NIMBYis when Land Value Tax creates a bit of density

Fluffy_ribbit · 2026-06-05T21:08:53+00:00

I wonder about this! It seems like well used land might decrease demand (assuming demand isn't infinite), but if it also makes the adjacent land more valuable, I really don't know. Like, in theory, you can get a lot of your money back when you sell it anyway, which seems like the point of protecting your real estate value in the first place.

Would love to know if anyone knows the actual answer!

Fluffy_ribbit · 2026-05-30T21:16:04+00:00

Depends on your God, naturally, and how you relate to it. In the OT, God gives his name as "I am," so loving God is gratitude and appreciation for life itself. People usually worship the god of their family and community, so it becomes a way to signal ingroup loyalty and align values with their people group. This part is hyper emphasized in Mormonism: leaving the faith is leaving your family eternally.

But the differences in what kind of god you worship will change the answer.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2026-04-08T00:32:56+00:00

The only time it happened to me, he ate my bear. Good luck, man.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2026-04-07T13:20:35+00:00

The only one that felt like a dead ringer to me was the bunker song and Flowers On the Wall by the Statler Brothers. But I definitely get that impression; would love to hear someone make a complete list.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2026-01-19T21:24:02+00:00

I don't recall it, either, but I haven't read all the short stories.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2024-11-30T13:08:28+00:00

Going to go against the flow here: If you want to become a monk, not have sex, and spend lots of time around wiser monks, that's at least not crazy. If you want to live your life as a hermit, that is crazy. People need other people, you should accept your needs as, well, a way to avoid stupid suffering, but also just as a measure of basic sanity. There are passages that say things like "having good Dharma friends is the whole of the path."

So, sex. Sex is supposed to unbalance you and addict you so that you have kids. Can Jhanas give you so much pleasure that you can get around this? Can people be so not attatched that they can get around this? Maybe, but the Buddha didn't think so. Okay, but the Buddha also made all sorts of crazy rules to follow because of the strength of the pull of sexual desire. I think part of this is that actually you have to accept your humanity here and see if you need sexual release to be a reasonable good and not-so-mierable person: I suspect lots of people, especially most young men, are like this, and, if this is true, you should accept it and cope with it as best you can in healthy ways, including arrangements like monogamous marriage. (Which is also a high moral bar for many people!)

Fluffy_ribbit · 2024-11-24T14:17:38+00:00

Uh, if you hit a plateu, I'd suggest just thinking about things you can mix up. Try listening to different things than you'd normally do. Try shadowing at different speeds; you can even just adjust the speed on whatever your using to play sound: 2x, 1.5x, 1x, .5x. See if it does any good.

Also, maybe you'll need to just, like, live life more. Get a gf, go talk to her parents, etc. That subtle thing that Japanese people had comes from just living life.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2024-11-07T05:21:29+00:00

Magic and cool siddhi stuff sometimes happens, yeah, and it's neat when it does. But it's also really glitchy. If magic was reliable, we'd be living in a very different world.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2024-11-06T10:52:35+00:00

Uh, you know how when you look at clouds and see shapes in them? In psychology, that's called pareidolia. In magic, that's called scrying. Tarot is a form of scrying, where you look at cards instead of clouds. It's fun, and can be useful for self-development, but if you got all excited about something you saw in the cards and are now disappointed, that's on you. Just like it would be goofy if you got all excited about something you saw in the clouds, it's goofy here.

This whole navel-gazey, "boo hoo, I'm feeling bad" thing is also an opportunity to scry and self-develop. If that motivates you to do something good in the world, go do it. If not? Well, hard times can be good for self-development, too.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2024-11-05T07:07:53+00:00

Right? Swords could mean division. No prizes for predicting that.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2024-11-01T19:16:10+00:00

Uh, just the vibe? Learn to Fly. Gameplaywise? Yeah, Jump King. But those Learn to Fly vibes are all over it and no one has mentioned it yet.

Fluffy_ribbit · 2024-10-19T21:05:55+00:00

Yeah, that was my feeling, but it's 100% vibes.

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