swayvil

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by swayvil 4y ago
Another important point : dreamcakes are much easier and cheaper to manufacture than realcakes.
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by swayvil 4y ago
Learning "delayed gratification" is actually learning to appreciate dreams. The dream of the cake vs the actual cake. It's a really freaky shift of consciousness when you think about it. A whole culture trained to prefer drea
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by swayvil 4y ago
Speak to any common ideologue, be it religious, political, or some flavor oriented upon the latest health hullabaloo. Their arguments are invariably authoritarian. Empiricism, science... they aren't really a tool in your average person
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by swayvil 4y ago
If you are already "critically paying attention" (upon whatever task, puzzle, entertainment...) Then the "critical ignoring" happens automatically. So one path to "critical ignoring" would be to fill your life
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by swayvil 4y ago
The modern boss does it one better. Keeps a record of every "transgression" you ever committed from the day you're hired. Then, when the day comes that he decides to fire you, his case is already made. It's standard prac
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by swayvil 4y ago
Given the choice, I love pex and those compression-bands that you put on with the special pliers. Pex got flex. For drains, pvc of course. Given run-of-the-mill refurbby waterline junk with plain ol copper, I like that brass kind of compres
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by swayvil 4y ago
skribh is a cutty-sounding syllable for sure. Swing your vorpal sword, skribby skrab.
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by swayvil 4y ago
Ain't that the truth. I know one extremely wealthy person (inherited his father's company). Can barely feed himself. Spends his days waxing his collection of luxury automobiles, immersed in superhero fantasy and stalking women. Tr
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by swayvil 4y ago
You know a lot of rich, famous people, eh? Interesting. Are you a Hollywood agent? An estate lawyer? Bodyguard? I know exactly 3 rich people. None famous.
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by swayvil 4y ago
This is definitely pushing a certain politics. Do we do that here?
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by swayvil 4y ago
"Scriviner" is onomatopoeiatic. It's the sound of quill pens scratching away.
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by swayvil 4y ago
Our entire scientific/technological culture is founded upon our ability to focus our attention. To focus on the task at hand. On the puzzle that needs solving. To study, think, engineer, etc. We learn to focus in school. People who are
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by swayvil 4y ago
At some point in the past SA contradicted some point of dogma. Now their output is forever picked over for evidence supporting a case for, yes, "cancelling them". That's how they do it these days.
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by swayvil 4y ago
Probably emotions. An endless torrent of the stuff. Like your favorite song, minus the words and notes. Which is then interpreted as sights, sounds, smells, thoughts (we love those), feelings, time, space, things, pizza, money, etc.
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by swayvil 4y ago
>Let me be clear: Advertising isn’t necessarily bad... Sure it is. It's legalized production of mass-insanity. When communication isn't intended to fuck your mind we call it "news" or "conversation" or somet
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by swayvil 4y ago
for notes I use a spiral-bound 9x12 artist's sketch pad. And Google keep. One is good for drawing. The other for text (and searchableness etc). I think one of those reMarkable pads with voice-text might be the optimal blend. Never drew
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by swayvil 4y ago
On one hand, authors need to pay their bills. On the other hand, free exchange of information benefits humanity immeasurably. In terms of amount-of-benefit, the second vastly outweighs the first. But if the author can't pay his bills t
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by swayvil 4y ago
But if the fellow with his foot on your neck really does know better, and is only strangling you for your own good, then isn't it just your own foolishness that leads you to protest? /S
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by swayvil 4y ago
There's also It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It. (Upton Sinclair) Simplified: Reason serves desire
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by swayvil 4y ago
Brown noise sounds like wind through a forest of leafy treetops. I've heard similar in the summer at a state park near where I live. Yes, it has always been very calming and comforting and such. Possibly my favorite sound. Is this the
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by swayvil 4y ago
Ditto. Eyes are too intense.
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by swayvil 4y ago
Greg Bear is my first serious hard sf author. The Wind From A Burning Woman !! (Not just the story, the whole collection!) (I mean, sure, Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, Blood Music.. But still)
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by swayvil 4y ago
I must not tweet bad tweets.
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by swayvil 4y ago
It's basically a digestive membrane. The parallels between the Ikea shop design and an intestinal tract is striking. The shop staff would correspond to gastric enzymes.
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by swayvil 4y ago
You can actually get that food pre-chewed too, for added efficiency. Comes in a big tube like caulk.
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by swayvil 4y ago
I prefer to have all of my consumables delivered via periodic automated Amazon Prime. This, combined with a small maintenance staff, and several tubes, frees me to work almost 24-7. I never leave my Aeron Task Chair.
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by swayvil 4y ago
Can you be entirely nude below the waist? I'm serious. It would open up so many options.
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by swayvil 4y ago
Our solar collectors could use a recursively-branching fractal form for optimal light-collection. And they could be painted a pleasing shade, maybe green. And they could store the solar energy in a kind of CHON battery, for ez carbon seques
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by swayvil 4y ago
Because the emotion comes first, reason second. The primary purpose of reason is to rationalize emotion. In fact, I suspect that the entire sensorium (sight, sound, etc) is an abstraction of emotion.
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by swayvil 4y ago
>One of his tall sculptural works had been exhibited in a faculty dining room. But people kept mistaking it for a hat rack, which frustrated Daly: He assumed that the value of an artwork was self-evident and that it should be able to “sp

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