N1H- The Return(Minus Butthole Pleasures)

I hate making bread, especially at home. So unpredictable. I've never really used any european flours other than italian 00 pizza flour. The only french baking book I've ever used that hadn't been adapted for usa ingredients is Pierre Herme's macaron book, and macarons are just almond flour/sugar/egg white so there's no adjustments necessary.

I'm sure Thremp can have your 6 year old crushing it if you pay him the low, low, price of...I don't know, say 10 million for coaching?

thremp you'd probably like alton brown - he's perfect for autists because he explains the science

normally you read "slowly sift in flour as you stir" and grunch that abp style and just dump all the flour in because what kind of cuck has time for that when it all gets mixed anyway

whereas alton brown will explain that a specific reaction only happens if flour is introduced slowly and thus the end result will have better texture and taste better if you slowly sift it in

was very eye opneing because that stuff is usually never explained, probably because the people giving those instruction have no idea why, that's just how they were taught to do it themselves

I can sorta see why. I'm approaching it from the basically SJW mindset of 'holy crap, there's this enormous bias (lookism) in society and its causing a lot of inequality, injustice, unfair treatment, and misery. Nobody is talking about it and they're talking about biases I consider far less important or ones that are literally imaginary. Why does this bias exist? how strong is this bias relative to other biases? How much can people change themselves in order to be positively rather than negatively affected by this bias?"

Your thread is more like "I have this bias and I want to justify it...Man... stupid people always have an ugly look. It's almost like you can judge a book by its cover. Lets look for some evidence to corroborate this"

Now even though I approached it differently, I came to conclusions I really didn't like and found unpalatable (this bias actually has some empirical truth, isn't irrational, and was probably evolutionarily useful and still is even now). And they were largely the same conclusions you expressed in your thread. This has caused me a lot of cognitive dissonance and forced me to change my view of humanity in a way that feels very negative and I am in a continuous emotional battle trying to not be misanthropic about it and realize that ultimately awareness of the bias allows you to leverage it because it isn't a bias based on things that are immutable. Ultimately its fruitless to h8 on people because they're unable to control certain evolutionary impulses; humans are still animals and I'm just as guilty of being unable to control primitive animalistic impulses. Just accept that we are flawed, do the best you can to take advantage of what you know that other people don't know, and live a happy life.

Alton Brown is OK, but if you want science and cooking, Kenji is your man.

I just make rustic sourdough. It tastes like bread. I am fine with my mediocrity. I'll probably get a steam oven to make it easier. Let me know if there are any preferences. Maybe then I can expand into weird stuff.

To get him to the level of professional betting would probably cost around that. But I'm pretty sure Soulbro can handle the next 10-15ish years of requisite training (which is eerily like raising a child), and by then I'll probably have forgotten everything useful.

I like both of them.

Can't you just chill and be happy you are ridiculously smart and ridiculously good looking?

Based on the series of posts on betting ITT, I really, really doubt he's a winning poker player. So he should definitely stop all forms of gambling.

I find it amusing when savory chefs/cooks on cooking shows bitch about this. Woe is you, now acknowledge reality!

Though like you say later, some things are more forgiving than others. Building an innate feel for when a dough is just right can take some time I guess? And the feel is obv very different for different types of doughs.

I don't really pretend to do anything but dabble in baking either, but I've done so for enough years that I can at least bake a passable most things.

Huh, imagine that.

It's pretty amazing how large the variation can be! Noobs will prob assume chili peppers in the same package will be at about the same level - nuh uh. Double scovilles in your face.

K, I'm not sure you get to characterize yourself as a dabbler.

She's not fluent in English quite yet, but give her another year and she'll prob beat me and we can revisit the subject.

I used to make a lot of Kenji recipes, then I[strike] took an arrow to the knee[/strike] had two kids.

Nah, didn't he have a backer who took him out for steak and bread pudding dinners at Gibson's? And probably wanted to bang him or something, based on the details we got? It sounded more like a sugar daddy sitch. I think poker is +EV if he can get "backed" (teehee!) by that dude again.

There could be a solid pivot into azn twink sugar work.

I'm here for it!

KEEP MY EX BACKERS NAME, OUT YO F’ING MOUTH!

MATH BASED BEAD BEAT

I believe Washington was +5000 at the final drive

Shoulda stuck in a $100 bonus in there! Just had a FEEL

I have written this before in different contexts, but I think a big reason "patriarchal" societies with enforced monogamy developed and were generally successful, is that they generally did a good job of incentivizing low status males to be productive members of society, or at least buy in and not be dead weight. And in a lot of cases this meant dying young doing some dangerous task (warfare, hunting, etc.).

And I think even a basic understanding of evolution, biology and psychology should lead one to not be particularly surprised that modern societies are having trouble functionally integrating low status males.

I enjoy sports betting as a hobby, and even enjoy the math aspect to a point. But the idea of trying to be a winning sports bettor just seems profoundly not worth the effort; as soon as you become a winner you have to deal with the problem of finding ways to get money down, as books aren't particularly interested in taking action from winning players.

I follow Haralobob on Twitter, and he is highly critical of the new online legal sports books; as they give the perception you can beat them, but are extremely aggressive cutting you off if you give the slightest indication you might be +EV (not something I think hero is going to every have to worry about). Also, not surprising they spend a ton of money advertising correlated parlays, which have an insane hold because the odds they give are so bad.

Lol who the **** are you bro? Anything I do I succeed bc of my work ethic. Ask any decent person who knows me. And no, like 95% of the slobs in here don’t count. They can probably barely deadlift 2 plates for a single. Pathetic.

No one is trying to go pro here betting on sports, ya dingus.

It should be very easy in wealthy western countries without having to enforce monogamy (very undesirable for white lib women, they are cringing and drying out just at the mere pairing of the words enforced monogamy). Just import tens of millions of nubile young impoverished females from Africa/Latin America/Asia/eastern eurotardia/middle east such that the sex and marriage marketplaces are so overpopulated with fertile aged women that even low status males can easily attract partners. This is basically Russia, except it was because of war/death/starvation killing off the men rather than importing women.

But obviously this isn't going to happen as then the implicit and explicit prices of female sexuality plummets and women as a whole would probably be even worse off under those circumstances than under the old order of enforced monogamy. But it'd be a lot more palatable and tap into their white savior complex if you could frame it as 'save the brown women from foreign patriarchies, let them come to a feminist country like the USA/UK!" instead of "we need incentives for low status males".

Also, even in males a lot of low status in young males is caused by physical unattractiveness. Intelligence and conscientiousness ain't doing **** for your social status when you are 17 and have a constant erection and balls filled with semen. But you already know where I stand on that.

And let's not also pretend that a lot of low status men aren't that way because of low IQ and jobs are increasingly cognitively complex. They might be hopeless even in a more favorable gender ratio environment b/c they just kinda suck on a genetic level.

That is why you develop a society where women are forced to cover up, aren't allowed out of the house, and everyone has an arranged marriage with their first cousin when they are 17.

There are tradeoffs.

Modern societies are tremendously prosperous and efficient, and economically and militarily superior; but large swaths of the population (especially low status males) are not integrated well because the environment is not suited well to hardwired psychology. And as you said they dont have the cognitive capacity to be productive.

Traditional societies integrate and suit low status people better at the psychological level, but are not competitive, especially economically and militarily.

Also, he would frame it very differently, but as far as the actual meat of the argument/observation, you are starting to sound more and more like Jordan Peterson. :shocked:. He just personally thinks a society structured around a blend of traditional Protestant Christianity and modern rationality is the solution to the problem. But he doesn't offer any great solutions for what to do with 85 IQ unattractive males in a modern society, even though he acknowledges the problem.

You know more than me, but I always assumed he was just directly booking the action of Lindgren and friends; and although he got stiffed on the last $1M, he did very well in totality.

He sold Wagerstreet and took back a debt owed by Lindgren to Spiros (who ran The Greek) as part of the payout.

The whole story is rather baffling. Almost as insane as his "I put my life savings on the Lakers and have zero evidence".

So what do you think is the more likely timeline and method he made a bunch of money before making tons more money in crypto (I assume you believe that he put a lot of $ into crypto)?

I don't see where anyone disrespected your work ethic and gains in the gym, relax.

If you're just betting for giggles with money you can afford to lose, that's fine, that's what 99% of people do. But then don't talk about MATH BASED OPTIMAL +EV BETS (that are clearly not) to a forum populated with people who are or were actual professionals. Also don't talk about your "bankroll." Losing gamblers don't have bankrolls, they have budgets.