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

[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.

 

[SargonF00t]

Nice show

 

[RotPockets]

That's basically it. It impacted every facet of my life, I did not feel good half the time, I had trouble concentrating on work, and it ended the nanosecond the relationship I was dieting for ended.

Try intermittent fasting and keep walking. Eat only one meal a day while avoiding carbs and sugar, that’s it. You can go all out with the one meal, a 1 lbs. Ribeye and buttery sides whatever you want as long as it doesn’t have carbs you’re good to go. The walking is key because it increases the calories burned by fasting. After you drop the weight dial back the walking or you will start to look skeletal, just use walking as a way to maintain the weight you want. Milk, butter, cheese, bacon, avocados and nuts are healthy fats you can incorporate in to your meals since you aren’t trying to avoid calories just carbs and sugar. Beef, chicken, eggs, and fish are good choices for protein. Pretty much all vegetables are good in moderation, you don’t want to fill up on them in place of protein and fat. Steak Salad is a really good meal as long as it doesn’t have croutons. I like making a Black & Bleu Steak Salad with steak, avocados, bleu cheese, bacon, red onions, cherry tomatoes, and romaine with a red wine vinaigrette dressing instead, cutting out the croutons. Steak Salads are made using hot steak but I actually like using thin sliced cold steak made from the leftovers if I have any after eating a real steak dinner.

Here are some other steak salad recipes to give you some examples of the varieties available.
13 Steak Salad Recipes

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Re: coffee
light roast whole beans
i do a pour over but the best espresso maker ive had at the house was Breville.

Violating the 2-para limit:

• Coffee: whole bean (prefer single-source Tanzanian peaberry or Ethiopian Yergacheffe, but I'll do whatever)
• Breville burr grinder.
• As a backup I use Illy Espresso* (it's canned, pre-ground, from Italy) (tamp down espresso-level grinds)
• Coffeemaker is a Technivorm Moccamaster (they're handmade, from The Netherlands).
• Get a real coffee scoop.
• Melitta or Technivorm bleached filters

On the coffeemaker:

• simple but highly engineered
• https://us.moccamaster.com/blogs/blog/the-science-behind-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee
• ^I guess. The coffee is always excellent. And it's fast and very hot. I've had mine a decade+ and it looks and behaves brand-new.

• I drink it with scalded milk (more milk than coffee), or black. No cream or sugar ever.
• And I'll say that good coffee made in a really good maker is bright and clear-tasting, not a muddy sludgey or bitter thing, so the need for creamer might go away. I drink mine with hot/scalded milk a lot out of habit, but when I have the good stuff, it's actually better black.

 

[Jotch]

New KF logo revealed
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PS: The Sseth reference really warmed my heart.

I love the buffalo cube

 

[Redoniblueoni]

Coffee: whole beans in a tasty roast you enjoy. There are even flavors like churro out there to make it taste sweeter. Grind it up, use a drip. Low effort. The only machine I need for this is a grinder to grind the coffee and the ceramic drip cup/filters to drip it. Tastes great, all black coffee. Add some almond milk if you still can't handle it.

 

[Wodanaz]

I'm afraid you don't really have a choice

With respect, and at the risk of sounding conceited, I think that your post is about ten thousand times gayer and less persuasive than mine. Know your audience.

 

[LemonParty]

Deer Feeder says he has an IQ (tested by the state of Florida) of 138. I think this is correct because my parents did the same thing to me, in Stateasoda and I tested with 131. The point is I literally went to an institution to get tested, my parents and I stayed in a hotel room, it's a process.

Despite my IQ (or because of it) I am still retarded... as is Null

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

If you can get past it being Japanese, the Hario v60 drip coffee maker is the greatest kitchen purchase I've ever made. It's so simple to use and clean, and it makes a great no-bullshit cup of coffee. I can't help with beans, grinders, etc. since I just buy whatever ground coffee looks appealing and then drink it black. But if you just want a couple of cups of fresh, hot, good coffee without any technological bullshit, a coffee maker that will never break even after the banks collapse, and which you can clean in under 2 minutes, the Hario v60 is perfect.

If I were to ever use a creamer substitute, I'd probably just use an oat milk product. You have to get a little used to the nutty taste, but it's fine and far healthier than milk. It's basically just oat flavored water in the end.

 

[RotPockets]

I am essentially totally new to coffee. I get by with a $35 coffee maker and usually end up making iced coffee which I really enjoy, however does anyone have any recommendations for cold brewing coffee? I find it to be less bitter and more enjoyable than regular or iced coffee.

You don’t need any of this to make cold brew you could always just use 2 colanders, some folded cheesecloth and some mason jars instead to save money.

This is the final cost for those cold brew supplies I mentioned if you are so inclined.

I plan on draping the fine cheesecloth bag over the carafe and depress it by placing the metal strainer on top of it. The sizes seem perfect for this task. I won’t know for certain until the carafe arrives, but I don’t think the opening will be too wide to support the metal strainer when compared to the carafe I lost previously. If the strainer handle makes it unstable I may bend it 90 degrees with a vice, but it doesn’t look like it will outweigh the strainer depending on the diameter of the carafe.

 

[Moral plague]

I have another reddit submission, this time archived.

https://archive.is/HRSwT

Spoiler: reddit

 

[Quintus]

Not sure they won't get pissed and probably take your phone if you try to film Canadian court. I mean you could try to do it on the sly, and PPP is too large to do anything subtly and Andy's too burnt out.

Sorry, to clarify I was talking about the rackets trial.

 

[gampboonerisms]

Violating the 2-para limit:

• Coffee: whole bean (prefer single-source Tanzanian peaberry or Ethiopian Yergacheffe, but I'll do whatever)
• Breville burr grinder.
• As a backup I use Illy Espresso* (it's canned, pre-ground, from Italy) (tamp down espresso-level grinds)
• Coffeemaker is a Technivorm Moccamaster (they're handmade, from The Netherlands).
• Get a real coffee scoop.
• Melitta or Technivorm bleached filters

On the coffeemaker:

• simple but highly engineered
• https://us.moccamaster.com/blogs/blog/the-science-behind-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee
• ^I guess. The coffee is always excellent. And it's fast and very hot. I've had mine a decade+ and it looks and behaves brand-new.

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• I drink it with scalded milk (more milk than coffee), or black. No cream or sugar ever.
• And I'll say that good coffee made in a really good maker is bright and clear-tasting, not a muddy sludgey or bitter thing, so the need for creamer might go away. I drink mine with hot/scalded milk a lot out of habit, but when I have the good stuff, it's actually better black.

I love Tanzanian. Also my professor had that coffee maker. He went through them only because of scale build up. Good candidate for the BIFL thread!
I like the hands on process of pour over, bit I've also cut my coffee down to two a day.

 

[gagosian]

because you lose weight by eating less?

For the record large caloric deficits are fine provided your body is able to access it's fat reserves. They only become a problem if your glucagon levels are low, because you're eating a ton of sugar or something. If that's the case the body will slow down and you'll get adaptive thermogenesis and muscle loss.

 

[JustSomeDong]

@Null forget the coffee, let your inner Florida man shine and start doing meth.

 

[Wodanaz]

it's fine and far healthier than milk. It's basically just oat flavored water in the end.

>take grains
>transport them to a factory
>dump them all in a vat
>grind them up
>add water
>add rapeseed oil
>add sugars
>add factory things
>"healthy" alternative to

>squeezing a cow

why are americans like this

 

[snowdunes]

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!

I wrote it from the point of view of the "final phase" of MATI and after all said lawsuits etc. This can be 5 - 15 years ahead, when he most likely would have grown out of only doing online hamster meme streaming. Who knows, maybe the kiwi merch will be an underground meme equivalent of GUCCI and maybe we will get a physical magazine of KF content... time will tell.

Until then, he can stay faceless (safety & some practical reasons) but that only works if you want to stay being a "Youtuber" doing videos (with shitty merch). Josh is currently a site owner and a streamer, with a merch business ahead. Trying to expand after that without showing yourself will be very difficult, I think.

My idea was for example his substack/writing stuff on the MATI site, it would be more fitting to put them in a video format with a proper camera of him saying his piece. It's more personal and gives it more weight, since those stuff is made for an audience outside of KF. For that, it would be nice to see a non-fat janny ranting about the Internet.

Again, my opinion and I have no clue of running a site like this, I only know the memes and I'm probably too naive to lurk here. I just want a healthy Null.

 

[DavidS877]

damn bro i am suddenly filled with desire to do menial shit for an hour a day, you fixed it, good job.

Based on how unlikely it will be for you to trust a yard service to take care of your compound I expect it's highly likely you're going to be doing that anyway, taking care of the poison foliage, checking on the alligators, etc.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I love Tanzanian. Also my professor had that coffee maker. He went through them only because of scale build up. Good candidate for the BIFL thread!
I like the hands on process of pour over, bit I've also cut my coffee down to two a day.

My parents give me coffee every Xmas, and that's how I found the Tanzanian a decade ago. It's so good.

& good point on BIFL thread!

I do descale periodically, very key.

And I only drink coffee in the am, so brewing three (coffee/6 oz) cups lasts 2 days for me [yes, I drink day-old coffee every other day; blasphemy, I know, and I admit the second day sucks compared to the fresh]. But the Technivorm with its tight-seal cap for the carafe does it as well as possible.