I don’t think that’s a fair comparison as Nerd is usually seen as a negative trait, where having good traditional traits is seen as a positive.

It’s taking a nerd and using that negativity despite not liking it to exploit gain.

Where as having traditional wife is choose a positive because you like that positive.

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Get fucked

Why do people like feet?

I love how you can have a really complicated problem and it can be solved with such a simple premise.

It’s just such a basic idea that’s obvious in hindsight.

And Israeli bots (probably IDF and Pro-Israelis too)

Seriously I just discovered this. Go search any random Gaza/Palestine/Israel post you will see -50 for someone saying “Israel has killed children and should stop killing children” and like +300 for “this article is so biased it’s taking about Israeli attacks but no mention of how Hamas is the real cause of this death”.

I’m not even going to bother to link because I want people to see for themselves rather than it looking like I’m selecting the worst if it.

I’m talking about this

we already have a word for “female person”, and that’s “woman”

Female person doesn’t mean women.

The word has changed so it’s not correct to say that.

This just seems women are more touchy about this stuff then men.

Someone called me out on reddit for using the word girls for women and it was sexist because it is infantising, and it was stupid because they were making out I don’t call men boys. When I absoultely do, in fact I do it more than the alternative. Really the only way I was sexist on that is that I don’t do it as much as I do with men so if anything I should do it more.

But you can’t win, someone’s always going to be offended

Now, you could get around it by calling someone “a female person” - except that we already have a word for “female person”, and that’s “woman”.

We did have a word that meant that and everyone knew it. But that word has changed into something else.

Tempted to send a message to the BBC and everyone from the UK should also.

See how they respond

Are you from the Blizzard gaming forums?

Started eating a shit tonne of rice.

Losing weight really isn’t that hard. It’s calories in verses calories out. If that doesn’t work, congratulations you are breaking the laws of thermodynamics and physics is changed forever.

I just took out some higher calorie food and ate a lot more chicken and rice and the weight dropped off kinda scary fast seeing as I was eating 4 meals a day. Ended up adding extra calories with eggs and was more comfortable with sauces.

Another time I took up surfing. Fucking hell surfing is hard, running 10 miles is easier. Increased my food load and ate a crap load more protein and just changed shape in a few months, lost the fat around my tummy and my shoulders grew huge.

I have been meaning to read that.

Technology and happiness aren’t correlated though. That’s nothing new.

You mean travelling?

I’ve done that sort of thing in south America and south east Asia but it is getting rarer, a lot rarer. Mobile internet in Burma (before the recent war) for example seemed better than the mobile Internet in the UK. That country only opened to tourism in 1992 is a war zone, holds the record for longest running civil war and at least initially (way before i was there) you had to buy a data pack directly on the black market from the military. But while I was there it was pretty safe and I didn’t feel in danger, but it just goes to show how much the world has moved on.

Generally the poorer the country and the more remote the better chance you got. If you go to Southern Thailand then everyone will just be drinking on the beach or doing things like tours. If you go to a beach resort in Vietnam or Cambodia where there are no shops/bars on the beach. You more likely to have something in the hostel to keep you busy. Basically if people are bored and there is nothing else to do they will talk and play games, if there is something else to do they will do that. Multiday boat trips can be good actually because you are stuck together, that’s the last time I felt that community.

Speaking of poverty too. That’s changed massively. When I went to Cambodia about 7 years ago you could buy stuff like a meal for less than a dollar. I was told by some people it used to be a lot cheaper years before. People now are saying its like 5-10 more expensive. I wouldnt be surprised if it was 100x as expensive compared to 20 years ago.

South east Asia and South America I would still recommend travelling though. I have heard very good things about the Stans (probably exculding afganistan and pakistan). Met a few people who travelled from Europe to Asia and they said nothing but good things, that may be an option I don’t know.

Africa is the last frontier in a lot of ways. But I don’t think it’s cheap and a lot of people have ak-47s. The backpackers I imagine are a bit more mental but they are probably more old-school and people stick closer together in rough times. I don’t have much interest in going.

I don’t want a car. I don’t have one currently. In 1829 Stephenson showed trains were the future and that remains the same today.

I’m not convinced planes and computers have been good for the world. Though I have enjoyed them both tremendously.

But I’m ready to be an old man holding on to old tech. Fuck man. You ever quit your job and travelled the world? Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach, with people you met that day is so much better than the Internet. The shame of it is that most people haven’t.

We gave up community and happiness for isolation and sadness.

Also I’m old enough to have seen personal computers change the world. A lot has been lost in the last 2 decades.

Of course I do.

I can vote for someone to represent me in government. The problem is the voting system is shit that no one will vote to change and that people vote for idiots.

At this point it’s the people fault.

I fucking wish.

Think I aged about 20. My knees feel like they are made of gravel. Also I got wrecked by the sun so my skins old now.

That’s not even talking about my liver! Or my arse.

Previous increases in automation and productivity have brought new goods, services, wealth. To be perfectly honest I’m largely done.

The next wave of progress needs to not bring new things but to bring more time off.

The only things I probably want in terms of future tech is medical advances and VR. Everything else fuck it. I’m okay with all the media we got, the Internet, TV games, food, hobbies. I don’t have smart anything except a phone. I’m done.

Give me a 4 day work week for what I have now. Then 3 then 2 then 1. I’m done. I don’t need more.

Previous results are not sufficient to forecast the future.

9 fucking years ago!

Christ. What have I done since then?