So, this may well be the fastest I've ever written. It may also be really terrible. But at least it's something. The relief is palpable.https://magickation.wordpress.com/2018/03/11/prolegomenon …
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Mazel! You are a failed Buddhist. You can now add to that Failed Writer.
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Hahah! Come on, man.
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F_B and I both hail from the NE US/E Canada region. One way guys display affection is by giving one another endless shit.
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Oh it's the same at home, don't worry. I'm just used to living around fragile Middle Europeans who take it rather badly.
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For those curious, I'd happily do a literal translation of a typical greeting between friends in Norther Norway, but I'm worried Twitter's shitty-ass machine learning implementation would permaban me.
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Can you sidestep the ML overlord by typing it on your screen and posting a photo thereof?
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I'm sure it would be fine. I'm mostly just taking every chance I get to trash Twitter's pathetic engineering. But sure, one sec...
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Granted, I spent just as much time creating the stupid title image as I did writing the damn thing, but whatever.
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So the post itself, now that I'm done taking the piss and had 20 seconds to read it (yeah, it really is quite short...), is actually pretty interesting. Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sects... fascinating.
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I mean, these things are part of my peripheral awareness in terms of what's out there, but have never been more salient than Pi (the movie) for me.
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Yeah, they're actually so insular that nobody in the real world really knows what the hell goes on in there. There have only recently been a handful of documentaries and books released about it, and even those don't do it justice.
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I saw a documentary recently - One of Us - about people trying to leave Hasidic Judaism. Wow.
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That's a great one. I did have some minor issues with it (mostly in the nuance department), but overall it's a very good film. Props to Netflix for that.
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Thanks for the motivation.
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Hey, all I proved is that any idiot can do it... ;)
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Good stuff, Failed Buddhist. I've been writing blogs for ten years. I can tell you for sure that writing a blog makes you better writer. It's all about speed. You write a blog article as fast as you can, as fast as you can think. worry about grammar and spelling later.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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