Assume for the next 3 sentences that this single study is accurate, replicable and does show what it claims to.
So in the patriarchy the guys finished the task 35% faster. In the Matriarchy were the scores relatively equal to the men in the patriarchy, or the women?
Meaning does patriarchy produce a benefit for the men or does it somehow prevent the women from performing as well?
I’ve spent some time in bars, so I think I can handle this one.
1) Observe the bar, some have an area or two “designated” for walkup, others expect you to shoulder your way inbetween people. There is usually an area bounded by two big silver or brass handles. This is so the bartender can get out in a hurry to help the bouncer, and in many bars it’s where the waitresses go to get their orders filled. Do Not Go There, you are getting in the way of working folk, and are making other working folk wait longer for THEIR drinks.
2) If it’s busy know what you want before you go up there. Save your experimentation and questioning for a slow period. When it doubt “Whiskey, Neat”, or “Vodka, neat”. If you’re having a day “Whiskey, double”.
3) If you’d like to run a tab proffer your credit card and ask. Some places don’t do it, some don’t take credit. Also have some cash Just In Case.
4) If you have a preference (for example I don’t drink canadian whiskey straight, and I won’t drink a whiskey and coke if they use pepsi. So I ask “do you have pepsi or coke” [1]) ask BEFORE ordering. If you really don’t care you will (generally) be asked for a preference. The stuff in “the well” is cheaper, and if you’re getting a mixed drink usually only matters for the first, second and third. After that either your bartender is a cheap bastard or you’ve lost the sublties. If you’re drinking it straight, then it matters. Until the 7th or 8th anyway.
5) If you’re paying cash HAND THE MONEY TO THE BAR TENDER, the bar is often damp with spilled drinks, assorted other fluids, bits of food (sometimes) and cigeratte ashes. HAND THE MONEY TO THE BAR TENDER. If you want him to keep the change, just walk away, he knows. If you’re sitting at the bar and you want him to keep the change just sort of push it back towards his side. He knows.
6) Be friendly, say please and thank you. Bartenders have to deal with lots of shitty customers, don’t be one.
[1] Pepsi? In a BAR? What kinda sick fucking joke is THAT?
If it’s stupid, but it works, it ain’t stupid.
Interestingly enough there is some evidence—or at least assertions by people who’ve studied this sort of thing—that doing this sort of problem solving ahead of time tends to reduce the paralysis.
When you get on a plane, go into a restaurant, when you’re wandering down the street or when you go someplace new think about a few common emergencies and just think about how you might respond to them.
If you seriously believe that the majority of Americans believe that judges are relatively unbiased, you need to spend some time with a lower class of people. And I’m not talking about middle class white kids pretending to be rebels.
EVERY convict I know (with one exception, and I’m not sure about him, it’s been 20 years since he was in jail) and everyone who has ever tried to argue a child custody case, lost a small claims case, or whatever thought the judge was personally and malevolently biased against them for all sorts of reasons ranging from their haircut to the phase of the moon.
It’s really only the upper middle class and the rich who think that judges are mostly unbiased, although many do think it’s for racial or cultural reasons, most of them just don’t want to admit that they are guilty.
In another vein, most of us DO think about “big” questions at different times, this is why they are “big” questions—we don’t wake up in the morning and in between the time we finish grinding the beans and taking the first drink of coffee decide to quit or job designing and printing t-shirts for underground punk bands, drop back into school and get a masters in business management and go work for a Management Consulting company.
It’s the important decisions that you can’t put off (direct pressure, quick clot or tourniquet?) that you have to make RIGHT FUCKING NOW that you often have to make cold, wet, tired and hungry. And no, you’re not at your best.
You are right that we need to be aware of how various factors impact our cognition. I get really fucking grumpy. Ok, grumpier when I’m fasting. Or when I’m tired. I get MUCH less tolerant of stupidity or ignorance (which is bad when dealing with a precocious 4 year old). I’ve had to work on complex problems when really tired, and I know (or at least I think I do) where my limits are. These days I live well inside them just in case.
I also keep some GU in my bag, or an energy bar or some sort in my backpack at all times. Because it helps.
1) Any group of mostly men dedicated to any sort of hardware—guns, cars, for all I know chainsaws. For some reason men don’t just form attachments to the specific tool they actually have (Cars, Guns, Hammers, scapels are all tools), they have to defend the BRAND and/or model (Mopar, 1911, Macintosh are the most vociferous defenders).
2) Any group that thinks unreasonably highly of itself. Atheists, Mensa, Vegetarians/Vegans, Hippies, Mac Users.
3) Any group that feels under threat, either from the march of technology, a conspiracy, or just reality damaging their world view like Socialists, Vegetarians/Vegans, 1911 owners and Mac Users.
I’ve spent a lot of time on the conservative side (between the guns, being in the Military and working in/around the Defense Industry, and in general being a tradition oriented more-or-less libertarian) and many of them aren’t any different.
“Gay Marriage will ruin the institution” “Uh. How many times have you been divorced?” “COMMUNIST!” (no, not literally, but YKWIM)
Heck, even the Implicit Association Test assumes that if you’re “liberal” on Gun Control (whatever that means) you’re also Liberal on Gay Marriage and Abortion. Anyone wanna make some assumptions on the Implicit Associations of the writers of that test?
I’ve been fighting to regulate my sleep schedule for about 30 years now, and I’ve tried lots of things. These are the things that seem to help me, or that Studies Have Shown.
What works best is to simply “man up” and regulate your sleep schedule, to quote the international sweat-shop shoe company “Just Do it”.
1 Pick a “get up time”, set you alarm and GET UP. This helps to make sure you’re ready to go to bed on the other side. If you stay up until 4 in the morning playing Warcrack, play another 2 hours then go for breakfast. You’ll be tired all day, but that night you’ll be able to reset more effectively. 1.1 Do Not Nap, this makes it more difficult to get to sleep at a reasonable hour. 1.2 OTOH some people do really well to take nap in the afternoon (every afternoon) and stay up a little later. I can’t do this. YSSMV.
When the alarm goes off GET UP. Do not set your alarm for 5 minutes early, if anything set it for 5 minutes late.
3 Avoid caffiene after noon to start with. If this helps you may want to let it slip to 3 or 4 in the afternoon, depending on how you metabolize it. Definately no caffine with dinner or afterwards. NONE.
4 When the sun goes down start to darken your surroundings a bit—turn off unnecessary lights, use desk/table/spot lights instead of room lights etc.
5 Set a realistic bedtime and stick to it.
6 Your sleep quarters should be used ONLY for sleeping, sex and dressing. Do not read yourself to sleep, no computers or television. 6.1 Heavy curtains and limit light as much as possible. The goal is not only to sleep, but to sleep WELL. 6.2 A fan, or some source of “grey noise” might help as well. 6.3 A regular sex partner can help you get to sleep :) Well, so can an irregular one, but the sheets may need changing more often.
The other side of this is that some people seem to have body clocks that insist on running a certain way. I’ve been getting up at about 10 to 6 for the last 2 months every day of hte week. F’ing HATE IT. I can do 10 minutes to 7 so much easier, but there is no flex in my work schedule.
If you’re like that—if these sorts of things don’t work—they you have a decision to make. There are professions that allow you to work different, or sometimes even irregular hours, but they are generally not particularly high paying or influential (except for “Author”, but you have to get published first).
There are people who just live better working second shift or graves. If you’re like that you’re going to fight it your whole life.
Also you can try finding a sleep clinic and see if you need professional intervention.
What good does getting mad do? What does it accomplish?
Asks the guy who routinely gets mad at a video game that was made for WIndows 95.
I think that both you and Mr. Franklin are correct.
To wreak great changes one must stay focused and work diligently on one’s goal. One needn’t eliminate all pleasures from life, but I think you’ll find that very, very few people can have a serious hobby and a world changing vocation.
Most of us of “tolerable” abilities cannot maintain the kind of focus and purity of dedication required. That is why the world changes as little as it does. If everyone, as an example who was to the right of center on the IQ curve could make great changes etc., then “great” would be redefined upwards (if most people could run a 10 second 100 meter, Mr. Bolt would only be a little special).
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If you picture the metaphorical great oak of malignancy with branches tens of yards in radius, and a trunk with roots (at the top of the trunk) only about 10 feet in diameter, you face one of those square of the distance problems in terms of axe swinging space.
This is what happens when you take the comments of romantic goofballs and slam them up against ontological rationalists who just might be borderline aspies or shadow autists.
I guess I should point out for the sake of clarity that the romantic goofball has not yet posted on this thread, and given the advanced interaction with entropy is unlikely to do so. Unless the Hindus, Buddhists and a few others are more accurate than the Catholics and Atheists.
As others have mentioned get help. If you have no friends who can do it look on Craigslist for someone who cleans houses. Explain the situation to them and have them bring their steam cleaner.
While the clothes are washing have them steam clean your carpets at least twice.
Then when you get done paying this off, go get a good vacuum cleaner, and if you are the sort of person who’s always tracking in dirt (I am) get a cheap carpet shampooer.
Also—have to comment—the migraine thing really should be your focus. My wife gets these and absolutely refuses to do the food/activity diary thing, is horrible about exercise and the rest. Fortunately for her she only has them for a day or two about once a month.
To pick a 2 year old Nit:
That was what Nuremburg and Mi Lai were about, but that is not what Abu Ghraib was about. At Abu Ghraib most of the events and acts that were made public, and most of what people are upset about was done by people who were violating orders—with some exceptions, and from what I can tell most of the exceptions were from non-military organizations.
I’m not going to waste a lot more time going into detail, but the people who went to jail went there for violating orders, and the people who got “retired” got it because they were shitty leaders and didn’t make sure their troops where well behaved.
In a “appeal to authority”, I’ve been briefed several times over the last 20 years on the rules of land warfare, I’ve spent time in that area (in fact when the original article was posted I was about 30 miles from Abu Ghraib) and a very good friend of mine was called in to help investigate/document what happened there. When his NDA expires I intend to get him drunk and get the real skinny.
This doesn’t change the thrust of your argument—which not only do I agree with, but is part and parcel of military training these days. It is hammered into each soldier, sailor, marine and airman that you do NOT have to follow illegal orders. Read “Lone Survivor”, a book by Marcus Luttrell about his Seal Team going up against unwinnable odds in the mountains of Afghanistan—because they, as a team, decided not to commit a war crime. Yeah, they voted on it, and it was close. , but one of those things was not like the other and I felt I had to say something.
Both can be power-law or Gaussian depending on your “perspective”.
There are roughly as many people with a IQ over 190 as there are people with an income over 1 billion USD per annum. By roughly I mean an order of magnitude.
Generally IQ is graphed as a Gaussian distribution because of the way it’s measured—the middle of the distribution is defined as 100. Income is raw numbers.
(edited to move a scare quote)
Every “playa” has three options[1]:
To play the game to it’s utmost
To play the game just enough to get by.
Not to play.
In most games there is no ethical choice involved. In the type of game Tracy Marrow [2] is playing #3 is the appropriate choice (at least in the early stages of his career). For a real kid born in the lower class ghettos, #2 transitioning to #3 is the appropriate choice. “The Game” Ice-T was talking about was either the Gansta-Rap game, or the urban gang banger game. To succeed in the Gangsta Rap game one has to present a certain type of lifestyle and moral choices as appealing and appropriate. Those sorts of moral choices (drug dealing, prostitution, handling interpersonal differences with extreme violence etc.) are neither successful strategies long term, nor do they increase the amount of rationality. To be a playa in the gang banging game you have to be good at those same things, and be absolutely ruthless. This has possible secondary effects of increasing the level of psychopathy in a population group (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jim_fallon_exploring_the_mind_of_a_killer.html).
Or to shorten it, doing large amounts of crack and running around with automatic weapons, while a fun way to waste a sunday afternoon, is not exactly a rational thing to do.
Unless the game is “thermodynamics”.
He took his Nom De Plume from a Pimp.
p.s. I actually like a lot of his music. He was a talented recording artist. It’s just a shame he couldn’t see how his actions would impact and influence a community that really could have used better role models.
There are times when I’ve made deliberately provocative statements to attempt to get someone to think and realize, but when you’re dealing with mental children this doesn’t work. Meaning it rarely works.
I can’t decide whether our culture has created a great “under class” of people who don’t want to deal rationally with the world, or whether it’s just a ‘feature’ (or bug if you will) of the great masses of humanity. Either way I’ve come to the conclusion that the vast majority of people are basically peasants with varying degrees of technical training, willing and able to operate at fairly high intellectual levels within narrow areas, then going home, popping a pabst and watching prime time cop buddy shows for decades at a time. you know, as opposed to operating at high intellectual levels, then going home and getting on the internet and arguing about peoples intellectual levels.
There are places online where discussions happen, but these are often places where discussion of one category of contentious issues is disallowed by fiat, and forum owners and/or moderators screen or are very active in preventing those sorts of shouting matches. Whether you’d think these were rational discussions or not is another matter :)
Don’t confuse time-to-solution with correctness. Speed and the amount of facts at hand will not give you a good result if your fundamental assumptions (aka your algorithm) is wrong.
You cannot make up in quantity what you lose on each transaction, as the dot-com folks proved repeatedly.
Depending on the type and size of the heater relative to the area to be warmed that statement could very well be false.
I have lived in some places where turning up the heater produced much hotter air than at a lower temperature, which would heat a house much more quickly. These houses had relatively modern central air conditioning systems with electric furnaces, or really good gas furnaces.
I’ve also lived in places with radiators or really crappy wall mounted heaters where it wouldn’t make any difference at all.
I use Evernote for stuff I want to save for later perusal.
As for getting distracted and following hyperlinks, you’re at a computer, you’re connected to the internet. Enter the role of “self discipline”.
If that doesn’t work you can look under (with Firefox) “File” and find the “print” entry. This will instantiate a persistent, highly portable copy of the page in such a way as to make it almost impossible to follow the links. You can then carry the copy to a place away from distractions (aka “The smallest room in the house”) and spend as much time as you need. If you have the right kind if paper in the printer you can even use it to clean up when you’re done.
No.
Those are not called “knives”, those are called “saws”.
We (family) got some knives at marriage, and just sort of puttered along. Then I bought her some “good” knives, which arrived fairly sharp.
Oh. My. Sourdough bread in SLICES instead of ragged hunks.
Then we used them for a couple years, and I realized that since these were low-end “chef quality” knives (I’m not a chef. I don’t much care about cooking, and I don’t talk shop with real chefs, so that may not be an accurate statement, but the reviews I read indicated that these were as good as MUCH more expensive knives except in maybe the quality of the handle), that maybe we should get them sharpened, so I found a place in STL that had a knife sharpening service for local restaurants and went there.
They refused to even consider sharpening our steak knives. The guy called them “cheap junk”. So we bought some of of the same brand as our other knives (basically the cheapest he had in stock). (Victorinox “Fibrox”)
Oh. My. Steak is SO much easier to deal with now. Bread (on the rare occasions we have it ) cuts cleanly. Tomatoes and oranges can can be sliced as thin as you want. Limes for your gin/vodka? Clean cuts.
Knives are tools. Tools need maintenance or replacement.