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You’re right obviously, but it’s frankly wild to see that take from an .ml username

Because people have very diverse political beliefs and don’t fit neatly into two groups, but the mechanisms of our elections lead to two parties. As a result, they select one of the two parties, even if it doesn’t perfectly align with their beliefs.

I think I hypothetically could, but I’ve got real thick fingers so I usually make a bunch of sloppy typos.

Redragon briefly made an upscaled keyboard, and I didn’t pull the trigger when I had the chance because I like having a num pad, and now they’ve stopped making it. Haven’t found anyone else that makes one, so I guess I’ll never really know if I can touch type.

There’s a lot of reasons not to like Regan, but he did get some things right. That was one of them.

Was it though? Not that I’m saying you’re wrong about the conditions in asylums, but is abandoning the patients to be homeless on the streets really better? It feels like the right thing would have been comprehensive reform with extensive oversight.

I think anyone who claims to fully understand it can be safely ignored. It’s not supposed to be understood, it’s supposed to be felt. Lynch intentionally tries to invoke a dreamlike feeling, where things simultaneously feel internally consistent and incomprehensibly bizarre. There are certainly things to understand, but there are also things which are meant more to inspire an idea of something that could be understood, without having a concrete explanation. That’s part of the magic.

I think the middle of season 2, when he stepped away to work on Blue Velvet, is frustratingly weak, but they got there in the end. I think The Return was good, but not quite as good.

Overall I love it and reference it frequently.

Look up which season 2 episodes Lynch was involved in, and which ones he wasn’t. For me, the drop in quality perfectly aligns with his brief departure.

Obviously the intelligent person on a team of idiots then. There is value in being the least intelligent person in a room, since you have the opportunity to learn from people smarter than you. But not if you’re just forgetting things so that you can relearn them.

Do I get dumber to become the idiot or is everyone else just smarter than me?

I feel like it would be difficult to translate the footnotes and layers to the story.

This reminds me that I need to finish House of Leaves.

Worrying about it won’t prevent it from happening, it’s just going to make you feel bummed out about something you can’t change.

Focus on enjoying your life, so that in your final moments your last thoughts are “Bummer, ah well, I had a good run”.

30 something male, average is 1-2 times a day. Some days it’s none, some days I get those demons in me. Down from 3-4 per day when I was younger, and some of those were deliberately prolonged sessions. Still do that now and then, but I’ve got shit to do most of the time.

I am married, but her libido only really spikes once or twice a week so that doesn’t affect much. When I had multiple partners I almost never masturbated, but I was having sex multiple times per day, so.

Construction is a factor, but outside of my relatively short commute, I always use GPS, even when I know how to get there, to minimize traffic.

Like sure, I can get there without it, but if I use it I can be pretty sure I’m on the route that’s fastest *right now".

From what I’ve replayed in recent years, yeah not great. But it certainly inspired me to question narratives, which has actually been quite beneficial.

If you really want to get your money’s worth it should always end in 8

It’s not even really 5° increments, it’s typically 25°. Ovens can’t really hold temp much more precisely than that, and even if they could you wouldn’t notice much of a difference. 342° is gonna behave basically the same as 359°.

For a lot of those sorts of products, the expiration date is for the container. The salt will be fine for thousands of years, but the plastic might start leeching into it much sooner. That’s why bottled water has a Use By date.

I want a job that pays my bills and gives me a bit of savings and spending money. Beyond that, I’m hesitant to take on more responsibility, difficulty, and headaches unless the pay bump is substantial. If my pay is below a comfortable level, I’d rather have a raise. If the pay is decent but the job is currently stressful, I’d rather have less difficulty for the same pay.

Granted, that assumes that the job doesn’t frequently experience scope creep. If the stress reduction is nominal before reverting back to pre-adjusted levels or higher, more money is better than temporary relief.

Sure, I can only go off what I’ve read. Would you like to recommend a textbook which goes into making predictions when playing a game with irrational players?

What? Players acting rationally is one of the core assumptions of game theory. Sure there are some models that attempt to account for irrationality, but the conclusions are obviously much less definitive.

It can’t really be any other way, perfectly rational actors are predictable in a mathematical way. Irrational actors are irrational in many different ways. One irrational actor might betray a fellow prisoner purely out of spite, another might refuse to speak purely out of a sense of loyalty. Another might make a decision compulsively without any strategy at all.

Irrational players cannot be analyzed mathematically. You cannot find a dominant strategy playing against irrational players, at least not a non-trivial one. Sure you can try to analyze them, but then you’ve left math behind and have wandered into psychology or sociology.