Or more generally, anything that has a beginning has an end

4-hour planning? I wish. Try 16-hour planning.

And also, a meeting to plan for the planning meeting.

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”

1. You have a cat.
2. You wish to remove its skin.
3. You realize there’s more than just one method to accomplish this unusual task.
4. You state this proudly as a metaphor for problem-solving flexibility.

They’re basically “republicans light”: still bad but at least not literal nazis

Her dog.

This was all pretty unrelatable. Makes me wonder if the author has ever studied how these methods are supposed to work.

But… you don’t need a clone to do that. Just find anyone who wants to live with you and work 50%.

Isn’t it weird how I can fap without a second thought, but the idea of having my clone give me a hand job disgusts me

I actually haven’t used an ad blocker in a very long time. I block third-party cookies and trackers, and disturbingly that seems to prevent almost all advertising from working. In fact I frequently get told by sites to turn off my ad blocker, which is impossible since there’s nothing to turn off.

My bigger problem is that these browsers have no good built-in way to clean out the “IndexedDB”, “Service Worker”, “File System” and “Local Storage” directories in my profile. They are essentially frankenstein cookies without expiration date so they keep accumulating. I use the “Cookie AutoDelete” extension for cleaning them up, but it looks like that will stop working with Manifest V3. Once that happens I’m switching back to Firefox or some other browser that gives me enough control to avoid being tracked, and to save 10+ GB of disk space.

Is that what manifest v3 does though? Ask the user? I haven’t paid a lot of attention but thus far my overall impression has been that they are simply going to forbid a lot of useful things wholesale. Things that ad blockers need to function.

Lojban. IIRC it’s inspired by the Saphir-Worf hypothesis that states that the capacity for human thought is shaped by the language you speak (side note: this is also explored in my favorite movie Arrival).

As someone who is probably on the spectrum I am incredibly frustrated by imprecise language and misunderstanding between people, and how people always seem to be reading between the lines instead of paying attention to what you are literally saying.

Lojban is designed almost like set-theoretic mathematical expressions, leaving minimal room for ambiguity and misunderstanding. It trains your brain to think about exactly what you are saying. It’s like a utopian language for me.

Ironically after it gained only a couple of hundred speakers it started to develop slang expressions and ambiguity. People even wrote poetry and jokes that proliferate and exploit ambiguity or subtext. I guess it’s human nature to shun precision in communication.

Those are self-help books from the year 100 AD. Are you asking how to write a text like that?

It sounds like you may be misunderstanding what meditation is. Meditation is to observe what is happening in your body and mind. There isn’t really a “topic” other than what comes up in your mind. But you aren’t supposed to linger on your thoughts, only notice their arrival and passing.

You can choose to focus your attention on specific things such as your breathing, sounds, the feeling of a location of your self, etc. Is that what you mean by topic?

The ST had the Spectre GCR so it could clearly do everything a Mac could and more, plus it was cheaper.

I think the point of these hopeless internet arguments mainly becomes to convince the third parties who read them.

I don’t think I’m in the right climate for it. I need heavy boots to counter the cold and snow, and I can’t be bothered to change shoes every time I get in and out of the car.

TIL that there are people who have special shoes when they drive a car

I don’t see this mentioned in any of the other comments: the repulsion between atoms that causes the movement to propagate through the stick is actually communicated via photons. So your push really generates the same kind of particles that your light torch is generating, and they travel at the same speed. Except in the stick it is slowed down by repeated absorption and excitation by the electrons of the atoms.

Astrology daughter might have her heart in the right place but she’s still stupid, and her prejudiced woo-woo beliefs are going to end up hurting people and society.