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Wow! "Second World" as a term used in the original context! For those unaware, despite what it has come to mean now, "first world" originally meant "the USA and its allies in the cold war", second world Russia and allies and third world was neutrals. So Switzerland for example is technically a third world nation!
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The way the zodiac "works" always bothered me... draw a line from the Earth through the Sun and see what is on the other side? Shouldn't that be the constellation that is least able to influence us? With the Sun being in the way and all? It's not like the Sun is some magical lens .. oh wait, it's all magical thinking from a time before properly applied science anyhow. Nvm
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I saw an interesting comparison the other day that many people just don't seem to "get" about actual experts. The average adult can beat the average 5 year old pretty much every time they play at chess. The average competitive chess player can beat the average adult. The average ranked player can beat the average competitive player. The average master can beat the average ranked player pretty much every time... and the "average" grand master can beat the average master... yet we think our opinions on something multiple levels of expertise above our own lay knowledge is just as good... medical advice is a good example of this. It takes a decade of "quite tough" well above average schooling to be a doctor, but many "average adults" (and presidents) seem to think they can not only compete with the knowledge of doctors, but specialists.. or experts.. or world leading experts.... but exceed it..
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IKR! Google estimates a max speed of 250kph (155mph). Found by googling "maximum speed of ford focus". It may be an overstatment itself (or based on some sports model, downhill with a tail wind), and hyperbole is one thing, but saying "approximately triple the maximum speed of the vehicle" would have similar results, you'd think?
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I would argue that no, eliminating self perceived or determined weaknesses is still a very narrow view of success. Instead I think we should strive to be better human beings, to understand more, to better assess ourselves as part of the human race and the universe at large. To become more through awareness, not by trying to "game" our own self interpeted mean upwards. It's a mean game and a very average one.
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