“why does Yamaha makes both musical instruments and motorcycles” has been a vague curiosity on my mind for 15+ years and for some reason I’ve never googled it
as a general rule I don't like to be sold things; earlier today a couple of girls came to my door to try and sell me some coupons for a new food delivery place. I'm like nah, I don't buy such things on the spot. they didn't leave me a pamphlet or anything tho. I like to read
I generally hate to try new apps of any kind. if you want me to try your app you have to go through an extremely lengthy process to persuade me. for context, conaw tried to sell me on roam for about a year at least and I ignored him the whole time until vgr started using it
I think the thing that explains all of this is that status regulators don't really care about the reality of how things work.
here's the fun part: if you do anything that violates the regulations, they will try to put you down with insults ***derived from the social order***
which is to say, they don't actually have a system for processing "the violator is unaffected by us calling them names that we would find deeply shameful and upsetting". It's very entertaining to watch them get confused by this
me: people with ADHD aren’t *literally* distracted by random squirrels, that’s just a simplistic stereotype. A caricature, really-
also me:
"oooh, a light thingy" – 30 year old adult male
this guy Oleg Vladimirovich Losev invented LEDs decades before everybody else (in the 1920s) but nobody cared. he was a lonely nerd with no co-authors. wrote to einstein but didn't get a reply
yeah this rhymes with what worked for me, doing tonnes of introspective journaling. few things are absolutely 0 or 100, but if you ramble a lot, really fast, you'll notice that some things feel relatively more or less correct than others