Let’s not forget the converse: Fear that the other person will be creeped out.
I suspect that’s not a true answer. You could hypothetically feel pleased when you creep someone out. That’s a possible state for a human.
So it may not be “them feeling creeped out” that you avoid, but “you having an obligation to feel bad when you creep someone out”, and you avoid that state of feeling bad. Which is slightly different.
Roberts’ hypothesis is not about the drinking vegetable oil particularly, it’s about the link between flavour intensity, calories and weight gain/loss. He was looking for a way to ingest a sudden high calorie, no taste thing. Flavourless vegetable oil is no-flavour/high-calorie—and so is his previous idea of fructose disolved in water.
A useful followup might be “Just try what?”
Suggestions:
A) Whatever it is you want to try, but are putting off
B) Whatever it is you don’t want to do and can’t do, but feel like you should be able to in order to be a “proper” adult, or a “real” {your job title}, or an ideal human, or whatever.
It also allows us to anticipate ill consequences which don’t happen, and suffer them in advance. Sometimes repeatedly.
(And by “allows us to”, I also mean “it often does so automatically”).
What government attack vectors against Bitcoin do you deem most likely to work?
From Wikipedia:
In order to prevent double-spending, the network implements some kind of a distributed time server, using the idea of chained proofs of work. Therefore, the whole history of transactions has to be stored inside the database, and in order to reduce the size of this storage, a Merkle tree is used.
So I would transact the heck out of it and make the database huge. IIRC at the moment every user needs a full copy of the database of every transaction, so if the .gov can make a multi-terabyte database a requirement, that would knock it on the head quite hard.
Also, the last time I glanced at the source code it looked quite ropey, and that makes me think it will have lots of exploitable parts lurking for the right skilled people to find and attack.
What do you do with the knowledge of which way North is? Are the motors continuously vibrating or pulsed? When you take it off do you feel the absence (absense?) like an amputation?
Maybe useful—Everyday Looper is an iOS app for recording short looping samples, up to four at a time. That is, you record a sound and it plays it from start to finish over and over in a loop, and you can record another sound up to the same length and play them next to each other, or adjust the volume on them individually.
It’s intended for musical use, but might do for what you ask. It is not free, so you might check it out on Youtube to see how it works and why it might be good for quick record-hear-compare feedback.
(iOS / iPhone does have a basic sound recorder in it, as you may know).
keep checking back to the PixelQi site hopefully...
The first batch of Notion Ink Adam tablets have shipped, they have a PixelQi screen and run Android. Can’t yet buy one unless you caught the pre-order, but to me that means they’ve moved out of ‘vapourware’.
I do not understand why they do it
I do it (and then correct it, but only when I notice that I’ve done so) because using an apostrophe to indicate possession is the common case.
Relevant apostrophe comic 1.
You might find this snippet of OKCupid’s blog interesting—a correlation between being religious and being unbothered by poor spelling and grammar. It’s a graphic because the blog post is long and has no way to link just to that point. Full link.
Still, downvoted because this is not a procedural knowledge gap you think should be filled, it’s just ranting and possibly being in the pattern of having a subgroup of people over whom to feel superior.
The trouble is, you can burn a significant amount of energy by physical effort only if you’re in a great shape to begin with; otherwise, you can exert yourself for hours and still burn what amounts to (literally) just three or four bites of food.
Why does exercising when unfit burn fewer calories? Is it because you cannot exercise as intensely?
I guess for the topic of this forum, I should ask whether you were objectively looking for forum attitudes either way, or whether you set out to seek negativity and, with confirmation bias, found it?
I was expecting a post questioning who/what is really behind this project to make paperclips invisible.
Are you suggesting that a non-religious person would have no irrational beliefs to tiptoe around? This seems unlikely.
Are you suggesting that if you didn’t tiptoe around religious beliefs that would be a problem? Because it seems that religious people are extra-resilient in their beliefs, so that might be less of an issue than you fear.
Are you suggesting that it isn’t possible to have a relationship where one person is religious and another atheist without them having to fight about it or lie about it? That your relationships must have zero tolerance and absolute agreement on all points?
There isn’t anything in this world to be negative about. What does it benefit anything if I am miserable about suffering? Can we not notice problems and support solving them while also being positive?
Suffering in poor countries doesn’t go away just because you are unhappy about it. It doesn’t change at all based on how you feel about it, so why not feel happy about the people who have food and optimistic that starvation is solvable, for example?
From reading your whole comment, it seems this:
I simply don’t feel that I would be able to be emotionally intimate with a woman who holds an irrational, i.e. religious, worldview.
would be the easiest bit to change to remove the problem from your life.
Does anyone have a knowledge gap preventing them from cooking Alicorn’s “easy” soup?
I noticed myself thinking it was so basic that nobody would, but then wondered that such a thought might be completely wrong (given the overall post topic). Maybe there are people daunted by… not knowing how to prepare common vegetables, for instance.
(UK Specific post, not a car person).
tl;dr Find one, optionally pay a company to check it isn’t stolen or legally written off, and has no outstanding finance. Agree an amount of money. Sign the vehicle ownership documents, trade those and the car for the money within any applicable laws governing trade in your area. If your car has the required tax and safety certificates, and you have the required license and insurance, drive away, otherwise sort those out next. Cross your fingers and hope it isn’t a lemon, but realise that if it is, it is a setback, not the end of the world.
end tl;dr
You decide what you are looking for and/or what you can afford, and search around for ones within your area or however far you are willing to travel. If you are searching yourself then you will look at vehicles on the street with “for sale” signs on them, in local newspapers and advertising boards, on local search sites, or national ones such as Craigslist, Ebay or Autotrader, or at dealers/garages or their websites.
If you are searching with a dealership, you can discuss you requirements with them and they can suggest available cars, possibly distant ones in other garages in their group which they can transport to you. Many official dealerships for car manufacturers run approved used car schemes where they take recent cars (typically 3 years old), service them and then offer better than normal guarantees / warranty extensions, for an extra cost.
When you find one you are interested in, make contact with the seller and arrange to look at the car before buying. It would help here if you know someone you can take along, not just for a second set of eyes looking at the car, but also for a defence against pushy sellers or a second set of eyes checking your behaviour isn’t too biased towards/against purchasing. Have a look around in advance in price guides and listings so you know expected prices for that make, model, specification and age. Find a checklist from somewhere online and look for things to check when inspecting a used car, to take with you. You primarily want to make sure it:
Is what you were expecting and will do what you want or need.
Has not been crashed seriously.
Has been basically looked after (serviced regularly).
Has not been rebranded as a higher model, had any low quality modifications such as nonstandard wheels or engine enhancements which might be dangerous, or indicate the owner drove it hard (and thus wore parts surprisingly heavily), or did crummy repair work which might not last.
Doesn’t surprise you—find out what works and what doesn’t.
I don’t think they are under any obligation to give you a test drive, and if you do want one you will need to have the usual driving license and insurance cover to do so. I don’t know what you are looking for on a test drive beyond a general “does anything feel, look, sound or act wrong or suspicious” and “is it ergonomically OK”.
Before buying, you ought to get a vehicle background check (at a cost) to confirm it isn’t stolen, written off, financed with money owing, etc., and you may want to pay a mechanic service to give it an inspection. In the UK, The AA can do both—other companies can too.
(Again UK specific) cars more than 3 years old need MOT certificates (meets basic safety requirements) annually, so make sure the car has one or will have by the time you get it. It will need a tax disc (again, annual) before you can drive it, so if it has one in-date that is good. During the trade you will need to complete a form on the vehicle papers which the seller signs to say they are no longer the owner, and you sign to say you are the new owner, and the seller needs to send it to the DVLA to officially make the car no longer their responsibility.
Optional extra: haggling. You may wish to for the sake of saving money, but you don’t have to (notice the societal disapproval of people who pay the asking price). Offer them less, or if buying from a dealer, convince them to give you more into the deal such as a tank of fuel, a free service, etc).
More specific advice: http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/buying-advice.html
I’m surprised by the amount of cooking posts here so, questioning my own assumptions: is anyone put off doing this because you lack knowledge about preparing vegetables in the “whatever else” class, or picking the “wrong” whatever else foods, or even peeling things/etc.?
I feel silly even asking this (“Don’t be so patronising, who wouldn’t know how to peel an onion?”), but I’m interested to see if anyone replies.
Over the line as in it made you ill, or as in you refused to eat it?
Do you have any evidence of this?
Or, since that is a bit tautological, do you have any evidence that the things we want to change (social interaction fears, for instance) are the unchangable “hardwired results of evolution”, and not the malleable program running on top (for want of a better description)?