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> Your 30+ year old body

Hey, wake up call, not just to parent commenter but anyone.

If you feel this way in your 30's chances are good you should probably spend more time focusing on your physical health. Start getting more exercise and working on your diet.

You don't need to go crazy, just make small improvements and try to stick with them as much as you can. Start simple: Go for a short walk in the morning when you get up. Cut back on refined sugars, alcohol and sugary drinks.

I'm in my early 30's and my capacity to push hard and be durable is stronger than ever. But I made small but steady steps on my diet and kept up a modicum of conditioning throughout my 20's. I love backpacking, so "durability" is something I'm very interested in.

For example, this weekend I was easily able to stay up and game with friends in their early to mid 20's(UFC 5 release) until the wee hours of the morning. I then slept curled up in a ball on the couch(it was cold and that position kept me warm) and bounced up first thing in the morning after like 3 hours of sleep feeling great.

I don't do things like that often because it runs counter to being healthy. Sleep is when your body repairs itself, and it is constantly taking damage. My experience also is that when you are young, you are just less in-tune with your body. By the time you are 30 most people are actually able to recognize how detrimental sleep deeprivation is in the moment.

I’m very interested in this too! I went to Japan and a leg of my trip was to visit the Snow monkeys. I have never been as charmed by a place as I was Nagano. It’s probably because it reminds me so much of where I grew up in the California foothills, but I have an exceptionally vivid memory of walking along the Chikuma river and just being in awe of how peaceful it was.

For reference, I went during the peak of the cherry blosom season, and even though it’s a ‘tourist spot’, it seems like it’s out of the way enough that it wasn’t very busy, we only saw a handful of people. The train ride in was beautiful—no Shinkansen tho. The monkeys (which you take a bus to a hike to get too) were cute too! Highly recommended if you don’t find something better.

I hope you see this, just noticed your reply! Thanks for the encouragement, music production/DJing is something I really want to get into, so encouragement is extremely welcome. :) My problem when I tried using it was that the knobs were really difficult to adjust with my mouse, like it didn’t feel responsive. Am I doing something wrong?

>You don't need anything higher than 720p.

I don't want the UI to look horrible on my 27" 1440p monitor.

> If you look at contemporary writing among lay Americans, they earnestly thought it made Mexicans crazed and dangerous.

Yes, but where did that idea originate from? I think the insinuation here is that the reason it was thought of that way was because that image was being propagated by the media. See: reefer madness, which a comment below indicates was a production of Hearst.

Not trying to be rude, but this honestly reads like you don’t actually play simulation/4X games.

> Maybe your city runs slowly

If the simulation is running slow that has a much more detrimental on the quality of game play than jumping from 45 fps to 75 fps. Sure, it’s a simulation, but it’s primarily a game, not a weather model. And I say this as an early adopter of high hertz monitors and a frequent fps player. I absolutely need high frames and low input latency in a competitive PvP game, but in a strategy game, it’s much more important that the tick rate is fast enough that it’s interesting. A slow sim is boring, and it’s not just me, people complain about this all the time in (late game) Stellaris(another Paradox title).

I was never bullish on Crypto currencies, but GenAI is another story.

It’s worth looking at who the detractors are: People, creatives especially, feel genuinely threatened by generative ML models. The recent writers strike, specifically addressed it. Nobody that I saw felt threatened by crypto currencies in the same way.

Even at the foundational level, crypto currencies/“smart” contracts/NFTs are additive to the economy, they are a new, different and discreet, whereas AI is disruptive/transformative it is a new way of doing something that people already do. I still can’t pay my bills with crypto or even deposit it at traditional financial institutions, but artist are already using genAI as a tool, today.

My favorite, 1 pound of honey is supposed to require 55k miles of bee flight.

> Why GM is pushed so hard.

Well go on, don't just eldude to it. Spell it out.

My understanding is that GM is pushed so hard because while farming is the most necessary thing humans do, it's also highly undesirable labor and the pay is shit. It's also risky business, on a long enough timeline every crop fails.

Consumers should grow their own food if they are worried. See how hard it is.

My experience is that 99% of the people who are agasinst Roundup haven't ever done a day's farming.

I literally started laughing when I read that. Suuuure, I'll believe Spooks who lie for a living when they say they are going to as open as possible.

I wanted to learn Ableton and have determined that it,s futile unless I get a MIDI controller

Much better value? I disagree. High quality products built by artisans mean you aren’t participating(as much) in globalist, race-to-the-bottom corporate behavior. You know where your dollars are going and mostly what was involved in making it. Not to mention, handcrafted, high quality furniture lasts so much longer too, like multiple lifetimes.

All it takes is placing ethics (physical resource use, living standards of those who make your stuff) higher in your value approximation. I hate spending money on disposable goods with a passion, as a result I value the walmart chest of drawers negatively because owning and using it will make me unhappy.

100% - They don't make phones strong enough to be reliable as a life safety device. As an active person I've broken my pocketed phone several times in incidents that were otherwise unmemorable as they were minor spills.

I laughed at that picture of the mountaineer in full Alpine climbing attire, on a tablet.

What's he doing on it, checking his email? The view behind him isn't good enough?

Off topic. I can't help but wonder why astronauts on board the ISS wear sneakers. They aren't wearing gloves, and don't you mostly move with your hands in zero G? Why wear shoes and socks at all?

Hmmm. As someone lucky enough to have a solid group of friends I’ve been a big user of Third places throughout my life. However, for years now sitting in a voice lobby(Discord) with my friends has replaced it. Same people, same vibe, more convenient.

>There’s no reason schools or parents can’t hand kids unmanaged/unrestricted Chromebooks

Holy cow. Are you serious? Kids break stuff for fun.

This is basically a “You’re holding it wrong” argument. Schools are gonna have heavily managed chromebooks, because it’s the reality on the ground that they can hardly afford anything, much less insane IT support for every student. Like, kids are going to actively sabotage the software on their school equipment if they can as a way to avoid doing schoolwork. This was common when I was in high school over a decade ago, they solved it with Deep Freeze software and extremely restrictive Microsoft policies.

Google is the one with a wealth of IT and developer talent, not school systems. They are making the product, not the schools. Devs have to come from somewhere, and going out a limb here, I don’t think smartphones (the other computer that [low income] students are likely to have access to) provide an on ramp for developers, so it would be good if these chromebooks did.

I personally like to think of life as “eddies in the current of entropy”

> axioms are by definition arbitrary.

That is very reductive view of what constitutes most axioms.

Merriam-Websters has:[1]

>2: an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth

Etymonline has:[2]

>"statement of self-evident truth," late 15c., from French axiome, from Latin axioma, from Greek axioma "authority," literally "that which is thought worthy or fit,"...

So, no, not arbitrary at all. Which particular axioms do you find arbitrary? Is game theory arbitrary?

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/axiom

[2] https://www.etymonline.com/word/axiom

> “It’s wrong”

But in a completely benign way. I question why a few edge cases of writing 1000kb instead of 1Mb—so not even a misrepresentation—would ever be worth the code bloat. This is about making stuff slightly more convenient to read.

Pretty simple if you ask me, make everyone handwrite stuff. It's easier to handwrite from knowledge than it is to transfer work verbatim.

Isn't this aimed specifically at people who are hybrid? I'd love something like this, personally. Have my house outside the city, travel in for 3 days 2 nights each week for work. This seems absolutely reasonable to me, although I kinda think they should offer it for free, but I don't know the legal ramifications of that.

It’s not that it reduces crime overall, it’s that it reduces a specific, very inconvenient crime to be the victim of. Having your phone stolen, especially on vacation, is significantly worse than many other sorts of theft.

> There isn't really a way to enforce this that doesn't violate a private company's rights.

Should a private company have those rights? We meed corporate reform in America.

/s?

lol

I was replying to this.

> will just make products more expensive, since now you also pay for the adtech that's involved

That’s not generally how the economics of advertising works. If it were, advertising wouldn’t be very successful/important.

People don’t like the idea of being tracked, but my experience is that they like the results.. Especially all the extreme specialty niche products that simply wouldn’t exist without targeted ads.

If what you describe were economic reality, ads wouldn’t be a thing. The reality is that ads allow a vendor to reach significantly more customers, paying for the ads.

You can see this with the rise of ultra specialty online stores we’ve seen in the last decade thank to targeted advertising.

This isn’t really a business context though, it’s an ethical one.

I think most people would agree that velocity hardly matters here, what’s been actually done is generally what gets judgement, not where you will be in some time if you do everything the same.

What you are describing is essentially pre-crime.

It is a paradox. His point about ISIS vs Republicans is pretty on the money. I think a lot of people in the West are so saturated with tolerance that they don't even recognize what it is. There are countries in the world where being an atheist or being raped is punishable by death and plenty of people there cheer on. In that light, republicans I know are very tolerant people on the whole, possibly even more so than the average Democrat. They have strong feelings about what the government should or shouldn't do, but I haven't met one yet who would actually advocate killing someone for things we think about in terms of tolerance.

If you truly think that the entire republican party, a huge portion of the country's population, have all broken the social contract, I don't think that social contract is worth much.

You know, for all the whataboutism going on in defense of Thomas Jefferson, I’d like to point out that his contemporary, John Adams, never owned a slave. Neither did Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton or Roger Sherman.

People were capable of understanding that slavery was wrong, it was just an inconvenient truth for most of them(them being the wealthy land owners in America).

I’m not going to go so far as to say it’s a good reason to forget about him, Jefferson was a great thinker, but the whole “product of the times” is kinda BS. People who act shitty don’t deserve forgiveness because they could get away with something immoral through the contemporary legal framework.

I say this because very rarely are people lionized for being ahead of their times in important practical moral ways.

Meh, I don’t even thing grams are very good.

Pounds have a nice granularity for every day stuff: a 3 pound laptop and a 2 pound laptop are significantly different, but both are “about a kilo”.

On the other end, a gram is such a small amount that I can only perceive it in multiples, whereas I have a pretty good idea of how much an ounce is.