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The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by ekianjo »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #244
ekianjo wrote: post #229

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The idea that granola would be healthier is rather strange

One of the best examples of a food industry (grains) being able to influence eating habits to their benefit. Anyway, the phrase "healhty" in relation to food is a bit of a trigger phrase to me nowadays, healthy how? It's completely lacking in nuance. Apples are healthy, except when you eat 200 seeds at which point the cyanide gets to a lethal dose. Granola is healthy, unless you eat it three times a day and little el…

Granola was never healthy even in moderation. It's just pure sugar.

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Post by permo-w »

rightbyte wrote: post #183
permo-w wrote: post #124

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the current dietary advice in my local segment of society goes pretty much like this: try not to eat too many processed foods, keep it balanced, and fats aren't actually bad for you. that all sounds fairly reasonable to me

It is strange. As exposure to strange diet advice have gone up via internet exposure, Youtube, Instagram, blogs etc, the amount of people actually following strange diets seems to have gone down.

I agree with this. the fucked up diets I heard about in my youth seem to have been replaced with some quite reasonable fare. maybe a comments section was all we needed all along

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Post by markdown »

sgt wrote: post #200
markdown wrote: post #95

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USD$0.30 to $0.40 per egg in Fiji.

Why so expensive in Fiji? I mean it's not that expensive, but more than I'd expect from Fiji, where I can imagine chickens and pigs are running around everywhere between the straw huts and palm trees.

Our producers don't have the economies of scale that yours do. Also, our chickens refuse to stay in their cages and lay eggs, preferring to spend all their time lying around on hammocks under coconut trees sipping pina coladas.

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Post by dhosek »

ubermonkey wrote: post #297
dhosek wrote: post #275

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Hugh Hefner was a surprising patron of the arts. Playboy made so much money that he poured it into funding some amazing writing (while the standard joke was “I read Playboy for the articles,” the articles were generally quite amazing) not to mention funding some significant work in printing and typographic technology (one example: the magazine used Palatino for its text and when the type on the gravure pages didn’t m…

Nowadays I think people just lump it into the same category as other mass-market brown-paper-cover mags from gas stations like Penthouse and Hustler, but Playboy really was different. Hefner set out to create a respectable, top-tier publication -- by design -- that just happened to also include nudity. "Golden age" Playboy pictorials were pretty tame and generally tasteful, and they were in a magazine that'd have (as…

I was going to say that the print magazine was defunct, but apparently they‘re relaunching it as an annual. I don’t think that the literary side of things continued during their online-only era, but I could be wrong.

There used to be (not sure if it’s still there) a newsstand near one of the “L” stations in downtown Chicago that sold primarily porno mags, but it’s been a long time since I’ve boarded by that station and whenever I’m near there, I always forget to check to see if it’s still there. It was the subject of the first poem I wrote in my Chicago sonnets sequence¹ although that one remains unpublished.

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1. Most of these are in print only, but links to those that are online can be found at https://dahosek.com/publications/

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Post by forgetfreeman »

cratermoon wrote: post #252
forgetfreeman wrote: post #242

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Typically by people that don't own their own home and never have. Most everyone else uses the term to describe renovation projects the owners lack the skills to complete (contractors are expensive) or boats. Seriously, how often do y'all think a house needs major repairs or renovation work in the course of 20 years?

It depends on how well the owner maintains the house. My dad spent some time nearly every weekend doing something around the house. He did nearly everything himself: painting interior and exterior, plumbing, appliance repair and installation, window frame adjustments. He even rolled out fiberglass installation in the attic, and in the process accidentally slipped off a joist and put his foot through the ceiling, but…

> For someone who doesn't do upkeep, or can't afford competent contractors to do it, major repairs can happen any time, without warning.

We're in violent agreement here. Home ownership is unforgiving if you lack all ability and the willingness to learn. I'd like to believe that this level of learned helplessness is rare enough in the adult population that it shouldn't factor meaningfully into a discussion of major investment decisions like owning property.

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Post by ForTheKidz »

thewanderer1983 wrote: post #115
ForTheKidz wrote: post #102

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I have no doubt this is a widespread behavior, but I do have doubts as to whether or not this benefits children. Children seem to benefit primarily from watching relationships that genuinely make both parents happy. There's very little evidence to support that faking it yields results of children reacting as if you weren't faking it. You might as well divorce.

> Children seem to benefit primarily from watching relationships that genuinely make both parents happy. I think you'll find the data supports chidren benefiting from a happy loving home. Not from the concern of the parents relationships with others. My childhood friends were mostly from divorced parents and it very much impacted them all in negative ways. Parents are security blankets for children. It's who they run…

> I think you'll find the data supports chidren benefiting from a happy loving home. Not from the concern of the parents relationships with others.

I don't know how you'd exclude the influence of parents relationships from impacting the happiness of a home. If a kid is aware of a relationship, they're absorbing.

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Post by cratermoon »

forgetfreeman wrote: post #305
cratermoon wrote: post #252

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It depends on how well the owner maintains the house. My dad spent some time nearly every weekend doing something around the house. He did nearly everything himself: painting interior and exterior, plumbing, appliance repair and installation, window frame adjustments. He even rolled out fiberglass installation in the attic, and in the process accidentally slipped off a joist and put his foot through the ceiling, but…

> For someone who doesn't do upkeep, or can't afford competent contractors to do it, major repairs can happen any time, without warning. We're in violent agreement here. Home ownership is unforgiving if you lack all ability and the willingness to learn. I'd like to believe that this level of learned helplessness is rare enough in the adult population that it shouldn't factor meaningfully into a discussion of major in…

> I'd like to believe

You'd like to believe in a fantasy that doesn't exist? There are netflix shows for that.

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Post by eru »

DanielHB wrote: post #207
eru wrote: post #204

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Doesn't Stockholm have cray rent control, too?

Yes for first-hand contracts, which are impossible to get. So your options if you are not born into the first-hand contract queue (people put their 5 year old children on the queue) is to rent second-hand which was what I was doing. The HOAs don't let you be a landlord and rent out your apartment for more than 2 years at a time, and you need to have a reason like you are moving to another country for studies. Technic…

Renting second-hand means 'subletting'? Or something else?

> It is all very complicated and specific to Sweden, but this HOA corporation thing avoids a lot of fees/taxes when selling/buying the apartment (which is a BIG deal, stamp tax alone is 4% of the asset last I heard). But you get these downsides as well.

Yes, routing around regulation and taxes often gets pretty complicated.

Here in Singapore we don't have rent control, but stamp duty can also be really high (especially for foreigners). Fortunately, we don't have capital gains taxes, so if you aren't particularly tied to owner-occupied housing, you can instead invest in the stock market and use the returns to pay rent.

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Post by eru »

somenameforme wrote: post #215
eru wrote: post #165

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Your 'Founding Fathers' only lived a few hundred years ago, not thousands of years ago, and were elites in one of the richest societies in the world at the time. I wouldn't use the bible as evidence; from what I heard they also talk about people living hundreds of years in that book, don't they? I agree that most of medicine itself hasn't necessarily made much of a dent in average adult life expectancy at, say, age 3…

Germ theory didn't exist, or at least wasn't accepted, until the late 19th century. In fact even things like handwashing before surgery weren't accepted until a similar timeline. Prior to that it would have been insulting to insinuate that a surgeons hand's might be 'unclean.' All the money in the world couldn't change this lack of knowledge. And indeed one of the Founding Fathers, George Washington, was likely kille…

> And most importantly of all - this isn't an option. Societies that fail to maintain themselves will simply die off and end up being replaced. Much of what I'm saying here runs face first into contemporary ideological ideals, but the reality of what I'm saying will win simply because contemporary ideals are not self sustaining.

You are right to an extent.

First, if the inclination to have more or fewer children is at all hereditary, there is a strong natural selection effect over time. Evolution in action.

Second, (sub-) societies don't have maintain themselves via their _own_ children. Priests in the Catholic church were famously barred from having children for at least a few hundred years by now. Yet, the Catholic church persists. Similarly, throughout most of history cities had below replacement level fertility, just because we didn't have the hygiene and medicine necessary to keep the diseases at bay. Yet, cities persisted.

You can say that they have been 'replaced', but so are families every generation. Drawing a strict line is only possible, if you put an undue emphasis on genes only.

You are right however, that for a culture or 'ideology' to persist, you need to replenish the pool of people in some way, either with children or converts/immigrants. (Or, I guess, you can figure out immortality for your members?)

Almost by definition, migration/conversion can only be an option for the most appealing of societies: those migrants have to come from somewhere; they are other people's kids.

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Post by eru »

gnarlynarwhal42 wrote: post #296
eru wrote: post #166

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And I assume houses in these places aren't exactly holding up well as investments? EDIT: Oh, I think you were talking about deprecation? Even in the downtrodden areas, land values going down isn't technically deprecation. It's just like a bar of gold sitting in your garage: its market price might fluctuate, but that has nothing to do with deprecation.

Sorry to be nitpicky, but I think the term for the concept you're talking about is depreciate, not deprecate

Thanks.
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