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amusingly cricket only had the cultural pressure to bowl overarm right up until the 1980's, when my team abused the area of grey in the law to win a game and caused an international furore which the new zealanders still rant about to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_bowling_incident_...

which is almost identical to the situation in cricket. typically the bowlers that last beyond the early 30's have very smooth actions and lots of skill at both reading the player and throwing the variation required, so as their speed drops, they replace it with craftyness. -- they also have spent le...

the problem with AI is its going to be good enough even though its pretty lavender. thats why its so scary to ponder all the aspects of society it will soon control and guide, with its inhuman levels of pattern matching and "correlation means causation" approach to data. with billions of h...

only 25% of Israel is european settlers, the rest mostly come from the arab and african lands, escaping being dhimmis and warlord arab tribes or has been their long enough to be multi generational and a local. Ashkenazim are 32% + Russian Jews in Israel = probably more than 50% so you admit, its mo...

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue - the act of them hiding it is a positive, shows they are atleast worried that popular opinion could take them down.

For me, the whole Epstein thing was a massive inflection point on them not even pretending to worry any more.

yeh, the Russian and Chinese systems *never* dissapear a guy who annoys the oligarchs.

the shame is America becoming more like them, not the other way round.

only 25% of Israel is european settlers, the rest mostly come from the arab and african lands, escaping being dhimmis and warlord arab tribes or has been their long enough to be multi generational and a local. you always lie and change the subject when I post the facts, so I dont really care :) as f...

Americas descent into 3rd world levels of open corruption, is picking up pace. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703 In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett's passing. The Charles...

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:29 pm

handel and haydn here i come!

Handel’ing the girls and Haydn the sausage

making them bach.

nar, they are just always super cautious against taking responsbility for it and getting blowback , always operate via proxies and plausible deniability, the symptons of a people long used to operating from a position of weakness within someone elses empire. sad. dont have any qualms blowing up ukra...

yeh, throwing with a straight arm is biomechanically absurd, the run up and jump at the end like a javelin thrower is a big part of trying to get speed without the elbow whip. its interesting how both bat and ball sports "crippled" the thrower - indicates that a run up, jump and bent elbow...

libertarianism is "sod off and leave me alone" .. which is a pleasant stance when you can get away with it, but a one way trip to being a victim because if you arent involved in society, society will make choices without you. I have no idea what modern conservatism is, its totally unfathom...

NASA decodes swing bowling, its more complicated than I suspected.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-08/ ... /103418492

https://youtu.be/TTQJ5jOTJJA

Interesting little thing on why we all nearly used frog time instead of perfidious albion time

apparently the books have a reason the robots are gone , a prior civil war on such things. https://screenrant.com/dune-movie-future-no-computers-robots-ai-reason/ In Herbert’s original Dune timeline, he briefly describes how artificial intelligence and all other thinking machines were wiped out in a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan

Iranian and northern Indian history is quite blurry, being ethnosupremicist about it is not going to work.

Its as bad as the greeks claiming to be the origin of culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation

yes, for me g the back catalog on steam is so vast I can happily stick to give aways and bargain basement sales on older titles pretty much indefinately. the only thing I splurged on was cyberpunk, I only waited for it to be $50 instead of the release $100 and didnt wait till it hit $30 which is my ...

then they would have fallout :) actually, this has just reminded me - someone IS going to set a story based rpg in post apocalypse australia https://store.steampowered.com/app/1403440/Broken_Roads/ -- you mentioned previously you are done with time soak rpgs, im pretty been that way for a while now,...

well, they re-skinned it as rage 2 for Id software a bit later and as an action game, that was far superior, being movement based FPS with Id software levels of care on the particulars. the vehicles and story however, where as crap as ever. Mad Max universe isnt that interesting as an action game an...

except he chickened out on the edgy villain reveal by making it a backstory instead of shock reveal.

which is exactly the kind of bland copout you would expect from him.

mad max's main problem is the game play loop is one of my least favourites - third person melee button masher. that is extremely popular generally and translates well to console controller antics on the couch - however its very clunk on mouse/keyboard PC gaming. its secondary "hook" is dri...

My only real memory of Dune as a book was that the first 1 (or 2?) books are the earliest example I became aware of back in the day of the modern edge-lord/shitpost stuff in which the hero is really the villain, intentionally or not. nowdays this is the norm, the boys, game of thrones, too many comi...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-rural-trump-supporters-are-a-threat-to-democracy They do not mince words about what this means for the future of democracy in America. “Rural voters—especially the White rural voters on whom Donald Trump heaps praise and upon which he built his Make America Great ...

according to gubmint it passed feasability studies and is going ahead.

https://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov ... -powerlink

wouldnt be surprised if it was massively overbudget or cancelled, it is quite ambitious.