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[pokari]

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You talking about "in 20 years" while here I am just trying to get out of my current research coordinator job and sell my soul to capitalism. I've found that in this sad destructive world with cute cat pics that all I really want to do is to make enough money that I don't have to worry about how much I'm spending each week on food. Not that I am struggling. Just... would like to buy meat and not worry that it's $15 per pound.

Good luck! *hugs* D:

"The Declaration of Independence ... declared all men had right to pursuit of happiness."

Well, it was property. He was following the classic liberals like Locke who declared it more explicitly. Lmao...

I mean, it's also possible he just thought that "happiness" was the more general case and also applicable. (Moot point if compared to the laws we actually embraced, which were very "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for me but not for thee"...)

But I think the point of that episode was nonetheless, "well, pursue happiness too hard and all you'll do is chase it into a quagmire".

Paradoxically, even as I advocate loosening up a bit on the happiness search, and advocating mild socialism, I do believe the right to the general pursuit of things like wealth and happiness is a good thing. People should have room to strive for things a bit, so long as it's in a manner that doesn't hurt others. Where we get off on the wrong foot (strictly IMO) is treating it as a virtue or an obligation, rather than a right.

15 yeah pen-pal, happy that you're here

>w<

[PItiful Boar]

i checked by buying chicken last night

it was only $9.99 / lb

do we get better results when we will are spinning the wheel nonstop or when we are relaxed, knowing our needs can be taken of (at least the minimum stuff, like food, shelter)

this is a difficult question - some weirdoes motivate themselves by buying a big house and staring at the huge mortgage number every statement they get... idk why

are they happy? is the pursuit the joy of the pursuit?

[pokari]

do we get better results when we will are spinning the wheel nonstop or when we are relaxed, knowing our needs can be taken of (at least the minimum stuff, like food, shelter)

Hard to say for sure! We haven't tried the latter one much. And it could always be an "everything in moderation" sort of thing too (though it doesn't have to be)

Also a question in there of what you want to define "better results" to be. Happiness? Physiological and psychological health? Satisfaction?

this is a difficult question - some weirdoes motivate themselves by buying a big house and staring at the huge mortgage number every statement they get... idk why
are they happy? is the pursuit the joy of the pursuit?

I mean, in practice to some extent there's always also just going to be a variety of ways different sorts of people react to things, too. A study saying "participants tended to be happier when..." only tells you a statistical tendency—and usually without any consideration for differences in personality and whatnot.

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... There's more things I want to say but I should sleep for now x~x;

[PItiful Boar]

just curious what time do you get up? 

i was woken up this morning by a car alarm, around 6 am? I think I'm going to try to get up at 6 from now on

Edited by Feishy Pit Boar, 16 February 2023 - 04:42 PM.

[pokari]

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...Currently about 1 in the afternoon. XD

6AM is great, though. I actually quite like the early morning. Especially the period of cold quiet half-light just a bit before sunrise.

[PItiful Boar]

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its too cold in the morn

was watching on youtube how ppl in siberia take a bath/wash clothes once a week because it takes 5 hrs to heat up the boiler

[PItiful Boar]

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i called some friend / relative that i haven't spoken with for a while ... true friends show

[pokari]

i called some friend / relative that i haven't spoken with for a while ... true friends show

Aww, that's sweet! :'3

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its too cold in the morn
was watching on youtube how ppl in siberia take a bath/wash clothes once a week because it takes 5 hrs to heat up the boiler

Is this like, a coal-fired boiler? Just a lot of water and not much heat? I assume they're not working starting from ice!

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[PItiful Boar]

26 yes it was... that story is amazing.

They get ice blocks from the river and just store it outside, and then they melt the ice with wood-fire

Edited by Feishy Pit Boar, 20 February 2023 - 05:43 PM.

[pokari]

That's... Kind of metal.

...I don't know if I'd manage to have the oomph to bathe once a week if that's what it entailed XD

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Amusingly, I've been playing Dwarf Fortress and the problem that stopped one of my playthroughs very early was, indeed, my total inability to figure out how to melt ice so my dwarves would have something to drink.

Turns out "build a fire next to it" isn't an option. Not because it wouldn't recognize that it needed to melt; temperature is simulated and water will melt or freeze accordingly. Likewise, above a certain (higher) temperature the logs themselves would burn. However, despite all that needless amount of attention, setting logs on the ground and lighting them on fire simply isn't doable! At least not without access to even-stronger heat sources (e.g. lava)

Edited by pokari, 21 February 2023 - 02:06 PM.

[PItiful Boar]

28 it's really hard-core if thats what you're meaning with "metal", but ye

Edited by Feishy Pit Boar, 21 February 2023 - 08:12 PM.

[PItiful Boar]

although i don't know i've never played dwarf fortress i've done some cooking in zelda

[PItiful Boar]

do you feel good? do you feel everyday is a challenge ? 29

There are some days where i don't feel very good. Especially if I swam the night before and I tired myself out. Like last night. And I spent the whole day today recovering from feeling lethargic. Its prob the bodys way of telling me to not overwork myself and burn my fat.

 

My weight has increased to 170, strange... I was only 165 several weeks ago.

[pokari]

I mean, most of my fatigue and malaise problems are identifiably sleep-disorder-related (as opposed to unidentifiably sleep-disorder-related, as they once were, which was awful).

Though yeah, exercise from a dead start hits harder and harder as the years pass x.x

Weight increase of 5 can of course mean almost anything—if you exercised a lot it could be muscle mass, if you only measured just the two times it can just be different amounts of water and food in your body, and it can of course also be the glycerides that we so fear.

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28 it's really hard-core if thats what you're meaning with "metal", but ye

Yus, that X3

although i don't know i've never played dwarf fortress i've done some cooking in zelda

I've done some cooking in real life even! :'D One of the few things I can claim I've done both in real life and in games—joining the vaunted ranks of walking, driving, talking, and changing clothes.

:'p

[pokari]

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*random hugs*

:3

[PItiful Boar]

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32 u know what works well in place of hugs ? drible a basketball , picture all the problems condensed into the ball, and shoot it away (hopefully it hits the basket)

but hey thanks for the virtual hugs... if only i can get a virtual cookie to fill my real stomach....

[pokari]

^^

I mean you can order one virtually off the internet and have it delivered. That might not be as magical—although someone from a couple hundred years ago would think it was!

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If they ever start deleting the bots I am intensely curious as to whether this message will doom you. Like the opposite of having filled out an "I am a human" form :'p

https://t.me/pump_upp[color=#5a5a5a][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]32 u know what works well in place of hugs ? drible a basketball , picture all the problems condensed into the ball, and shoot it away (hopefully it hits the basket)

Hmm... I could imagine that making me less unhappy. But I am terribly fond of bugs even when things are going well.

... Dammit autocorrect. Hugs. HUGS. OMG XD

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If you are ever totally desperate for cookies I could probably figure out how to send you some, in theory. You only know me through the internet so that would almost be like getting virtual cookies!

I mean I don't know your address of course but that wouldn't have to stop me! I could make a dead-drop and tell you where to pick them up XDD

And then if we kept doing it one or the other of us could be arrested by cops who think it's drugs probably.

Edited by pokari, 23 February 2023 - 12:20 PM.

[Rainingforest]

34 crazy to think dwarf fortress was limited in that aspect... never really got into it either.

 

Nice bugs. Sometimes, I want to just squeeze the shit out of the thing I'm hugging. But I feel like I can't. Because if they are a person, that's weird. If they are a stuffed animal... well... too small and I don't have any anime body pillows lol. 

[penrosecat]

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hi everyone

been busy with work and discord

whew, got assigned to a new team and working really lazy/slowly. oh well better than being fired.

i'm back to reading actual manga! i'm reading haruhi after all this time.

i'm also super active on discord so add me if you wish: penrosecat#9569

i do squeeze pillows while sleeping. and stuffed animals

[Rainingforest]

36 hello friend!

 

I am so bored with my job too lol.