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orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
11mo ago
This matches with my own experience, rich Indian friends I know will have beautiful interior designed apartments with $10,000 chairs and $200,000 kitchens and the exterior looks like project housing in Baltimore completed in 1974, crumbling concrete, chipping paint, a grotty lobby, grass growing between paving tiles outside. It’s crazy.
Feels like home. Does India have issues with blocks of flats belonging and not belonging to the owners of the flats at the same time? Russia allowed residents to privatize their Soviet-built flats, and technically this comes with the ownership of the proportional share of the common areas, but the remaining flats and common areas belong to the municipality, the land the building stands on usually belongs to the municipality too, so the final result is a far cry from a proper condominium. Most people treat the building maintenance as someone else's problem, and even if you want to change how your building is managed, it's an uphill struggle against people either indifferent to or deeply suspicious of your plans.
Botond173
11mo ago
I suggest you put yourself in the shoes of a lower-class or middle-class member of the Korean precariat who leads a usual crummy existence as a parent. Not even trying to send your child to an idol audition is, I suppose, similar to not even sending him/her to cram school i.e. not even bothering to give him/her that very marginal shot of enrolling to one of the top national universities. It means that you’ve already internalized that your child will inevitably grow up to be another lousily paid miserable wagecuck in the hellworld of late-stage capitalism, just another nameless prole. You’ve already accepted this reality, even though your child is not even an adolescent. And if you happen to have two children, you and everybody around you already knows that you won’t be able to afford all the cram school curses, summer camps, private tutors etc. for both of them, which means you’ve condemned one or maybe two more children in the country to the prole life.
This is not a decision that is easy to live with.
Botond173
11mo ago
In a society that isn't demographically imploding, young people either have children, or are in committed relationships which will produce children in the near future, so they don't have time and energy to invest into braindead stuff like K-Pop fandom.
aardvark3
11mo ago
How do you call (which words) situation where one asks search engine something (how to turn off feature X) and gets links to the opposite of what was asked (how to turn on feature X)
fuckduck9000
11mo ago
where he was known as /u/Dormin111 .
SkoomaDentist
11mo ago
There are real metabolism related diseases that result in extra far storage that aren’t all that rare. The most obvious one is probably hypothyroidism. Of course the mechanism of action is still regulating energy expenditure and calorie input, but that doesn’t mean the diseases aren’t real. It also doesn’t mean they are anything like what Yudkowski imagines they are.
JhanicManifold
11mo ago
It's kind of both, smaller meals fill me up more than before, before semaglutide I'd still kind of be hungry after eating a full 12'' subway sandwich, now eating like 650 calories makes me satiated and good to go for the next 6 or 7 hours. It also calms late night cravings (which were my main weakness), so I don't go to sleep hungry if I eat in a calorie deficit. There's also massively less desire to buy sweets at the weekly grocery run. But hunger signalling still works: I still get hungry before a meal, it's just a lower level than before.
TheDag
Per Aspera ad Astra
11mo ago
I know what you mean. I felt this way somewhat when I found the rationalist space years ago. I basically just put my non work life on hold and read all these posts from slate star: https://slatestarcodex.com/archives/
With a lot of googling and other research as well. Took me about six months but it was worth it, my world view changed entirely.
orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
11mo ago
I would pay to view that.
rae
11mo ago
You don’t transition because you have the internal experience of the opposite sex - you transition because you have distress at having the experience of your natal sex. You don’t need any exposure to the modern trans gender discourse to develop gender dysphoria, simply existing in a society with different genders is enough.
Trans people don’t believe they are actually changing their sex, which is which the term “transsexual” was abandoned in favour of “transgender”. But hormones are not purely aesthetic and feminisation/masculinisation of the brain is actually scientifically observable - not only on MRI scans but also on test scores, e.g. post HRT, visuo spatial ability is enhanced in FtMs, while verbal working memory is enhanced in MtFs (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453020301402).
If anything, I’d say trans people experience distress at their internal experience not aligning with their desired gender and post HRT it does - many anecdotal reports of how your mental state changes on estrogen or testosterone, not only from trans people but cis people who also undergo HRT (e.g. men with low T who report increased energy, confidence, etc).
As someone who has dysphoria and tried many ways to deal with it, I have yet to see any treatment that’s better than transitioning - it’s the current medical consensus for a reason - but if you know of any, feel free to link them.
MotteAnon12345
11mo ago
Here you go: https://gordianknotbook.com/download/why-nuclear-power-has-been-a-flop/.
The guy also runs a substack that has the same information in easier bite-sized pieces: https://jackdevanney.substack.com/.
Ecgtheow
11mo ago
No? It's a good thing to encourage physical fitness. I suppose I could have used a term with less negative connotations but something like the Olympics is government produced media designed to promote specific values, we just happen to think those values are good.
aardvark3
11mo ago
It was big in ex-USSR, here's song "We are former sportsmen, current racketeers"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=APPx0VtwYpw
Of course, obviously less an issue in richer countries.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
11mo ago
I'm not sure what you think you are getting out of pandering to militant Jews like @JarJarJedi. You ordain the Jews as eternal victims of an unforgivable crime, do you expect any reciprocity or anything? What he cares about is his "shield against the fires of Auschwitz"- and from that hegemonic perspective, undermining the eugenic thinking of your civilization is an indispensable part of that. Seeing it right from the horse's mouth, do you see the problem here yet?
This not only overtly culture warring, it's antagonistic, making it about the poster and not the post.
Even if you believe "Jews gonna Jew because Joos," you can't make an entire argument of "This poster is Jewish therefore he's going to Jew."
If anything, you've gotten more slack than you should in the past because your posts are usually pretty high effort, including the effort you make not to come out and state outright what you'd like done about the JQ. But you can't just wage war here.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
11mo ago
More chill, please.
aardvark3
11mo ago
It's about showing up for training every day, and persisting throughout all the failures.
Does showing up for daily events in Genshin/WoW/the likes and persisitng useful for society somehow?
Your posting doesn't show causal mechanism besides "blindingly obvious"
You don’t need any exposure to the modern trans gender discourse to develop gender dysphoria, simply existing in a society with different genders is enough.
This is rather misleading. While it's true in the sense that even without exposure to the discourse, there will still be individuals exhibiting dysphoria (as proven by their documented existence prior to them being exposed in mass media), it's also true that exposure to the discourse absolutely dwarfs whatever factors make someone transgender absent the exposure, as shown by the massive increase in referrals to gender clinics, and the flip in age/gender ratios of people being referred there. The fact that we can observe something similar with other disorders like anorexia, multiple personality / DID, TikTok Tourette's, or outright delusions like recovered memories or alien abductions, would also indicate that this isn't merely a case of more people coming out due to increased acceptance.
But hormones are not purely aesthetic and feminisation/masculinisation of the brain is actually scientifically observable - not only on MRI scans but also on test scores, e.g. post HRT, visuo spatial ability is enhanced in FtMs, while verbal working memory is enhanced in MtFs (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453020301402).
If anything, I’d say trans people experience distress at their internal experience not aligning with their desired gender and post HRT it does - many anecdotal reports of how your mental state changes on estrogen or testosterone, not only from trans people but cis people who also undergo HRT (e.g. men with low T who report increased energy, confidence, etc).
That sounds plausible, and even detransitioners talk about it, but it's an open question what it all sums up to in the grand scheme of things. For example, how come it inevitably turns out that 90% of women in communities like this turn out to be trans? How come trans bros hardly ever show up?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
11mo ago
About as much as going on a rigorous diet of pizza, hamburgers, coke, and chocolate cake.
How can you not see the difference?
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
11mo ago
Where have you encountered it outside of Ms. Harrington's work?
I don't know what "māyā" means, but there's that infamous exchange from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
“But that would be putting the clock back,” gasped the Governor. “Have you no idea of progress, of development?”
“I have seen them both in an egg,” said Caspian. “We call it Going Bad in Narnia.”
Thanks, this is helpful.
Delegation is almost done, I think. I'll be fully out of IC tasks by next week, and from then on I'll only be working on low-priority tech work to keep my skills sharp (my boss encourages this).
I'm taking copious notes during 1:1 because I am indeed bad with kids' names and birthdays. But more importantly I want to be able get into their heads as you describe and motivate them by findng cool career building opportunities and stimulating work for them.
What's your strategy for feedback? I'm thinking of asking for written feedback quarterly in the vein of "What are two things I could be doing differently to better serve you and the team?" but also asking for opinions on individual during our weekly 1:1s.
Direct communication of deadlines and task assignments is something I'm not too worried about since I've never really felt guilty or awkward about it. I've personally always liked terse, direct managers because it keeps the interaction short so that I can go back to what I was doing. I think it also helps to know your people so that you can triage work to people who will enjoy it and anticipate pushback from people who might not. Any potential pitfalls I might be missing due to my inexperience, though?
MollieTheMare
11mo ago
I now get a weird pain in front of my hip joint
It's impossible to tell without a more detailed description, and probably seeing your squat in person. Sounds like it might be something getting pinched or impinged from your more narrow stance. If that's the case, in the words of the GOAT Ed Coan: "open your taint." The extra external rotation should relive pressure near the head of the femur as well as reduce twisting strain in the knees.
It can also be hard to tell whats going on while you are changing body weights. The angle the tendons pull at change as your body changes. Some very minor tendon related discomfort can go away as you move away from random highly disadvantageous leverages. Either because you fat leverages change, or muscle growth changes the angle of pull on the bones. Do not ignore acute or chronic tendon pain though, that's a recipe for a very long and sometimes irrecoverable setback to training.
Yeah, lots of veins to mine there.
You can talk about surveillance capitalism for the left-wingers, point out the potential for tyranny when the government doesn't even need to convince salaried hatchet-men to do its killing with autonomous tech to the Right...
Certain people - whether it's a result of bad math or the Cold War ending the way it did - really seem to react badly to "humanity is at threat". Maybe bringing it to a more relatable level will make it sink in for them.
fuckduck9000
11mo ago
I don’t think we need to solve the mystery of why people would produce and listen to particularly popular pop music featuring skilled good-looking young people.
That aside, if anything, the causal relationship goes the other way. The koreans are so committed to achieving the ‘best education’ and the the catchiest tune, that they don’t have the time and energy left for any more children.
They actually use their conformist, delayed gratification, high effort system to achieve physical and dancing perfection, test-taking skills, and Starcraft excellence, but they theoretically could do the same for fighting a war, making great art or going to mars. I think it’s a little more complicated than “they don’t have children and therefore do stupid shit.”
Well, it can still be factually wrong, but like with everything else, it depends on how the person says something. In this case, it's not claiming any fact, just drawing an association which in itself is true.
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