George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18hr ago
I have never used a dating website but generally I avoid straight answers when I don't know the person. Keep everything light and turn it back on her. She'll get tired of this eventually, but then you have to zag instead of zig. I used to be of the "Be upfront and honest about myself" school, but I was very alone for that entire time.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
We used to call near rhyming slant rhyme. I guess they do not call it that anymore.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
This reminds me of Scott Alexander's is this a classic piece of art thing. It would be one thing if AI could produce art of a sort that was truly original and groundbreaking in terms of composition, how it was made (though with AI it's all pixels, sound samples, etc.) But AI copies what's already around. It mimics, it tweaks, it alters, but it isn't original. To me there is no question it will certainly be able to (if it isn't already) produce facsimiles of great art of all kinds (at least visual/aural art, sculpture may take longer). But that is because it is standing on the shoulders of the humans who already created it. This argument has no doubt already been made and more convincingly a hundred times by smarter people but I haven't read it.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
See here as well as previous posts. Also @Closedshop may have advice.
Not mincing words and being unnecessarily rude can be mutually exclusive.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
my fantasy religion book said that's bad
You're on this site at least as much as I am and read presumably the same things I do. It seems remarkably tone deaf (or simply baiting) to use this wording when you know perfectly well a not insignificant portion of your audience is Christian. I expect they're thicker skinned than I'm giving them credit for but come on.
Not a mod, obviously.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
Analgesic like you have headaches or other sorts of pain?
The downside is that you need two hours before (edit: or after) any medications, as the fibrous gel the psyllium husk turns into will inhibit absorption of the med and it (the medication) won't work as intended. For meds taken at mealtimes or before bed this is something to consider.
Psyllium husk is simply fiber. That's it. Unlike chia seed, there is no fat or protein in there.
Also if you don't drink enough water with it (at least 250 ml preferably another 250 on top of that, if you're doing 5g) you risk worse constipation, or the kind of voiding your bowels that will leave you feeling...let's say bad. So drink enough water.
You also want to drink it 20 minutes or so away from eating.
The added benefit is that if you drink it in the a.m. you're hydrating well first thing.
Been taking it around 6 months. It's not a miracle, it won't cure IBD, but it may help, and it's worthwhile.
If a doctor wants to step in and tell me all of this is wrong, I'll concede and rethink.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
commit sudoku
I lold.
You're not answering my question.
I ask the question not to second guess or belittle your frustration and rage, but to suggest that whoelsale massacre of your opponents is in this case wrong, and that you may yourself not even really believe that it it isn't, and thus for you to post kill-em-all comments is largely performative and not helpful to your own cause.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
First I think you'll need to define your terms. Tell me what you mean by "native traitors and enemies" and/or "political enemies" and then how you would suggest they should all be killed. As it stands this is borderline fedposting.
Are you literally advocating for the killing of your politcal adversaries? Ot is this the usual hyperbole?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
I largely agree here, but the ability or gumption to wrap your head around median, mean, and mode is only barely entry level if "understanding stats" is the goal. I have probably a fair understanding of statistics--if by that we mean different methods (or methodologies), the relevance of statistical significance (and/or irrelevance), and the development of statistics over time. But I take a great deal on faith, unable to personally recite formulas or really understand how Cronbach's alpha is calculated, etc. I do think anyone writing, making, or citing conclusions based on statistical data has the responsibility to mention the limitations and assumptions made in gathering and computing that data. I'm personally very wary of using quantitative methods to measure anything affective (attitudes, for example), but abuse, or at least uninformed use, of statistics is rampant, and not just by left-leaning journalists.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11d ago
on a Japanese website, where child-abuse enthusiasts might be a peculiar but relatively esteemed community.
Care to explain the reasoning here?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
I would like to think so.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
I'm old but not quite that old.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
TIL the term gooning. To quote my grandmother, will wonders never cease?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
14d ago
It's an attempt (which seems to have worked) at putting into practice nudge theory.
Sorry for the wilkipedia link. It's basically a way of mentalizing people to, in this case, become self-conscious and unsettled. I could theorize why this particular application works on Japanese but that would be armchair psychology.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
15d ago
Thats an extreme simplification of Napoloen Chagnon's research.
I noticed that. Suing the tri-Delts. Was she actually in that sorority? Suing her own sorority is going to cut into her fan base. Or maybe they'll all rally around her; it isn't as if logical consistency is always required in such matters. (I mean by this that certain subgroups of progressive white people will profess to despise everything that characterizes their own lives, e.g. "whiteness," wealth, capitalism, and so on.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
They do, thanks. Guy Raz, I knew a Guy Raz once, wonder if it is this same dude.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
Very true. I was never better behaved than when I was sitting at home playing WoW for hours into the evening. Then when I quit I would go out drinking into the great constant party that is Osaka, and...well that wasn't ideal either.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17d ago
Congratulations to you and your missus. I was entering the portal of BC as a druid when it first dropped, slightly older then than you are now. It was a fun game, and I played mainly because I had a group of similar dudes I knew in real life who played. Quit at Pandaria, never looked back, but it was a great time while it lasted. My wife did not find my gaming particularly attractive.
Christopher Hitchens (in?)famously wrote that essay on this topic many years ago, arguing the opposite, but I always thought it was tongue-in-cheek, and his response to those who disagreed with him was usually something along the lines of "If they want to make such an effort to entertain me, well I'm happy to be amused."
Popping up in my Instagram feed a lot is Arynne Wexler, who I would consider very attractive, though she may not precisely have the little drop of Retsyn that would actually make her my "type." People will obviously disagree.
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