'For a moderately serious answer start with The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli; then move on to Robert Green, Saul Alinsky, and Edward Bernays in no particular order. The moral of the story being...|||I'm half way a BS in Mechanical Engineering. If I take a trigonometry and statistics class I'll have an AS in Mathematics.|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJN-vTBp0jo Savage AF|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgll-XTqcS4|||I think I'll try to stay one or two weeks ahead of schedule this semester. If it works I might even try to get organized at some point.|||Physical aggression: 0.42 Verbal aggression: 0.70 Hostility: 0.38 Anger: 0.18|||Its weird I don't mind being around people smoking, but I've never had a desire to smoke myself. The smell normally doesn't bother me, unless they smoke a lot indoors then that can give me a...|||Das Boot: Director's cut (1981) K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) The Hunt for Red October (1990) Master and Commander (2003) The Duelists (1977) Waterloo (1970) Gettysburg (1993) 1898, Our Last Men...|||Honestly, Lincoln is vastly over rated. Among other things he suspended habeas corpus, shut down a pro-succession newspaper in New York, introduced conscription for the first time in the US (which...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Rc0OfEkRE tl;dw  Monuments should be for people who did great things, e.g. stuffing the french, even if they aren't perfect role models.   Also the 9th century...|||I remember falling out of window when I was about five. Nothing broke but my parents just about had a heart attack.|||25/50|||ISTP/Type 5 here,  If you're new to MBTI and ISTPs in particular you might want to check out WTF years(Ti-Ni loop), I don't think that's the problem but you will know better.  When I'm stressed...|||By some strange miracle my entire steam library can******* run in Linux Ubuntu and possibly Mint; I can't believe this is actually going to happen.   So I'm off to go buy some lottery...|||I remember right after they announced Windows 10 joking about how they should rename it to 'Windows 1984' or maybe 'A Brave New Windows'.   I'm seriously considering switching to Linux. Once this...|||I tried to restart, but can't even get off the screen to enter my password. I'm just going to get a female USB to male ps2 adapter, they're literally $1 a piece, but it'll still take a few days to...|||So I finally installed Windows 10 'creators' update on my custom built desktop. Apparently something went wrong in the update and the USB drivers aren't working, which is a problem considering that...|||These erasable gel pens, I keep one in my jacket pocket and two in my backpack. Although I got mine at Staples in packs of two.|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIwL_uvSAgg I first heard about Skinwalkers from Jim.|||I hated elementary school. I didn't do well in middle school, socially at least. High-school was pretty good although some of the pointless rules got old towards the end.   Around graduation, the...|||ISTP here, rural farmhouse followed closely by mountain cabin.  Trying to have a workshop in a city would be next to impossible. I don't think I could handle the people you find in the suburbs, all...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YErFwJX0HKE  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9hyESCLm8k|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso|||Maybe try going on a few little day hikes as an experiment; all you need is time, comfortably walking shoes(closed-toed, don't be that guy), and a water-bottle. You can use it as alone time to think,...|||If you don't think you have Ne or Se, it could be you're an ISTP in WTF Years. Basically Ti>Se>Ni>Fe turns into Ti>Ni>Fe>Se.|||In this case, torque(10Nm) = length of wrench (for example 0.4m) * force acting perpendicular to the wrench 10Nm / 0.4m = 25N acting perpendicular to wrench  Gravity exerts a ~10N (9.8N) per...|||If a concrete approach isn't working then yes. My understanding is that ISTP's cognitive functions are Ti>Se>Ni>Fe. Ti tries to solve the problem with input from Se. If that doesn't work Ni tries to...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q3qPuF7FUc  Edit: I might as well share this one too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Q_b-DBuww 0:09 to 0:11 gets me every time.|||ISTP   Americana, under the assumption that it includes southern food, Cajun, and barbecue.|||Buying that much diesel shouldn't trip any automated red flags, truck drivers do it all the time, but the gas cans might.  What would one do with about 1000 lbs diesel every few days, hypothetically...|||They're nicely coated in what ever type of oil was in that pressure washer I was trying to fix.:frustrating: Only 1/3 are rusty, only on the drive side, and it's random in the case. We keep them in...|||Why is it that the socket you need is always rusted up to the point of not fitting onto the wrench, assuming it isn't just missing altogether.|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66m52YFZBg|||676146 The best part is reconsising the paintings and then finding copies already on you computer. r9k - Album on Imgur - link to the originals|||I've came to the conclusion that my tolerance for drama and bullshit is far too low to take most discussions about news and politics seriously. If it comes up I normally just play devils advocate and...|||I know what you mean. I thought it would be a great idea to take Dynamics, Calc III. and Differential equations in the same semester.|||I tend to stay up late if possible. Sometimes I'll be busy doing something and notice I'm getting tired, only to realize it's 4:00AM. It's also nice to not have to deal with family wondering what I'm...|||Interview with Frank Bourne, color sergeant of A company 24th Regiment of Foot during Rorke's drift.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l59BTOG_iY ...|||After spending last month doing nothing but writing papers and working on advanced math, it felt great to actually build something.|||So one of the problems on my differential equation test was literately to solve the same problem in three different ways.|||I'm in southeast TN. The last time I was there, probably 3 years ago now, I was in Cades Cover.  I just choked on smoke from it burning for a few weeks. We had about 1/4 mile visibility for weeks...|||Damn, we're practically neighbors.  How is the park after the fires last fall? We got plenty of smoke from it down here. Its been a while since I've had the time to go hiking. I used to go about...|||Dear City Councils,  The 8th century called, it wants it's Iconoclasm back.   The reason you want monuments dotted around your city is that people well see them and think 'That looks interesting,...|||ISTP  Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogzlmuH7nuY Must it take a life for hateful eyes To glisten once again Five hundred years like Gelignite* Have blown...|||Make it happen.|||Roi-c|||Das Boot (1981) The trailer is awful, so one of my favorite scenes instead.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zajdE5U2e8 You're going to want the German director's cut with subtitles.|||1. Pro 2. Pro 3. Pro 4. Pro 5. Only in very definitive cases 6. Pro 7. Against 8. Pro 9. Sure, last time I cheeked that would bring in around $7 Billion annually in the US. 10. It might as...|||Dear sister, Before you tell me how to live my life, stop and ask yourself how well your advice worked out in your life. The answer is terribly.  As a passive-aggressive reminder You moved 3,000...|||Yes Why did I start that video with headphones in?'