Honestly, yeah.
It took next to zero effort, and it was a product I liked enough to have recommended even if the only thing I had gotten was the first sample.
It's really the best kind of marketing I've ever run across. They made it so that the only work involved was handing something small to someone, plus the original feedback. If the product had sucked, even that effort wasn't mandatory.
Yeah.
Mini story.
Back in the day, me and my best friend got on a mailing list for samples. We didn't do it intentionally, but it ended up being pretty cool. We'd get all kinds of stuff. Some of it was shit, some was good, the way you'd expect.
But over the years, those samples worked. Sensodyne, the toothpaste for example. Tried a sample, and since it's as good as anything else as toothpaste, the fact that I preferred the taste more than most was enough to switch.
But the cool shit was when they'd ask for feedback. Sometimes you'd get full sized freebies.
One of those was the candy, take 5. A pretzel with caramel, covered in chocolate. This was before they were for sale. We tried the samples, sent in the little card, and a few weeks later got boxes in the mail full of the samples, asking us to get other people to try it. So, we did, and those people usually sent the cards that came in the box the we gave them.
Turned out that the little number on the card was our number. So, when people sent in the cards with feedback, they knew it was us doing their marketing for them (that's what the whole thing is, it wasn't just them being nice). Well, another month or two passed, and we see them in stores. And we would buy them here and there, because they are insanely good, if a tad too sweet overall.
Then, we got more boxes from them, packed with the full sized packages, plus a whole booklet of coupons, and a surprisingly nice little form letter of thanks. It ended up being something like fifty free packages, twenty free coupons plus another twenty of half price.
Gods damn, that was brilliant
Yeah, the diagram does a good job. And, English is a bitch lol. It's hard enough as a native language to navigate all the weird rules and usages.
Look, I don't want to nitpick much, or make you feel like I'm bashing you, that's not my intent.
The post, however, is pretty far off of reality. "Gifted" is not the same kind of thing as other neurodivergence. It simply doesn't have a well defined criteria. The only criteria that's used in a majority of places that use the term is IQ or other testing scores.
Should it have the same kind of diagnostic criteria as other aspects of neurofunction? Maybe. Maybe not. There's just not enough information on it all to tell if it really is a form of neurodivergence, or just part of neurotypical function with higher "intelligence". I don't speak Portuguese, so I can't tell if that video is accurate in its information or not, but I can tell that "Gifted" as a term is not what you've presented in your post, not as of five years ago when my kid got placed into gifted classes and I went back looking into it and comparing it to what it was when I was a kid.
If there's newer definitions and criteria, it would be nice if you put them into post instead of relying on a YouTube video at all, but that's whatever.
I'm not saying I disagree. Every "Gifted" or "accelerated" kid I ever knew behaved differently than most people. It may well be a form of neurodivergence that isn't just intelligence (which is a difficult thing to quantify properly in itself).
I'm just saying that the post here doesn't really provide anything useful to someone coming across it. There's no meat here.
Radio tech is used already. But the NFL limits who can use it during games. Iirc, it's one player on offense, and one on defense, plus the coaches. You wouldn't really want every player having coms. It would just be a confusing mess during a game; you really don't want your receiver hearing an offensive lineman grunting while they're supposed to be focused on catching a ball. Radios were originally banned, and it took a decade or so for the NFL to allow them.
Everyone already knows their job, they know the play, and they're pro players because they have the ability to make good decisions on the field when a deviation from a called play is needed. So all you need is coms between someone on the sidelines with an outside perspective and the job of crafting the overall strategy and whoever is coordinating the team on the field. And that's true of every team sport.
As a player, you really don't want to deal with the distraction of a voice in your ear while you're trying to execute. It's distracting enough with non radio shouting during play.
As far as AR goes, it wouldn't be as useful as you'd think. It's still down to what you actually need and want to have in your senses while in play. And that's going to be very little. You don't want an overhead view because that splits your focus. Multitasking always comes with a decrease in effectiveness for each individual task, humans just have limits to what our brains can do.
Even a backwards view in the corner of your eye is of limited use on average because you need your field of view clear to detect movement in your peripheral vision. It might be a benefit when on offense and running the ball, but it wouldn't work for every player, and you'd have enough that would be reduced in their abilities that it wouldn't be worth it.
I really can't think of any sport where ar would be useful where it wouldn't also defeat the purpose of doing it. Like, archery or shooting where the ar would tell you exactly when your aim is ideal. At that point, you aren't doing anything except pulling the trigger or drawing the bow. There's no fun in that, no point in even doing it. Individual sports, you might benefit from coms with your coach, but having done some of those at an amateur level, radio wouldn't be any better than just having them yell. Combat sports, the only way they would be useful is in grappling, and you don't want anything physically in your ear when grappling at all. The risk of injury is too high. Ears already take a beating in combat sports.
The kind of coordination you need in the military, it just isn't beneficial in football, no matter which of the football versions that are played at a level where the gear would not be prohibitively expensive. You might see some benefit in rec leagues where the players aren't paid to practice the way pros are, but it would be way too expensive at that level.
I'm kinda torn.
On one hand, I actually fucking despise politics in non politically focused communities. It's a personal peeve.
But. This is one of the types of general communities where it's not disruptive when the questions are in good faith. The reddit sub was prone to bad faith political posts. This one, so far, hasn't been. The ones I've seen have mostly been genuine questions with few attempts to beat a drum. I've even engaged on a few, and I usually avoid politics outside of dedicated spaces.
But damn, I do get tired of the glut of them everywhere as the election gets closer and closer. So if the mods here temporarily banned it, I would not object.
Welll, you have to understand that there's no way to give a definitive answer to a what if like this. You're asking for a prediction on something that's highly individual, and very difficult to find research on to back up any opinion.
Like, I'm kink friendly as hell. Anything between two consenting adults is fine by me as long as I'm not expected to be enthusiastic about it. So it isn't uncommon for people to end up sharing (over sharing many times lol) details of the how and why of their kink with me. When people find someone that's either open minded, or at least doesn't judge them based only on their kink, they almost need to open up about it.
It's this whole thing.
But scat? It's so far outside my personal limits that it's difficult to keep composure when it comes up in person, that even when I'm saying I don't judge them based on that, my face shows my strong dislike of being pooped on. I used to be a nurse's assistant, so I've been pooped on way more than is fair. It's hard not to at least wrinkle my nose, you dig?
Which is just me explaining how little good information on the subject of scat fetishes and fetishists there is. There aren't a ton of published articles. Everything is essentially anecdotal. And even my anecdotes are limited, and I've had necrophiliacs plural open up to me about their fetish.
That's a long fucking disclaimer lol.
So, my opinion? You wouldn't see much of a shift. There's already ways to reduce the smell of your feces, and make it worse. So the people that have a strong preference about the smell of it as relates to their kink can already have their poo cake and eat it too
But that's still only so useful as an opinion because while I would have to take off my pants and have a buddy standing by to count the scat fetishists I've listened to about their desires, the buddy wouldn't even have to take off their shoes. Sorry about that, I've been waiting for the chance to use that description, and it's perfect for this.
The "good" news? If you hunt around and keep an open mind while being civil and non judgemental, you can find scat fetishists online with a bit of patience.
If you're interested, I can go into detail about what I've been told that leads me to have the opinion that it wouldn't change, but it's kinda gross to most people, so I won't go into it without a request.
Yeah, I've used strobe a few times.
The anduril settings make it easy imo.
But, we use it they're at the house plenty, the strobe. If I'm out in the yard at night, doing some kind of crap in the rain (hello helene, the most recent event that I used it), flipping to the strobe is a quick and easy signal I need help. It lets everyone else stay dry (er, until I need them to come out lol), and means I don't have to fumble with my phone in the wet and dark.
It's not an every day thing, and it isn't meant to be afaik.
It's handy enough that my best friend and his husband now use the lights I bought them after they saw how well it worked and wanted the same thing.
We've also got a sort of awareness of it in the neighborhood now. My using it drew attention, and I explained why I was doing so. Everyone close enough to see the flash now knows that if it's only on for a minute or so, it's no big deal, and I know that after word spread, if I leave it going longer, they'll know I need help, or at least check.
One of the neighbors bought his own wurkkos as word spread. It's such a good signal at night that it's likely going to be a thing in the entire neighborhood rather than just our block.
There's even diffusers you can get for most lights that come in colors, so you could expand the signalling to have different meanings per color, if it became useful to do so.
Seriously, you have no idea how nice it is to not be fucking around in a storm either running back and forth for things, or having someone else just standing around miserable while you work just in case you need help.
It's kinda niche, but at this point, I've got those kind of lights for everyone in the house just in case we need to be coordinated when sound is difficult (like in a freak hurricane lol).
That model of wurkkos is my main light. It really is dead simple to use once you spend five minutes with it.
Great light
No guarantees. Look at Weinstein. Sucker is still in jail.
It's all about believability vs the crime, with any biases in the jury and judge.
They're is a fairly common thing where the harder it is to imprison someone based on their disability, the more likely they are to get more lenient sentences, but that's still not foolproof.
If you're faking it, chances are that no judge is going to be fooled unless there's a long history of disability. Juries might be easier to fool to some degree, but you'd still need to convince them that your disability is evidence you didn't commit the crime to be able to rely on it, and that's going to be hard.
It's otherwise rolling dice that are weighted against you.
White horse fell in the mud
There isn't a single one.
But, I'd have to give the nod to either "fade to black", Metallica; or "closer to fine", the Indigo Girls
Fade to Black should be obvious. It's the lyrics, the feel of the song, etc.
Closer to fine isn't really about the actual lyrics, it's about the sentiment of them, of moving through life and reaching new places and becoming. You get closer to fine by whatever path you're on. So, when shit is real, it's nice to have the reminder.