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I recall shake/tilt was most useful in the sections of the field where rolling over a sensor would toggle a light, and lighting all three toggles yielded a prize. There is one cluster at the top centre, and another in the left purple platform. The ball is moving slowly enough here that a nudge can send to one toggle or the other.

I bought this knowledge with my uni gpa, NO RAGRETS.


you are correct in what you say, but the other thing you need to do is hit the flippers, not to impact the ball but because they rotate the lights that are on and off (your goal being to light all three) so if you see the ball rolling toward an on-lite, rotate them till it's an off light. nudging the table is bit more useful to get repeated bounces off the bumpers near by


This reminds me of a quote from Peter Schiff, circa 2008 housing crash. To paraphrase,

“too-big-to-fail eventually becomes too-big-to keep alive"


> This is the most wildly dangerous threat to liberty in this nation's history.

You better sit down before you look up “citizens united."


IIUC Citizens United basically defended the freedom of people to donate anonymously to political campaigns. Do I have that wrong, or could you explain what liberties trampled by C.U. outweigh those it maintained?


In practice, it opened the flood gates for corporations and oligarchs to pour money into the electoral system. [1] Do you like technocracy? Because this is how you get technocracy.

[1] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/citizens-united-...


For single parents, this is the choice between working or not working.


I checked the source and confirmed no one in the car was seriously hurt.

So I will say it:

The way the tire shows up again after the mega damage: just slowly rolling up into the accident; was a pretty good comic beat.


> a never ending arms race

  Did you mean, "the great filter?"


I remembered the Satan-themed sneaks, and assumed that was what your link would be for 'wild shoes'. Nope. TIL they also made Strongbad cosplay boots.

Mschf and Improv Everywhere have done some endearing stunts over the years.


> Facebook started off GREAT!

I'm glad early fb was a good experience for you, but studies have found that when fb was just opening to universities, lower grades and higher demand for mental health services would follow.

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...


So I just spent 20 minutes of my life going down this rabbit hole, including the google doc.

Full disclosure: one of my research areas in university was adolescents, and working exactly with these types of studies.

Anyways, the main theme which keeps coming back in this material is that the actual change begain in the EARLY 2010s, which is exactly what I'm saying. My assumption is that basically as social media started to focus more on visual content (photos and videos), people started getting weird feedback about how awesome everyone ELSE was, but you were not. Etc.

Keep in mind that teens are notoriously hard to study, and alot of this material is self reported. Many teens are basically always depressed and suicidal, and or become so for some small reasons such as the results of a report card or other such factor. This is why they are a higher risk group for this sort of stuff than say the average adult. At the same time you can't really shelter them too much, because it's the experiences they gain in adolescence that allow them to build their life toolkit.

Also keep in mind this is just US teens. The rest of the world is -- well -- the rest of the world, so the data cannot really be extrapolated to more than this country.


Tomorrow's follow up: Scientists Discover New Form of Brain Freeze.


Dennis Tito might pay $20M to eat one.


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