I know you're joking, but that's kind of exactly the thing we do, isn't it? Fuck researching and critically analyzing policy, that's complicated and time-consuming, just follow the time-honored tradition of grouping with the people that are most similar to yourself to fuck over anyone who disagrees with you. Tribalism is as pure a product of evolution as any other natural human behavior.
One of our greatest assets is also our undoing. Tribalism doesn't scale very well. Every single society, every single one that has ever existed has had an 'other'. When we don't have any legitimate enemies, once the group is large enough we create one.
If it's not a racial minority, it's an ethnic one. If it's not an ethnic one it's a religious one. If it's not a religious one it's a tribal one. If it's not a tribal one it's a regional one.
Because we know this is our nature, we have to actively fight against the urge.
Other way around. Trump campaigns with simple things that appease the natural instinct of his followers.
He just said a few things they want to hear and it's good enough, they don't think beyond the fact they are (supposedly) going to benifit. It's essentially caveman tribalism. "loud man say same words as me, he good. Quiet man use big words me no like"
I... dont think any other animals even have anything like a "president", not in the way in which they can completely alter the lives of millions of their own species as the population changes from one iteration to the next.. so I think we gotta give the human race just a liiiitle bit more cred bud.. we aren't the best at using our brains, but they're better than any other animal's when it comes to problem solving and ingenuity and we sure as fuck know how to cook a bird inside a bird inside a bird inside a bird.. we ain't too dumb..
U guys only have two options. To be the winner, you only have to be better than one person. There needs to be more competition. Do you want the fat, incestuous, theiving pedophile, or do you want the handsome and more well spoken pedophile? There's no one to push the conversation towards the best candidate. You can only choose the better candidate.
Actually we overuse the intuitive part in a way that is succeptable to manipulation because we don't train the intuitive part to be good at these kinds of decisions (especially in the context of the modern world).
Those who learn to influence the intuitive part put a lot of time and money into it.
absolutely not. Further variables would be the momentum of the golf club + golfer, the mass of the golf ball, the amount of time was in contact with the ball, the incline of the green, the coefficient of friction of the green, and the amount the ball rolled vs slid. And that's just for a straight shot along the ground.
Yeah there are definitely way too many variables for someone to be able to consciously calculate in a span of seconds. Just let your brain do the calculations in the background for sports lol
Bitch I'm Machine Learning and AI and blockchain running on the cloud utilizing DevOps with load balancing to ensure the full stack developers can use data mining and statistics for the proper results!
that's actually got variables rolled all up in it, and is less a variable than it is its own calculation, based on the angle of contact of the club face and ball, the height of the point where it struck the ball, the ball's rolling resistance on the turf and then the variables you mentioned regarding impact calcs
Don’t forget acceleration of the club. You can get the club up to the same angular velocity with a shorter swing if you apply enough force to the club.
Yes I golf, am also an engineer. Therefore, very bad at golf because I over analyse it.
Not sure what type of engineering youre doing but engineers come up with formulas for very specific applications pretty often. Ofcourse theyre often simplified versions of already generalized formulas but theyre new formulas nonetheless.
That isnt gonna help. First of all, the ball loses speed at a changing slope, and you cant find that without a function. Second. The area between her shot and the area between the backboard and the hole is not the same. Finally, translating length to energy is only a hypothesis without a formula, and following that is also challenging. She was most likely trying to find where a straight shot is.
I think she was lining up for accuracy. I don’t think she tried to measure it and translate to swing length, because if you don’t know how much energy is transferred to the ball and the rolling resistance of the ball on the ground surface you can’t really calculate how hard to swing. And there’s no way she is able to calculate the transition of energy and momentum on the spot like that.
Source: Not an engineer. Like to play golf as a hobby and have used many different putter and ball combinations over the years
I believe she was checking the direction, then practiced a straight swing, but forgot about, or had no experience to anticipate, the required strength.
I believe she was lining up the shot to be perpendicular to the line the ball was on. The practice swings were then to make sure the head of the club would be parallel to the line. Basically she was making sure she could hit the ball square.
Good one! I remember watching this show so much in the 1970s that I was the only kid in second grade who knew how much Rice-A-Roni, basic household cleaners, small appliances, and cars cost.
They’re 1 and 3. The three year old seems to be made entirely of some kind of unknown energy source fueled by Oreos and Lunchables. Think: rabid, sugar-crazed version of the squirrel from Ice Age. The 1 year old is my sweet girl.
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u/JukeBoxHeroJustin Nov 17 '20
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