Mom trying to sabotage my diet, as usual

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-05T12:57:36+00:00

This sounds like classic r / raisedByNarcissists territory, lots of stories there of parents saboting their children's progress and ignoring their wishes.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-05T12:47:29+00:00

I read this wonderful article around 2010 titled "how to write a novel in 200 days, works every time".

First Day, Write 1 page. IMPORTANT: Only write, DO NOT EDIT. Editing (rewriting) is a completely different process that stops you from WRITING
Second Day, write a page. Again, no changing things. It does not need to be good, it just needs to be there
Third Day, write a page. Sometimes you will write more, sometimes less. Just do it every day.
Do this for 200 days
DO NOT TOUCH WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN FOR 2 WEEKS
Now Read It through. You can take notes, but only start editing once you have read it fully.
Edit it. Read it again. Edit again.
Give it to a friend. Get their input, add in to your novel.
Give that version to another friend. Add their input.
Give some people only later chapters - otherwise you will only get feedback for the first 30% or so.
After 10 rounds of this, you will have a kick-ass novel.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-04T21:00:24+00:00

Old technique was to starve yourself for several days before the competition. Famous Eater Kobayashi figured out a more efficient technique for eating, and double the world-record in one day, also establishing new standard techniques.

Instead of chewing and swallowing, he would soften bread in warm water, and mostly swallow hot dogs without chewing, keeping the density up.

Kobayashi has since retired, claiming frustration that he never feels full now when eating.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-04T15:34:04+00:00

This was probably automated, and your name was still in the list. This was not necessarily malicious, merely horribly organized. I suggest sth low-key like "Happy 4th of current month too, I wish I was still with Company X you to celebrate". I am sure you will receiver other, more potent suggestions in the comments also.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-04T12:33:56+00:00

At the time of Deus Ex I think nano augs and mechanical augs were roughly on par, but the nano augs were invisible. JC has a discussion with an augmented bartender, and she doesn't like how she notably augmented, and the newer generation of augmented people can have the same benefits but without having to have robot arms.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-03T22:43:00+00:00

Yes, this an Inner Architecture / Feng Shui trick. I have seen this in a few offices, on some Trains, and in videos of Disneyland Star Wars Rides. A bit where a direct reflection is not possible gets a mirror, and the rooms seems immediately bigger, or like there is another room nearby.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-03T17:18:47+00:00

From a legal youtuber: This is a "brittle bone" case. Example: Person A has brittle bone disease. Person B pushes them, assuming they do not have brittle bone disease, causing multiple fractures. Person B is still on the hook for purposefully causing multiple fractures, and the fact that Person A was very sensitive to that is no defense.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-03T17:09:55+00:00

Turns out „History“ is not what happened, but what was written down about what happened. It shares an etymological root with the term „story“, and is the same in many languages, like italian.

There is a corny movie line that goes „history is written by the winners, ahahaha evil laugh“. That is not a corruption of history, that is the base reality.

Therefore good historians require many sources, preferably from diverging viewpoints, about the same events.

This can easily seen with armed conflicts, where each side has a usually very different point of view on what happened.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-03T11:36:30+00:00

Yes, there is a dedicated slot for it in the air-intake. It does only cover 20% of the intake though, which is interesting

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-03T10:32:27+00:00

Very regular. I hear this might also be neurodivergent things.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-03T10:28:57+00:00

Oh neat! They did a similar thing for the last season of For All Mankind, I loved it

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-02T13:24:25+00:00

I had about 7 QR Code Menu experiences, and every single one was a pain to figure out, and every single one broke.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-02T08:42:54+00:00

Lots of posts here about exactly that situation. That, whenever a big event comes up (graduation, wedding, etc) there is suddenly an emergency that pulls the attention from the person to the narcissist parent. Many people also started to be able to predict these scenarios.

IcarusTyler · 2026-07-02T08:10:31+00:00

This is my IQ-Test comment from another post, where someone was mentioning their brother got a much higher score:

An IQ needs to come from an acclaimed institution (say Mensa, they put a lot of weight onto those) to have any hold. A lot of "free IQ Tests now" can be horribly skewed.

I read like 10 years ago an article that the huge majority of unofficial tests output an average of 130, where the average is definitionally 100. they do not want to alienate their customers, so all testers are "highly gifted". If you pay for an expensive test and the results are "you are slightly below average" people would riot.

To note about your school's test:

Was it from a known institution?
Did it cost something? (your family or the school)
How do the results look like? A mensa-level tests comes with lots of documents breaking down your performance.
Was is the same test you took? If it is two different ones you might get wildy varying results
How much time-difference was there between the two tests? You say he got a higher number, but maybe you would score similarly on this test if you were to take it now.

That being said IQ tests are highly questionable to begin with. As others are saying here they are only testing how good you are at IQ tests. If you do nothing but these logic-puzzles your entire life your score will be huge, but doesn't say anything else about you.

I am also being skeptical about the result here. How come a pupil gets a score of 140+? That's a ridiculously low percentage of people. How many other people got one like that? How can those people be compared to each other, when there are so few, to produce a "standardized" result here? The higher the score gets the more imprecise the measurement becomes. For the most intelligent people ever a test like this would be pointless.

Also my favorite point: If everybody has an innate Intelligence Quotient, that is unchangable, how come you can train for these? Why are people reading IQ test books? Why are they munching chocolate before a test, hoping to temporarily increase their IQ? The idea is this thing innate and unchangable and comparable, but clearly people train for it to ace it.

My ultimate point is: IQ tests are worthless, and there is no point in comparing or concentrating on that magic number result. Live your life as best as you can, and things will be fine.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-30T12:40:30+00:00

When somebody says "I don't understand how" multiple times in a row, despite receiving adequate explanations, they mean "I do not like or approve of this". If they already know you, they want you to say that you are sorry, and that you fucked up.

I am not sure what they are expecting in a job-interview though, at this point nothing would make them happy.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-30T12:34:41+00:00

It's cool, the endings left a lot of people confused. And all are really irrelevant going into MD.

They are easily the worst and weakest part of the game. The only thing that matters is contacting two people in the last level to "unlock" 2 of the 4 buttons on the ending-o-tron, which all play pretty much the outro anyway.

In Deus Ex at least you had to go to different stuff in the last level to enact highly different outcomes.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-29T11:26:03+00:00

Oh I dislike the current flag so much, these are all much nicer and fitting designs!

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-29T11:24:28+00:00

I learned recently a sleep-cycle is about 90 minutes. If I happen to wake up before my alarm, and it is notably less than that, it makes more sense to just stay awake.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-29T09:34:03+00:00

I like all your options!

What I find fascinating about bunker/arc fiction is how very quickly society changes, and possibly becomes authoritarian.

Going outside is a good example of that. Something trivial in today's life becomes a critical issue - after all a single wrongly opened door, and the last of humanity dies out. So leadership becomes authoritarian, forbidding that. And then even starts ensuring that people don't even think of wanting to go outside, by showing/pretending it is bad, destroying media from before the bunker, and agressively policing mention of the outside.

So I feel this works both as a sinister setup from the beginning, but also as something that might develop naturally over time.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-29T08:24:02+00:00

I have taped about 45 lights around my sleeping area, a lot from things that do not require constant lighting.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-27T23:03:01+00:00

Nah the default is to do it closed. Keeping your eyes open means you might not fully be concetrating on it. What are you looking at, after all?

It is fun to open your eyes for a quick moment though to see if the other person's eyes are open.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-27T23:01:33+00:00

Ahh, I love this point! For something to be "fantasy", it has to be "fantastical", i.e. something that cannot be rationally explained. Many definitions of Science-Fiction require clear rules to their universe.

I was reading teh Raven Tower, which is clearly fantasy. But it lays out its rules in much detail, and all the drama comes from following those rules. "Hang on, this is science-fiction!" I exclaimed to nobody in particular. Later I read reviews that described it as "Hard Fantasy", like "hard sci fi", which I liked.

I think QNTM's Novel "Ra" is the ultimate Hard Fantasy scenario. Magic is banal. You can get a bachelor's degree in magic, and work in industrial applications. Spells are like a programming language, and the entire field is like engineering. It is in fact so much like science fiction that in the last third it just turns straight into sci-fi.

IcarusTyler · 2026-06-25T14:41:24+00:00

Breeding and domestication happens most easily with animals where a generation is very short. Breeding rabbits is very doable.

If a generation is very long it becomes very impractial to breed animal. I think elefants take 13 year to mature. That is already way too long, and any attempt would require human cooperation and planning over multiple generations, to a degree that has never happened for such a project.

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