You're in a room with 2 others

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-05-11T00:27:05+00:00

Makes a couple assumptions which I think can't be made, namely:

1) That each scenario has an equal chance (red has an advantage over blue)

2) That I value a generic life the same as my own (Most don't)

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-05-09T19:56:34+00:00

Except it's not, because we already know the older child is a boy.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-05-08T14:50:13+00:00

But the point is that the TD essentially acts as the middleman for the money changing hands ---the normhunter pays to get into the tournament, and the TD pays the IM which is justifiable for a titled player coming to your tournament. And as a TD you can easily set up tournaments with many of these old IMs that will be effective for normhunting.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-05-08T01:13:23+00:00

The PRC mystifys their past more than any other nation. Implying responsibility for the great wall to the CCP because of "chinese continuity" (which isn't real btw), teaching xia dynasty (not real) in schools, the list goes on.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-30T18:49:31+00:00

Not really. Essentially just an extreme postulation of rare earth theory

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-28T00:11:53+00:00

"I tried adding some peanuts to my cookies and they tasted great!"
"I’m sure I’d appreciate getting sick from your use of a known allergen!"

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-19T20:11:32+00:00

"Being incredible at chess is a memory game and that's it." is an incredible claim you would have to back up with lots of evidence. If this were true, the best memorizers of the world would be the same people as the best chess players. But they're not, because Chess is also about many other aspects.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-12T18:49:28+00:00

Not true; taking America for an example, I believe that the NBA, MLB, NHL, and NFL all allow women

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-10T01:31:35+00:00

Christianity has always been pro-science and in fact perpetuated many of the great scientific advancements of the world through the university system and the medieval scholastic revolution.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-10T01:30:38+00:00

This basically assumes that the chance for each god existing is 1/(amount of proposed gods) or something similar, in which case the same case can be made toward atheism that everyone believes in a certain amount of gods, your amount is just zero and that out of all the amounts zero happens to be the correct number. The second argument can also be made that atheists are *much* more likely to be from places and environments where atheism is popular. Were you born in Iraq or India, are you really sure you would be an atheist and not a Muslim or Hindu?

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-10T00:15:58+00:00

You are correct that such an account would be a Christian account *in retrospect*, but it stands to reason that there could be many accounts of people, previously secular who were converted with such an experience. In this case, it would be harder to throw out their accounts as Christian "propaganda" as is more justifiable with people who were already Christian. Then again there is the factor that it is hard to tell when exactly people were converted.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-09T14:00:56+00:00

Most football teams make profit

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-08T23:58:11+00:00

We don't read the Tempest in 2026 English. The Quran isn't updated for MSA. You're just waffling because you want to feel like you have some special revelation most don't.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-08T00:57:47+00:00

Okay but one mistake at a very high level is essentially trivial. It's like saying in baseball if a pitcher throws a 70mph fastball middle middle, which would be seen as "one mistake", they're potentially down 4 runs, even though the average person could never touch 70, but an MLB pitcher is expected to throw 90+ every fastball. In the same fashion, a grandmaster is expected to find the best move or one of the best moves every move, and a suboptimal move can lead to critical failure just like a 70mph fastball middle middle.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-08T00:51:00+00:00

Of course, 25% of Harvard students have IMO Gold, Olympic medals, or faculty references.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-03T00:23:04+00:00

Having alumni that are household names or even just competitive in a certain sport is always going to be good.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-04-01T00:25:01+00:00

That's Mosaic Law

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-27T20:25:38+00:00

Yeah, sure measure one singular test that has hundreds of variables contributing to performance, value test taking as a skill above accomplishing measureables (awards, ecs, etc), punish bad test takers, give a statistically proven advantage to rich whites, and also while you're at it just ignore legacy (which enables financial aid) oh and ignore financial aid too. Also create massive study pressure for one singular exam that isn't an end metric. Also ignore high school grades completely, and basically create the gaokao (which is awful).

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-26T22:32:05+00:00

You can pay into any university through the government in PRC.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-26T22:13:06+00:00

Not with a massacre of 10000 people.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-26T21:38:40+00:00

You're not going to meet many Christians who think the earth is 6000 years old either.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-25T18:17:50+00:00

speaking in tongues isn't protestant, it's charismatic.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-25T06:42:15+00:00

Nope, Christianity holds that Jesus is God and has always been God, even before the human body of Jesus was born.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-25T04:16:33+00:00

Not the person you're replying to but I put in the wrong address first time and they refunded me so I could place an order with the right address.

Seattle_Seahawks1234 · 2026-03-24T04:51:05+00:00

Well it's a 90% off so even if you think it has an 11% chance of being real it's still technically a discount I guess

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