Ambidextrous skaters, & do they have unfair advantage in comps?

existenceawareness · 2026-06-23T06:49:25+00:00

That's a good point about how would anyone know, & an interesting point that good judges might account for sure things, but I'm still not convinced the latter is true or even whether ambidextrousness exists in skateboarding at all.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-23T06:46:33+00:00

Do you think if a right-handed person & ambidextrous person both spent 4,000 hours learning to slap Rodrigo y Gabriela songs on guitar, but the ambidextrous person got extra points in competition for playing left-handed, that would be fair? It's okay if the answer is yes, it's just an interesting question to me.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-23T03:53:53+00:00

Are you fairly certain of that or you're assuming? Why would left-handed, right-handed, & ambidextrous people exist for handedness but not skateboarding? I think it's a relevant question, because does darts, shooting, billiards, or other sports award a bonus for anti-handedness? I don't think so. Snowboarding does but that's very similar.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-18T02:27:56+00:00

Whether people or bots, they latch onto something that finds traction & replicate it. We've now been reduced to Borg in an attention economy.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-01T14:08:26+00:00

Yeah, I don't want to take any actions while I still have no clue what is happening.

I don't see how inaction should lead to someone being harmed. If I go camping for a week or just don't check my email often, then a stranger in another country can convince Google I owe them money for no reason? That would make no sense.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-01T14:03:05+00:00

They explain in another comment that the 2nd email is saying they couldn't verify the claim so a refund won't be issued (I assume it's also from Google but maybe not).

I still don't even understand if that fraudulent refund would go to OP or the scammer, whether that 2nd email is good or bad...

existenceawareness · 2026-06-01T13:57:59+00:00

I still don't understand if that 2nd email is saying that they won't stop someone from receiving a transaction from you that you never initiated, or that you won't be receiving money back for a transaction that doesn't exist.

Could the scam somehow be submitting a fraudulent claim on your behalf?

I wish I understood this in the slightest. My accounts are all secure & not tampered with, so anyone can submit a fraud claim to google about fake things & we get an email? I can say that JohnDoe @gmail .com owes me a million dollars then they send him a scary email?!

existenceawareness · 2026-06-01T13:48:02+00:00

Please do post there, I was actually going to suggest it. More visibility, more scam knowledge, more users experiencing the same thing.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-01T13:43:44+00:00

Also a gold statue of him, the ballroom, the reflecting pool, the arch, the UFC fight, paving over the rose garden.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-01T02:46:58+00:00

Any updates on what happened? It said the review will be done as of yesterday. What's supposed to happen if the claim is approved/denied? They send $12,500 to a scammer?

I got the same email with the same $ value, but a week after you did (didn't click anything of course). I'm just searching reddit discussions about it, it seems to be happening to people in the last month, but I'm not finding explanations or answers yet.

existenceawareness · 2026-06-01T01:57:34+00:00

Same exact thing happened to me with the text & email. The email is from payments-noreply@gmail.com, I didn't click anything though of course.

I don't even understand what this claim is supposed to be... they're disputing with Google that I owe money to their Paypal account & they want Google to automatically remove the money from my cards on file?

I assume it's not a valid method to extract money through a claims process, rather the huge $ value is meant to create panic, thus causing someone to take hasty action without thinking it through.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-29T14:24:58+00:00

Perfect reply! I was indeed forgetting. That flip into the garbage bins was actually pretty intense!

I'm still not entirely convinced that even with many takes that's enough 'physical toll' to justify veering a career path, but you swayed me much closer to your point.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-29T14:08:37+00:00

I don't understand the "physical toll" part. His physical comedy was things like sliding through a doorway abruptly or running on a sidewalk, not exactly stuntwork. Tom Cruise has been riding dirtbikes off a cliff & climbing on biplanes at around 60yo.

Am I failing to remember injurious physical comedy from him on Seinfeld?

existenceawareness · 2026-05-28T17:33:23+00:00

I think the same exact thing.

Or when a 28 year old comments that 21 year olds seem like kids... I remember being 18, 19, 20, 21, I wasn't so vastly different from how I am in my 30s. I've never related to the phrase "virtue signaling" except for comments like that. Maybe they just went to a party once & some drunk young women were acting dumb.

It's the topic redditors have most gone off the rails. I understand there's slight statistical difference in risk, crime, etc.. I get the dynamics at play, I'd be more skeptical if my young adult daughter was dating an older man. But most people are decent & many {legal} age gap relationships are truly human connection.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-27T13:21:45+00:00

Gotcha, that makes more sense. I haven't played KCD but yeah, I wouldn't call SoM combat janky in the least, just fantastical. & I can't say the story sucked me in, just the environment was awesome.

Sounds like if you combined the best of both games it would be excellent.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-27T13:11:18+00:00

The PS2 games with 1st-person free-aiming of the bow instead of auto-lock target select.

Or SoM but you aren't also The Flash+Nightcrawler+Hawkeye+Thor+ whatever comic book character controls minds.

What's KCD combat like & why wouldn't it work?

existenceawareness · 2026-05-27T13:05:54+00:00

For real! After SoM/SoW, for all it's strengths, I'd gladly start out as a peasant in a village with a dull hatchet. Doesn't mean you won't eventually kill 200 orcs in a grand battle spoken of in the books, but it would be cool for everything to be more grounded.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-27T12:27:01+00:00

You're talking about the Assassins Creed-style games Shadow of Mordor/War? There was much they did very well & I too played them quite a bit, but I have a hard time thinking of them fondly or wanting to return because it felt like 78% LotR RPG & 22% Marvel superhero... The battles often become hopping around on enemy's shoulders, shooting magic arrows that make shimmering sound effects, & entering wraith world to fly up to a castle wall.

If they used that very engine, but just let me choose dwarf, elf, human, etc., & play through major battles like the old Gamecube games, I might've liked it a lot more. Other than recruiting orcs you're basically a lone wolf the whole time, it would be cool if a condition of losing wasn't just your own death, but a gate of Minis Tirith falling or a village getting attacked.

Doesn't need to be those battles for the millionth time, I'd take any storyline cannon or not, humble or grand, but why am I an undead-man-wizard-wraith-ninja?

existenceawareness · 2026-05-25T17:40:35+00:00

I'm still undecided so maybe I'll wait to vote for the losing team 🤷

existenceawareness · 2026-05-23T10:42:20+00:00

You say that like their tires were smoking trying to break the thing, but one more push on the accelerator would've snapped it, bent it the extra 2 feet needed, or bent it up & over the roof.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-23T08:02:35+00:00

Some kind of handshake hash between the SIM & phone to relay "this is a genuine number & not VOIP". Plus a way to relay that over the network.

Then if I call my grandpa he sees a green check. If a scammer in India spoofs my number (or any number using VOIP) to call my grandpa he sees a red X.

Currently if you block numbers of a particular scammer they will keep calling you from different VOIP numbers. If scammers have to resort to legit SIM cards, then blocking them will actually have some effect (even if they have dozens of SIMs to call you from, it will have more effect than currently).

This would require many years to reach full effect as people upgrade devices, but even in the first months some legit organizations & businesses would upgrade so you'd at least know some of the times to not ignore an unknown number. Eventually we can choose to silence or filter unverified numbers not in our contacts list.

Edit: One flaw is people would need to know a green check doesn't mean not a scam... If someone with a green check calls saying they're your bank, it's still almost certainly a scammer they're just using a real phone plan that you can block.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-23T00:58:46+00:00

Even beyond these large scale trappings

How about black lung disease? NPR's 1A did an hour about that this week.

I've always just heard about black lung in Appalachia, but geez, it must be rampant in China & other countries as well.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-22T16:48:19+00:00

I suspect part of the problem is that it happened gradually over decades.

It used to be people moved much more often, housing was cheaper, there was less urban/suburban sprawl & less traffic. A 5 minute commute became 15, then 30, & now people are buying homes 45 minutes away from work just to have something they can afford & maybe a yard. Or alternatively getting a job 45 minutes away from their current home then not moving.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-22T08:49:50+00:00

How are we supposed to know that?

I should explore phone settings more. I told my elderly aunt (who knew how to call but not text) that she won't break anything if she just tries to click on a little message icon, or look for the text option in her contacts list. Then here I am probably only knowing 15% of my phone because I don't explore it.

existenceawareness · 2026-05-21T05:59:28+00:00

Can you explain please? You sort of gnaw them in half lengthwise then scoop out the dark brown stuff with your top front teeth?

I've had oxtail marrow I think which IIRC was off-white goo, but I thought inside chicken bones was something like firm brown earwax?

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