Joyful
6d ago
Kindle has a time to finish chapter/book estimate setting that is usually pretty good. Other than that i read about 100 pages an hour fiction.
Joyful
7d ago
For non-fiction I'm making my way through "Bad Therapy." The gist is that it isn't just awareness, mental health really has been declining since Gen X (as measured by teenage suicides, for example) and that a lot of the treatments and interventions we do to young people are making them more unhappy not fixing things. It is causing me to rethink a lot of my own experiences and theory of mind beliefs.
I finished "How to Invent Everything" and it was a fun rundown of technology, although I'd quibble at a whole chapter on music theory (you don't need music theory to invent music!) but the exclusion of photography was the only gap that bothered me.
For fiction this week I read the Country House Murders anthology in the hopes of discovering a new author to scratch the Agatha Christie / Dorothy Sayers itch, but not really. I'm also rushing through Clytemnestra's Bind, which reminds me of the amazing Circe* and spending time in an ancient world is always great for the brain. Also some random Tom Clancy that isn't that interesting.
*Selfishly, the author of Circe, Madeline Miller, seems to spend most of her time on her day job and not enough time writing fiction.
Joyful
7d ago
I like stormlight archives but I feel that the writing gets worse as we go along. There must be a line between character development and pop psychology, and it feels like along the way EVERY one of the main characters has to go through multiple rounds of "processing" their "trauma". To the ridiculous extent that Kaladin actually invents group trauma therapy for soldiers with PTSD! I loved book 1 Shallan but she gets worse. Loved early Dalinar, he gets worse.
Sandersons mind is an enjoyable place to hang out but honestly his wheel of time ending was stronger than his own books.
Joyful
12d ago
Many animations of animal art basically apply dog animations and gesticulation to other animals (not just in a furry context).
This is especially annoying in animated movies where horses act and move like dogs.
Joyful
23d ago
1-2. 0% 3. 1$ 4-5. 0% 6. 20% 7. 5$
I don't think delivery should be a percentage. If I order from some place expensive or some place cheap, it is the drive where they make the effort, not the price of the food. I also come down to the car and they don't have to park and find me, which is in other locations worth another buck or two.
Joyful
1mo ago
Early twitter speculated it was an incompetent trans "woman" pilot that may have intentionally crashed the chopper. I've seen other sources (I like https://x.com/sentdefender) that says this is nonsense but now two of the pilots names have been released and the third is being withheld "on request of the family." Which does not soothe the twitter beast.
Joyful
1mo ago
I'd love a thread with replies for every EO to discuss, there is just too much here for us for one week.
I think doing the naming thing was stupid and I was thrilled for gender nonsense takedown.
Joyful
1mo ago
I'd consider uneducated to be highschool, normal to be bachelors, educated to mean an advanced degree
Joyful
1mo ago
i think the bigger source was just players who enjoyed grinding up to a high-ish level and then starting over. Which I can understand the appeal of!
Or they enjoyed it more than getting a real job. Definitely lots of people with a lot of free time selling their characters then and pissing off their raid by expecting to be regeared.
Joyful
1mo ago
Healing parses are different from damage though, because you get your best healing parses on the first kill or two, the other players take less damage on later kills and you are also capped by the skill, classes and quantities of the other healers around you.
<-- World top ten Disc priest on one kill one time 15 years ago in "Heroic" SOO (would be called mythic now).
Beyond some necessary amount of time to learn a game well, people just kind of get capped out on their skills and stop improving.
I definitely agree with this. And there are (were) a lot of personality hires in any raid group.
If the point is that they're making incredibly basic mistakes... yeah, the above still applies. You could look at damage logs after and see highly geared players doing things like failing to keep DoTs on targets, letting their own buffs fall off for significant chunks of fights, and other egregiously incompetent play.
This kind of analysis was my favorite thing about raid leading. Making me nostalgic (I haven't played a video game with others in 8 years).
Joyful
2mo ago
I think I first noticed it in Dawnshard, the therapist speak. I think his older work is much more balanced and not as grating in this way. (WOK still rocks, I reread 1-3 and then read Dawnshard and Rhythm of War in Nov/Dec.
Joyful
2mo ago
Wind and truth is a slog, honestly. Sanderson is spending a lot of time on modern mental health issues for every single viewpoint character. There is character building and then there is exhausting navel gazing....
Joyful
4mo ago
You can use any remote storage you want, you only pay obsidian if you use their storage. There are guides to sset it up with dropbox or google drive, for example. I choose to pay them because I want to be divesting from google.
Joyful
4mo ago
Obsidian is the platform I use*. Everything is stored locally (don't have to worry about google scanning your drive for wrongthink) and markdown files so you don't have to worry about proprietary formats. The concept you are looking for is sometimes called building a second brain (book by same name by thiago forte, but the videos should give enough of an idea) or a personal knowledge base. I have an extension that syncs my kindle clippings to my obsidian database, where I can review them, delete them, or otherwise organize them. Otherwise I just make notes for anything that occurs to me and search for it if I need to. A lot of people get more elaborate with their systems.
For quotes I've liked I have kept spreadsheets and in the past made screensavers. Currently I just make an anki flashcard which means I will be exposed to each quote more often and then less often. I haven't brought nearly as many things as I should into anki, however. I downloaded an app that can put a quote on one widget page of your phone, which sounds great but it doesn't have any way to upload new quotes in bulk so I don't actually use it anymore. I'm not going to phone keyboard retype my favorite quotes.
*In the past I used Notion, Evernote, Google Drive.
Joyful
4mo ago
In every one of those situations she's moving away from her base.
My guess is that the word "consensus" tested well with the base as the thing to say to justify the change.
So yes, that base is women but otherwise "consensus" has nothing to do with the actual decision making process.
Joyful
4mo ago
I don't think a scientific response is what you are looking for but....
It seems from animal models that growth hormone increases growth speed but not where you end up? Not sure why you hope this is a silver bullet. People are probably dismissive because it doesn't seem to be something that is currently possible. It is of course possible there is an unknown mechanism, but that wouldn't be helpful advice, either. Most men reach their peak height by 16. I certainly wouldn't suggest anyone on an internet forum follow a medical intervention (as you are suggesting with a combination of HGH plus "something to keep the growth plates open") if that medical intervention doesn't actually exist as a testable efficacious thing.
I don't think this is culture war related contempt, like you are implying, but rather just people thinking people are asking for something unreasonable. Like if I went on a similar forum and asked what I could do to turn my eyes purple. In the future, there might be a safe way to inject pigment into the iris or similar, but for now people would tell me to get over it.
Joyful
4mo ago
Can I recommend you read "The Now Habit" as a non-drug aid for the ADD problems?
Joyful
4mo ago
I've taken the mushroom coffee before, it definitely had a gentle effect, but they changed the flavor and made it worse so I only bought it twice (I had the kind that comes in the kcups, this was probably 4 years ago?)
Joyful
4mo ago
Did you pick Liberia for a specific reason? They have their own history that is unique in Africa, namely having been colonized by richer blacks from America which held onto power for generations of corruption.
Does anyone think Russia is a rival? For what? Hearts and minds? The world wants to move here. We have multiple states with a bigger GDP. Slavic population is going to keep shrinking.
Not saying they don't matter, nukes and resources matter, but rival is over-egging the pudding.
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