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You can program anything that is programmable. Understanding Turing Equivalence, at least at a philosophical level, might help you to let go of this need to choose a best / optimal / prematurely optimized path to completion. Simply put, there are many ways to skin a cat, and this is...

If you have an interest that also has money attached to it, I recommend you go that direction. In my case, I majored in Sociocultural Anthropology and minored in Computer Science. The former really didn't have money in it, and I also realized I wasn't really social enough to go do fieldwork...

Well if you're Evil, meaning you believe in the domination and subjugation of other human beings for your own personal aggrandizement, then clearly you don't want anyone self-actualized. You want the largest number of worker bees slaving away contributing their scant life energy to your...

food stamps auto repair The main disadvantage is it's been hard to get a date. One reason I live in Asheville NC is people don't automatically condemn this lifestyle. A lot of people are doing it. But I've yet to meet a "mentally healthy" woman who's gonna drop what she's doing to...

You are not too old to learn coding. However, when you try to code for money, you are going to face a certain degree of age discrimination. Hiring managers usually like young, tractable, "worker bunny" people who haven't developed the political sense to look out for their own interests yet...

I always thought I'd be good as a sniper. Or some "ninja" doing sentry removal. However I've never had any environmental need to exercise my violent side. I am fortunate to have lived in boring times, in the Chinese sense. Just as well, because military commanders will chew you up and spit...

Cottage cheese is a good cheap, often overlooked option. Makes a good salad when combined with lettuce and tomato. Don't get the cottage cheese that has fillers in it. It should just have milk. "Cooking meat for yourself," particularly chicken, is a matter of having oil and a seasoning...

I'm a disgruntled INTP computer programmer, living out of my car with my dog for exactly that reason. It wasn't always so. I would say that for the first 5 years of my pre-industry and industry time, every single "grungy" bit of computerdom was interesting to me. Like, how to run a Linux...

5 pairs of Wrangler carpenter pants, bought at Walmart. They were inexpensive, maybe $18 each. That's not the cheapest you can go for jeans, but the $10 jeans only last so long. Wrangler was making claims about having stronger seams and cloth. I think I've had 'em a year and they haven't...

Defining yourself as merely a reaction to something else, robs you of identity and direction, I think. Which perhaps you intuitively realize: you are nothing, so you do nothing. I would suggest that you get on with being something, and doing whatever that is. Nothing wrong with laziness as...

I've seen a woman physically abusing another woman in a Walmart parking lot, in their car, late at night. I don't think they were lesbians. I think they were sisters, living homeless together. I could be mistaken about that, I didn't have "great" sources of info on them. I did not intervene...

Example just now: someone's called me from "North Carolina". I thought it might be one of the spam debt collectors that's been trying to reach "Dmitri" for a year now. I recently read some stuff on suing such people, so I thought I'd answer the call and see if it's more of the same. Well, it...

I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley.

Neutral Good. I spend a substantial portion of my life trying to envision ways to do Good, whether I accomplish anything or not. Law is merely a tool; there can certainly be unjust law. Chaos, I think of as artistry / creativity / thinking outside the box. It too is a tool; one can be a...

What they are doing with their lives, is trying to make ends meet paying the bills. If they're having any success with that at all by selling stuff, they're going to keep plodding on with a certain degree of professionalism, because they are getting paid to do so. Most of the antics you could...

Join a Makerspace. Have fun building robotics-like devices and circuit board stuff in your free time. When you finally meet someone talented and disciplined enough at the Makerspace to start a business venture with, use your business knowledge to do so.

Life is like a giant fractal maze. You get to spend time exploring tiny pieces of it. If you're especially motivated, you might explore a great deal compared to other human beings around you. Then you die.

Does seem to be an obsessive compulsive nervousness on some people's parts. I might try to make references, except mine are typically so old, most people wouldn't get them. I've saved a few of my favorites over the course of my life, and at times I'll say them to myself, because they amuse me...

Oh god I misread the thread title as being about melanin and was wondering what kind of alt-right screed I was going to get.

Hot Pockets are mostly bread.

This thread title brings to mind the wisdom of Conan the Barbarian. "What is best in life?" "Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women."

This is some kind of baloney, not sure if there's a formal or informal logical fallacy associated with it. A comparable statement would be "because human beings came to exist, it has ended with the destruction of huge portions of the earth's forests...." Well first off, it hasn't ended...

Babies being carried in a basket into a grocery store COULD be eaten, but people don't tend to do that for some reason. Probably just as well for our survival.

Carrots ARE breakfast! I am the Rabbit. I cheated. I used hummus.

That's possible. It was way too long ago, say 1990-ish, for me to remember his exact words. The DSM has also changed a few times since then, so I have no idea what the lingo was back in the day.

Come to think of it I had a girlfriend back in college who took lithium. She was completely normal for our entire relationship of 1.5 years or so. She had said there was some incident before I met her, where she went driving an electric cart around somewhere? Some kind of la la land thing...

Come to think of it, I once stood up to a bipolar guy in Seattle who was terrorizing people sitting outside at restaurants. Clearly off his meds, throwing things around, making violent remarks. I deduced that he was seeking negative attention because he couldn't get positive attention. I got...

That guy that 3 of us trailed across the Walmart parking lot, we couldn't understand a damn thing he was saying. He was so loud and bellicose and threatening, it sounded horrible. We had reasonable grouds to believe he might beat or kill her. But he didn't, and we don't know if he physically...

Well that's a good thing, as it will probably keep you from being shot. On the other hand, please don't try rambling on the street. You're very unlikely to be arrested for words in an online forum, but the same can't be said for bothering people in public. Particularly if you start invading...

That's disappointing. I don't know at what point a site resorts to law enforcement, and there are of course jurisdictions where it cannot possibly be effective. Meanwhile, I've been loathe to say it in the vast majority of cases over the years, but there is received internet wisdom on this...

I was nowhere near where the crazy person was shot to death. I was at a dog park with my dog. My primary responsibility in life is to ensure the safety of my dog. Also, the victim of the wild flailing I did see, was not injured. I did not see a good reason to summon the police, as it would...

I hope you manage to be lucid enough, long enough, to understand what society requires of you. In various places, such as the USA, your survival literally depends on it. I have seen the last 10 minutes of an insane person's life as he wandered down a street in Seattle. He attacked some guy...

I quit INTPforum angrily several months ago, after the election. Turns out you can't actually delete an account. I was prepared to ignore INTPf forever, but the recent conviction of Allen Scarsella shooting BLM protesters in MN, caused me to come back to finish an old thread. A case of "I...

Someone did? Missed that. Totally lame / nonsensical. Doubt there's anything more to say. I've given sufficient psychological portraits in fairness. Unsubscribing now.

That's hillarious. I'm wondering if you meant to post it in my kissoff thread, as opposed to Random Thoughts. I think everyone should benefit from your wisdom.

Feeding vampires certainly doesn't help. Really? Shit. Well, unsubscribing from all threads is a start. I can be pretty damn disciplined about not cracking a website that's never pestering me. More like drunk with anger at the time. Immediate triggers were back-to-back "forced...

I 'succeeded', in the sense that I woke up, cracked the notebook, and scribbled some things. Pushed the ball forwards. To a point where more problems are identified with what I already had, questioning the very exercise. :facepalm: But I did put a little discipline into it. Quitting INTPf...

'Unfortunately' this thread triggered a fair amount of conscious introspection on my part about why am I even here on INTPf arguing with certain people on nasty political subjects? I'm quitting the forum. It's been coming for some time now. Post-election is a significant trigger, now that...

Had it with the conspiracy theorists, racists, bigots, and other mental midgets around here. This isn't a brain trust, there's a lot of serious "amateur hour" on INTPf. I don't have the Feeler style patience to explain to anyone what a shithole they've dug their own intellectual lives into, or...

What I wrote above isn't about theft of your life. It's about jailing you if you can't follow the law, and executing you if you take someone else's life. Pretty simple stuff. Basically the rule of law, over and above your personal fantasies and idiosyncracies. Actually being specific, puts...

I presume you meant "lawyers are categorized as charmers". I say that's friggin' daft, coming from a family of lawyers. Lawyers are far more similar to computer programmers. Maybe you've watched too many courtroom dramas on TV? Actors playing lawyers are charmers.

People who aren't playing with a full deck, who earnestly try to convince you that virgin maidens need to be thrown into volcanoes for the world to keep functioning properly, must be opposed and marginalized. They do not hold valid opinions for the structuring of society. This is why we have...

Hey I resemble that remark! Although locally, they kicked all of us freeloading car dwellers out of the parking lot some time ago. There was literal porn, someone was running a prostitution ring. Manager got sore, banned anyone who isn't rich with a fancy RV from staying overnight. Think...

The fucking hillbillies? You been watching internet porn? Is it a great show?

So your solution to the general problem of potentially being born into a cruel, cruel world, is to forcibly sterilize certain adults. You also feel qualified to judge which adults should be the ones sterilized, and able to predict which children will have a miserable life. Have you noticed the...

I call that "Thanksgiving dinner table persuasion." Like when someone's friend turns out to be a member of the KKK. Never give consent by silence. But, making mention and politely gainsaying is sufficient. Not remotely like an internet debate at all. Very limited goals, at the Thanksgiving...

That's because the Feelers and/or mental midgets always make it personal. Typically various people are losing an argument, often because you're better at it than they are, or smarter, or better informed in the subject area. Sometimes that's not what's happening, sometimes 2 equally skilled...

Re: How do my fellow INTPS handle arguements? Don't diss da pigeon! :storks: It's like mud wrestling a pig. It gets you dirty and the pig likes it. Internet cesspools are to be avoided. Not only is "slumming it" stupefying, but there can be real life violent consequences. Some of the...

There are a million ways to clown this, and unsubscribing from this thread is a really good option, but for the moment I'm going to try taking you seriously. Do you assert: - that people are in fact property? - that people are merely tools for other people's use? - that you've heard lots and...

Newsflash: people have the means of production of more people. They don't come out of a factory. Humans aren't property or tools, and it isn't basically your thing to make a decision on. At least, not according to the United Nations presently. In future centuries it may change, as it has...