Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "GEN" channel.

  1. I had to "fight" a girl who was buffier than me. While she tried to hit me hard, I was actively trying to not harm her, which took much more effort than just going straight to put her down. I was getting tired of doing that, so I ended the fight by tacking her by the hairs to smash her face into a wall, except I put my hand (and crushed it) in between so she was not really hurt, only really shocked. My hand did hurt, but she realized that it could have been real. It was totally stupid from her, but in institutions, you need to show you are dominating or you are going to suffer a lot from people trying to take advantage of you. And even when I was training in Taekwondo, I was paired with a big girl who din't really understood what a "touch" is and went full swing. Complained to the master after trying to explain to her. The master dismissed me and locked our pair so I could "toughen up". We were paired with girls, because we all learned to do "touches" properly, so there were no real differences beside that it's impressive when a fist is going for your face and you've to not move (except me, who had to react promptly to deflect it). That master was very though on everyone, even running on our abs while weighting above 90Kg. And when fighting, girls were spared 🤣 We saw "fights" where the guy just came close, picked the girl and flattened her while laughing. But these were most for fun than exercise. Also the one to many fights were girls didn't had the time to strategize, so it was a mess and very entertaining. Usually, it was a higher ranked man who would just stood almost idle until the girls are tired, then put them down in funny ways. It wasn't to be sexist or anything like that, it was just to make a fun moment and even the girls had fun trying really hard. It was a time where we knew the differences and respected them. You were able to have fun without being called randomly for misogyny. And for those not understanding, there were the same thing with kids trying to take on a full grown up. And during demonstrations (public events where people can see what you are doing), we had kids and girls taking on black belts. Except that there, it was a choreography were they won against the black belt in comical ways, like rolling between the legs then jump to grab the throat and smacking him down. Which is harder than it looks to perform and takes weeks of preparation! (that permits to highlight gifted individuals)
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  2. To give you a fair idea, I worked as a student in a service that did too many things manually. They were working hard, but I made their job much easier in a few days. So easy that one employee was unhappy about it and asked me if I wanted to put them out of the job. As a to become programmer, I was better at their job just because I could automate the mundane part. Before, they had to sync their calendar through an Excel file to plan activities and campaigns. After, they just had to fill in the information and move stuff around. Also, they had issues when someone was sick because they couldn't access his file version. It was that time when files were sent by email. All I did was use MS Access to connect to a database on a shared drive and create a few forms with the data they had in the Excel file. When I left, they asked that I provide a view looking like the Excel file they used 🤣 Salary also correlates to your productivity and your scarcity.
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  3. 9:55 since then, companies are back pedaling DEI because of financial loss ^^ So, real life does not support the research.
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  4. 10:30 is a foolish thing in Hollywood. There are a lot of untapped stories. My Cambodian friend told me stories about the 3 fishes, the kind of ghosts roaming around midnight, and spirits. Those are stories that would bring novelty and get people sucked in.
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  5. 9:17 If one has trouble understanding why the argument that numbers going closer means women are closing the gap is wrong, here is a simple explanation! If you pit chess players of 100 ELO against each other, they will, on average, win half of their games. If you pit chess players of 1000 ELO against each other, they will, on average, win half of their games. If you pit a chess player of 100 ELO against a player of 1000 ELO, they will lose almost always 100% of their games. As you can see, what is important is the difference in level between players/teams that is important! ELO is a rating system used in chess; it's basically how good you are at it.
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