Up to my ears in unwritten words | VPI '18 | No King but Christ
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Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
Just letting everyone know:
Duke isn't ranked so Miami doesn't have a chance at a ranked win this weekend.
SMU isn't ranked so Wake Forest doesn't have a chance at a ranked win this weekend.
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
Nobody ever talks about this, but the reason you have to go to college is A, because Griggs v. Duke Power Company made it illegal for presumptive employers to IQ test, and B, inner city High-Schools basically aren't allowed to fail a student as long as they physically show up.
So you end up in this trap where a High-School diploma that you worked very hard for means nothing, because a kid who did coloring books and addition and subtraction got a paper saying he has the same qualification. Ok, then just give me an intelligence test, oh wait you cant, thats also illegal because it causes "disparate impact". So now the only proxy for basically literacy and ~105~ IQ is a 4 year meaningless degree that costs 10s of thousands of dollars.
But wait, now they hand those out to anyone, (1/4 of 4yr grads have an IQ of or below 95), so now you need a Master's, or specialty training, or a million other bullshit things. So you get them, but wait, a diploma mill in Hyderabad cranked out 100M guys who also have a Master's on paper, and will work for 1/3 the price, so now you dont have a job. Ok, ill work construction, but wait, you dont live in a State with strong Unions, so any non-specialized construction work is done by slaves from Guatemala, so you decide to stay home and take Percocet instead.
Awesome system we've built.
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
In a better world the big developers would be forced to up their game because skilled small builders would be providing real competition. Our planning system means big developers instead spend on lawyers and consultants and the smaller builders don't get to build at all.
The average new-build property has 130 defects, according to specialist inspection company HomeSnag.
I visited one with Tom Britton and his team to find out why so many of Britain's shiny new homes are scarcely fit for purpose.
Read: telegraph.co.uk/money/proper…
Credit: @HomeSnag
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
The telos of Mass Effect is to tell the players that having an in-group prefence will destroy your civilisation.
But every action by the alien races throughout all three games proves Ashley was right, stereotypes are real, and tribalism is natural.
Krogan are inherently violent. Salarians are sneaky and neurotic. Batarians are all filfthy terrorists. And so on.
Only a world historic figure like Commander Shepard can postpone these ethnic rivalries in the face of a galactic extinction threat.
But on a long enough timeline, the alien races revert to bickering over resources and political recognition again.
It's why the red-green-blue fix-everything-button endings feel so hollow, compared to the choices the player makes and the relationships they navigate throughout the game. Or why the Kumbaya resolution to the Geth and Quarian blood fued felt rushed.
The writers were progressives, but the Mass Effect universe only makes sense through a right-wing worldview.
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
Cell phone addiction is an absolute thermonuke to the brain and nobody 'takes it seriously' because it is not clear that there is any solution in a world where the revealed preference of everyone across the globe, regardless of income, race, age, any factor whatsoever, would rather be on their phone than do *anything* else. Deciding "I use this too much" and meaningfully altering one's behaviour doesn't seem to have much success for any of the very small minority of people with the sentience or self-reflection to realize how bad it is. Most people seem to think of it as an unproductive habit at most, rather than an addiction. Any attempt to speak seriously about this is met with derision, accusations of pretentiousness. There is no real solution to it. The future of human cognition fifty years down the line is horrifying if you stop and think about it for even a moment.
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
Went to a psychiatrist and it turns out I’m way more fucked up than I realized. Coincidentally, I got a lot worse after seeing him. Luckily he gave me all these black box drugs to manage all the conditions I didn’t know I had. I am very smart. #SelfCare #RedditKarma
Holy crap they've been saying this for three years
Scam of the century
People dont understand how nuclear AI is at this point
Adobe is over, good luck
Video editing, graphic design, game dev, its evaporating right now
The economy is about to transform so fast people are going to have panic attacks maybe even riot.
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Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
for like 25 years, college football had a perfect system where the entire country spent 12 weeks watching to ses which two teams would end up 12-0 and play for a title while 20-30 other programs still could also find a way to feel good about their season
then decided to kill it
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
Meaningless regular season
Meaningless bowl games
Rankings rigged for ratings
Nationwide conferences
5 schools in 5 years
Unlimited eligibility
Money over loyalty
Sellout to sponsorship deals
Constant gambling promotion
The game is gone
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
I just want to point out that college football was glorious when none of the players got paid and the coaches had all the power.
But we had to Rhodesia a great thing.
Breaking: The College Football Playoff is nearing a deal to expand to 24 teams, sources tell @PeteThamel.
The new format will start in 2027 and is expected to come together in the near future, pending final approvals.
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
This was 14 years ago today.
1) Life is flying by.
2) I’m old.
3) Look at the electricity at the stadium.
4) The Redskins, man.
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
It is horribly instructive how disastrously the European impulse to universal empathy has played out
Engine Room Contemplator retweeted
Producer makes 1000 units and prices it at $10
some people purchase it
Government now says that for some people who previously couldnt buy it, they can now use government money provided to them to purchase it
a lot more people buy it
Producer doesnt want to/cant increase production amount, increases prices to $20
People who used to buy no longer can, people with government money still buy because its the government footing the bill
Repeat for basically every product and service (like tuition, insurance, medical costs, etc)
