i basically only get angry at niche nerds if they are unpleasant. if they're a little bit oblivious and consumed by their thing i might find them kind of lame? i suppose i wouldn't enjoy speaking with them. but i don't really dislike them. i just prefer a more rounded person.
i'm only going to have aggressive feelings of dislike if they're the special breed of domineering, rude, resentful nerd. i find that is a pretty small minority, though.
i feel sort of weirdly patriarchal to, like, the young nerds i see bumping around boston from time to time or especially around pax time
like i am kind of seized with this sense that they are making some bad decisions and limiting themselves and i find myself embarrassed for them
i am like
"take a shower! learn some things that maybe girls are interested in! maybe put more effort into combing your hair than your exquisitely documented rpg setting!"
my orientation towards them is definitely not anger or even dislike (though tbh i really don't want to spend time with them). i just feel kind of bad for them.
now dudes my age who are still going strong with that sort of thing i am a lot more judgy about.
it is pretty cool how it seems like my body knows its water needs even without 'thirst'
sometimes i will take a sip of water and my mouth will feel perfectly fine- not dry at all. but my brain is like, don't putthis bottle down, gulp some more
then magically a minute later i just feel 'better' overall
But that's thirst. Did I learn thirst wrong?
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@Organichu so, speaking of water, have you heard about this one? Take your body weight and half it then drink that many ounces of water a day. It's supposed to help you shed all kinds of weight, my priest's wife is all over this concept and has been trying to sell me on it pretty hard.
I figure it's more about allowing water to take up space in your stomach constantly than the amount of water, but I'm not sure. I'm also leery since you can drink enough water to kill yourself...granted, that's a lot of water, and I don't weigh ~that~ much ffs.
Kinda makes sense, you're supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day or something like that, it works out to about half the bodyweight in ounces for an "ideal weight" lady of average height.
@spool32 what was the name of the book we recently read about diet and health that sort of gave the cliff notes version of current scientific thinking?
@Organichu so, speaking of water, have you heard about this one? Take your body weight and half it then drink that many ounces of water a day. It's supposed to help you shed all kinds of weight, my priest's wife is all over this concept and has been trying to sell me on it pretty hard.
I figure it's more about allowing water to take up space in your stomach constantly than the amount of water, but I'm not sure. I'm also leery since you can drink enough water to kill yourself...granted, that's a lot of water, and I don't weigh ~that~ much ffs.
I think the common recommendation is 64oz fluid/day
ok so after pages of weird back and forth: the reason i am staying away from starches (and sugar) is because regardless of anything else, they make me eat more. if i order a general tso's platter- with the hfcs in the sauce, with the breading on the chicken, with the big serving of fried rice- i am going to clean my plate. it is profoundly satisfying. i fantasize about it, sometimes. then let's say i order the garlic chicken with no rice. it comes with broccoli. there is a bit of cornstarch in the garlic sauce but otherwise it is basically no carbs. i might be able to finish just the chicken. caloric content: less than a quarter of the previous meal.
starches are addictive and they make me eat more. maybe i could order general tso's and eat just a quarter of it. sure. but i would be insanely hungry and i would probably fold. making good decisions is more involved than 'just try really hard, it's all down to your choices'. why wouldn't you set up your life so those choices are easier? hey, i have a rage disorder and also i'm extremely drunk. i'm gonna hold this gun in my hand in times square. i mean, i can always just choose not to kill these people. ultimately, it's on me.
or i could just not be holding a gun while drunk and enraged. that seems like i'm setting my life up for me to make better decisions, even if it neatly sidesteps this weird self-flagellating, almost religious smugness about 'willpower'.
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It is a safe bet in general that I am not talking amputation when referring to losing a dick.
uh hrmm
getting an erection and running into a wall really fast so it inverts?
thats how it works right
speaking of erections and surgery were you here the other night when I looked up sra? You are advised not to think sexy thoughts after surgery because increased blood flow can bust stitches.
It is a safe bet in general that I am not talking amputation when referring to losing a dick.
uh hrmm
getting an erection and running into a wall really fast so it inverts?
thats how it works right
speaking of erections and surgery were you here the other night when I looked up sra? You are advised not to think sexy thoughts after surgery because increased blood flow can bust stitches.
yeah
the most catholic of surgeries
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This reminds me of my first composition class back in college where I had spent the last three years of high school learning the myriad intricacies of notational formatting. After our first assignment was given out, a classmate asked, "Do you prefer MLA or Chicago style format?" The professor was all, "I have no idea what that is. Write me a paper. None of that shit is important."
Chicago is the one true style
fuck gendered marketing
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Willpower is god damned bullshit when it is 2am and there is a bag of cadbury mini eggs in front of you. Sugar is heroin.
i basically only get angry at niche nerds if they are unpleasant. if they're a little bit oblivious and consumed by their thing i might find them kind of lame? i suppose i wouldn't enjoy speaking with them. but i don't really dislike them. i just prefer a more rounded person.
i'm only going to have aggressive feelings of dislike if they're the special breed of domineering, rude, resentful nerd. i find that is a pretty small minority, though.
i feel sort of weirdly patriarchal to, like, the young nerds i see bumping around boston from time to time or especially around pax time
like i am kind of seized with this sense that they are making some bad decisions and limiting themselves and i find myself embarrassed for them
i am like
"take a shower! learn some things that maybe girls are interested in! maybe put more effort into combing your hair than your exquisitely documented rpg setting!"
my orientation towards them is definitely not anger or even dislike (though tbh i really don't want to spend time with them). i just feel kind of bad for them.
now dudes my age who are still going strong with that sort of thing i am a lot more judgy about.
I have one of these living on my couch right now. It's sad...and highly annoying. Though more than the social nose-in-the-air about everything and the need to have a contrary opinion to anything I may like it's the sense of entitlement that kills me.
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it is pretty cool how it seems like my body knows its water needs even without 'thirst'
sometimes i will take a sip of water and my mouth will feel perfectly fine- not dry at all. but my brain is like, don't putthis bottle down, gulp some more
then magically a minute later i just feel 'better' overall
But that's thirst. Did I learn thirst wrong?
i always associated thirst with the actual mouthfeel sensation: dryness or gumminess or whatever. or extreme thirst when you put some water in your mouth and the tissue just sort of 'absorbs' it without you needing to swallow.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
those nerds are all one step away from eating a bullet or overdosing on something to end the misery of it all and MLP or whatever is the only thing that brings joy to their horrific existence
it is pretty cool how it seems like my body knows its water needs even without 'thirst'
sometimes i will take a sip of water and my mouth will feel perfectly fine- not dry at all. but my brain is like, don't putthis bottle down, gulp some more
then magically a minute later i just feel 'better' overall
But that's thirst. Did I learn thirst wrong?
i always associated thirst with the actual mouthfeel sensation: dryness or gumminess or whatever. or extreme thirst when you put some water in your mouth and the tissue just sort of 'absorbs' it without you needing to swallow.
I did as well but I am now afraid of being dehydrated
what if we were dehydrated all through our youth?!
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
ok so after pages of weird back and forth: the reason i am staying away from starches (and sugar) is because regardless of anything else, they make me eat more. if i order a general tso's platter- with the hfcs in the sauce, with the breading on the chicken, with the big serving of fried rice- i am going to clean my plate. it is profoundly satisfying. i fantasize about it, sometimes. then let's say i order the garlic chicken with no rice. it comes with broccoli. there is a bit of cornstarch in the garlic sauce but otherwise it is basically no carbs. i might be able to finish just the chicken. caloric content: less than a quarter of the previous meal.
starches are addictive and they make me eat more. maybe i could order general tso's and eat just a quarter of it. sure. but i would be insanely hungry and i would probably fold. making good decisions is more involved than 'just try really hard, it's all down to your choices'. why wouldn't you set up your life so those choices are easier? hey, i have a rage disorder and also i'm extremely drunk. i'm gonna hold this gun in my hand in times square. i mean, i can always just choose not to kill these people. ultimately, it's on me.
or i could just not be holding a gun while drunk and enraged. that seems like i'm setting my life up for me to make better decisions, even if it neatly sidesteps this weird self-flagellating, almost religious smugness about 'willpower'.
thumbs up
it's easier to say no once, at the grocery store (or at the ordering counter)
than over and over again with that temptation in your fridge
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those nerds are all one step away from eating a bullet or overdosing on something to end the misery of it all and MLP or whatever is the only thing that brings joy to their horrific existence
the reason we're going to differ on this is that you refuse to accept that there is a dominant, mainstream culture that people will suffer socially if they refuse to engage with.
That's a little like saying that I refuse to accept gravity. I acknowledge that this is a thing that exists and will likely always exist in one form or another, I just don't deify it. The mainstream is not self-justifying, and refusal to see the mainstream or the status quo as self-justifying should not be confused with mindless contrarianism.
like it or not (and mostly i don't!) professional sports and how's the weather and the kids are great and my ski trip next week is general-purpose water-cooler conversation and my raid progress in WoW or your furry convention isn't.
like it or not (and mostly i do!) wearing a button-down shirt and chinos to the grocery store allows you to pass without much comment while wearing a cloak or utilikilt does not.
like, there is a set of social expectations that people generally conform to. it makes it possible to live with other people. literally everyone on the planet has some sort of unusual interest or hobby or trait or belief, but most of us understand that it's unusual and that the world as a whole will not bend to our demands.
so me personally, when the MIT intern starts banging on about her anime club and pony fandom? i try to engage with her as a person and ask some questions and be generous in my estimation. but, of course, her insistence on making this her thing is going to hurt her socially and probably professionally.
Positing that somebody's decisions will put them at a disadvantage, as an observation about the world, is different from the moral noncognitivist utterance, "Ew! My Little Pony!" (...assuming the factual accuracy of the positive statement in a given context. In this particular case, I don't challenge the factual accuracy, but similarly-structured arguments elsewhere are sometimes based on inaccurate claims of what is or is not status quo.)
To go from "Ew! My Little Pony!" to "Well, being a brony puts you at a social disadvantage" is a nonsequitur. That antecedent does not justify that precedent.
Not that the precedent requires justification. It's okay not to like things. If Swans dude hates the party and wants to go home, he can go home. That doesn't make him a better person, though. It just makes him an introvert.
what this sounds like is, in a nutshell:
feral: the mainstream shouldn't be dismissive of nerds and subcultures. it should be inclusive.
will: the mainstream isn't going to change. nerds and subculture types need to learn how to suck it up and engage with the world as it is
now, i personally don't find the act of grown-ups really enjoying my little pony immoral or anything. yes i think it's a little infantile and weird, but not that big a deal. what i find objectionable is people structuring their lives such that they demand to be dealt with solely on their own terms.
It really sounds like your problem is more with subject bores than non-mainstream interests per se
Like, that guy in the office whose only chat is about the emotional rollercoaster that is the premier league campaign of Aston Villa (with occasional forays into the moral failings and other general deficiencies of Birmingham City and their fans) is as mainstream as they come, but nobody wants to spend time with him
Polite social interaction generally requires that you find some common ground with the person you're engaging with, which doesn't have to be mainstream interest-specific, those are just topics with which it is likely you'll be able to do so relatively easily
sure i think that is exactly right. the point is, i think, it's important to establish mutual consideration rather than insist on your own way. i personally don't much care about pro sports and pay attention to local teams the bare minimum to be conversant. the reason that people bring up these "safe" watercooler topics is because it's a socially safe way of trying to establish some sort of social bond.
as an aside and appropos of nothing i think, i have an ASD friend who is a real smart guy - just knows loads of information about, like baseball and baseball history and music bands and their rotating members and a fair amount about movies and a lot of generally safe topics. but he's one of those guys you mentioned who just won't stop regurgitating facts until his victim has literally turned the other way and sometimes not even then. so he has this double-whammy of being able to initially engage with people about safe conversation topics and then the ability to completely bore and alienate them in short order without the ability to pick up social cues that they're horribly bored.
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Killing you wouldn't actually teach you anything though. Perhaps a 90 day tour to Iran
the bad part
the muslimy part.
Solar panels use batteries of that magnitude, I think.
... I also want at least one (1) solar panel.
i feel sort of weirdly patriarchal to, like, the young nerds i see bumping around boston from time to time or especially around pax time
like i am kind of seized with this sense that they are making some bad decisions and limiting themselves and i find myself embarrassed for them
i am like
"take a shower! learn some things that maybe girls are interested in! maybe put more effort into combing your hair than your exquisitely documented rpg setting!"
my orientation towards them is definitely not anger or even dislike (though tbh i really don't want to spend time with them). i just feel kind of bad for them.
now dudes my age who are still going strong with that sort of thing i am a lot more judgy about.
The Lola Drayson B12 has cutting edge battery tech built into its structure and its battery capacity is 40Ah
If they could increase that by a factor of 32 I think they'd be on for a crack at Le Mans
pokemon...?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
But that's thirst. Did I learn thirst wrong?
only if you're spelling out pokemon names with your tongue on their clits.
if the reports of people receiving empty envelopes and paperclips are correct, the site straight-up lies about their business model.
Seems to have been around for a while. Anyone here messed with it?
Disney has almost made me want to see this.
Kinda makes sense, you're supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day or something like that, it works out to about half the bodyweight in ounces for an "ideal weight" lady of average height.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
It was called Fat Chance
I think the common recommendation is 64oz fluid/day
half a person's bodyweight sounds like a lot
starches are addictive and they make me eat more. maybe i could order general tso's and eat just a quarter of it. sure. but i would be insanely hungry and i would probably fold. making good decisions is more involved than 'just try really hard, it's all down to your choices'. why wouldn't you set up your life so those choices are easier? hey, i have a rage disorder and also i'm extremely drunk. i'm gonna hold this gun in my hand in times square. i mean, i can always just choose not to kill these people. ultimately, it's on me.
or i could just not be holding a gun while drunk and enraged. that seems like i'm setting my life up for me to make better decisions, even if it neatly sidesteps this weird self-flagellating, almost religious smugness about 'willpower'.
fairy types
girls are interested in fairy types
tell them about your spritzee
you wrassled? I hear the great lakes region is big on that
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
yeah
the most catholic of surgeries
Look haters are going to hate. I embrace my pariah status.
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no I knew some though
I am weak baby
still probably won't see it but wow
Like I think every chat girl with a 3ds has pokemon.
Chicago is the one true style
I have one of these living on my couch right now. It's sad...and highly annoying. Though more than the social nose-in-the-air about everything and the need to have a contrary opinion to anything I may like it's the sense of entitlement that kills me.
is that why her cheeks look like that?
i always associated thirst with the actual mouthfeel sensation: dryness or gumminess or whatever. or extreme thirst when you put some water in your mouth and the tissue just sort of 'absorbs' it without you needing to swallow.
the constant vacuum has created dips in the tissue, yes.
Yeah. Looking at it, it's immediately clear it's a Disney film but you also have the striking picture of Angelina Jolie.
so Will wants them to die is what I'm getting at
i didn't have a gameboy growing up
The trailer was pretty well done as well.
I did as well but I am now afraid of being dehydrated
what if we were dehydrated all through our youth?!
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
thumbs up
it's easier to say no once, at the grocery store (or at the ordering counter)
than over and over again with that temptation in your fridge
Sooooooo
what exactly is the moral dilemma again?
sure i think that is exactly right. the point is, i think, it's important to establish mutual consideration rather than insist on your own way. i personally don't much care about pro sports and pay attention to local teams the bare minimum to be conversant. the reason that people bring up these "safe" watercooler topics is because it's a socially safe way of trying to establish some sort of social bond.
as an aside and appropos of nothing i think, i have an ASD friend who is a real smart guy - just knows loads of information about, like baseball and baseball history and music bands and their rotating members and a fair amount about movies and a lot of generally safe topics. but he's one of those guys you mentioned who just won't stop regurgitating facts until his victim has literally turned the other way and sometimes not even then. so he has this double-whammy of being able to initially engage with people about safe conversation topics and then the ability to completely bore and alienate them in short order without the ability to pick up social cues that they're horribly bored.