Yeah, as an American it’s disturbing and makes it hard to believe we can change things. You’ve described it very well.

Eating pizza and watching the end of Summer Games Done Quick with the wife.

Oh yeah during the protests they totally arrested people who were just outside their own apartments. It’s fucking ridiculous.

I’m sorry you had to go through that.

Trumpanzee…that’s brilliant!

Doesn’t mean we can’t learn from them. The process of developing those models can be incredibly useful in learning about complex steps. They help us understand what conditions and variables are important to look into. We can figure out what we know a lot about and what is still a complete mystery.

Turbulent airflow is an incredibly complicated thing, we still haven’t fully solved the Navier+Stokes equations. I hope to be alive when someone does.

Just because they don’t perfectly figure it out the first time doesn’t mean we should stop putting effort into incremental improvements. Though we do have to be careful that we are not wasting resources when there is a more efficient path forward. Simulations are one of many important tools, we just have to use them wisely.

Idk sounds to me like you are the change we need. You’re investing your energy into the future without asking for selfish repayment. You’re good people. From my perspective you are still keeping that hope of a better future alive and burning, nurturing it in the hearts and minds of the young, allowing it to grow strong in a protected environment. You are EXACTLY what the world needs right now. So thank you Internet friend.

Yeah, we wouldn’t want to completely humiliate them for the reasons you mentioned, but they still should have removed the established judges/officials among other things.

Right? The projection is crazy.

The power to be comfortable in any environment in just shorts and a T-shirt. No sunburn, no soggy shoes in the rain, warm while sitting in a snow drift.

Heh, ammosexual. I’m totally using that!

They’re like getting a gaming console for Christmas and all that’s in the box is some bricks and a smelly slime you can’t identify.

Edit: Comparing them initially to the wonderful excitement of a good Christmas as a kid is wayyy too positive of a thing, but I don’t feel like deleting this. IDK words are hard.

By not being crude we can add to the list of good qualities that separate us from them. We have to remember that what’s truly important is building a better world. If we resort to lesser tactics we cheapen ourselves and our goal.

I wonder if they told him just to see who he’d talk to or where he’d move them too.

That article was a surprisingly funny read. Thanks for sharing it.