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On July 15 2017 02:26 Fecalfeast wrote:
Why is it that the songs I get stuck in my heard are almost exclusively songs I don't particularly like or even outright dislike?
At what point will(should) coastal cities start to evacuate/move elswhere if and when sea levels rise beyond manageable levels?
For the songs--it's actually because the efforts needed to make a "hook" or "ear worm" as some call it, that effort is very different than what is needed in making either music or lyrics.
The repetition and rhythm is meant to be easily digestible, memorable, and does not leave time for your brain to let it go.
That means most songs that get stuck in your head does not get stuck there because of the content of the lyrics or the actual artistry of the sounds--it's stuck there because of the hook.
As for your second question--people will start just building legs on their houses or start to live on boats before they "leave" their land. Ie, people will stay until it becomes a threat to them to stay.
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On July 15 2017 02:52 Thieving Magpie wrote:Show nested quote +On July 15 2017 02:26 Fecalfeast wrote:
Why is it that the songs I get stuck in my heard are almost exclusively songs I don't particularly like or even outright dislike?
At what point will(should) coastal cities start to evacuate/move elswhere if and when sea levels rise beyond manageable levels? For the songs--it's actually because the efforts needed to make a "hook" or "ear worm" as some call it, that effort is very different than what is needed in making either music or lyrics. The repetition and rhythm is meant to be easily digestible, memorable, and does not leave time for your brain to let it go.That means most songs that get stuck in your head does not get stuck there because of the content of the lyrics or the actual artistry of the sounds--it's stuck there because of the hook. As for your second question--people will start just building legs on their houses or start to live on boats before they "leave" their land. Ie, people will stay until it becomes a threat to them to stay.
I think we should dwell a bit on this wisdom, this, "does not leave time for your brain to let it go." The temporality of the decision to let go? The choosing? The unfolding, like a trap, around the hook caught in our snare? Normally we think time is a necessary mnemotechnic ingredient, but here TM has laid out for us a surprising [the trap or hook of the sur-prise] reversal. The reason the song is stuck is because we lack the time to let go. There must be a willful forgetting in duration to extricate ourselves from the predicament of a looping, never-ending, atemporal present.
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On July 15 2017 06:45 IgnE wrote:Show nested quote +On July 15 2017 02:52 Thieving Magpie wrote:On July 15 2017 02:26 Fecalfeast wrote:
Why is it that the songs I get stuck in my heard are almost exclusively songs I don't particularly like or even outright dislike?
At what point will(should) coastal cities start to evacuate/move elswhere if and when sea levels rise beyond manageable levels?For the songs--it's actually because the efforts needed to make a "hook" or "ear worm" as some call it, that effort is very different than what is needed in making either music or lyrics. The repetition and rhythm is meant to be easily digestible, memorable, and does not leave time for your brain to let it go.That means most songs that get stuck in your head does not get stuck there because of the content of the lyrics or the actual artistry of the sounds--it's stuck there because of the hook. As for your second question--people will start just building legs on their houses or start to live on boats before they "leave" their land. Ie, people will stay until it becomes a threat to them to stay. I think we should dwell a bit on this wisdom, this, "does not leave time for your brain to let it go." The temporality of the decision to let go? The choosing? The unfolding, like a trap, around the hook caught in our snare? Normally we think time is a necessary mnemotechnic ingredient, but here TM has laid out for us a surprising [the trap or hook of the sur-prise] reversal. The reason the song is stuck is because we lack the time to let go. There must be a willful forgetting in duration to extricate ourselves from the predicament of a looping, never-ending, atemporal present.
That's kind of the point of hooks? Albeit, it does not require your excessive pedantics to explore it. By creating the illusion of continual progress the goal is for the mind to never having a comfortable stopping point in which to break off from the experience. And it doesn't matter if it's rhythms in music, iambs in poetry, or cliffhangers in long form narratives--by creating the illusion of contiguous experience, your brain is tricked into feeling that there is no clean break point from which to extricate yourself--hence why we say that it gets "stuck" in our heads as opposed to "purposefully looping, wth intention, unwanted patterns".
Unless, of course, things only get stuck in your head because you force it to be stuck in your head?
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On July 15 2017 02:26 Fecalfeast wrote:
Why is it that the songs I get stuck in my heard are almost exclusively songs I don't particularly like or even outright dislike?
At what point will(should) coastal cities start to evacuate/move elswhere if and when sea levels rise beyond manageable levels?
1- Because you actually love that Mandy Moore song. Stop lying to yourself!
2- Why do you think higher floor are more expensive on tall building? They're not planning to go anywhere.
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Who was the last National American politician that was on their way to keeping a safe seat, but instead retired before the election?
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I got some water on my travel visa but I dried it off completely and it does not look like there is water damage. Should I still be worried?
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On July 22 2017 01:25 Shiragaku wrote:
I got some water on my travel visa but I dried it off completely and it does not look like there is water damage. Should I still be worried?
Define more specifically what you mean by "worried"
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Maybe he's worried it'll get mistaken for a fake and he might get deported.
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On July 22 2017 12:49 riotjune wrote:
Maybe he's worried it'll get mistaken for a fake and he might get deported.
When it comes to proof you're not an invading army in conjunction with "should I be worried" there is a wide range of how bad or meaningless things can be. Hence my desire for more specificity.
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The fact that someone would actually care about the physical state of the visa is alarming. Any paper can be easily falsified nowadays, the only security that works is a record in your own database saying "this guy has visa". Yet things like that indeed do cause problems. Makes you wonder why we are constantly being bothered by "security" when it's implemented in a mostly useless way.
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On July 22 2017 01:25 Shiragaku wrote:
I got some water on my travel visa but I dried it off completely and it does not look like there is water damage. Should I still be worried?
Couple of years back I lost my passport (with the US visa) and later found it in a snow bank. There was extensive water damage but it never really got me any trouble
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On July 22 2017 21:27 Sbrubbles wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2017 01:25 Shiragaku wrote:
I got some water on my travel visa but I dried it off completely and it does not look like there is water damage. Should I still be worried? Couple of years back I lost my passport (with the US visa) and later found it in a snow bank. There was extensive water damage but it never really got me any trouble
My passport with visas went through the washing machine. Damaged, but never had any major issues. Customs often double check and say that I should think about getting a new one, but no more than that so far. Wasn't US visas though.
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whats that word for when people have a fetish for like amputation, not amputees but having their limbs and shit amputated
also, does anyone know the hex code for Mayan Blue
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On July 23 2017 14:42 Zambrah wrote:
whats that word for when people have a fetish for like amputation, not amputees but having their limbs and shit amputated
also, does anyone know the hex code for Mayan Blue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotemnophilia
Looking for this, I learned the word "pluviophile", for someone who loves rain. On another side note, those pages are not linked form the wiki page for Cronenberg's "Crash", which is where I thought I originally read about it.
My stupid question: "What's the best way to form positive habits?" This is something I've always had trouble with, where I might start doing something on and off, but have trouble sticking to it.
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For me, the only thing that works is "no excuses". Decide on doing it, and do it. Always. As soon as i allow any excuses whatsoever for not doing it, no matter how justified they are, at most a month later i have completely stopped doing it.
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There is also the other side of the coin. With a no excuses line missing once or having low will for it once crashes the entire thing. Having the mindset of missing once being fine, just make sure to do it next works better for some people. Still needs to be an escalating need if you miss it once, else it becomes easier each time to skip.
The basic thing in all of them though is that having somebody you do the thing with makes it much easier. Secondly you need to stick with it for 3 months to form a habit that sticks. 66 days is a figure often quoted but I assume it will vary how long you need to stick with it.
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On July 23 2017 19:05 Yurie wrote:
There is also the other side of the coin. With a no excuses line missing once or having low will for it once crashes the entire thing. Having the mindset of missing once being fine, just make sure to do it next works better for some people. Still needs to be an escalating need if you miss it once, else it becomes easier each time to skip.
The basic thing in all of them though is that having somebody you do the thing with makes it much easier. Secondly you need to stick with it for 3 months to form a habit that sticks. 66 days is a figure often quoted but I assume it will vary how long you need to stick with it.
Probably depends on what type of person you are in that regard. I know that as soon as i accept any excuses, the next time it will be a slightly worse excuse, than an even worse excuse, and pretty soon i am at the point where "well i don't feel like it right now" is an ok excuse. For some people it might work totally differently.
I agree that "person you do stuff with" helps a lot, because it puts societal pressure onto you to keep doing it in those moments where you would otherwise not do it for whatever reason.
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On July 23 2017 15:23 Mr. Wiggles wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2017 14:42 Zambrah wrote:
whats that word for when people have a fetish for like amputation, not amputees but having their limbs and shit amputated
also, does anyone know the hex code for Mayan Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApotemnophiliaLooking for this, I learned the word "pluviophile", for someone who loves rain. On another side note, those pages are not linked form the wiki page for Cronenberg's "Crash", which is where I thought I originally read about it. My stupid question: "What's the best way to form positive habits?" This is something I've always had trouble with, where I might start doing something on and off, but have trouble sticking to it.
start small but reasonable. don't set goals ridiculous that you can't do. Make sure you do it consistently and set a short term goal, 3 weeks is pretty decent if your doing something weekly or relatively often.
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On July 21 2017 05:48 GreenHorizons wrote:
Who was the last National American politician that was on their way to keeping a safe seat, but instead retired before the election?
The Senator from California who just retired? Don't remember seeing anything about her seat being at risk at all.
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Any reasonably popular movies where a main (not necessarily the lead) character was Jewish, but the actor playing them wasn't?
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