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When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!” In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening. If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences, your users, etc. — there are undertones of something being said collectively. If you can hear it, write it …

We’re taking a dive into the bizarre world of sigma male affirmations and the disturbing but also very silly “sigma male industrial complex” on YouTube. From the origins of the dubious sigma male concept in the manosphere to its current online popularity, I examine an assortment of the often ludicrous sigma male affirmation videos on YouTube, their claims, and the psychology behind them. I argue that while affirmations can work, …

There’s absolutely no mistaking the fact that I’m a dyed-in-the-wool beer-lover and have been so since my late teens. Beer is my go-to drink, regardless of situation, location or occasion, with the obvious provisos that I don’t mix beer drinking with work, early mornings (the sun needs to be at least peering over the yard arm, before I reach for a glass), and I don’t have a beer either if …

This week, the rain didn't last as long as the previous one. But that's ok, I guess.Officially, spring started today here at the Southern Hemisphere, even though the cold weather was long gone already. I gonna miss the winter, like I always do. Cold weather are so much better, for me.Anyways, this week I've been devouring a lot of information from the FZDSCHOOL YouTube channel.There are TONS of valuable material …

It’s always a problem when I start researching the ‘next’ place to go because it always ends up that we want to go everywhere. It started out with a gift shop picture of West Quoddy Head Light which looked appealing with its red and white horizontal striped tower. Where was it? Reading a bit further I remembered that it’s located at Quoddy Head on Campobello Island. We stopped there briefly …

"The future fades away as unthinkable or unimaginable, while the past itself turns into dusty images and Hollywood-type pictures of actors in wigs and the like." - Fredric Jameson, 2015"The return to history everywhere remarked today… is not a return exactly, seeming rather to mean incorporating the 'raw material' of history and leaving its function out, a kind of flattening and appropriation"-- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of …

A horror anthology with five tales of terror taken from German and English languages sources, featuring Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel and Anita Berber as the leads in chapters, plus a frame story. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD. Chills, Five Ways There’s nothing quite like a good anthology film. Combining several shorter stories into one […]

Set operations on SAT problems Published 2024-09-22 I’ve figured out a neat trick recently that I’ve not seen before, although I don’t know if it’s actually novel. It’s a fairly general method for manipulating SAT problems in CNF form to perform arbitrary set options on their solution set, without adding additional variables to the problem.It’s somewhere between well-known and obvious that you can do it with adding additional variables, and …

📺 Presumed Innocent — A pretty fun whodunit ride with twists despite most of the people involved being pretty unlikable. I couldn’t shake the feeling that a lot of these people should be spending way more time and energy on figuring out who did it than worrying about establishing doubt. 🕹️ A Short Hike — 10/10 absolutely lovable fun little game. Played with 6-year old Ruby and we were able …

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The Godfather is such a great movie. I can’t remember how many times I’ve seen it but every time I rewatch it I’m just totally sucked into the world.

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The other day, I was walking up the road to collect Chaz from his last day of nursery, and I had forgotten it was his last day until five minutes prior and so I had gone into Sainsbury’s to pick up some Celebrations. And I was feeling kinda bad because what a shit mum for only getting a shitty box of shitty chocolates after my kids had gone to that …

We are in a strange place right now in the knife market. So many knives are rushing past the Sebenza Barrier like it is nothing more than a speed bump, that we no longer stare in shock at $1,000 production knives. To me, this all seems insane, but I am acutely aware that I may be afflicted with Old Man Syndrome, whereby I am evaluating behavior based on outdated norms. …

Effect is such a funny thing to explore when reading texts. It is wrapped up in so many things. What has happened previously? What does the reader think will happen next? What is really going on in the story? A lot of what we expect from students is precision. Precise identification of a mood or a feeling.The best students are those that can identify a range of precise moods and …