Septimaeus

Sorry, I meant the point of the graph is to highlight the market’s impetus: selfishness.

Specifically, it casts investor sentiment in a negative light, where “feeling bullish” translates to “feeling greedy” and anything else is loss aversion/fear.

While I agree in principle (to share with those invested in your wellbeing), might do the same, and am otherwise unqualified as a fairly young person without living parents to refer to, I think I can understand why someone would prefer to postpone the revelation of that kind of news to someone they loved, especially their kid, until they knew for sure.

Edit: specifically, it would either be to avoid causing others undue stress on account of a potential false alarm OR to postpone the decision of revealing a terminal diagnosis until I was ready for all the emotional difficulties that tend to follow.

so pointless …. at best, volatility for obvious reasons.

I believe you just described “the point.”

outspoken about being guys

Hmm, I hadn’t considered that, but it tracks. The popular aspects of contemporary male gender identity are hard for me to understand. Often it strikes me as trauma-related pathology, as if boys were socialized poorly on purpose to serve an imagined need in society like war.

I’ve definitely seen many examples of what you’re talking about, though, like this apparent need to be perceived as not just male but the most male, but I don’t have a good theory for where it comes from.

normally just go along with it

Yeah I do the same, and tend to go with whatever gender others assume, but then gender-bending is kind of my jam. It’s more important to others to have a stable, recognizable gender identity, and I’m pretty sure I get it.

rebekah is usually a female name

Re: people online totally ignoring your username, honestly that sounds like par. People’s attention is spread more thinly these days, and anyway the average person is just very average. Especially in online spaces trending male, its easier to just assume, so people do. For me, incoming gender assumptions are the mystery prize in each box of cracker jacks, but I’m privileged to be tall and rarely worry about physical safety.

headache

Well it’s almost the weekend so party on. I’ll meet you there.

Are you enjoying your Kep-mok blood ticks, Dr. Lazarus?

True, however… as you press into this planet, this planet presses into you.

Good point, I’ve also seen that in many online spaces, especially ones like Re**** and lemmy. While I assume it’s mostly laziness (“usually guy” harder than “always guy”) there’s also the fact that gender neutrality to most is male-coded because [tedious rant about patriarchal society].

Edit: grammar

The difficulty was drainage. Isolated steam systems in steam era construction were designed to use gravity for condensate collection. It’s one of the reasons boilers are always in the basement of old buildings.

Steam system engineering was a well-compensated profession. A well-designed system would accurately predict the rate of condensate flow for every part of the building, prior to construction, and reflect these predictions in the slope/grade and diameter of the steam pipes. Inaccurate predictions resulted in problems like pipe knock (aka steam hammer) which you can often hear when you or a nearby neighbor partially close the shut-off valve of a radiator.

Since construction in the city had many elevations and could not be predicted in advance, there was no equivalent solution to facilitate condensate collection. The system had to be one way. And yes, it’s inefficient compared to modern systems, but was innovative in its day.

Yeet the heat or beat the meat

Wtf? Bad form, Peter Pan.

That’s a good idea! My understanding is that the old steam network is slated for decommission and replacement by this program, basically a large distributed geothermal heat pump network that also harvests from major heat producers like data centers and provides both heating and cooling.

It will end the era of the steamy-street Sin City aesthetic but should be many, many times more efficient than the old steam system. Phase-change thermal transfer in HVAC systems is nearing 400% efficiency, so 4 times more efficient than the theoretical limit of direct heating, because it only uses the energy necessary to move heat from one place to another rather than produce it, and it works for both heating and cooling.

Right now I believe they’re piloting the system in NYCHA buildings (public housing) of neighborhoods outside the old steam network, like Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, but supposedly the plan is to expand to the rest of Manhattan.

Edit: corrected coefficient of performance

True, and it seems most assume they’re interacting with their own gender, which isn’t always the case.

Technical limitations may contribute to the problem. Many instances and clients won’t show things like avatars, bios, and instance-specific fields like pronouns due to privacy policies or resource limitations. For example, on voyager (popular client) all I can see about any user is the name, modlog, and post history.

To see a full profile, I can open a browser tab and navigate to their instance, but sometimes even then I’m prompted for my instance login, which usually entails a delay for manual review.

If all else fails, I try to skim the post history for mention of their pronouns or avoid gender-coded wording entirely. Unless we’re discussing gender specifically, the latter is rarely difficult.