Microbiologist, aquaponicist, and instructional designer. Learning to do my best. Trying to become the man my dog thinks I am.
Denver, Colorado, Earth, Sol
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Corollary: We all filter what we notice based on what we expect. Not seeing a sign is zero protection against what it portends.
ALT Wile E. Coyote holding umbrella below falling rocks.
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I hope you are able to fill the time spent on posting with reflection that enriches you. Which might not be a bad idea for us all.
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My curiosity regarding where Hollywood types learn the manners extends far beyond the table. But the larger problem is where all of us absorb our manners. When learning relies on chance, so do the results.
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> You don’t win a marriage. You trade.
First make sure your futures lie in the same general direction. If one wants northeast and the other northwest, taking turns leads to the scenic route. if one wants north and the other south, taking turns leads nowhere. Believe me.
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I looked for myself in your graph, but fear you'll need to post another in landscape mode. And I won't be on the right. Thank goodness for FSD!
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On this, I trust personal experience to formal research. Although self-conscious and averse to crowds, I became a different person when dressed in the costume of a Renaissance Faire street actor. It was the same in a suit and tie during interviews and presentations.
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Just imagine if you saw six vapor trails instead of three, then listen to Joni Mitchell spin it into a beautiful story. 🫠
youtu.be/1N7gPcCgkZU?si=MtYm…
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I'm not pushing any of my kids toward college--I've worked there for 17 years and it's not for everyone--but I have pushed them to choose a career that fits with the life they want and the gifts they've been blessed with. Afterward, they should decide if college will serve it.
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Is @TuskegeeUniv being arbitrary for REQUIRING formal dress at a historically black college/university? Is this cultural suppression? Before you answer, consider:
1. State-dependent learning is a solid, replicable phenomenon showing that in both human and animal models, we remember and perform better when we apply our knowledge and skills in the same state we acquired them^1. (see footnotes, below).
2. How you dress affects your emotional and intellectual state^2.
I don't know if Tuskegee's president, Mark Anthony Brown, considered the theory before he implemented such a radical change at a historically black college/university, but if you gave me a choice of hiring recent grades from Harvard or Tuskegee, I'd hire the Tuskegee candidate nearly every time.
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^1 Yes, meaning that if you study drunk or high, you'd test better drunk or high. But do weigh that against another solid, replicable phenomenon, GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).
^2 I wear jeans at home, but when I go to a conference, I put on a suit and a tie to feel and show my professional side.
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I was watching an FSD presentation by Ashok, and one of the steps Ego (the FSD brain) took was to ask if a traffic warning sign was correct. Many XAi and Tesla engineers worked together on teams. That Grok answer looked like it also had curiosity baked in.
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To paraphrase Douglas Adams: Political followers can be divided into two groups: 1) Those who believe that if politics get any worse, all congresspeople will be replaced with a room full of monkeys throwing feces, and 2) Those who believe it has already happened.
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Drat, I should have checked with Grok first:
men have won every World Scrabble Championship since 1991 and dominate the top rating divisions even though more recreational players are women. Studies of tournament players attribute the gap mainly to practice habits—men spend more time on isolated anagram and game-analysis work that actually raises ratings—rather than to innate verbal ability.
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> FYI one of my favorite ways to rage bait a stranger who is unreasonably mad
My favorite way, and the one I taught my kids, is to pretend I didn't hear and ask them to repeat it. Works for insults, too. Depending on how stupid they are, two or three repeats generally does it.
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I was thinking the same, but I'm in that uncomfortable age range where I'm too old to be taken seriously and too young to get a pass. <sigh>.
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You want another bother? If you don't already have one, I do recommend a knife holster. Saves having your PA unit slide down your leg after a pocket hole forms.
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When I got my first apartment, my guns stayed with my dad, but my first purchase was a double gun rack. I used them to store a mop and a broom. Dust bunnies never had a chance.
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For years, every pair of pants I possessed wore out first in my right front pocket. I could even tell whether a guy could become a friend by looking at his knife attachments. If they had both standard and phillips screwdrivers, we were destined for brotherhood.
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