silicon2401

great parallel to the Dave Chapelle attack. modern, extreme political corectness/wokeness is becoming as dogmatic as traditional religions, and equally accepting of violence to whoever questions their dogma. sad to see society regressing before our very eyes

As a child growing up in the 90s that would have a lot of labels people really sanctify today, gifted education and that kind of accelerated learning opportunity was the #1 most life changing part of my life. It single handedly taught me how to lift myself out of a cycle of poverty when there was nothing else: I didn't have the innate personality for it, I had barely any family, my family had no connections, I had barely any friends. Anybody who opposes identifying gifted students and helping them succeed is actively blocking one of the few resources that can truly help underprivileged children build a future for themselves.

Thanks for posting this comment, it was really entertaining to see how quickly it got wildly over my head and started sounding like sci-fi gibberish

> You can think of it, at a very high level, being the difference between a force mediator that has no self interaction (photon)

Don't really know what a force mediator is but I can somewhat imagine, and photons not interacting with themselves I think makes sense

> a force mediator that does have self-interaction (gluon)

I'm guessing these particles interact with themselves and maybe they're called gluons because they stick together or something, like glue

> Gluons interact with each other, whereas photons don’t.

I think I'm making progress

> Even this by itself isn’t naively enough to get all the strong force’s interesting behavior. But the math works out in such a way that when you start to pull two strongly bound particles apart,

Good so far

> the color field forms a flux tube of gluons between the two particles,

lost me, you just switched lanes into back to the future speak

if food production is getting more expensive, would that make this a good time to invest in companies that produce chemicals used in fertilizer?

OP said

> I don't understand why people would want a combustion car, let alone a manual transmission anymore.

Then I said

> That's sincerely how irrelevant your example is to people like myself who don't drive 3 hours outside of cell reception or electricity, or ride horses through forests reply

Neither of us said anything about imposing anything on others, we strictly talked about our own circumstances, for which there is neither a need for horses nor a need for combustion vehicles. I am also against california "progressivism" but frankly you seem to have reacted reflexively to something neither of us was doing, just because we don't need combustion vehicles

>Try driving 3 hours in a wooded forest without roads or lane markers and see how you feel.

>With my horse, I can trot around through trees and streams, and even let it graze on grass

That's sincerely how irrelevant your example is to people like myself who don't drive 3 hours outside of cell reception or electricity, or ride horses through forests

> Usually in France while we have some very hot days once the sun goes down temperatures drop to the low 20s or even high teens so we can open the windows and our homes cool by heat exchange and it isn't too uncomfortable (without AC).

IMHO this kind of thinking contributes to the problem. Again, IMHO, what you all should be saying is this:

> in France we *used to be able to* open the windows and our homes cool by heat exchange and it wan't too uncomfortable (without AC). *now we have* nights where it is still 28 or 29 degrees at 2am meaning it is still hotter outside than inside (indoor temperatures in my home without AC on is usually 25-26 even when it is high 30s outside) so opening a window just lets in warmer air. Without some kind of air cooling you end up with a hotter ambient temperature in your home which is horrible night after night after night.

This isn't like summer, where it's hot, but after a few months you go back to fall and winter. This is like history, where things happened one way in the past and they won't be like that again.

> It is changes like we see here that worry me a lot for the future my son will be living in when he is my age. Really sorry state the world is in these days :(

Big part of why I'm not having kids. Even if I wanted them for my own sake, I don't want to bring people into the world as it is today, let alone whatever it'll be in 20, 50, 100 years.

This is why I don't have faith in humans making serious change until after driving head-on into a wall. There have been countless documentaries, youtube videos, books, seminars, activist movements, government campaigns, grassroots campaigns, etc etc etc to educate people on how serious climate change is and why it's a big deal. But the average person, even the educated person, has an extremely difficult time taking things seriously unless (1) they personally take interest, or (2) shit hits the fan and they realize the risks were serious. If I weren't personally interested in the environment, I'd probably be just as ignorant. I don't think there are any _viable_ politically correct solutions to the issue, so we'll just have to wait and see how bad we let things get

I always love how the explosion warning sign looks like something out of a dramatic, beautiful comic panel.

I will vouch for Sweetwater anywhere it's mentioned because I've never had such a good customer experience as I have through Sweetwater. I personally enjoy Target and Best Buy a lot. Shopping at Target is oddly enjoyable for me and using their online store has never given me issues. I only really buy from Best Buy online (for both in-store pickup and delivery) and that experience has been good as well.

> Another problem I see with the shopping experience is that I would sometimes spend 10 or 20 minutes looking for just the right product (which is absurd when you think about just how powerful modern filtering and search algorithms can be.) And then it dawned on me. Amazon is making money off of those 10 or 20 minutes of "engagement" because it gives them time to show a bunch of paid ads as I search.

that's a galaxy brain moment. never even thought of that, despite taking efforts to be conscious of how companies are monetizing my interactions with their products. now it makes more sense why one of the biggest companies in the world has had such a terrible website for so long

> if you aren't doing something of your own kind of conspiracy and you're instead obsessing over real or imagined conspiracies that other people are doing, you're wasting your time

That's an incredibly practical insight IMO. It's true: the more you focus on achieving your own goals, the less you care about what else is going on in the world; the most that you care about is overcoming obstacles, but that's the case regardless of whether they're caused by other people's conspiracy plots or random accidents (at least that's the case for me).

The term 'conspiracy theory' is one of those words that has strong, inherent connotations. It's impossible to productively discuss conspiracy theories and theorists (IMO) because of those connotations. As with so many things, rational, objective discussion is critically dependent on appropriate words and wording. Nobody would deny that elite groups have agendas and get up to shady stuff, as we have concrete evidence of this happening all the time, and even both extremes of US political parties can be called "conspiracy theorists": extreme liberals think every white person is actively and consciously out to conspire against minorities, and extreme conservatives think covid vaccines are a way for the government to install nanochips or whatever. But nobody will respond constructively to being called a conspiracy theorist, they'll just get defensive and the discussion dies as soon as it starts.

> My family orders take-out once a week. I used to go pick it up almost every time. DoorDash reduced my personal stress level by so much that the 20% service fee is an absolute bargain.

In your case I'm glad you have an option that works for you. At the end of the day it's a case by case value analysis. I'm so viscerally against things like tips and service charges I'd rather just buy a frozen pizza from the grocery store and snack on that or do takeout than support something like doordash. I think a lot of people need things like doordash less than they think they do, so I like sharing examples of how that can be done.

The beauty of the food world is that if you're willing to choose a restaurant that doesn't use a delivery app, or if you're willing to do takeout, you save money and get a way better experience. The first time I tried using a delivery app I saw that the service fee was something like 20%, whereupon I laughed and never went back. I'd rather pick up the food myself and pay nothing more than the cost of food itself, or get delivery from a local place where I can ensure the only extra cost, i.e. my tip to the driver, goes directly to the driver, cash in hand.

> It feels like they are making a real attempt to take my agency away and to create a product that triggers me so viscerally that I can't keep away from it.

That's most social media and even products in general. Profit comes from consumption, and the best way to keep you consuming is to keep you engaged. Products thrive off of outrage which is why platforms like social media and the news optimize for outraging consumers rather than efficiently delivering information, which is why I actively avoid typical social media or the news. Just don't use it

I see, so do you modify your directness, or are you still direct in a German way? Going by your tipping analogy, I would infer that the equivalent is you being indirect to go along with mainstream Swiss culture, but avoiding typically Swiss people and preferring to interact with people who are comfortable with directness

congrats on the success, it sounds pretty awesome, and thanks for sharing your story

I personally disagree with direct democracy unless it's extremely localized, and otherwise agree with representative democracy, like we have with governors, senators, and the electoral college. As Zizek once said, even if we had direct democracy, we would still have a situation where only a privileged few have the luxury of time, education, and understanding to be deeply involved in the political process, just like we do now. Except at least with representative democracy we can choose who those people are (and make them need re-elections), whereas in a fully direct democracy, I'd just have no say whatsoever if I didn't have the time to stay up to date with global economics, politics, news, culture, voting, etc.

So to be clear, your email newsletter costs nothing to subscribers, but your income is through selling that sponsor slot? That's interesting. I wouldn't have imagined there's so much money to make in email newsletters from advertisements

> I have had to embrace highlighting my nationality-by-birth even though I have lived in Switzerland as an expat for over 10 years.

You may have lived in Switzerland for 10 years, but by your own account, it seems like you've chosen not to adopt Swiss culture (at least this particular aspect). Culture emerges to facilitate communication with shared expectations; how can you be surprised that people will have difficulty communicating with you if you choose to disregard their communication norms, which you seeem very aware of? To me that feels like some person A complaining that he's lived in Germany for 10 years and is saddened that the average person has trouble understanding person A when he speaks Chinese.

> The Harbor these days is just empty compared to the '90s, which certainly makes it feel sketchier. As I said, I don't think it's that dangerous

Just adding the link here because I lived in Baltimore and think it's irresponsible that so many Baltimore residents try to hand-wave away how dystopian Baltimore really is. It absolutely is a dangerous place and visitors should be extremely careful if they visit the city. It was already at over 150 murders in less than half a year this past June.

> The violence has not let up with almost 160 murders in the city so far this year.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/howard-county-teen-ar...

To each their own, but I'd rather altogether avoid a place where shootings are a common thing: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/howard-county-teen-ar...

Inner Harbor is pretty dangerous nowadays. Do some research before heading there

will check that out as well, thank you!

Great point. That helps reduce the perceived solution space in my head for how a cocktail is made. as a noob it sometimes feels like a black box where these crazy recipes and ingredients come together to make something tasty. I'll start looking for core or common ingredients and preparation methods

that sounds awesome, thanks for the recommendation. that sounds like exactly how I'd want to start, and the explanations sound like exactly what I'd want, too.

Thanks, just wasn't sure how much oregano should be in there. Glad it worked for you lol, in those circumstances any relief is a real godsend

Your steps make sense so I'll give that a try.

> once you pick a starting point, you can just incrementally explore the graph without having to buy a pile of ingredients.

That's exactly what I was picturing so thanks for the tips. Especially your intro steps and the coverage points. I specifically want to be able to make cocktails for friends at regular hangouts or as a fun activity at get-togethers/parties, so having good coverage is an especially important goal for me. I feel motivated to give it a shot now; I think I'll try Death & Co since a past coworker got into that, or just look around and see what's popular these days.

One more follow-up question, after getting some experience with cocktails, have you been able to replicate cocktails you try at bars? That's another skill I'd enjoy having because I really enjoy most craft cocktails at bars, but I draw complete blanks when I try making my own recipes at home (unsurprising since I haven't really gotten into the craft), so I'd love to be able to replicate ones I try

Thanks for explaining that. I always wondered how sichuan pepper could cause such a different reaction to regular black or chili pepper, and now it makes sense