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WCDT 4451-4455 (the 1st through 5th of February, 2021)
Is it cold in here?:
Former military people do carry themselves differently.
I once worked with a retired Marine captain. He was on a plane, long out of the service, obviously not in uniform, and when it landed and he stood up two Marines in the aisle halted themselves and said "After you, sir".
Muggers in experiments have been shown videos of people walking without getting other information, and interviewed about which they would pick as victims. Instinctively they avoid people who were trained fighters.
It's plausible that someone would have irrational fear of Bubbles while reacting appropriately to Elliott.
Farideh:
Makes you wonder if the intimidation factor is also part of Bubbles' programming.
Thrillho:
Poor Bubbles.
It is hard being frightening to people.
Morituri:
Other people muggers avoid include dancers, gymnasts, cheerleaders, martial artists, rock climbers, professional sports players, and those who practice meditation.
In my case I'm sure it's mainly sheer size and build (well over two meters tall, a bit over two hundred kilograms). But I definitely see "muggable" and "un-muggable" (or "ready to cope with whatever happens" and "may need help in a crisis") when I look at people around me. It's definitely not *just* a matter of size and build. Somebody can be tiny and still be someone it would be clearly be not worthwhile for a mugger to mess with.
People talk about confidence, and they talk about being physically intimidating, and I'm sure those things are part of it, but it's also about environmental awareness and complete mental presence in the situation, as well as about balance and coordination.
If you want to attract muggers... so I've been told anyway by a behavioral-sciences type trying to explain why the same relatively small fraction of the population tend to get mugged over and over while others live their entire lives on the same streets without ever getting even threatened .... do any two or three of the following:
Adopt a gait most people find slightly unnatural where your left hand and left foot swing forward at the same time, followed by right hand and right foot. Wear mismatched clothing. Keep your eyes on the ground in front of your toes instead of on the people and environment around you. Alternatively keep your eyes on enormous things that tower above or in the distance from the people and environment around you. Carry something awkwardly, or have a bag or backpack heavy enough to affect your gait or balance. Act surprised at everything. Have something jammed in your pockets that breaks up the outline of your legs/hips/waist. Fiddle with your clothes as if unaccustomed to wearing that kind of clothes. Walk, not with an obvious limp, but as though one of your knees or ankles is slightly stiff. And there were several other behavioral 'markers' I forget that emerged from a study of people who got mugged more than twice in the same year.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Case on 05 Feb 2021, 09:25 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 04 Feb 2021, 21:18 ---All sciences have their foundation in faith [imperical evidence, and 1+1=2]. The difference is that science uses faith as a starting point .
--- End quote ---
That's ... not what Axioms are.
--- End quote ---
Just watch the video. I said they explain it better for a reason.
"Science doesn't really need to be defended against the concept of faith. Only some of its misuses." Is the first point they make.
The underlying point of the whole video is that science doesn't deal in absolutes (except for absolute zero), that blind unquestioning faith in science causes people to act unscientifically.
[The video is 8 years old]
EDIT: Moving away from Euclid's postulates when dealing with a 3 dimensional space is one of the things they bring up. Then there's Kurt Gödel's work in regards to mathematic axioms.
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