Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[WillHurtDontCare]

My wife doesn't want me to flirt with the girl you've been seeing.
"you are not 16 anymore".

Yeah I could picture my chick telling about that:

"All of these men hit on me but I'm still stuck with an a**hole like you. Gringo malo - te odio."

Also, the same dumb lines work with women their entire lives. The same stuff that my 5 year old cousin says to make 5 year old girls giggle will work when I rehash them talking to a woman in her 20s or 30s.

A lot of human behavior never changes. Plus it's always fun to do things that women tell you not to do.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

Tell me you've never been on a farm without telling me you've never been on a farm.

 

[Antifragile]

"Evolution doesn’t give a damn about happiness itself, but will use the promise of happiness to keep us struggling to stay alive. And so the promise of happiness—not the direct experience of happiness—is the brain’s strategy to keep you hunting, gathering, working, and wooing." (Kelly McGonigal Ph.D., The Willpower Instinct)

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

"Evolution doesn’t give a damn about happiness itself, but will use the promise of happiness to keep us struggling to stay alive. And so the promise of happiness—not the direct experience of happiness—is the brain’s strategy to keep you hunting, gathering, working, and wooing." (Kelly McGonigal Ph.D., The Willpower Instinct)

Do you ever think about a time when you were truly, uniquely, blissfully happy and try to recreate it?

 

[Antifragile]

Do you ever think about a time when you were truly, uniquely, blissfully happy and try to recreate it?

Decade ago I read

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Paperback – July 1 2008​

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And I believe what he said. The minute you realize you are happy, you cease to be happy. Those blissful moments arrive at different times. I try and create them.

It used to be:
- running, cycling or swimming: at some point I'd get that feeling. But it was hard to replicate. It just happened.
- reading: the right book would get me to feel something deep, but again, not something I could reliably replicate.
- business success: there were (and still are) moments when something I thought was darn near impossible, and yet I pulled it off. Again, hard to replicate...

Today:
- my kiddo calls "daddy, daddy" and it melts my heart, for a brief moment I feel blissful happiness
- my kiddo says "hug, hug" - a toddler learning to speak, and wanting my hug - it makes me feel like nothing else
- walks and talks with my wife, we can get engrossed in a 2-3 hour conversation and in those moments I am typically exceptionally happy.
- sex (enough said) but that intimacy is pre-programmed in all of us to lead to a feeling of "high" and a good nap after lol.
- meditation, running, cycling, swimming, reading, yoga/stretching: keep doing things actively to reach that feeling, but don't expect it. It's not about push, it's about attracting that feeling naturally
- writing: I hate it, but I love it at the same time. I suck at it most days, so it takes a lot of effort, but then when I get a little validation (as superficial as that sounds, but a simple "like" or a "share" on social platforms), I tend to feel happy. Partly because I find it so hard to do, I get genuine happiness.


I am a lot more relaxed now than I used to be. And yet, I have more responsibilities, more risk... And yet, I think I am generally happier too, those moments you described happen a little more often than before for me. Yet I cannot reliably replicate them...

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

another random topic:
University is one way to learn a skill. But it's not the only way. The government, however, and society at large, cannot fathom this.

 

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[Simon Angel]

I'm close to pulling the trigger on never using Reddit ever again. The amount of virtue-signaling morons completely devoid of independent thought is just too much.

Thank God (i.e., MJ) this forum exists and attracts inconvenient people for the status quo.

 

[Trevor Kuntz]

Why Chinese sellers are quitting Amazon

Amazon once helped China’s exporters reach a huge and lucrative audience. Now, they urgently need to wean themselves off.

restofworld.org

 

[Itizn]

Sometimes you have to spend a lot of time and hard work on the wrong things, just to figure out what the right things to work on are.

 

[Matt Sun]

 

[MoneyDoc]

Why Chinese sellers are quitting Amazon

Amazon once helped China’s exporters reach a huge and lucrative audience. Now, they urgently need to wean themselves off.

restofworld.org

Not to sound condescending or anything, but this is actually a good thing for legitimate brands/sellers on amazon. Chinese sellers have been known to either scam amazon customers, or manipulate reviews to the extent that old dead ASINs were revived for a completely unrelated product and hence all the reviews were transferred. You were looking at a supplement and the reviews were for a shoe. Why? It's hard to get money back from a Chinese seller than it is a domestic seller. They would just make new accounts and start the process all over.

Another "crime" that I fell victim to by a Chinese seller was they listed my brand specific ASIN on their own website. They then filed an IP complaint with amazon. My best-selling ASIN was taken down for literally a month until I resolved the issue. Let that sink in. Someone claiming your baby is their baby

Good move on amazons part as if they do let this play out, they'll just turn into another eBay if you know what I mean.

 

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[GPM]

Tell me you've never been on a farm without telling me you've never been on a farm.

Well, when you need to be outraged at something I guess how farmers name their cows is one way.

My cousin, female cousin mind you, also names her cows girl names. I better have a stern talking to her!

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Well, when you need to be outraged at something I guess how farmers name their cows is one way.

My cousin, female cousin mind you, also names her cows girl names. I better have a stern talking to her!

I just thought it was funny she wasn't aware of cows and bulls.

On a farm, the female cows might be producing all the milk, but what do the male cows - the bulls - do? They have only one job. Lol!

 

[Rabby]

Just ban guns altogether. How is you safer with a gun when everyone else also have guns?

You is safe only when you're the only one who has a gun, and others don't have it.

8-year-old boy fatally shoots 1-year-old girl after finding dad's gun in Florida motel

A man was arrested after his 8-year-old son found his gun in a Florida motel room, fatally shot a 1-year-old girl and wounded her 2-year-old sister, authorities said.

abcnews.go.com

Based on gun lovers' logic, the solution to the above incident (and hundreds like it every year), is to give the 1-year old a gun so that she can defend herself when her brother wants to shoot her? LOL

I wonder how safe it would be in a country where the government whips people and summarily executes them for having the wrong plant in their pocket? There's no situation where everyone is disarmed, ever. The only choice is between concentrating the power to kill or defend with a few people, who we hope are righteous, or leaving people unrestricted. To each their own.

 

[BlackMagician]

Does the forum has push notification that shows a popup in my browser of my threads/IM etc?

I used to receive the notification a year ago but now its not coming. Is it because of new layout?

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Perspective...

A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Observable Universe

Scientists believe we've only discovered about 5% of the universe. Here's a map of what we've found so far, visualized using a log scale.

www.visualcapitalist.com

I'm close to pulling the trigger on never using Reddit ever again. The amount of virtue-signaling morons completely devoid of independent thought is just too much.

Thank God (i.e., MJ) this forum exists and attracts inconvenient people for the status quo.

Funny I just spent about 10m in the r/personalfinance SubReddit and the posts there are quite sad....

Here are the posts in a nutshell:

I'm $1000s in debt and cant get a job, should I take on $1000s more in debt to go to grad school, then I can be more indebted and more overqualified for a job that didn't exist in the first place?

These people are simply asking how to pedal harder on their tricycles, not realizing, that the tricycle that they refuse to question is the problem. Sorry, but you aren't going to navigate 1000s of miles on your ineffective tricycle, no matter how hard you pedal, or what answers you get at Reddit.

 

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[Daniel A]

A unique conversation with Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater. On The Shawn Ryan Show (a great podcast).

View: https://youtu.be/nwK_XLFOm_I

 

[doster.zach]

I hate the whole don't use non-EPSON ink in EPSON printers thing, but I did order one off of their website, and it still doesn't work.

And to boot here is the lovely response I get .

---------------------------------
Dear Zach,

Thank you for contacting the Epson Store. It is our pleasure to respond to your inquiry.

You have reached Epson Accessories, Inc. (Epson Store), a subsidiary of Epson America, Inc.

We are sorry to hear that you are having issues with the item/s you purchased. With this incident, we recommend contacting the Epson Returns department when you are with your printer setup. A representative will assist you with diagnosing the issue(s) in order to confirm whether or not a replacement is needed and, if so, the representative will provide you with return instructions. Please call (800) 444-1527 for further assistance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Should you require further assistance, please use the REPLY option on your email software and include your previous email request. If you have a different question, please submit another email request and we will make every effort to respond within two business days (excluding major holidays). The Epson Store business hours are Monday – Friday 7:00 am – 4:00 pm (PT).

Thank you for choosing Epson.

Sincerely,

M------- S.
Epson Store

---------------------------------

 

[Antifragile]

Oh man, Clerks 3 but in colour?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1544716300982685696

View: https://twitter.com/ClerksMovie/status/1544716300982685696?s=20&t=JF_Y8clFe7G5-X7DRCJP2g

 

[Xeon]

I wonder how safe it would be in a country where the government whips people and summarily executes them for having the wrong plant in their pocket?

Very safe. This country you seem to hint at, may not have the military prowess or beautiful natural scenery of the US, for example, but girls can walk around at night wearing sports bra and yoga leggings and nothing will happen to them (this doesn't mean the country has 0 crimes though). Literally zero catcalls or approaches or stalking. Try doing that in various cities/provinces/states at night across the world including the US.

As for the "wrong plant in pocket" (aka drug smuggling), drugs ruin societies and attracts drug mafias to setup shop here. We've all seen where that leads to (YouTube Streets of Philadelphia). Once they're here, it's near impossible to rid them. Tough laws are a must to make society safe and clean.

People who want to get rid of laws that execute drug smugglers, are in fact, encouraging and supporting the drug mafia and cartels. In other words, they are indirect/direct accomplices to the illegal drug trade.

These strict laws in that country benefit the majority of the law abiding residents. The only ones who are against these laws in the name of "human rights", of course, are usually those whom the laws were originally intended for.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

it's remarkable how quickly a train wreck will make it clear to you that you're speaking to a train wreck

 

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[Aditya Gunjal]

Perspective...

A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Observable Universe

Scientists believe we've only discovered about 5% of the universe. Here's a map of what we've found so far, visualized using a log scale.

www.visualcapitalist.com

Funny I just spent about 10m in the r/personalfinance SubReddit and the posts there are quite sad....

Here are the posts in a nutshell:

I'm $1000s in debt and cant get a job, should I take on $1000s more in debt to go to grad school, then I can be more indebted and more overqualified for a job that didn't exist in the first place?

These people are simply asking how to pedal harder on their tricycles, not realizing, that the tricycle that they refuse to question is the problem. Sorry, but you aren't going to navigate 1000s of miles on your ineffective tricycle, no matter how hard you pedal, or what answers you get at Reddit.

The fact that after years this all will be long gone and the only thing that will remain in our oberservable universe will be our own galaxy, really bothers me.
Sir do you know that the distant galaxies that emitted the light millions of years ago (now out of overvable universe) is the light we see today.
We are really lucky to see the beauty of universe that will soon fade away.

 

[MTF]

https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebbdiscoveries/comments/vt13ep

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebbdiscoveries/comments/vt13ep/james_webb_telescopes_fine_guidance_sensor/


That's just a test image.

NASA said it plans to release several images beginning at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) on July 12, the result of Webb's "first light" observations. On Wednesday, space agency officials said the images and other data would include the deepest-field image of the universe ever taken—looking further into the cosmos than humans ever have before—as well as the spectrum of an atmosphere around an exoplanet. By looking in the infrared, Webb will be able to identify the fingerprints of small molecules, such as carbon dioxide and ozone, that will offer meaningful clues about the habitability of worlds around other stars.

NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

arstechnica.com

 

[MitchC]

I'm close to pulling the trigger on never using Reddit ever again. The amount of virtue-signaling morons completely devoid of independent thought is just too much.

Thank God (i.e., MJ) this forum exists and attracts inconvenient people for the status quo.

I can tell just by talking to people and mates whether they go on reddit or not. It rots your brain.

 

[Simon Angel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebbdiscoveries/comments/vt13ep

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebbdiscoveries/comments/vt13ep/james_webb_telescopes_fine_guidance_sensor/


That's just a test image.

NASA said it plans to release several images beginning at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) on July 12, the result of Webb's "first light" observations. On Wednesday, space agency officials said the images and other data would include the deepest-field image of the universe ever taken—looking further into the cosmos than humans ever have before—as well as the spectrum of an atmosphere around an exoplanet. By looking in the infrared, Webb will be able to identify the fingerprints of small molecules, such as carbon dioxide and ozone, that will offer meaningful clues about the habitability of worlds around other stars.

NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

arstechnica.com

Been following the James Webb telescope project for years. Apparently, one of the engineers working the telescope cried after seeing the images they're planning to release.

 

[StrikingViper69]

https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebbdiscoveries/comments/vt13ep

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/jameswebbdiscoveries/comments/vt13ep/james_webb_telescopes_fine_guidance_sensor/


That's just a test image.

NASA said it plans to release several images beginning at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) on July 12, the result of Webb's "first light" observations. On Wednesday, space agency officials said the images and other data would include the deepest-field image of the universe ever taken—looking further into the cosmos than humans ever have before—as well as the spectrum of an atmosphere around an exoplanet. By looking in the infrared, Webb will be able to identify the fingerprints of small molecules, such as carbon dioxide and ozone, that will offer meaningful clues about the habitability of worlds around other stars.

NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

arstechnica.com

Stuff like this makes me sometimes wish I'd stayed in astrophysics

 

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[Simon Angel]

Stuff like this makes me sometimes wish I'd stayed in astrophysics

Lots of people on the James Webb subreddit are hoping we witness an alien megastructure or identify whether exoplanets in habitable zones have life on them by creating a spectrograph to identify their atmosphere's composition.

So while we won't get HD images of Earth-like planets to marvel at, many interesting discoveries are (hopefully) to come...

Also, I believe James Webb will very much be capable of taking awesome HD images of our own Solar System's planets, so that's cool too.

 

[UK_Mike]

Should you require further assistance, please use the REPLY option on your email software and include your previous email request.

Well, at least they didn't email you from a "do not reply" email address.

 

[ZF Lee]

Perspective...

A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Observable Universe

Scientists believe we've only discovered about 5% of the universe. Here's a map of what we've found so far, visualized using a log scale.

www.visualcapitalist.com

Funny I just spent about 10m in the r/personalfinance SubReddit and the posts there are quite sad....

Here are the posts in a nutshell:

I'm $1000s in debt and cant get a job, should I take on $1000s more in debt to go to grad school, then I can be more indebted and more overqualified for a job that didn't exist in the first place?

These people are simply asking how to pedal harder on their tricycles, not realizing, that the tricycle that they refuse to question is the problem. Sorry, but you aren't going to navigate 1000s of miles on your ineffective tricycle, no matter how hard you pedal, or what answers you get at Reddit.

The trading subreddits have turned to shit as well.
Just overused memes or bland DD posts with wrong interpretations of charts and FAs.

A few good ones like r/OptionsMillionaire have secluded themselves in private Discords.

Martin Skhreli recently returned to r/WSB after he got released.

While he was a corporate criminal, he taught the first generation of WSB-ians how to do DD and gave it its initial culture of risk-taking gung ho. But I think even he won't be able to restore that place to the form that it should.

 

[ZF Lee]

Really, really HATE my own country Malaysia...

Stock market F*cked over in the a$$ even though we have perfectly good companies with choice commodities or products...a government that swaps policies left and right (eg lifting price caps for chicken and eggs before quitting it a few days later)...not to mention toxic work culture and salaries.

I counted the number of Malaysians that actually gave me life-changing, worthwhile insights or help-- and I found the list very short. And I wonder WHY.

We somehow have a half-past-six curse looming over our heads.
Plenty of great hardworking folks-- but they somehow never hit the peak of their careers.
And somehow they find greater wins elsewhere (see Australia's new foreign minister...see Broadcom's CEO)

I attended a voting talk for election agent volunteers recently (since election might be near), held by one of the more open-minded politicians. Instead of asking more details on operations-- they WASTED THE ENTIRE Q&A COMPLAINING ABOUT POLITICS.

You are here to learn how to handle the election booths and all-- keep your complaints to another time!

This was when I realised I couldn't blame my country's leaders. I need to blame the PEOPLE for not helping.

I need to get away from them ASAP.

Also, when I see previously backward countries like Indonesia leading the pack with Jokowi (he chairs the G20 now)-- and even had books written on him--you know your country's F*cked.

Singapore, here I come... I'll just cart over my online work and rent a room there to try to new life out first.