You can definitely do the James Bond semester at college if you're so inclined, which iirc is: wine tasting, handgun safety, cross country skiing, swedish massage, and ballroom dancing.
Introduction to Wines: https://sha.cornell.edu/admissions-programs/undergraduate/ac...
Introduction to Handgun Safety: https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=...
Cross Country Skiing: https://scl.cornell.edu/coe/pe-courses/spring-pe-courses/sno...
Swedish Massage: https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=...
Ballroom Dance: https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP20/class/PE/1153
Of course the advantage of going to Waterloo is that you can probably pass the Google coding interviews.
I'm not sure if they're offered anymore, but they used to have Basic Rifle Marksmanship and Epee de Guerre. My friend once told me he thought my major was "weapons".
In most of Svalbad you need to carry a rifle to defend yourself against polar bears.
I’d say that there’s not many of them if they go to school there.
That's your problem, but at you had:
Underwater Linux .iso Distributing
The Computational Fluid Dynamics of(strictly hypothetical) Human Sexual Intercourse in a Canoe
Outdoor Code Golf(Winter Session)
"E-Sports"
That’s not the Waterloo that I know
SimBudweiser?
It was one of the hardest courses I took at university - so much memorization of various wine regions around the world, grape varietals, etc.
By learning it I mean being proficient with it that you're smooth and comfortable with it, and can make your partner look good.
[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/spacedrepetition/2005-seabrook.pd...
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That's pretty much all you get in most undergrad courses anyway. It's usually an intro to, or first taste of, a sophisticated subject that would take a long time to master. It's only after many such intros (i.e. many hundreds of hours of study) that the student will begin to develop a more sophisticated understading of their chosen field.
In that light, is a 1-credit skiing course any different from a 1-credit astronomy course?
For example, when walking, one sets the foot down heel first. With ballroom dancing, it's ball first.
Pretty sure James Bond's handgun use is more on the unsafe side of things. I mean, he does have a license to kill and uses it frequently.
I can't read Japanese and I used Google translate for the post text (so maybe there's more depth that's lost in translation), but the pictures look to be pretty "generic influencer". None of those pictures look any different than what you would expect from a random 20 something influencer. Additionally, the text on the tweet is pretty much "I like motorcycles" along with "her" age and height. Everything here seems to be pretty much the same "here's a pretty girl in front of something" post that instagram is full of.
Again, I'm only going off the pictures and Google translate, so if someone who understands the culture better wants to correct me, feel free, but until that happens, I'm going to believe there's nothing more to this than a bunch of people wanting to look at a pretty girl.
Edit: Ran the tweet in the article through DeepL at the suggestion of some replies. Here's the translation so you all can come to your own conclusions:
٩ Everyone!
Do you have a bike?
Spring will be here soon
Age: Showa era
Height:166
Lives in Ibaraki Kumamoto
I love to tinker with motorcycles
Comment: Life is once, play this world
If you know nothing of the language, culture, motorcycles, motorcycle gear, etc, I am going to guess there are a lot of really important details that are utterly lost on you.
I know bikes, I know Japanese, and I lived and road in Japan.
The translation is largely accurate (just minor structural stuff that doesn’t matter).
The only content that might matter, and it doesn’t really seem to, are the hashtags for the tweet that were not covered above (roughly “connect with bikers” and “quick biker self-intro”).
While I agree with your general characterization of Google translate when dealing with Japanese content, in this case it did a decent job, largely because the content was very simple and straightforward.
Specifically, even though “Showa ??” was translated accurately, that doesn’t necessarily mean that someone knows what it means (born before Jan 89, that is, the Showa era).
If so, good point!
That being said, this is the Google translation of the tweet in the article:
Minasan ٩ (ˆoˆ) ۶ Do you have a motorcycle? Spring is coming soon Age: Showa ○○○ Height: 166 Living: Ibaraki I love: messing around with bikes
Like I said in my last comment, I know Google translate is far from perfect and I'm very open to being proven wrong, but I have a hard time believing that there's some deep insight in this post when that is what Google translate put put out. The translation seems pretty "influencer" to me.
And the guy took his money with a straight face and sold him the boots even though the color of the boots signaled he was a trainer or something, which is something the nouveau riche guy had no way of knowing. But it would have been immediately laughable to most people who were in the know.
I am not going to go through the account and try to make up BS, but the bike may be custom built, the gear he's wearing may be amazingly good, the locations he is posting from may be something incredibly special in some way and not commenting on those details may be part of the appeal.
I'm a writer by trade and I get paid by the word and also have to meet other constraints and you can sometimes say very little with three paragraphs or you can say a metric fuck ton with a few well-chosen words.
I absolutely don't know enough about the topic. I just know that when things get popular, it is often due to some value-added detail that no one explicitly talks about. The fact that it gets slipped in and not commented on is part of what makes some things wildly popular.
A density of quality info and yadda is often some element of that and that is often not obvious to outsiders who cannot readily tell that this photo is some superficial tripe and that seemingly similar one is worlds apart in quality, data, informativeness, whatever.
Anyway: This is my insomnia talking. It is absolutely not intended to be ugly or pick a fight or yadda.
You have a great day/night/whatever.
Most of his posts are very casual, but his goal is still to ride the bike rather than fix it everyday so that is the bulk of what he shares. His tone is definitely targeting a less experienced audience. In some of the posts, there's light-hearted trivia about niche topics. He's appealing to a younger generation. Getting new people involved in what looks like an exclusive hobby is always exciting to see online.
All the examples you gave are totally possible. There may be something about the bike or the locations being visited that are special, I really don't know. Even if that is the case, that's not really what OP was claiming and not really what I was responding to.
There are tons of little reasons this account could be popular, but based on the little research I did, I don't think it's because "she" is making posts full of wisdom, years beyond "her" age.
^^ this
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A dogwhistle, basically? "Dog whistles use language which appears normal to the majority, but which communicate specific things to intended audiences."
Dogwhistles are most often associated with politics, but the idea goes beyond that (unless you classify all asymmetric/broadcasted communication as political, which is not without merit.)
Of course all of this requires self-drive and personal determination / willingness.
If you don’t to divulge too much on the finance part, I get it.
That's just one of the things I do. I also blog and do resume work and my blogs get some support from Patreon and tips.
But I have learned a whole lot about writing well doing it on a paid-per-word basis. That's been a real growth experience for me as a writer developing my craft.
These are meaningless differences that only people who don't speak Japanese notice. Because once you do, you'd know that the text being in English instead of Japanese is already such a large difference that picking at individual words doesn't mean anything. (And honorifics definitely don't mean much. Even if you "leave them in" for "correctness", that actually means leaving in the ones the kids know and taking out the ones they don't.)
Actually one of the translators for a lot of popular works recently left Twitter because kids kept harassing him because he was "wrong" because the official work didn't match rumors they'd started based on their incorrect Japanese knowledge. Hope he's not doing that.
Fwiw, being born in the Showa era (ended Jan 89) would put her at 31 as a minimum.
Minor nitpick, but I just noticed the Showa ?? birth year in the tweet, and that would have raised red flags for me. Even for Japan, the doctored pic doesn’t really look 31, much less mid-30s or older.
Edit: Your translation is mostly correct (The second line is more like “Do you bike?”, but it sounds more natural in Japanese).
Note that this tweet also has a self-intro for motorcyclists hashtag.
The shift from 20s to 30s for females in Japan is generally not a welcome one — pressure to marry, have kids, “settle down”, etc. are very real. It is also perceived that women in their 30s are not as “cute” (something often sought after, especially by public entertainment figures).
Or if someone is just privacy conscious about details that may be used to steal their identity, they may have just randomly chose January 1, 1970 or whatever was the top choice on the little menu.
Even if a person is a simple product of their times, as one gets older that gets increasingly interesting. Because the times change so much over the years.
"Middle age is the period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age."
"Meaning something" personally and "being interesting" are not the same.
Also there isn't that much wrong with just exploiting popularity machine. So a bunch of people thought you were a young girl, and you're not... who cares! If anything you are teaching people to stop putting so much credence into the SM sphere... which can only be good.
Edit: the power output curve is also not for the faint of heart and there's no electronic helpers, overall very different to ride compared to a current 600cc model with all the bells and whistles :-)
That said... when Jonathan Goldsmith was auditioning for part of The Most Interesting Man in the World, the ad agency called his agent and said, "We really like him, but we think he might be too old," and she replied (quite masterfully), "How could the Most Interesting Man in the World be young?", implying it would take a lifetime to acquire the achievements.
So I guess the answer is, be old and good-looking, like Goldsmith, or Sean Connery.
They are not, but I think people will get better at realizing this the way many now know what it means for something to be "photoshopped" whether they can identify it and subsequently dismiss it or not.
I believe that physical "good" looks, analytical and social intelligence, trade and athletic skill, and artistic talent will eventually converge as our future "stars."
Those are not truly useful skills anywhere except this one ecosystem.
We’re at the stock market has gotten competition from cryptocurrency’s, and social media becomes less service oriented and more of a layer.
Sort of like photoshop enthusiasts knew about and admired skill in the tool but the public generally had little familiarity.
As photo manipulation became common “photoshopped” as an idea was more commonly understood.
James Bond is like The Dread Pirate Roberts and gets played by someone new every few years. Only the name stays the same.
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This type of argument is toxic. Adds little to the conversation. If you can back any of these maybes that would be great...
I have many relatives and friends who are amazing at skiing. My cousin posts pictures every winter of the sick lines he skis down.
I'm neither an excellent marksman nor skier, but I don't think it would be difficult to become excellent at both given an excessive amount of free time within a few years.
I can though drive a manual very well, own a sports car, and have no fear of drifting it.
A coworker of mine was a pro skydiver, and recommended it to everyone. I've met other skydivers as well; it's supposedly easy and affordable.
Another coworker owned his own plane. Planes are costly but he wasn't James Bond rich...
My brother-in-law owns a few hundred guns including fully automatic weapons.
Being James Bond is a bit idiotic in real life as he engages in a lot of high risk stuff, but it is certainly doable.
Most young people aren't that interesting. Older people tend to be more interesting, but no one wants to look at them.
It's like when movies show Charlie's Angels or James Bond fluently speaking multiple languages and efficiently wielding various weapons and skiing like Olympic skiers. You know that's not real. Any one of those things takes all your time to master. But it makes for a cool movie to bundle them all together.
And maybe people fell for it in part because we watch nonsense like James Bond. So it hit that note and didn't immediately set off alarm bells.