Pick a truism:
- Moisturize even if you have oily skin
- Remove makeup before bed
- Wear sunscreen
- Don't obsess over sunscreen
- Ageing is fine
- But use tret to reverse ageing
- Get your beauty sleep
- Pores are normal
- Less is more, unless you need more products, in which case more is more I suppose please upvote I'm lonely
If one of your guys does something monumentally stupid and screws up part of an Op, you broke it.
Don’t let Wallace do Anything.
Leave him in the rear if you can.
Try to get him sent home on leave.
Get him assigned to mess duty.
Do Anything, and for all your sakes, don’t give him live rounds. Some of you might not survive.
If one of your guys plows the jeep you signed for into the only large rock within two hundred yards, you broke it. And don’t let Wallace drive.
If you sign for a busted radio without checking it first, you broke it.
If one of your guys puts the jeep you signed for into a ravine, you broke it. And don’t let Wilson drive.
It’s very important to be friends with Motor-T.
I see a lot of people say this, not just around the sub but in videos by pros like Jonathan Little and Doug Polk.
The idea is that if someone raised pre, and someone else called, and the flop comes KTA, that's good for the raiser, but if it comes 637, that's good for the caller.
My question is basically, why come? I also read/hear that your calling range should be _tighter_ than your raising range. So why would a lower-card board favor me as caller?
I was recommended Exit West by a friend of mine, and it is apparently his favorite book. It was hardly a slog, and I can understand how he could like it. I appreciated Hamid's somewhat unusual descriptions, narrative style, and language myself. I do think it also managed to convey the reality of migrations and nature of belonging through its story, a story of characters different and yet fundamentally similar to us, and thus relatable.
I cannot, however, see the book as much more than a moderately pleasant afternoon filler because of its lack of subtlety. It seems almost like a fictional, mildly sci-fi documentary, with exactly the same - near zero - room for independent conclusions. To me, it looks like Hamid goes out of its way to state what is obvious from the story, taking away from its strength. The ridiculousness of "nativeness", the similarities in spite of differences, the fear of the alien and so on (which aren't exactly revolutionary insights anyways) are almost spelled out as opposed to being left to be inferred.
I'm wondering what are people's thoughts on it, what you yourself found insightful, and what you thought about his approach - maybe I'm just a bit stuck up.
How do people just remember stuff? My memory is so unbelievably shot that more often than not I completely forget what I’m doing mid task. Most days at work (I deliver pizzas) I’ll have at least one instance where I mess up an order or give somebody the wrong bag or something, and everyone gets understandably angry and says “you need to slow down” like that means fucking anything.
Every time somebody says “apply yourself” or “slow yourself down” or anything to those affects it just makes me insanely angry and I can’t explain why to them without looking like an asshole.
Yeah, sure, all I need to do is apply myself, gee why didn’t I think about that?
Anybody else have little truisms that people love to use on them that are the opposite of helpful?
Despite being president for 20 years , son of the founder Hamilton Carhartt, and grandfather to current CEO and chairman I can't find much info on him. The quote in the title is the only one I could find. He played a large part in making the superdux and superfab outdoor/hunting lines of the 1930's. He was also part of the back to the land program that helped the company survive the great depression and cotton depression of the 1920's. They had to get rid of all their plants except for Atlanta and Dallas. They also sold their rights to market in most of the south, Texas, Europe, and Canada. ( best I can tell most were recovered by the 70's) it was probably the closest the company ever came to going out of buissness. It's too bad more information isn't available, seems like a waste that only a quote is left from what had to be a very interesting person.
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Sightlines trump right of way every time.
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Wind is worse than low temp.
His father gave him a box of truisms
Shaped like a coffin, then his father died;
The truisms remained on the mantelpiece
As wooden as the playbox they had been packed in
Or that other his father skulked inside.
Then he left home, left the truisms behind him
Still on the mantelpiece, met love, met war,
Sordor, disappointment, defeat, betrayal,
Till through disbeliefs he arrived at a house
He could not remember seeing before,
And he walked straight in; it was where he had come from
And something told him the way to behave.
He raised his hand and blessed his home;
The truisms flew and perched on his shoulders
And a tall tree sprouted from his father’s grave.
Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
As a gay man, I do find myself dipping into my Christian upbringing for the occasional sassy or witty phrase or zinger. A few days ago, we had a client who did not like some of our design work, and I said "Do not cast ye pearls before swine." A few of my coworkers asked me where the phrase comes from, one even thought it was a Jane Austin quote. They were surprised to hear that it is from the Bible (the B-I-B-LE, that's the book for me).
I love the wry, dry truisms and aphorisms (pithy observations that contains a general truth, such as, “if it ain't broke, don't fix it") from the Bible. What are your favorite phrases to say now, even if it's just to be a little sassy?
If following libertarian principles to their logical conclusion, within the context of the status-quo, leads to a state of affairs that is as a result less libertarian, then do not follow the principles to their logical conclusion within the status-quo.
For example,
1.) Open borders would increase the voting share for statist parties
2.) This drastically increases the likelihood of a statist party being voted in.
Conclusion: Therefore, do not open borders until you've figured out a way to ensure statist parties are not a threat to minarchy.
We need a serious libertarian movement that appreciates the current large-state polity is not conducive to enacting the pasteurised ideals we hypothetically want. Therefore, there is a need for prudence and compromise.
These libertarians want to put the cart before the horse.
