Piling on the thanks for this post. Fun read.
What would be the appropriate UP location for content like the Coke/Pepsi discussion? Is there a thread for interesting wiki articles?
I don’t know, but if there is, my nomination is the 1904 Summer Olympics, which includes this gem:
One of the most remarkable athletes was the American gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals even though his left leg was made of wood
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gold in the vault with a peg leg is a wtf back then no springboard and I don’t know if it was a literal horse
He also competed in the athletics triathlon lol nobody gave a **** back then
some points docked for being 90% americans in that olympics and 239 of 280 medals and most of those non americans were immigrants who hadn’t gotten citizenship yet
lol that olympics one 17 year old wrestled one match, lost and still got a bronze medal they really dgaf about this back then lolol
you guys should netflix killer mike’s episode on crips-a-cola
Gaetz was on that trip with a marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon named Jason Pirozzolo, who allegedly paid for the travel expenses, accommodations, and female escorts, the sources said.
There seems to be investigation into whether this was quid pro quo for Gaetz introducing a bill for medical research of cannabis.
not positive but the two things I remember from the Gladwell (and btw strongly agree at overall wariness towards Gladwellian pop psychology) was that Pepsi tended to win the Pepsi challenge because it was subtly sweeter/fruitier/zingier, i.e. qualities that tended to dissipate or even be cloying by the end of a can. In other words Pepsi was built for sip tests but Coke had staying power, which arguably ends up being a useful example and/or metaphor for tons of stuff.
But huh, that kinda contradicts the other thing I remember, which was that the tastes of Coke and Pepsi were actually so similar that only a trained tasting pro could dependably tell the difference in a triangle test. Triangle test rules: get three unmarked opaque glasses, fill two with one drink and fill the other with the other and then taste them all blindfolded (and if we’re being really strict then have somebody else fill them and randomize the drinks/order). The test isn’t to say which are Coke and Pepsi, it’s only to say which of the glasses is the odd one out. Of course everybody thinks they can do it—because duh it’s Coke and Pepsi, I mean cmon—but then it turns out that it’s pretty hard to get it right better than 1/3rd of the time, i.e. to beat probability.
Repeat with vodka, wine, press releases by famous pedophiles, whatever it takes until you accept that knowledge is an illusion and that cultivating an inner senior keedian reverse snobbery is about as reliable as say sex panther cologne
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We got him?
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Well that don’t sound too promising.
I’m not going to go back and look but it sure seems like when a politician goes down, an indictment just gets dropped on their head one day. These cases that are in the papers for months without any formal charges don’t seem to lead to much of anything.
Complete and total exoneration:
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You mean they make shit up?
Lol, good one. “Conservatives” and “reason” used sincerely in one post!
Sklansky was the OG at this, didn’t have enough grifting sense.
Edit: Thomas Carlyle was the OG really but Sklansky is in the game.
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Trafficking underage girls or…?
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You like interesting 1904 olympics sports stories?
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To be fair, have found this is true of most books that are trying to persuade you of something. Intro, fluff, conclusion. No need to read the fluff or conclusion (which is just the Intro restated with a sprinkle of the fluff mixed in) because
you will intuitively be able to tell if the Intro is true via your Blink ability, ldo.
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Someday I should test myself on wine. I think that the $C 25 to 30 bottles I buy are better than the $15 bottles I used to buy, but its possible my brain is being tricked.
There was also this:
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The worst thing about Gladwell for me was finding out that Michael Lewis is one of his protégés. I loved ‘Moneyball’ both the book and the film 
…so the ideal soda experience would be to first have a shot of Pepsi, then wash it down with Coke?
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I also read this (which is in “Blink”) and thought it sounded like bullshit, so my ex and I set up these triangle tests for each other and it was trivial. Not only could we always instantly pick the odd one out in triangle tests, we could tell you which was Coke and which was Pepsi, and we didn’t even have to taste that shit, you can do it on smell. IDK if it’s true that most people can’t do this, but if so, lol most people.
I’ve run similar blind wine tastings before. That’s tougher, but it’s still not like totally random results or anything.
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