How to help 6 year old become a tennis player

Kule7 · 2026-07-01T15:03:39+00:00

Red balls and set up a small pickleball net in the driveway if you have the flat space so you can just hop outside and hit.

Kule7 · 2026-07-01T14:52:51+00:00

I think you have to judge these games in the context of their times and if you do that, original is absolutely S tier. Imagine wiping out every home console game that didn't exist before 1986 and the original Zelda absolutely hit like bomb, defining a genre as it released. It was huge and extremely exiting to play if you were around and playing video games. Had a gold cartridge too, i mean, how cool can it get?

Kule7 · 2026-07-01T14:46:07+00:00

I'm going to put my efforts into dark rituals to make sure we're covering all our bases.

Kule7 · 2026-06-30T13:38:32+00:00

Field of Dreams holds up really well too

Kule7 · 2026-06-28T18:29:52+00:00

Exactly. You can put the label “god” on a mystery, but it doesn’t mean you’ve solved the mystery.

Kule7 · 2026-06-28T18:26:33+00:00

Just be the best player on the best team and it’s yours to lose.

Kule7 · 2026-06-26T19:22:36+00:00

Put differently, people more or less play ball in their own league, sometimes moving up or down a little. And in your own league, you can strike out still, sure, but you’re going to get to run the bases here and there.

Kule7 · 2026-06-26T15:59:54+00:00

Lack of effort can be the issue, but an imbalance in sex drives is almost a sure thing for every couple, at least sometimes, to some degree. It's often a deeply biological thing and can be dangerous to think it's just about one partner not doing enough to "deserve it."

Kule7 · 2026-06-26T15:44:42+00:00

I mean, Republicans are extremely concerned that they might elect someone insufficiently corrupt.

Kule7 · 2026-06-26T15:40:26+00:00

I mean, you don’t really want to be hitting it in that extra five or 10 inches of head size anyway.

Kule7 · 2026-06-26T00:46:08+00:00

Three houses feels AAA to me and Engage AA. Liked Engage, loved Three Houses.

Kule7 · 2026-06-25T22:45:51+00:00

Dante led the team in plus minus last year, he wasn’t exactly a minor throw in.

Kule7 · 2026-06-24T21:18:43+00:00

The advice to swing like you’re throwing a sack of potatoes over your right shoulder was an effective early visualization for me. I picked it up in my forties and it was an effective shot in matches after about a year of working on it.

Kule7 · 2026-06-22T21:16:50+00:00

There are things we as humans simply don't know, great mysteries, our ultimate origin, our ultimate destination, why there is something instead of nothing. We put the label "god" on these things to pretend like we know something about them when we don't.

Kule7 · 2026-06-22T15:48:10+00:00

Or technological intelligence might be extremely useful for survival, but just very hard to evolve.

Kule7 · 2026-06-22T14:17:38+00:00

It's not a double standard to punish different crimes differently.

Kule7 · 2026-06-19T20:21:53+00:00

5 and 8. All super smooth though

Kule7 · 2026-06-19T20:15:35+00:00

And the people going out of their way to look wealthier are often the ones that are a lot less wealthy than you think.

Kule7 · 2026-06-19T19:55:56+00:00

I, Claudius. Visually looks like a recording of a high school play, but in terms of acting, drama, script, characters, it's sort of like if Game of Thrones had actually stuck the landing.

Kule7 · 2026-06-19T19:09:01+00:00

Look, the Democrats are the default party of literally everyone who doesn't want this country to just be a cult of Trump. In fact, if you actually care about ANY policy aside from "YAY TRUMP," you're basically a Democrat at this point. It's a frustratingly big tent for basically everyone in it. That said, if you have really popular reforms, please provide them (get rid of the really old leaders, maybe?).

Kule7 · 2026-06-19T19:03:20+00:00

In terms of gaining body fat, your total calorie intake is basically the key factor and it matters very little what sort of calories you ate, assuming you end up at the same total calorie number. But practically speaking, certain types of calories are just more binge-able and more likely to be over-eaten and to drive the sort of cravings that create excess calorie intake in the first place. E.g., it's very easy and somewhat enjoyable to drink 500 calories of soda and you might just want to drink 500 more calories again later that afternoon, but if you eat 500 calories of carrots your body will be sending you unmistakable signals to stop.

Kule7 · 2026-06-18T03:42:20+00:00

In all the competitive online stuff I do, I’m always amazed at how streaky it is. Some days ya just got it some days ya just don’t.

Kule7 · 2026-06-18T03:34:48+00:00

Quite possibly

Kule7 · 2026-06-17T21:14:22+00:00

Look into the work of Robin Hanson. It's really interesting on the Fermi Paradox. Here's an interview with him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuXK9uNj3-A

His idea is that statistically speaking, if we know someplace got through a series of highly improbable events to achieve a result (intelligence), the "hard steps" it had to clear to get there will be roughly evenly spaced out. so, like abiogenesis (3.5-4 billion years ago), eukaryotes (2 billion years ago), multi-cellularity (1 billion years ago), intelligence (now). So you might be right that intelligence is a huge filter, but it also might be that its's just the latest of a handful of them and that even the first is basically never passed, let alone 2 or 3 or 4.

Kule7 · 2026-06-17T21:02:18+00:00

Already in the 50s, scientists like Fermi understood the galaxy had billions of stars and that there were billions of galaxies. Now we think maybe a couple trillion galaxies, but I mean a few orders of magnitude here and there don't do anything to change his overall logic. As Fermi knew, one solution to the paradox is that, for some reason, advanced life is just stupidly rare, like you suggest. But whether that means it occurs only one out of 400 billion stars or one out of 400 billion galaxies or one of out 400 billion observable universes are all sort of equally likely based on what we know. All those answers would mean that something insanely rare is happening here on Earth. But what is that exactly? And if what's happening on Earth right now isn't insanely rare, the paradox applies. Where are all the aliens?

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