5434a
4d ago
You could try to find a better balance between too much and too little, but it sounds like you're already there. It will always be a trade-off between the distracting thoughts that accrue during abstention and the relative sexual lethargy that follows relief. You might as well get used to it, it doesn't go away and there's no practical way to merely dial it down to the perfect level and keep it there. It would be like trying to keep your bladder half full, only more challenging.
The psychological approach would be to sublimate the drive and direct it into other activities but I think that's misleading. Exercising or competing for status or what have you might be more personally productive but you'll come out the other end just as horny as you went in, probably more so. This is not a phenomenon that originates within the mind. You can't meditate your way around it. You can either find a sex partner, masturbate, or endure until it resolves spontaneously.
5434a
4d ago
Tangent: there was actually a study going around recently about what faces people find attractive, but I tried it last night and I was generally unimpressed with it because age effects dominated and there weren't many younger-looking pictures, even with the question at the beginning about age preferences.
Agreed. I'm interested in this idea but that study was underwhelming. I'm more interested in the differences in what particular types/shapes, or sub-types, of faces other people give their top rating to, not the more basic elements that study seemed to be measuring (sex/age/race/weight). Those are definitely factors, but I'm more interested in isolating the variations and variety of judgements within those categories. I don't need a survey to tell me that I don't rate gingers, black women, or men, but the survey seemingly totally missed that I strongly prefer dark hair over blonde.
I guess that from the local government point of view a large business paying <100% of the standard local taxes after tax breaks looks a lot better than a large business paying 0% because they found a better offer somewhere else.
The question is whether the taxes raised are going to be a net benefit after fully accounting for the costs of hosting these businesses. At some point it tips over into a net loss, and the closer it is to that point the less worthwhile it is. Given that one side has billions of investment capital and a fleet of corporate professionals dedicated to getting a datacentre built at the optimal cost while their opposition are a set of competitors each consisting of a bunch of minor league politicians and their under-funded, under-paid, under-experienced and under-qualified admin staff who also have to manage their other various duties it's a safe bet that a deal will favour the business.
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