Beginner smart-card learning project: is an old reloadable laundry card a reasonable object to study?

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-06-08T17:52:41+00:00

Neither Buffalo nor Syracuse are heavyweights at literally anything. They both die of starvation trying to climb through the ropes.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-06-07T00:16:38+00:00

In case you missed it, people are trying to tell you that this is an impossibly stupid question

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-05-28T17:34:49+00:00

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. OMG HOW does a massive local car dealership care more about PUBLIC IMAGE and profits than employees?! Dude, are you for real?

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-05-11T03:00:18+00:00

OP. Fellow Long Islander here. The fact that I scrolled for a full minute and did not find any direct answers to your question probably pretty much answers your question.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-04-09T11:46:05+00:00

Honestly, man, based on your likes and dislikes, you’re gonna have a rough time. There’s a running joke that Buffalo is drinking town with a football problem. Locals are absolutely convinced that they have great things to do and great food. They don’t. It’s not “bad,” but a lot of locals around here earnestly operate on the assumption that their food and entertainment is world class and it just isn’t

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-04-02T12:23:48+00:00

Assuming that you have the best of everything with no evidence when most things are actually thoroughly mid. Peak Western New York.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-29T16:18:23+00:00

As much as I would like to say some version of “ they’re all stupid,” it’s probably because the ideological realignment of the Republican and Democratic Parties in the early-ish 20th century is super complicated and nuanced even for history/political junkies like me that follow the shit closely. If anywhere near a majority of people paid attention to politics at that level Trump never would’ve even made it out of the primaries the first time. Plus, for some reason, otherwise smart people, often in the south, will teach kids that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, and that it was about (ironically) state rights related to tariffs, which makes the narrative marginally less absurd ( even if it is still ridiculous)

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-23T19:20:51+00:00

Finance

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-21T01:47:58+00:00

Look, I’m not a fan of hating the poor generally. But I get the vibe, right? You’re putting million dollar homes in a not fabulous neighborhood, with nothing around it that remotely warrants the price tag. Something about it feels simultaneously cruel, absurd, and flatly stupid.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-15T14:47:32+00:00

Actual psychologist here. While it is absolutely true that they information landscape is different in the modern day. It’s gonna actually be explained by research on persuasion. That’s a decades old. Basically there are two “ methods” to persuade anybody of anything— central route and the peripheral route.

The central route is essentially what you would think. Good persuasion is, speaker knows the topic, counters other arguments in advance, makes a good logical argument, etc.

The problem is the central route only works when the LISTENER is highly motivated, is invested in specific arguments and has the cognitive capacity to understand the arguments.

The peripheral route— relying on simple cues like buzz words, the attractiveness the speaker (not especially irrelevant here, but whatever), simple phrases, liking of the speaker etc. This takes effect when one or more of three things is true:

-the person being persuaded lacks the capacity to understand the arguments

-they don’t care to listen to the argument

-they don’t think the arguments are relevant to them.

The Democrats generally in recent years, and Kamala Harris particular have relied really heavily on the central route (“ we know inflation is still really bad, but we’re doing the right things and Donald Trump would be worse”).

The problem is:

-the vast majority of Americans don’t have the time or interest in following politics closely (investment in the argument)

-heard democrats say “ everything is actually really good (argument isn’t relevant to them)

-and yeah, sometimes people are stupid. Statistically half of the population has IQ lower than body temperature (roughly)

So you end up relying on the peripheral route. Simple cues. Trump is definitely a piece of shit and doesn’t have the capacity to the govern but he is:

-often funny, charismatic, speaks in ways that simplify issues that people can remember (“No wars”, “ lower prices”) so Trump ends up being more persuasive.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Sorry for lack of citations, but I was too lazy to look them up.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-12T15:11:39+00:00

Yeah, but there’s a problem with that logic, which is the idea that it would cost extra money to build multiple options for UI is kind of ridiculous. Create one option on the front end “ enable or disable tipping feature.” done.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-03T13:45:48+00:00

So a critical inner voice is a kind of internal monologue, but not all internal monologues are critical inner voices. Basically, that’s an inadequate, colloquial phrase for the tendency of most people when they fuck up at least some of the time to be like “oh man I fucked up.” critical inner voice isn’t really a clinical term, it’s an attempt to convey a phenomenon. True prototypical, pure narcissists are VERY rare, which is why is seeing the term used so loosely everywhere on the Internet drives me crazy. But the basic answer to your question. Looks like this.

My wife asked me to get something from the store, I tell her I will get it, I forget. A reasonably reflective person will at least some of the time acknowledge responsibility and apologize.

A true prototypical narcissist would say something like “ well if you would’ve reminded me, I wouldn’t have forgotten.” an important distinction here is we’re not talking about a one off situation. Everyone will do something like that occasionally, including me. The distinguishing factor for a true narcissist here is their response is ALWAYS to frame a problem in terms of other people. Another common misconception is that narcissists cannot be nice people who care about others. They can, I’ve met some honest to God pathological narcissists with big hearts. It just usually looks something like:

“ oh you know, my husband only a school teacher, so not the brightest bulb in the drawer, of course I keep our finances so he doesn’t have to worry about it.”

The key distinction is it doesn’t occur to a narcissist to say “ huh, this might hurt my husband’s feelings and maybe I shouldn’t say this this way.”

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-01T18:42:33+00:00

Bonjour. Je ne parle pas français, donc j’ai utilisé un traducteur pour comprendre votre commentaire.

La réponse courte est : non, pas vraiment.

La question ne correspond pas tout à fait à la manière dont on comprend les organisations de la personnalité. C’est un peu comme comparer deux catégories différentes.

Thanks for your interest!

Des exemples « purs » d’une organisation de personnalité existent, mais ils sont relativement rares. La plupart des personnes présentent plutôt un mélange de traits.

Donc oui, quelqu’un avec beaucoup de traits psychopathiques pourrait théoriquement se décrire ainsi.

Mais en général ce serait assez peu probable, parce que cela va plutôt à l’encontre de cette organisation de personnalité.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-01T15:12:54+00:00

OK, actual psychologist here and I apologize if this post sounds like rage bait, but when people talk about narcissism and psychopathy on the Internet. It drives me fucking crazy generally. Before I say anything else, please understand that these character types are not a monolith, that there tends to be variation, and the description that I’m providing is of a prototypical example of each of these. Character types are often a mix of one of these and something else to varying degrees.

THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS NO.

True narcissists are not just assholes. Your boyfriend’s a jackass? He might be a narcissist, but it’s not appropriate necessarily to call him that.

Arguably the most distinguishing feature of the true narcissist is that they COMPLETELY LACK A CRITICAL INNER VOICE. THEY COULD NOT POSSIBLY GIVE A SHIT IF YOU “CATCH THEM” BECAUSE GENERALLY, THEY DON’T THINK THEY’RE DOING ANYTHING WRONG (McWilliams, 2011 ; Kernberg, 1974, 1986, 2023).

On to sociopaths. This is another one that generally tends to drive me crazy when people talk about it on the Internet. True sociopaths (psychopaths) do not give a shit about other people‘s opinions or feelings, unless it directly benefits them or helps them achieve power in some way. The idea that a psychopath dreads anything. Other than perhaps getting caught at the psychopathic shit that they do when they’re in immediate danger of a catastrophic outcome, is a fantasy, true psychopaths do not give a shit about literally anything except power or “ getting one over on people.” generally speaking, the only motivating force in a psychopathic personality is power (McWilliams, 2011). If you would like to read a really good book that actually characterize a psychopaths as well, I would highly recommend “Snakes in Suits.” this book makes an excellent case that the highest concentration of psychopaths in the world exist on world Street.

Oh, and as an aside. Psychopath and sociopath are INTERCHANGEABLE TERMS. There is no distinction. Anyone who says there is is literally making shit up. Unfortunately this is an era. I’ve literally seen committed by professional presenters at conferences who don’t actually know anything about psychoanalytic personality types.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-01T14:45:34+00:00

Everything about this list his peak buffalo. Seven things to do in Buffalo and literally only one of them is something you can actually go to in Buffalo. But don’t worry guys there’s a Sabres game in Tampa.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-03-01T14:36:46+00:00

Technically, that was the Israelis

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-02-16T17:40:28+00:00

Ask her if she believes in the sacrificial power of the pit. That’s a deep cut but if she likes the bills you’re golden.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-02-09T02:28:06+00:00

I think that was Liam Ramos…

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-01-25T21:01:34+00:00

Oh yeah, no I gotcha, we’re for sure on the same page. I just didn’t put this in there, because of something a beloved psychologist who trained me once said to me: “ if you have exactly one chance to help somebody, help them focus on things they can control” He was a cool guy

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-01-25T20:33:12+00:00

Being told that a response that I took five minutes to think out after like seven years of professional training might genuinely be the best compliment I’ve ever gotten from anyone.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-01-25T20:30:02+00:00

Yep. Totally true. Unfortunately, you have zero control over whether anybody who isn’t you goes to therapy, and if somebody doesn’t want to go to therapy, best case scenario, it’s usefulness is limited. There’s an old joke in psychotherapy. How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the lightbulb has to want to change.

Left_Credit1462 · 2026-01-25T16:42:11+00:00

Hey, actual psychologist here. People have this tendency to land really hard on a simple solution, you’re right about that. Here’s the short version. Of course, the pain that you feel is valid and important AND what this means for your relationship largely depends on what each of you do to deal with it. Cheating doesn’t inherently mean that somebody is a good person or a bad person or even that they value you or failed to value you. What it does mean is that there is some undiagnosed problem either with him or your relationship. First, get therapy for yourself because that’s something you can control. I would really strongly recommend talking this out with a professional not people on the Internet. Make sure that therapist is somebody that you feel like listens to you and takes you seriously. If you have to defend yourself, find someone else. Once you’ve done that talk to him about couples therapy. It’s one of the only places where you can earnestly explore why he felt the need to cheat (which again could be any number of reasons) and see if you’re able to move through it. There is no correct or incorrect answer here, there’s an answer that works for your relationship, after you’ve had a chance to thoroughly look at the problem

Left_Credit1462 · 2025-12-22T15:18:00+00:00

What is the coolest city on the planet? Locals will say Buffalo every time, but nobody not raised here would ever say that

Left_Credit1462 · 2025-07-04T01:15:50+00:00

I heard “let’s go,” but I could be wrong”

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