Uh, that pop-up is “unpleasant feelings”. Pain, discomfort, bad taste/smell, etc. If you went outside and started eating dirt, your brain would pop-up with “Hey, this tastes yucky, you should stop”
The really dangerous thing is when something feels rewarding in the short term, but wrecks your life in the long term.
I’m looking at you, EtOH!
What’s EtOH?
Ethanol, the main active ingredient in booze.
Why can’t broccoli feel more rewarding
Cover it in olive oil and salt. bake at 400 for 20 minutes, and trick your brain into thinking its amazing
Is it a trick if it’s really amazing?
Fuck that. Throw some Velvetta on it and call it in.
🤤
Our sauteed with onions really good too. People who don’t like greens probably only know them boiled in water which washes the taste away.
For any non-yanks reading: 400 degrees Fahrenheit is about 200 degrees Celsius, and this method is roasting, not baking.
How about a little sesame oil and soy sauce?
Daamn why weren’t you my roomate in college - I got the Dominos-pizza-every-night kind of roomates
I mean… I enjoyed and upvoted but this is false. We have millennia of prewiring and Darwinism under the belt
There is a term for this, but I can’t remember what it is.
It’s a phenomenon where a person goes through their formative years in a given structure, where you are raised by your parents, go to school, and are given set goals for every year - do X and you’ll get to Y. This goes all the way up to your early twenties if you go to university, possibly longer if you join a structured company with similar guardrails, or much longer when you join the armed forces and live in a regimented way.
Once people leave these guardrails, some really struggle with the freedom they are granted. No one has a goal to point you towards, no one cares if you fail, and ultimately your life has a degree of freedom you haven’t experienced ever.
One thing we’re terrible at as a society is either guiding people with no clear path, or supporting those that don’t want a clear path and want to find one of their own. Some people really struggle with this, and the freedom of being able to do shit like overindulge on drugs/alcohol/food with no support or community support can ruin lives.
A few years ago I worked as a telecoms engineer. The role itself was pretty free-roaming and a large part of your working day was unsupervised and allowed you to make your own decisions and your day to day achievements were pretty much all down to you and/or the guys you were working with.
Anyway, the company had a spell where they hired a lot of ex armed forces personnel into various engineering roles, many of whom had done long stints in the military. Pretty much every veteran I worked with was smart, hard working, organised and a joy to work with. With one caveat, most of them needed an ‘order’ to do a particular thing, or pushing into thinking for themselves. They had spent their entire working life in a structured, order based environment, that left them unprepared when they were given the freedom to think for themselves.
I can totally get how homelessness and addiction problems can beset people when the structure they have spent their whole lives within, is suddenly not there any longer.
That’s so interesting. Objectively, it’s neither good nor bad. The indifferentness of the universe to our coping with freedom is wild and interesting, a rollercoaster on its own
A lot of things are worth doing for the sake of challenging yourself, but then battling your own mind about if something is a wasted effort or not is the real war.
As a general rule, anything you have to repeatedly do you should master.
That’s why religion unfortunately continues to exist. They are the imaginary guardrails, but towards an imaginary goal that is often taken advantage of.
Very reddit of you. Religion bad, upvotes please.
Too close to home, huh? It’s bad enough to be fueling most major world conflicts today, yes. Since you seem to be desperately obsessed with them, have an upvote.
😂 that you couldn’t identify the obvious irony kind of makes my point about your shallow observation. Saying religion is an imaginary guardrail discounts all spirituality as well. That you think anyone would care about upvotes on the fediverse is wild
My 16 year old: “I can’t wait until I can do whatever I want!”
Me: “I thought the same thing. Turns out it’s not as fun as it sounds.”
I respectfully disagree. I realize that everyone’s experiences are different but I greatly prefer being an adult to being a child.
Being an adult got awesome once I developed basic self control
Nothing is true.
Everything is permitted.
That’s what parents are for.
As a parent: no, I’m just there to be a shoulder to cry on when you do something stupid. Everyone knows kids don’t listen to parents…
Lol that’s awesome someone actually made that into a patch
Man me as a 14 year old on original Xbox straight up feeling like I destroyed the world
Did this person not have a mama?
Breaking news: not all parents are good at parenting.
And damn few safety nets.
* Goes outside *
* Tries to fly *I think I’ve been lied to on the internet…
The problem is you keep, too accurately, hitting the ground. You have to miss.
I mean that’s what the wright brothers did, they went outside and just tried to fly until they could
Yeah but they started off by being Wright.