jericho
2yr ago
There's also the flip side of this, which is "[X positive trait] is a dog whistle for [Y group]", which likely has similar effects. (Reminded of this specific example by @ymeskhout's post in the QC thread)
The number of times per year that I'm too ill to pull up a computer and work is maybe a couple days per year, but I've talked to other people that think it's completely unreasonable that a given company (with strictly non-physical work) only allows a couple weeks per year of sick time. We must be feeling quite different, right?
I think part of this might be, as you say, subjective differences regarding the experience of the same illness, but this could also be just a difference in immune systems/health in general.
That is to say, I wouldn't be surprised if the gap there may be doubly influenced by your running- first in just being healthier and getting sick less/getting less sick and second by then being better at coping with whatever level of discomfort you get from that sickness.
Edit: There is also the noted vicious cycle for chronic illness (real or perceived) where feeling like shit makes you less likely to practice the habits which make you less likely to feel like shit, which then causes you to feel like shit even more/more often. Once again to some extent this applies mentally, but is also a very real thing physically.
jericho
2yr ago
Freddie would argue yes, based on his follow-up, but YMMV.
jericho
2yr ago
Glad to hear other players had their own downtime traditions. We would find crappy rips of terrible movies to watch MST3K-style. Fond memories of watching Japanese Star Wars knock-off "Message from Space" one Tuesday night.
jericho
2yr ago
I recently read "The Old Axolotl" by Jacek Dukaj. It reminds me a great deal of rationalist fanfics (for good and for ill), though given the subject matter and the ending I think that is to a fair degree intentional and critical of such modes of thought.
But I have repeatedly charitably interpreted things as ironic that were in fact unironic, so I don't trust myself on that. Picking up one of his other books, "Ice", partially because I did enjoy "The Old Axolotl" and "Ice" has reviewed well and partially to get a better sense of his writing.
jericho
2yr ago
I loved Enya as a child, soured on her in my adolescence and have slowly come back around to appreciating her music. This seems to be a fairly consistent pattern among my peers.
they film a scene where one visits his rabbi and the rabbi essentially says “it doesn’t really matter whether you believe, just follow the rules”. American progressivism cannot really conceive of such reasoning.
I remember reading some time ago about how for most pre-Christian religions the focus of the religion was on practice, not belief or love or anything internal. It didn't matter if you doubted Zeus's existence (although for the most part the existence of deities was taken for granted) or thought he was a right prick, what mattered was that you performed the right rituals on the right days with the right sacrifices and said the right words.
Edit: Thanks to Ilforte, proper term for this is Orthopraxy.
And while there was a break with that tradition already with Christians in general, Protestants in particular then took it even further with the whole "sola fide" thing.
I'm not wholly sold on secular progressivism being a new religion, but I am wholly sold on it being directly downstream of Christianity (particularly Protestant Christianity) and wearing its influences on its sleeve.
Using an asterisk to replace a letter in a word like that was originally used to censor slurs (think bleeping out parts of inappropriate words on tv), but has since been applied for humorous (your mileage may vary for if it is actually humorous) effect on words for groups of people which are not generally considered offensive.
It definitely feels like a reaction against the Starbucks "breakfast milkshake" rather than a genuine preference much of the time.
I've been pegged incorrectly as a coffee snob several times by co-workers due to my preference for black coffee, which I find humorous since I actually am neutral at best about its taste. I've just found it the best low calorie caffeine delivery system.
jericho
2yr ago
How about some party fun times with the new gay drug?
Fwiw, I've met people who basically described doing ecstasy as being that. Could debate on how much latent attraction they have to the same sex outside of being on X, but if it's significant they still haven't acted on it outside of being high on X (including times they were drunk/high on other drugs, so it isn't purely an inhibition thing).
Anyway, like I said. Your daughter isn't necessary in this scenario. We can keep the discussion entirely to the ethics of me doing this to you. Concerns of anonymity on the motte aside, how do you feel about sharing a photo of yourself with me after this comment?
Can't speak for them directly, but personally the daughter would be relevant because I would care significantly more if it were my daughter than me.
To answer further questions, if you sent it directly to my friends + family I would be very unhappy (though that's rather the whole point of the anonymity concerns).
If posted online with my name (so it would show up on Google etc, though once again rather the point of anonymity concerns) I'd be moderately unhappy since that means there's a decent chance friends, family or potential employers would stumble upon it.
Posted without my identifying info, I'd be a bit wigged out if people I knew personally happened to stumble upon it but its existence on the net to be used by strangers would not bother me much.
If kept on your hard drive for you and maybe a horny pc repair guy to find it I wouldn't mind at all, assuming no personally identifying info attached so the horny pc repair guy can't do scenarios 1 or 2.
If it were my child (thinking on it I would mind quite a bit if it were my son too), I would be distressed to a greater degree about all the above scenarios.
Hope that helps clear it up, that the degree of separation is being used because it is perceived as worse.
jericho
2yr ago
Oh yeah, lots of streamers are incredibly lax about that kind of stuff. Plenty of cases of questionable stuff popping up on their search history or open tabs when streaming, to the point where some intentionally leave things up as a joke (like an Amazon tab for buying a shovel along with a Google tab of local nature reserves and a Quora about how deep to dig a grave, etc etc)
jericho
2yr ago
Opsec in this case was infinitely lax, since he was streaming his desktop with the tabs open.
jericho
2yr ago
Not sure if this is exactly what you're after, but I enjoyed this series (also found here) about the evolution of Atheism in the context of Christian Europe, primarily pre-Enlightenment era roots. If you've read Dominion by Tom Holland you'll be familiar with some of the broad strokes, but I found the specific examples given of skeptics/atheists from that time period (both the real ones and the ones depicted in the fiction of the time) especially interesting.
Why does that complicate the comparison? Doesn't it just complete it (i.e in both cases there were groups of people who did in fact want them dead and killed them and the ideologies and symbols of those groups are still in common use by their current political opponents)?
Edit: Actually, also in both cases there are still people elsewhere in the world actively killing people like them while espousing those ideologies and using those symbols.
jericho
2yr ago
Honestly reminds me a bit of the debates around vaping, regarding how much it is substituting for smoking cigarettes vs getting people hooked on nicotine who otherwise wouldn't be.
I'd say the most obvious things that pot/porn/video games have replaced (in terms of being the go-to unhealthy coping mechanisms for young despondent males) are booze/whores/gambling. Of course, booze/whores/gambling are still on the table, so in addition to weighing pot/porn/video games substituting for those vs getting people who would otherwise be clear, you have to consider that now someone can go for all six.
jericho
2yr ago
Finally, after much prodding, getting around to reading the Discworld books. Doing the Vimes ones first.
Nice airplane reading. So far enjoyed "Guards! Guards!" a good deal more than "Men at Arms".
jericho
2yr ago
I am intrigued by your definition of white, have you written more about it elsewhere?
jericho
2yr ago
I never thought I'd see a Pro/Con for NYC with "friendlier" in the Pro column, but I suppose it makes sense from an international perspective (NYC is routinely rated the least friendly city in the US).
I wouldn't have been born without Lord Trevelyan, that doesn't mean my options are to either hang myself or a portrait of him.
jericho
2yr ago
Since others have already covered weight lifting (personally my experience on that front matches closer to yours):
I don't think I've ever experienced "runner's high", but I do find cross-country running genuinely enjoyable (as well as walking and jogging). But only that- I do not enjoy running on treadmills or tracks and I do not enjoy rowing or biking, whether in nature or on machines. On the flip side, other family members absolutely hate running but fell in love with rowing or biking.
Housing prices seem to be a major factor. Adjusting for inflation, my sister and brother-in-law are each earning more than both of my parents combined were when they bought a house, but ended up paying more for a smaller house in a worse neighborhood.
And this isn't even in one of the cities that's known for having ridiculous real estate price increases.
Edit to add: Career-wise, both my father (at that point in his life) and my sibling + in-law would be considered very successful. I'm not at the same level, but still above the curve. Also worth noting that my mother was able to quit her job shortly after the purchase of the house, so my father alone was able to support them + later on kids.
jericho
2yr ago
Same. I don't have a strong drive to make my parents proud, but I have a VERY strong drive to not make them ashamed. To @hydroacetylene's point, it certainly helps that most of the things that would make them ashamed would be bad things in and of themselves.
Also in partial response to @andenyalaa mentioning L-theanine- I've not tried any L-theanine supplements, but I've had very good results alternating my coffee with black tea (which has L-theanine) in terms of not getting hit with anxiety/jitters.
Not sure if the benefit was really from just "smoothing the curve" of caffeine intake or from the L-theanine itself, but either way worked in practice. Was definitely not from a reduction in overall caffeine, switch was from two cups of coffee to two cups of coffee with a cup of tea in between.
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