foongussy asked:
Hey, what's your favorite animal? Can you show us?
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
I love whales because they look like big sharks but live in the ocean
foongussy asked:
Hey, what's your favorite animal? Can you show us?
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
I love whales because they look like big sharks but live in the ocean
I’ll reblog it for the important message but you guys are making this really fucking difficult
me scrolling back up through my tumblr feed until the idea comes back
The ADHD/Autism experience
Our username system makes it difficult for folks fluent in other languages to express themselves. That's why we're moving to a system like the one on Twitter, where every Asian artist forced to get an alphanumeric username has a handle like @bc2931a or @2023jx or @wabababxa_, which is very easy to remember and shows how versatile alphanumeric handles are at expressing one's non-English-speaking self
Discord's post trying to convince me that we're somehow now extremely allergic to the idea of sharing a number, despite the fact that Nintendo, that video game company that makes stuff for actual children, has had no problem with its users sharing IDs that are 14 digits long
[I.D.: Tweet by gianmarco @/GianmarcoSoresi
Ran into someone from my high school who told me they had recently transitioned and I was over the moon bc I had forgotten their name./end I.D.]
Leverage had a lot of well-researched things to say about the real world, but the one I always come back to, from The Double Blind Job:
Sophie: These are not small fines. Last year, my department handled a case where the company had to pay out $2.5 billion.
Hoffman:
Oh, yeah. Everybody heard about that. But what the news didn’t tell you
is that that company made $16 billion on the same drug. That fine was
14% of the profit. 14%. That’s like tipping your waiter.
Same with jogging and holiday and shit like that,
No, sorry, this is the kind of thing that makes me really cross because it’s feels really anti progress, or anti recovery. Fact is, YES, having a lifestyle that affords an hour’s jogging or meditation, or a yearly holiday are good for your happiness just on that score. BUT ALSO, jogging and meditation and holidays are VERY GOOD IN THEIR OWN RIGHT, which means people having free time is DOUBLY important.
There are both material benefits to having free time and the resources for leisure activities, AND material benefits to doing certain activities in your free time, so when we are robbed of free time and leisure, we are robbed TWICE.
[image: tweet by ginnyhogan_: "Maybe people who meditate for an hour/day are happier because they live a life that affords them an hour/day to meditate".]
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Yeah, who are we comparing the people who meditate an hour per day to? What activities do the control group do with that hour per day? How many variables does the study setup account for? See also, people saying obviously regularly attending theatrical performances correlates with greater happiness, people with enough money for regular theater tickets and enough time to use them are not people worrying about making rent. Except community theaters have much cheaper tickets and plenty of groups do free performances, like, the question is about the impact of art, not about the impact of money, and knowing the answer may make it easier to argue for things like giving community theaters grant money so they can put on better shows for lower ticket prices so more people can enjoy the theater.
All else being equal, specifically including socioeconomic circumstances among other assorted variables, what is the impact of meditation? How does that impact change with duration and frequency and etc? How does that impact vary with socioeconomic circumstances and other assorted variables? The question is not about the impact of money. Treating it as though it is misses an opportunity to find ways to use the impact of things that aren't money, such as art and meditation, to mitigate the impact of money.