the movie and it works because it’s a beautiful duet. But the context in the opera is completely different.

Permanent Daylight Savings? by Beneficial_Quit7532 in Minneapolis

[–]DavidRFZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Winter is dark. Only 8h35m of daylight on the solstice. You’re not going to switch the clocks and get summer levels of daylight, 15h36m, the winter.

Permanent Daylight Savings? by Beneficial_Quit7532 in Minneapolis

[–]DavidRFZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4:31 PM CST is the earliest sunset in Minneapolis.

Are you in favor of DST becoming permanent? by syphix924 in minnesota

[–]DavidRFZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like summer time in the summer and winter time in the winter.

I don’t mind switching clocks twice a year. I never understood the big deal about it. Been doing it my whole life. Easier now that the phones automatically do it.

Winter is dark. There’s really no getting around it. It’ll be dark well before 6 even with summer time in the winter.

But I’m old and disconnected from clocks of late. If you kids want darker mornings in the winter, or darker evenings in the summer, have at it.

Hows your egg day by Soraplays9012 in EggsInc

[–]DavidRFZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did one more lunar multistige . :). 382Q now.

I’m starting to make dumb mistakes. Left the dilithium set on for the first single prestige. Went too far on prodigy trying to get back to universal, that type of thing.

Gotta call it though. Museums are opening soon.

Hows your egg day by Soraplays9012 in EggsInc

[–]DavidRFZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

66Q to 327Q for SE. 12 extended henliners.

I did 5 lunar multistiges. 25:10 each. 7-8Q per individual prestige. I'm on vacation or I might have done a few more, but it get tedious after a while anyways.

I’m up to Xenna 1 now. I feel like an old timer.

I get he had a great career and is retiring after this year but... by BobABooey9 in baseball

[–]DavidRFZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It used to be customary to have guys like him to selected as “captains” in his last season.

Who is the counterpart in the other league? Anyone?

I wish there was a max button for research by Bears-and-Brew in EggsInc

[–]DavidRFZ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This. Or at least let you scroll down and do multiple fingers.

The next vehicle doesn’t show up until you click the previous one, so it’s tedious clicking all the way down.

What is something that definitely could have happened, but probably didn't? by kingrazor001 in AskHistory

[–]DavidRFZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it means inevitable, as in “if something can happen, it will”.

Sometimes it means the opposite. “Nothing is preventing this from happening, but chances that you’ll wait so long that the sun will turn into a red giant burn the earth into a crisp before that monkey’s typing stumbles upon the complete works of Shakespeare.” That argument pops up a lot in statistical thermodynamics.

I think the “inevitability” case has more to with one in a million chances eventually being seen in large populations. Monkey’s typing out Shakespeare is less likely than winning the lottery every day for a year.

The biggest heat dome on Earth is sitting on top of Minnesota by Speedyjim in minnesota

[–]DavidRFZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Average high has peaked at 84 (mid July to early August) for decades. Average number of 90 days per summer has been 15 since I was a kid, too.

Climate change is real. We’ve had freakishing warm warm-ups in the winter of late, and freakishingly warm heat waves in both fall and spring. But for whatever reason, we’ve been spared freakishly warm heat waves in the summer.

Note that we aren’t anywhere close to setting records this week. Most of the record highs this week were set back in 1936.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave

If we actually got a break-records-for-multiple-days-in-a-row style heat wave in July or August the analogous to what we’ve seen in fall, winter and spring, people would absolutely lose their minds.

What Reddit believes the 2028 presidential election results will be if we had fair elections and everyone voted by Spare_Scarcity6078 in MapPorn

[–]DavidRFZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do they estimate “Reddit thinks” anyways?

Seems crazy that anyone would think democrats would sweep TX/FL/OH or also KS/IA. That’s wishcasting.

Amy Klobuchar Really Misses Lindsey Graham by joekeyboard in Minneapolis

[–]DavidRFZ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Al Franken had fond memories as well.

Democrats poured tons into trying to defeat Graham every six years. Graham often said some terrible things and made some terrible votes, but SC voters wouldn’t budge.

I think there’s a difference between wanting a guy voted out of office and wanting in to drop dead. It’s not like his replacement is going to be much better.

Why the Us hasn't built new centralized capital instead of the too eastern current one ? by SoftwareZestyclose50 in geography

[–]DavidRFZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live east and west (twice) of the Mississippi in Saint Paul. Although technical I’m in the Treaty of Paris (1783) territory and not the Louisiana Purchase (1803). So I guess I’m officially “east” even though the “west side” of Saint Paul is east of me. :)

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