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and that's before we get to the comments
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Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
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allaboutberlin.com. I'm self-employed, and I have no direct customers. So long as my bills are paid, everything else is extra. I can invest time into more, better content, but I can also mess around with things that don't make money. More often than not, they turn out to do just that. "If you build it, they will come." Mind you, I still have to work, but there's rarely anything that needs to be done right now , unles…
coincidentally, i'm sure the rent freeze has had a positive effect on your ability to pay your bills without stress
The rent freeze that was retroactively cancelled? No. It didn't help anyone.
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#303I think a lot of the motivation to keep shoving those frogs down comes from religion, particularly christianity. Christianity teaches that we are born flawed (original sin) and must work for our redemption. The protestant wing of christianity seems the worst for this (I'm not sure why). Just look what happened when the puritans took over England after the English civil war. What a joyless bunch they were.
It is a great article. Insightful and funny.
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Love tongue. Cook it occasionally and eat with horseradish mayonnaise
My father made a wonderful tongue & beans soup; must have been 45 years ago. Little brother and friend come home, I tell them, "You've got to try Dad's soup!" They both raved about it, until I mentioned the meat was cow tongue. Years later I was still catching flack about that little incident. But he'd grown up on a farm and meat was meat; I thought it tasted great.
Right until the 90s in the UK you could get ox tongue in the deli of nearly all major supermarkets here (nicely sliced) - I loved it long before I realised what it was.
I grew up on a very small farm, but I'm sure many non farm folk were eating it back then too.
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#305This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like > The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types: Swiss cheese, ham, sardine, liverwurst, egg, corned beef, roast beef, and tongue (yes). But by 1926, he “claimed that he had counted…
Where is that dev kit $5? I think I paid $50?
Even less on Aliexpress if you can handle the wait.
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#306Counterpoint: sometimes eating frogs is an opportunity, and if you don’t eat them, someone else will and they will be better off because of it. Eating more frogs now can mean that you have to eat fewer frogs in the future, or in total, ALSO that your children and family will have to eat fewer frogs. I still believe that working hard is a virtue and the people who do will usually end up becoming the people who (and wh…
>if you don’t eat them, someone else will and they will be better off because of it.
so what?
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Love tongue. Cook it occasionally and eat with horseradish mayonnaise
My father made a wonderful tongue & beans soup; must have been 45 years ago. Little brother and friend come home, I tell them, "You've got to try Dad's soup!" They both raved about it, until I mentioned the meat was cow tongue. Years later I was still catching flack about that little incident. But he'd grown up on a farm and meat was meat; I thought it tasted great.
Why do we balk at tongue (and brains, eyes, squishy bits etc) but not actual cuts? Food is food.
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If you told a king from 500 years past that in the future there is a magical "other" world inside a crystal crafted by the finest of mages where conquest, diplomacy, and economics can be practiced to perfection without risking no lives nor resources but that of time, and that this endeavor is both stupid and a complete waste of time, he'd think you're not only mad, but foolish to squander such an opportunity to learn…
> conquest, diplomacy, and economics can be practiced to perfection This is a ridiculous analogy. The vast majority of video games have so little application to the real world as to be effectively useless. This is relevant in the particular case of Dota 2, which, while an incredibly interesting game, has virtually no relevance to the real world. "Virtually" because if I say "no relevance" then pedants will quickly po…
Sid Meier's Civilization is considered one of the most influential computer games in history, in addition to being a critical and commercial success, and a pedagogical boon to humanity.
The statements you make only reveal your utter ignorance to the subject at hand, as even the most cursory of web searches will squarely establish these facts.
> particularly narrow field of video game development
Video games are almost bigger than TV, movies, and radio combined. I hate to ad hominem but you're talking out of your ass.
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> finding what you ACTUALLY WANT to achieve and then not getting distracted with eating frogs. That's precisely the bad piece of advice. Nobody knows what they really want, most of the time, because people change, you change, and the environment changes. It's better to have a system that makes you do something to progress in your skills or your ongoing projects every single day, than coming up with a goal since you h…
So people are generally incapable of governing themselves, and require goals to be imposed on them to make meaningful progress? I sure as hell hope I'm reading you wrong, because yikes that is a frightening ideology.
where do you see goals imposed on them? i am precisely saying having goals does not work.