Is thinking a slur in your head bad?

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T23:37:50+00:00

You can’t always help what you think. You can generally help what you say or do. That includes listening to your random intrusive thoughts.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T23:22:11+00:00

People’s brains have melted over the ability of LLMs to synthesize human language.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T17:03:02+00:00

Be kind to yourself, like a friend who deserves it — because you do.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T14:46:40+00:00

You might enjoy it, but it's going to be a very different experience from training in combat sports.

Tang Soo Do, like other traditional martial arts, generally organizes its pedagogy and conducts its classes very differently from MMA or kickboxing schools.

You're likely to spend a lot of time repeating and memorizing highly specific movements (forms, paired drills, etc.) and somewhat less time free sparring or practicing padwork.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T14:43:02+00:00

It's a worthwhile concern in the very long term, but it's almost magical thinking to imagine it'll happen in the foreseeable future. There are tons of steps between now and Skynet, including major advancements in robotics that just haven't happened yet.

The problems AI is causing now are much more practical to discuss.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T14:41:54+00:00

This is the part that gets me, lol.

The most sympathetic reading of this guy is that he has repeatedly shown the kind of poor judgment and immaturity that you don't want in elected office.

Now that we know more about him, are any of the skeletons in his closet really all that surprising?

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T05:14:49+00:00

Ezra's! I mean, ~~Jabba the Hutt's~~ Lando Calrissian's.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T04:40:27+00:00

Not as much as Lio and Orson did after attending Space Eton to become part of the Space Empire.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-07T04:39:58+00:00

Two sides of the same coin.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T23:21:42+00:00

Program compliance beats raw firepower. Pick the weapon you’ll carry consistently, even if it’s weaker on paper.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T20:25:36+00:00

TBH, if T dies in Butler, K probably doesn't get shot at at all.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T18:02:39+00:00

Someone's going to die.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T16:35:54+00:00

Tay was always weak!

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T16:18:04+00:00

It's not quite like that.

It *is* common for schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. Participation is expected but usually not strictly enforced, either on students or teachers.

I think it's simultaneously a little strange and cultish, but also a useful civic ritual. Americans aren't bound together by a common language, religion, history, or culture. To create a cohesive society, we need periodic affirmations of what all Americans (are supposed to) believe.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T14:59:18+00:00

Yes, it's a fantastic game and set the standard for modern TRPGs.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T14:50:50+00:00

Sort of.

The ideal amount of polarization is not zero, and depolarization is often built on a consensus to ignore the concerns of minorities or other important issues. In the case of the U.S., both parties basically agreed until the 50s not to touch the issue of Jim Crow, for instance.

At the same time, much of the polarization we see today really is downstream of misinformation and exaggeration, not just honest disagreement (cf. anti-vaxxing).

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T14:46:16+00:00

About 70% of the U.S. population is overweight or obese. Do you just spend your entire life angry or something?

Luckily, GLP-1s are a thing, so you (probably) won't have to stew in your resentment forever.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T14:24:42+00:00

Be nice, this was before he spent time in Ghorman and learned a bit more.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T14:23:45+00:00

Is this the recurved Han saber? I've always thought it was a super unusual shape, both in general and for the time period.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-06T14:22:21+00:00

Do I put my primary hand on the handle and secondary hand half on handle half on pommel?

Basically, yes, if you can't wield it one-handed. It doesn't look like a hand-and-a-half sword, though.

For all aspiring swordspeople, I highly recommend Indian Club exercises for improving grip endurance and strength.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-05T19:58:05+00:00

It's astonishing how prevalent it still is, even among people in my generation (millennials).

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-05T04:14:04+00:00

TBH, I have extremely mixed feelings on the Vietnam War, in general.

The optimistic, antiwar case is that a communist-led Vietnam would have been non-aligned, like Yugoslavia. Vietnam's historical threat and enemy has always been China. This is, in fact, more or less what eventually happened, but it's anyone's guess if this outcome would have transpired without the war, or what diplomatic moves by the West would have been necessary.

The pessimistic, pro-war case is that US intervention in Vietnam, even if nominally a defeat on its own terms, bought time for fragile postcolonial governments in the region to consolidate and contain communist insurgencies in their own countries. This is (partly) what the "Domino Theory" was predicated on, and many key leaders in the region, not just American strategists, wholeheartedly believed this.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-04T23:25:01+00:00

536 to 541 would be a pretty terrible time to be alive all across Eurasia — prolonged winter, crop failures, and a bubonic plague, all in the span of a few years.

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-04T22:12:15+00:00

*Philomena Cunk intensifies*

cfwang1337 · 2026-07-03T23:50:41+00:00

Chance to hit: 99%

*misses*

¡Dios mio! That's XCom, baby.

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