blackbrook

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Learned that I needed to vacuum the dust off my window AC filter a couple times a year when it stopped cooling very well and I took the front cover off and saw that it had turned into a block of ice.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure how I was specifically talking about crystalized knowledge. People can be flawed in applying any mental skill. And various forms of intelligence come into play in various ways in navigating the nuances or reality, or failing to.

Knowing or not knowing a fact is the simplest to see and talk about, so it probably dominates conversations about intelligence, sure.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

It was part of usenet, the earliest, plain text internet forums. I guess in a way a precursor to Lemmy and reddit, and alt.coffee was its equivalent of a community/subreddit for coffee nerds. (I'm showing my age!) Long before enshittification was even a gleam in a billionaire's eye.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'd like to believe I do it every time I recognize that I am wrong. Equally as important, I think, it to constantly admit, to yourself, and to others where appropriate, that you could be wrong.

The fallibility of human memory and reasoning is enormous, even for very smart people. I think few people properly appreciate this. If you develop that appreciation it is really trivial to admit you are wrong, it's like admitting that you ate.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hi Cool hobby! Thanks for sharing your cache. I used to roast (just for personal use). Were you by any chance on alt.coffee back in its heyday?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

I'm going to have to choose to be the intelligent person. You might think the idiot has it easy...they may even not know they are an idiot. But they could be so stupid they also think all the intelligent people are idiots, so they might get all the frustration of thinking they are the intelligent person on a team of idiots while actually being the opposite.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bad posture can be the result of muscles holding onto dysfunctional tension. The problem might not be that muscle X is too weak, but that your body (really your motor sensory system) has developed the idea that holding tension in muscle Y is normal.

There are exercises or "movements" geared for this. Try looking up "somatics." It worked for me.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

This is the diet for me. I had to look up Ricciarelli and it sounds just like an Italian cookie I love, except what I'm familiar with are horseshoe shaped. I've also had a very similar pinole version.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wait...the actor from like the 70s? He would be over 100 if he were still alive. How is she herself not 70 or something? Or did you mean granddaughter?

(Nevermind, looked it up and did the math... I guess he was 65 when he had her and she's 40 or close to it.)

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I just use kid3 to check and fix the tags on each album as I get it.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Part of this is I'm just old, and I know this is a weird thing to have as problem with, but...

I really don't ever want to have to see a CEO's ankles.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I largely agree with this, but I would emphasize that you are trying to learn about the reaction. What triggers it. What you feel. In some cases you might not ever be able to change this reaction entirely, but you may be able to learn to keep your self out of situations where you have this reaction, or notice when you are heading towards it and try to defuse it.

The biggest negative effect of such a thing is usually on others and on relationships. A key element around this is to communicate. To help the person that you snap at understand the reaction also, and of course to apologise for it.

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