Silverdawn
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34-year straight, white male from Eastern Europe. Interested in videogames, books, and running. Lean towards libertarianism/consequentialistism/determinisism.
User ID: 2412
Off the top of my head:
- ADHD medication (there are 5 main ones but most countries only legally allow atomoxetine and methylphenidate)
- antidepressants
- sleep
- exercise
- social factors (working with or for someone else)
- nutrition (excess carbs and lack of protein are common problems)
Silverdawn
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19d ago
Please use more paragraphs, they make text much easier to read.
I have no idea what the black and white bar that randomly pops up at the top is, what actions make it move, what my goal is regarding it, and what its state is at any given time. I suspect it's important, but I have no idea what to do with that feeling.
That's a pseudo-morality system, you can safely ignore it. You'll get an ending slide near the end of the game that recaps the state you've left each chapter in. And those slides are based on the final balance between black and white for each separate zone.
Silverdawn
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21d ago
Fans of 'Slay the Spire' should check out 'Knock on the coffin lid'. It's very similar and very, very good. Launched only a couple weeks ago but there's at least a couple hundred hours of gameplay in the current version and it feels like a very complete game.
Silverdawn
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28d ago
How good of an experience is playing the Fire Emblem games via emulation on PC?
Silverdawn
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29d ago
And at this point, I'm wondering how much responsibility for this entire shitshow can be hung on me.
Objectively speaking, you're not responsible for any of this. But your boss and company may very well throw you under the bus anyway.
The intuitive response to "look at how much Musk built" is "he didn't build all 'at".
How many of the projects he's working on would exist without him? Yeah, the natural resources and people would still exist and presumably be put towards some kind of productive goal but consider the positive and negative effects of his competitors on the world. On the one end, you have things that are objectively bad like gambling. I would say Elon's current projects are pretty close to the polar opposite; that is to say, objectively good. Curing paralysis, colonizing the solar system, the HUGE push towards making electric vehicles the norm and more recently, major advances in AI.
One important element to consider are large corporations that already occupy a market. If your Amazon or similar have a monopoly on a developing country's industry, that country can't really build its own industry in the same niche. At least not without very savvy government influence, as can be seen in Norway's hydroelectric power production. If you want to learn more about this fascinating topic, here's a pretty good summary.
TL;DR: Foreign corporations could build and operate dams on Norwegian territory but they had to use a significant percentage of Norwegian workers as part of their workforce and they would only own those dams for 60-80 years. Thus Norway got both the eventual ownership of the dams and a skilled workforce who knew how to operate them.
These are the kinds of clever tactics it would take to truly catch up to western GDP per capita. So you'd need competent leaders, a loyal population with homogeneous culture and belief in its leadership and even then, it'd still take many decades for any kind of noticeable progress to be made.
Natural resources are another obvious advantage but they can either be a boon or a curse. You have countries like Oman where a brilliant dictator guided his nation into modern times but you also have countless examples of oil wealth leading to corruption and a slow descent into poverty and misery for the citizens.
Silverdawn
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1mo ago
Thinking in terms of responsibility seems pointless to me. Ultimately, there are goals and actions that bring us closer to or farther from those goals. Saying "X is guilty, he chose to do something" doesn't get you closer to your goals. This type of thinking does make sense on a societal level, as a way to reduce independent actions that might hurt the tribe but it doesn't make sense for an individual. You punishing someone else can only help you indirectly, in a manipulative way. Like, if you "expose" a pedophile, your social status might increase slightly. But I don't like where this type of thinking leads to, so I don't do it.
So my solution is to simply think about guilt as little as possible and only under the context of "If other people think Y person is guilty, how will they behave?".
In your example, that means:
"The older generation worked under specific circumstances that made them act a certain way, it's too bad if their actions caused harm." and likewise for the younger generation.
I live in Eastern Europe. For reference, minimum wage here is about 500$/month and I make about 150% that.
Food prices here are about the same as those in the US/Western Europe. Bread is a little bit cheaper, meat is a little bit more expensive. But mostly the same.
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
Can you come up with a healthy food menu for a day that includes 160g of protein and a little over 2000kcal for 4$? If you can't do it in 4$, go as low as possible.
Context: I did a deep-dive into recommended nutrition and apparently the current numbers are 2g of protein per kg of weight. My monthly budget for food is 100$, which comes out to about 3-4$ per day. I asked some LLMs the same question and they mostly couldn't do it.
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
On the night of the 4th day, at 3am, I couldn't get to sleep no matter what I tried. So i went into the kitchen and binged so brutally that I nearly fell into a coma. I can't tell you exactly what I ate but I would summarize as "whatever the hell was inside the fridge and contained carbs".
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
(you more or less stop being immediately hungry after about 24 hours)
This does not fit my experience at all. I also did a 4-day water fast once and my hunger slowly grew from a 6/10 on day 1 to a 10/10 on day 4. That is to say, from self-torture, to completely unbearable.
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
The idea that obese people eat nothing but junkfood is a strawman. Every single fat person I know tries to eat healthy. Every single one. And they are 95% successful at it too.
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
The lack of spoons phenomenon feels incredibly cruel. You've felt awful for a while and as though that's not bad enough, your ability to self-motivate is now diminished simply because you've been feeling bad for a while, which makes you fall even deeper down the hole. Our hormonal systems are great at short-term crises but appallingly awful at long-term ones.
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
Where is this conversation happening? Is it all on Twitter and private chats? I've seen some people mention Deepseek but feel otherwise mostly out of the loop.
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
That is one hell of an answer, thank you for typing all that!
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
This is why SMS is not a recommended second authentication factor for high-security or high-profile accounts: this can and has been abused before, many times.
What do the recommendations for account security in 2024 look like?
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
if Europe had built up it's armories back then, Russia would have thought twice about attacking and might have been defeated in the early stages of the war.
My impression is that most NATO countries want a prolonged conflict between Russia and Ukraine and so are not sending much of anything.
Here's how many main battle tanks NATO has access to:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1294391/nato-tank-strength-country/
Here's how many they've sent to Ukraine:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1364974/ukraine-military-aid-tanks/
More military investment doesn't make financial sense because there is no real enemy worth fearing. An actual war between NATO and Russia would be little more than a cleanup operation.
Silverdawn
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2mo ago
You would think so, but they don't. They pull the current non-conservatives along to the left with them.
European governments have steadily been moving towards the right the last few years.
I want to start logging my mood, then create a graphic similar to the ones on /r/dataisbeautiful but with a bunch of other stats like sleep quality, ability to focus, energy, etc. What is the best software to do this? Preferably free, open source and easy to use.
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
Should I be paying attention to /pol/? Serious question.
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
Somehow, it seems like most people like the slop that's produced?
I think it's less a case of 'this person likes this thing' and more a case of 'This person is used to this thing and not pissed off enough to switch yet'.
And the initial adoption window was because 'everyone is doing it'.
Silverdawn
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3mo ago
Friends I cannot stress this enough: have kids.
People talk about loss of meaning and loss of rigid rites of passage that take you from being a child to being a man.
It's kids. It's always been kids.
Having kids is really hard (I apparently phrased this poorly since people are responding to it as if I am saying the opposite. My point is that you will find that the following things are the things you end of loving, and you will find the idea that these should ever have prevented you from having kids to be childish): your house will constantly be a filthy mess. They will keep you from sleeping, they will make it impossible to go out to dinner or to go to parties, and they make travel really difficult. Any of the dreams of adventure that you had before you had kids will be pushed back by 10 years.
And NONE of that will matter once you have them. You'll find the idea that you ever cared about any of this stuff laughable.
I remember asking my parents why they had created me when I was about 12. They told me something to the effect of 'You'll get it when you're older and have your own children.'
22 years have passed since and absolutely nothing has changed about my perspective. I see a lot of negatives: less free time, less money, interruptions during sleep, horrible noises and messes to clean up. The potential that I might have to spend the rest of my life as the caretaker for a human with brain damage or some other deformity. And so on and on.
And what are the upsides? I might have some positive experiences at some point? Is that it? I've seen a lot of what I would hesitantly call 'pro-natalism' but I haven't seen any real reasoning or logic. Maybe it's just a hormonal thing and that part of me was damaged or never formed because I legitimately don't understand people who want to be parents.
As far as 'Just trust me, it'll be worth it'. My answer is, sorry but no. I have been guided towards bad decisions far too many times already and this one in particular seems especially horrible in terms of possible consequences.
Hope on royalroad.
It's a real treat to read, I would describe it as "swords and sorcery fantasy but extra nerdy". And a lot more sorcery than swords.
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