Ah yes, teaching your child not to trust you with information about what they can do. Classic!

Half the US population suffers from qualitative malnutrition and obesity.

A great cuisine will not fix poverty or hostile social engineering.

Hope is great as long as you don’t try to summon it. “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”. Hope comes naturally when you’re trying to do things that you can actually believe have a chance of doing something that matters to you. Its absence is a warning, a signal to change your behavior to something that does work.

That’s advice that will get you a burnout. Hope, especially when sought for with the purpose of maintaining high levels of stress, will break you when it becomes implausible.

It is a promise that can become false, and once your body knows you’re willing to lie to trick it into greater productivity, it’ll just stop listening to you.

It’s dangerous to trust famous people with life advice because of survivorship bias. Even if they are honest about their life stories, they are not representative of everybody that tries a thing.

Dealing with high stress means caring for yourself in the moment, building structures that make it easier for you to care for yourself, and escaping the situation if you can.

It’s debriefing, processing traumas as they happen, touching grass, hugging, and understanding what makes life worth living even now.

It’s solidarity networks, resource pooling, leaning on friends and comrades and letting them lean on you, and forming collectives.

It’s unionizing, demonstration, occupation, and revolution.

But think of the managers.

Play. Doodle, run, sing, dance, marvel at trees. Climb rooftops and sit in the sun.

Now if you’re numb then that’s something that has lots of possible causes. Depression, emotional processing, exhaustion, overstimulation, trauma-derived survival schemas, ennui, neurological stuff, etc.

The chlorination of a public swimming pool is deadly to sperm, so I imagine the chances on a spaceship are a lot higher.

Also “easily seeing and avoiding” is just not realistic. You don’t have eyes on your vulva that are focused on checking for stray sperm globs 24/7.

That’s “zenbu”.

One of the benefits of having social democrats in government, I suppose.

(I forget sometimes that “101” is literally a USAmerican college thing and not just international shorthand for “introductory”).

Economics 101 predicts scalping and surge pricing but people still act like it’s some weird abberation rather than the free market actually being free.

It also predicts that Keynesian economics lead to a more prosperous nation than neoliberal austerity because the diminishing returns of capital investment make “high highs and low lows” worse on average than stability; which explains why gdps of the western world have grown so little compared to China’s in the past 20 years.

It also predicts tragedies of the commons, i.e. how capitalism will always ruin everything for everyone, even the people that “win”, and the only solution is to make sure capitalism doesn’t touch the commons because it will find a way to murder them; which explains why the Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

• What’s that crater called?

The fact that China is capitalist and it’s questionable whether they get a good return on investment. They can’t reliably capture the wealth created by getting modules to people that need them, so they don’t do it.

The same as with the US and EU and their massive surplus food production while millions are expected to starve to death this year.

I prefer the “can you talk in full sentences” measure as a low tech thing that more directly measures what you want. The right bpm varies with age and cardiovascular health and other factors, but the goal is to keep your blood well-oxygenated and whether you have enough breath to spare on talking is a more direct measure of that.

There are many people who do not appear to experience ‘runners high’. I am one of those people, I have never experienced any noticeable pleasant side-effects from exercise itself, just a rather unpleasant burning sensation in my lungs.

Have you tried exercising less intensely? I never got runner’s high until I started jogging in the low aerobic range, which is when you can speak in full sentences while running without getting out of breath (around 133 bpm for a 30 year old). If you’re getting a burning sensation in your lungs, you’re touching the anaerobic range (around 152 bmp for a 30 year old), which is too fast for a runner’s high AFAIK.

For me, coming out of competitive ameteur/high school sports, it felt unnaturally slow to learn jogging, even embarrassing at times, shuffling around at 8 km/h. Yet at the end there was regularly a runner’s high, and over time and mixing it up with higher-end aerobic exercises and anaerobic sprints, my aerobic running speed increased. I learned to be in conversation with my body rather than relying on external metrics, now I just run at a speed that feels natural and playful, varying from run to run based on how I feel in the moment.

They don’t need to notice to change. Unpleasant or uninteresting experiences can lead to them frequenting these places less until they just don’t anymore. A big part of subscription services’ profit comes from these changes being made so unconsciously that people forget to cancel.

If it’s any consolation, we’re all its training data. Your style is just the one the training and fine-tuning settled on as the one that passed its checks the best.

The EU keeps coming within inches of voting for making secure encryption impossible. Chat Control would have been worse for privacy than anything the US has.

I mean, it could be both.

That’s valid for workers in a capitalist system or for capitalists trying to scam people. But why would someone sign their real name to unchecked AI slop for an open source project? It would risk ruining their reputation for little personal gain.

So like USAians having to pay taxes to the US when they work outside the US?