I know this is everywhere already, but it’s so great who can resist:
Do watch it large so you can see her facial expressions as well.
Jan
15
Jan
15
Potestative Bleating
I’ve heard many, many stupid ideas over the years but I think “intuitive eating” has to be near the top of the doofus list. Things that can harm me potentially I do not want to do intuitively; I want to do them very deliberately. How does “intuitive driving” and “intuitive neurosurgery” sound to you? Not so good, really.
Eating “intuitively” makes no sense in the modern era with hyper-abundance of high-calorie, low-satiety food. For instance, I ate a larger-than-normal breakfast this morning (I don’t usually eat breakfast at all, but this was larger than what I eat when I do), so consequently I ate a smaller-than-normal lunch. That’s the very opposite of intuitive eating.
I really do need to concentrate on eating more protein, though. That’s not intuitive at all for me, either, as I really like vegetables and carbs, but it’d help me a great deal with my weightlifting goals.
Jan
14
Textual
What's your default text editor story?
1991 Norton Commander
1996 Far Manager
1999-2014 vi (part-time, minor edits only)
2006 gedit
2010 Sublime Text
2014 Vim
2018 vi/nviHere is my ~/.exrc pic.twitter.com/3MIx5CeRky
— Roman 🐡 (@romanzolotarev) January 8, 2019
1979-1981: Edit-80 for TRS-80
1981(?)-1984(?): Another Text Editor by Robert Labenski for DOS
1985-1991(?): EditV for DOS.
1992-1995: EZEdit(?) for DOS
1995-1998: SuperPad for Windows95/98
1999-2009: Gedit, Kate or Pe (ending ca. 2002) for BeOS with some Programmer’s Notepad for Windows thrown in
2009-2014: Notepad++, Sublime Text or Gedit
2014-2019: Sublime Text or TextEdit for MacOS
Holy hell, I’ve been doing this computer stuff for a long time. The dates or editors I’m not at all sure about I put a question mark beside.
Jan
13
Sprang
Don’t ever underestimate the amount of work people will put into proving how nothing can work to solve their issues
— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) January 12, 2019
That describes most of the Fat Acceptance movement right there. Not exclusively them, of course, but that’s what immediately sprang to mind.
Jan
12
Insectionality
Believe this about crickets though: If you think humans can survive on a planet where terrestrial insects are dying out, you’re really stupid.
— Neal Oldham, PhD (@DrNO_NC) January 8, 2019
People just don’t understand how strongly linked to and dependent we are on the biosphere. Most have no idea.
If terrestrial insects are dying out — and all signs point to that being the case — then we’ll soon follow. That’s not apocalypticism or alarmism. That’s just the fact of the matter.
Jan
11
Travel
According to some stats, over 60% of Americans have never travelled abroad.
— 38one (@38one) January 10, 2019
As late as 1994, I knew a few people who’d never traveled outside the county they’d been born in. This is probably more common in North Florida than a lot of other places, but I wonder how common?
Jan
11
Precarious
Why do older people like Kevin Drum have such trouble understanding that people 35ish and younger lead much more precarious lives than the Boomer set ever experienced? I guess it’s because if they do understand this then they might have to do something about it. Despite all the data, the stories, the obviousness of it, the Drum cohort just doesn’t get it.
I’m not a Millennial and my life has never been particularly precarious in adulthood (childhood is a different story), but I remember when getting a job was much easier, health care was much, much less expensive, college was far cheaper, and housing was also vastly cheaper — yes, inflation-adjusted. Literally all the essentials of life have gotten far more expensive relative to wages while TVs and electronics have gotten less costly (thus skewing inflation numbers enormously).
When I first got out of the Army in 1999, one could find an apartment in many large cities for $350 a month ($530 in today’s dollars). That is not possible anywhere now, large city or not. College was half the price. Health care was half the price or less. In addition, there were fewer outright scams and “experts” stealing from your wallet.
No, the world has not gotten roundly gotten worse. But if you’re a young person today, your life is far more uncertain and provisional than the prior few generations experienced. Which would be a lot easier to take I think if they weren’t so utterly committed to gaslighting everyone about it.
Jan
11
Failing
One of the reasons I like weightlifting is that it’s one of the few areas of life where you are supposed to fail. That’s the whole point of it; if you don’t lift until you fail, you aren’t doing any good.
It’s a completely different approach than most of what we do, where we must meet some goal, leap some hurdle. Obviously, lifting competitions are an exception, but 99% of lifters never compete — for most, as it is for me, the idea is to lift as much as you can until you fail since that’s how you get stronger.
I like a sport where failure is the explicit goal.
Jan
11
Dog
Fuck dog people. Dogs should be banned in cities anyway. And dog people should be in another place, far away from me. Like Jupiter.
Jan
10
Ice Ice Crazy
Watching this video of terrible drivers driving terribly, what struck me is how many of those slides were easily recoverable.
It really shows that most people aren’t really good drivers at all. I’m not a great driver or anything, but I can recover from a slide. That’s very easy for me.
What is with all the people slamming on the brakes in ice? That’s like the first thing you don’t do.