Alternative title could be “Just pick a goddamn button”.
This is my review of Great Notion Stamper American Coffee Stout:
The latest social media craze involves choosing between buttons. I am not referring to the two bad choices aka”the daily struggle” meme. Someone actually thought this was a prescient question to ask the mob.
The question of course:
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
Lets break this down…
Everyone in this democracy is hell scenario has two choices, red or blue? If a simply majority, 50% + 1 select red, only those selecting red survive and everyone picking blue dies. If a simple majority, 50% + 1 select blue, everyone survives. Since you can probably read this in English, you are probably wondering why would anyone pick blue…right after thanking a soldier of course for being able to read in English.
I was not the first to notice the disconnect in the way this question was worded. In fact I will be the first to admit I thought this was stupid as the what color is the dress internet debate and ignored it on its face. Then I found I had completed my task of thanking a soldier (yo, thanks Swiss), and read it.
Why pick blue? Are you suicidal? I genuinely want to know. At first I saw it was Mr. Beast posting it and assumed it was just his braindead following but others chimed in asking the same thing and kept getting the same result: people are willing to pick blue with the risk they’re voting in the minority and going to be rounded up and murdered for having out-group preference. If 100% push red, we all live since nobody pushed blue in a 100% red scenario. Seems simple? Until you realize somebody is going to push blue out of ignorance, disillusionment, disinterest, or pure spite. Now you need to convince enough people to push blue just to save them from themselves. Once again we are stuck having to remove self-interest out of the equation in order to cater to the lowest common denominator. As always, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man.
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My answer is to find the asshole responsible and shoot them in the face. It shouldn’t be too hard, they most likely are a tenured Professor of Ethics
Hitting someone with a bike lock?
What if you chug a bottle of whiskey right in front of the cops? Then they can’t prove you were drunk before they pulled you over.
I just saw that episode of The Practice.
Eleanor is an absolute savage in that show.
Is it just me or does anyone else think Mr. Beast is a creeper?
Some people say his smile is creepy, but heard nothing besides that.
He’s kept his tranny guy around and is intentionally spreading the social contagion.
I have my doubts to that, he just figured out how thenYouTube algorithm works when he was a kid and had little to no actual human interaction since.
That does explain a lot.
I find him off-putting. Much like “pew-dee-pie” if that one is still around.
Dude is 100% a monster.
I think the obvious assumption is only people you don’t like would push the blue button, and you’d be rid of them.
I’ve found a few surprising people,in my social circle that pick blue.
There are a lot of people I would like to see liquidated, but half of the populace? Hell no.
And if you get “outvoted” you survive. It’s winning, all the way down.
Two ways to win.
I am a Glib so I don’t press either and tell them to get the hell off my property.
I can’t believe this song was linked in the AM links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHRuMXxnUIo&list=RDtHRuMXxnUIo&start_radio=1
Adios DAC!
WAS NOT.
My kingdom for an edit button.
Why pick blue? Are you suicidal?
Something something inherent goodness of man.
Ayn Rand thinks you’re a pussy.
Alisa said that?
Social pressure.
Yesterday I rode by the house where Swalwell was renting a room so he could pretend he lives in his district. I expected to see him sitting on a lawn chair in a stained wife-beater and boxers muttering to himself but he wasn’t there. It’s like he’s disappeared.
He’s wisely made himself disappear. I would love for him to spill the beans on the whole Dem operation (let’s start with, “on these 50 occasions I was instructed by party leadership to go on TV and lie”, but I don’t think he’s a suicidal button pusher.
I was shuffled away from Pickup this morning. On Break #1 from bagging. Well. It is less work. More people coming through I don’t have any real responsibility over, I just bag their shit.
Last girl I bagged for is mighty cute. (Would un-wrap.)
Well. I’m glad I’m even-keeled and adaptable at work. We’ll see how this goes. Might be sent elsewhere.
Boys coming over for the horse race, later. Should be fun. Fond memories of Ellis Park near Evansville.
I saw this tweet and immediately thought of you, Evan.
You were correct to!
The pick blue people changed the phrasing to include babies children the blind etc and say these cannot make a good choice so everyone should press blue. If the question is all able adults it is different.
Why the hell are you letting babies, blind people, etc. play this game in the first place? What is wrong with you?
Obligatory:
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E23/437703
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
Red and blue button pushers: who’s smarter?
In a mostly-subscriber sample who took a brief verbal IQ test, the answer is…
Blue pushers!
If the whole population has an IQ of 100 with an SD of 15, their mean IQ would be 101.9, versus 97.0 for reds.]
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2050335311624913349
SCIENCE
Well, they did the right thing but for the wrong reasons. They never should have been installed anyhow.
But Ill take the “any port in a storm”.
Dayton suspends Flock license plate readers, says data used for immigration enforcement
A stopped clock is right twice a day.
Now do every other bit of government surveillance.
Once again proving that illegals are higher on the stack than citizens.
This. Countries used to care about citizens.
I would re-wire the buttons so the red button triggers blue, and vice-versa.
Can I not push both at the same time? Rid both Red and Blue.
Evil, but not evil enough. I would rewire to shock anybody who pushed a button.
*golf clap*
Kobayashi Maru
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Y9OY6u5OU
End of the road for the Presidential Beater
The U.S. Air Force has finished modifying and testing a Boeing 747 jet donated by Qatar for temporary use as Air Force One and expects to have it ready for President Donald Trump to use this summer, the service announced late Friday.
The jet is currently being painted red, white and blue, the Air Force said in a news release.
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The two planes currently used as Air Force One have been flying for nearly four decades, and Trump is eager to replace them. During his first term, he displayed a model of a new jumbo jet in the Oval Office, complete with a revised paint scheme that echoed the red, white and dark blue design of his personal plane.
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Boeing has been retrofitting 747s originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner. But the program has faced nearly a decade of delays from a series of issues, including a critical subcontractor’s bankruptcy and the difficulty of finding and retaining qualified staff who could be awarded high-level security clearances.
The new planes aren’t due to be finished until near the end of Trump’s term, and he’s out of patience. He has described the situation as “a total mess,” and he has complained that Air Force One isn’t as nice as the planes flown by some Arab leaders.
The $400 million Qatari plane has been described as a “palace in the sky,” complete with luxurious accommodations and top-of-the-line finishes.
Finally something you wouldn’t be ashamed to have in your driveway.
Raymond Loewy > Orange Turd
Imagine all the extra terrorism they could be funding in place of stroking Donald’s ego with that fucking thing.
I’ve found a few surprising people,in my social circle that pick blue.
As long as it’s purely conjectural, why wouldn’t you virtue signal? Russian Roulette gets a lot harder when there is a live round in the chamber.
Now play Russian Roulette with 2 revolvers, 1 painted Red, the other Blue. One with 5 rounds, the other with 1.
“Are you feeling lucky, punk? Well, are you?”
/”Make your decisions, punk”
Try this:
You put two guns on the table, a revolver and a semi-auto. You tell the contestants that the revolver has a six round capacity and one round is loaded, and that the semi-auto has a fifteen round capacity and one round is loaded. You spin the cylinder and rack the slide, and let them pick which one they want.
How many people would pick the semi-auto?
The people that pick the semi auto also do t understand ratios, much less the operation of firearms.
This.
The entire thing is an exercise in virtue signaling.
World Championship Russian Roulette. I’ve played it a couple of times, met the designers.
RIP Alex Zanardi.
I ask myself every day why would anyone even vote Democrat.
I ask myself every day why would anyone vote…
Because there is no gain to be had by not voting, and potentially some marginal gain to be had by voting, in at least some cases. The Proud Libertarian Non-voter is virtue signaling harder than the person screaming that everyone must press blue. Your secret vote does not involve a solemn oath to bear responsibility for every act of the Government, and your refusal to vote does not make you one bit less responsible for the actions of the Government than the voter is.
I only vote out of spite. It gives me some small satisfaction.
Voting is like buying a car from your brother in law. You’ll be stuck with the BIL regardless of the car turn out.
Because they’re the party of SCIENCE!
Duh!
This is a profoundly silly shift. We’ll see what I’m only barely, tangentially ‘responsible’ for next! (It was pretty nice. Just returned a few rejected items to the shelves.
By myself, walking w a cart. Required a modicum of intuition.
I’m built for this, baby.
I thought you were going to welding school or something.
You put two guns on the table, a revolver and a semi-auto. You tell the contestants that the revolver has a six round capacity and one round is loaded, and that the semi-auto has a fifteen round capacity and one round is loaded. You spin the cylinder and rack the slide, and let them pick which one they want.
How many people would pick the semi-auto?
You pick up the semi-auto and shoot the guy running the experiment.
your refusal to vote does not make you one bit less responsible for the actions of the Government than the voter is.
My conscience is clean.
Learn to wipe asses
Furthermore, because people need nurses everywhere, the degree is highly portable. People in big, developed cities need nurses, people in rural communities need nurses. Travel nursing allows qualified nurses to see the world.
Nursing has built-in upward mobility and long-term stability. It is relatively straightforward to enter for students from a variety of ages. Healthcare isn’t going anywhere, and can’t be outsourced. About 10 years ago, we told kids to “learn to code” in order to maximize their relevance in the labor market. Nowadays, that should probably change to “learn to nurse.”
The sure path to success.
Well, like any profession that requires a state license, that “highly portable” comes with an asterisk.
Lumbersexuals.
Have you been in my closet?
Band shirts and flannels.
They said to dress for the 90s and I said, “I dress like it’s the 90s since, well, about 1993.”
https://youtu.be/mwFXBwuZwrM
I think there is some rule where every man is required to dress like they did in their twenties for the rest of their life.
I’m not so sure it’s a rule, as much as a habit. It’s been years since I busted out a loud suit and went swing dancing.
Blue jeans and an old T shirt? Done.
Teens.
I saw a guy wearing a suit that looked like something Taft would have worn, sporting a Bowler hat and a cane step off the bus yesterday. About two miles later I saw a guy in a top hat with old school aeronaut goggles on it.
My main problem with the whole CTE scandal that plagued football a decade and a half ago (though I had many and still do) was that the NFL was fundamentally being accused of some sort of major cover-up. What did they cover-up? The supposed risks of repeated concussions and blows to the head.
Well, anyone who ever saw a former boxer enter old age could have told you that getting hit in the head a lot had consequences. This was known for a very, very long time by everyone. You could argue that people just didn’t associate the same risk with football and concussions…yet we literally had a saying for god knows how long that you’ve been hit in the head one too many times. There are multiple high profile HOF QB’s who retired solely because of the threat posed by future concussions…in the ’90’s.
The entire thing seemed like this crafted narrative. CTE became a thing. The NFL may have downplayed it for obvious reasons, yet the fundamental truth was there for anyone with half a brain to see. It’d like trying to cover up that the world is round. The CTE crowd are like flat fucking Earthers to me.
Regardless, the family of a former *college* player sued the NCAA because all the way back in the 19-fucking-40’s they had material warning players about concussions and the best way to treat them to limit future repercussions. Somehow they are also being accused of failing to warn players…despite the existence of said training material. The family won a ridiculous $140 million dollar judgement.
I also found this interesting:
I’ve long argued this. Female soccer players have been found to have CTE for crying out loud!
The science behind this was always junk to me. If you look at NFL players and compare them to the general population, they are at LOWER risk of many of the supposed symptoms of CTE than the general population.
People will ascribe any and all behaviors to CTE despite their being no proven causal relationship. Some retired player murder-suicided himself and his family? Has to be CTE!
Yet there’s a shit ton of guys who almost certainly would have the scarring that is CTE if they died and were examined. And they live perfectly normal lives.
I haven’t sat here and crunched all the numbers, but I did a number of these comparisons myself. I was told I was a moron. Scientifically illiterate. No one had real counter arguments, though.
I just find it funny that the NCAA presented the same sort of arguments…and lost.
Media narratives are a hell of a thing. If you repeat the lie enough, people really do start to believe it.
Well, anyone who ever saw a former boxer enter old age could have told you that getting hit in the head a lot had consequences. This was known for a very, very long time by everyone. You could argue that people just didn’t associate the same risk with football and concussions…yet we literally had a saying for god knows how long that you’ve been hit in the head one too many times.
seems at odds with
The science behind this was always junk to me. If you look at NFL players and compare them to the general population, they are at LOWER risk of many of the supposed symptoms of CTE than the general population.
I agree with the top quote, it was a known risk of contact sports going back well before American football was a thing. There’s a reason the terms punchy and punch drunk came into existence. If you are arguing about specific ‘symptoms’ it wasn’t clear which.
Not know for making sound decisions, I recently acquired a Hyundai Genesis R-spec 3.8.
Begin berating me, but it sure is fun. For now.
How many fat chicks fit in the back seat?
Couldn’t you just see how much it can tow?
Couldn’t you just see how much it can tow?
What if she’s a brunette?
How fogged are the headlights and is the clearcoat totally peeling?
The headlights are an easy fix.
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Clearcoat has a couple of small spots, mainly the front end and hood. The headlamps are OK- you can tell one has been cleaned with some “restorer”, the other has been replaced.
Im probably going to buy a fresh set of lenses just because. 95K on the clock. Hyundai advertises 348 hp and I dont know if its true, but whats in there really moves that little car.
Clean it up and enjoy it. Might last a while if you keep up with maintenance.
I shouldn’t be surprised, but Japan has an idol group for Tres.
Big Angel