KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
1yr ago
They piss me off too, but the only way I can productively deal with it is to play the ball as it lies.
KingOfTheBailey
2yr ago
What if it was radical rather than gradual? Why leave triggers for old habits around while you're trying to break them? I suggest instead a series of larger jumps.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
That was my experience with Mechanicus, a game that I really enjoyed until I was beating every fight in a single turn. Except it was so easy to fall into that part of character-build-space that you didn't even have the "else, die" to worry about.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Haven't yet but probably should.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Has anyone been tracking H5N1 bird flu? I see occasional doomposting updates from accounts like https://x.com/outbreakupdates/ and I'm trying to figure out if we're all sleeping on something about to go very bad, or if it's "under control" and/or likely to burn out. Haven't seen any recent posts about it on LessWrong, and I'd expect to if it were something (since they were right and early on SARS-CoV-2).
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
I love this place so much.
KingOfTheBailey
1yr ago
Can you link the speech?
KingOfTheBailey
1yr ago
Yes. Hence my interest in hardening a community when new projects struggle to attract any contributors at all, and it's hard to be choosy or exclude the people who are going to wreck it.
KingOfTheBailey
1yr ago
Isn't this just a rephrasing of Merited Impossibility?
Hm, maybe it is. I initially thought Merited Impossibility was more about noticing.
KingOfTheBailey
1yr ago
Thanks but I don't see it, and visiting your profile page shows a thread that's "deleted by user". The reply is still accessible from your profile. Misfiring automated tools?
KingOfTheBailey
1yr ago
You don't happen to have links to those annotated conversations, do you? I tend to struggle online.
KingOfTheBailey
1yr ago
Last time I tried, I couldn't dodge the "provide a phone number or another email" bit. Will have to try on a VPN.
KingOfTheBailey
2yr ago
Great work. Can you summarize what you've been eating, particularly anything that's been good for your satiety? I struggle with appetite, and while I've tried a GLP-1 agonist, I desisted: I felt like I wasn't seeing much loss and felt like my appetites were drifting back to what they were before I started. Given the horror stories I'd heard of people having insatiable hunger after ceasing a different GLP-1 agonist (semaglutide), I decided to quit while I was ahead.
KingOfTheBailey
2yr ago
Congratulations. May you have many long and happy years together.
KingOfTheBailey
2yr ago
I didn't know new Ursula was based on a different one, I only know about the "Divine" connection.
KingOfTheBailey
2yr ago
Less of a problem than you might expect: even close-style dances tend not to have things that close down there.
KingOfTheBailey
2yr ago
No longer true in the age of GPT-N.
The closest I get to this world is the Manowar cover of Nessun Dorma and I never knew what it meant, so thank you very much for writing all of this out. (For Manowar, a man sitting up at night, having put it all on the line, and ending in a cry of victory is actually really thematically appropriate. It was also apparently recorded as a tribute to the singer's late mother but was sometimes performed live for the band's Italian fans.)
I don't know if opera is for me, but I certainly respect the hell out of the performances in it. How much of this is comprehensible if you just turn up to a performance, or is it one of those things where everyone already knows the pieces and the stories?
P.S.: I actually meant I thought this would be a great fit for a standalone thread; the stories from the wider world are IMHO the best part of this forum.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
I thought "plushie" specifically referred to stuffed toys with a particular outer fabric.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
I know you asked specifically for a book, but https://learn.cantrill.io/p/tech-fundamentals is a pretty good free course about the various layers of the networking stack. If you want to go deep on the protocol-level stuff then maybe Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated could be what you're after? It might be too TCP-focused, since you also have questions about VLANs and UDP.
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
That's the one. How did you find it? I couldn't get DDG nor Google to cough it up.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Grim, but about where I'm at too. Thanks for the cross-check.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
My current strategy for Gleba is to think about it later. I'm not yet sure if it's going to be fun or "fun", but I'm hoping for the former.
I read the remarks about
I feel like I've stepped into a time warp and come out in /r/MensRights circa 2012. Yeah, men have it rougher. Yeah, women have a glass floor as well as (sometimes) a glass ceiling. Yeah, you can't say this to anyone without being perceived as low status (this is why The Red Pill provoked such an immune response - it was being presented by a cute, blonde, former feminist). Who cares? At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. It's the world, we have to deal with it, and it is very hard to teach people rational overrides to their visceral responses unless you control culture from top to bottom. IMHO, a large part of this problem comes (as do many others) from childlessness. At least some number of online feminists I used to get mad about had changes of heart once they realized how their rhetoric impacted their sons.
Regardless of the unfairness and its causes, at least we men are always assumed to have agency. No matter how bad things get, there is an action a man can take towards a path up and out. It might be a long and twisty road with low odds of success, but there's always something to do. Don't expect the world to be fair, don't expect anyone else to care that the world's unfair, and don't expect anyone else to notice the unfairness runs counter to the egalitarian principles that you were probably taught (I was, and it threw me for years). You'll be a lot less disappointed, and then you can start to build with clear eyes. Build yourself up, build a space for those you trust, build a space for your family and close friends, and maybe you can shelter some of those people from the unfairness.
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