The best ones were Ben, David Bruce and Tantacrul imho. Why rank? IDK, I just did so.

Since I am such a Braydehn, I'd like to complain about the common advice of "just being yourself, bro". The problem is that while I completely agree with the message, it appears to be basically useless in relaying the insight to those who need it. Since I am suspicious of help that actually doesn't help, I am suspicious of that advice giving as well. People have lots of reasons why they aren't comfortable being themselves and it's weird to me why the advice givers seem so satisfied with themselves..

The risks, so far, seem miniscule - fatality rate of 0.2% is a likely overestimate for my age group due to undercounting of mild cases, if I have indeed contracted the virus.

My idea of comfort food is that it can be carby, fatty or carby and fatty and seemingly there's no real "sweet point" for fat-to-carbs ratio that seems obvious to me. A tasteful amount of salt is an improvement to most meals, indeed.

Carbs are delicious and I don't get people who indulgence is all about fats or sumthing.

P.S. One last thing - that communism thing is a red herring. Socialism is not communism and Sanders is not working to bring forth communism.

Honestly I find most food documentaries to be insufferable. I've never seen a popular one that genuinely takes the Columbian exchange, economic conditions or religion seriously as influences on cuisine, despite these three being perhaps the three biggest influences on modern day cuisines. It's often bullshit on how food was better in some preindustrial or even prehistorical time (just no), authenticity worship, "scientific" explanations or healthism.

i got genuinely angry because it was talking about how standard olive oil sucks and you should be getting olive oil made from olives that were personally caressed by italians when like... i just want to make the food taste good?

I like good olive oil, but I also buy refined olive oil on purpose. Sometimes all that a dish needs is the fat composition of olive oil to soak flavor from aromatic vegetables and spices and the neutral flavor of the oil itself is no great hindrance. This is great for good enough cooking.

I'll give a metaexplanation: liberalism, socialism and conservatism are all to an extent responses to trends in 17th century Britain. Socialism, conservatism and later fascism are all, in part, differing reactions to liberalism. The point is, things have been around for a long time by now and each tradition has lots of stuff in it. The messiness is essential and not accidental complexity.

There's also the fact that misunderstandings about what socialism is run rampart in politics. It's not when the government does things like the GOP says.

Y'all are a generally pretty smart and good group and I was wondering if you had Good Reading Resources for People Who Don't Know Things. I'd prefer reading resources that don't add emotional content and also try to provide details in a holistic manner.

I recommend giving a read to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on socialism. It fits your criteria, the encyclopedia is a peer reviewed resource and the article has, like, 100 works in its bibliography. It's also not a 19th century text like the ones socialists online often recommend. Stay away from YouTube for the moment being.

If you don't have experience reading philosophical texts, I recommend to:

1. reading slowly, very slowly. Briefly pause after each sentence, thinking about whether you've understood it. After each paragraph, try to summarize it, think how it's serving the text as a whole (its purpose) and anything that comes into your mind. This with section as well and finally the whole text.
2. return to earlier parts, if needed, liberally. It's not a novel. Later parts inform your understanding of earlier parts.
3. Taking notes is a pretty good practice, and also taking notes of the notes as a summary at the end of each section and trying to construct the essence of the argument.
4. The article might genuinely take 4-5 hours to read with my method, but that's ok.

I mean it's an encyclopedia article, so it's somewhat less bad to read casually, but imho this is step where people fuck up so why not do it right from the beginning?

My own personal take is that Sanders is as a private person a socialist, but he isn't running on a socialist platform for POTUS. He won't bring forth socialism (or make the world much closer to it), but if I were an American, I'd get involved in his campaign, but I see the movement as more important than any figureheads, including Sanders.

This was long because I'm procrastinating, but hopefully it's helpful.

You have convinced me. I was trying to think positively. Again, it has led me astray.

I had similar vibes when I saw Juno (2008) for the first time last summer and it really felt like it was straight from the vault. All the symbolic things like the soundtrack and fashions, politics were early Obama era hopeful (despite the recession), teens were Facebookians rather than TikTokians. Seeing Ellen Page, who did a great job, act straight really jumped out. It was like she had been an antropologist watching straight culture from outside in her whole life and turning the results into performance.

I remember when it was a Cool comedy to see but none of my friends were interested in a pregnancy themed movie. Well, they were wrong.

The recent slew of articles I've posted is btw just the result of closing the million tabs I have open on my phone.

I appreciate the work put into making these recordings available, but the pedant in me is unsatisfied how the release years aren't in titles.

I think these are related: valuing super unapproachable games has had a quite a bit of connection with worries about minorities getting into the pastime. Ergo, it's not a surprise to hear a tantrum like this after the failure of the title afterwards if the main problem was learn-to-swim-or-drown difficulty curve.

Fucking sexy, emma - thank you for posting.

Procrastination Valley

Purple ones are kinda cool.

Honestly it took me a while to figure out as well. But despite all, it's the best I've used.

I listened to the beginning of this while lunching yesterday and it truly is an episode. It is wild stuff and you get to hear game industry stuff that's usually insider baseball.

The curious thing is that I've never really seen functional language pseudo being written. But then again I'm not a serious programmer or a software engineer.

Tbh in that specific case I'd just use mathematics:

f(n+1) = f(n) * g(f(n))

which is almost an implementation in some functional languages. (Nb. it's very nice to be able to use n+1 or 2n style notation in parameters, it can clean up expressions a lot.) Obviously the base case ought to be treated somehow, but that's besides the point.

I would say that ad hoc usage of pseudocode seems innocuous to me - sometimes you have improvise and there's not an common agreed upon system to draw on. Perfect is the enemy of the good. But I think its virtues as a tool for planning and documentation aren't great. If you go forth and plan or prototype your project in pseudo before implementation, why?

I'm speculating here as I don't have access to any empirical research treating this topic.

Same, but honestly these best of the decade lists also show how out of the loop I am with arts and media. For example I'm currently playing through Fallout 2 (1998) and on the fourth season of King of the Hill (1999-2007). I don't regret it as it's fun to go back to old things that are out of the zeitgeist and see that they're good too, still.

I don't really know where to get introduced to good contemporary stuff in a way that doesn't bore or revolt me. Fannish hype of social media is a turn off, like I absolutely don't want to know anything Star Wars related unless Hbomberguy lands a video defending the prequels. I don't want to know about what MCU or Disney+ means for diversity/contemporary politics/whatever, not as a blanket dismissal of a topic, but I don't need to know about it. Criticism is an industry and has long been one, but now I can't be arsed to consume it.

I mostly post to unburden my mind of the things it's been bothered by, so let just this be the occasion to say out loud that I will ignore all podcast, streaming and TV recommendations next year and clear my to be read and watch later lists as well. I'll cultivate my Library of Stuff (because the decade taught me that physical media is occasionally very good) instead and go out to events more.

I respect sequels that do that.

There's all sorts of theology that's has been appropriated into support for Trump or his policies, like the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This has totally been ignored imho by the political opposition of Trump admin and a big part of younger folks against him are too secular to be familiar with this.

I just realized that the story of Adventure Time and the emotional tones of this piece parallel each other a lot. Maybe Adventure Time was an allegory of growing up in a world of posting?

Yeah I was interested in the 0.5 A press phenomenon in general rather than this one video but thank you, this was helpful.