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Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by lotsofpulp »

BrianOnHN wrote: post #154
wnolens wrote: post #143

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> work on what feels right, when it feels right, for as long as it feels right How have you achieved this? I once had a setup like this, but eventually the work which permitted that freedom got boring, and I was so void of responsibility that I felt a pain of meaninglessness. Climbing out of this hole was via a feast of frogs.

One way is to minimize your responsibilities and requirements to maintain your lifestyle. Most people get indoctrinated into a 1:1 relationship with what they make and their lifestyle cost.

I find that this comes with kids. Once the kids come, many are compelled to play the game since many feel responsible for their kids’ health and future opportunities (education).

This turns into competing for best schools districts, which turns into paying as much as you can for land, to surround yourself with others who can pay at least as much as you can.

In the US, healthcare costs also keep people on their toes. Between health insurance premiums and annual out of pocket maximums, you need somewhere around $24k per year plus ~$34k emergency funds for 2 years worth of out of pocket maximum healthcare expenses for a family of 4.

If I was single or without kids, I would not necessarily care enough about any of that.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by samatman »

groffee wrote: post #307
jakzurr wrote: post #267

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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.

I don't balk at tongue (last ate it grilled at table) but you won't catch me eating brain. I have a deep horror of prion disease that precludes developing an appetite for nerve tissue.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by jugg1es »

pwython wrote: post #128
eesmith wrote: post #90

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> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types This is 2022 - you can get old cookbooks from archive.org and check if Nathan was right. He wasn't. For example, "The up-to-date sandwich book : 400 ways to make a sandwich", by Eva Greene Fuller. Published in Chicago in 1909. https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/m... Or, a generation ear…

A caviare sandwich sounds like a really expensive "sloppy joe."

"sloppy roe"

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

eesmith wrote: post #309
pcthrowaway wrote: post #301

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All the world's a comment section, and we are merely commentators

To comment, or not to comment. That is the question. It was a comment written by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Now is the Eternal September of our discontent.

Is this a comment box which I see before me, the submit button toward my hand?

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

samatman wrote: post #322
groffee wrote: post #307

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Why do we balk at tongue (and brains, eyes, squishy bits etc) but not actual cuts? Food is food.

I don't balk at tongue (last ate it grilled at table) but you won't catch me eating brain. I have a deep horror of prion disease that precludes developing an appetite for nerve tissue.

Lengua tacos are delicious! But I once tried pig's ear at a korean street food cart. It felt like chewing on an ear. I still wish I had never tried it.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by dagw »

pwython wrote: post #128
eesmith wrote: post #90

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> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types This is 2022 - you can get old cookbooks from archive.org and check if Nathan was right. He wasn't. For example, "The up-to-date sandwich book : 400 ways to make a sandwich", by Eva Greene Fuller. Published in Chicago in 1909. https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/m... Or, a generation ear…

A caviare sandwich sounds like a really expensive "sloppy joe."

Depends on the caviar. In Sweden caviare made with salt cod roe is a cheap and popular sandwich spread.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by yboris »

danuker wrote: post #18

The author's favorite paper of all time, said in the article voiceover: https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/nisbett%20s...

Thank you for sharing! This paper is absolutely amazing -- AND it came out in 1977!

Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes by Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy D. Wilson

Both researchers have had amazing careers since then. Timothy Wilson's book Strangers to Ourselves is one I recommend to everyone. It is a continuation of the work in the paper you link to. Nisbett's books are excellent too; my favorite (a must-read!) is Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South. Any student of psychology should know these works.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by bogdanoff_2 »

ttyprintk wrote: post #147
mingusrude wrote: post #89

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When I interviewed for my current job, I had to take psychology test and I'm very skeptical to those kind of tests. The guy that ran the test explained that this wasn't about putting me into a colored box but trying to figure out what I naturally preferred to do in a work situation with the idea being that things that I enjoy are probably things that I'm good at because it takes less energy to perform. I don't know i…

I had a similar experience which, when combined with my academic background, pointed toward a particular corporate need that (to my surprise) was mostly received as unpleasant. It’s a decision support role starting with a risk-based statistical model of products, then devising for hypothetical competing devices the best selling points. The test was useful to decide which frog, reminded me of the movie Brazil.

>was mostly received as unpleasant. By this, do you mean the role ended up unpleasant to you?

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by lukas099 »

bsenftner wrote: post #315
noSyncCloud wrote: post #112

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This doesn't work even as a joke.

Not a joke; the Screwtape Letters is a seminal piece of literature, forget the written story, the story is the context of the novel, it's intention, it's composition, and it's ultimate weakness as a intellectual milepost. It practically destroys itself. It's a masterpiece of self deception.

I am intrigued. How does the book practically destroy itself?
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