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Yeah, I haven't given up the idea of writing software for money yet, despite how much I loathe so much of what the industry does. There's way too much money in it. Plus I've spent way too much time thinking about it. Painting, maybe I'll be a great painter someday, but I see no route to...

Does this imply that your passions don't tend towards the technical? 'Cuz plenty of us techies do just fine making tons of money without much in the way of social skills. I wouldn't say techies can be complete turnips, they do have to work with each other to some extent, but the coupling is...

I give up. I can't follow this thread anymore. Unsubscribing.

I do not swat flies. Even if they are buzzing around a room in loud, irritating manner, I figure the fly can be a tool for learning to be more patient and less bothered about such things. There is usually no purpose in killing them. Being irritated about their buzzing is not a purpose, that...

For the record at this time I have no conclusion about what your MBTI is, QuickTwist. I don't think anyone should be expected to feel shame about their MBTI. One of the selling points of the system is no type is regarded as inferior to others. This in contrast to, say, Five Factor Theory...

Although the subject of Washington Carver is interesting, I'm waiting for this thread to de-oscillate into some kind of more stable state, that I can more easily wrap my head around. I believe I've read that Diesel engines were meant to run on vegetable oils, such as from peanuts.

McDs is not about providing cheap food. It's about providing FAST food. If you actually do the math on what that food costs, for the calories and nutrition provided, you will realize you're always better off going to the grocery store and buying even $4/lb. "good" stuff. 'Cuz that's what...

I was going to say the same thing about you earlier, but I refrained, 'cuz I'm P. Your tendency to communicate in a single sentence strikes me as rather un-N and likely S.

It may, depending on the factory process. But grass-fed and grass finished also have a substantial cost increase. In the USA the prices can vary from $3/lb. for a decent grade of conventional hamburger if it's on sale, to $4..$5 if it is not, to $8+ if it's grass fed / finished. Prices vary...

No idea? In any context at all? Like if someone's lying to you, you don't know what that is?

There's more than proximity in that equation. What is the narrative of that Afghani, vs. my neighbor? Did I get a blip of a news ticker about it, or a fairly involved story? "6 doors down" is a proximity for personal danger, not just my probability of knowing them. Whenever someone tells me...

Hey, you seem to have a problem with thinking people are "lying" to you when they say something. That's your own problem, not mine, or anyone else's frankly. People think differently and come at things differently than you do. All I can say to that is, get used to it. Or keep calling people...

Are we having a definitionally challenged discussion? If you are saying that pain isn't a physical stimulus, that makes no sense. If you are saying that pain is a physical stimulus, that your body reacts to it before your conscious awareness, and then your consciousness catches up, then we are...

My only attitude is you could stand to elaborate some of your statements, rather than just writing 1 vague sentence about them, which you've done a few times. You could have been specific about what kind of processing you were talking about. No actually I'm not a mind reader. I don't know...

I don't, BTW. This sounds like a really bad line of reasoning, which would invalidate any further arguments along such a line. Examples: legumes contain plenty of anti-nutrients, that will make minerals unavailable to you. Getting rid of the anti-nutrients is not easy, you can't just cook...

At least half the human race probably cooks for itself, so I have no idea what you're talking about. Do you mean most people would puke if they had to deal with the slaughtering of animals? I know I wouldn't. I volunteered to help with the post processing of a chicken slaughter at a friend of...

What about the statement implies that a life-or-death gamble would be necessary? You seem to be offering a non-sequitor. Of the sort our grade school teachers chided us about, how when we're being mugged in a dark alley, the mugger is going to demand THIS answer from you, so be prepared! :D...

I believe some of them are bullshit and others aren't, i.e. there's actually a correct way to eat, based on our evolution. I am a proponent of a fat emphasizing, carb and sugar minimizing diet. This is grounded in the idea that before the Agricultural Revolution, we didn't have abundant carbs...

And your proof for that is what exactly? Actually I think the statement is quite stupid. People with experience with dogs and cats know they're pretty smart, and are emotionally developed. If you kick 'em they scream like they're in pain, same as we do. The only real difference I can observe...

Let's see if this multiquote thingy will work. Hm, nope. Had to do that manually. Anyways, what if the speaker is lying? For either sentence. I don't think the sentences contain information about whether the speaker is lying or not. They are merely claims, and they could be true or false...

I'd want to cook it, because I don't trust that they are going to taste good and cooking may help that. I've learned that in the case of a scorpion, it won't help, it'll taste horrible no matter what. Fortunately I am not required to eat scorpions. Anyways the shape of a bug isn't going to...

Look, I grew up being told that you have to thoroughly cook chicken and pork or dire bad things were going to happen to you. I've followed those rules and can't think of a single instance where I got into trouble because of it. I really have no idea how many parasites, either visible or micro...

At least craving meat is "in my head" as a basic biological instinct, like not wanting to be burned by a stove. I suppose your revulsions to "foods that don't look right / seem to have something wrong with them" might be a biological survival instinct as well. Certainly, if it smells foul...

You're talking psychological luxuries in a cush society where food is processed and provided for you. Watch one of those survival shows like "Naked And Afraid" and then tell me if you'd just let yourself die rather than go get your needed protein. Scientific consensus says that people can...

He did not specify that. Those notices could easily have been come from landlords / property owners. They also didn't include any phrases about seeking roommates or housemates. One is about private right of association, i.e. who you choose to shack up with. The other is about running rental...

Slavery is not biological though. The realities of our evolution, should be kept in mind when making health claims about veganism. Let alone incorrect claims about whether we're herbivores, omnivores, or carnivores. Fortunately a poster who made an earlier incorrect claim, later corrected it...

What's your problem? If it's dead it's extra protein. Botulism toxin requires more cooking "than usual" to kill. There are some microorganisms that can survive boiling, at least certain stages of the organism. But they can all still be killed by sufficient conditions, i.e. pressure cooking...

This is just foolishness. We don't. We have an ominivore's dentition and digestive tract, and there are other omnivore species we can compare ourselves to. Furthermore, our encephalization was driven by consuming meat. Look it up. You get to sit here thinking all these nice vegan thoughts...

You know the answer to that is cooking, right? Something our ancestors figured out more than a million years ago, if I remember my timelines correctly. Even water often needs to be cooked. You're not squeamish about that, are you?

Worrying about the memory of the dead is either irrational or superstitious. Frankly, they're dead. Their imagined thoughts and perceptions do not count for anything anymore. What does matter, is the ongoing state of living beings in the world. One does ethical things, to contribute to the...

Faith in free trade, to make things better. LOL! Dream on. Allow multinational corporations to move as much money around internationally as they want, somehow that's going to make the world a kinder gentler place in any way at all. Off-topic, but I actually like the idea that Trump is...

That's illegal in the USA. Federal law. I think the only exception is ads for choosing housemates. Have you looked up the actual laws for Sweden? Just because people post things doesn't make it legal, and you could get them in trouble for it.

I don't think such people should have their mouths taped shut. I think everyone has to learn the world anew, for themselves, in every generation of human beings. Nobody is born with a cogent understanding of multinational capitalism. Watching the slowness of some people's learning curve is...

I see no evidence of this as a consumer. I am poor. I'm on food stamps and shop carefully. Even when I wasn't, I saw no evidence. When I had a substantial income I got taxed on it. I don't find it credible that a significant percentage of my taxes were going to farm subsidies that would be...

So what do you care about? What do you do about it? For what do you make the choice of saying "I can" instead of "I cannot" ?

If you want a healthy life, you need long term healthy habits. Earlier you talked about developing some sort of passion. That needs to be grounded in something tangible; I suggested some kind of personal project.

I'll put a pitch in for personal projects. For instance, I've been building a frame for a Fresnel lens with a neighbor kid. Half of the project is learning how to work constructively with an 11 (?) year old and provide good training and examples for him. I only got mad at him once, when he...

Far more likely that monsters in the dream are "you". Plus you got real world sounds impinging on your dream state.

Caffeine makes me run my mouth in a sort of "motor mouth" way that others can find upsetting and off-putting. I think I communicate a great deal of non-verbal stress and anxiousness when it has jacked me up like that. I also become less good at hiding any negative emotions I'm experiencing. I...

Eating and cooking are separate tasks though. Cooking is optional. Taste bud monotony has a simple solution: wait until you are actually hungry enough, that you don't care anymore. That's a strategy I've used when I've been running thin on food stamps and couldn't afford great stuff. That...

Is there some logistical reason you haven't involved a medical professional in your problems? I honestly don't know how healthcare currently works in the USA. I don't have any. The new Obamacare stuff, you have to actually be working or making money or something. I am surely eligible for...

Although I agree that exercise is beneficial and a good thing to be doing regularly, your negative formulations of "needing a high" and "avoiding decadence" sound worrisome. Why do you need to get high? Maybe that's why you're afraid of some kind of "decadence", because you've got a basic sort...

It's hard to say. When I was at my worst in the dot.com bust, I wondered if I was clinically depressed, or bipolar. The wonderments were certainly self-diagnosis. But then I approached it rationally: do professionals think I actually have a problem? I went to a free bipolar screening clinic...

It should reappear like a djinn. I think it happens when someone's editing their post.

I will take my stab at a thread ender. Maybe it will even answer the OP's questions in a responsible way. I've been doing internet forums since 1993. I've mostly stayed away from the "slum" forums that don't even try to be civilized. I've been in plenty toasty forums, but at least people...

I'm sure, but it's a big part of the story, and something people tend to ignore. Why deal with an individual's self-description when one can just label him via their historical lens any way it suits them?

That was an interesting if long way of looking at things. I hope I can say more succinctly: I have noticed that a lot of human beings approach "life / action / judgment" through emotionalism and/or inertia. This is touched on at the end of the video, about the espouser of a world view feeling...

I really can't tell you how much I hate the game industry, and the computer industry in general, when it is filled with things like "oh just hit this button all these times" and people don't even care. I suppose it is one of the things that Apple gets right more often than not, attention to...

Why should I, or anyone else, have to babysit a button in this manner? I'm trying to concentrate on playing a game. It's my free time, and I don't see how gratuitously hitting a button enhances that experience. I was not aware of a quicksave button in any event. The reason they probably...