Why climb Mt. Everest (while listening to the most annoying voice in all of Asia?) because it's there.
I remember the advice "Just go outside" when I was trying to meet women. Honestly though, it's not that simple. If you go outside, you'll just be alone and outside.
And a lot of really good guys and good gals were busy doing the stuff they were supposed to do, so they never had a chance to learn how to do anything other than sit at home on twitch or sit outside in a lawn chair like a psycho wondering why the Internet lied to them and told them that if they go outside somehow they'll magically meet people.
It's really hard meeting people. It's possible, but it's not as straightforward as "go outside".
Thankfully I've been married for 15 years, so I don't need to meet women, but I remember it was really tough after I got out of college and got my first job, because I had to get out of my comfort zone.
I went outside every Friday, 2-3 times on Saturday, 2-3 times on Sunday, and once on Mondays because I go out with my son to the park every chance I get while the weather is good, and it's like a ghost world out there. We barely interacted with anyone all summer because we usually had the parks to ourselves.
The second last chapter of my book to my son, The Graysonian Ethic, is about how to meet women. Honestly, I doubt the little Casanova will need the help, He's growing up to be a really cool kid, but if you have no idea what you're doing at all then some strategies going into things are a good thing to have.
This one lady on youtube said "Guyyyyyys, just be huuuuman" and it pissed me off so much it's stuck with me. She was a blonde haired, blue eyed, gorgeous woman with a posh English accent. I don't use the phrase often unironically, but it's like "Check your privilege, lady". The romantic and overall social experience of any man who isn't actually a natural 10 is going to be so different than hers that giving advice is a bit like someone born a multi-billionaire trying to give tips on how to save money to someone who was born poor. "Well just take the money daddy gives you for a Porsche and invest in a business!"
You know, men trying to take dating advice from women is probably a big part of what creates incels. They go around "just being huuuuuuman", or "being nice" or "being yourself", and after following the advice as hard as they can they find themselves alone and start to figure they are incapable of ever meeting someone who likes them and get bitter and jaded with the world. In a different vein, the same happens to people who take rich people's advice about money and wonder why they aren't multi-millionaires because they stopped eating avocado toast every morning at Starbuck's. It's also like the boomers who don't realize that new graduate put out 100 resumes yesterday giving advice like "Just confidently shake the boss's hand and he'll hire you on the spot" -- no, that's not how things work anymore grandpa. Of course people get bitter when they hear this horrible advice and then try it and it doesn't work at all.
And a lot of really good guys and good gals were busy doing the stuff they were supposed to do, so they never had a chance to learn how to do anything other than sit at home on twitch or sit outside in a lawn chair like a psycho wondering why the Internet lied to them and told them that if they go outside somehow they'll magically meet people.
It's really hard meeting people. It's possible, but it's not as straightforward as "go outside".
Thankfully I've been married for 15 years, so I don't need to meet women, but I remember it was really tough after I got out of college and got my first job, because I had to get out of my comfort zone.
I went outside every Friday, 2-3 times on Saturday, 2-3 times on Sunday, and once on Mondays because I go out with my son to the park every chance I get while the weather is good, and it's like a ghost world out there. We barely interacted with anyone all summer because we usually had the parks to ourselves.
The second last chapter of my book to my son, The Graysonian Ethic, is about how to meet women. Honestly, I doubt the little Casanova will need the help, He's growing up to be a really cool kid, but if you have no idea what you're doing at all then some strategies going into things are a good thing to have.
This one lady on youtube said "Guyyyyyys, just be huuuuman" and it pissed me off so much it's stuck with me. She was a blonde haired, blue eyed, gorgeous woman with a posh English accent. I don't use the phrase often unironically, but it's like "Check your privilege, lady". The romantic and overall social experience of any man who isn't actually a natural 10 is going to be so different than hers that giving advice is a bit like someone born a multi-billionaire trying to give tips on how to save money to someone who was born poor. "Well just take the money daddy gives you for a Porsche and invest in a business!"
You know, men trying to take dating advice from women is probably a big part of what creates incels. They go around "just being huuuuuuman", or "being nice" or "being yourself", and after following the advice as hard as they can they find themselves alone and start to figure they are incapable of ever meeting someone who likes them and get bitter and jaded with the world. In a different vein, the same happens to people who take rich people's advice about money and wonder why they aren't multi-millionaires because they stopped eating avocado toast every morning at Starbuck's. It's also like the boomers who don't realize that new graduate put out 100 resumes yesterday giving advice like "Just confidently shake the boss's hand and he'll hire you on the spot" -- no, that's not how things work anymore grandpa. Of course people get bitter when they hear this horrible advice and then try it and it doesn't work at all.
The NHS in the UK put out an urgent warning over -8C, I'm poking some fun at that because it's going to be a little chilly here.
Eventually it stops mattering. At -31 it's -24, by -40 it's -40 and you can feel the reaper's blade on your neck no matter where you go or what you do.
Travelling from town to town visiting different masters in his traditional suit, never becoming wealthy and wearing a single gold earring to pay the gravedigger in case he ever dies, this is the life of the rape journeyman.
Feel like a lot of gravediggers wives would have a lot of earrings...
Feel like a lot of gravediggers wives would have a lot of earrings...
Man, they say don't judge a book by its cover... But come on. What else was that guy going to turn up to be?
I didn't realize cars that are a little bit newer than mine already had the always on cellular modem. Maybe the car company should be paying us a monthly fee for making use of our property...
That's one of the nice things about the Japanese talent pipeline, they start with web novels which are not necessarily wholly unique since there are a variety of genres, but from there they are able to upgrade the most popular web novels to light novels, the most popular light novels become manga, and the most popular manga become TV shows which may later on end up with movies. In this way, you do end up with franchises but you also end up with a continuous pipeline of new ideas actually having a chance to be successful because they aren't just mining franchises.
Unfortunately, nobody has bothered setting up an ecosystem like that in the West, so there are options are either the milk old franchises or to immediately go for broke spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a new idea that might suck.
Unfortunately, nobody has bothered setting up an ecosystem like that in the West, so there are options are either the milk old franchises or to immediately go for broke spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a new idea that might suck.
ngl I just wanted to post a strange song from a show nobody has thought about in 30 years.
Also, they're lying about the economy growing by lying about how much prices are increasing. Go back to 1990 metrics and it's been consistently shrinking.
There's been a growing cabal of idiots trying to force Japanese media to follow western sensibilities and points of view, and I find it really frustrating. There's a million youtube videos looking at certain Japanese ads through a US lens and going "How offensive they are being!", I find it really annoying.
I feel like certain people think the entire world is and should be Southern California.
It's like... Japan is a different country than the US. For most of the history of slavery in the US starting almost a century before 1776, Japan's borders were closed and they were an isolationist nation, until they were ordered at gunpoint by the American Commodore Perry's black ships, so they had bigger problems than worrying about American slavery or how they treated black people.
Slavery was ended by the beginning of the Meiji period after the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate which marked Japan's "coming out" into trying to start integrating the new reality from the west, which began after ratification of the 13th amendment banning slavery, and they were far more focused on not getting the same treatment China was getting by updating their military than worrying about how to be racist to black people "In the American style".
It's like "Why are you trying to export American prejudices to other cultures?" and the answer is I think my opening statement. Everywhere is Southern California, and everywhere should be Southern California.
And people might go "Oh, shouldn't the Japanese know that the Americans have this thing with gorillas and black people?", to which I'd strike back "Oh, shouldn't the Americans know that the Japanese have this thing with burakumin?" And of course 99.9% of Americans don't, disenfranchisement against those who aren't high enough in the the caste system during the edo period isn't something they really know much about.
Symbols mean completely different things in different cultures. In Asian cultures, white flowers are often associated with funerals, so giving someone white flowers is saying you wish harm on someone. Should we ban white flowers in the west? After all, there's a lot more Asians than there are us. Should we find it scandalous if someone gives or gets white flowers in the west despite us having no such cultural artefact? I would say of course not unless the person giving or receiving them is from one of those Asian cultures.
Anyway, that's my rant. It's really frustrating seeing cultural imperialism from Southern California, the one place on earth that ought to know better.
I feel like certain people think the entire world is and should be Southern California.
It's like... Japan is a different country than the US. For most of the history of slavery in the US starting almost a century before 1776, Japan's borders were closed and they were an isolationist nation, until they were ordered at gunpoint by the American Commodore Perry's black ships, so they had bigger problems than worrying about American slavery or how they treated black people.
Slavery was ended by the beginning of the Meiji period after the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate which marked Japan's "coming out" into trying to start integrating the new reality from the west, which began after ratification of the 13th amendment banning slavery, and they were far more focused on not getting the same treatment China was getting by updating their military than worrying about how to be racist to black people "In the American style".
It's like "Why are you trying to export American prejudices to other cultures?" and the answer is I think my opening statement. Everywhere is Southern California, and everywhere should be Southern California.
And people might go "Oh, shouldn't the Japanese know that the Americans have this thing with gorillas and black people?", to which I'd strike back "Oh, shouldn't the Americans know that the Japanese have this thing with burakumin?" And of course 99.9% of Americans don't, disenfranchisement against those who aren't high enough in the the caste system during the edo period isn't something they really know much about.
Symbols mean completely different things in different cultures. In Asian cultures, white flowers are often associated with funerals, so giving someone white flowers is saying you wish harm on someone. Should we ban white flowers in the west? After all, there's a lot more Asians than there are us. Should we find it scandalous if someone gives or gets white flowers in the west despite us having no such cultural artefact? I would say of course not unless the person giving or receiving them is from one of those Asian cultures.
Anyway, that's my rant. It's really frustrating seeing cultural imperialism from Southern California, the one place on earth that ought to know better.
The NHS is urgently warning britons to stay inside since the weather is -8C out.
As a Canadian.... I apologize?
As a Canadian.... I apologize?
Of all the gasses you'd expect at a sewage treatment plant, hydrogen cyanide isn't the major one. I'd expect tons of H2S maybe since that's a common byproduct of decaying matter, but HCN? It isn't easy getting Nitrogen to bond to stuff. Industrially, you tend to need a platinum catalyst as well as fairly high concentrations of methane and ammonia.
The way you get vitamin B12 is certain bacteria generate it as a byproduct of its existence, so artificial B12 is generated in a bioreactor that would feed those bacteria whatever sugars and nutrients it wants, and then it would get the B12 out of solution. Now you might go "Oh, they could use human sewage to get those nutrients!" but for food grade chemicals you'd need to extract the thing you want, so dealing with human feces really isn't conducive to that, I'd expect it's a big stainless steel container with electric heaters on it and some pipes that feed chemicals the manufacturer probably buys in bulk at high purity, then some sort of process extracts the B12 in solution while leaving the bacteria alone. The idea of extracting a gas that isn't really produced in abundance in raw sewage to follow some cockamamey method of producing B12 just fails at mutiple levels.
One more thing about cyanide is that it's a naturally occurring chemical. If you eat nuts, you're eating chemicals that become cyanide. Bitter almonds are something most people never will see, but in water their precursor chemicals will start to produce hydrogen cyanide in quantities that can hurt you if you're eating tons of the things, but your body can deal with cyanide in small amounts, and you know when you're getting too much because you're close to dying. People work for decades in plants with small amounts of HCN in the air with no ill effects, and they're trained to know what symptoms to look for, but they're acute symptoms.
Finally, B12 is a very trace vitamin as it is. As I recall from taking vitamin B complex pills, even if 100% of the amount of B12 in such a pill were pure sodium cyanide, it would not be a lethal amount. We're talking a factor of 1000. If you were to take enough B12 to contain enough cyanide to be potentially harmful (even if it were free which it isn't), you would be facing major physiological danger from taking a dose of B12 that would be several million times the normal dose -- several grams of a chemical you normally need about a microgram of.
It's a conspiracy theory that's got so many layers of wrong it's actually impressive.
The way you get vitamin B12 is certain bacteria generate it as a byproduct of its existence, so artificial B12 is generated in a bioreactor that would feed those bacteria whatever sugars and nutrients it wants, and then it would get the B12 out of solution. Now you might go "Oh, they could use human sewage to get those nutrients!" but for food grade chemicals you'd need to extract the thing you want, so dealing with human feces really isn't conducive to that, I'd expect it's a big stainless steel container with electric heaters on it and some pipes that feed chemicals the manufacturer probably buys in bulk at high purity, then some sort of process extracts the B12 in solution while leaving the bacteria alone. The idea of extracting a gas that isn't really produced in abundance in raw sewage to follow some cockamamey method of producing B12 just fails at mutiple levels.
One more thing about cyanide is that it's a naturally occurring chemical. If you eat nuts, you're eating chemicals that become cyanide. Bitter almonds are something most people never will see, but in water their precursor chemicals will start to produce hydrogen cyanide in quantities that can hurt you if you're eating tons of the things, but your body can deal with cyanide in small amounts, and you know when you're getting too much because you're close to dying. People work for decades in plants with small amounts of HCN in the air with no ill effects, and they're trained to know what symptoms to look for, but they're acute symptoms.
Finally, B12 is a very trace vitamin as it is. As I recall from taking vitamin B complex pills, even if 100% of the amount of B12 in such a pill were pure sodium cyanide, it would not be a lethal amount. We're talking a factor of 1000. If you were to take enough B12 to contain enough cyanide to be potentially harmful (even if it were free which it isn't), you would be facing major physiological danger from taking a dose of B12 that would be several million times the normal dose -- several grams of a chemical you normally need about a microgram of.
It's a conspiracy theory that's got so many layers of wrong it's actually impressive.