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- Comment on WOMEN. 6 days ago:
He was trying to explain how it is one time, and he showed me by drawing a picture of a galloping horse, but he didn’t sketch it out and then fill in the detail. He started at the nose and did it in full detail, left to right, like he was uncovering the drawing by lifting a sheet. It was really amazing.
- Comment on WOMEN. 6 days ago:
Even more so, luck is a big component of success. You can have both skill and hard work and not be successful at something. Likewise, some of the people who are successful aren’t the most skilled, talented, or hardest working. There are correlations between success and those things, but luck is certainly a factor.
- Comment on WOMEN. 6 days ago:
Lots of upvotes, but that’s simply not true. It is true that people can be gifted in one area and not in others, but those people can excel in those areas more than someone even more passionately interested could ever hope to.
I knew a guy named Joe Rohde. You can look him up, he ended up being a head of imagineering at Disney. When I knew him, he was a high school art teacher, and then just starting at Disney. His aptitude for art was off the charts, and his mom said that was true when he was four and able to draw 3D renderings when his peers couldn’t do stick figures. Sure, he practiced and developed skills, but his ability to hold a 3D image in his mind, tweak and rotate it, and then put it on paper, is something innate. He was absolute crap at math.
I spent 40 years at a company that mostly made rocket engines for NASA and the DoD, working with literal rocket scientists. I met all sorts of very smart people. Some were the stereotypical scientist that were geniuses in a particular area but had no skills outside of it, but others were just simply brilliant at anything they turned their mind to. Many of them defied the stereotype and also has great social skills.
It might be nice to think that anyone can be truly great at anything they put their mind to, but I’ve seen too many people who are truly great at things to believe it. Some people are just wired differently.
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
Projectionist is a forgotten job? That’s not only in my lifetime, my son was a projectionist. He ended up being the one to go to the various theaters training others to use digital projectors.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Oh, they’re SO painful. Really unnecessarily nasty.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
They’re fun to watch because they often grab caterpillars from plants and take them away or eat them nearby. Great for gardens.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Ugh, sounds awful, but glad you found a solution. I don’t remember what I put down the hole they had at the base of a tree. Wasn’t dawn, I don’t think.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
I don’t know, they’re not all created the same. When I’m in the pool, I let bees land on me, or will fish them out of the water with my hands. Paper wasps look super frightening, but they’re even more docile than honey bees. Yellow jackets on the other hand are complete assholes. We had a nest of them in the yard once and they would go way out of their way to sting people, just for the hell of it. Like not anyone close to the nest or anything, just someone on the patio chilling. I would leave a beehive, but I eradicated the yellow jacket nest.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
I solo leveled my first character after coming back to classic until 58. I’m just not much of a joiner, so don’t use Looking For Group or whatever. But as I approached 60 I realized I’d either have to mothball the character or do groups for endgame, so I bit the bullet and joined a guild.
It’s been so much fun. Really good people, who I end up hanging out on discord with a lot. Like I said earlier, they skew older now. I’m retired, so I spend a lot of time helping folks with those quests that are impossible to do solo, or running them through dungeons. I’m actually becoming more fond of some of the classic content.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
I have four max level characters and recently started a fifth. It’s funny doing all the different starting area stuff, but including hogger. I just killed Bellygrub and Yowler an hour or so ago, twenty years after the first time for me.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
I started playing in early 2005; I was in my 40s and far older than most of the people playing. I kept playing the expansions through 2017, then quit until fall 2024. Came back to The War Within and played for a while, but they’ve dumbed the retail version down so much, it just doesn’t feel like it has any soul.
Tried classic early last year and I’m having a blast, even with all it’s issues. But the funny thing is that most of the people are the age I was when I started, and many are older. Hardly any teenagers. It’s funny how much it changes the game.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
I play alliance, so I’m spared that.
But back in the day, the horde side had an over-representation of edgie teenagers. Now almost everyone is adult, most with kids and many old and retired like me. So you on’t see as much of that stuff as before.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
I am literally in WoW classic killing boars for their snouts while reading this on the other monitor.
- Comment on Why do Brits act like if you fall into a canal, you'll likely drown? UK canals are only waist-deep. Is it an inside joke? 2 weeks ago:
Certainly seems to have issues
- Comment on Why do Brits act like if you fall into a canal, you'll likely drown? UK canals are only waist-deep. Is it an inside joke? 2 weeks ago:
The did the same thing last I saw - people were commenting that he’d posted the same story from multiple accounts. They pointed out that all of the sources were trash/conspiracy sites, and explained why it’s not that weird, but he just keeps posting it over and over.
- Comment on Why do Brits act like if you fall into a canal, you'll likely drown? UK canals are only waist-deep. Is it an inside joke? 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t you ask this same question a bunch of times like a week ago? Do you just not accept the answers that everyone gave? Is this some sort of weird crusade for you?
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 5 weeks ago:
I don’t believe that’s true - handedness is a real thing. You might be able to learn to perform well enough with the other at something with practice, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a naturally dominant hand for most people.
- Comment on What's That Name - SNL 5 weeks ago:
I would watch him in anything, whatever his name is.
- Comment on one may dream... 5 weeks ago:
Ah, that makes sense
- Comment on one may dream... 5 weeks ago:
Interesting, I wonder what the difference is.
- Comment on one may dream... 5 weeks ago:
At the No Kings protests, I’ve noticed that it’s mostly the older folks whose signs and paraphernalia show the most effort. That might be at least in part because many are retired and have more time to put into it, but there’s a real vibe of “This is what I do - this is my job” to their protests.
- Comment on one may dream... 5 weeks ago:
Citation needed.
All of the folks I know who were progressive when younger are at least as progressive now.
There’s a very large minority of progressive boomers, and a similarly sized large minority of younger conservatives. The differences aren’t that huge. But there’s this narrative that all boomers are right wing assholes that everyone here seems happy to latch onto, while also condemning discrimination of pretty much any other group.
Well, except billionaires - I think we can all agree discrimination against billionaires is justified.
- Comment on one may dream... 5 weeks ago:
Have you been to a priest lately? It’s like 75 percent boomers around me. The stereotype of boomers all being conservative assholes is just that, a stereotype. Look at the results of the last few elections by age demographics: more older folks voted Republican than Democrat, but not by much.
- Comment on Anon thinks about Truman 1 month ago:
I think any attempt to continue that story would have been bullshit, like a continuation of Titanic. It came to a conclusion, let it be.
- Comment on Anon thinks about Truman 1 month ago:
And they didn’t try to make some stupid sequel, even though it was a big money maker. Amazing!
- Comment on Anon thinks about Truman 1 month ago:
That really was an interesting movie
- Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars 1 month ago:
I wanted to get an EV when I bought my last car, but I was planning to retire and do a a bunch of road trips. Yes, you can do cross country in an EV, but it’s harder in a lot of places and my friends have told me horror stories of getting to to charging stations and finding them broken, getting stranded.
My hybrid get 50 mpg highway, 43 city. That’s not as efficient as an EV, but it’s not terrible for a midsize sedan.
- Comment on Tight Pants / Body Rolls 1 month ago:
It’s because it’s all been so enshitified. Corporate profit optimization has just killed so much.
- Comment on Tight Pants / Body Rolls 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m old. I got my CS degree in 1985 - so I was into computers pre-internet, certainly pre-world-wide-web. When the web started booming and everyone was making we pages with all sort of content, and when search engines were really trying to just find the stuff you were looking for with no other agenda, I was so full of hope. I thought this was really going to be a technology that could get information to anyone who wanted it, people would be more informed, and it would really bring us all closer together.
In other words, I was a naive dumb ass.
- Comment on Tight Pants / Body Rolls 1 month ago:
I miss the old Internet, but I’m happy to find old Internet content that I hadn’t seen.