unconditional love policy

I am occassionally surprised, by how many health professionals and wellness influencers ( public intellectuals) consider it healthy to love unconditionally. 

It's a basal tendency which is fun, but it's complete nonsense as an unregulated axiom of relationships. Of course, civilisation has no end of literature about it. And it is a political tool at all levels.

But from a governance perspective, this shit needs to be normalised to be a juvenile trait ( ignore the genomic issue, for simplicity)

wanting to be loved, should not be an uneducated operation

Literally me in every conversation with people who idealise being loved :

"Does not seem like a well studied point of view. How about a moratorium of a few years to study the market and player psychology, before establishing reasonable goals and strategy, then executing after that?"

oven, iron, and cooking silicone temperatures

TIL : baking parchment paper is silicone coated and good up to 230C/450F, a. k. a. "hot oven temp" which is exceeded by "v hot oven temp" 260C/500F, and of course pizza ovens which can hit 430C/800F.

Clothing irons run can hit "hot oven temp" but not "v hot". This is all useful only because I am trying to figure out what to use for casting household plastic.

home ec is hard :(

tradroles for sexes

The traditional role of male providers to female providees is a legacy of sexual differentiation and the energetic cost of child bearing that is wired into the species. 

1. While I'd like to say that it's ridiculous when non-childbearing females expect to have male providers as class markers, it's actually slightly not. Females bear the brunt of costs baked into their genetics regardless of their birthing activity - though that cost is not quite as pronounced as it is during child-bearing activity. 

2. I maintain that artificial wombs "AW" will be more liberating, and thus impactful on the species than "AI". But we can't really anticipate how politics will clutter that revolution, yet. 

non-Muslim Malaysian attitudes towards Islam

My attention was ( accidentally ) drawn to Muslims in Malaysia, who are concerned that non-Muslims in Malaysia react to Islam in a negative fashion. Never being one to waste a useful accident, I noted the following. 

I guess there is a gradient of 

1. "don't think about or care about" to 

2. "irritated by because it takes up unwanted space in your head" to 

3. "you can't seem to get rid of these irritants" to

4. "hate"

To be precise, all of these are compatible with life as a citizen and resident of Malaysia. There are of course different degrees of public nuisance you can cause, by talking at different volumes, about your own location on that spectrum. ( There is a symmetrically positive wing of the spectrum of course, which is not relevant to this discussion about the negative wing. )

I think a lot of non-Muslim Malaysians are simply at (1.). Based on their daily interactions, or provocation by politicians, it can spiral down (2, 3, 4.) etc. 

All of this is completely [ ordinary, and boring ], to [ a rational, well-informed citizen ], who is educated about [ cultural plurality, the structure of the constitution, the fragility of mental health in the general population, and the offensive and defensive tactics applied in Malaysian realpolitik ].

The problem is that we have an education system ( sum of formal and informal factors ) which produces too few of such people who find it boring and ordinary. 

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dasar moral negara

1. Ramai rakyat Malaysia terkeliru dengan fungsi agama pada tahap kelolaan negara

2. Seseorang boleh terkelola agama pilihannya. Tetapi bukan setiap rakyat memilih agama yang sama, jadi pengelolaan negara tiada gantungannya kepada mana2 agama tertentu

3. Pengelolaan negara tergantung pada perlembagaan, itu saja akidah pendasarannya

4. Jadi, pendidikan moral kebangsaan tanpa mengasaskan pengajaran kandungan perlembagaan, sudah terjadi kecuaian yang amat mengelirukan anak2 kita

fermentation tech

Since kimchi operations began this month, I have had to go down the rabbit hole of fermentation tech. It is shallow.

1. lactic acid fermentation, is anoxic ( bacteria / LAB)

2a. upstream : ethanol fermentation, is anoxic ( bacteria, fungi, NOT plants )

2b. downstream : acetic acid fermentation, is oxic ( bacteria, mostly / AAB )

3. symbiotic colonies of bacteria and yeast / SCOBY are used in various traditions

- pickles like kimchi are an example of 1.

- yoghurt is mainly 1.

- wine is an example of 2a, and balsamic vinegar subsequently 2b

- kefir is a 3. which is mostly LAB

- kombucha is a 3. which is mostly AAB

That's most of it!

avoidant relationships?

Because it is non-scientific terminology, it basically means whatever people want it to mean when they speak or read "avoidant". 

For example, the following are all different, "avoidants of ..." 

A: getting hurt ( all biological life )

B: certain cultural marks ( cultural life )

C: verbalising emotions ( some are just incompetent )

D: empathy without incentive ( economically rational/ calculative )

E: explicit commitment ( economics again, but more formal )

-- and that's just a few

hip extensors, lordosis, and bed work

Apparently I've been using pillows wrong, fairly often. I have good data on this, because I remember what I was doing consistently from 2001 to 2006, and then from 2007 when I started operating out of a sleeping bag. Basically I stopped hugging a pillow with my abs, and that moved a lot of passive tension away from my hip extensors to my hip flexors.

Compounded with increased seated work, and reduced walking and running, and furthermore by the complication of starting to date around 2007 which normalised new objects of hugging. 

After doing some crunches and related work today, I put a bit more focus on active manipulation of hip extensors. Hopefully this gets worked out over time and fixes any lordosis that has developed.