Petition to create an 'Ask Mayo' sub forum in politics.
09-07-2015
, 01:33 PM
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My god, this thread is a smashing success!! Your vast knowledge on every conceivable topic is welcomed by all with open arms and hungry minds. The difference that you have made in peoples lives is immeasurable.
Now that you are a confirmed internet sensation, are you finding it difficult to remain humble?
But the real question is, what is next for Mayo? Will you cash in on your new found popularity and expand your wealth of knowledge to the twittersphere, start an advice column, host your own radio show, or even replace that "not a real doctor" douche Dr. Phil?
Now that you are a confirmed internet sensation, are you finding it difficult to remain humble?
But the real question is, what is next for Mayo? Will you cash in on your new found popularity and expand your wealth of knowledge to the twittersphere, start an advice column, host your own radio show, or even replace that "not a real doctor" douche Dr. Phil?
I'm thinking of running for Congress in 2016.
See?
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In Canada in the late 80s, a populist, smaller government, social (Christian) conservative movement broke away from the main conservative party, the Progressive Conservative Party, to form the Reform Party. After a few elections, they realized that by splitting the right wing vote, neither party would ever win a federal election. They merged, and by that point the Reform Party was the stronger of the parties, so the new Conservative Party took on the values of the Reform party, shifting the mainstream Right further right than it had ever been.
What's the chance the Tea Party would ever split from the Republican party?
What's the chance the Tea Party would ever split from the Republican party?
Sure!
Aden Young stars in "Rectify" as the recently freed Daniel Holden, and he is one of the all-time great TV characters. The show is very coy about definitively answering the question of whether or not Daniel really did rape and kill a teenager, but there is never any doubt that he feels oppressive guilt about her death. He sees the world very differently than others do, and he unquestionably has a dark streak within him. An incident with his stepbrother Teddy puts this into sharp focus. He is aggressively soft-spoken, polite, sentimental, and deferential, yet his world almost unanimously wishes he were dead. And he seems to agree with that sentiment. And yet, he is unquestionably thrilled to simply be alive and walking around as a free man.
Seriously, watch this show.
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Three problems with this.
1. I extrapolated from some other pretty good stuff besides poker theory. (Statewide awards etc. that I need not get into.)
2. Poker isn't that narrow a field compared to lets say chess. Besides the ability to logically deduce and see the future like you have in chess, there is also probability, not in chess, and trying to get into your opponents head, again almost non existent in chess. So there is a bigger correlation between poker and life than you are implying.
3. I actually only pipe in on a subject when I think I found a flaw in someone's thinking or have come up with something from a different angle. I don't pick subjects because they interest me and I don't think I know a lot about a lot of things. It only might seem that way because people make reasoning errors in many different fields and even if the field is not something I know much about (eg stealing second base) if their reasoning error is general enough that I feel certain enough to call them on it that certainty comes through in my posts.
1. I extrapolated from some other pretty good stuff besides poker theory. (Statewide awards etc. that I need not get into.)
2. Poker isn't that narrow a field compared to lets say chess. Besides the ability to logically deduce and see the future like you have in chess, there is also probability, not in chess, and trying to get into your opponents head, again almost non existent in chess. So there is a bigger correlation between poker and life than you are implying.
3. I actually only pipe in on a subject when I think I found a flaw in someone's thinking or have come up with something from a different angle. I don't pick subjects because they interest me and I don't think I know a lot about a lot of things. It only might seem that way because people make reasoning errors in many different fields and even if the field is not something I know much about (eg stealing second base) if their reasoning error is general enough that I feel certain enough to call them on it that certainty comes through in my posts.
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Mayo
How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?
The specifics:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernible abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?
The specifics:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernible abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
They did "Somebody to Love" with the surviving members of Queen, and it was great. Especially since I was standing there on the rail about six feet from Brian May and trying to pretend that I was actually doing security things and not just geeking out about being so close to a soloing Brian May. That was cool.
Folding fitted sheets is a fool's errand. Just take them out of the dryer and put them directly on the bed. What's so hard about that?
I would not.
So I said to the Lord, "You promised me, Lord,
That if I followed you, you would walk with me always.
But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life
There have only been one set of prints in the sand.
Why, When I have needed you most, you have not been there for me?"
The Lord replied,
"The times when you have seen only one set of footprints
Is when I carried you."
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