tom.eastman.nz
It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it.
What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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boy oh boy is the picture the wrong type of sword
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The number one predictor of future behaviour is prior behaviour.
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I'm pleasantly surprised to click on this and see that the replies for once are NOT full of people doing exactly the thing you said you didn't want them doing.
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should have guessed it'd be a standard blizzard microtransaction enshittification. same reason I haven't played a Diablo since II
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what *did* happen? I never got around to playing it, and yeah, it seemed huge, briefly
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"Sorry didn't you see the sign? you must be this tall to obliterate auckland"
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xkcd.com/3049/
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The entire reason Reader got cancelled was that it added a way to add comments (in Reader) on a post. And made it easier to share posts. And Vic Gundotra (who ran G+) was kill everything even vaguely related to social media that isn't G+.
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bangs the little drum labelled "Reader being cancelled was the canary in the coal mine of Google switching to suck" once again.
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The most important concept in the US right now seems to be "chesterton's fence".
For fucks sake, you have to be at least a TINY bit curious why something is the way it is, before you pull it down.
"Why do we even pay these guys?"
"uh... it turns out they're CURRENTLY couriering a nuclear weapon"
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should have opened happy laptop
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Read this on the idea a few days ago.
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
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UPDATE, FRIDAY: The Nordic & Baltic countries have just issued their own joint statement, in steadfast support of Ukraine.
Signed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway & Sweden.
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The twin threat of Trump & Putin has united an entire Continent.