Visited this summer and had a wonderful time. The city is awesome in the summer and people are very friendly.

the US is a fractal scam. At every level, everything is an attempt to extract money from ill-informed “suckers”, from the running of the government, to the prices of supermarket groceries, to the tipping culture at restaurants, to even finding a place to put your car [1]. Every single thing is someone’s grift. In order to function in America, you need to be willing to be suckered to some extent. There’s no way around it. Unfairness is baked into every transaction, and increasingly more social interactions.

What a quote. I will add that “we” also like to believe we have the most fair system. And in many ways, the “gotchas” are much more hidden and systemic than other countries. For example, you might be scammed haggling with someone in Southeast Asia, but we get scammed everyday by credit card companies making bank on every single transactions.

I struggle with it, mostly because I get frustrated how much faster I can type compared to handwriting things. I haven’t hand written things since I left school.

Establishing battlefield control - Standby

Pick your poison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHqsHRwUDzM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyrgK7DsRTw

Work on yourself and build self efficacy. Yes, it’s hard, but it’s incredibly fulfilling when you can do things that you previously can’t. If you want money and you’re young, try to figure out what you’re good at and also what society seems to need. Whether that’s a skilled trade if you like working with your hands, or programming if you like that, find something at that intersection of what you’re good at and what people will pay you for and get really good at it.

Exercise consistently, go out and get some sun, set goals for yourself. I find that our digital lifestyle has really trained our brain for instant gratification constantly chasing that dopamine hit. But the real world doesn’t function that way.

Who cares if you’re a bit weird, everyone has their quirks.

I think we need to separate copyright, patents, and trademarks.

Trademarks are obviously useful and helps the consumer distinguish between products.

Patents incentivize the sharing of novel technology by granting short term monopolies. But many patent systems around the world are largely besieged by trolls. IMO, patents should be tied to intent to manufacture. If you don’t, it should expire sooner. Your example about shenzhen tech scene is mostly around this issue of patents.

Copyright on the other hand, is intended to allow artists to gain monetary rewards from their work. This one is probably the most complex especially in the age of AI. I don’t have good thoughts there, as there are so many edge cases. I definitely agree the length of copyright is way too long.

Weird person giving me something incredibly sweet. (Later found out that was a polio vaccination via sugar cube). The memory was very partially formed, but it should have been around 18 months old.

Other fully formed memory starts around 2 and half.

Beakman’s lab. In Chinese

Again, all of that is really testable. You can even blind test yourself at home.

Any salted meats will naturally form MSG when the glutamic acid binds to sodium. Pretty much all processed foods contain msg even if it was not an additive because it naturally forms on the foods themselves when free glutamate binds to salts. If you had any form of Japanese food cooked with kombu or seaweed, it also had high msg content.

None of this is even unique to Asian foods. Most cheeses are extremely high in msg, especially aged cheeses like Parmesan. Pretty much all savory foods contain some glutamate and glutamic acids.

Nah that’s a new unreleased swift model. Can’t have the shape leaked before launch.

Do you have such reactions to glutamine rich foods? (Tomatoes, fish, eggs) Msg is also in most processed foods.

If you only have such reaction at restaurants, it’s probably something else.

The initial craze about msg was pure racism and very bad science.

https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(21)00068-X/fulltext

I feel the opposite. American culture mutates and evolves at such a rapid pace.

So many other countries have rigid social norms and identities. U.S. is like, idgaf, here is everything evolving everywhere all at once.

Partially this also causes/is caused by our massive cultural divisions across the country. For better or for worse, that is just how America is.

Yeah. Demographic of the app when I was using it in my area was not a good fit though, it was very WASPy, not really my vibe.

I liked the dates from coffee m bagel and hinge much better.

This is the biggest worry in my head.

We will absolutely not be able to continue with our way of life. Significant portions of society will NOT be able to contribute “value” (the the capitalistic sense) to society.

What happens then? A bunch of young, lonely, disenfranchised people? Just bread and circuses with AI proliferated entertainment to keep the masses placated?

This has been amazing so far. I wouldn’t let the request stress you out. If it’s one thing I’ve learned from working in startups or small orgs is that it’s just impossible to fulfill all the different asks, but at the same time, it’s super encouraging when people do create asks because it shows that they are engaged.

Big thank you to all of you admins and volunteers for building this out.

First look into more cooling bedding, bedding materials make a huge difference.

For example, in much of east Asia, summer bedding involves sleeping on bamboo or straw sheets. Some people even use woven pillows that are hollow.

I’m sure there are lots of other tropical and subtropical cultures with interesting sleeping habits we can learn from due to them routinely sleep in 30+C weather with 80%+ humidity.