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I came across a video on Youtube about how to argue like a lawyer. The lawyer explained there are two kinds of argument styles that lawyers are taught, IRAC and CRAC. With IRAC, you start by stating the Issue, then find the Rules, then do an Analysis with the facts, and end with your...

To kindly offer a rational explanation, it sounds like stress may be the culprit. You were a "little" stressed on a phone call, you work in a call center (which is stressful in the long run), and you got relief from the experience. Stress is associated with seeing more patterns in randomness...

I heard somewhere that tramp stamp tattoos are coming back in fashion, and sure enough, Google Trends shows a resurgence of internet searches since 2020. I've long had the thesis that the more, and more daring, tattoos that a girl has, the bigger an asswhole she needs in her life.

Overall, I really like the sketches. A critique is that some of the sketches have anatomy issues. In the first sketch, the guy's legs are poorly shaped. In the second sketch, the girl's upper arm on her stage right arm is too big, her shorts are out of balance, and her lower legs don't match...

Just to go through some numbers, cloud gaming went from half a billion revenue in 2017 to $4 billion in 2023, estimated to be about $7 billion by the end of this year, and projected to become $25 billion a year by 2029, if current trends continue...

I've sat in restaurant bars reading a French frequency dictionary, and never felt awkward, don't care what other people think, and never had a problem with concentration. I can understand, though, if a bar was more of a nightclub, that distractions would be more of an issue. I get social...

There is possible hope with hydrates, maybe. "Today, the most common carbon storage method involves injecting carbon dioxide into underground reservoirs. This technique has the dual benefits of trapping carbon and also increasing oil production. However, this technique faces significant issues...

An asteroid strike caused a temperature change of five degrees celsius. The climate has changed by nearly two degrees celsius since 1850, so about half has much. But restricting the scope to natural cycles of climate, this climate change is happening unnaturally fast.

Yes, but the cycles happen over hundreds of thousands of years, not on the scale of centuries.

If there is a car behind me, which rarely ever happens, I keep driving a little bit, until there isn't one. This once happened as I was going into the driveway of my condo. I drove a little bit to take a u-turn, and then went into my driveway. Additionally, you can read this article which...

I strongly recommend, whenever and wherever possible, for you to back into parking spots instead of forward. It's far safer for you to back into spots because it gives you a wider field of vision when you're leaving. If you don't believe me, there's some science: "When entering and leaving a...

I once found a comment somewhere on the Internet from 20 years ago where someone said that in 20 years that learning a foreign language would be obsolete because people would have an app to instantly translate. They were correct about apps, but not about obsolescence. Using an app on your phone...

It's worthwhile to note that every movie that gets nominated for Best Visual Effects at the Academy Awards uses Houdini. The first movie made with Houdini was Jingle All The Way in 1996, but before that it was called PRISMS, and the first movie made with PRISMS was Flight of the Navigator in...

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I modeled the Golden Gate Bridge in Houdini. It's 100% procedural and took more than 600 nodes and a good amount of writing code. Most of the bridge was created from one spline curve. The landscape was extruded from a height map from satellite data, and I painted some changes to the height map...

The study uses different radiofrequencies than the Rife machines. It's one of those cases of being close, but no cigar. "In the 1920s, Scientific American magazine formed a committee to investigate Abrams’ claims about radionics. The committee found his conclusions were not substantiated. There...

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Licorice Pizza If you're a fan of the works of Paul Thomas Anderson, you'll probably love the movie.

I just learned that the 1900 Olympics in Paris, which wasn't even called the Olympics, and athletes didn't even realize they were in the Olympics, were, as the French would say, trés bizarre...

There is a recent trend among Hollywood movies to say that there was no CGI used, to appeal to the broad audiences who desire practical effects and authenticity. But in truth, these films are full of CGI. A shot of a huge ball rolling down a street might indeed be shot practically, but then...