bolido_sentimental
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bolido_sentimental
4mo ago
I actually find Garnett the most readable. You will find many recommendations for Pevear and Volokhonsky, and perhaps it's more accurate, but the experience of reading Garnett is more enjoyable.
bolido_sentimental
4mo ago
That sounds rad. I've requested it from my local library.
bolido_sentimental
4mo ago
Related: my brother has got COVID right now. He is having a worse time of it than you are, and I'm pretty sure that that's because he's a big fat lazy man who has not exercised since the Bush II presidency. I am really hoping that this wakes him up and makes him take his diet and overall health more seriously; if it doesn't, I don't know what would.
bolido_sentimental
4mo ago
I always wondered what would happen if you just put it in the coffee grinds when making coffee. Almost certainly nothing, but man, that would be handy.
bolido_sentimental
4mo ago
I've definitely been considering this for the New Year, or rather something like "No PC/cellphone use when I get home from work." I always seem to find ways to replace bad habits with other bad habits, but this should make it harder. Hopefully I can find some good habits to work in there instead; I have a list somewhere that I pre-prepared for this.
bolido_sentimental
4mo ago
Praying for him, honestly. He's still young enough to grow out of his weird ideas if he just avoids dying.
bolido_sentimental
4mo ago
This article cites multiple studies about the benefits of creatine for strength-building.
https://legionathletics.com/creatine-monohydrate/
I have taken 5g creatine daily for several years. I've never noticed any ill effects; I feel pretty much fine in general all the time. I have made gains in strength that are commensurate with the amount of work I put in. In general it's so affordable, and so well-supported by reputable commentators, that I think you should go ahead and use it. That was the conclusion I reached for myself.
In the opinion of the same guy from above, BCAAs are overrated. He found that the evidence supporting their supposed benefits is very flawed, and that in general there appears to be no particular benefit vs. just consuming appropriate amounts of normal protein and carbohydrates. See below.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
Austen is actually pretty enjoyable, I feel. I had a great time reading Mansfield Park, it never felt like a slog to me.
I could talk about 19th-century fiction all day. One book that I think maybe doesn't get enough love these days would be The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
What do we know about the effectiveness of donating money to political parties and campaigns?
What I'm getting at is - I often hear about "Candidate X is out-fundraising Candidate Y 2 to 1," or something like that. But how relevant is that to political outcomes? It occurs to me that I can't see the direction of the causal arrow here. Couldn't it just mean that Candidate X is already more popular, and therefore raises more money? What is that money used for?
If I want Candidate X to win, does it follow that I should donate money to that candidate or to their party? If I wanted the Democratic Party to win in my area - should I donate money to them? Does it matter at all? I just can't quite see the relationship of my donating money to achieving my desired political outcomes.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
Can you describe how these instructions are given to you? Does your manager tell you this directly? Are these commands issued to your whole team from somewhere else?
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
I have also noticed this on the webpage of my county's public library system. I go to that website constantly to manage hold requests - basically without exception I access it at least once a week. There are always pictures of people on the front page. In five years, I have only ever seen one white man there: it was Walter Isaacson, who was speaking at a special event hosted by the library.
At this moment it is a picture of a black man and a mixed-race child.
If there's something interesting about this, it's that the phenomenon you're describing exists beyond ad agencies.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
I think a gym class reconstituted around the idea of healthy habit formation, the importance of exercise as a habit, nutrition, and so on would be much more effective.
I had this as a mandatory class called Wellness in high school, in Tennessee nearly 20 years ago. The subject matter was essentially exactly what you describe.
However, the teacher was quite demotivated, and the class consisted mainly of worksheets and reading chapters in the textbook. This is a similar scenario to what I often see posted on Reddit: "They don't teach personal finance in the schools!" - at the same (ordinary, public) school, I did have a personal finance class in 10th grade, in 2005, and I thought it was very helpful. But then, I was paying attention and interested in the subject, and this is apparently not common.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
You know, I'm not sure what makes a Christmas song into a "carol" actually. I should look into it. Anyway: this Bing Crosby rendition of "Faith of Our Fathers" really moved me when I heard it. Great song with a nice message. I have this record and it sounds awesome on scratchy, poppy vinyl.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
In your opinion: is it any good?
I have that book on a shelf right now. I read the first 15 pages or so and bailed because it didn't hook me, but I'd give it another shot based on a true recommendation.
bolido_sentimental
5mo ago
Can you provide more information about what, exactly, is bad with regards to your skin? Is it specifically bad acne of some kind?
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
Unfortunately not, lol. I'm in my 30s now and it's been very strange how I continue to meet women that don't want to have children. That's a separate conversation of course, but yeah, it's just surprised me.
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
Andrew Klavan might be up your alley.
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
This is a question which has been asked here before, as well as in similar places, but more ideas are always welcome.
Through career progression and timely company changes, next week I will be starting a job at which I will earn far more money than I ever expected to make at any point in my life. My cost of living has not scaled with this at all. Something on the order of 15-20% of my income will amply cover all my needs. The rest is just gravy.
With this being the case: what are some ways in which I can use a surplus of money to improve my life?
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
That poster is freaking incredible lmao. Awesome stuff.
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
I find the novels of Antoine Laurain quite charming, and I'm sure they'd only be more so in the original French.
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
This is fascinating. I wonder what the scope or reach of this movement is. I'd never heard of it.
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
What a pun. Good show.
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
I asked a girl out on Saturday, and she said yes. I have a girlfriend now. I met her at a local meeting of baseball fans about three months ago; we started hanging out one-on-one at the end of August. We got to know each other and things developed organically. Last night we went to Ikea, and then came home and played with my cat. It was wonderful.
To be honest, "lucky and fairly determined" may be exactly right. I'd been single for three years prior to this. There were about five girls I tried to make something happen with in the meantime, and it didn't work out - I either got a first date that didn't lead anywhere, or they turned me down outright.
The determination part comes in in two areas: one, you have to be determined enough to keep going. It definitely hurt when one girl that I'd crushed on for probably six or eight months rejected me in the spring. But you have to have a thick hide, and you have to decide to bounce back and try again.
Furthermore: you have to be determined to keep examining yourself and working on your shortcomings. Like: my celebrity lookalike is probably Mike Myers (Austin Powers). I'm a funny-looking dude. But I have to find a way to be appealing to women anyway. I try to do that by being a joy to be around. I laugh an smile a lot. I try to find the good in everything. I can be a reliable and capable problem-solver when I need to. I think there are many archetypes you could utilize in making yourself "someone others want to be with," but you have to follow through on one of them enough that you yourself start to believe in it. I genuinely self-believe that I can make any interaction with someone end with them thinking, "That was a blast, I hope I can see him again." But I wasn't born like that. I had to cause myself to be that person.
The luck part is definitely in A.) Meeting a real option and B.) Getting the genetic lottery outcomes that give you a chance. With A.), as many Mottizens have noted, meeting people is hard. It's work. You have to grind and go to all the stuff you may not want to go to. Somebody recently posted about how you need to self-delude yourself into enjoying some things, and that's right on. With B.), yeah, I got lucky in many ways, to be an eligible partner at all. I don't have Down syndrome. I'm a normal height. I have a nice build that's enabled me to create an acceptable physique. I try not to take those things for granted.
Anyway dude. You always make me want to respond to you because you bring up "being worthy." I don't even know what that means. I've never been to war, or hiked more than 10 miles in temperate landscapes. My moral history is extremely dubious. I am truly, truly just some asshole. I'm not even hot, you're probably better-looking than me. But human beings want to be with each other! If you can try and be someone that other people want to be with, why couldn't it be you? Have you ever considered what you can do to make someone happy? Not everyone is out for what they can get - not everyone chooses defect! I promise you that. There really are girls who want to choose cooperate.
bolido_sentimental
7mo ago
Hey, you're a doctor, and I've been wondering about a related topic: I was born via c-section myself. And, my mom is a very small lady. Do these things correlate? Is birth actually easier for taller women? Intuitively it seems like it would be, but I don't truly know.
I actually did make this decision about five years ago, and chose to move to Cincinnati. Lovely old architecture everywhere, baseball, strong drinking culture, great museums. Cool German heritage and related huge Oktoberfests. Temperate four-season climate and the winters are not really severe. Everything is cheap, and yet it's not a big dumpster fire like other places where that's true. I love it here.
If I had it to do over, I might make the same choice. Other places I've been to and would consider are:
Wheeling, WV Owensboro, KY Pittsburgh, PA
I suppose if nothing else, I've found the region that I like best. (And I'm not from this part of the country.) I have lived in other, bigger cities and had a less good time in general.
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