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by Sid
Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:32 pm
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Limit your choices
Replies: 71
Views: 15691

Re: Limit your choices

Doing nothing could be a choice, a potentially sub-optimal one.
by Sid
Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:12 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: ERE VS communism
Replies: 52
Views: 10793

Re: ERE VS communism

I was wrong
by Sid
Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:29 am
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: ERE VS communism
Replies: 52
Views: 10793

Re: ERE VS communism

When communism has been attempted to be implemented in the past it has failed. Perhaps those failure points can be resolved and it would work. Even though capitalism has worked out relatively well, in practice it has flaws too in my opinion, maybe those can be fixed too. Sid will entertain BRUTE's v...
by Sid
Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:05 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Thoughts from a distraught individual
Replies: 17
Views: 4635

Thoughts from a distraught individual

I get the feeling that most of the people on this forum are far from the norm (not necessarily good or bad). Reasons for this assertion are: ERE is uncommon and very different than the average ways of life, intelligence here is significantly higher than the norm, and generally rare personalities (in...
by Sid
Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:28 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: MBTI as a disorder/disease
Replies: 53
Views: 10284

Re: MBTI as a disorder/disease

On MBTI as a disorder/disease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG_fAhk3ZGc -- good content source, thanks Daylen At the 18:54 mark the guy makes a point related to thinking about the MBTI as a disorder/disease. It is that there are 4 parts of the mind, the ego, unconscious, subconscious, and supereg...
by Sid
Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:19 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: ERE VS capitalism
Replies: 12
Views: 2802

Re: ERE VS capitalism

One thing I always ask my friends is: Would it be better to improve the system we have, or implement a whole new system? They usually say try to fix the one we have (as an enfj friend recently said). I would rather see a new one put in place (an an intj friend of mine thinks), it seems like jennypen...
by Sid
Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:41 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: MBTI as a disorder/disease
Replies: 53
Views: 10284

Re: MBTI as a disorder/disease

This makes me think, is it better to exploit one's strengths, or improve weaknesses? I think play to strengths most of the time, but sometimes work on decreasing weakness.
by Sid
Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:03 am
Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
Topic: How to approach school disciplining my son (detention)? Parents please weigh in
Replies: 20
Views: 8032

Re: How to approach school disciplining my son (detention)? Parents please weigh in

When I was in kindergarden my friend and I went to the cubbies that everyone had and we broke everybody's pencils. The situation was resolved and at this point in time it was 1 out of 1000000 events that make me who I am now. This situation does seem like retro-active punishment, if it is probably t...
by Sid
Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:15 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Zero Wasters?
Replies: 51
Views: 10705

Re: Zero Wasters?

Well, it turns out I'm an ERE mop.

Haha!
by Sid
Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:57 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: Jeff Bezos has a plan
Replies: 40
Views: 7208

Re: Jeff Bezos has a plan

Also reducing energy usage per time would increase the amount of time we have. I think that is what "Scale" is getting at, in the future, incorporating models of scale and exponential growth inherent in the nature of cities and businesses so that they may be better and more efficiently des...
by Sid
Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:46 pm
Forum: Transportation Questions
Topic: cheap tires for a car?
Replies: 13
Views: 4180

Re: cheap tires for a car?

It also depends on the car, if its a piece of crap car put crappy tires on it, if its nice put on nice ones.
by Sid
Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:31 am
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: What is your ERE housing score?
Replies: 91
Views: 36485

Re: What is your ERE housing score?

I would say that this housing score is gives a good general idea of your situation, you could make your own scheme with all the things you find important and weight them appropriately.
by Sid
Sat Oct 06, 2018 3:15 pm
Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
Topic: Jeff Bezos has a plan
Replies: 40
Views: 7208

Re: Jeff Bezos has a plan

Based on what I have learned from "Scale", In order for humans to colonize space, innovation must grow at an accelerated pace so that it may beat the super linear growth and energy consumption of humans. If this does not happen we are screwed, not only in terms of space colonization but al...
by Sid
Tue Oct 02, 2018 5:39 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Quiz: Do you live in a bubble (elitist)
Replies: 69
Views: 12347

Re: Quiz: Do you live in a bubble (elitist)

Thoughts: Division is created among the people by controversial subjects that don't matter much in the grand scheme, such as aborting, guns, blah. This distraction diverts people's time and attention from doing things of substance and working together. Also some businesses are designed to absorb as ...
by Sid
Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:03 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: US Defaulting on debt
Replies: 28
Views: 5431

Re: US Defaulting on debt

In that case bring on the default!
by Sid
Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:06 pm
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: The wonders of wool coats in the snow
Replies: 5
Views: 2383

Re: The wonders of wool coats in the snow

they used oil skins as well as treated canvas, treated with linseed oil, you can look up videos on how to do it.
by Sid
Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:52 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Ahem.
Replies: 5
Views: 1712

Re: Ahem.

Thanks for the welcome. And yes, Daylen is a first name, I guess I blew his artificial alias.
by Sid
Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:49 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Cologne/Perfume
Replies: 26
Views: 5439

Re: Cologne/Perfume

I hear ya on that
by Sid
Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:27 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Ahem.
Replies: 5
Views: 1712

Ahem.

Hi everyone, my name's Sid, I've been an alcoholic for te--whoops wrong meeting. Slightly more seriously, this forum is interesting to me not so much because of the ERE aspect, but more so because of the knowledge and intelligence of its members. Personally developing from what I am exposed to here ...
by Sid
Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:14 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: What is your ERE housing score?
Replies: 91
Views: 36485

Re: What is your ERE housing score?

1*1 + 2*1 + 367/100 = 6.67

Where you get screwed is if you have a long commute.