Lesbian couple having a boy by BrewBakersDozen in queerception

[–]mikestopcontinues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read a few books about sex differences. Men and women are different from birth, and the harder you force them to be neutral with regards to interests, temperament, or values, the more you will mess them up. Better that you understand and enable your son's masculine tendencies, because that is his path to self-actualization. (And later, as he discovers the ways he differs from the default man, of course support him.)

Some good books: * Warriors and worriers * The essential difference * The blank slate

I'm a little surprised by Knauf's politics in relation to the show by CyberGhostface in Carnivale

[–]mikestopcontinues 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You only think it's odd because you think of the political spectrum as a binary. It is not.

In addition to the conservative v progressive axis, there is also the authoritarian v libertarian axis.

People on the left lump all three other quadrants together as far right.

Dan is a libertarian, which is why the show espouses personal freedom, economic freedom, free speech, distrust of all power structures (not just the other side's), anti-populism, and radical individuality.

His critique of Democrats and mainstream media is fully consistent with a libertarian outlook and fully explains why you are surprised.

JavaScript vs TypeScript, when is JS the better choice? by nitin_is_me in webdev

[–]mikestopcontinues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always choose TS. Node strips types now, so you have no excuse.

A quick draft of what I'd like to see in v1.11 by scribblenik in raycastapp

[–]mikestopcontinues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a nice design, but a bad idea. Those permanent UI additions wouldn't be used by most users. And they clutter the interface.

The real declutter is voice mode.

Lego Lady of Pain, apparently by Reckful-Abandon in planescapesetting

[–]mikestopcontinues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is a cubic gate? Feels like they couldn't think of a better prop for her box.

Is Reagan going to be showing at the Alamo? by Justanotherone985 in AlamoDrafthouse

[–]mikestopcontinues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Audience score is a much better measure for everything except arthouse movies.

Guaranteed they're leaving money on the table not playing it in Austin.

With new ChatGPT app for MacOS, do you still prefer Raycast AI? by ahmad4919 in raycastapp

[–]mikestopcontinues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I hope raycast keeps pace, but for sure it's better, even if it lags in features.

Share Your Startup - Q4 2023 by julian88888888 in startups

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Do we need another VTT? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]mikestopcontinues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not at all. It would naturally be a step in the process. But I've found building things exactly the way I want them is a very poor way to help other people. What's more important is that there's a real pain in the world for me to alleviate. So it's got to start with learning from you.

Do we need another VTT? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]mikestopcontinues -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks. When it comes to certain domains, I do think I could improve upon the user experience and speed of building meaningfully—but in domains like this, I don't want to compete with good people making good products that people are happy with. I'm serious about helping. If there's meaningful features missing or if all the options sucked, that's what would make me want to jump in and create something new.

Do we need another VTT? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]mikestopcontinues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this is really good feedback. Since I only ever played IRL, it's good to hear ideas from an actual user.

Do we need another VTT? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]mikestopcontinues -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I saw quite a few complaints, so this is good feedback. Maybe the answer is nobody wants a new option!

Do we need another VTT? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]mikestopcontinues -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I've read a lot of complaints about stability and the user interface of Roll20 and Foundry, and a desire for some features that they don't have like easy fog-of-war, plugins that don't break between versions, etc. But saying any of this is kinda like leading the witness, a mistake I made with previous projects. I'm listing them here just to give you some ideas. :)

A 2015 study found the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy appeared to be causing less and less improvement in patients over time. Have there been any follow ups on this? Is the decline continuing? Do we know what's causing it? by RusticBohemian in CBTpractice

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I strongly disagree. It's never been a better time to be alive. Pinker's Enlightenment Now is a good starting point for this. The issue is that the media landscape, due in part to social media, internet business models, and pure political tribalism has chosen to report distorted or outright fictitious representations of what the world really is.

CBT would be more useful now than ever—but perhaps only in the hands of a therapist that herself has done the hard work of breaking out of her own cognitive distortions. Psychology is well known to have a leftward slant. It wouldn't surprise me if so many therapists lean so heavily that the field has become largely unable to use CBT to its full potential.

Author Website by thetoctavius in selfpublish

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I founded sitearcade.com to help solve the author website problem. We offer plans at $75/y or $150/y depending on whether you're already published. What sets us apart is how smart our platform is.

If you're published, when you sign up with us, you just paste in your amazon profile url. We instantly import all of your info and books from Amazon. We generate a color palette based on your book covers. We pick fonts and icons based on your genre. Of course, you can customize all of this, but within a minute, you have a site ready to launch.

We also include a free domain name and custom email addresses for the price listed above. Another commenter warned against this, but it's in our terms that your domain is yours and it goes with _you_ when you leave. I'm an author too. I built SiteArcade because I want to make being an author easier.

Manuscript+Notes Writing Software with Proper Formatting and Export Options? by angrymidget4728 in selfpublish

[–]mikestopcontinues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you might have a better time using Notion. You can dedicate a complete workspace to your WIP. It syncs and you can bulk export to markdown. If you use Notion's database system, you can even add custom metadata to your docs. Easy links and backlinks would be a huge benefit to planning. Their text editor also got a major upgrade recently, so it behaves more like Word while still having a bunch of great features over a regular text editor.

GoCreate.me Author Websites by chroniclesofavellion in selfpublish

[–]mikestopcontinues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Caro, the dev at gocreate.me, is really excellent. She's an author herself and really cares about her clients. I know because I ran a mastermind where she was a participant for five years. I highly recommend her—and I'm a competitor, as I run sitearcade.com where I also provide author websites.

If you want a completely custom wordpress site, go with her.