benny
6mo ago
Baldur's Gate 3. It's amazing. Not finished yet because it's a beast of a game but I'm in obsessed with it.
To me it's one of the best games ever made.
benny
6mo ago
I don't like the third because the scene makes no intuitive sense. Space suit guardian so far from the space shuttle. Is he the equivalent of a full kit wanker? So for me the two top ones remain and I have a slight preference for the first one.
benny
8mo ago
Very much interested in a write up for Spanish, as there are several approaches and I'm not looking forward to subscribe to a glorified flash card service and be vendor-locked into language acquisition.
I take it you are not a fan of "Language Transfer" which is all about producing from the very start.
benny
9mo ago
What dosage do you take off vitamin D? Did you also notice being less groggy upon waking up in the morning?
benny
9mo ago
The standard argument around here presented in enjoyable (to me) book form: A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
The standard argument around here presented in video form: Ben Felix on YouTube.
And if you can tolerate more risk you can always lever the index funds to get more swings.
benny
9mo ago
Maybe this feeling of it hurting is just the DOMS equivalent of the neck, because I've never targeted the neck before and I'm pretty sedentary overall.
The "Janet Jackson" especially is a very difficult movement.
benny
9mo ago
They appear to have hurt.
However: I find the general appeal of doing around 3-5 minutes of daily no equipment exercises interesting and would like a recommendation for neck work.
Neck work as opposed to shoulder work because a healthy neck seems to be more correlated with a reduction in headaches.
benny
9mo ago
What keeps you from not checking in with your AI-dom, so that you can receive further instructions?
benny
9mo ago
I've started doing these neck mobility exercises from this video around two-three weeks ago: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K4dmZ5_n6uU (Mark Wildman)
It feels like I have neck issues now which I didn't have before. Does anyone have a comparable in time substitute exercise programme? Just 3 minutes and being able to do them anywhere is quite nice.
benny
11mo ago
Germany thinks they are the zero leaders: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_zfnlkiPCVA
benny
1yr ago
I just binge watched all 5 episodes of AI Dungeon's and Dragons with Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, Gordon Ramsey and Samuel L. Jackson
The quality of the episodes vary with the first one being quite strong and novel, but overall it's a romp.
benny
1yr ago
After being interested and also trying out the local only versions, I'm also caving now. I want to see state of the art LLM.
Right now the payment page seems to be erroring out, but I'll get to it soon.
benny
1yr ago
I completely botched that expression. Meat and potatoes are both fundamental.
I was trying to say: Actually doing it and applying the stoic tools every day is the hardest part. I much prefer, based on observation, to read about tools of thought than to apply them. Reading about how Seneca pleading his case at his own court every evening is easier to do then doing the same.
Simple ain't easy. :-)
benny
1yr ago
Gratitude is the first thing I've adopted from the stoics. But that's not something I actively work on a lot lately.
That's a mistake and definitely something I can try to address in my evening retrospective.
Generally incorporating the actual practice (the meat) of stoicism instead of the intellectual masturbation (potatoes) is the hardest part.
FWIW I thought I was doing more than necessary, based on the actual submission and the upvotes of this comment: https://www.themotte.org/post/206/back-from-the-front-a-british/37219?context=8#context
benny
1yr ago
I'm trying to implement more stoicism in my life. I'm now starting to do implement the Retrospective Evening Meditation from Seneca or Epictetus.
I'm a pretty reflective guy in general, but I have a hard time reviewing my full day in detail. I don't feel like I make a lot of missteps that I can hone in on but that's what even unreflective angry people would think, so I'm skeptical about my own judgement.
I'm thinking: if I got angry while in a car: I could lightly scold myself for it and then forgive myself, but I'm quite mellow. But I don't have such clear cut cases. Sometimes I get angry at myself for not being good enough at a skill (I'm renovating a house as a keyboard cowboy) but I'm also way better about that now than I was 3 months ago, because I wouldn't get angry at a child that learns how to walk.
Anyone else also doing it? I'm mostly interested in people that are relatively mellow and if you make some kind of note for the evening retrospective. (Maybe even a recorded phone memo?)
benny
1yr ago
On the unreasonable efficiency of the Potato Diet
I'm still absolutely amazed by how well the Potato Diet works.
I want to start with the amazing parts of this diet: I have terrible adherence compared to other diets and I'm still constantly lowering my weight. I got to a restaurant, eat whatever I want, no prep or "goody boy points" I'm accumulating that I'm cashing in like a cheat day. I just do it.
My variant on a perfect day is: Eat potatoes ad libitum and once a day I eat a regularly sized meal. Those are admittedly relatively healthy meals and good portion sizes, as I'm sourcing them from Hello Fresh recipes.
But I constantly don't have perfect days and I still lose weight over the long term.
If anyone has struggled with weight in the past and wants to try something that works different from any other diet (that I know of anyway) I can only recommend trying the potato variant. You can do it in the hardcore version that is bound to work (see link above) or a less hardcore version that allows one to have social meals once a day (per plan/system) or several times a day (in a vacation setting or something).
Not all is roses and something that is very new to my experience with the Potato diet but worth pointing out: I've had two days since May where I've had very little energy intake and those days felt REALLY weird. I'm usually happy-go-lucky but that energy slump turned my positive outlook quite negative. Pretty soon after eating I was back to my former self and had an evening full of productivity.
Germany.
New gender identity law has been passed. Full story: https://www.dw.com/en/gender-identity-law-passes-in-german-parliament/a-68800054
tl;dr: Minor change in last name handling: You can now have a joint name for the family, so children can be born into this world and be called Justin Müller-Westernhagen. Previously the child would've been called either Justin Müller or Justin Westernhagen.
More contentiously: Germany joins Spain when it comes to gender law. From November 2024 forward one can change their gender in their official documentation and first name, no questions asked, once a year.
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