Sivori
@sivori
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Purveyor of half-baked ideas. Father of four. Internet coworker. Earnest posting.
ATX → LDN
Joined May 2007
I wonder also how much you need to “soak” in a particular mood or time or culture, which you can accomplish in reading and study. Not a writer but I’ve noticed when I read things, I start writing or talking in a mode influenced by what I’ve been reading. When I read Wodehouse, I
McCarthy read 300 books to research Blood Meridian. And it sold 1883 copies when it came out. Life is a linear diffusion with drift. Looks like brownian motion at short time scales. But it's a straight line when you zoom out.
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Pictured are the Carmelite monks of Wyoming. They have properly tonsured monks using CAD to build a gothic cathedral!
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Space is what defines relationships. We all exist along a gradient of intimacy. This is the medium to improve a relationship.
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Tell her you need some space to think. Turn your phone off. Go for a long drive or a long walk. Be gone for 4+ hours. Long enough for you to rise above the drama that you are tolerating. If she cares, the hamster wheel will spin like a top and she will come back toward you. If
@sivori How do you keep her when she is mean to you and you fold under the stress?
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The less you care, in the right way, the better you will do. Low agreeableness + high openness + high conscientiousness.
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That's where the bitterness comes from. Bitterness is a type of powerlessness. Inability to accept and learn.
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Some men know who they are and they're mad about it. Some men hate themselves so much that if a woman takes a chance on them they fumble it because they can't accept that someone would love them and can't deal with it on some level. Can't rise to the occasion.
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You have to know how to keep a woman. That is, if you want to keep her.
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If a woman was with you, then she leaves you, it's on you. This is the truth.
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I find bitterness fascinating. There are people who live in the past, blind to the present, unwilling to consider the future.
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But the reason they're bitter is the same reason they're divorced. They're insensible to something. They missed a piece of the puzzle.
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Divorced guys are bitter because they know they are responsible somehow.
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I found him in London, too. Stopped in to Corpus Christi Church in Covent Garden one night to light a few candles for people.
If you are building something to help humanity you should know there is a shrine to Saint Carlo Acutis, the programmer saint, at Star of the Sea church in San Francisco. There is a prayer of intercession for your technological challenges. Have a blessed Sunday
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I read that listening to the sound of bees buzzing is used to treat PTSD in war vets so I played a bee-buzzing video on loop all night and it unlocked calm and peaceful memories that I didn't even know I possessed. Take the beepill, bros.
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Everyone is in bed and I am watching “Lost Highway” in the dark. The ultimate mood.
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This is the way in which the seeming apparent burden of obligation sustains you. Join, commit, abandon your ego to something bigger than yourself.
@eigenrobot you can't kill yourself when the cows depend on you
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This is the feeling I had in Ireland that I’ve never felt anywhere else. Western Ireland is littered with neolithic artifacts in stone carvings. And unlike other places I’ve been I felt some rootedness or connection there. I felt like I had been there.
A German family has lived in the same place for 3,000 years Scientists have discovered that the Huchthausen family from the village of Förste (Lower Saxony) has lived there continuously for around three millennia, Bild reports. DNA analysis showed that the ancestors of Manfred
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I’m a believer in collective punishment for this reason. Children are unreliable witnesses and even when one kid does something wrong it’s often in response to what their sibling has already done.
One of the things they don't tell you about parenting: Your 4-year-old will make your 2-year-old cry constantly. And you won't see exactly what happened. You'll be ~70% sure the 4-year-old outright hit the 2-year-old. But theres a 30% chance it was an accident or the
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This is actually the wisdom of “turn the other cheek”. To some degree being the subject of bullying depends on going along with the dynamic. If someone hits you or bullies you, they expect you to disagree or to challenge them back. So that if you go along, and you bring attention
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It may be the case that people who commit crime are more rational than people who try to stop crime.
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