I think people sell themselves short when it comes to hobbies too. Like think about what games, movies or even youtube videos you specifically enjoy engaging with. True Crime? First Person Shooters? Romantic fiction?

Take one of those, and then you can really guild it as a hobby by taking your interest across multiple mediums and talking about it with others. I was into city planning games and maps, and then i got into historical architecture and the history of towns, then started to actually explore this via photography, and it informed what i decided to study at university.

Therefore this one interest is tapped into via video games, research (reading + writing), photography, discussion with other people.

some people might not see or understand that as a valid hobby or interest, i don’t really give a fuck because it literally is and I know how much it connects across multiple things that i do and how much effort can go into it. when i feel like it, lol.

another example:

as for music, i just happened to have access to a piano in my childhood home and i was interested in seeing how good i could get without lessons - which leads to being made to take lessons, by your parents xD. I might have been lazy and left it there, i’m not as rigourous as other musicians, but because what i really enjoyed as a kid was videogames I got into trying to figure out some of that music by myself, and that reinvigorated my love of music and re-affirmed my own creative ability after the rigour of just learning from set pieces in books squashed it a little bit.

All music listed online tries to charge you money for looking at the sheet music so in order to better have access to new songs to play I started transcribing, and musescore made that easier. Now i can write my own stuff if i need to.

Photography and walking influenced one another and i got into them around the same time as covid so it was pretty easy, and then because i had access to walking it helped me get into fitness in other regards e.g running. (usually have to know where you’re gonna run before you run)

See - hobbies work in loops. It’s not about one thing you mind doing repetetively but something you’ll carry across multiple areas of life. You probably already have your hobbies, question is what’s the next step that relates to them? I would recommend getting into online discussions about your favourite shows. TVtropes is a good place to start

photography, video games, film review, writing, cooking + making preserves, reading, book reviews, walking, running, genealogy, listening to music, transcribing on musescore and playing music.

if that sounds like a lot bare in mind i tap into each one on an ad hoc basis rather than scheduling it out. the only ones i technically do regularly is walking, music and video games, like most people.

also going to art galleries + theatre 👍

I think an important distinction is he’s CEO for the UK branch; Palantir is a USA company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir

Founders

• Peter Thiel
• Stephen Cohen
• Alex Karp
• Joe Lonsdale
• Nathan Gettings

Do you have any idea why (seemingly) so many people turn up?

I think you’re right. Don’t know if they were always this way but i was subbed to them for a while and seeing the kinds of crap meaningles talks they were pumping out made my blood boil.

Oh yeah i have dreams like this when i leave engineering coursework too late but, despite having dream insights that solve my problems, i’ve decided it’s more efficient to just never ever leave those things too late again

Amen, i strongly believe in “you’re not your ancestors.”

Though this one is probaboy an exception, but as you said regardless of who the CEO is, it’s the whole leadership that’s rotten.

I like that perspective. I do think it helps me personally.

But I also hear people suggest that looking atthings from a “the world did this to me” POV is narcissistic, which is bad. I disagree with that because generally people sre correct when they feel the world around them forced them into a situation

Well they’re not doing it in honour of Lord Jesus (i think), they’re doing it because they’re hardasses who tried to ban all alcohol in the past, after having significant societal problems with it, and they’re not giving up.

My notes:

• kind of good for really lonely people on christmas, who might be tempted to drink their sorrows away?
• but obviously christianity is effectively a pro booze religion as you said, and this might interfere with many people’s christmas plans.
• e.g What if you go to a family christmas dinner and everyone assumed someone else would bring alcohol? Alcohol really is an importamt part of christmas; egg nog, blood of jesus, casually drunk.
• if said people have to start planning around the day of dry sales, won’t they start stockpiling extra alcohol at christmas “so they don’t run out, like last time” ?
• said people then feel compelled to drink more alcohol to make SURE they get through all that they stockpiled
• more drunk drivers that holy night, or extra string hangovers the next day - woohoo!!!

See also: same issue occurs for those lonely alcoholic folk. They’ll be doosmday prepping for christmas in various parts of the USA because they’re cinvinced they’ll need it to cope. Homeless people might need it for warmth

Silent night…

Would you mind elaborating?

• Not a movie but There’s been a lois lane cartoon show: My Adventures with Superman

• Megamind, though he is a super-person, is unpowered and develops his tech in response to a superpowered person. Suoer interesting movie!!!

Nah i’d argue that true crime gets into 1. Motivations of such people, 2. Tactics they use to lure people in, 3. A lot of situations people haven’t even though about

Wise and succinct analysis

One thing i honestly like about this site is that we don’t talk about “incels” much.

I hate to think that this is controlled horniness, what we experience

Are we allowed to include dogs and cats as the “someone”

I live in an ex-industrial british city, some we have are:

• The Anvil
• The Forge
• The Foundry (there’s a church, nightclub, and a climbing centre called this as well. It gets confusing)
• The Grindstone (formerly ye olde grindestone)
• The Bessemer (a steel process patented here)

of all the things to get morally righteous about, being angry at folks for liking a celebrity is pretty wild.

Uhhhh didn’t say i was, lol