I know it’s a joke but I’ve legit curbed my snacking habits by eating a single chip as slowly as I possibly can.

A bit tough at the start but over time, that need to inhale yummy foods does reduce. Would recommend trying!

And now you’ve given me a new way to level up in Zen. Going to win Zen so hard, you’ll be eating my Cheese & Jalapeño flavour dust.

Appreciate your reccs!

Love the voice notes idea. And zettel seems quite fit for purpose especially compared to Obsidian. Will have to see what transcription services are available.

Was not aware of bookwyrm so thank you. Having some community definitely helps with motivation.

Funnily enough, How Democracies Die is technically on my hard books list that I simply can’t get past the first chapter. It’s tricky to find time and determine what is a worthwhile struggle vs just a unworthwhile pain.

Appreciate your answer and recommendations! Will have to take it 2 pages at a time as you say haha.

I only was using it as a category!

A few people are great friends of mine!! I like all people equally.

Ooh haven’t taken a bath in years! Pray the book isn’t too interesting otherwise you’ll prune into old age.

Thanks for the input! If I may ask, where exactly do you do your academic reading? On your desk? And how do you make time/ritual for it?

Well put! Thank you.

Ouch.

But thank you? a. For considering my attempt at formatting and absurdity with clankers. I would argue that to be human is to accept the absurdity of it all. But I guess it is getting tricky…

Out of curiosity, I did ask some llms my baby throwing question:

• perplexity just straight up said no. Unethical question.
• Chatgpt treated it like a physics problem. All while asking me about technique…
• deepseek gave a balanced reply. Followed by “Do not attempt”. Which I thought was fair.

b. For at least entertaining my notion I understand that it’s all subjective… that’s why I was trying to define a scale, or at least a comparison.

c. You did help me get closer to an answer. If I take a loose definition of Trust as being my ability to predict its behaviour [and its ability to not harm me] (which I think is fair but arguable…), I would trust a rock more than an adult (and somehow even a baby more than an adult). In my hypothetical world, a trusted consenting adult would help me throwing them thus increasing the overall distance. So the positive correlation is more fitting in most cases (at least in that assumption).

I fully acknowledge the absurdity and the stupid premise. I thought this was nostupidquestions.

{Edited to try fix formatting… Ugh can’t. It stays. Thank you for bearing with me! Hope you have a nice day.}

I hear you and yep, since throwing ability is limited, trust is in short supply.

Which is why I wanted to consider that throwing ability can vary and therefore the amount of trust. And what can I extrapolate from this scale!