💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[Null]

The final step in this would to have a camera or at least have some kind of an IRL present if you really want to make a change.

That's simply not happening.

 

[THE STRESS]

Oh right coffee creamer spergery.
Sweetened coconut milk. If you're on keto or something, unsweetened. I'm to the point where I'll take coconut over whole and almond. It just tastes better. The sweetened goes especially well with cereal too.

 

[The I Scream Man]

I like Marlboro. The ones in the flip-top boxes.

I've heard they're interesting and practical!

 

[Undertow]

I think you cut too many calories and damaged your metabolism, it's a mistake I've made a few times and it fucking sucks. The most obvious signs are constantly feeling tired and memory/concentration problems like you mentioned, I got headaches out of nowhere and could never recover properly from exercise. It might be beneficial to have your metabolism checked by a doctor if and when you want to lose weight again, it'll make it easier to figure out a program that works with your lifestyle.

 

[Sneeds]

Tipster

 

[Drama Fan]

This only works if you're an audio or visual learner though.

Learning styles are bullshit pseudoscience made up by education academics that has never held up in empirical studies. It's a quick and easy explanation that seems like it could be intuitively true, but in reality it just gives teachers more busywork during lesson prep. Telling students or people in general that they have particular learning styles probably disadvantages them by giving them an easy excuse as to why they can't learn something difficult- it's just not my learning style so I should give up.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

i ate fish and took multis. i don't really think there's a better foodstuff than fish. it's just a lack of calories. it was a keto diet.

Have you heard of vegetables?
Fruit, mayhaps?

But seriously, I’ve done a lot of diets and such and what really works the best is having a spice rack and knowing how to use it.
You can make really good, healthy, wholesome, lower calorie foods super easy if you just get experimental with it.
Most of my cooking, and I’m losing ten pounds rn, is like five minutes and tastes great. People just need to learn how to cook, that’s the most important thing.

 

[KateHikes14]

He’s right doe. Exercise has never made me feel anything more than out of breath and tired. I don’t know where this Epic Dopamine Rush meme comes from but it really isn’t universal.

The dopamine rush people experience may vary from person to person, but the first time I experienced it was from what was essentially a half marathon paced on a 5k. People sharing there experiences with runners highs in an era where weed carts with 70+% THC, deep fried oreos, and a million other ways to totally fry their dopamine receptors exist is just setting them up for disappointment. Most of the value I got from running is much more subtle or experiential.

Trying to convince fats to lose weight is a losing battle, they are addicted to the disgusting slop they overconsume. If your appeals to them do not take addiction psychology in mind you're just spinning your wheels, they have to want to change first. And not "want" as in wish.

 

[Null]

Learning styles are bullshit pseudoscience made up by education academics that has never held up in empirical studies. It's a quick and easy explanation that seems like it could be intuitively true, but in reality it just gives teachers more busywork during lesson prep. Telling students or people in general that they have particular learning styles probably disadvantages them by giving them an easy excuse as to why they can't learn something difficult- it's just not my learning style so I should give up.

i totally disagree. i learn something much faster just trying to figure it out in practice. i remember teaching myself trigonometry trying to figure out how to path zombies in blockland vs. failing the online class the year before.

 

[themanwhowalks]

i totally disagree. i learn something much faster just trying to figure it out in practice. i remember teaching myself trigonometry trying to figure out how to path zombies in blockland vs. failing the online class the year before.

The curriculum in US schools is written so brown people and women can pretend they understand math and history. The bad grades good test taker epidemic proves this

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

The curriculum in US schools is written so brown people and women can pretend they understand math and history. The bad grades good test taker epidemic proves this

Do they still use things like common core and the like?

 

[Haramburger]

I have never felt anything other than exhausted after erxercise. I even did running for a while and kept waiting to feel those amazing feelings people always say you get, but never got them. I think some people just don't get the same magical chemicals released from exercise. Same as some people just don't really like food, I think they just don't get the same dopamine release from eating good food.

I only get it during, not after, and I have to maintain the acrivity(running, biking or eleptical) to get the buzz. I'd say I can only activate it 10% of the time but it makes for a great workout, you're struggling through a tough spot and then you just feel like you got dosed from the inside by surprise. Highly recommend workouts on machines that mix up the resistance irregularly on you, and have something to listen to that makes your mind wander.

 

[Postal_Rat]

Growing up as the fat kid I didn't start getting runners high until I already got used to exercising I think if your not getting it your mostly like burning out before your brain starts pumping in reward chemicals

 

[Clamater]

Learning styles are bullshit pseudoscience made up by education academics that has never held up in empirical studies. It's a quick and easy explanation that seems like it could be intuitively true, but in reality it just gives teachers more busywork during lesson prep. Telling students or people in general that they have particular learning styles probably disadvantages them by giving them an easy excuse as to why they can't learn something difficult- it's just not my learning style so I should give up.

I don't disbelieve this as all, honestly just threw that caveat in there because inevitably some retard comes along with "I cAn OnLy leARn WitH mY hAndS." A combination of all three would make the most sense to learn, retain, and be able to train others.

I will take this opportunity to once again strongly encourage white people to get outside and WALK.

 

[themanwhowalks]

Do they still use things like common core and the like?

I think so. Everything is also online now, so everyone is cheating. The teacher's are dumber then ever and they are incentivized by their schools to pass everyone. Things are probably much much worse then most people would like to think.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

You might find this naturally changes when you get to your swamp. Nature is always gorgeous and calming to explore. If you get a doggo, they’ll help remind too.

I’ve never understood why people feel the need to exercise inside a gray concrete box, especially if they live in beautiful area.

Rucking and sandbag work outdoors is a game changer. 50lbs on my back for an hour on a weekend is a good fun way to suffer as I go through the woods. Sandbags are stupid fun too, way more entertaining than just barbell work especially if you do them in a circuit like lunges to OHP to squats to rows before ending with burpees until you puke.

 

[CircuSphere]

i totally disagree. i learn something much faster just trying to figure it out in practice. i remember teaching myself trigonometry trying to figure out how to path zombies in blockland vs. failing the online class the year before.

"Take this 100 hour course on this language and another on that framework, then program this thing." ... "Uhh that sounds like a profound waste of time... can I just have a search engine and an extra week to write the feature?"

I agree man. I need to solve real problems, be motivated by real goals, hit gotchas, find the weaknesses that aren't spelled out on paper. Make the common mistakes to learn to avoid them. Get comfortable and familiar with the directory structures. Form strong associations between words and physical/virtual places or objects... Dry, efficient Germanic school systems have ruined craftsmanship, have sucked all the fun out of learning and ironically quashed the Germanic tinkerer's soul.

Also I will say making music will make you acutely aware of what the learning process really is because it's constantly illustrating for you the difference between dry memorization/frontal lob processing and pure muscle memory, routine and conditioning. Where something like programming is as theoretical as it gets and something like skateboarding is as physical and muscle memory based as it gets, music straddles both worlds fairly evenly. Only when both parts are used harmoniously (excuse the pun) can you really learn at your full potential. Wrote learning from a book leaves you knowing dozens of obscure scales and chords but you will be pitifully slow, sloppy, disoriented... Only by drilling them day in and day out can you come to play them with any speed, clarity and finesse... and only by improvising with them can you learn their true qualities and functions and remember/understand them in the greater context and marry the two worlds.

 

[Jotch]

Summary of my work

If you don't already, you should consider adding to the list of feature streams to do in the future someday the story of DropKiwiFarms and its aftershocks with E(L)FJ. Pretty much the story from August 2022 to September 2023. Specifically the parts that you could not talk about at the moment. Since there already exists through MATI a decent description of events as they happened,but a lot was left out. You also mentioned you would send out an email with this, did I miss it somehow or did it just not go out for whichever reason?

 

[Haramburger]

You got a truly unique internet show and you have stated multiple times that you want to level up the quality. You can do this with nicer streaming layouts and better transition effects, custom theme songs etc. But I'm going to say it straight (you probably have heard this before and know this):
The final step in this would to have a camera or at least have some kind of an IRL present if you really want to make a change. I can't think of a single internet personality that did something serious and was faceless the whole time, it just doesn't work. You will need to get your face out there in the end if you are serious about your goals.

There are a number of very successful podcasts/YT channels that don't revolve around face cams. Even when you look at something like Nerdrotic(bashing Star Wars Acolyte) where he does show his face interspersed with the media he's reviewing, you have channels like Critical Drinker that don't. It's entirely optional. In fact thre some streamers like Turkey Tom that SHOULD turn off the face cam, because he refuses to groom his pathetic patchy facial hair.

Kurzgesagt, Chills, Nick DeOrio... you too can be famous in videos but never show your fat folds!

 

[Drama Fan]

i totally disagree. i learn something much faster just trying to figure it out in practice. i remember teaching myself trigonometry trying to figure out how to path zombies in blockland vs. failing the online class the year before.

Having motivation to learn something is always going to help, that's not what I was referring to. Learning styles in an education context is stuff like this

The super simplistic theory as it often got applied in pedagogy was that any given pupil is only receptive to information in certain ways and simply wouldn't absorb/retain information or concepts if they were presented in the wrong style. This trickled down to students sometimes being told something absurd like "you're just not a verbal learner" which can discourage kids from any lessons presented in text/lecture format because it gives them an easy excuse to why they find learning some subject difficult. It encourages a self-defeating mindset in subjects where verbal would be the obviously best "learning" style to actually teach the subject in.
A better explanation of the theory

In general, most learning style theories make two presumptions:

1. Individuals have a measurable and consistent “style” of learning, and
2. Teaching to that style of learning will lead to better education outcomes, and conversely, teaching in a contradictory method would decrease achievement.

In other words, if you are a visual learner, you should learn best if you see things, regardless of the situation. If you are a kinesthetic learner, you will learn best if you can physically manipulate something, regardless of the topic. However, neither of these two assumptions shows any grounding in research. These two propositions are where we can see the concept of learning styles breaking down.

As with a lot of social science things, these things can be hard to empirically test, but researchers have had a few decades of trying. The article has a bunch of examples if you're curious about specifics. It's really been bleak for a theory that still widely exists in the public consciousness as true and (at least when I was in college) was still being taught to future teachers. It's probably stuck around because if you don't think about it very hard, it seems like it could be true, and for educators it promises a quick fix to a lot of much more complex problems and inconvenient truths that most in education don't want to face head-on.
One last critique

Why learning styles are dangerous​

While the intentions of learning styles are good, the implications of learning styles are more destructive than helpful. On the positive side, reflecting on how one learns is always a lesson. However, by focusing on a style suggests that learners are passive vessels at the whim of the method of teaching. Ultimately, most educators want students to actively engage in their learning. The best learning takes place when an individual can connect and incorporate information into his or her personal experiences and understanding. By focusing on a student’s learning style we reinforce a simplistic view of learning. Learning styles suggest that individuals have one way to learn best. Unfortunately, learning is complex, and not easy. This is hard and takes time! It has very little to do with the way information is handed to a learner, but rather, how the learner processes that knowledge once they have it. It is important to remember – learning is within the control of the learner.