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kritiko commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

diydsp · 2 months ago

It's a communications skill, like, say, making powerpoint slides. If you get good at it, you will swear by it. But if can't gain skill, it's easy to think it's bogus. If you're deeply interested I can go into detail as to what it's about and not about. Or you can buy some books, get a trainer, or take a class.

Tl; dr: it's about adding a second layer to your communication which attends to the subconscious, not unlike art. It was originally for therapy, but unfortunately a lot of businessdorks in the 90s got into it and perverted it.

kritiko · 2 months ago

I’m interested. Especially if you can point to moments in your career or projects where it has worked.

kritiko commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

nemomarx · 2 months ago

The law of attraction / master persuader/ I can hypnotize large audiences stuff isn't that normal, I think?

If you want an explanation for why he would try ivermectin for cancer treatment he had a lot of beliefs in that vein for a long time. I consider that tragic for him.

kritiko · 2 months ago

He was into NLP (the hypnosis theory) from way back.

James Hoffman, the coffee YouTuber, had an interesting comment on how he tried to use that in one of his 90s barista competitions, but seemed skeptical of it now. Scott remained a believer.

kritiko commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

pohl · 2 months ago

Interesting that you literally chose him as family (albeit parasocially) when he's not actually family, and then somehow justify it by saying that one cannot choose their family. Pick a lane.

kritiko · 2 months ago

“De gustibus non disputandum est” - no arguing taste. Art is like family.

kritiko commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

teaearlgraycold · 2 months ago

And to top it off… he’s not actually the guy’s family is just a cartoonist he likes.

kritiko · 2 months ago

I think art is a lot like family - you don’t get to pick which works really resonated with you and influenced you, even if the artist turns out to be a “bad person.”

And back in the day, Adams was a pretty crunchy California guy. Remember the Dilburrito?

kritiko commented on Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela ft.com/content/985ae542-1... · Posted by u/petethomas

WackyFighter · 2 months ago

Still doesn't make it an invasion. If they drone striked and thus killed Majuro it would not be an invasion. It would be an assassination.

Invasion in this context has a specific meaning. The bet on the market would have been done with this specific meaning in mind.

No invasion, means no payout.

It would be like making a bet where someone scores in Football/Soccer from a penalty, but in the game they score from a free kick outside the penalty box. You wouldn't pay out on the bet, because a penalty is not a free kick even though they are similar and had the same result.

kritiko · 2 months ago

I’m quibbling with invasion per the Wiki definition quoted in this thread, which is different from the Kalshi one.

I think the Kalshi one is bad because “intent” is not something that can be objectively defined.

kritiko commented on Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela ft.com/content/985ae542-1... · Posted by u/petethomas

WackyFighter · 2 months ago

No that is not the definition of a military invasion.

> An invasion is a military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering the territory of another with the goal of militarily occupying part or all of the invaded polity's territory, usually to conquer territory or alter the established government.

What happened on Saturday was not an invasion. It was an extraction/capture operation. It was a large scale one, but they left after they captured Maduro and his Wife.

> I think you can argue that the Bin Laden raid was and invasion into Pakistan. Anytime a military forces enters uninvited, that's an invasion.

No it wasn't. When they killed Bin Laden they didn't "invade" Pakistan. They infiltrated, then assassinated him and left.

kritiko · 2 months ago

It was an extraction/capture operation “with the goal… to alter the established government”

kritiko commented on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings screenrant.com/stranger-t... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

kritiko · 2 months ago

This article seems to imply that the default settings are the manufacturer recommended ones for streaming movies - is that bad ux? Should Netflix be able to push recommended settings to your tv?

kritiko commented on Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

burningChrome · 3 months ago

I love most of their stuff and the writing is pretty eloquent as it takes you on a journey that's easy to follow and flows easily from one paragraph to another.

This was just a slog that I felt went nowhere and the points were buried in between rambling information about Sacks and his gay lifestyle, lovers and living in NYC and the gay lifestyle there at the time.

Not only was it not interesting, it was poorly written and hard to read. Sometimes writers just need to stick to the facts instead of trying to write another "The Phenomenology of Spirit" for a "middlebrow magazine".

kritiko · 3 months ago

This was sticking to the facts - this is original research into Sacks’ letters and unpublished writing. It’s for readers who read Sacks in the New Yorker and want to see another side of his life.

kritiko commented on Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade joannejacobs.com/post/for... · Posted by u/mhb

mhb · 4 months ago

We used to be able to assume that high school and college graduates could do elementary school math. Maybe what we used to do would be more palatable if we weren't pissing away money on dysfunctional public education.

kritiko · 4 months ago

US has PISA scores that are roughly equivalent to Western Europe. I think the kids who can do math just get sorted into better jobs.

kritiko commented on In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

kritiko · 2 years ago

Isn’t this article just describing a halfway house?

Doesn’t really seem that Nordic to me.

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