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In Victorian times they kept human bodies from decomposing in the morgue by running cold water over the slabs. You could hook up a hose with a timer so that it sprayed cold water over the van on an intermittent basis and/or refilled your mini-water-bed with cold water. This could even be accomplishe...

the self-deception that they are in control. It's probably required for survival. It's definitely required for anxiety. I agree that it almost certainly helps with survival. I strongly disagree that it is required for anxiety. The whole point of self-aware engaging in extreme trust exercises is tha...

SKILLATHON 2024 January: 1)Meta-Self-Improvement Retrospective Towards Skillathon Planning. 2)Intuitive Eating/Gentle Nutrition/Fun Movement. February: 1)Sixty-Two Pick-Up. 2) GTD/Minimalism/Clutter-Control Reboot March: 1) GTD/Minimalism/Clutter-Control Reboot cont. 2) Gonzo Capitalism: The Wilder ...

@Henry: I agree, but we also have little control over our belief that we do exercise control. As far as I'm aware the only known Level Yellow (post-post-modern) therapy for Level Orange (modern) agentic thinking is to contract with another human to bind you from neck to ankle in plastic wrap and the...

It varies considerably, but at the moment I feel more bored with how nothing really changes and everything seems quite predictable. Like I try to take an interesting side path off of the main trail, and it's just another short circle through a field full of dull invasives next to an ugly parking lot...

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If you're serious ... I sincerely wish I could be serious, but only got me about 4 spoons in my drawer currently. However, my armchair commentary will continue along the line of wondering about the subjective, consensus-building approach to this topic/problem. If I belonged to a forum that largely ...

Semi-interesting cultural note. Apparently, it is now deemed appropriate by those in the sub-culture most likely to wish you a "blessed day" to use the term "lifted" rather than "gifted", "competent", or "knowledgeable." I was asked if I was willing ...

@AE: Yes, and the dominant types in Modern Culture would be towards ENTJ and ESTJ. My strategy for dealing with the dominant types is to take mild-mannered advantage of the increased vasopressin levels they experience with age. Related tactics include "simple physical proximity", "sig...

Boring as it sounds, this is a feature, not a bug, because it makes it possible to resell the property w/o a loss of time, loss of money, or loss of money/time. Gotcha. But, residential real estate is not immune to risk as an investment, and as you suggested elsewhere, ERE rule-of-thumb for investm...

If, for example, you have "high functioning ADHD" (surprise, surprise, it's a thing!), you'll likely lead a very interesting life. Yes, my youngest sister is high-functioning (in the sense of graduated from top law school with honors) sometimes medicated ADHD. She is also E NTp, so she ha...

I don't think paying at least a quarter of a million dollars Yes, this alone seems towards "make the project incredibly boring." I mean, there are multiple reasons for the failure of my cuckoo-bananas Money Dimple project/plan in which I purchased dilapidated 480 sq.ft. house with similar...

But *I* was wrong about our productivity: I'd say we ranged between 1.8x and 2.25x what I'd be able to do by myself. And after a few days and we got into the swing of things I thought we stayed above 2x. Yes. This. Why I wrote elsewhere about how incredibly handy even the average human 6 year old c...

My Mazda Protege was by far the best car I ever owned. I liked it even better than the Honda Fit. The sporty and affordable Mazda Miata series is also rated as excellent beginner car. It also is rated high for holding its value. The convertible option makes it fun and ideal for occasional road trip ...

I could attempt to model the filter(s)s for ERE city using Decomposition Tree visualization in Power BI with Consilience (or GDP, or Happiness) as value to be AI maximized under analysis. I think the results might be quite surprising. :lol: In a previous life I was the HR Manager for the beta-test-s...

I consider it likely that you, as a teacher, can produce a better result on any school test you might give your students regardless of how many students are in the group(s) and how they work together. If you want to narrowly define skills to core academic skills accomplished with paper and pencil, ...

Basically, you can't form a group and get anything better out of it than you could from the top 1-2 members of the group alone. Assuming that the 1 or 2 members of the group are the most skilled in all factors relevant to the problem at hand, and that they are aware of all factors that could be rel...

The first is to become increasingly self-reliant to the point of self-sufficiency. Have enough skill to creatively make nearly every product ... and take it apart again in order to use the ingredients in new solutions. Ultimately, this requires very little money, and is the foundation for ERE WL7-8...

OTOH, I could just be unfairly taking a sentence out of context and projecting it unto my own inability to appreciate art. Would I feel the same about another pursuit using the same strategy? What if the strategy was being used by a scientist seeking patronage to support his research project into d...

Excellent article. Great example of those whom Hanzi Freinacht described as members of the post-post-modern high "precariat" of "hippies, hipsters, and hackers" IOW, those who are achieving access and options mainly through cultural capital rather than financial capital. Actually...