George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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If this is a personal question and not an hypothetical question meant to answer my own question, the answer is: Pretty much never. Paresthesia is the word, by the way. (edit: douchebag aside struck through.) The last time I felt it I think I had slept on my arm too long one night.
As far as I know self-diagnosing magnesium deficiency is very, very difficult, as the symptoms (twitchiness, cramps, tremors, jaw clenching) are part of a differential diagnosis for many other conditions. But empirically, if someone noticed these symptoms and either adjusted his/her diet (spinach, quinoa, dark chocolate, whatever) to increase dietary magnesium or went on supplements like magnesium glycinate and then noticed an absence of the symptoms, then okay. I'm wondering though how anyone would know this, though there may be places online where upping one's magnesium is considered common knowledge. My concern would be kidney issues.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I first heard of Kimmel when he did The Man Show way back when. I suppose his trajectory to the left is not surprising but he certainly seemed more right (in a bawdy, jokes-about-tits way) at that time.
Late night comedians always used to take potshots at whoever was in office, right up to Obama...and then suddenly the President could do no wrong. Then Obama's sainthood juxtaposed with Trump's Trumpiness happened, and "making fun of both sides" went out the window. Anyone on the right had horns drawn on their image. The rise of the Daily Show and John Stewart's (and Steven Colbert's) extremely politicized humor stirred the pot, and voilà.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
You might balk at this, but consider going a week without taking any biometrics or monitoring at all. I'd actually suggest a month or longer. From my wild and woolly point of view the currently popular idea of "optimizing" one's physical health is more like micromanaging when maybe just grooving for a bit would be more helpful. I suspect however that this suggestion does not interest you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
On a related note, how do you know whether you're magnesium deficient?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Is this sarcasm or are you suggesting Kirk was a Nazi? I assumed sarcasm but it's hard to be sure.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Don't be an asshole.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I think class isn't entirely or even mostly about one's salary.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Sorry I can't tell if this is meant ironically or not.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
More and more I feel like deleting reddit from my phone and nearly never visiting the site (it has been about a month this time) has been a very good choice.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Bangkok, these are all heavily touristed areas, which I would argue give a different picture of Thailand than you would get from a more local experience.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I'm mildly surprised that I haven't yet seen talking heads complaining about the coverage of the murder and protesting that "black women also get murdered and nobody cares," etc. (This may be happening but I have yet to read it personally.)
Years ago when I first heard of "missing white woman syndrome" coined I guess 20 years ago by a TV anchor, I thought "Hm, that's interesting." But it's less-and-less interesting to me now. Now, whenever I hear people throw it out it seems to be yet another tedious effort to downplay criminality and make every god-damned thing a zero-sum-game involving race.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I keep reading your references to Bangkok, but Bangkok is not really representative of all Thailand. Surely this is something you are accounting for?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Are we talking about outside of Bangkok?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I bet my kids can kick your kids' asses.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I'm not buying it. To your one example of what you're calling 'face,' this is a cultural phenomenon noy a linguistic one, and to suggest it's related to some inherent (as opposed to learned) trait seems the opposite of Occam's razor. But your world weaving is entertaining.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Cool story.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I closed my eyes and touched the screen and the language one is what my finger stopped on.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I found this:
their brains are genetically-wired to support those different language types, even when their parents have moved to a new area and speak something else entirely.
to be the kind of jarring pseudoscientific statement of the sorts I noticed in the last installment, though I should probably go back and read them all. There's a matter-of-factness here that is reminiscent of Tsunoda's theory of the Japanese brain, which finds fertile soil in the traditional, Japan is #1 types, but is almost completely without any but the most flimsy, irreproducible evidence. I am always reminded when I read this kind of thing of the blue eyed, blonde white daughter of two friends of mine, a girl raised from infancy in Japan, who speaks, reads and writes Japanese better than many Japanese. She is only one example of many that contradict this kind of neurolinguistic chauvinism, but because I've seen her grow up into adulthood from basically her birth she is my first thought. I personally taught a Bantu language for six months after about two year's immersion, and didn't notice any particular cognitive overload in the learning or speaking of it. But my brain and everything else would have been younger then.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
These stories are certainly disturbing but they're largely sensationalized rarities. Family support systems keep the majority off the streets even if they're personally broke. In the cases where you have a girl in the situation you describe it's almost definitely a case of some sort of seriously bad home life (eg molestation, etc) and not simply "times are hard in Japan." While living in one's parents' home well into adulthood may be odd to those from anglo or European countries, it's not such an anomaly here. When you have a girl who has opted out of that it's for a reason.
Homelessness does exist in Japan, of course, but it's miles away from the type of widespread homelessness you see in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. (I am only naming places I've actually been.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Is this a wall/window unit or central air? We have our wall units deep cleaned about once every two years or so. I don't know if it's planned obsolescence (or a racket) but the thinking is that Japanese wall units get a lot of crud that needs flushing out and otherwise gets breathed in and can cause irritants to those sensitive. This even when you run the self clean mode and/or clean out the removable filters.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2mo ago
I was just going to mention cromulent. I am old enough to have watched that Simpsons episode live, and didn't think about it for years until people started writing it in reddit. Then I've seen it in this very forum more than once, used in otherwise serious passages. I feel like anyway that cromulent may be more a word that that goddam word sonder.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2mo ago
Wishing you the best.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2mo ago
Older than I (am) is the correct form, prescriptively, but usage varies, per your point.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2mo ago
One reason I asked here (in this forum) is that in Japan you never know what the hell the group reaction is unless you are finely tuned to the group, and in this case the group is varied enough and one-scene enough (just this gym) that I cannot calibrate their microexpressions, etc. In other words everyone ignores his oOOOomphs and Ragghhhhhs except me, and I don't know anyone well enough to know if they are equally fazed. As I say this is a dude who doesn't really interact with the normal pleasantries.
What color is the minivan? Darker or greeny colors seem to have more accidents for obvious reasons. (Of course there are also many shitty careless drivers in the world who would blow a stop sign even if the car they were about to ram into were day-glo orange.)
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