Yeah, I don’t know anything about this dude. Maybe he’ll be the Epley of the future. I highly doubt it. But what is clear is that he’s not there yet.
BBPV came up a month ago in the Olympics thread. Three cheers for Epley.
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I had labyrinthitis when I was younger, and I remember a low level feeling of dizziness and nausea lasting a couple of weeks. That gave way to sporadic moments where, if I tilted my head at a certain angle, the entire room would spin vertically super fast. What was really strange about that phase was that I would get some sort of masochistic pleasure from it, I cannot explain why.
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Upon arriving in China and South Korea for work, I was hospitalized with severe vertigo. It was so bad that any movement of my head would cause me to vomit. I’d basically be heaving stomach acid out because of bad it was. Had to be in the hospital for a week each time. In the latter case, I hadn’t used my legs for so long that I had to essentially train myself to walk again so I didn’t fall over.
Only had it once in each country both times when I arrived there for the first time. Wonder if it was severe anxiety that caused it. Who knows?
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Dating fucking sucks. Can’t we just go back to arranged marriages? I’d pay a dowry to avoid having to go on dates no question.
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Are mail order brides still a thing?
God the cost of S&H for a human being has to be ridiculously high.
The Moaning of Life had an episode about dating in India. Basically you go to a dating center, meet a girl who registered there and you’re married soon after. Some of it was hella creepy like the “marriage detective” thing before the ceremony.
Have you considered visiting Thailand?
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I know you’re mostly joking but there is an important difference between an arranged marriage and the whole mail order thing. In places where arranged marriages happen, most (but certainly not all) occur among individuals of similar socioeconomic status. Also, in a lot of those places there is no real alternative. That’s the way pretty much all marriages in the community happen.
I’m aware of that.
Bruce is edgelording again. To be fair, I’m guilty of enabling it by responding in a deadpan fashion.
I read here that all Thai brides are whores.
That response was mostly to NBZ.
https://twitter.com/luckytran/status/1433271722875179008
Holy shit. Remind me to get at least 2nd floor if I ever move to NYC.
People in basement apartments could literally drown.
Going for some sleep testing for the first week of October. Gotta put a bunch of electrodes all over my head. So no electronics and I have to shave my beard.
Gonna have to find a lot of paper book recommendations since it’s the only way to entertain myself. Well, not the only way but the only way that won’t disturb anybody who randomly walks in.
I’d almost rather keep having a shitty night’s sleep.
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This is fine.
https://twitter.com/heyitsmikeyx/status/1433270391548616711?t=-aTjFIIajs6LaJ9a3YKrzg&s=19
Ugh, this reminds me of back when Sandy hit, I heard about some researchers at Columbia who lost a whole colony of research mice to the flooding. That doesn’t sound that bad, and it’s certainly not bad compared to the people who lost their lives, but that’s their entire life’s work, and it could take a decade or more to recreate. So, just in time to get completely destroyed again by this.
Highway one block from my apartment is under 4 feet of water, looks like 100 cars are in there.
Still waiting for word on weather my basement office I am supposed to finally return to next week is doing
(there are occasionally mice in there too, but I am ok if they don’t make it)
The Villages is not particularly urbanist (as Curbed 's Alissa Walker, thinking along similar lines, recently explained)—it has no public transit to speak of, it is nearly all detached single homes, and there is very little mixed-use development—but, especially by American standards, it is growing denser. Most of its official density statistics are out of date, considering its massive population growth over the last decade, but back-of-the-envelope math (130,000 people living in 34 square miles) has it denser than Phoenix, Houston, or Austin. Take the golf courses out (there’s like 12 of them) and it’s probably denser than most non-coastal American cities. Houses in The Villages are close together, even if they are also large and suburban, and they are close, by American standards, to urban amenities like public parks, movie theaters, and restaurants. The community is famous for the fact that about a third of trips are taken on small, electric vehicles—golf carts—which makes it accidentally greener than nearly anywhere else you could live in this country.
The Villages is also famous for the fact that it is 98 percent white. Perhaps Americans—or, at least, conservative white Americans—don’t actually want to live far away from everything. Maybe, like all other humans throughout the history of civilization, they want to be a convenient distance from sources of food, entertainment, and socialization. Maybe sprawl is just a means to an end.
White Americans want an endlessly appreciating asset and the ability to police who their neighbors are and what they do. Housing segregation, suburban sprawl, and planned communities are how they won those things, and how they protect them. Automobile dependence is mainly a necessary side effect. Housing preferences have less to do with how people want to get around than they do with the level of control white Americans want to have over who can live near them, largely for the sake of property values.
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Americans Don’t Really Hate Density
They hate other Americans
Well, they hate certain types of Americans.
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I hate certain types of Americans too.