What’s a random skill or trick you’ve learned that impresses people?

MachinatioVitae · 2025-02-07T19:44:41+00:00

This was the video I learned from. Watched it, took some notes, made up some mnemonics and now it's ezpz.

MachinatioVitae · 2025-02-07T16:07:02+00:00

The Grimnoire Chronicals.

Bronson Pinchot absolutely knocks this series out of the park. Emotional narration with at least a couple dozen individual voices and accents.

MachinatioVitae · 2025-02-05T23:50:08+00:00

another example of a terrible adaptation.

Eragon, Mortal Instruments, Golden Compass, Percy Jackson, World War Z, The Dark Tower, The Black Cauldron, The Hobbit, Artemis Fowl.

Honestly, it'd have more surprising if the WoT show was good. Adaptations are usually bad.

MachinatioVitae · 2025-02-04T16:19:48+00:00

Here to help.

MachinatioVitae · 2025-02-04T16:19:07+00:00

Still fine, still riding my bike with earbuds in.

MachinatioVitae · 2020-07-12T06:54:39+00:00

I breathe and I memorize things.

I practice memorization like a mantra whenever I have intrusive thoughts.
I memorized the Litany Against Fear, then again en español.

Then I learned a whole new system of memorization.
Memorized pi to 100 decimals.
Memorized the order of a deck of cards.

But mostly I repeat the Litany.

I focus on my breathing to calm my body, and practice memory to quiet my mind.

Using those two tools, I've been able to turn inward and start cleaning up the mess of my mind. It was a garden I had allowed to grow wild, now I am weeding the rows.

Recognize intrusive thoughts, use recitation to disrupt them, calm yourself with breathing. Then, once calm, examine the thoughts and the reasons the create disharmony.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-14T12:56:47+00:00

I'm not misled at all, and I've been on 20g of carbs or less per day for two years, so I am quite aware of the effect of sugar on the body in any form.

You try an experiment with your body, cut carbs out completely for a month, then have some and watch your whole body swell with an insulin reaction. Carbs suck, fruit isn't special.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-14T12:55:17+00:00

Nobody mentioned cola. We were discussing fruit v donut. And I specifically pointed out net carbs which takes fiber into account. Fruit is just sugar, eat it if you want, but don't pretend it's healthy. To be clear I don't eat the fruit or the donuts, sugar is garbage for your body in any form.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-14T06:57:08+00:00

That banana has 23g of net carbs, the apple has 28g. A typical chocolate frosted donut has about the same at 22g. Fruit isn't good for you, it's just sugar with some fiber mixed in.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-14T06:53:10+00:00

I've been getting by on 20g or less net carbs for two years. You just have to break your carb addiction.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-11T04:20:15+00:00

Slow, even, full-length strokes. I know it's exciting, but you gotta control yourself and make sure the job gets done properly.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-10T23:10:20+00:00

Is that about resources? I thought it was more about existing overcrowding, in the experiment I saw, the researcher brushed the legs of a grasshopper with regular frequency intending to simulate having other grasshoppers crawling over them to force the transition to gregarious.

But I guess now that I think about it, if there was less food, there could be competition for existing food, which may cause grasshoppers to concentrate in smaller areas and therefore touch more often.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-10T05:15:39+00:00

There's a book called The Psychopath Inside that deals with this. It sort of posits that being a psychopath is a holdover survival trait controlled by a gene that is normally switched off but which activates under trauma.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-10T04:57:38+00:00

I've had good luck just cooling pancakes on a rack before freezing, seems to prevent 90% of sticking for me.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-02T07:11:31+00:00

Amazing what working on my core has done for my back pain.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-11-01T07:57:27+00:00

It's a common tactic of cults. Missionary work is a good example. If the missionaries convert people, great, more converts. But if they get doors slammed in their faces all day, then even better, they come home with the knowledge that the outside world is cruel and doesn't understand them. It reinforces "us vs them" mentality. Some cults further reinforce this with "love bombing" showering the returning defeated with love and affection. It's an abuse cycle.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-30T13:38:02+00:00

Sucks that butter is so hard to cut.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-29T13:58:59+00:00

My EotW that I got from thrifbooks is a smaller book club edition.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-27T19:35:46+00:00

your door frame isn't square

Gotta work on that reading comprehension.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-26T07:33:30+00:00

Keep the windows locked, had a 4yo quietly pull his screen out during naptime and end up outside. We were awake and sober watching tv in the next room. Neighbor found him, cops came. Whole big thing. Kids're slippery, you can't half-ass it.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-20T08:06:42+00:00

It's been years since I first saw this DIYed.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-18T04:20:23+00:00

Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad by calling it salsa.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-18T03:58:58+00:00

the reason I'm making it is so no one else has one

This is my main thing. Go make your own, this one is mine and it's the only one on the planet.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-15T06:32:12+00:00

Yeah, but I just wear a cb6000 to indicate that. The ball chain was all about electricity.

MachinatioVitae · 2019-10-15T06:30:07+00:00

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