BallShapedMan
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 1 week ago:
He’s right! I love that he called it out. He’s got an edge of outcome bias for sure. Makes me want to see more of his stuff.
His movie Elevation was better than the reviews say it is, I liked it a lot and thought it was one of his best performances. Just my $0.02.
Here is a fun thought experiment. In any zero sum game there will be a Warren Buffet. And people will follow him or her around asking for their advice and writing books on it while ignoring all the people who did exactly the same thing that lost everything.
So for the experiment it’s a coin flipping championship with millions of participants. Heads you win and move on, tails you lose. All the coins are the same and totally fair. Someone will win far more than everyone else. People will follow this person around, invite them to speak publicly, write books, and so on. If they fail to understand the world properly they’ll buy into it and even tell people their secret to flipping coins successfully.
Don’t be fooled by randomness. Instead motivate against bad luck and position yourself to exploit good luck.
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 1 week ago:
I suggest reading Fooled by Randomness.
But I respect you for being confidently wrong.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 4 weeks ago:
That’s great news! Thank you.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 4 weeks ago:
Damn, that sucks. Hope they’re all okay!
- Comment on Ads are a plague 4 weeks ago:
Somewhat related to how bad it is at that company right now:
Yesterday my brother and I drove by a brand new Jeep Wrangler (had a new car plate) that looked like a 24 or 25 that was burnt to the ground from the engine (my guess as the burning was much worse there than the cabin.) Emergency services were there still putting water on the engine bay but the ambulances were already gone. Hopefully everyone is okay.
- Comment on I still love those little buggers 4 weeks ago:
That’s delightful to hear! As a layman I wondered how the book was for people in the field. I just read it for entertainment myself.
- Comment on I still love those little buggers 4 weeks ago:
Fuck cancer!
- Comment on I still love those little buggers 4 weeks ago:
Neutrophils are my favorite part of the immune system. I’m paraphrasing the book Immune–an amazing book that’s totally worth your time–with this example.
You’re breaking into a museum to steal art. A security guard spots you, calls out on the radio for more security guards and charges you screaming! The guard then rips its own organs and swings them at you as weapons. As the guard is pummeling you with it’s organs you can see it’s getting tired, all of the sudden it explodes into Spider-Man type web made up of it’s body to keep you from escaping as other screaming security guards start to hit you with their organs!
Metal AF right?
- Comment on Pixel Streaks & City Peaks 4 weeks ago:
Love it!
- Comment on Father captures moment son was swallowed by humpback whale 5 weeks ago:
If it were me that whale would taste shit. Because I’d shit myself.
- Comment on Sounds like a fun place to work 1 month ago:
Lol no, manufacturing
- Comment on Sounds like a fun place to work 1 month ago:
This is going on the suggestion box at work.
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 1 month ago:
LMAO!! Like a Denver Omelette, never heard of it until it was on a movie. I lived here my whole damn life. People just be naming shit after is without our involvement.
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 1 month ago:
What the fuck? I live near Denver and I’ve never had a Denver. This is bullshit!
- Comment on Impossibly Opulent Goblet 1 month ago:
I had to double check what sub I was in. Looks amazing! Nice work.
- Comment on "Jokes on you, I'm into that shit" 2 months ago:
I saw a video saying that this was so that birds would eat instead of mammals. Something about spreading out further.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
You’re welcome!
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
The story is alright, but the combat is pretty good.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
Everspace 2 (first one was a rogue like, you don’t need to play it to enjoy the sequel)
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw (also a sequel, the first one doesn’t have a Y axys so you may not like it)
Chorus
All three are a lot of fun, neither are AAA games so they lack a bit of polish but aren’t vanilla as hell either. I enjoyed each one better than Starfield but neither as much as ME 1-3.
- Comment on I live in the green part 3 months ago:
Totally agreed! It’s amazing how bad eating trash makes me feel over time.
- Comment on I live in the green part 3 months ago:
It used to. 2014 I almost passed out at the top of pikes peak due to me weight and how out of shape I was. I fixed that!
Lost 80lbs over 2 years and feel younger now than I did in 2014.
- Comment on I live in the green part 3 months ago:
I’m not sure why you’re getting down voted but I like the joke.
- Comment on I live in the green part 3 months ago:
I also live in a green state and think of myself as a bit overweight. Visited family in MS, I’m a Mississippi 9 at least!
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 4 months ago:
Grass is frozen, got frost bite.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 6 months ago:
Thank you for taking the time to type this whole thing out! I thought I knew everything but I clearly only knew the GN takedown piece, wow.
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 6 months ago:
Andorra has been up to something…
- Comment on 2005 Chevy Astro 7 months ago:
I’ve seen the AWD version of this get pretty heavily modified for drag racing. It’s pretty sweet to see a mini van that down sports cars!
- Comment on Behold, the '98 Ford Aerostar 7 months ago:
I should have been clearer, I meant the wheel and tire combo. They look like they belong on a much smaller vehicle. And I was alive when this car was new and my memory of it doesn’t look like this lol.
- Comment on Behold, the '98 Ford Aerostar 7 months ago:
Interesting! If you run across it again I’d love to see it.
- Comment on Behold, the '98 Ford Aerostar 7 months ago:
The wheel to car ratio…