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Based on my experience with Korean and Chinese cultures. The locals almost definitely don't eat street food, at least not the poisonous kind. Street food in poorer countries exists for the tourists and is usually an expensive, fried, overly sugary or fatty and low quality version of what the...

1. Don't assume that people are idiots. Some might become your best friends. There's probably not going to be a better time for you to make friends. Adults are rarely sincere and too busy to spend as much time together. 2. There are three things that will get you enough respect from your...

I'm getting married to get a 50% tax deduction and cheaper healthcare. Also we're doing it to pretend that we are a super normal heteronormative couple so that people of my sick country don't burn us at the stake. With no plans to have kids, the works of art that I create are my children and I...

It's basically breadth-first search vs depth-first search class of algorithms. Or in plain English an extensive search vs an intensive search. If you have 100 energy units or time units to do a search then it pays off to spend some % of it on a broad search to identify places where a deep...

I like your letter H, you could make that into a font and I would pay to use it :) Also cool tree and welcome to the forum!

How are you going to win if you don't play the game though? Ignoring is basically choosing to "pause" the game before you have a chance to lose or win. To me that's worse than losing. If you use the same ruleset, but assume that the +1/-1 score is global and adds up with each opponent then it's...

It's not possible with the restriction that you have stated: that a typical human wink generates less than a joule of energy and that it has to happen at a particular instance of time. The restrictions that you have created are a logical statement. It is not possible to destroy a human being...

All ideas accessible by your mind can exist in reality. The only time when ideas appear impossible is when they are disconnected from the causal explanation of their origin, or in other words disconnected from the underlying logical structure. Try to think of something impossible and you will...

I think I could learn a lot of writing tricks from this guy. This is good stuff. Maybe too much focus on the biological differences between the species, but cool anyway. Action scenes were written really well, now I want to write a sci-fi novel again.

What's the difference between medieval times and now? A: A higher percentage of the population is engaged in unskilled labor and physical labor. Can women perform physical or unskilled labor as well as men? A: Yes they can and the same goes for other types of labor. * Are women in medieval...

Hey, just wanted to drop in to say that I appreciate that you've been here all those years. If I'm allowed to use a stupid, cheesy metaphor I'd say you are as crucial and as unobtrusive to this place as water greening the meadows. Hoping that life serves you well and all the things check out...

First we need to talk methods of time travel. You could say that none exist and that means you don't read enough sci-fi. Rook mentioned energy, yeah that's one plausible way to do that, you need the power equivalent of the whole universe, or a huge chunk of it to reverse time, it may be easier...

@BurnedOut Thanks, I appreciate that :) Immediately liked this Will check others

It's definitely possible and it's being done to control flooding, create artificial dams, reservoirs etc. We are changing the global climate, although this one we don't control yet. If we're being realistic; much of the terraforming won't happen unless there's a large enough group of land...

Well, I can see this human wave of filthy unvaccinated refugees (your words not mine) hitting our servers right now. We are peaking at 5 users and I don't count myself as a regular user. This forum is so far down in search engines and cross links that nobody new is going to find it, if you have...

Super hard to find good hardstyle. I tried and it's the only fun track I got Can you recommend anything? Some good trance stuff I found recently: Uplifting trance is too slow and needs to be more melodic, full on trance needs less distorted moments and uses too much of the same synthesizer.

Who is treating it like a sewage canal? Give me examples. I assure you that you would have an easier time arguing this place was a sewage canal back in 2013 when I joined. I loved swimming in all that sewage waste, it was great. I think it's easier to make the case that there were more people...

Welcome to your first personal intpf user's existential crisis, you achieved it faster than your predecessors Neo. You are well on your way to finding what you need somewhere, not necessarily here. Aside from that I find your intellectual snobbism to be somewhat grating, but I'm sure you can...

That's rare, an actually well put together, interesting thread on philosophy of religion. Well done OP, I never read these so that's a first. One remark I would make in the context of practical Roman Catholic Christianity is that none of that philosophy of religion stuff ever comes into play in...

Agreed, I also can't vibe to overly djenty or heavy industrial or math metal. Technicality isn't easy to perform and it's difficult to integrate complex harmony into a coherent whole. Plini is very much like Sithu Aye Also similar to Sithu: Gru Cosmogenesis Jakub Zytecki Btw do you know any...

Genre progressive (characteristic synth use, atypical structure or meter, extended approach to chord resolution and consonance, uses standard rock instruments with unusual or aggressive tones): >Typical ambience, unresolved chords: - Animals As Leaders - Scale The Summit The Migration >More...

Why would transcendence involve giving something up? Doesn't always have to be that way. Giving something up is present in many cultures and religions as part of the transcendence. Buddhism is a simple example of that. By giving up possessions one can become free from the flaw of desiring...

Why would you pity anyone who squandered potential to do something good in a position of power? Personally I don't care, I erased him from my mental landscape the moment he left office, he doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. All I want for his successor is to fix his mistakes, help people...

I tear up every time on this one, it's like a drug This song gives me feelings of universal beauty, abundant freedom and love.

Sounds like an incorrectly done poll. If you set up choices or questions in the wrong places, phrase questions poorly, or put the preferred results at the beginning and least preferred at the end then you're going to see weird results. Also works when manipulating elections and votes. Very...

An essential watch for normies, memelords, memetards, people of culture and other minorities, easily lands in the top 50 of humanity's finest works. It draws deep parallels to current geopolitical situation, social tension and is a satirical counterpoint to the entirety of 2020. Deserves a more...

Well put. It's pointless to blame or focus on things beyond our influence too much. So we are making a tech switch to battlecruisers, but if we use too many mules or build useless nukes we will mine out before we can expand to island bases? Well, I tried to stretch sc analogies. My actual...

Covid pandemic has shown how humanity is incapable of safeguarding against relatively simple global catastrophes. It could be argued that we are really lucky that nothing severe has hit us yet. It's obvious that governments are incapable of dealing with anything threatening. Depending on how...

Sick, untinking apes :D They're barely conscious which is pitiable. People evolve and their needs evolve with them. Some of them feel stuck and feel like they should be evolving past this forum, which in itself is a sign they are evolving though they're not aware of it, so they feel resentful...

The Untamed is the best fantasy drama ever. Don't watch the anime, don't read the novel, both are oversexualized and distasteful - watch the fantasy gay drama instead! It gets good around the 10th ep, the first 3 eps will make sense after you watch the 30th. I rate it 3rd after The Matrix and...

They found cooler kids to play with. That's a good reason to brag ; ). Or they are too swamped or too liberated by life's responsibilities to visit and they call being adult or responsible something to be proud of. Honestly I know that my own announcements of leaving this forum were just a...

You are too sure of yourself. You can't stay the same person, even if you tried to. So yeah, you are different, probably in a good way. Or maybe you are reflecting poorly on this year and it feels like nothing changed.

Nice microtonal suspended chords in "you are quietly disappearing"

Omegalul Gigalul Wouldn't time hold intrinsic value for a christian? The time allotted to a mortal life is the only chance to act faithfully and morally. Thus time is literally money (aka eternal salvation) for christians, jews, etc. An optimal christian agent should spend every second of...

Misleading title. Basically flow of time exists, is real, but is measured in units that differ between civilizations. It wouldn't be difficult to convert between unit systems if we ever had to communicate a more universal meaning of time with super advanced space unicorns. Also time isn't...

AI won't need a brain-computer interface to influence humans however it wants. BCI is not a risk, AI with a bad value system is. If anything BCI is a gateway for humans to merge with restricted artificial intelligence entities and have some way of transitioning to transhuman / post-human...

5.5/10 - suspended chords, downward resolution, melancholic, reminiscent vibes that I don't feel like ever entering again

I have found no evidence to contradict the view that no creative/abstract thinking is required in academia up to the point and including master's degree. All exams and tests in the universities can be passed by memorizing textbooks and formulas and require minimal discernment in their...

Our populist government which probably won due to election fraud doesn't care about covid, they spend most of the time purging the opposition, enacting medieval laws (like the recent ban on abortion which caused country wide protests) and encouraging one half of the population (the uneducated...

Most if not all of psychology and 75% of social sciences including most of economic theories are arguably insufficiently rigorous to be called scientific. Their research is not reproducible, is often financially or politically motivated and tends to last a short period of time before it is...

I keep a daily journal and keep track of time spent working/studying/etc. I make sure to utilize at least 60% of my free time. Free time is 24 hours - 7.5 hours of sleep so I'm aiming to work and study 10 hours each day. If I get days under 60% I make it up on the next day. If my time is limited...

I see it from two angles. One is that the capitalist-materialist view of everything in existence reduces things, persons and places to two things. Resources and space to hold, process and generate said resources. If it would be possible to erode the independence, personality or agency of an...

Herman Miller Embody looks like a typical office chair. It doesn't support your neck which sucks. Look for chairs with whole spine support and if you are tall they have to be adjustable. That said if you do 30 minutes of back and structural excercise every day, you likely won't develop back...