See, I genuinely don’t know whether you’re joking or not.

This is such a weird little thing, but I write in an online journal app every day, and I had the thought last night, “What if I played with the font and text to make it pink and feminine-looking?”

This feels like a joke, and maybe it sounds like a joke, but for some reason, typing with a pink, slightly-more-girly font made me feel a bit “lighter”. It is so weird. For some reason, I have this association between visually customizing the everyday things around you (e.g. using colourful pens and notebooks, putting stickers on things) as being very “girly”, in a way that I used to avoid, and am, deep into my adulthood, finally starting to embrace.

So I would try and ask, and solve, the question of “What do I want to do instead of looking at screens all day,”

So, that’s kind of the conclusion I came to, which is why I wrote all those words up there – to give context for why I’m asking the question I’m asking. From my original post:

Whenever I give up one addiction, I end up picking up another. This suggests to me that there is a deeper need here that is going unaddressed. It suggests that simple techniques to get rid of a habit (e.g. “Try deleting the game from your phone!”) aren’t sufficient in the long term. But I’m not sure what to do about that.

What I am looking for, if it exists and if anyone can attest that they’ve found it useful, is a structured workbook or similar resource that would help me to work through the nontrivial question of what deeper need I have to address.

Somewhere down at the 10th level: The parts in Sonic the Hedgehog where Sonic is about to drown underwater and the music gets really fast and dramatic.

By the way, I’m aware of the irony of looking for an interactive media resource to cure my addiction to interactive media, so don’t bother pointing that out.

Well, that seems to be the solution. Thanks. I know it’s silly that I had to ask, but there are so many things I could reset that I was worried I would accidentally make my life more difficult by resetting the wrong thing.

Whenever I try to log into Hexbear on Firefox, I get an error along the lines of “Error: incorrect_login”. However, I’m still able to log in when I use Chrome.

Is there an easy way to fix this? (E.g. is there something I can “clear” or “purge” or “reset”?) I’d really like to continue using Firefox rather than Chrome if possible.

I was thinking Rob Reiner from the thumbnail.

I visited the Wikipedia article on Henry Kissinger, and I noticed this sentence:

In contrast, Kissinger is an immensely beloved figure within China, with China News Service describing him in his obituary as someone “who had a sharp vision and a thorough understanding of world affairs”.[11][12]

What’s the deal with that?

From the original article:

Transit: Five percent of U.S. commuters use transit to get to work. New York City, with its extensive subway and rail system, is the big outlier here—more than 30 percent of workers get to their jobs by transit in greater New York City. The only other metros where 10 percent or more of workers commute via transit are San Francisco (17.4 percent); Boston (13.4 percent); D.C. (12.8 percent); Chicago (12.3 percent); Seattle (10.1 percent); and Bridgeport-Stamford, Connecticut (10 percent).

So, New York is a big outlier at over 30%, the rest of the big cities have between 10 and 20%, and there aren’t any cities with 20-30%.

What are all the cities? I can point out some on a map easily, but not others.

I see Seattle, Portland, New York City, Boston, and Chicago for sure. Possibly Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and maybe Springfield Illinois? A bunch of them are hard to tell without the state borders.

The school I’m a grad student at is still on strike. Some faculty aren’t on board, but some are, including a history professor who specializes in labour studies. He played a bit of banjo at the picket line yesterday.

If it “all” got washed down the drain, it would be unnecessary to clean showers (or sinks or toilets, for that matter).

I don’t think it’s “childish”, I think it’s gross and unhygienic, especially as someone who has to clean the shower/bathtub.

Thanks. 1 and 2 should make people suspicious of the theory, but don’t necessarily invalidate it. 3, on its own, should be enough for most people to reasonably dismiss her work (assuming scientists haven’t been systematically biased for the past 80 years).

I guess I’m more interested in the moving parts of WHY the theory is invalid (hearing that a million studies show a certain result is certainly strong evidence, but it’s not the same thing as an explanation). In the case of astrology, knowing literally anything about what stars and planets are makes it obvious that they don’t determine people’s destinies. Whereas I suspect most people would be unable to give a technical answer as to why scientists don’t take MBTI seriously, but DO take the Five Factors Model seriously.

after listing 3 reasons, you only focused on 1 and try to use the other reasons as weapons against it.

Can you clarify this?

Thinking about this further, I do want to acknowledge that I’ve failed to consider the element of power. Astrology is incorrect, but there’s not really a system of power that’s using astrology to oppress people, whereas there IS an infrastructure for using MBTI to oppress people.

I’m sorry to have spent so much effort nitpicking about this.

But honestly, “I think you’re dismissing MBTI for mostly correct but imperfect reasons, whereas my reasons for dismissing it are better reasons” is not a hill that strikes me as worth dying on, so I’m going to tap out here.