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There is a lot of shoddy methodology and data interpretation in Kirsch's testimony.

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/do-pfizer-vaccines-ki...

Same thing with asbestos, there is a non-zero background level in the air because it was used in so many products for a long time.

Unfortunately this time it is taking way too many lives

Could you elaborate more?

Well, the "logic" for fakie is that your tail remains the reference even though you are popping backwards. Therefore you would spin the same direction for fakie fs 180 as you would for regular fs 180.

I never figured out how to classify nollie/fakie board and lip slides front or back

Yep this one still trips me up to and is great argument over some beers. Especially when you introduce flip tricks into them as well :p

Woah! That's so random, I recently came across your article a few months ago. Great work and small world :)

I have a private discord and github for the project I can add you too. I eventually plan to open up the discord for anyone once we get a little further in the rebuild.

Wish there was a good way to DM on HN, I can send you a discord invite. Or if you happen to be on slap let me know.

That's awesome! The site seems down for now but I'll check again later.

Also I'll go ahead and plug the site I'm helping rebuild.

https://skatevideo.site

Haha Suskis are still valid. They've grown on me over the years, especially when pinched on a ledge.

You can also steez fs flips like this as well, aka the Muska flip

*Unless it's switch mongo and you're Koston, Rodrigo TX, or Stevie Williams

Ah yes! and

One of my other favorites:

On circle rails there is "no such thing" as fs overcrook, just fs nosegrind, and there is no such thing as bs nosegrind, but there is bs overcrook.

At least that's how magazines seem to classify it.

Here's a fun one to debate with your skate friends, nollie and fakie tricks are "swapped".

For example:

- nollie fs 180 and fakie fs 180 (fs half cab) are two different directions: nollie fs 180 is in front of you and fakie fs 180 is behind you going blind

- nollie 5-0 and fakie 5-0 (fakie switch nosegrind) lean differently on the grind: nollie 5-0 you pop off your nose and land on your back truck, fakie 5-0 you pop off your tail and land on your front truck

- nollie noseslide and fakie noseslide are different motions to get into the slide: nollie nose you pop off nose and land on the nose in the ledge, fakie nose you pop off tail and land on the nose but you do a sort of half cab

The key distinction in the argument is that in fakie, your tail is always considered your "tail". Therefore you treat any derived tricks as being "backwards". In the 5-0 and noseslide examples, you're still popping off the front of your board, but you classify it as nose or tail based on if it's nollie or fakie.

There are caveats though such as "fakie crook" where if you kept the rule it should be "fakie suski", which no one says.

There's a million arbitrary and nonsensical rules in skateboarding which is part of the reason to love it, especially for something that "has no rules".

And remember, never carry your board by your truck :)

Yeah for sure, the way the foot wraps with the board is the visual cue. It has led me and friends to some fun debates in a game of skate i.e. "that wasn't an impossible", so I was hoping to be able to point to some ridiculous mathematical definition the next time it comes up.

Right, I know the difference between pop/non-pop in action, but the animations look the same.

Also "shuvit" distinction is just a synonym

I was hoping they would come up with a mathematical way to distinguish an impossible from a 360 shuv :)

Not sure why these are considered different in the images

360 Pop Shove-it

360 Shove-it

360 Shuvit

I'm guessing it's kickflip, heelflip, bs shuv, and fs shuv.

Your definition leaves out varial heels and inward heels.

Edit: On second thought I'm still not sure, I saw this in the paper, and I'm guessing they're classifying both direction shuvs as the same, and kick/heelflip as the same

Below we list these four tricks with their corresponding residue class in Z/4Z.

0 ↔ Ollie

1 ↔ 180 Shove-it

2 ↔ 360 Shove-it

3 ↔ 540 Shove-it

Another interesting choice of representatives is given by a combination of the shove-it and the kickflip.

0 ↔ Ollie

1 ↔ 180 Shove-it

2 ↔ Kickflip

3 ↔ Varial Kickflip

Do you happen to have a link to it?

Kurt Vonnegut is really great, my personal favorite is Sirens of Titan which is his most "sci-fi" of the bunch but I wouldn't really call it sci-fi. Other great starting points are Cat's Cradle, Mothernight, and of course Slaughterhouse Five.

I've only read one Toni Morrison book, Song of Solomon, but that was one of my favorite reads of this year.

If you haven't read Frankenstein or Dracula then I would highly recommend them. I personally enjoyed Frankenstein much more than I thought I would.

Norse Mythology and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman are also fun reads.

If you want some non-fiction, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is a very engaging read.

Why do you suggest Unpoly over Alpine JS now? (Regarding a previous comment of yours)

HTMX has been on my radar for a little while.

Do you have a starter template with all of these hooked together? Or an example repo?

Oh yeah don't get me wrong, I have had my fair share of drunken/high video game time :)

FWIW this is a side project I _want_ to work on, I'm not trying to make money on it, purely a passion project. So I'm not feeling pressured to work on it, I'm just trying to keep the momentum going and I found that drinking will stop that momentum.

I go through waves of video games -> projects -> reading, it's always fluctuating.

The end of the drinking activities don't leave me sleepy or craving bad food. I can go home and read a book or get some work done.

This is one of my biggest motivations for reducing my drinking during the week. Even having just one or two beers after work, the probability that I read or work on a side project drops close to 0.

I recently came across this study which suggests it can retrotranspose into your DNA. From what I understand they weren't attempting to find that intentionally, but found it while looking into why people were testing positive for COVID many months after being infected and not currently infected.

I'm not suggesting that the vaccines could do the same, but it's not that big of a leap to wonder if the virus can retranspose, then the vaccine could as well.

Also I'm aware it's a preprint and not fully peer-reviewed yet, interesting nonetheless.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/

This along with the simultaneous rise in tensions over china/taiwan is concerning.

As someone who is trying to find their personal beliefs (who also doesn't like religion) I really appreciate your comment.

Whenever I used to complain to my dad about how much I disagreed with 'religion' and churches, he always mentioned how 'religion' came from man, and since man is flawed it will follow.

It helps to shift one's focus on these principles of living rather than the establishments.

TIL

I've been using Glide for years. Going to throw it all out today. Thanks for the info

Yeah I like to remain optimistic, IMO that is the only way to stay sane.

It's just funny how total opposite realities can coexist. I get a NYT daily email which makes it sound like everything is okay, vaccines are working great, etc, then I can spend 10 minutes reading `/r/conspiracy` and it really throws you upside down. Not to say that everything said there is true (I know most of it is likely bs), but I enjoy seeing the total opposites ends of the spectrum.

Yeah, I've honestly gotten to the point where I'm not surprised by anything anymore and can't tell truth from fiction.

Another fun one is the use of Ethylene Oxide to sterilize the swabs. It is a carcinogen but it seems like it's is used in many places.

It was just funny that I stumbled on the ethylene and worm thing _after_ I got my test today.

I also just read people are reporting them on the test swabs. I literally just got a test lmao.

I'm sure this has a reasonable explanation though, right?

Can confirm, I bought a Tiguan 1 year ago, love it.