Okay that was one of the weirdest news stories I’ve read in months, and it really closes strong.
Investigators found a search made with her phone on the question, “What happens if you get in an accident with an Amish buggy and kill two people,” the complaint says.
Agreed. The FSI method is the best I’ve found, and Pimsleur is the best implementation of it. The biggest weakness IMO was that it was about listening and speaking and had only a minor reading component. The new software versions correct for that.
From there, you should be able to have some simple conversations and watch TV shows, at least with the foreign subtitles on. As a note, I found that (as in English) the subs might not match the spoken words, but I found that in some types of media (eg telenovellas) they match pretty well.
This is the correct answer. It doesn’t address the multiple mistakes in English and spelling that the OP ended up writing, though. Nor does it address the spelling variant, although that does not seem to be the particular focus of the original enquiry.
They do make a fair point - going deep is what makes most people shout out his name.
This is my favorite thing I’ve read all week.
Unless you’re really, really good at theory. See Von Neumann, Murray Gell-Mann, John Nash, and many others. It really goes for anyone who’s talented significantly above their peers in tech, the arts, sports…
The problem is that it scales with talent, so someone who’s modestly brilliant will get less leeway than a Nobel (or EGOT) level talent, and talent seems to scale non-linearly.
The problematic bit here is if the person (say, Hitler, in this case) is a true psychopath. This is where the mind/body (or soul, if you prefer) dichotomy starts to fall apart. I do not believe that free will exists, but I can give a light version of this that doesn’t depend on a complete rejection of free will.
We know as a medical fact that a history of traumatic brain injury (tbi) has a strong correlation with violent and aggressive behavior. Over half the people in prisons for violent crime have a history of tbi, versus about 10% in the general public. We can find similar correlations to other events that are known to physically alter people’s brains, from malnutrition to childhood trauma to growing up in a system of racism and violence. These experiences literally and physically rewire brains and alter neuroanatomy. These neuroanatomical changes result in neuropsychological changes, which result in behavioral changes. Think about today’s story of the banking manager who was recently arrested for shoplifting a couple of hundred dollars worth of goods from Target. She is a kleptomaniac (not sure if that’s the current term, apologies if not). She has no more conscious control over her actions than a person with epilepsy has control over their seizures.
Now, if your physical form were to go away, those impulses would theoretically be gone. You couldn’t feel any guilt over them - you had virtually no control. If you keep your physical form (as some Catholics believe), you’d theoretically keep your neuroanatomy. Then your “repentance” would have to be god fixing your brain, as it were, which raises the question why he didn’t just do that in the first place.
Obviously there’s way more problems just around this subject than I’m getting into here - memories of trauma that altered your limbic system, genetic and epigenetic drivers of behavior… is there a “fix” for that? - but the root of the problem is that the religions, in order to identify a behavior as “sin,” have to make assumptions about behavioral plasticity and more importantly a behavioral driver separate and apart from the physical brain, that’s just implausible. The facts are simply incompatible with that kind of redemption.
In the Bay Area, I doubt that’s even a starter home in a bad neighborhood. Most other neighborhoods are priced like that for a tear down.
Kris Kobach of Kansas is also well known for marketing a software package that is used to deregister voters preferentially with minority names and which has been used in multiple red states to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands to millions of people.
What I’m saying is that the loading records for the individual flights averaged and aggregated by flight number (or plane type or route or date…) gives sufficient data to do that. It’s something I do for a living - not plane loading, but statistical data analysis over far larger and much more complex data sets.
Not only can’t I imagine individual passenger data bringing any additional insights to the table, I can’t imagine any scenario where any imaginary advantage would pay for the cost of the additional data collection and analysis. I currently run a team of data scientists for a very large corporation, and that kind of thing is not free. I can’t see this costing the airline less than multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars between collection, analysis, and actioning the data.
Maybe there’s something I’m missing - like I said, I’m making an assumption about how they measure loading now - but this is something I do for a living and I’m just not seeing it.
If anything, I can only see it being more noisy and require harsher methods to get a proper descriptive characterization.
The fan interpretation of the movie as literally that really colors my perception of the movie. I love Bukowski (with some trepidation), and I know that the dudebro interpretation is 180 degrees from the intended meaning, but when it’s that badly misinterpreted I can’t help but feel like the cultural baggage weighs it down. It’s been decades since I’ve seen it, but when I started becoming aware of the PUA culture ((which I think provided the nucleus to the incel/maga culture we see today), they were leaning hard into it.
Contrast that with American History X, which I’ve been told has been interpreted by skinhead/WP subcultures as a film that portrays them positively and justifies their POV. I don’t associate that movie with that interpretation because they’re a much more marginalized community (at least until 2016), and because the movie really beats you over the head with the message so much that misinterpretation cannot be attributed to the film.