BillyClark

I heard somewhere that people who think they’re good at multitasking actually work slower than people who think they are bad at multitasking.

The reason is that when you switch between tasks, there is a mental penalty each time for that context switch. People who believe they are good at multitasking switch between tasks more often and so they pay the penalty more often.

Because although most people can multitask, vanishingly few can do it effectively.

If Andrew Tate is such a tough guy, why is he so focused on women? A real alpha male would go after strong men, not like those pussy loving straight guys.

I mean, it’s probably just up to whoever first started doing it. They chose that song, so it’s that song. Other songs may have also worked.

But there is one thing that I think gave Rick Astley an advantage over specific other groups like A-ha. And that’s his name. If you look up the history of Rickrolling on Wikipedia, it says it replaced a meme called “duckrolling”, which was used the same way as Rickrolling, but it was just a picture of a duck with wheels. So the advantage is that “Rick” is his name and it’s an easy drop-in replacement for the word “duck”.

There’s other artists who have names that would work. Who knows? In another universe, they might have “Beckrolling” or something.

Edit: I was just reading farther into the Wikipedia article, and the guy who made the first Rickroll said he chose it because it came out in his birth year of 1987.

It is a great song. I think that is one reason it works so well for the meme.

Great song

Very distinctive and ear catching drums to start the song

The first time you see the video, you’re probably surprised that he’s a smallish white guy

His dancing in the video is… extremely white?

I think if it was actually a bad song, it would never have caught on as a meme, and that the people who hate the song are either overexposed to it or their opinion of the song is heavily influenced by how it’s been presented to them. You know, like how if you tell a child that some bit of food is gross, then they often won’t like it when they taste it.

I’m going to say one good thing about Musk below. It’s probably the only good thing I will ever say about him going forward.

The American car industry is a cesspool led by some of the biggest villains who exist. The existing car manufacturers were not heavily investing in EV. They liked the status quo. Also, the barrier to entry for any new car company is extremely high, as well. For example, a lot of states have laws passed requiring car manufacturers to sell from traditional dealerships, which is specifically to stop new small car companies from succeeding.

Because of this massive corruption in America, I fully expected that any EV developments would start internationally. You’d have to be a complete moron who was also flush with money to try to fight them. And then Elon Musk came onto the scene. He was a complete moron who was flush with money.

I don’t know that Musk pushed the EV industry forward, but he certainly pushed the American EV industry forward. If Musk had been smarter, he’d have tried something more reliable with his money, and he wouldn’t have started an impossible fight. I know Tesla has almost bankrupt at least once since he took over. His luck stat must be off the charts.

Yep, he invested in the existing Tesla company, and then forced them to list him as a founder.

If Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla, then Stalin was the founder of Berlin.

From the picture, we can tell that even if they knew their letters, they still didn’t know how to spell “birthday” in any case.

People today watching old SNL sketches: “You know what? I actually do want to live in a van down by the river.”

It’s only very recently that, with the rise of social networking, the greater public has had the opportunity to really get to know rich assholes like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

And one of the things we’ve been able to learn from interacting with them is that they are definitely not better than other people.

Rich people have been portrayed as being well-educated. But it turns out that they paid for their diplomas and so they’re probably dumber than average. Far dumber in the cases of Trump and Musk.

Rich people have sometimes been portrayed as hard workers who deserve their riches. But it turns out that they don’t do shit except party with pedophiles.

Just like you said, they just pay some stooges to do their work for them. Rich people are nothing but leeches.

I see that you read “behavioral economics scientists” and wrote “manosphere influencers”. There isn’t much of a chance that you did this on accident.

If it was, would that be worse than the zero research you’ve done?

Is that confidence based off of your gut feelings? Because my statement was based off of similar research done by behavioral economists.

I am concerned that people will read your comment, and end up using dangerous dull knives.

I don’t really want to get into an argument, but most people will put off doing anything even mildly complicated to the point that they never do it. If you never sharpen your knives, then you will end up with dull knives, which is the worst possible outcome.

Pull through sharpeners do actually sharpen the blade. I don’t know where you got your information from. You certainly don’t have to sharpen a knife every time, but even if you did, it would be something quick and simple that anybody could do.

There are also different levels of pull through sharpeners, some that make multiple passes for different types of blade care. But any sharpener, even the most basic pull through, is better than a dull blade.

A person who uses a pull through sharpener will generally know when they need to start looking into more advanced methods. I do not think it is safe to warn beginners off of using the tools that they are most likely to actually use.

The thing about the advice you’re giving is that it’s for pretty advanced users. But by the time you’re that advanced, you should probably know all of that stuff, anyways.

At a certain point, you might even get to the point where you feel it’s better to have your knives professionally sharpened rather than doing it yourself.

But when you start out, I think you should buy cheap knives and a cheap knife sharpener. The knives get dull quickly, but it’s super fast to sharpen them, so you don’t have to let them get dull. And you don’t really care if you wear down your knives by sharpening them too much because they’re cheap.

When you need to move on to a better system, you’ll know it.

Lately, I’ve had to alternate between three browsers just to watch YouTube videos.

When I open the door on my personal toaster oven, it automatically pulls a rack partially out of the oven (using a little hook on the door), so there is no need to put my hands inside the appliance. Knowing this, I position the food items toward the front of the rack so that they will come out easier.

You might have to be careful when removing things that have toppings or whatever, but since a normal toaster can only produce dry toast, it would be unfair to leave those items in the comparison criteria. So, we should just stick to dry toast.

With a toaster oven, you can always just grab dry toast from the top edges, and your hand, which we’ve already established doesn’t need to actually enter the toaster oven if it has a feature like mine, doesn’t even have any chance of coming into contact with the rack, either.

I also don’t think a toaster oven is necessarily slower than a toaster. It simply depends on the heating elements. Even among toasters, some are faster than others.

I will admit that subjectively, it probably feels like toaster ovens are slower due to a difference you didn’t mention, which is their more complicated controls and mechanisms. But since my recommendation was predicated on not needing overly specialized tools, I think a lot of specialized tools are simpler to use than general use tools. And this difference becomes smaller and often irrelevant as you get used to the tool.

reheating pizza

Blasphemy!

Cold pizza is the world’s greatest food and this is a hill that I am willing to die on!

If you prefer to avoid single-purpose kitchen appliances, then you will prefer toaster ovens to toasters. (Also, a normal oven can do.)

A toaster oven is also the superior appliance for making toast as it can toast bread that has already been loaded up with things like butter or peanut butter.

I think I see one toaster oven in the list, listed as D tier, which makes sense for that one because it has a built-in coffee maker.

But where’s the normal toaster oven in this list? That would be S-tier.

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Don’t feed the trolls. Report, block, move on

Very good advice. But if you have some sort of personality defect that makes you occasionally engage with trolls like I do, here is some additional advice:

Make your comment less effort than the trolls. Don’t argue every point. Focus on their weakest point.

Essentially, if you can’t resist responding to a troll because you’re an idiot like me, make it like one short sentence where you point out their biggest mistake, and then if they respond to you and you respond back, keep doing that and never let them change the subject. At least you’re causing them to waste effort.