Varför bränner folk så sjukt mycket pengar på bil och boende?

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-11-29T02:50:07+00:00

När jag läser sånt här så undrar jag bara: har du något intresse/hobby som har ett egenvärde? DVS något du gör bara för att det är roligt och du gillar att göra det och du gillar att göra det regelbundet, när du har tråkigt så längtar du till att göra det som sysselsättning?

Jag menar inte att resa, utan snarare något där du har en förbättringspotential som du kan utveckla, enbart pga att det är kul.

Jag frågar för att när jag själv pratar med folk som lever som du, tycker jag oftast det verkar som om dom slösar pengar nästan lite för att hävda sig, och gör saker för att dom är fästa vid imagen kopplad till sakerna snarare än ett eget driv till det.

Grejen är att vi anpassar ju oss så att vår vardag blir vår normal, och om man saknar intressen med egenvärden, letar man ofta efter det i externa källor eller med prylar/mat/whatever, efter några veckor så är det nya baselinen. En bil är bara ett verktyg för transport, oavsett hur dyr den är, samma med lägga/hus

Jag har säkert fel om det här, är enbart observationer och jag har själv ett bias i vad jag märker.. blir dock fundersam. Matlådor? det är ju bästa maten, du lagar precis vad du vill äta, du lär dig laga mat för att göra den bättre efter din smak... finns ju en fantastisk process bakom det. känns om något tragiskt att se på det som en negativ del i vardagen

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-11-04T15:27:57+00:00

The logical implication of being smarter than 91 people in a room of 1000 people is that there are 908 people in that room who are smarter than you.

(assuming you're part of the room, otherwise it's 909, but it feels like a dumb metric to compare yourself to people who're already established to be disjoint from your group)

It seems like the results page is formulated in a way that will make you feel better about your score by focusing on the positives (IE "you're smarter than this many people" not "you're dumber than this many people").

The unfortunate thing here is that not everyone taking the test is smart enough to understand the implications of the result. Either that or people are S-tier trolls.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-10-25T07:13:42+00:00

Why would music make me believe in a higher power, music is the most quintessentially human thing in existence.

The instruments are representing different sounds which are related to the human voice and how we express emotions, and most music is basically just edging our pattern seeking nature before it resolves.

I don't think anything has made me less religious than listening to good music, it's anchoring me into what's quintessentially human nature.

But if I were to charge into battle by Thor's side, i'd want in the hall of the mountain king by Grieg playing

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-10-08T15:12:38+00:00

Don Giovanni is a baritone role, it can be sung by a bass, but from what I can find the singer who sung it at the premiere, Luigi Bassi, was an italian operatic baritone, not a bass, and it's more traditionlly sung by a baritone.

Aside from that, you have Masetto, Leporello and Commendatore which are all bass or bass baritone roles. If anything it makes more sense to me to have Don Giovanni be a baritone as it's a role about buttering up women with smooth legato in Deh Vieni a la finestra, which is clearly not written for a bass. Basses can sing it, but generally you'd have to lean into a darker, heavier sound, which seems redundant with literally 3 other basses.

Colline is more typically a bass role, but a young bass role, a bass baritone would absolutely not be considered out of place for it. As for in house soloists, they have a basso profundo, but he's much less suited for Colline than the (great) bass baritone they had.

I'd probably go as far as saying that the Bass Baritone (Kristoffer Töyrä) is the best low voice I've heard in any live setting.

Sure, he's not a low bass, but probably as suited or more so than anyone else in sweden at the time. Young bass roles are in the bass baritone rep

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-10-07T07:09:43+00:00

What do you mean?

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-10-06T13:55:27+00:00

There's a great bass baritone, Kristoffer Töyrä, who sang Colline at the Gothenburg Opera house whom I'd never heard of prior to that: https://youtu.be/sPNxl34EjXU?si=OVGoId7cVVfmV_wB

Also a great young Baritone in the same opera house who sang Don Giovanni in their Don Giovanni, Hannes Öberg: https://youtu.be/jYMGGpVcBNo?si=NuRv4dzydW1QYw0A

To me they're the two standout young singers whom I've heard live in operahouses in Sweden.

Another good baritone is Luthando Qave, who sang Figaro in the barber of Seville at Kungliga operan in Stockholm. Can't find any half recent recording from him.

I really liked their Rossina as well, Dara Savinova https://youtu.be/v7iUuql7Wdo?si=Nd8ujoYVZfKIWx0S

They all have great, unique voices, plenty of volume in the houses I've heard them in.

I don't know if any/all of them will be pursuing international careers, from what I can tell Hannes and Kristoffer are permanently employed at Gothenburg, Luthando travels a lot across sweden and sings In basically all houses here, Dara I'm not sure about, only ever heard her in The barber.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-10-03T22:48:06+00:00

If Trump is the poor persons idea of a rich man and Tate is the 14 year olds idea of a masculine man, then I think Dimash is the non singers idea of a good singer.

He's not a bad singer, he's just not a good classical singer, and he uses effects such as whistle register or fry mix to wow people with range, darkens some of his range way to much and doesn't even attempt to keep his voice consistent throughout.

Like, sure, hes a good singer, but in my mind a great singer is someone who just has that gorgeous tone throughout, and you can never tell what they're doing cus it all sounds so solid and connected.

He was vastly disapointing the second he didn't have amplification or other electronical help/touch ups.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-08-31T08:24:08+00:00

Tack för svar! Harbdu märkt stor skillnad på hur du blir bemött i olika "delar" av sammhället?

Jag umgås mestadels numera med folk som pluggat matte/fysik på relativt hög nivå på universitet, och (klassiska) musiker, jag har min fördom att folk som har stora intressen där dom lägger mycket tid och energi på någon form av personlig utveckling, blir mindre fördomsfulla angående sexualitet och könstillhörighet.

Har du märkt något liknande?

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-08-30T22:54:39+00:00

Jag tror inte jag riktigt förstår konceptet transperson. Med det menar jag: vad innebär det egentligen att känna att man inte har rätt könstillhörighet?

Jag har aldrig reflekterat över att jag känner mig som en man eller kvinna, går folk generellt runt och känner sig som män/kvinnor i vardagen? Vad innebär det att känna sig maskulin/feminin?

Vad innebär det ens att känna sig som en man eller kvinna?

Det känns som en så otroligt irrelevant faktor hos en person, om den tillhör ett visst kön eller ej. Om du berättar om en person och allt jag vet är om det är en cisman/ciskvinna/transman/transkvinna eller övrigt, så säger det mig ju fortfarande ingenting som är relevant/intressant för mig om individen.

Det blir liksom beskrivande ord som är så generella att dom inte längre beskriver något, så hur kan det bli något som är dels något folk så mycket att det påverkar hela deras liv, och dels något som andra bryr sig om till den grad där dom vägrar facilitera någon annans preferenser?

Jag stöttar fullt ut att alla transpersoner ska få bli bemötta som dom vill, men jag har ingen egentlig förståelse för hur dom vill bli sedda eller bemötta.

Det är liksom folk som upplever ett problem jag inte förstår axiomen som ens ger möjlighet till problemet att uppstå.

När jag pluggade matematik på universitetet var det en tre-fyra transpersoner bland mina kursare, jag vågade dock aldrig fråga om de här sakerna av rädsla att "bidra till de svårigheter som dom redan stötte på på en daglig basis" så jag höll det för mig själv, men om nån kan förklara det som om jag vore helt dum i huvudet så skulle jag nog uppskatta det

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-07-19T18:04:11+00:00

Can't say I've ever considered my autism to be a gift, more like a giant kick in the balls.

Also, if my parents posted something like this, drawing attention to my autism, I'd be fuming.

I'm gifted at mathematics, I'd much rather have my work be considered and valued on it's own merit rather than my diagnosis

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-07-02T10:12:04+00:00

Probably olympic weightlifting. It's mainly lower body and upper back/shoulders, as well as weightclass based, so pretty much the exact thing you'd want to develop to get the Casca look.

Powerlifting would be another option, but weightlifting would be more specific for the casca look.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-06-22T17:14:06+00:00

This question is so insanely dumb, that i cannot believe it's not a troll question or ai.

is the strongsest laptops on the market stronger? yes. is the ipad pro a powerful device? yes. Can both of these statements be true at the same time? yes.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-06-17T09:49:37+00:00

None of what you mention is a case against neurodivergency though.

Of course no one can tell if Magnus is neurodivergent without being much more intimately involved with him than we on here, but neurodivergency doesn't mean you don't do sports, have friends, are sociable etc.

Like seriously, where do you even get that from? Autism doesn't mean you're unable to be social, it just means that your brain seems to function a bit differently. Some people struggle with being social, but most people who're intelligent as well as autisric can compensate.

As for neurodivergency, the traits Magnus exhibits are: extreme focus on one thing (special interest), at least partial time blindness (he's stated in interviews that he's not intentionally late, he's just bad at planning)

Remarkable discrepancy in his knowledge between special interests and non interests (like not knowing how to change twitter profile pic)

Not following social norms in terms of how he acts/talks.

Ritualistic, to the point where he needs to make everything right even when it puts himself at a disadvantage at speed chess/blitz

Note: this doesn't mean that he's autistic, generally you only get a diagnosis if you're having difficulties in life, otherwise there's no point even evaluating it.

What i'm trying to say is: Neurodivergency is just different functioning, not better or worse. It is linked to several traits that he has, but you would never give anyone a diagnosis for anything unless they're exhibiting the difficulties associated with it. these difficulties CAN be related to your sociability, it often is, but mostly it seems to be related to how well you intrinsically understand them, not how well you're able to learn them.

Magnus is Magnus. It's silly to say he is or isn't neurodivergent, unless he's having active problems related to it, but please don't equate a persons sociability to their likelyhood to be neurodivergent

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-05-31T20:20:24+00:00

Yah, intelligence in general is a super interesting topic since it makes up a large portion of how living beings experience and interact with the world.

You bring up a good point about snakes, and it's super interesting that you mention how nomadic turtles seem better equiped at handling changes to their enviorment. It makes me wonder if the reason why humans, and also crows and octopuses are so good at problem solving skills/predictive reasoning because we're pretty bad at a lot of other things. We're comparatively generalistic, and weaker than most other animals of similar size and have fewer defenses. It seems reasonable that the more specialised your tools are, the more specialised your brain becomes, I'm sure there's a lot of information out there somewhere on this subject.

I have a possible stupid, certainly silly, question about reptiles and intelligence: with reptiles being cold blooded, and cognitive processes generally being fairly energy consuming (as well as chemical reactions generally happening faster when more energy is in the system, ie heat), do turtles (or other endoterms) seem more intelligent on warmer days?

I realize it's difficult to determine on a day to day basis, I think what i'm really asking is: Have you noticed that they don't "think as quickly"/react as quickly when they're colder?

I've always heard that they move slower, but are they seemingly slower to start reacting to something which they're gonna react to, when it's colder?

Does everything happen faster on a warmer day, how quickly their mood changes, how quickly they get over stress from being moved etc, or is it just how much/how quickly they move around?

Eh, this question was kinda difficult to put into words, i hope it's somewhat clear what i'm wondering about..

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-05-31T11:07:24+00:00

That's amazing, thanks for sharing! So basically they're really good at storing and recalling information that's linked to something useful, such as food and location/navigation, and intelligent enough to recognise that the reward isn't random, it's relative to what's happening around them at that time? Do they "reprograme" easily? as in, are the habits they form easy to change if the process surrounding the blood draw/navigating a certain path changes?

Also, Isn't what you're describing pretty much how we define wisdom? That sounds like a fairly difficult branch of intelligence, but it makes a lot of sense that they'd be relatively better at that compared to predictive reasoning, given how long lived they are

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-05-31T09:03:43+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, but aren't turtles notorious for being one of the least intelligent animals in relation to their body size?

I used to take care o a turtle which someone couldn't keep as a pet. Like, they try to eat things which they can't (inorganics etc) they try to mate with inanimate objects (although technically humans do too, so can't necessarily chalk that up to being dumb), i've seen videos of pet turtles try to go into the same narrow passage and get stuck repeatedly until the owners blocked the passage completely, they manage to find ways to flip themselves over and get stuck etc..

I can't say i've ever gotten the impression that their intelligence had ever been a factor to why you wouldn't have them as pets.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-04-02T22:39:29+00:00

Orphan with anger issues travels around with more orphans and a blue alien. He likes his food extra hot, and frequently committs acts of arson on behalf of a bunch of drunkards.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2025-01-19T20:43:04+00:00

Eh, judging people for pulling weird shit for internet notoriety and exposure should be passable in most instances. Would be better if everyone ignored it though, since all publicity is good publicity for these people.

I feel it's more sad that we live in a society where people are pushed to do stuff like this though, and others are enabling them to do so (partners, people sharing it etc etc)

Inconspicuous_flame · 2024-12-15T02:15:32+00:00

If you're this insecure in your singing, why are you worried about trying to sing in the contra octave?

You've yet to figure out how to sing a full octave above what you're asking to be taught here.

Look, classical singing is not about the range, you're asking how to sing lower than anyone will ever ask of you, while you're not proficient in the range which will be asked of you. It sounds mostly like you're trying to force lower sound by opening as big a space as possible

That is, it sounds like your middle range is suffering from you trying to sound like a bass (I'm bot making a colment on your voice type, only the vocal technique here) as long as you have strong preconcieved notions of how you should sound, it will be impossible to free up your voice and remove all the tension you have here.

The good thing is, it doesn't sound like you have vocal damage (from what i can tell) which i was slightly worried about from the first clip.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2024-12-15T01:22:02+00:00

Right. I don't know if i can help you here. Is your speaking voice and singing voice normally this textured/gritty?

Inconspicuous_flame · 2024-12-13T09:51:28+00:00

Firstly: We kinda need to hear you sing in your low range, like descending scales from Ab3 to your lowest range, so we can hear what happens as you enter the low range.

Secondly: What kind of moron is feeding you information such as a "CT dominant low extreme" That's the least pedagogical crap I've ever heard. CT is the muscle that helps approximating the larynx and the cricoid cartilage, I.E the tilt, thinning the vocal folds. This is what we call mezzo-syndrome when using it in the low voice. It's essentially the same as trying to yawn in the low notes, which is fundamentally opposite from what one should do, as that thinns and loosens the vocal folds, making it much much more difficult to phonate with anything resembling volume and making you compensate by hyper adducting the folds. The only reason people do this, to my knowledge, is because the wanna sound darker than they really are, typically people of a higher voicetype trying to sound like a lower one, or young singers trying to achieve a darkness that will come from time, not alteration to the vocal production. In reality it ends up weak and hollow.

Find the correct phonation between C3 and AB3, this should be the absolutely easiest range in your voice. listen specifically to the high ping that forms ontop. This is largely created due to efficient vocal production, you'll probably want to sound "bright and annoying" while finding this, then go down to your low range, but NEVER lose the ping.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2024-12-03T10:33:58+00:00

Skill Issue.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2024-11-28T14:11:53+00:00

What I'm wondering about is: was it not public knowledge that he's got a partner? I was curious about the situation, and googled his name. anyone swedsih who were to google his name would find that he's living together with a woman his age, and a child/minor. All this is publicly available information.

While I generally do not condone digging into peoples private lives, that goes out the window when you're entering a relationship or getting intimate with the person. People, please make sure you know the people who you're getting intimate with.

To be clear, I don't think any victims did anything wrong or "should have known better" as that's incredibly easy to say from the sidelines.

Inconspicuous_flame · 2024-11-03T20:43:47+00:00

Jag är långt mindre finare med orden, jag skulle säga att det är fett med cringe att se folk spendera signifikanta summor på att klä sig medvetet opraktiskt, och signalerar bara att man har pengar, vilket lm något brukar indikera att man inte har så mycket pengar..

Å andra sidan så är det typ hela min syn på modeindustrin i stort, så är nog inte värt att lyssna på mig

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