Pretty much nailed in. I’ve been away for probably 4 years now and honestly I have no interest in the game at all. I was at a bar with friends a few years ago when some of their friends were doing a fantasy draft and was wearing a pair of Packers shorts. A Bears fan came up and started giving me some gruff and I just told him I hadn’t been following the NFL anymore so I was current on events. He just kept trying to give me shit, so I went ahead and returned the favour as a Packers fan to a Bears fan. Afterwards I was telling my buddy that while I don’t watch or care anymore, I will always take the opportunity to dunk on the Bears.

I used to go to at least one game at Lambeau every year for about a decade. I do miss the excitement of being at a live game with 70k other people, but I just don’t have any desire to go to another. I would absolutely tag along for the tailgate though and hold down the fort as everyone else went in.

I absolutely loath how ingrained it has become in sports. They have specific segments during half times about betting odds and there are banners everywhere for the various betting site.

To a lesser extent, I also hate what fantasy sports have done for various sports as well, mostly NFL. I don’t think it’s as bad as explicit gambling, but I just dgaf about anyone’s fantasy scores, teams, or whatever. That they take time out to cover that shit is annoying and is amongst the various reasons I no longer watch the NFL after 30 years of watching the Packers religiously. The product as a whole is just not enjoyable anymore.

I once got Gemini to admit that it ‘fucked up’. Not really a crowning achievement, but I was pretty happy with it not only admitting a mistake, but it said that it fucked up.

College is a scam in that it’s expensive, but if you go to class and put in the effort, you will still come out better educated than before. The big lie is that a degree will get you a job. It won’t, but it can help get a job.

It depends on what you want to learn. If you want to do a trade or tech, community college or trade school are decent options that are cheaper, probably more hands on, and don’t require the extra core classes that a university requires to graduate. With trades, you can try to get an apprenticeship somewhere and get on the job training. For tech, you can self study, build projects, and make a portfolio. Some fields you have to have a degree, like being a nurse/doctor, teacher, or lawyer.

If you want to get better educated just for the sake of being more intelligent, there are tons of resources available, many free. Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy, and others are free or low cost, you just have to search for what you want to learn about. Some schools like MIT have free college courses that if you complete, you can get a certificate but not a degree unless you pay.

I would, because I have a conscience, and I’d rather not be rich than be a rich twat. But also, the assumption in your comment is that evil people are guaranteed to be lucky and rich, which isn’t universally true. There a many good people that are lucky and rich and many evil people that are lucky and rich.

Bernie Madoff is an evil person that was extremely wealthy and evil and it caught up to him. Trump is evil and wealthy with power. I’d rather be dead than be either of those people.

You should be a good person because it’s the right thing to do, not because you expect a reward or wealth.

You don’t like AI when it takes jobs from people, but if your friend isn’t capable of creating a thumbnail themselves, they’d have to hire someone. Also, the LLM was trained on other artist’s work, so it’s fucked to use it anyway.

If you’re being honest and nice to be rewarded, then you’re doing it wrong. You do it because it’s the right thing to do.

The person you responded to did say that DNS will get to the correct place, and then other servers will route the traffic using ports and other information. They were a little too strong in that first sentence that now DNS does it, but they did clarify some.

DNS doesn’t do the full thing, but it does do the first step.

Pretty much all of the examples you provided happen to shitty people too, probably at a hiring rate in many cases. The benefit of being a good person on those situations is that at least you can take pride in not being a turd. Take your list, and reverse the logic for each input and see if that would make you feel better.

• Maintained a crappy attitude, then misfortune strikes.
• Spent all of my money, inflation happens.
• Was a jerk, taken advantage of.
• Was a liar, get hatred.

Just a handful of examples.

2 very close friends, my wife that’s my friend, another close friend, and at least another dozen I would consider friends. Then there are many acquaintances that I enjoy associating with, but we’re not a as close and don’t talk frequently. Also a brother, sister, and BiL that I’m close with and do friend things with.

Picture two has stringers 1 and 2 and picture 3 is the third stringer. The grain lines up correct per picture 1.

Lawn darts aren’t dart board darts. Metal tipped darts are legal for dart boards.

Lawn darts are significantly larger, thrown up in the air, and were the cause of many injuries back in the day.

At least in Canada and the US, they are federally illegal to sell. There are safe versions out there now with balls for tips, but metal darts can’t be legally purchased anywhere.

Which also happens to be the middle eastern hemisphere countries.

Everyone of the Stan countries are 60E+.

I call out bullshit when I see it. I don’t have feelings for trolls.

You made a claim and then have nothing to back it up.

Did I ask for one?

Then what views to you have that you would call centrist?

Yes, literally in the post you responded to where you gave empty platitudes. I didn’t go straight to assumptions. I asked a question and you skirted around it like in every other response in here.

Suspicion culture is something you just made up. You make a claim, I asked for details around it, and you deflected. Yea, people are going to be suspicious when someone comes off as trolling and won’t support their claims with specifics.

Europe is only in the middle because that’s where the prime meridian is at. Everyone uses the same longitude and latitude and the hemispheres are the same for everyone. It’s definitely in the middle third of the Eastern hemisphere.

The counteies like Iraq, Iran, and the Stans are just west of 90E. They could be considered West Middle East, but they’re closer to the middle than either edge of the hemisphere.

The terms near east, middle east, and far east are labeled as such because of their position relative to the prime meridian, which runs through Europe.

The prime meridian runs through western Europe. Most of Europe would be in the near East, relative to that point. China is on the far east of the hemisphere. They are fair labels based on their position to the prime meridian.