The influencer obviously has much less skill than the boxer. But, he has been getting the best training money can buy for several years, and he’s used a lot of steroids to get as big as possible. It’s not like you or me getting into the ring, it’s a decently talented amateur boxer going up against a pro. He was trained on how to defend himself, and had the experience to do it. I think he got as badly injured as he did mainly because he acted like a twat in two ways. First, he spent a lot of the match running away, which tired him out. Second, he spent a lot of it showboating and taunting Joshua, with his hands down.

The punch that wrecked his jaw was a clean hit that happened both because the influencer was too tired to defend himself properly, and was acting like in idiot and not defending his head. Joshua was eventually going to win, regardless. But, the influencer probably would have been less damaged if he’d fought fairly and protected his head. Then he’d have been hit through his guard, which would have been enough to drop him, but not to wreck his jaw.

I completely agree. He was in the ring because he was earning tens of millions of dollars to do it.

I could imagine giving him kudos if he’d been willing to stand toe-to-toe and actually engage in a boxing match with Joshua. It would probably mean that he’d have lost more quickly, but at least he would have been trying to win. Instead he spent almost all the time running away, and when he couldn’t run away anymore he’d drop to his knees and attempt to wrestle Joshua to the mat. In a competitive boxing match I think he would have been disqualified, or at least had a major points reduction by the end of the first round.

Look, if I were offered tens of millions to engage in a real boxing match against a real boxer, I’d definitely take it, and my approach would be basically the same: run away and try to avoid taking damage. For tens of millions I think almost anybody would take the fight, and almost nobody would actually fight to win, if it risked being hit harder. But, the difference is that I wouldn’t be the one organizing the event. I wouldn’t be claiming I had a chance. I wouldn’t be trying to intimidate the actual boxer at the weigh ins.

The influencer hyped up the fight like he had a chance, he posted training videos showing he was taking it seriously, he used a lot of steroids to try to get as big as possible. Then, as soon as he got into the ring, he did everything possible to avoid fighting aside from leaving the ring.

Death is extremely rare in boxing, serious injuries are also rare. The main issue with boxers is the lifetime of getting hit tends to add up, especially hits to the head.

Jake Paul’s jaw injury is just about the worst thing you could expect to have happen in a single boxing match, as long as the referee was competent and didn’t allow a fighter with a concussion to keep fighting.

For interesting definitions of “high level”. But, whether or not he’s a “high level” competitor, he does actually compete, and he’s willing to lose against more skilled opponents. That’s far more than Musk would ever do.

He engaged in competition with an actual athlete

I haven’t been paying much attention, and didn’t even know this fight had happened until after the memes, so I might get some of this wrong. But, from what I gather, the influencer initially planned to fight a boxer who was significantly smaller and lighter, but there were legal issues with that fight. So, instead he arranged to fight Anthony Joshua. Joshua hadn’t fought in something like a year and a half. But, is an actual boxer who hasn’t fully retired.

The way the fight went, the influencer kept running away until he was too tired to keep running, at which point, finally, the boxer was able to actually start landing punches, and eventually he broke the influencer’s jaw in 2 places.

Why fluid, not liquid? Air is a fluid too. Is it in gaseous form?

Also, why “washing-up”? Was “washing” not enough? Was a direction strictly necessary?

But, together we’re 2 people. And we can recruit more to the army.

people use the newer, less common meaning until it becomes more common

And we can work to stop it from becoming more common by nipping it in the bud.

then you’d just be on the losing side of the battle historically

At least you turned up to the fight.

But language is a shared medium

Which is why change should be gradual and limited, otherwise two people who use that language are unable to clearly communicate.

I don’t even see “nice” in “play nice” as an adverb. You could switch “play” for “be” – “be nice”, same with “be safe”.

But, how much less could you care? Alot less?

Incidentally, I really hate that the UK expression for when someone is feeling sick is “poorly”.

It’s got the “ly” ending which is one of the clear signs of an adverb, and in other contexts it is used as an adverb. But, for some reason the British have turned it into an adjective meaning sick. Sometimes they use it in a way where it can be seen as an adverb: “He’s feeling poorly”, in which case it seems to be modifying “feeling”. In the North American dialect you could substitute the adjective “sick”: “He’s feeling sick”. But, other times they say “She won’t be coming in today, she’s poorly”. What is the adverb modifying there, “is”?

What if it isn’t everyone who uses a word “wrong”? What if it’s say 25% of people who use it incorrectly? Should you encourage them to use it correctly?

If there are two different ways of using the word and they could be mistaken for each-other that’s bad. Once the use of a word has flipped and means something very different from the original (idiot, gay, etc.) then there’s no reason to try to return to the original usage. If the usage is still in dispute and the majority of people use the word in the original meaning, I think it’s good to discourage people from using the word incorrectly so that people are still able to understand each-other.

Do you care a lot or only a little?

Why would you use that term at all then? If you mean a developing or under-developed country why not say that?

It was originally killing 1 in every 10 by lot. In other words, not in battle, but as a collective punishment of a unit 1 in 10 soldiers would be randomly selected and killed.

1 in 10 soldiers dying in a battle doesn’t sound all that bad. But, 1 in 10 soldiers being selected to be killed as a form of punishment for the unit sounds a lot worse.

Think different

Which means anybody with a Linux gaming PC can probably run any game that works with the Gabe Cube. They might have to tweak a few settings so that the game thinks it’s running on a Gabe Cube, but that’s nothing Linux users aren’t used to doing already.

I think number 2 is the biggest deal here.

Right now Steam runs on Linux, and has now reached 3.2% of all Linux users, which is getting too big to just ignore. But that’s 0.3% of all Steam users running Arch, 0.25% running Mint, 0.15% running Ubuntu, and so-on. Say you’re a smallish publisher like Klei. You might want to release your games on Linux, but it would be a pain in the ass to have to do QA for a dozen different distros, each of which is less than 1% of your user base, especially when nearly every box is customized in some way. But, if the Steam Deck and Gabe Cube take off, they’ll have to support at least one Linux distro. That means that if you’re running say Ubuntu, as long as you can get your system to look enough like the Gabe Cube, any game that works well on the Gabe Cube should work for you.

That could start off a positive feedback loop. More games will support Gabe Cube and Steam Deck, so Linux for gaming PCs becomes more and more viable. With more and more users using Linux, making sure Linux is well supported becomes a priority for publishers. That encourages even more people to move to Linux.

Also, for the other points, it might also be something good for families where one person (say mom or dad) likes building their own gaming PC, but 8 year old son isn’t yet at the age where he can build his own PC, and mom doesn’t want to have to build a whole gaming PC for him too. Now you can just quickly add another gaming PC to the house but without having to do significantly more upkeep and maintenance.

Not immune, but not safer, definitely. A lot of bullshit like that is a south-of-the-border phenomenon.

You think I’m ignorant because…?