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I buy bob’s red mill muesli and eat it with milk. I don’t soak it or anything like that. I call it “horse food” but it is fast, nutritious, and satisfies the “breakfast cereal” craving.

I really enjoyed this article, although I love games with gameplay loops and bounce hard off of games with narrative. I wonder what the author would think of Hades?

That seems very reasonable to me.

I guess I feel the same way about that as I do about a steak. How do I know that the steak is the 16oz I ordered? Ultimately the most important part is if I found the experience satisfying enough to return, not whether the steak was within .5oz of its stated measurement.

My understanding is Belgian beer culture considers the aroma to be an important part of the experience. But I’ve never been, that’s all through osmosis.

Look, I get it. Beer is expensive, these days. Always has been. But I feel like these movements miss the forest for trees.

If we mandate beer volume then places that are “shorting” you will just raise the prices. Not to mention the tax on beer that would be required to pay for the inspection service. No one likes feeling like they got less than they paid for, but there’s solution is to take your business elsewhere.

Also, you know what really annoys me? When a bartender pulls a pint for me, and it’s up to the brim with no foam. Foam is part of the joy of a crisp beer. It adds aroma and anticipation. If I wanted to drink something with no foam I’d drink a soda. And in my heart of hearts (or stomach if stomachs?) I fear that’s where these arguments lead.

This also speaks to another point, when trying to lose weight: you must find new things to enjoy.

+1 for Serious Eats. I also like NYT cooking. I do not like Bon Appetit, I find most of their recipes to not turn out well.

I consider myself to be on the lower conscientiousness side of the spectrum. For others who are like me, what has worked best to improve myself in this area are these two things:

1) develop empathy and compassion for yourself. celebrate wins, and analyze losses.

2) make small, concrete steps to simplify your environment. as the above commentor mentioned, task completion is expensive. however, some things decrease the cost of task completion or increase your available energy. among these are: habits, good sleep, consistent exercise, a decluttered environment, proper nutrition.

together these form a virtious cycle, improving your capacity to make meaningful decisions by either increasing the energy you have available to you, or by decreasing energy drain from other areas.

finally, remember that some things are not worth thinking too much about.

This rings more true for me. Food simply used to be a lot more expensive.

"Between 1960 and 2000, the average share of Americans’ disposable personal income (DPI) spent on food fell from 17.0 percent to 9.9 percent." [1]

I am not going to look for a source right now but I would venture that since the 1960's were part of the industrial era that food was even more expensive before the creation of the Haber process and gas powered farm tools.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/november/average-s...

(Cost of)

I'm a layman, and so can't comment too specificaly. I found this Construction Physics article interesting, which was posted here some months back: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/will-we-ever-get-fusi...

I like Liftosaur, which appears to have an Android version on the Play store.

>I sympathize. I won't offer platitudes. I find those don't lessen grief.

The most meaningful thing someone ever said to me, after my daughter was stillborn full term, was: "There is nothing to say."

To add on, different yeasts also vary in their ability to metabolize carbohydrates. In general, a wine yeast will be less able to metabolize complicated carbohydrates than a beer yeast. Beer yeast tends to be more sensitive than wine to alcohol levels. More importantly, it's possible Rwanda lacks any serious brewer's yeast industry that is suitable. Kveik may be able to ferment at both 37C and up to 16% ABV but that's definitely an unusual trait in a yeast and I would not be surprised if they resulting wine was... funky.

Some death poems from Zen tradition mention 'water from fire'.

  Three and seventy years
  I've drawn pure water from the fire--
  Now I become a tiny bug
  With a touch of my body
  I shatter all worlds

By Ingo, died 1281

  A drop of water freezes instantly--
  My seven years and seventy.
  All changes at a blow
  Springs of water welling from fire

By Kaso Sodon, died 1428.

From "Japanese Death Poems" by Yoel Hoffman. I recommend this book as a good memento mori.

>This was a black swan event that will require a thoughtful response.

Taleb would have a field day with this one. Broadly, I think a big part of the argument is driven by the assumption that the area will be rebuilt, despite being a known fire risk.

Many people are on autopilot. They have not been taught to be intentional about the day to day fundamentals of their lives. For the most part, I think that used to be achieved through social contact which has substantially diminished in the past few decades.

I will add a comment in support of the very low dose of melatonin. I take 1mg, same as another user, but will experiment with dropping it. I find that it works best if I take it some time before I plan to sleep. Currently I have a reminder set for 9:15 and I fall asleep between 10:30 and 11:30 most nights.

I am a historically terrible sleeper but the past year has been the best sleep of my life. Here is my overall process:

Bedtime routine: 1mg Melatonin at 9:15ish. Don blue light blocking glasses. My understanding is that the science behind these is mostly bunk but they help me. (Probably because of a general reduction in light and the psychological routine). Read book outloud w/wife and then watch a boring youtube video. If the youtube video is interesting, it's not good. Books are also not good because I find them too entertaining.

Day routine: Wake up early, ish. Eat more food early than late. Exercise. Focus on using up energy at work or during the day. I am working on getting 30 min of sunlight every morning.

I don't know, the Matt Stoller Substack post from yesterday had a whole line of discussion that was already covered in the article.

I felt the same but my preference is to have enough PTO to take off for that.

>> I'm motivated by fear and anxiety, and I want to change to being motivated by desire.

I had the same intention. I found that creating psychological safety was more useful than trying to generate new positive motivation.

Is there still an active tremulous community? I have fond memories of that game.

easier to consider people to tend towards conservative rather than risk averse. if we were truly risk averse, society would be very different.

This is very cool. How recent is this? We purchased an older house with an HOA that discourages awnings. I had been considering petitioning for one but a low-emissivity coating would be easier.

Thanks! Taking a look now. I am early in my lifting journey and doing 3x compound lifts every other day (squat/row/bench, dead/ohp/chin up) at relatively low volume. I am primarily doing this for every day strength purposes (lift a child, carry a suitcase, etc) and I don't know how much strength I'm would be giving up by pursuing hypertrophy over strength.

> For most people, hypertrophy specific protocol is better than strength protocol. Zone 2 cardio is better than HIT.

Source on this?

There are two true perspectives here.

1) Exercise is good for you. The adaptations from exercise are good for you regardless of what kind of exercise you do.

2) Strength and cardio provide different adaptations. Neither is better or worse.

The most important thing is to do whichever one you enjoy the most, or both, or neither if you would enjoy some other exercise more.

Fascinating, thanks! One of the things I love about D&D is that there's so much historical density to it.

The rest of his articles are also hilarious. Every time I come across them again, I make sure to re-read a few. Here's a collection of his articles: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

Here's my favorite: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatc...