meristohm

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   by meristohm 5y ago

   See also: 2600 (magazine)
2. 812.▲
   by meristohm 5y ago

   Substantiate your question a bit more, please.
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   by meristohm 5y ago

   It’s okay to say no to one’s children. Do they have a library card?
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   by meristohm 5y ago

   Maybe interesting story, but all the popups on that site tipped my scale to nope.
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   by meristohm 5y ago

   I prefer the library as a way to support artists. Film is a relative luxury, being expensive to make and distribute relative to books and audio. My partner differs, and so we subscribe to some streaming services. My resistance to subscripti
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   by meristohm 5y ago

   A cross-cultural catalog of oral histories, highlighting commonalities (I’m thinking The Hero With A Thousand Faces, but there’s so much I don’t know yet about human history and mythologies that have guided and continue to guide us).
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   by meristohm 5y ago

   My feeling, from ~eight years as a mostly-highschool math and science teacher plus parenting as my main work these last few years, is that this motivation to learn is best established very early on, hence my support for universal birth-to-t
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   by meristohm 5y ago

   I came out of “solo-game retirement” for two games this winter: Disco Elysium and Valheim, (which I also play with friends), neither of which I feel pressured by, beyond being well-designed play/exploration spaces. I swore off WoW and
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   by meristohm 5y ago

   Since the water’s hot for my partner’s coffee, when I’m practicing going without caffeine I add a little lemon juice and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) powder to a cup of hot water, per Gandhi advice from a book he wrote in his 20s (?). It’s too
10. 820.▲
    by meristohm 5y ago

    I learned that one type of wood was used for below the waterline (slower-growing timber from further north) and a different type above. I’ve done enough woodwork to think I have a feeling for the task of building an ocean-going vessel, and
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    I regret giving away my CD/K7 stereo; I miss being able to pop in an album and play it. Sometimes it’s nice to set limits. That said, there are upsides to putting enough of my CDs compressed into .opus onto an old Android.
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Attending to the story is best for me since I care about learning and remembering. I can do something else while listening, but it has to be something that requires minimal attention, like moving myself around (I pause as needed, and when d
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    Not a Valheim story [crypto-mining](neoncrayon.com)

    2 points by meristohm 5y ago|0 comments
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    We’re all insecure, and we’re all fortunate, to varying degrees. I feel rich in many ways, and money only relatively, having grown up in poverty in the USA and not yet had access to beyond the low end of “Middle Class”. If this country care
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Thanks, and I hope you find something fitting! What do you consider improvement? In my case I put extra time into helping the land I live on become more biodiverse, towards resilience as climate changes. I don’t have much spare money, so in
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    From the book Make It Stick: The science of successful learning (Brown, Rodiger, and McDaniel, 2014), interleaving your practice (mix it up, and be okay with each subject feeling difficult), and using active recall (for example, before look
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    Why are New Year’s Days where they are?(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by meristohm 5y ago|0 comments
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    I count walking. The question didn’t specify VO2max or heartrate, etc. Deep, full-torso no-pause breathing is exercise, too, and might be a good fit for anyone bored by exercise that isn’t for travel (I feel same as you; if I’m not going so
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    I’m generally “no” here but for accessibility all this tech is helpful. I currently have all my senses, and can imagine (from reading and discussions and observing) what it’ll be like to be less functional. That aid ideally won’t come with
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Mental health, thanks to The Blindboy Podcast, books on cognitive behavior therapy & transactional analysis, and a counselor who I pay their attention, consideration, and advice on other books to read (I find information from Blindboy a
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Yes and—-we in the USA carry on taking resources from other places as if the people there need it less, and we continue to do it domestically; there were people here before my European ancestors, and their descendants continue to be shut ou
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    “Solutions” like these are fun technological toys treating the symptoms of the damage we’ve done to the ecosystem. Far better, and more difficult because it’s less fun, is changing culture so we do less damage. There are many other living t
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    A disinterested third party (save for the financial transaction and hopefully a sense of helping), whose training prepares them to handle all the trauma they hear about, can be just the thing to crawl out of a pit. Not everyone has friends
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Might a civilization that lasts for thousands of years and leaves minimal impact be successful? Synonyms for sophisticated: baroque, byzantine, complex, complicate, complicated, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved,
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Going outside and observing the hyperobject of all the other living things, imagining it as well, and looking up at the sky in hopes of seeing other suns.
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Are there any games or mods that expand victory to include co-existing for a number of years, or synergizing with other cultures to steward a diverse and robust ecosystem? Was the Industrial Revolution and subsequent 4X-ing of the planet in
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    “The Margin Alien” is a fine and fitting next step. It’s okay to change.
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer [0], because it brought the concept of reciprocity to the fore for me this year, and nudged me towards Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard), Eat Like a Fish (Bren Smith), and The Wayfinders (W
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Sometimes we just like a challenge, especially when we’re young and full of wanderlust. Wade Davis, in The Wayfinders, tells about a Pacific trade network of white beads going one way (clockwise, iirc; listened to the book) and red beads go
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    by meristohm 5y ago

    Before I became a parent a few years ago I was similarly pulled in so many directions (and as jim-jim-jim says, they interrelate). I willingly let go of numerous specific hobbies in favor of some general ones (I like target practice, so now