glennonymous

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by glennonymous 2y ago
Indeed. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/by the false azure in the windowpane...
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by glennonymous 2y ago
102. Eschew advice books.
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by glennonymous 2y ago
I sent an unsolicited 25 page paper about memes that I wrote, as just some (fairly pretentious!) guy without a college degree, to Professor Dennett, in the early oughts. And he just went ahead and read the thing and gave me very kind feedba
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by glennonymous 3y ago
A couple of thoughts: I’m unable to go back with my browser’s ’Back’ key. not being able to revisit an activity reduces the site’s usefulness. Also, I’d recommend adding a feature that lets users add activities.
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by glennonymous 3y ago
Seems to be more or less impossible to play on my iPhone.
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by glennonymous 3y ago
There’s an additional factor to this that the “leaving your AirPods in when talking to someone is rude” crowd don’t realize: AirPods are actually very effective hearing aids. ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/1
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by glennonymous 3y ago
I think this is a misunderstanding. The EU bans if there is a possible hazard; the US bans based on calculated risk. While it’s possible (but unlikely) there could be cases in which the EU rules are safer, the EU rules also result in harmfu
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by glennonymous 3y ago
Am I the only person who hates it when people say “anyways” when they mean “anyway”?
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by glennonymous 3y ago
Creative people suffer from a lack of neural plasticity? Interesting…
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by glennonymous 3y ago
For people familiar with Scheper’s work: What are the “three challenges” he refers to in the hero’s journey?
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The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone(bactra.org)
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by glennonymous 3y ago
I haven’t heard anyone express this before, but when it comes to my death and the deaths of others, I take comfort in the idea of the Block Universe. On the Block Universe concept, time isn’t real in the way we think about it—everything tha
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by glennonymous 3y ago
Well, I followed this method and the onions took 3 hours to get to deep brown. This leads me to “Hofstader’s Law of Caramelized Onions:” Onions always take 3 times as long to caramelize as you think they’re going to take, even when you take
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by glennonymous 3y ago
This is the exact opposite of my experience. As a chronically depressed person, my inner voice is pretty much my enemy. I listen to podcasts to drown it out. I mostly listen to podcasts that soothe me, that I have no need to listen to every
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by glennonymous 4y ago
+1. Also writing. WRT reading: I think the trick is that being absorbed in something mitigates boredom and existential ennui. And for me, the effect is most pronounced when I read something difficult, i.e. encyclopedic novels (Gravity’s R
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by glennonymous 4y ago
Greenland is surprisingly good, and scandalously overlooked: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=...
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by glennonymous 4y ago
It’s time to put this tired myth to bed. The truth is that HFCS and table sugar are virtually identical, and the health effects of consuming either are the same. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/high-fructose-corn-s
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by glennonymous 4y ago
Oh come on. Surely you can think of a few things other than iPhones and malaria medicine we have, that were completely unavailable to kings and queens of old. (Although “smart phones” admittedly encompasses a LOT of things.) How about air c
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by glennonymous 4y ago
Or what if it’s a kite, or a piece of trash blowing in the wind, or a paper airplane, or…
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by glennonymous 4y ago
I would like to read the book and I’m sure it’s good. But whenever a character says “does it not?” I want to soak the book in gasoline and light it on fire.
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by glennonymous 4y ago
I live in Silicon Valley. I went to one of the few clinics covered by my insurance, and the dentist spoke in heavily accented English I could barely understand, exacerbated by wearing a mask and a face guard. They showed me my X-rays and to
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by glennonymous 4y ago
I went to a dev boot camp (Fullstack Academy) in my 50s, took a job in Silicon Valley, moved my family out here from NYC, leaving a career as an advertising creative that was lucrative and high-status but hateful to me. Moving out here was
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by glennonymous 5y ago
Upon five more minutes’ consideration, I thought of several reasons why this would probably not imply either of the things I suggested it might imply. But my larger question is: What, if any, would be the larger cosmological implications of
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by glennonymous 5y ago
Not a scientist. But if this is true, would it imply that A) the universe is younger than we thought, or B) there was a much longer time between the Big Bang and the formation of the first stars? Seems to have very major cosmological implic
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by glennonymous 5y ago
The many skeptical comments on this thread are well founded, however the idea that video games positively correlate with well-being seems to resonate with my own experience. When I have downtime nowadays, I often tune out by listening to po
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by glennonymous 5y ago
I naively moved from New York to Silicon Valley when I was 52. Not saying there isn’t age discrimination in NYC, but here it’s a nightmare. The drop in my interview track record since my 40s is stark. 2 years ago, after 6 months during whi
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by glennonymous 5y ago
In my case, I experienced high anxiety no matter what strain I smoked, and I smoked a wide variety of different strains.
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by glennonymous 5y ago
I quit because, among other reasons, cannabis causes me to experience major anxiety (AKA “paranoia”). I’m surprised more people don’t complain of this side effect. I also suffer from Bipolar II, and cannabis was a contributing factor to an
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by glennonymous 8y ago
And a robot Kevin Spacey to prevent the clones from revolting.
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by glennonymous 9y ago
I had a drinking habit very similar to yours, and greatly reduced my drinking with the help of marijuana. Marijuana has the distinct advantage of not destroying my body in the same way alcohol does, and I find that it doesn't reduce my

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