cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
10mo ago
I'd just like to thank google for being such a responsible company. Specifically youtube.
Today I was mindlessly watching videos, and saw that some new movie trailers have come out. I'll normally get sucked into watching half and hour of movie trailers pretty easily, even if I've seen half of them already.
Well google has finally managed to break through adblockers with server side delivered advertisements. I had a minute long advertisement about a specially designed earwax cleaner in front of the video that I was going to watch which was basically entertaining advertisements for movies. It took me ten seconds to realize what was happening, three seconds to get disgusted at the pictures of earwax they were showing me, and another 5 seconds to decide I didn't want to wait for the advertisement to end. I closed youtube and had no desire to open it back up.
It is really touching that in this day and age that a large tech company like google would be willing to help me break any addiction I have to their products by forcing a disgusting minute long advertisement in front of what would otherwise just been some mindless video watching on my part.
cjet79
10mo ago
Food addiction is very real.
I've gone cold turkey on things before. Alcohol, sex, masturbation, porn, internet, reddit, video games, etc. Of all of them going cold turkey on sugar was the absolute hardest thing I've ever done. And unlike quitting most of those things it remains difficult to continue.
I found with most addictions there there is a one to two week hump where your brain is resetting and still craving the thing you want. If you can make it through that one to two week hump you are usually fine. With sugar that hump was more like a month. Probably because my body can still produce it from other things I'm eating, so unless you are literally starving to death for two weeks you can't go full cold turkey on sugar.
The other unique difficulty I've had is what I call "food depression". Its usually when I start getting a little bit hungry, but not hungry enough to desire any of the foods I'm supposed to eat. Or it happens when I'm shopping and go down an isle with a bunch of forbidden foods. I get overcome with an extreme sense of sadness and loss. I've been on the verge of tears.
I always have to just wait it out. Its either real hunger, and I'll be hungry enough in an hour to eat the healthy thing. Or its just a craving and it will go away and I won't be hungry in an hour.
One oddly helpful thing is having young children. I can usually see in real-time how much hunger and food impacts their moods, and its made me far more aware of my own hunger and mood connections. Especially when that connection is negative and harmful.
cjet79
10mo ago
Men tend to have a lot of superstition around gambling and sports teams. The cryptozoology and xenology "researchers" also tend to skew male.
I do wonder if there is a similar effect with women where enough social approbation will make people hide their magical beliefs. But people are much more ready and willing to make fun of men, so the magic beliefs get repressed harder.
I think it's tied in a bit with the neuroticism trait, which does skew more towards women.
cjet79
10mo ago
Yeah I almost added "cats" to my list of witch shaped hole things, but I think the more accurate one would just be "familiars" aka deep spiritual connections to household pets.
cjet79
10mo ago
I feel like I encounter it less since I got out of the dating game. I don't really meet many young women anymore, and they were the main source of astrologists in my life. The comedians I've heard joke about it also tend to be young and single guys.
Are you suddenly more exposed to young women for some reason?
I'm pretty sure it's a phenomenon for most women, not just young ones. Its just that the young ones haven't picked up on how men think it is silly. My mother was really into astrology stuff, but the level of eye roll my dad gave off when she brought it up meant she preferred to talk to her children about it. My mom is also religious, and a microbiologist PhD. I've asked her about conflicting internal beliefs before, they don't seem to bother her.
Not a god-shaped hole. There is a witch-shaped hole. Its filled with astrology, seance, ghosts, crystals, etc. Its a common quirk among women, if you are straight I'd suggest making your peace with it and trying to ignore it.
cjet79
10mo ago
Henry Cavil is 41. But he has also shown his colors as a die hard nerd and loyalist to original material. I think it has gotten him kicked out of / mutually left roles that have strayed to far. His participation in a project is kind of like a stamp of approval for me.
cjet79
10mo ago
Vanilla Ice is one of the artists that stuck out in my mind, because I couldn't believe it was being played as anything other than joke.
cjet79
10mo ago
Wedding was otherwise good, and bride seemed happy, so no real complaints. Just selfishly wish the music was better for my dance floor moves.
cjet79
10mo ago
At a wedding, normally pretty fun for me, but the music ... Ugh.
It's too old. Perfect music for someone born in 1985 but I was born in 1990, and the actual wedding participants were born in 1995.
DJs are important.
cjet79
10mo ago
Check out this enemy spoilers for the new expansion: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-429
cjet79
10mo ago
I don't know if they changed the original biters. I know they changed some of the turret behaviors.and each planet is going to have its own unique challenges and enemies.
cjet79
10mo ago
I'll play coop when the expansion drops. Don't want to get burned out on the game before then.
cjet79
10mo ago
There is tribe and then there is political party, and I think Trump is closer to tribal divide than party divide.
And the way I'd ask the question is to get their initial reaction to Trump, not their thought out and considered reaction. If someone randomly brought up Trump to you would your reaction be something like "why are they bringing him up?" Or "what about Trump?" That would be the "confusion" reaction. Meaning you don't really respond to him emotionally too much. Strong blue and red tribers will skip past the conversational confusion and straight to a reaction about the man, because he has a strong emotional salience to them.
Scott Alexander, as firmly part of the grey tribe as anyone could be, spent thousands of words to persuade republicans not to vote for Trump. Should I suspect that he is crypto-woke?
He also wrote "you are still crying wolf" about Trump being racist. Which had some strong blue tribers almost foaming at the mouth mad at Scott. Your reaction and Scott's reaction to me seem grey tribe leaning blue, because you are forming opinions about Trump because of policies or things he does. If you were strongly red or blue tribe the facts would literally not matter.
I do not consider Scott ultimate grey tribe. I think that he thinks he is very grey tribe because he likes living in super heavy blue tribe areas and he knows he doesn't fit in among them. But there is the rub: he likes living in super heavy blue tribe areas.
Do you feel more comfortable among blue tribe or red tribe?
I think I'm grey tribe leaning red. I'd be confused if someone randomly brought him up. But his antics sort of use me, and I generally dislike his policy prescriptions. I'm not strongly emotionally attached either way to him.
cjet79
10mo ago
Just say "Trump" and their reaction should be enough.
Any positive reaction: clearly red tribe.
Uncertainty or confusion: gray tribe.
Any negative reaction: clearly blue tribe.
cjet79
10mo ago
It looks extremely promising. I've already thoroughly enjoyed the space exploration mod that was created by the guy leading the design for the new expansion (the factorio company hired him). Their Friday blog series has managed to track down and kill some of the slightly unfun parts of the game, or just optimize it to perfection. There are game mechanics in factorio that felt fine because basically no other game really has them. Things like creating circuits that set programmable behavior (other game have circuits stuff, but rarely to this extent). They streamlined it all.
Quality modules are option as far as I know. But I also plan to heavily use them. Right now factorio kinda lacks an endgame resource sink to get awesome stuff (you can sort of get it with research, but it doesn't quite feel right). I can't wait to pour massive amounts of resources into a legendary suit filled with legendary modules shooting legendary guns.
I'm excited about creating another multi planet factory system.
cjet79
10mo ago
There is at least a tiny trend towards healthier beers. Non alcoholic and low carb, without too many sacrifices for flavor. Athletic brewing company is the local option small time brewing option for me, but all the major beer makers seem to have been chasing non-alcoholic and even lower carb versions of their old offerings.
Its probably not necessarily as "cool" as past trends, but I think there is money in it. It requires more science than artistry, and the effort being carried out by the big beer makers suggests that they are at least trying to tap into an underserved segment.
cjet79
10mo ago
My social life feels a bit full, but also I haven't seen enough of some of my long time friends recently.
I have friends from: neighborhood dads, underwater hockey, college, libertarians, and friends of friends. Its easy to see the neighborhood dads and underwater hockey people on a regular basis. Some of my favorite people are ones I didn't meet directly, but met through friends of friends, and I've missed three of the last invites from one of them and I feel bad and need to fix that somehow.
Some of the funnest people to hang out with are often the people I have very little in common with, except an easy going personality and good social skills. My wife is in that category, where we basically like none of the same things, but talk easily with each other and make each other laugh.
More of my social time is being eaten up with kid activities, and meeting parents of my daughter's friends. Generally its not so bad, people in my area that have managed to settle down with a partner and have kids tend to at least have a basic level of social skills.
I do wish I could get more people to play video games with me. I will maybe start putting out feelers on TheMotte closer to when the new Factorio expansion comes out. But if anyone is available to play Starship Troopers I'd like that as well.
cjet79
10mo ago
Also, Factorio is eating me again.
What? The expansion isn't even out yet. I've been holding out waiting for it.
cjet79
10mo ago
Its probably a bad sign, but I don't feel I've been wrong about much. Probably because many of my views are hedged in the first place. I expect tradeoffs for policies, so I'm less surprised by the downsides. I'm also deeply uncertain about many things. I only hold a few opinions super strongly, and those opinions tend to be values statements rather than policy prescriptions.
The last time I remember having a seismic shift in my views was about a decade and a half ago when I was in college. I suppose I'd bought into the sexual revolution hype that women could be carefree and open about sex, and I thought as a guy I just wanted a lot of sex with different women. After I started actually having sex with real women I quickly came to feel that this was all wrong. Women care about sex, and can't help but become emotionally invested in it and their partners. And I wanted a steady and loving relationship more than I wanted a parade of new women. I came to view women that don't have the emotional attachment to sex as emotionally broken and likely abuse victims. And men that haven't figured out the benefits of a relationship over casual sex as just immature.
My positive views on drug legalization, open immigration, open trade, and free markets have remained almost entirely unchanged. If anything I feel more certain in these views because I have witnessed the negative tradeoffs of them and have found that they are tolerable and not as bad as I feared.
My negative views on government power and foreign intervention have also remained unchanged. I feel that some of my fears of these things have been borne out. The failures in Iraq and Afghanistan were things I thought would happen. If they had instead been huge success stories I would have had to shift my views. State surveillance and power over the internet led to some very ugly things during the Covid era.
Have you tried digornio pizza?
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