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In a forum nominally full of I's, I'm hardly shocked. The broader world seems to have devised more inclusive funerary practices.

Reading some articles around the internet, it seems that historically, funerals are not regarded as private affairs you need invites for. https://www.everplans.com/articles/how-to-know-if-you-should-attend-a-funeral However, I've read of people wanting to have some part of the day's...

Maybe they're gay lovers and you just don't know it. Or otherwise have a relationship of some kind that you're not aware of from your work environment.

McCoy issued the stern correction, actually. It is not for you to say how fast humans can evolve under given selective pressures. The idea that all evolutionary change must occur slowly is basically false, as can be demonstrated in a lab with fruit flies.

That was explained in-episode. Those who actually survived the nuclear holocaust, had genetic propensity for longer life. The harshness of a radiated environment "selected for" longevity genetics. Wouldn't call it a slam dunk of evolutionary reasoning, but it's not impossible either.

In the STTOS episode "A Piece of the Action", the highly imitative Iotian culture models their society off of 1 book about gangsters. The book in question is called "The Book" and I think is kept in a glass case. Spock discovers it is an Earth book "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties", and...

You could refuse to use Facebook. That's what I do.

Consider patronizing businesses that make returns as painless as possible.

If you don't deal with it, other consumers will be victimized. They may be victimized anyways, so it would behoove you to consider the maximum amount of pressure you can exert upon the company, the concessions you can extract from them, when making your customer service call. Otherwise, if...

Everyone votes for their slice of the pie. If life, death, and oppression aren't at stake, then that's the way it should be. You aren't required to have everyone else's interests in mind; what about YOU?

All people are born empty, and have to learn the world anew for themselves. Polished understanding requires personal effort.

"Trying to argue with such a person is frustrating, until you finally realize they are pathological and you're completely wasting your time trying to get any accommodation out of them."

Some people have become hardwired to never being at fault, never accepting blame, never taking responsibility for how they inflict themselves on others, and not even having much awareness for how injurious they are. It's always someone else to blame, someone else who has the "deep problems"...

In Portland, Oregon, you would look like an anarchist who is intent on smashing up corporate store windows, such as The Gap or Bank of America.

Regarding Musicthatmakesyoudumb, I'm not dumb enough to use Facebook, and I don't think I'd be dumb enough to express a particular "favorite music". This could explain the absence of high SAT scores in the graph. It's not natural to expect that smart people, as measured by the SAT, simply...

I've thought of making a computer game that does that. Hands would be the whole schtick. Haven't gotten around to it. Haven't got something other than the gimmick / fascination of hands.

Dumbo's magic feather?

In fact it begs the joke about playing "the world's smallest violin for you". This is performed by rubbing the thumb and 2 forefingers together. Idiomatically, it means someone's grousing and complaining isn't worth anything. Think of sad, sad music played on the violin, like the Holocaust...

That wasn't sarcasm. Sorry you haven't managed to understand that. Perhaps you should at least spend some time at an animal shelter before considering becoming a pet owner.

I have a dog. That makes me immune to the problem of "completely losing it". Can always hug the dog! Works for random people on the street too.

I've set 2 extraordinarily difficult goals for myself. 1) ship a game "of substance" that I actually like, that meets all of my artistic and Existential criteria. 2) resolve my hatred of the way the computer industry does computer programming. Currently this has led me to believe that I have...

Is that like the Society of Automotive Engineers saying you have to patch a tire in a certain laborious way, rather than just stick a plug in it, in order to avoid perceived issues of liability and protect SAE certified repair shop jobs from $5 worth of DIY? Probable yes. Why do people get...

Well, 'always' honest is the problem here. You'd do just fine if you decided some Rules of Engagement. When to be honest, when not to be, and how much one way or the other. Honesty isn't a false virtue, always being honest is a false virtue. Pointedly, it's often used as an excuse to be...

Seriously? Have you pushed the mower yourself recently? If so, are the gasoline fumes part of your mystique? I'm just like, been there done that... Which woman? Heck, which shampoo? You some kind of 'S' trying on INTPForum for size?

People who make sweeping generalizations without qualifying what they're saying. And actually, my observation of people in lower class strata and different ethnic backgrounds, is that plenty of people (men and women) have Emotional Intelligence just fine. I would even go so far as to say that...

Well as for this "society this that blah blah blah" I heartily encourage all of you to move to places in the USA or elsewhere, where models of male behavior are more enlightened. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and had no problem learning to express my feelings as I grew up. There's a...

Don't bother pigeonholing. It's not worthy of your 'P'.

Christ why don't you just take up something less stressful, like boxing or Muay Thai? Or spend a lot of time at a gun range. Or go survival camping, don't bring any food. Can't believe you'd bother with the military for this shit.

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That requires lots of money. Money has to be made somehow. I'm definitely not interested in sacrificing my life in order to be a slave to the building of a house. Rather, I'll do things as I want to do on my own terms, and if that results in enough money for a house someday, so be it. Most...

Ambush works, except against the trained. Then it may work or it may not. That could be hard to defend against, particularly if it got into one's eye. However a trained person might manage to flinch away from the worst of the liquid, and then counterattack. It's usually some homeless insane...

I became interested in the MBTI because I used to do a political debate group in a pub in Seattle. After a year and a half or so, I could always predict the kind of stance my opposite number would take, no matter what the subject! So I became interested / concerned about the fundamental...

SOB I guess on the internet April 1 just keeps on giving and giving. I learned that it does snow in Australia and that kangaroos do not hibernate.

Jonathan Blow of game development fame cannot see visual images in his head of things. Maybe he's done an interview about that.

He may very well have gone to military prison for a long time. He was an older black man, walking with a bit of a limp. Still muscular, and he may indeed have been "all that" back in the day. Could still be dangerous in H2H now for all I know. When you get a story like that from someone, you...

This may give a bit more context for a story a somewhat mentally slow, maybe a bit PTSD ex-Marine told me. Just after I nearly got in a fight with him in a homeless lunch line. I did think to apologize to him later, nothing to lose, and he took the apology. So anyways, he says these guys in...

Hmm, watch the beginning of Full Metal Jacket until you feel better?

I read that last bit and all I could think was, What Would Forrest Gump Do?

I believe in lentils. They have more nutritional value than, say, ramen. They cook fairly quickly as beans go, not much longer than rice. I'm willing to eat them plain. If you want to jazz them up, throw cheese and hot sauce on them. Now you have what I call "Mexican lentils" !

I dunno, that probably depends on what your specific inventory of talents are. For instance I have artistic and creative talents. I've met a lot of guys in Melbourne, Florida who seem to do Computer Engineering, they know lots of stuff about circuits, board prototyping, etc. For the most part...

What he said. Except, make sure you don't get stuck in a lecture hall of boring nerds wonking about the intricacies of .NET. Sit at the back where you can escape. That wasn't a class, that was a group of people meeting at Microsoft after hours on their free time!

That's some serious snake oil you're peddling, given the number of men who seem to have medical problems arising from "low T".

IMO you have to go work for software companies that "know what they're doing". If you are not proactive about being the best programmer, and working for the best companies, where "best" means the intellect and practices they deploy not how much money or accolade they're getting... well you're...

I think here you mean "defend yourself verbally / emotionally". I definitely believe that everyone should defend themselves physically from actual threats to bodily harm. Unfortunately everyone won't put in the training time, that's just not realistic. Thus there will always be an available...

No I don't. The guy who wanted to buy it was at a Walmart in Pensacola FL. The sweater is UNIVERSAL. :-) Mom recalls buying the sweater for my Dad in the early 90s, making it ~25 years old. It has held up well, especially with a lot of recent real world "field use".

Until I was given a pile of new socks, I had a lot of old unmatched socks. However, they were all either black or very dark blue, with no patterns on them. That was deliberate on my part. It would take a fair amount of studiousness for someone to notice my socks, strictly speaking, did not...

Learned my lesson about game industry hype with Black & White. I didn't exactly get suckered, I bought it used. Consequently, I was not suckered when Spore came around.

You don't need that much backstory content to start a RPG fiction. Maybe performing that brainstorming exercise will help you as a process, but frankly you cannot communicate that much crap to a reader. Thus delving too deeply into the year-by-year details is wasted effort. Stuff has to be...

During the dot.com bust I embarked upon the strange profession of Signature Gathering, as a matter of survival, because I had to. It was a waste of my brain cells, but it was probably the best "low end" job I was going to undertake, since I didn't have a boss and could make my own hours. The...

Fundamental computer science theories such as The Halting Problem would suggest that you cannot be so certain about the amount of time it will take us to realize Strong AI. We may be close, we may be far away.