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  1. Rjay

    At what point does a wrist watch have too much going on?

    TBO I pretty much stopped wearing mine because after years of being on the rotation I found the lack of date window impractical.
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    Social A Client I Worked With Who Was A Thief And All Around Scumbag

    Sounds like he's destined to OD in an alley somewhere.
  3. Rjay

    So Dake finally bet Burroughs

    If he learns leverage he'll be unstoppable in all grappling.
  4. Rjay

    Gang Violence is Out of Control Around Me

    Have you tried electing Democrats to city/state offices? Seems to do the trick from what I've seen in every other high crime city in America.
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    Returning to the mat after second vaccine...

    Killer sources. To anyone well informed on immunology your post is a train wreck of professional sounding words nonsensically held together with duct tape of conspiracy theories. 0/10 posts.
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    Rocha vs Ryan right now?

    awesome performance by the guy with the beard & black rash guard
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    Gamestop stock being pumped to the moon by Redditors

    Distinction without difference. You bought the asset. I borrowed it off you for a while and promised to give it back. We're both making bets on changes in the asset value.
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    Gamestop stock being pumped to the moon by Redditors

    If it's legal to bet that a stock is going to go up, why should it be illegal to bet a stock will go down? Seems like a valuable mechanism of enforcing market discipline to me.
  9. Rjay

    Calvin and Hobbes ended 25 years ago on December 31, 1995.

    For those unaware it's not original, it's fan art. Still pretty impactful.
  10. Rjay

    Life in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore? Tell me your experiences living in these giants

    Shanghai is awesome. For a foreign professional on a western-level salary daily expenses are quite cheap, but with a high degree of accessibility to western cultural influences such as restaurants, bars, imported fine foods ect (which of course are less cheap). Shanghai prides itself on whats...
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    Russia the most important country in defeating the Nazis in WW2?

    Waging war is an integrated economic process that is forced to obey the laws of economics. You either expand your economic resources, or prioritize them to certain areas. You can't pull them out of thin air. If you put all your steel into tanks and planes and mobilize slave labor to build them...
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    Russia the most important country in defeating the Nazis in WW2?

    If you see the evidence laid out in The Wages of Destruction you may reach a different conclusion.
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    Russia the most important country in defeating the Nazis in WW2?

    Everyone overlooks the strategic bombing campaign. Anyone really interested in WWII history should read "Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze Alot of historians thought the bombing campaign didn't achieve much, but his books makes a very convincing case that it destroyed Hitler's ability to...
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    Russia the most important country in defeating the Nazis in WW2?

    A mistake it may have been in hindsight, but it made complete sense at the time, even aside from Hitler's long-term ideological goal of Eastern expansion to create "living room". After losing the Battle of Britain the war in the west was a stalemate, which left Germany's ground forces most...
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    BJJ Basics: Calf Slicer

    I recall trying the Sean Roberts calf slicer many years ago and couldn't figure out how to not crush my nuts.
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    BJJ Basics: Calf Slicer

    I think its one of those thing where if you're aware of the counter you should be able to avoid getting hit with it. That was a sweet counter though, cool find.
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    How unlucky would you have to be as a German male born around 1900?

    I'm afraid not. 1. The Japanese were preparing to "surrender". What does "surrender" actually mean? A negotiated settlement where everyone goes home and pretend nothing ever happened? Prior to Hiroshima and the Soviet invasion There was a single government-sanctioned attempt at peace via the...
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    How unlucky would you have to be as a German male born around 1900?

    I think that missed the point a bit. The impact of the Hiroshima bomb wasn't initially realized by the Japanese, and even after it became clear it was a nuclear strike they believed it was unlikely there would be more coming soon. It was the Nagasaki bomb, news of which arrived in Tokyo during a...
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    Media DC and Ariel Helwani disagree about Fighter Kevin Lee's head tattoo

    Lee is the real winner here as unlike those around him he won't have to look at that monstrosity every day.
  20. Rjay

    The best guy you’ve rolled with?

    1. Gilbert Burns. I was a 2-stripe white belt at the time, and he didn't believe in taking it easy on white belts. 2. Clark Gracie when I was a purple belt. I was competitive for 0% of the time. Gave me some insight into the omoplata as he couldn't stop even me from rolling, which kinda showed...
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