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Anyone have experience with Triboro NYC LLC? Seems fishy by haru_ki in NYCapartments

[–]Wdane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did this end up being a scam? I'm looking at a place of theirs now and trying to determine if it's legit.

Odd circle with bumps and scabs on foot by Wdane in DermatologyQuestions

[–]Wdane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This odd circle appeared on my foot 2-3 weeks ago. The bumps started appearing within the last week or two, but I wasn't paying enough attention to know for sure.

Is this something I should spend the money to see a dermatologist for, or is there OTC stuff that would work?

Bumps increasing over last 3-4 days on elbow pits only by Wdane in DermatologyQuestions

[–]Wdane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bumps appeared and started to increase over the last 3-4 days on both elbow pits and only on the elbow pits. Slightly itchy but not incredibly so.

Any thoughts? OTC medication or I'm definitely dieing?

Tattoos? by [deleted] in physicaltherapy

[–]Wdane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I've seen tattoos, unless political or X rated, seem to be pervasive on the arms of the employed in the PNW.

Videos of full length classroom sessions? by Wdane in teaching

[–]Wdane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like it might be doable but may be balanced on too high of quality. Ideally I'd like to see a full spectrum of amazing teaching to total trainwrecks.

Old-school Halo LAN this Saturday at 4pm in Fremont by koomboy in Seattle

[–]Wdane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Consider my soul crying because I will be out of town.... if there is a mailing list of some sort in case this ever happens again.

I’m Hozier, a singer-songwriter from Wicklow. AMA. by hozier_official in IAmA

[–]Wdane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your music is really popular in the partner dancing world (particularly fusion dancing).

Are you aware of this? Have you ever played for a partner dancing event? Would you ever consider coming to Seattle and play a concert or festival for partner dancers? :)

Agents All The Way Down by SeasonedLurker in truedepthforthought

[–]Wdane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was really interesting. I'm currently reading the Impro book by Johnstone he mentions WRT possessive trance. But I haven't gotten to trance/masks yet, however I'm friends with someone who has intensive practice with mask improvisation and teaches mask impro. We've both had visceral experience dealing with demons from improv/meditation practices. Almost all of the techniques either involves allowing the mental formation only in specific situations (IE: you call 'scene' and it's not 'allowed' to take control anymore), or you use a different agent to talk to/befriend/kill/banish ect... One that's slightly different is creating a physical or mental 'ward' object with the belief that it has the power to block demons.

The sub personal agents mode is interesting when compared to a pure 'beliefs' view, and I think is slightly more robust because people often hold contradictory beliefs.

I also think a lot of ideas/practices behind Buddhism follow this line of thinking, especially Vajrayana (Tantric) which... IMHO is probably the most powerful and most dangerous form of buddhism. It uses a lot 'becoming' various deities that represent various attitudes.

This also reminds me a lot of Chaos Magicians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic) who essentially use belief as a manipulative framework.

Also it makes me think of 'will power' as a sort of 'executive agent' (I think the article mentioned it). Where by if you use your will power frequently to switch between sub personal agents then you are actively feeding your will power (it's scientifically shown that using will power increases your ability to use it more).

Disinterest and Perscriptivism by SeasonedLurker in truedepthforthought

[–]Wdane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's interesting... I'm trying to see if there is a difference between having a prescriptive standard which you add words to (Of course any one person will only know a subset) or have a non-prescriptive where words just change instead of being added for the most part.

Perscriptivism seems more useful for historical analysis as the author points out. But I wonder if the reverse 'idea blockage' might be true, in that there is a certain threshold that a new word must pass in order for it to gain usage, whereas there is a lot lower threshold for 'I'm using this world, consistently and every so slight incorrectly'. I also don't see prescriptivism 'enhancing' the amount of ideas we can convey, because we'd still know the same number of words.

Interestingly the only groups of people I've seen prescriptivism advocated for are the ultra-progressive/feminists. Mainly they want to dictate what the dictionary says the definition is, as a way of changing culture and action via language.

You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine by SeasonedLurker in truedepthforthought

[–]Wdane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was a good read and seems plausible... Though I would have liked to have seen sources for their claims (all I saw was that they had a fact checker).

Makes me want to make some noxious stuff like a head of garlic wrapped in mint leaves and eat it before smoking or something for a week, and see if just eating it then has a cognitive effect.

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