[ExI] Crazy electric scooter racing

[William Flynn Wallace]

I seem not to be able to listen to the Youtube thing - cannot get the sound
high enough.  Have had this problem before.  ????

I got a question on Quora - tell me what you think of it.  I was asked if
using the web was a sign of intellectual laziness.  I answered his question
with my question:  what else would you do when you need to do research?  He
responded that he didn't know - go to a library he supposed.

He obviously had no conception of what we have been through all our lives
up until the appearance of the web.  They don't know what they have - the
greatest invention in the history of intellectual pursuit of knowledge.
I wish I had had it all my life.  I would have been a better teacher; would
have benefited from research on what things to buy, and so on - I don't
have to tell you.

Your scheme for renaming billions etc. just makes it harder for the common
person, who remembers square roots as something he had trouble with way
back when.  But hey!  Who cares about them there plebeians? We patricians
rule!

bill w

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Crazy electric scooter racing
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> >>… there are pleeeenty of us who would ride one of those babies.  I
> wouldn't race one, but if I had a chance to get out there on a track by
> myself I damn sure would jump at that opportunity.  When I was 40 years
> younger I might even race on one of em.  Looks like a hell of a lotta fun
> to me.  spike
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> >…spike - are you sure you're an introvert?  Maybe you had better retake
> those tests.    bill w
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> Of course I’m an introvert Billw!  That’s why I hang out on the internet!
> It’s a gift, the introvert’s playground.  You can be as Aspergers as you
> want, for it doesn’t matter if you cannot read body language when there is
> no actual visual feedback to read.  The internet is the great equalizer, or
> really the great… superiorizer in a sense.  Bar fight breaks out, somebody
> hits the breaker switch, completely dark room, the blind guy whoops
> everybody’s ass and doesn’t even realize why it was suddenly so dang easy.
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> Racing sports don’t require one to be extroverted.  Win the race, bikini
> babe on the podium, I’m like: eeewww, hand over the trophy and get away
> from me, trollop!  Temptress!  Well OK, stay for the photos, then vamoose
> papoose!  That sorta thing.
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> Classic example, I saw this movie in a theatre.  When Jack delivered these
> lines, the audience was laughing so hard you couldn’t hear the end of the
> sentence.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9_wfkYjfo
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> I had to buy the DVD just to study Jack’s techniques.
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> I do confess I had a blast at the ExtroCons, all of them, even though
> there was all that icky face to face.  With that crowd it was crazy fun,
> but had it been with normal people, eeewwww, adios amigo.
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> Racing is a solitary sport mostly.  Great for introverts, unless they win
> and hafta get up in front of everybody on the podium.
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