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yamez 21 points ago +21 / -0

It's not racism, the Poles have very good reasons to dislike the russians. They don't dislike Belorussians and are split on ukrainians. Plus the Russians aren't a seperate race from the Poles. It's best described as a historical rivalry.

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yamez -2 points ago +2 / -4

pics or it didn't happen, newfag

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yamez 2 points ago +4 / -2

I understand his Point. I would be suspicious of a person who watches animated cp, and believe that person to have become inbalanced and in need of an intervention, but Prager makes a good point that using the word Evil to describe might be stretching the word too thin.

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yamez 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's not really that fun to watch anymore. Most of the tension is gone and it's just a matter of "which teams star player is starry enough today". Older games were amazing for the dynamism and teamwork. It was neat to see some of the duplicity in the strategy too. NFL still has some of that, but a lot of sports are in a race to the bottom--I'm particularly annoyed with changes to hockey which make the role of Enforcer less important. The Enforcer was part of what kept the game tense because he acted like the queen on a chessboard--important to counter but also a powerful tool for strategic plays. The European style of hockey is much too gentle and technical and has a lower strategic element because the inability to physically counter the opposing team reduces the game to "soccer on ice" with too high an emphasis on star players. After all, if the other team has a star, you can always sick the enforcer on him to prevent his easy movement. That option is not available when checking is too aggressively ruled.

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yamez 8 points ago +8 / -0

The whole point of the film was the possession of a girl by satan, no? The other religions don't have satan so why would their exorcist rituals be effective.

Edit: I was wrong, pay no attention to me. Boo Hiss.

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yamez 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah, make baseball great again. It used to be a slowburn strategy game which rewarded patience and didn't hinge entirely on a small selection of star players. But every sport over the last 30 years has been a race to the bottom, they've all been changing the rules to to punish intellectual plays and reward sheer athleticism over team cohesion. Even Basketball used to be a much more thoughtful game which required more cooperation between players.

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yamez 3 points ago +3 / -0

City Canadians are generally only 50% Canadian. The Rurals are still nearly 100% Anglo commonwealthers with a chip on their shoulders. The City dwellers are generally a bunch of self-absorbed naive adult-sized children too busy trying to get along to go along and can't be bothered to think about things like rights, independence and political precedent. Or They are immigrants scared to death of losing their residency permit and being sent back the shit holes they came from.

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yamez 5 points ago +5 / -0

This article is actually okay. Unsupervised play time is necessary for the proper development of children's psychology and Parents should attempt to be as hands off with their childrens pretend games as possible. Helicoptering and Hovering stifles independence and the development of the imagination.

That said, it's still important to do things like play tag and wrestle, so don't just neglect the kids. But most of the play should be negotiated with a sibling or independent.

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yamez 12 points ago +12 / -0

as opposed to existing in a different manner?

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yamez 2 points ago +2 / -0

n = 20 is actually not irredeemably small. 20 is the cutoff point at which the sample begins to have real predictive value as a population representation provided the sample was assembled correctly. Given the homogeneity of the Troon population, I would say that this result has statistical significance and the sample is not too small at all.

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yamez 3 points ago +3 / -0

I don't recall him being incompetent in the newer ones. Goofy and foolish, yes, but he also manages to kick ass and be effective as well. Ash legitimately knows what's going on and can predict what needs to happen--but he's a blow-hard party animal weirdo too.

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yamez 4 points ago +4 / -0

the thing reference as being lost is called mathematical intuition and regular estimation is the single most important foundation of the skill. Having Mathematical Intuition is far far more important than any single other thing because it is the reference point that will inform you that a calculation is incorrect, that a statistic is bullshit, that somebody is trying to fleece you etc.

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yamez 1 point ago +1 / -0

behold, the power of poor nutrition!

Southeast asia has their own height bellcurve because the islanders tend to be quite phenotypically short. But the math remains the same.

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yamez 2 points ago +2 / -0

5'4" is super small. The standard deviation for male height is 3 inches and the average height is 5'9". That means the cut off for the second standard deviation is 5'3", which is to say that 99% of all men are taller than 5'3".

if you Assemble 100 men in a room, only one of them will be at or under 5'3", and only one other will be at 5'4". 76 of those men will between 5'6" (average for a woman) and 6'0", with half of those 76 being above 5'9".

5'4" is REALLY short for a man. It's just not outlier short, the point where medical explanations are necessary.

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yamez 2 points ago +4 / -2

Heeeey, it's the Imp! I was beginning to wonder if you'd dropped off the face of the earth!

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yamez 4 points ago +4 / -0

it's so that our traffic doesn't help CNN with ads and unique views. It also helps combat their malevolent editing habits where they write and publish lies and the surreptitiously edit or remove the article a day later to avoid legal action.

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yamez 6 points ago +6 / -0

I still have hope for the Americans. They've been through horrible times before as a people, and enough of them still love their country that I think they will pull through all this bullshit too.

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yamez 1 point ago +1 / -0

I would rather they mandate that replacement motherboards be available from the manufacturer OR that they fucking mandate that cell-phones be easily rootable or sold with user root priviliges from the very get go.

I bought it, it's my phone, why am I not the root user with final jurisdiction over what operating system, and which applications are loaded on it?

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yamez 6 points ago +6 / -0

GDPR was shit from the very beginning. They cloaked in grand language about privacy, but it has been ignorable from the get go. The whole point was to justify another huge bureaucracy in a continent already plagued by huge wasteful bureaucracies. Over-regulation is how Brussels controls and punishes the countries with smaller economies which cannot handle the ever increasing demands this stupid Merchant-republic puts on their yearly budget with this that the other committee for this moronic, that stupid the other idiotic form of government interference.

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yamez 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's a great series. Really fun sci-fi romp, I would recommend it to anybody.

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yamez 6 points ago +6 / -0

I am learning Polish, which is even more grammatically complex than Russia--albeit not by much. I've been learning Polish for 7 years, immersed and speaking everyday and I still have only just now made it into the C-level. Slavic languages are HARD for english speakers. I only needed 2 years to get to the C-level in German.

Most Americans and Brits are completely ignorant of how complex a language can actually be and wouldn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of learning Russian.

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yamez 9 points ago +9 / -0

good luck getting this one past the poles lol

here's an excerpt from their constitution:

"Article 54

The freedom to express opinions, to acquire and to disseminate information shall be ensured to everyone.

Preventive censorship of the means of social communication and the licensing of the press shall be prohibited. Statutes may require the receipt of a permit for the operation of a radio or television station."

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yamez 12 points ago +12 / -0

It's also needlessly verbose. "A Person who does X" is handled by the suffix "...er" in English. This could have been shortened to "Egg producer" and "Sperm Producer" easily. Also, "produce" is just a latin version of the more comfortable "make", and english accepts hyphenated compounds so a further reduction is possible:

Egg-maker

Sperm-maker <-- this one would be even better as seed-maker since sperm has a greek root and just means "seed", which is what we used to say anyways until everybody got all pretentious all the time.

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