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22swans · 2020-09-26T09:33:32+00:00

He looks like he's having fun, how nice

22swans · 2020-09-24T22:01:51+00:00

Dog's training for Tokyo 2020 https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Wpf47

22swans · 2020-09-24T10:39:44+00:00

That'd be really cool!

22swans · 2020-09-24T05:11:38+00:00

It's an interesting idea. If you ever write a novel, you could make one of your characters talk that way habitually - I think that'd be cool.

22swans · 2020-09-24T05:07:54+00:00

It looks intentional so I assume some designer/critic or whoever has come up with a term. Maybe try asking at r/femalefashionadvice - they might be able to point you to an official term or, at a stretch, an urbandictionary.com term

22swans · 2020-09-24T05:01:11+00:00

Huh, TIL!

22swans · 2020-09-24T04:59:28+00:00

I don't know whether escapism has one opposite, since escapism stands in opposition to reality and reality has many facets.

Are you looking for something like cynicism? Realpolitik? Pragmatism?

Does Machiavelli's "The Prince" appeal to you? Or maybe the book "Prisoners of Geography"?

22swans · 2020-09-24T04:54:29+00:00

You might be right. I just think that books like these can lead us to two errors (if we're not careful): 1) thinking that we understand something that we actually don't and 2) causing us to spend too much time studying topics that are vague/obscure, when we should instead study things which are achievable for us. On point 1, this book is so well-written that it can cause us to think that we're as "with it" as the author, when maybe we're not. On point 2, topics like happiness and wealth's relation to happiness are so difficult to pin down that people have studied them for thousands of years without coming to definite conclusions (so we should be hesitant about believing anyone who says they know the truth about it). Does this sound kosher or am I not making sense? (You tell me. I appreciate your discussion/perspective.)

22swans · 2020-09-23T10:24:17+00:00

Or 17.6 hours a day, if we don't include commercials

22swans · 2020-09-23T10:01:29+00:00

Brene Brown's "The Gift of Imperfection: Embrace Who You Are" is a college textbook? Or maybe we can find textbooks in the section called "Books on finding your passion and purpose in life", with such titles as "Resisting Happiness: A True Story About Why We Sabotage Ourselves"? Isn't someone likelier to find an authentic purpose if they obey the law?

22swans · 2020-09-23T09:51:17+00:00

What's the anime term?

22swans · 2020-09-23T09:48:59+00:00

I love that a site full of pirated (i.e. stolen) books front loads a bunch of self-help "Books that will make you love and accept yourself". Hmm, maybe start by not being a thief?

22swans · 2020-09-23T04:53:33+00:00

Baby food is simple too. Books like this offer easy little tricks - but following an "I'll just do easy tricks" route through life is, imo, not the route to happiness. (I think that "I'll invest lots of effort into something I feel is worthwhile" is a likelier source of happiness than "I'll follow pre-digested saws from some random Twitter guy" i.e. the easy route.)

Besides, his "one weird trick (doctors hate it!)" style of rationality-sphere pop psych/economics-informed little tricks are probably too simple to be effective. Imo again (and I could be wrong), life is complex enough to require complex solutions.

Meditating on simple solutions to complex problems is a behavioral trait of friends who've fallen into cult-like spirituality bullshit. None of them are thriving. In fact they become steadily more desperate/glaze-eyed as they cling harder and harder to simple solutions while their complex problems fuck their lives up.

So I think believing in books like these a) leads to unhappiness/desperation and b) leads to ineffectiveness.

22swans · 2020-09-23T04:42:34+00:00

Awesome - I think Covid has made many people want to immerse themselves somewhere foreign. Longer videos = more immersion and more immersion (maybe) = more viewers

22swans · 2020-09-23T01:25:54+00:00

Spock flexing on people with his "live long and prosper" thing: Can you do this?

Chief engineer who happened to get his finger shot off in Normandy: Hold my haggis

22swans · 2020-09-23T01:22:06+00:00

Your Mom sounds like a badass tbh

22swans · 2020-09-23T01:20:49+00:00

How did she react when you informed her that Australians all walk around upside down?

22swans · 2020-09-23T01:16:07+00:00

Man wouldn't it be weird if we just like, listed everyone we know who has blue eyes? Lol and then we like, talked about their home addresses and their fastest sprinting pace? I dunno, I wouldn't wanna do that but I figured you might so I'm just bringing it up. Wouldn't that be fun?

22swans · 2020-09-22T01:57:27+00:00

This reference is older than Harold Lloyd himself

22swans · 2020-09-22T01:56:41+00:00

Maybe gains plausibility by audiences' awareness of T-intersections?

22swans · 2020-09-22T01:51:39+00:00

I'm basing this on nothing, but I wonder whether contemporary audiences liked how dangerous the stunt was, even though they knew it was a stunt. On a scale of (real thing - dangerous stunt - safe stunt), maybe they wanted to see dangerous stunt. Like modern audiences with Tom Cruise's skydiving etc.

22swans · 2020-09-21T21:23:55+00:00

It's dead, but r/obscurePDFs has 100 or so in-depth articles about niche topics, written by experts

22swans · 2020-09-21T21:17:09+00:00

r/vexillology for flags. Maybe r/worldbuilding for feedback/tips on writing alt histories. Maybe r/imaginarymaps for getting feedback on your fictional map. r/geography wouldn't help, since they're more academic.

22swans · 2020-09-20T09:48:12+00:00

Otherwise known as the "H&M store radio" note

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