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OâSullivan-effekten
Mer Ă€n nĂ„gonsin tjatas det om âOâSullivan-effektenâ: alla förstĂ„sigpĂ„ares övertygelse om att mötet med den största gör var och varannan spelare vindögd och paraplegisk. Var det rentav en tourspelare som dryftade att nĂ„gra av OâSullivans titlar under Ă„ret kommit sig av uteblivet motstĂ„nd?
Allt detta Ă€r givetvis trams, trams, trams. Ryan Day skulle inte spela bĂ€ttre mot John Higgins, och han skulle definitivt inte âslappna av och spela sitt eget spelâ mot en medelmĂ„ttig kvalspelare. Misstag Ă€r en del av spelet, men de glöms bort snabbare nĂ€r de inte straffas. Kyren Wilson vinner inte sina matcher för att motstĂ„ndarna skakar av skrĂ€ck; han vinner med bĂ€ttre spel, bĂ€ttre nerver, bĂ€ttre uthĂ„llighet. Och fĂ€rre misstag. Samma som Ronnie.
NĂ„vĂ€l, alla försöker vi tyda snookergudarnas tecken. Och ingen renlĂ€rig trodde vĂ€l att Luca Brecel skulle bryta âThe Crucible Curseâ, förbannelsen som sĂ€ger att ingen kan försvara sin första titel, och orimligt ofta Ă„ker ut redan i första omgĂ„ngen. Brecel mötte den tidigare semifinalisten David Gilbert, en personlig favorit som mer Ă€n en gĂ„ng har visat pĂ„ storartat spel i VM. För Ă„tta Ă„r sedan höll Gilbert en trĂ€ffsĂ€kerhet pĂ„ 93 procent mot OâSullivans 95 nĂ€r han föll 7â10 i första omgĂ„ngen (sĂ„ mycket för OâSullivan-effekten). Han hade varit min favorit mot Brecel Ă€ven utan förbannelsens assistans. En bekvĂ€m seger mot Robert Milkins följde, men kvartsfinal mot Maguire blir tuffare. Att dessa herrar Ă€r rankade 31 och 28 i vĂ€rlden Ă€r hĂ€pnadsvĂ€ckande, men visar ocksĂ„ pĂ„ VM Ă€r ett sĂ€reget vidunder som vissa Ă€r bĂ€ttre lĂ€mpade att tampas med.
SĂ„ en drömfinal för mig och kanske bara mig: Gilbert â OâSullivan. Naturally.
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tribeca gallery tour today:
ann toebbe, "friend: susan"
david gilbert, "genesis"
lauren clay, "lover's knot"
jae yong kim, "funky mini chrome donut (100 donuts)"
emil alzamora, "apopheniac 11"
shanna waddell, "s/heness sows seeds in the early spring"
shanna waddell, from the "society" series at jack barrett gallery
hayal pozanti, "a glimmer to build your world on"
hayal pozanti exhibition, timothy taylor gallery
#not my photos but i did see them all in person#art#painting#sculpture#installation#ann toebbe#david gilbert#lauren clay#jae yong kim#emil alzamora#shanna waddell#hayal pozanti
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Here's my problem with moral realism:
I value "economic freedom" (as one big nebulous category that includes various specific things like "the right to work," "the right to a college education," "the right to own property," etc.).
It turns out, though, that all the various rights that make up "economic freedom" are linked, and I'm not sure I can completely isolate and separate them.
Economic freedom (as I value it) requires a pretty high degree of trust between individuals, the gears of the market not grinding to a halt whenever people randomly decide not to trust each other. When people don't trust each other enough, they find a way to avoid working with each other or selling to each other or buying from each other.
And from an economic point of view, being present is what matters. What matters is . . . not helping your friends buy groceries or something like that, but having economic activity.
It's sort of a weird thing to say, because it sounds like saying that no one should be friends with anyone else. And yet it seems very hard to separate out the economically functional from the socially/emotionally nonfunctional without making no real-world sense. I mean, there is "people who like each other but have no trouble working together" and "people who do not like each other and have no trouble working together," but the social/emotional/feeling distinction does not seem to map to an economic one, at least not as well. (Maybe these different types of relations have different costs? I dunno.) I think this is one of those "bullshit examples" -- sort of like "the right to own a guitar," which is somehow not a real right because owning a guitar is not (in this imagined world) a practical thing that everyone does . . . maybe you don't think I should "own" a guitar, and think "the right to OWN a guitar" doesn't matter much, but I can still be upset about how I can't have a guitar. (Similarly, you might not think me having friends is a "real right," but if I "lack" friends, and I'm "upset" about "lacking friends," I'm still upset by something and you can be the one causing me to be upset.)
Sure, you can be upset about the wrong things. You can have rights to things that are impractical or that hurt you. You can worry about things that are bullshit. It's fine to worry about things that are dumb, and worrying about something doesn't automatically give you the right to have that something. But when I worry about things, I worry because I have a sense that those things are hard to change, or that it's not very practical for someone to change them, and that I can't change them myself. (I can't change the personality of the person I'm worried about being with, say. I can't manufacture healthy friends out of thin air to make up for a shortage of friends. I can't stop the world from being a "bad place" for the sake of someone who will probably never find the world a good place.)
Or, to put it another way: I think I "have the right to an electric guitar" for much the same reasons I have a "right" to "not starve to death." There is a broad, fundamental set of things that I need to live and function, and that set of things includes, well, food, shelter, safety, and a certain amount of fun. And if I can't get any of these things I'll be screwed.
It doesn't matter if I were "able" to eat rocks and have fun doing it -- if I need to eat in order to be functional, then eating is a real right, even if I'm the type of person who can't eat rocks. It's not about not being able to do things, it's about necessity. The necessity is what makes a right.
Similarly with my "right to have friends" -- I "need" to have a certain amount of contact with other people, and I need to relate to other people in a particular way, and this has a certain sameness across people, even if some people are "the wrong type" to be friends with me. "Why" the thing is necessary doesn't matter, nor does the fact that I'm "the wrong type" to be friends with some people. What matters is that the thing is necessary for the type of organism I am, or I need it to be an organism at all, or whatever.
(This feels somewhat unsatisfactory, but I think it's a good start, anyway.)
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brennan answering the question "what would make a dragon unfuckable to a monsterfucker?"
#brennan lee mulligan#brian david gilbert#adventuring academy#dropout#dimension 20#d20#misfits and magic#mine#video#erika and aabria are indoctrinating brennan as a monsterfucker confirmed
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i feel like david gilbert would get along great with taylor fritzâŠ
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The Brian David Gilbert episode of Very Important People is funny front to back but the best part is right after the reveal when Brian is clearly experiencing some kind of mad scientist gender euphoria. Me too.
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RANDOM DASHBOARD INSPECTION!
#game changer#dropout tv#brian david gilbert#every time bdg is on a dropout show it adds a year to my life.#man this latest ep was so good
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All the corrupted namecards from Game Changer episode Deja Vu
#game changer#dropout#sam reich#mike trapp#ify nwadiwe#siobhan thompson#brian david gilbert#josh ruben#zac oyama#do i tag grant??? i dont even know#the gilbert david brian one took me a second to realize it was wrong lol#i think my fav is cambridge or Ppp
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Efter att 10â10 istĂ€llet blir 9â11 gĂ„r luften ur David Gilbert och missarna kommer allt tĂ€tare. Ăven Kyren tappar skĂ€rpan och bjuder inte pĂ„ nĂ„gra mĂ€startakter, men hĂ„ller ihop spelet nog för att dra ifrĂ„n till 14â10.
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'someone draw bdg as winter king' i say as i do so myself
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Prepare for BDG's đ„scorching hotđ„ sandwich take...
Watch the full episode on Dropout
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new song/vid out with BDG! brian sent me a demo and said "do your thing" and i sure did lol
(youtube) (spotify)
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Brian David Gilbert getting himself adopted by Dropout is one of the best trades of the century
#collegehumor transforming into the welcoming hub for internet funnymen has to be the best timeline#dropout#collegehumor#game changer#brian david gilbert
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i think, if they were real, they would hang out while waiting for the mortals in the time loop to reset. and they'd be buddies.
#they gave me like. minor god vibes lol.#game changer#dropout#brian david gilbert#game changer spoilers#josh ruben#zac oyama#grant o'brien#tw clowns#clowns#tw clown#roscoe the creepy clown was genuinely scary and i dont get scared by every clown lol#dropout tv#i keep using the polka dot texture aha sorry not sorry
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