bolido_sentimental
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bolido_sentimental
1mo ago
I remember those days.
I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but I imagine it's not easy to have to ban someone you've worked with for so long. Frankly I had long hoped for this to happen, but it's still not without pathos. I didn't talk to him much, but I've been reading HlynkaCG comments for like a quarter of my life at this point.
bolido_sentimental
7mo ago
I would advocate for a temp ban here. I agree that he goes too far sometimes, but BC often posts well-considered or interesting/unusual takes. In general, I feel like the benefits from his posts outweigh the demerits of his occasional blow-up.
This is just my opinion.
bolido_sentimental
1mo ago
The part where Stallone is frozen in a block of ice, in cryo-imprisonment.
bolido_sentimental
7mo ago
I drive a Buick and I really like it. Every time I see the last-gen Buick Regals I drool a little bit. There's a station wagon version that looks simply awesome to me.
bolido_sentimental
7mo ago
I recently joined a D&D campaign as a player, and was invited to write a backstory. The act of doing that was my favorite creative thing I've done this year. Fantasy is not really my chosen genre, but it was very helpful to have that as an "assignment" to work on. I wonder if there are more ways I can take on "writing obligations."
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
My best friend is getting really into drag, and her state (Kentucky, where I also once lived) just passed laws limiting drag shows in public spaces. I hope we never talk about it, because I'm not going to lie and say I disagree with the law.
Related, but not the same admittedly. I do not currently know any trans people, although I have friends of friends that are.
bolido_sentimental
13d ago
I'm in a Rusty Nail phase. Just the absolute best cocktail. Trying it with various inexpensive blended scotches.
I wonder what else Drambuie is good in?
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
5mo ago
Andrew Klavan might be up your alley.
bolido_sentimental
6mo ago
Do you think there was any particular incident that originated that fear? Not that there necessarily need be one. I'm claustrophobic and I don't remember ever being shut up anywhere. And yeah, both being shut up in close places and giving birth have real dangers associated with them.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Interesting to think that many mothers are consciously electing to push through/past a fear of the process.
bolido_sentimental
8mo ago
I use dumbbells for presses! I can't get my friends to do it with me. It also has the added bonus that I probably won't be able to crush myself to death with them. It's great!
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
Do you know of any articles or writings about the impact of this on NLP and NLP labs, or fora where they're discussing it? I'm curious to learn more about that or to hear it from them.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
To some extent I'm also wondering if even those places, are still like that. My mental image of the situation is that even those remnants, which I've had some awareness of for a long time, are on their way to being digitized as well.
Not really a question for you in particular - I just wonder how we'd even know if that had happened.
bolido_sentimental
1yr ago
Thanks for the insight!
bolido_sentimental
8d ago
Just today, I installed Manjaro Linux on a spare laptop I had handy. I'm loving it so far. I think soon I'm going away from Windows for good.
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
27d ago
What are you gonna do with the bigger money?
If it were me... I guess I'd just pay off my house faster. Lame. I hope you have at least a little something more fun in mind.
bolido_sentimental
30d ago
Man, I played through the OG once and called the Second Sordish Depression. It was fun but I'm gonna feel bad about also ruining Rizia.
bolido_sentimental
1mo ago
Thank God for Andy Murray, I guess.
bolido_sentimental
1mo ago
That's probably what I need to do, honestly.
Any suggestions for where to start?
Yeah, I don't have a clear model of how people's priorities are set, but I think it happens at a very deep level over a long period of time. If you only see him sometimes, it's like you're nudging a boulder that is already moving downhill. You might be able to deflect its course by a degree or something, but by the time people are out of school and fully in their careers, we largely are who we are and it's quite hard to change it. That boulder keeps going.
It's good that you're trying, though. If he hits some kind of rock bottom, it might be at that point that he actually reflects on the things you've said to him.
bolido_sentimental
1mo ago
How shit of an idea is just quitting your job without a replacement job to go to?
I've done it. I don't think it's as big a deal as it's made out to be, if you are a competitive applicant. It sounds like you have the kind of skills where recruiters are probably hitting you up on LinkedIn all the time. So I'm sure you'd be able to get a job. Which is all you really need to know. Don't just sit there and suffer, you only have one life to live.
bolido_sentimental
1mo ago
I will have to research that. I know Chrysler was at the end, but I'd be surprised with regards to Ford. They sold many millions of sedans in the 90s and 2000s.
bolido_sentimental
2mo ago
Rick Shiels will tell you all about it, in an enjoyable Mancunian accent.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKnkfgDBi62mkWMNmNipPUUep6vcj8nYm
Ahahaha there's definitely something to this. Several years ago, when I lived in a different town with my best friend, I bought some LSD from a strange Serbian guy I knew. Then I put it in the freezer and forgot about it.
I visited my friend this year, who still lives in the same apartment, and we remembered the LSD. We took it together and found it to still be very effective; and we had what we both consider to be the best time we'd had in many years. And indeed we had many great insights at that time.
Unfortunately I've lost touch with the Serbian, and I have not taken the time to find out where I can source additional psychedelics. Perhaps it would be worth putting in the effort.
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