The Well: wpr101

[qbj0hn]

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- Americans post less on social networking like Facebook. When I am in Estonia and doing something, I'm like ohh cool I will update my status for that. In America, I think that seems retarded to update my status.

To me it seems quite the opposite: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...8/index49.html assuming most of the users are from usa, the thread is full of gold.

[leits]

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favourite food?
bring kfc to estonia also .. :)

[Rampage_Jackson]

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What's the most degen thing you think you've ever done in your life?

When I first got back into poker (roughly 2002) after having taken a 2-3 year break. I picked PokerRoom.com again because that is where I played first.

The idea was to deposit $500 and play 1 table of 5/10 limit. Ran disgusting, and lost $250 almost immediately. I was so fucking tilted, I was like I just lost half my money... fuck it, either flip it now to get back to $500 or lose it all. I went to a high stakes 5 card draw game and lost it all :D

Now, I deposit another $500 a few days later. This time I am going to be serious. I lose $100 right away, and then put the 2-day restriction block on my account. Like the gambling procection tab... it suggested I call Gambler's Anonymous lol. One of my friends came over and was like how come you are not playing online? I told him, I banned myself from the site for 2 days.

Then I come back to it, after the ban, lose more money, and do another 2 day ban. I actually thought this was like a decent idea to keep doing this.

On the third time I tried to get a 2-day ban from playing, it said on your third ban, it has to be for a 10 day period. That was way too fucking long. Decided to start playing on a different site, PokerRoom is rigged obv

Put $200 on Stars/Party and never looked back. I started much smaller with $10 sit and gos, found the 2+2 forums, and learned about bankroll. Helped I ran good at the start too.

[Rampage_Jackson]

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"The Wire" and reality in Baltimore ?

Much of it is similar, but there is of course a big emphasis on the drug and ganster culture in Baltimore. It can be found in certain places, but the majority of the city is like many other American cities. As far as being dangerous, I would have ranked it about equal with DC. I would rank Detroit as the most dangerous or ghetto city I've seen personally.

[Rampage_Jackson]

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To me it seems quite the opposite: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...8/index49.html assuming most of the users are from usa, the thread is full of gold.

It's really easy to determine for me that Estonians use it much more. Someone can post in Estonia like here's a picture of my pet animal and it will get 50+ "likes" sometimes. In America, it's rare to get 10+ "likes" for even the coolest status. Even when I post something now, I usually get many more likes from Estonians and hardly any from people in America, even though I have maybe 5-6x as many "friends" in America.

When I joined Facebook it was called "The Facebook" in 2004. You had to have a .edu email address to join. Also, I could only interact with people from my own college of University of Michigan. It was a HUGE deal when Facebook said you can add people from other schools now.

So Americans are just sick of it is my best explanation. Many of us have been around since the beginning when it was just some shitty little site. But then we went from only college friends, to other colleges, to high school friends, to co-workers, to relatives, and to the worst of all parents :D

My parents are pretty clueless. I posted a picture of the Mart Laar avatar with the supernova elite stars. Yesterday I was driving with my parents, and they were like ohh yea that former Estonian prime minister, I think the computer was telling us something about him... as if they were giving me new information. I'm like noooooooooooooooooo you saw it on my Facebook profile.

Also, my mom thinks it is appropriate to tell me about every interaction she sees. Oh I saw, that person X commented on photo 137 from album 6. And then she has practically a whole psychoanalysis of what that comment means... I've told her this is total stalker behavior and you need to stop, but she just started using the internet and doesn't get it at all.

[Rampage_Jackson]

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favourite food?
bring kfc to estonia also .. :)

Pizza is my favorite food. 2nd would be high quality sushi.

Yea wtf, where is the KFC??? :D

[leits]

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what about those "greecy" burgers we can see from movies :D
are they really so big .. or only in movies :D?

[Spewmonkey]

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Pretty much every body is mad as hell about politics. You could ask anyone, Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, extremist, environmentalist, etc... the system has gotten really out of control and is it's own beast now that represents nobody.

Official statistics have Obama approval at 44%... you have to consider 12% of the population is black, and they will support him 100% no matter what he does. Too hard to say will be re-elected when the Republican candidate is not known yet.

The current situation is leading somewhere highly negative, but nobody knows what it will look like. I think the financial situation will start having real impacts on people's lives coming up, and the financial situation of European countries as well.

Globally, there is no where to hide in a financial sense. The dollar, euro, and yen all have severe fundamental problems, and other currencies have a much smaller footprint.

Why?

PS. Deadwood is awesome, you rock.

[Romka]

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Pizza is my favorite food. 2nd would be high quality sushi.

Yea wtf, where is the KFC??? :D

Do you find Estonian pizzas good? Which one has been the best so far?

And, are Americans really that spoiled? (Check the picture)

(Klõpsa sisu nägemiseks / peitmiseks)

[Rampage_Jackson]

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what about those "greecy" burgers we can see from movies :D
are they really so big .. or only in movies :D?

The hamburgers and portions in general are bigger in the United States. At a fast food place in America, a medium is the equivalent of a European large or extra large.

At most resturants in Europe they give you a reasonable portion that you can finish but are not hungry still. In the United States most of the time it's impossible to finnish how much food they give you.

So portions are bigger, and the food is less healthy. Actually I lost like 5 kg in the first 2 months of being in Estonia because my diet was automatically healthier.

[Fabulous]

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What are your thoughts on Wikileaks?

[Rampage_Jackson]

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Why?

The parties don't represent the people anymore, it used to be much more simple in the past...

If you thought social programs were good you could vote Democrat, if you thought the free market was best vote Republican... now they both spend out of control.

If you wanted a strong America you could vote Republican, if you wanted a more diplomacy based America vote Democrat... now voting Republican means endless war.

Both parties support out of control spending. Democrats through unfunded social programs, and Republicans through war. The country is broke but they want to increase spending more.

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On the 2nd point of no where to hide. All the governments of the world are inflating the money supply. The Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, and US Federal Reserve are pursuing similar policies. Create as much money as possible, hope one of the other guys goes busto first.

I'll give you a poker analogy :D It's a 3 person tourney where top 2 get paid, and 1st gets significantly more than 2nd. The three players are America, Europe, and Japan. Everybody's strategy right now is let somebody bust in 3rd and then we can play for the real money. They are all racing to the bottom with no end in sight.

Deadwood is awesome

Nice! It's rare to meet another fan of this series.

[Rampage_Jackson]

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Do you find Estonian pizzas good? Which one has been the best so far?

I'd say it's about average. Pizza Americana is the best (imo)... I like the deep dish. There's also Caravan pizza near Swisshotel which stays about 24 hours and has decent pizza. I like eating at Caravan because it has sentimental value to me, it was the first resturant I ate at when I came to Estonia :D

And, are Americans really that spoiled? (Check the picture)

I've explain the difference between employment in the US vs Estonia in the following way:

American will say: OMG I got a 6% bonus this year, this is fucking bullshit, Bob down the hall got an 8% bonus and did less work

Estonian will say: It's nice that I have a job, I am thankful to have this job

It's a bit of an exerageration maybe... however in the US if you go to the Post Office or bank, they are garunteed to have a bad attitude. In Estonia they treat you much more like a real customer or client. It's really refreshing.

There is an entitlement culture in America. Since "we are the best" is the how the average American thinks, they believe they are owed something.

Some people in America have got pissed at me already for saying there are better places to live than America right now. They take this as a personal attack, and think you are full of shit.

Compare this to Estonia where if you told someone there are better places to live than Estonia almost 100% would agree with you. Heck, I even have a really tough time convincing people I moved to Estonia voluntarily and that I am not a tourist or a student :D

[Rampage_Jackson]

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What are your thoughts on Wikileaks?

I think it's good. There is way too much secrecy. Many people say it is un-American, supporting terrorism, or un-patriotic. Generally these people are unaware of what the US government has done in the past.

Details of the 1960s CIA mind control program were released in the 1970s. It is fucking insane what they did. They did more extreme stuff than I ever heard the KGB of doing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

"The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers."

I don't trust the American government at all right now, and the most I've learned about past events, they seem like any other corrupt government. It's nice to see something like wikileaks keeping them honest a bit.

[Rampage_Jackson]

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Thank you for the great Well guys! Many of the questions were pretty challanging, and I think I learned a lot just by thinking and answering them.

I may still check the thread like once a month or so, but do not expect prompt responses.