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Thank you very much for posting this; I'm struggling with some of these same knots and that was a helpful way to have it laid out.

Thanks, I'm quitting my job in April so I'll start some tongue training then.

If you want to cook the best stuff with the least effort, just find a few recipes you really like and try to follow the recipe exactly.

This is actually the most effort for me. The administrative headache of trying to use up the odd extra amount of some perishable food while sticking just to a few recipes is too much. Two of the big reasons I'm an improviser is so I can throw in whatever needs to go and stick to buying whatever's cheap or in season (also two reasons why I lean towards soups a lot).

To the extent that there are universal evolutionary "good tricks" for organisms to chance upon, there might be some similarities if we're talking about life forms with an intelligence "on par" with ours (however you measure it). Some examples might be having vision or vision-like sensory input and the organs for that located towards the top of the organism, some kind of appendage with the dexterity to manipulate and rotate objects, and something akin to Chomsky's whole bit about being able to recursively nest concepts and linguistic units inside one another.

Can you learn to cook well this way or at some point do you need to learn the patterns in how spices and herbs balance each other out and play against each other?

I've always been a seat of the pants cooker and generally spice based on a very loose vibe I'm going for. I don't think I'm awful by this point but I'm in sort of the same place as I am with jazz - I can feel it out okay, but something tells me I really need to start learning some of the theory in order to keep improving at what I make.

You can literally video and audio call people on Signal, Telegram, Discord, Zoom, fucking Facebook Messenger, fucking Microsoft Teams, and probably even Slack at this point. I cannot see how this is appealing to anyone.

To get the PhD or to do the adventurism?

The war is good, we're only hurting bad people, it's their fault if they fight back, and the only people who could ever disagree are Labour commies.

Ugh I came into this thread so ready for a big brain hottie to pin me down intellectually and jab me with the hottest takes they can.

Ah finally! I can back up my phone to my computer and my computer to my phone and not need an external HD.

The problem is that they bring up a real issue in a dumb way, and in so doing, actually harm the cause instead of helping it.

I don't know that these tweets matter that much.

The internet is such a shitty place to organize because it draws people into these obtuse theoretical nitpickings. It all feels so bad faith. In person it's always much easier to forgive someone's botched phrasing when you know their heart and head are in the right place. /minirant

I think this is a very common pattern. Some new social or technological space opens up that allows people to collaborate and create something actually valuable together, and then hordes of capitalistic parasites come storming in to set up as many fences as possible so they can charge tolls and harness the new kinds of art and tech that was created for advertising, extraction, and rentierism.

Ads in my notifications and my lock screen.