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Check out the story of John Chau. He spent a year planning and preparing to be the first missionary to visit the North Sentinelese, a virtually uncontacted people. During his first couple (illegal) attempts, they shot arrows at him. He visited again and they killed him.

Sinema

Ah yes, the chosen tribes of rich and poor. Good thing I chose rich!

“Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”

-Barack Obama, 2006

Ah, I missed that in your original post. TBH it's not one I would put on myself, but my partner likes it and some of the episodes have actually been super interesting. Specifically I remember the James Dyson episode being good. But I agree about your post calling it a 50-minute promo. The ads get super annoying, but the stories are good.

Those are the ones!

You can't speculate about someone else's identity. If Conchita identifies themselves as nonbinary, then they're nonbinary. (I've never heard of this person, so I don't know if they do or not.) Identifying as NB is like saying, "I see the two options that society is offering me, and neither of them neatly describe how I feel inside." Some cultures refer to a nonbinary "third gender" while others see that as just creating another box to limit people's options for how they identify and express themselves.

It's okay if you think that drag queens could be referred to as NB, but they don't fit the typical definition.

Well as a native English speaker, I didn't see how he's relating the two at all. He's just saying two unrelated things one after the other, with no segue. It's just braindead.

I got a set of metal picks from Harbor Freight for like 3 bucks. They're similar to the pick tool that a dental hygienist uses. I use these things nearly every day to scrape stuff out of a crevice, retrieve something out of a narrow hole, pull stuff out of a tube or straw, precision clean corners of things, etc. I love them.

How I Built This is a good one. It's an NPR podcast where they interview successful entrepreneurs and inventors about how they started their companies, what they would have done differently, etc.

I'm upvoting you not because I'm a fan of Huberman. I listened to half an episode and it didn't grab me. I'm upvoting because you're asking sincere questions and so far (only 2 responses) you haven't gotten an answer.

Talk to a stranger. At the park, at the bus stop, at the dog park. Doesn't matter what we talk about, it just feels good to connect and it takes my mind off my own bullshit.

Delete this. Albanese are too soft. Haribo perfected the chewiness.

IMO Usenet is worth the cost. It's a different process than torrenting, with some extra steps, but once you wrap your head around it it's fairly simple. Depending on the indexer you use, Usenet can be much better organized and easier to find what you're looking for.

At best he misinterprets his data, and at worst he deliberately misinterprets them to fit an agenda. Many of his takes are subjective and meaningless. "My data show that Biden's chance of winning Wisconsin is... 'medium' to 'pretty good.'"

One of my favorite movies of all time, but it's pretty emotionally intense. Not a movie I associate with "strolling through" anything.

Probably an attachment style test. Attachment theory is empirically valid, and knowing your attachment style can help you understand relationship patterns: communication, behaviors, emotional needs, etc.

After that, the love languages are a good start to a conversation. Essentially they can help you figure out how you prefer to be cared for, and how you tend to show that you care. The categories themselves are arbitrary, and they're based on observations by a baptist minister who offered relationship counseling. He's not a licensed mental health professional, and the love languages aren't empirically based. One issue I have with his book is that he claims that men tend to have "physical touch" as their love language, and that women should have more sex with their husbands to help them feel loved.

The Big Five personality traits are the most valid of the popular personality tests, but I didn't feel like they helped me understand myself more.

Shoot! Enshittification strikes again. Well good luck. Hopefully my tips can be useful anyway.

Knives, the cutting implement? Not The Knife, the Swedish electronic band?

I've been using Splitwise for years with my friends and my partner. It has a "simplify group debts" feature that gets everyone paid in as few transactions as possible. If Adam owes Eve $5 and Eve owes Seth $5, Splitwise just tells Adam to pay Seth. I pay for premium, which has some nice features like currency conversion and receipt scanning. Regardless of which app you use, I have a couple tips.

First, discuss ahead of time which expenses you'll be adding to the group expenses. On a cabin trip last summer, one friend brought $100+ worth of liquor, but only one or two people drank it. Several of us were annoyed at having to pay him back for something we didn't use.

Second, at the end of your trip you'll "settle up" by having the people who paid less reimburse the people who paid more. Wait a few days after the trip for everyone to add any final expenses. Sometimes people settle up prematurely, and then someone realizes they forgot to add a dinner that they paid for. This makes it confusing and creates a bunch of extra Venmo transactions. Just wait.