it_is_so_weird_to_be
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it_is_so_weird_to_be
10hr ago
This is honestly the most convincing theory.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
10hr ago
There's paranoia and then there's simply asking what a man would get out of it, and in particular a billionaire in his 60s.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1d ago
What exactly does Bezos gain from being married again?
it_is_so_weird_to_be
15d ago
Schopenhauer "Essays and Aphorisms"
it_is_so_weird_to_be
22d ago
Man - bring in credit card rewards and we're almost back to the glory days of points churning
it_is_so_weird_to_be
24d ago
True. In the years since I’ve discovered that when online dating, I get posted on private Facebook groups for women. My ex then shows up to talk mad shit including completely fabricating scenarios that didn’t happen. Social ostracization in action.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
27d ago
I saw this when my ex fiancée ended things abruptly and without explanation. We had been planning our family and kids and home and such. After the split she gained tons of weight, dyed her hair and got tons of tattoos, is stuck in a dead end job now, and apparently is constantly flooding social media with leftist shit. Her family doesn’t know what happened either because she cut them off at the same time.
I chalked it up to people being weird, but then I met a new friend in town and found out almost the exact same thing happened to him this year. Then I met a third dude whose wife left him and blew up her life and he has been watching her spiral. Then I learned a fourth guy who I have known for a while had a similar story and I had to throw my hands up. These are men I met through a diverse set of circumstances: mountain biking, remote worker meetups, church, etc.
I do think with this topic, there is a gendered problem underlying it all. I read a lot about the male loneliness crisis, or think pieces on why men are dropping out of the dating pool and I can’t help but draw nebulous connections with these experiences. I don’t know if it’s feminism’s fruits, being over medicated on ssris and birth control, or the neutering of men in society, but something is broken.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
27d ago
Relevant tweet https://x.com/constantutional/status/1930247522401890634
This intuitively makes sense to me. Women see pregnancy as inherited devaluing, so maintaining control over it is of utmost importance.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
Yes, they're off-putting. The septum makes me think of leading around a cow on my dad's farm, tongues seem very unsanitary and it fucks with their speech, and gauges (particularly very large ones) are super gross when the jewelry isn't in.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
1mo ago
I like making stained glass. Cutting the glass, grinding them, foiling, soldering them together. It is such a great and unique gift to give to people, and really exercises my brain in multiple ways. Precision is very important, also thinking ahead multiple steps, plus it stimulates my appreciation of aesthetics. It's a great hobby.
I've had some challenges to overcome specifically at the grinding step. During this step you grind the edges of the cut class pieces to ensure you have a consistent surface to adhere the copper foil to and ensure your pieces are the precise shape you want them to be. But I've had issues because my template pieces I've typically printed out on sticker paper using a regular printer. Problem is during the grinding process the water involved causes my templates to loosen and shift around. I've tried smearing vaseline on the pieces to make them a bit more waterproof, but it's not a great system.
So I've purchased a cutting machine akin to the popular "cricut" machines, but without their walled garden of paid software. The idea is that I can use waterproof vinyl stickers to adhere to the glass instead of paper. The precision of the machine will also help because there's some leeway when cutting using scissors that leads to weird gaps later in the process. I've been having trouble figuring out how to use the thing though. It's called a silhouette. I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point.
Anyway, I just wanted to see if anyone else has this hobby.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
2mo ago
No judge is going to undo a done deal for the benefit of some strangers
... Well at least one would as it seems in this case
it_is_so_weird_to_be
3mo ago
In her 70s with health problems. She has decent health coverage with medicare and a private supplemental.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
3mo ago
I've found myself in the position of being responsible for my elderly mother's finances. She has 800k to her name and has to earn approximately 20k per year off of it for necessary expenses.
I have a totally different risk tolerance in my station of life than she does, so all of my knowledge kind of goes out the window.
For now I have about 300k of her money in a HYSA, earning 4%. Not really sure where to park the rest.
JP Morgan keeps hassling her about some of their managed funds. Gotta admit I'm kind of attracted to allowing them to manage it (with a 1.3% fee though). They also are pushing an annuity which I just went ahead and declined.
If I just put everything into a CD at this point, it'll more than cover her expenses, but who knows what rates will do in the future and it seems like leaving money on the table (which at her age might be fine to buy some security). Also, she'd love to maintain as much as possible to leave to her 4 children. How would you handle this?
it_is_so_weird_to_be
4mo ago
One of the things I was pretty interested in when visiting various less developed nations is that there was a surprising lack of visible homelessness. Example: Thailand. There were no homeless on the streets outside of extremely and visibly disabled people (missing arms/legs/eyes, severe mental disabilities, etc). I suppose it's easy to stay off the streets if you can just go buy some coconuts and sell the juice on the street without a gaggle of PMCs following you around issuing fines. The barrier to entry for commerce seemed to be minimal at the actual worst.
Now I look at the US with many of its large cities overrun with homeless encampments, hear about bullshit like some jurisdictions enforcing a "flower arrangement license" and it really makes me disgusted at the evil we have wrought.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
4mo ago
It's a good point.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
4mo ago
It was really clarifying to me to be able to codify concepts that I intuitively knew. Which then made it easier to quickly "get" logical arguments and follow lines of argument, identify flaws quicker, etc. These were things my 20 year old self I was fine with before, but learning the formal rules, abstracting arguments into variables, and doing tons of proofs changed the way I engaged with arguments.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
4mo ago
One of the most valuable courses I took in college was formal logic. I took two of these classes in community college before transferring to a university and to this day remain the most impactful. Basically Modus Tollens and such.
It fundamentally transformed the way I think more than anything, up until getting into software engineering, which I view as an extension of formal logic.
It would be so great if more people had exposure to such topics. But I don't have any faith that it would make a difference. Most of the people in my classes lamented it, viewed it as incredibly boring and hard, and did the absolute bare minimum to not fail the class.
I fully support the idea of a poll test. Too many of our countrymen are just downright idiots. They should not have a say in what we do as a nation.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
5mo ago
If one truly believes that it's a human rights violation, then following it through to jailing those who practice it seems like a reasonable conclusion regardless of what cultural practice is hung up on doing it.
Human sacrifice was a much more common religious practice at some point in history too. Eventually practitioners were jailed or exiled enough to greatly reduce its prevalence. I'm sure there were people asking, "do you really think the Aztecs are committing human rights violations by sacrificing to the sun god?"
The only way to answer it is with the chad yes.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
5mo ago
Personally, I know several people who work at an FQHC who have suddenly been cut off from their funds and are in a state of disarray at this time. Although too soon to tell, if this continues for long, the network of dozens of clinics in the area will have to shut down. They provide medical and psychiatric care for many people in the area. This definitely would be a negative ramification.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
5mo ago
Why would the religion of the perpetrator make a difference in the poster's moral proclamation?
it_is_so_weird_to_be
6mo ago
To add onto this, my understanding is that there is some percentage of the population for whom oral vitamin D supplementation does nothing unless you also supplement vitamin K. I took D3 for a year every day consistently and it had no effect on serum levels. Once I started taking a D3/K2 supplement, it rose to normal levels and I feel great.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
6mo ago
Once again, the whole of society must reorient so that parents aren't mildly annoyed with their toddler.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
7mo ago
Anecdotally, getting a water flosser device has greatly improved how my mouth and gums feel. I’ve never been a big flosser, have never had a cavity either. But that water pick thing is really nice.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
7mo ago
Trying to figure out how I can hack together a media device that meets the following requirements:
- Plugs into a TV via usb or hdmi without any additional power cable
- Automatically starts playing a video file that's stored on the device
Best I can figure is a fire stick or equivalent loaded with an app I found that will auto play video files, but those seem to require a power cable plugged into it. I thought about just using a USB stick with the file(s), but that would make the user navigate the file system and play it through the TV's media player - a bit more friction for the user than I'd like. An hdmi port doesn't supply enough power to run a raspberry pi so that idea went out.
Is this even possible?
It's interesting because eating food "just for the taste" is in a way affirming the evolutionary reason. Our taste buds evolved for a reason. Just because we've figured out how to make some tasty foods that lack nutrition doesn't mean we like to eat doritos despite our evolution. Our bodies literally think we are getting nutrition when we seek that out.
Likewise, a woman painting her face and dressing scantily may tell herself it's for her own confidence or whatever. But it doesn't refute that she's doing it for male attention and reproductive success. I think the audience discussion is a bit of a red herring, although there are some interesting points to be made there.
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