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  • There were others who changed sports as well… Fosbury didn’t cause the Olympic committee to implement any bans, which is to say that others arguably attempted much larger changes…

    He simply tried something way the hell off the beaten path and it caused people to think differently about how to go about doing their thing.

    Jimi wasn’t even the only revolutionary influence in his time, you could argue chuck berry had more influence at the time, you could argue Charlie christian had more influence at sorta the same time, you could argue Zeppelin, Sabbath, the Beach boys…

    Nobody came crashing into music from deep left field like Hendrix did though, just like nobody came into the Olympics from deep left field the way fosbury did (I’d argue for korbut, but nobody followed her lead due to pretty much everything she did getting banned).

    I get what you mean and don’t disagree, but I did say I was speaking to a specific context ;)


  • Hendrix. Hendrix is the fosbury of music. Dude went off in his own direction in both technical and compositional terms, and a lot of people followed.

    There’s solid points in the comments, but I feel like we’re talking about a single individual ignoring convention here, and there’s really only one answer in that context :)



  • Your question would be much better applied to height discrimination, which is something that’s almost never mentioned, but is a lot more indicative of the nature of discrimination itself.

    It is instinctual, as others have said, but it has nothing to do with tribalism or war, its about resources. Discrimination is almost always about resources (the notable exception being gender/orientation based discrimination, which I guess is religious?).

    The discrimination against small people (and obesity and age as well), is more basic, and likely older (in evolutionary terms), and is oriented towards hunting and fighting. We think less of smaller, fatter, and older people because they’re assumed to be less capable of gathering (and fighting for or defending) basic resources.

    Discrimination against races is more recent, and more societal, and is more about monetary resources, and isn’t even entirely a matter of race. Poor white people can be discriminated against in the exact same way for the exact same reasons. Racism is more classist than discrimination against height, weight age, etc. but is essentially still a matter of these classes being seen as less capable of getting resources.

    You can see it more easily if you look objectively at the discriminatory tendencies of women (and I mean that in a very generalized way). They tend to be far more discriminatory towards resource based biases… Height, weight, physical condition… They’re often inexplicably attracted to overly aggressive partners, occasionally to their own detriment. The more instinctual a woman is, the more likely to pursue the overly aggressive men. Race isn’t anywhere near as much a factor, and there are notable exceptions in all factors for women if a man obviously has a lot of resources already (no indictment intended ladies, just is what it is, and generally)

    And of course it’s more obvious among women for the same reason… The disparity (again, in a very general sense) between male and female in ability to gather and defend resources affects women’s choices of partners more so than men.





  • Wildly untenable concept in modern society…

    I’m sure it would work great in a video game or something, but In the real world, this shit goes crony AF guaranteed.

    We don’t measure aptitude or ability in our society, we absolutely suck at it. A person’s ability is measured by what pedigree they purchased at degrees R us, or worse, by how articulate and verbose they were when typing a resume. Occasionally, ability is measured by how well someone likes a person even…

    Competence is valued in a very select few enterprises. Trades, IT, and at higher echelons, math nerds… That’s about it…


  • I got a little jeep renegade that runs me like 350 a month…

    First time I put gas in it and realized it had a 12 gallon tank, I was all like “OMG, why?!?”. Then I drove 300 miles before the light came on and It made perfect sense :)

    Full tank doesn’t even get halfway to the $100 mark where you gotta reset the pump to fill it the rest of the way, ya know?

    500 a month could treat you a lot better at the gas pump.


  • Gotta have more real estate for factory lights… Starting to see trucks with eight lights on the front going down down the road.

    The ironic part is that the high beams usually disable all the aux lights, so if you see a newer truck with only two lights, it’s probably got the high beams on, and if they turn it back to low beams to be “courteous”, it turns on all the others and ends up being worse than if they’d just left the fucking high beams on.

    I don’t really give a shit about the penile compensation aspect of “muh bigguh truck”, but fuck your wall of lights…



  • A couple quotes…

    Be who you are and say what you mean, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

    God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

    Both are difficult in terms of original source, but the best quotes usually are ;)

    Point is, there’s three classes of problems. Most are type one - not my fucking problem.

    Type two is what you’re talking about here, your problem, but you didn’t cause it. I’ve found that like 90% of these require serenity, because you can’t fix stupid… You kinda just gotta consider that until the light bulb comes on I guess? I’ve never had any issue with this one personally, it just always seemed self evident.

    I’ve always struggled with type three, the things that are my problem and I caused them. That’s the shit I dwell on, because you can’t take it back, and sometimes, you can’t fix those either. You gotta swallow the pill on the fact that you did a stupid…

    You weren’t the guy doing the stupid, ya know?





  • Encephalitis is caused by viral infections. Our immune system usually suppresses said viruses, and HIV takes away the ability to suppress them.

    This happens with a lot of illnesses… thrush, Tuberculosis, fungal infections. HIV allows a lot of stuff to have far worse impact than it normally would.

    That’s not quite the same as HIV causing them… Pedantic maybe, but since we’re talking about words meaning things… ;)


  • Ok… well now we’re getting crazy :)

    A much better approach to what you’re talking about with that one is probably to approach the problem from the other end of the snake.

    Torrents work at keeping files intact communally specifically because they’re popular files, and the more popular, the more “healthy” a torrent is, because it’s transitting more often and being stored in chunks in a bunch of places.

    If you’re trying to keep an archive of everything (and frankly, what I’m about to suggest could literally store the whole ass internet), you need to focus on the obscure crap nobody is likely to ever look for… The stuff that can’t survive over torrent because it’s obscure.

    You can do that by share, similar to a torrent, but you wouldn’t want a setup that encouraged users to share files, you’d want a setup that encourages users to share storage.

    Like you provide a hypothetical tnerrot network (made up just now, torrent backwards) and as a condition of using this tnerrot network you allow say 20GB (or more, as internet gets bigger, drives get bigger, games get bigger, this allocation can get bigger as that happens…) on your hard drive that it uses to store the actual files, and in exchange you can pull any file stored in the tnerrot network. Instead of marvel movies (or whatever legal file has that kind of oomph) having a billion seeds and obscure science report having one, everything would have 2 or 3 dedicated seeds because every file would be seeded by whatever computers (2 or 3 separate ones, for redundancy) tnerrot stores it at.

    You’d need a few commercial servers, because hosting a file that gets thousands of download requests a day wouldn’t be friendly for random guy in Ohio or wherever, but for the vast vast majority of the files, you shouldn’t have major issues.

    Space sharing, not file sharing, is what you’d need to do what you’re thinking. You’d need to invent the tnerrot…


  • That makes a great focal point for what I was saying actually ;)

    It’s 220TB, so youll have incredibly few people who download the whole torrent. Most will open the torrent list and select a small number of items from it to download. The files selected the most will get seeded frequently, the ones that never get selected by anyone will have only the originator seeding it (if they continue to do so).

    It’s functionally no different than if each individual file is a torrent… Except that the seeding info is going to be wonky on the single 220TB torrent because nobody is downloading it intact, only in pieces.

    It’s also much easier to find a specific file if it is it’s own torrent vs. one of a billion files in a single mega torrent.

    Just because you put it on an index in a torrent doesn’t mean the file still exists somewhere. That media can still vanish…

    What would do what you’re suggesting this torrent would do (which a torrent cannot actually do) is a Yottabyte capable computer somewhere storing all those files… You’d need that to keep the seeding intact for the whole torrent…


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    That crash was caused by arcades popping up everywhere. Laser titles like dragons lair and space ace were full on animated video while the 2600 had 20 yellow pixels for Indiana Jones. You had two button running on track and field, flight sticks on tron and zaxxon, sit down cabs with steering wheels or the yoke in the star wars cab competing with the iconic but boring 2600 stick.

    Wasn’t the market being flooded, it was nobody having any cash for a 2600 cartridge because we put it all in the arcade cabs ;)