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[bandwagonesque]

The way I look at it is this:

There is faaaaaar too many things they say that is carcinogenic. Microplastics, microwaves, living close to a refinery, eating fast food, the sun, f***ing stress.

There is a more than 50% chance any one of us will go out that way. Might as well send it, rather than living in fear of pretty much everything around us because it’s damn near all carcinogenic.

But don’t take away your quality of life. Some know my story, I took a blood test and my liver enzymes are still down bad.

I understand this reaction.

But you know those messages you keep hearing in the periphery of your awareness that tell you heart disease is the leading cause of blah blah blah, more deaths than such and such combined and expected to hurrrrrrrrrr ...

... as you go about your day?

Someone put that there. They're screaming into your ear trying to get through to you.

They did it because basically 110 percent of us die of coronary artery disease. You kind of have to swim against the current to avoid it, which is why the message is ignored, but it's not really that hard. The alternative often is a longer, shittier and way more premature death than most of the ones people think they are rebels or stoics for being indifferent about.

 

[ChilliBilly]

I understand this reaction.

But you know those messages you keep hearing in the periphery of your awareness that tell you heart disease is the leading cause of blah blah blah, more deaths than such and such combined and expected to hurrrrrrrrrr ...

... as you go about your day?

Someone put that there. They're screaming into your ear trying to get through to you.

They did it because basically 110 percent of us die of coronary artery disease. You kind of have to swim against the current to avoid it, which is why the message is ignored, but it's not really that hard. The alternative often is a longer, shittier and way more premature death than most of the ones people think they are rebels or stoics for being indifferent about.

I Have been retired for 15 years.I have great life. I. look at any more years as pure gravy.That said, I think another 15 years would be nice.get into my eighties, and hopefully still playing hockey pickleball and golf. What more does one want.

And if I fail to wake up one morning ... well, there are a lot of worse ways to go.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I Have been retired for 15 years.I have great life. I. look at any more years as pure gravy.That said, I think another 15 years would be nice.get into my eighties, and hopefully still playing hockey pickleball and golf. What more does one want.

And if I fail to wake up one morning ... well, there are a lot of worse ways to go.

Bill, it'd make me happier knowing you live forever...

The alternative often is a longer, shittier and way more premature death than most of the ones people think they are rebels or stoics for being indifferent about.

Oh, I don't think I'm hard or anything. I just think the game is a bit rigged, as you allude to. Also I have major depressive disorder which could influence that.

 

[ChilliBilly]

Bill, it'd make me happier knowing you live forever...



Oh, I don't think I'm hard or anything. I just think the game is a bit rigged, as you allude to. Also I have major depressive disorder which could influence that.

Thanks Reverend. But you get an age where u realize things are going downhill, and not going to recover.

Sorry to hear that you get issues with depression. I had some of that, but the older I got the easier things got. Of course, not having to worry about money anymore makes a major difference. All my friends (mostly) have more money than we do, but we will be fine for another 20 years barring surprises. So glad we left the US where one has to worry about health issues bankrupting you.

 

[tradervik]

I plan to set up a bot that will make random posts about transit so no one will know when I shuffle off this mortal coil.

 

[RobertKron]

I plan to set up a bot that will make random posts about transit so no one will know when I shuffle off this mortal coil.

You'll be hearing from my estate's lawyers.

 

[tradervik]

You'll be hearing from my estate's lawyers.

BC Ferries is planning to buy new boats

 

[F A N]

BC Ferries is planning to buy new boats

Are any Pacificats still in existence or have they all been scrapped?

 

[tradervik]

Are any Pacificats still in existence or have they all been scrapped?

I was amazed to find out they are tied up to a dock in Egypt, apparently still seaworthy. Linked article has a lot of photos.

 

[Hit the post]

I Have been retired for 15 years.I have great life. I. look at any more years as pure gravy.That said, I think another 15 years would be nice.get into my eighties, and hopefully still playing hockey pickleball and golf. What more does one want.

And if I fail to wake up one morning ... well, there are a lot of worse ways to go.

I Have been retired for 15 years.I have great life. I. look at any more years as pure gravy.That said, I think another 15 years would be nice.get into my eighties, and hopefully still playing hockey pickleball and golf. What more does one want.

And if I fail to wake up one morning ... well, there are a lot of worse ways to go.

I have unsettling feeling the Canucks will FINALLY win a Cup not long after I'm six feet under.

 

[F A N]

I was amazed to find out they are tied up to a dock in Egypt, apparently still seaworthy. Linked article has a lot of photos.

Might be a good location for a zombie or post apocalypse film.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Aaand my Bengals are back to their pathetic fumbling selves...

The team is in complete shambles just few years removed from a SB appearance.

My Houston Rockets are stuck in a rebuild drafting high but no star power to show for it.

So... Canucks can you plz suprise me and do something this year?

 

[Coffees]

never give up , guys

 

[EpochLink]

Aaand my Bengals are back to their pathetic fumbling selves...

The team is in complete shambles just few years removed from a SB appearance.

My Houston Rockets are stuck in a rebuild drafting high but no star power to show for it.

So... Canucks can you plz suprise me and do something this year?

The Bengals defense can’t stop the run or the pass, that offense gonna have to win a sheer will with the pass and run.

Burrow about to carry the team in his back.

 

[Hit the post]

Aaand my Bengals are back to their pathetic fumbling selves...

The team is in complete shambles just few years removed from a SB appearance.

My Houston Rockets are stuck in a rebuild drafting high but no star power to show for it.

So... Canucks can you plz

Aaand my Bengals are back toeir pathetic fumbling selves...

The team is in complete shambles just few years removed from a SB appearance.

My Houston Rockets are stuck in a rebuild drafting high but no star power to show for it.

So... Canucks can you plz suprise me and do something this year?

Have faith as the curse of Babe Ruth didn't last forever over the Red Sox. Eventually the stupidity of passing over Bill Walsh and teting to get him blackballed will be exercised, Might take a while.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Have faith as the curse of Babe Ruth didn't last forever over the Red Sox. Eventually the stupidity of passing over Bill Walsh and teting to get him blackballed will be exercised, Might take a while.

Im afraid the owner is the problem.

Well. Nature will take its course. Will see how his kids fare.

 

[tradervik]

Any online poker players here? I dabbled a bit when it was starting to take off and haven't played in years. Well, if you still are playing, you're probably losing to a bot. Very long Bloomberg article.

TLDR:

• If you play online poker, there’s a good chance the “people” you’re playing against are bots.
• These bots are significantly better at poker than most of the best professionals.

The kicker:

As the bots began taking over, online poker sites noticed that IRL human players quickly got turned off by losing so much, so quickly. This hurt the poker sites, because remember: They make their money from the rake. They need people playing.​

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So these poker sites started hiring the companies that built the bots—as consultants. These consultants were then paid to optimize the behavior of the robots so that human players would be allowed to win just often enough to keep them playing.​

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In other words: The online poker websites paid the robots’ owners to slow down the rate of siphoning so that the human marks wouldn’t realize they were getting scammed.​

 

[RobertKron]

Any online poker players here? I dabbled a bit when it was starting to take off and haven't played in years. Well, if you still are playing, you're probably losing to a bot. Very long Bloomberg article.

TLDR:

• If you play online poker, there’s a good chance the “people” you’re playing against are bots.
• These bots are significantly better at poker than most of the best professionals.

The kicker:

As the bots began taking over, online poker sites noticed that IRL human players quickly got turned off by losing so much, so quickly. This hurt the poker sites, because remember: They make their money from the rake. They need people playing.​

​

So these poker sites started hiring the companies that built the bots—as consultants. These consultants were then paid to optimize the behavior of the robots so that human players would be allowed to win just often enough to keep them playing.​

​

In other words: The online poker websites paid the robots’ owners to slow down the rate of siphoning so that the human marks wouldn’t realize they were getting scammed.​

So basically online poker is largely a slot machine now.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Anybody felt the earthquake around 4am?

 

[rypper]

Anybody felt the earthquake around 4am?

I did not. But I woke up to my alarm at 4:05. So I probably slept through it. Or I'm too far out in the valley.

 

[LemonSauceD]

I did not. But I woke up to my alarm at 4:05. So I probably slept through it. Or I'm too far out in the valley.

I think you just literally missed it. It was just before 4:05am.

I woke up 15 minutes prior because my cats had their zoomies and were knocking shit over. I was in the bathroom and the mirrors shook from its hinges and my phone fell from my hands.

It lasted like 3 seconds at most but it was enough for me to be like “ah shit the big ones finally here”. Crazy it was just a 4.0 magnitude quake (55km below!!!) the ground. Deep ass quake.

I think the last quake I remember feeling was like in 2014 but I must say the helplessness and the confusion you feel is unlike anything. I’ve always been creeped earthquakes. It’s unsettling.

 

[EpochLink]

I didn’t feel it, I’m in New West

 

[tradervik]

Anybody felt the earthquake around 4am?

Yep. It was a good rattle here in Victoria but pretty short.