helpfulmandrill

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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Still not buying a kindle until they retire the DRM too.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
As someone who has sometimes used "food waste" as an excuse to overeat, I find the concept of "metabolic food waste" useful. That is, food that you over eat is still wasted food. If you bought or cooked too much food,
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Don't be such a pub bore.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
You're assuming civilizations end in abrupt events, whereas it might be just as likely that they decline slowly over generations until one day people are grazing sheep on Wall Street or whatever.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
If you care about not being a fool, rather than just not looking like one, remaining silent is not good advice.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
I think George Monbiot recently ate a pancake made from this stuff https://twitter.com/Solar_Foods/status/1520023732122750976
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
But then again, nothing makes you feel more empty than achieving a goal...
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Maybe they could let me prove that I'm not the guy who used to live at my address. I could prove that really easily, they just don't care.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
I know, but if I get twice as much done, its like living twice as long ;) I know its nonsense, but it makes an intuitive sense in the absence of a better way to deal with existential anxiety.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Well that was uncomfortable...
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
> Most people want to be productive because they want to feel valued by others. But if you have to look to your own value from others, you've already lost, and will continue to lose forever. I think for me its about fear of death.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Got the same thing with Ebay. I created an account. I attempted to sell a Linguistics textbook. I was immediately banned. They wouldn't tell me why. My account will still let me BUY from ebay. But I'm not going to.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
I take the day off. I go for a long walk in the countryside somewhere with my partner. I eat a bunch of food of the sort that I wouldn't usually allow myself to eat, in larger quantities than I would usually allow. I don't worry a
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
I think "technical debt" is a good metaphor, as long as you recall that taking on debt to fund investment can be a good idea sometimes. Debt isn't always bad in the long term.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Does anyone have any details on how these systems worked, in contrast to the web?
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Being a human sucks. External things don't impact our happiness for long, and yet we seems to be hard-wired to ignore that experience and always believe the next thing will make us happy. I have no wisdom for you, only sympathy. But no
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Go on...
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Thanks :)
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
I wish I could favourite this comment. So insightful.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
How does one do that? I realise this may vary by jurisdiction...
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Looks neat. Is this complete, or a work in progress? Is there a blog article about it anywhere by the author?
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
I empathise with this, especially: "People (myself included) are very limited and imperfect. The body requires a lot of maintenance and has limited energy. Money is really nice." I used to really push myself with a million project
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Puts in perspective my "woe is me, I don't have counter space for a pressure cooker" whining...
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
The worst thing about this is using food as a reward/punishment. Sets up a really bad relationship with food.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
When parents hate each other, every little interaction is an opportunity for point-scoring, criticism, one-upmanship, and toxicity. I know from personal experience (as the child), it is horrible to live in this atmosphere. Obviously the bes
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Many things which affect family stability and happiness have changed since then, aside from no-fault divorce. Completely uncontrolled experiment.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
Your experience definitely reflects my own. It was so much nicer seeing having my parents become good platonic friends rather than married enemies.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
I was relieved when my parents divorced, although it helped that while they fought like cat and dog while together, they cooperated fairly amicably when separated. Maybe I'm an outlier though.
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by helpfulmandrill 4y ago
It seems to me like the effects of "normative" family structures might be different and better in countries that tolerate divorce. Where divorce is tolerated and non-stigmatised, those families that remain "normative" ar
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
But it says that soldiers were fed 4000 to 5000 calories. Sounds pretty hard to exercise enough to burn that off.

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