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Jake_Dragon
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MAR 07, 05:41 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
You might've been addressing this to sourmash, but he appears to have his hands full in Politics & Religion. I'll therefore relate my own experience in regards to one's brain switching to "another mode".
Back when I was 19, I joined a martial arts club. I wanted to learn some self defense. It was kickboxing/karate. We sparred (full contact) every session, and I remember the first few times that my focus was all over the place. I was aware of the instructor, I was aware of all the other students, I was aware of the entire room. It's almost like my opponent was secondary... which wasn't good! I'd be getting nailed far too often! Eventually, over time, I learned to narrow my focus, tighter and tighter... to the point where nothing else in the world existed except for my opponent and myself.
When I look back, I feel that learning to focus entirely on the task at hand (especially in a dangerous/stressful situation), and to act appropriately without really needing to "think", was the most valuable lesson I learned from my martial art days. And although it hasn't been required too many times in my life, there have been several occasions when that learned response, that total focus has kicked in, and I'm grateful for it.
And for anyone to state that only men can learn to act in this manner is... a lot of BULL! (See what I did there.)
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Once you are engaged yes you should focus. But detecting and responding to a situation is the opposite. You need to be aware of your surroundings, far too many people walking off cliffs while looking at their phones.
When I was young I would run, I was pretty athletic and would use that to get myself out of danger, but as I grew up and started to get some life experience I found that running away isn't always the best answer. Part of that is training and part of it is not being a selfish ass and not doing what I can when I can when someone is in danger.
Its that ability to focus once you recognize a situation and to be able to react. Some of that is training, some of it is just who you are.
Some people will run and some will stand and spend too much time evaluating the situation.
Some people will jump in before they know what is going on. <-- that is me sometimes.
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Patrick
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MAR 07, 05:44 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Jake_Dragon:
Once you are engaged yes you should focus. But detecting and responding to a situation is the opposite. You need to be aware of your surroundings...
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Absolutely.
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A_Lonely_Potato
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MAR 07, 06:18 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
I suspect there was supposed to be more than that to your post.  |
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Sigh....yes there was. Not sure why it didn't show up correctly on your end. What OS/browser are you running?
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blackrams
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MAR 07, 06:22 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Jake_Dragon:
Some people will run and some will stand and spend too much time evaluating the situation.
Some people will jump in before they know what is going on. <-- that is me sometimes. |
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From my youth up to somewhere in middle age and even to a point now, I react, sometimes without thinking of the risk to myself.
I think it's part of my DNA. Now that I'm in later years of my life, I'm limited in what I can do and that makes one think before acting.
When assigned to Korea, I was on my way to the airfield and I saw a fight between a Korean man and what was obviously a soldier, the Korean was definitely getting the best of the soldier. I hollered at another soldier to get the MPs and simply grabbed both within my arms and squeezed both as hard as I could and basically tackled them and brought them both to the ground and held on tight until the MPs got there. I learned later that the soldier was actually trying to buy drugs and they got into an argument over how much money was to be involved. This involvement was kind of a stupid move on my part in that the Korean was armed but, I didn't know that.
Another time, I saw a young man and young lady being harassed by a group of teenagers at a convenience store I had stopped at getting fuel in my truck. I simply reached behind my seat and grabbed a tire bar and walked over and stood there watching. The teenagers saw me and decided their efforts weren't worth the possible tire iron's use. I don't tell these stories to make myself look brave, they are simply what I did. In fact, they could be considered pretty stupid things to do but, as I said, I'm not a stand back and watch individual. The possibility of me getting my ass kicked was and is always there. That's the risk one runs when they get involved. I honestly think most people if given the opportunity will stand up and do something but, not everyone falls within the grouping of most.
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maryjane
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MAR 07, 06:31 PM
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Most today 'appear' to be more interested in videoing an event instead of getting involved.
Vids and piics have their place but not at the expense of someone else's life, safety, or well being.
"If you see something, DO something" other than stand around like a bucket of stale piss.
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Patrick
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MAR 07, 07:33 PM
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A_Lonely_Potato
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MAR 07, 09:59 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Win7, Chrome.
I occasionally see odd, meaningless symbols where I believe (could be wrong) that the poster has tried to use a smiley face icon that their phone provides. I saw another one here just recently (by Cliff Pennock) that I was going to screen capture as a further example... but I can't find it at the moment.
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Pretty sure i know exactly whats going on for ya Patrick. Windows 10(perhaps 8/8.1) added a feature with the Windows + ; shortcut that pulls up an emoji list very similar to what you would find on most phones nowadays. Older operating systems like Windows 7, Vista(yuck), XP(god forbid you still run such a vulnerability) didn't have support for properly displaying those "characters," so you wind up seeing blank rectangles/squares.
I believe this is the menu Cliff was referring to in his post.
EDIT: Oh my that article reminded me of the character map. I forgot thats still a thing haha. I've memorized a choice few alt codes for symbols like ° (alt + 0176) but I forgot I could use charmap for it too[This message has been edited by A_Lonely_Potato (edited 03-07-2022).]
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Patrick
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MAR 07, 10:06 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by A_Lonely_Potato:
Windows 10(perhaps 8/8.1) added a feature with the Windows + ; shortcut that pulls up an emoji list very similar to what you would find on most phones nowadays. Older operating systems like Windows 7, Vista(yuck), XP(god forbid you still run such a vulnerability) didn't have support for properly displaying those "characters," so you wind up seeing blank rectangles/squares.
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Interesting. Yep, that certainly explains things!
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some "hack" which will allow Win7 to recognize and display the correct characters. My research begins! 
[EDIT] Well, that didn't take long.  How to Get Windows 10 Emojis on Windows 7/8[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 03-07-2022).]
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A_Lonely_Potato
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MAR 07, 10:32 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some "hack" which will allow Win7 to recognize and display the correct characters. My research begins!
[EDIT] Well, that didn't take long.
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It doesn't surprise me. I was however expecting it to be a little more in depth and hacky.
Why are you running windows 7 still might i ask?
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Patrick
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MAR 07, 10:48 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by A_Lonely_Potato:
Why are you running windows 7 still might i ask?
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Because I have a lot of photo and video editing software, and hardware, installed in my workstation tower... and I don't wish to have potential driver and/or compatibility issues if I was to "upgrade" to Win10. It all works just fine the way it is... and yes, I've been warned about "security" concerns.
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