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We can’t keep overclocking a brain

The last 60,000 years of human ingenuity and creativity would prove that to be demonstrably false. The problem isn't how much we have to process but what we're being forced to by modern life.

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Big mistake rule

My sister went through 3 potential builders before she found one that would even address her rather than her husband.

She, the extremely qualified, professional architect who works restoring ancient buildings and who's name is on the structural plans and diagrams as the engineer picked the first people who could identify that her husband couldn't tell a hammer from a screwdriver.

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Locked in rule

First thing my parents did when they retired was pick a university degree to take to keep their minds active.

If someone can for fun complete a maths degree at 73, pretty sure it's not too late for whatever you want to do.

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I mean actual wasabi isn't that "hot", the majority of what is called wasabi, outside Japan is horseradish which is a lot "hotter". Wasabi is also eaten in incredibly small amounts to season the food rather than provide a dominant flavour.

Traditional Japanese food has almost no heat at all, short hop to Korea though where they love very spicy food.

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What were the stalemate-breaking tactics at the end of WW1?

The biggest game changers towards the end of the war we're strategic rather than tactical. Namely the economic dominance of the Entente and the crippling blockade of the Central powers. This enabled the Allies to weather the effects of the huge manpower losses in the earlier years of the war.

As far as tactics go, the biggest shift was to move away from the massed infantry assault (big artillery bombardment followed by a massed infantry charge towards the enemy line) and moving more towards infiltration where smaller groups of soldiers would sneak across no man's land and attack specific installations before the rest of the infantry, now supported by tanks, would attack en masse.