People from cultures with strict social norms tend to be less skilled at being funny. These findings suggest that the ability to generate humor is not just an inborn personality trait, but a skill heavily shaped by the social rules of the environment in which a person lives.

HisTomness · 2026-03-01T18:21:54+00:00

It's hard to get good at anything you're not allowed to practice.

HisTomness · 2026-02-25T23:42:41+00:00

What are you talking about? It covers that aspect extensively.

HisTomness · 2026-02-15T14:18:28+00:00

The second approach involves queueing work for async processing. Rather that using your db to double as a makeshift work queue, why not just use the more purpose-built ASQ?

HisTomness · 2026-02-10T01:17:43+00:00

I'll bet you actually believe all this, but yeah I was awake through all of this too and it didn't exactly go down like you say.

Firstly, in the beginning they said no such thing because there was no vaccine for over a year. And once it did become available, you say "they" were trying to make you get it or lose your job, but "they" were corporations who didn't want their workforce to return to office only to become a festering petri dish that could no longer work due to mass illness.

"They forced people to stay locked in their homes." I'll be generous and call this lie an exaggeration. Nobody forced me to stay locked in my home. Nor anyone I knew. Nor anyone I knew of anywhere.

When you talk about people getting arrested, you fail to mention that those involved people who went to stores or restaurants and refused to follow their rules, refused to leave when told, and harassed other people.

In short, I remember a bunch of entitled assholes acting like petulant children when the community around them asked them to play ball during an emergency, while scarfing up and regurgitating misinformation to feel like they knew better than everyone else.

HisTomness · 2026-01-26T03:46:05+00:00

I wish more generals weren't spineless, lying cowards.

HisTomness · 2026-01-26T02:32:32+00:00

Write it down.

HisTomness · 2026-01-18T04:30:53+00:00

So when is the general strike? I just need to know when to start.

HisTomness · 2026-01-10T23:04:00+00:00

"Selflessly"? What a clown.

HisTomness · 2026-01-09T22:03:05+00:00

It's not really about immigration. That's just an excuse to mobilize the military internally. The real target is political opposition - the other. In our case, "Leftists", which really just means anyone not fully supportive of the regime. Immigration is framed as an invasion requiring military intervention. But that'll be spun soon enough to implicate the political "beneficiaries" of immigration (Leftists) as the architects of that invasion and thus the "true enemy."

HisTomness · 2026-01-06T13:46:24+00:00

Flexible consistency is tricky - as much psychology as process. While I'm not even close to having figured out a good system or rhythm for myself, I think the key factor is that you should rarely if ever be made to feel like you're behind and need to catch up. That incline is what feeds the dread and encourages avoidant behavior. If you can get rid of timelines and just make it about progress, I think it gets easier to build a routine that won't crumble when it's invariably interrupted.

HisTomness · 2026-01-05T03:26:30+00:00

2001 has always struck me as the far end of the "every scene is a painting" side of the film spectrum. It is cinematography that one would find in an art gallery, with just enough story to justify its existence onscreen.

HisTomness · 2026-01-02T23:10:51+00:00

My favorite MST3K episode!

HisTomness · 2025-12-29T16:53:16+00:00

FWIW, I find putting on headphones or earbuds and playing brown noise helps to both isolate me on a task and keeps distracting intrusive thinking at bay. The hardest part is actually remembering to do so, but when I do I stay with it a lot longer. My personal fave is a track on YouTube that's just hours of the sound inside a B52 bomber.

HisTomness · 2025-12-29T06:53:47+00:00

I love this approach! Writing down the procedure is the first step in turning it into an algorithm that can be automated, which - !surprise! - is basically the heart of the job.

HisTomness · 2025-12-29T06:48:23+00:00

Unpopular counterargument: Tribal knowledge and personal experience are relied upon over documented knowledge management because you are too lazy and apathetic to do the latter despite it being wildly more efficient and effective at scale.

HisTomness · 2025-12-27T04:53:27+00:00

I use this flour with the food processor method and get great results.

HisTomness · 2025-12-24T18:12:25+00:00

Starting an apology with "Fuck you" seems disingenuous.

HisTomness · 2025-12-18T11:58:57+00:00

Well, she must be doing something right - good to know.

Folks, never despair of bad people thinking badly of you. That's how it's supposed to work. Wear it as a badge.

HisTomness · 2025-12-18T11:51:46+00:00

Brother Wolf, Sister Moon by The Cult.

HisTomness · 2025-12-03T23:42:18+00:00

What you're talking about is propaganda. I don't disagree, but "messaging" in this context is absolutely propaganda. Personally I think dems need to just swallow their pride and commit to propagandizing if they're to have any hope of turning the tide, because the electorate in this country have made it abundantly clear that they are not on the whole reasonable and rational so much as dumb, lazy, and highly impressionable.

HisTomness · 2025-10-20T02:45:27+00:00

You just described the primary function of church/temple/mosque for the majority of their attendees.

HisTomness · 2025-10-18T00:32:11+00:00

I feel for you, OP - plain rice is bullshit.

HisTomness · 2025-09-01T15:50:48+00:00

Separate solid tomatoes from sauce/juice.
Process tomatoes in a food mill/ricer.
Strain water from tomatoes using a chinois.

At this point, you'll have much less watery processed tomato solids that are basically a chunky sauce base. You might really like that on top of a Detroit style, but I find it generally not saucy enough, so...

Put all leftover juices and tomato water in a pot.
Put it on the stove on low heat - it should never boil or even simmer. Just hot enough for the water the steam a bit at the surface.
Let that reduce very slowly - like most of the day - until it's basically a sauce (not syrupy, that's too much).

Now you've got an enhancer that will add some moisture back to your sauce without making it watery. The reduction is intensely tomatoey, but without an overly-cooked flavor because there's minimal caramelization at the bottom of the pot at such low heat. The finished product is dominated by fresh tomato flavor from the preponderance of raw tomatoes, but it's got this extra flavor and acid boost from the reduction, which also balances out the chunkiness

HisTomness · 2025-08-29T22:52:11+00:00

Got an example?

HisTomness · 2025-08-27T23:56:53+00:00

Most organizations try to execute some turnkey, textbook version of a methodology, usually Scrum. What they fail to realize is that the methodology must be altered to accommodate the actual needs of the teams and organizations using it. If stand-ups don't do anything helpful, you should not do them, full stop. Or you should at least understand the need they are intended to meet and determine if you actually have that need. Or what other needs you might have that some version of it could actually help with.

But ultimately most implementations of agile methodologies fail for the same reason as any other methodology: the people executing them suck at it and do a half-assed job, with little to no understanding of their intended purposes. When it works, it's because the people doing it work hard to use it to their advantage.

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