I have a family member that has struggled to hold jobs and keep relationships, and seems to have had a learning disability their entire life, and potentially had brain damage early in childhood (due to lack of oxygen at birth, and being tasked with burning the family's trash out back (self-reported)).
I recently moved them into my house because they had nowhere to go and they are now completely obsessed with preparing elaborate dishes, growing fermented foods and carefully curating their microbiome (by doing dubious stuff they find on YouTube). This syndrome feels very much like what this family member is doing but the rarity makes me think it's probably not this.
It's to the point where their room is full of jars of nuts, fermented items, and they go into detail describing the pleasure of the textures/tastes of food and how much of a treat it is for them to enjoy random everyday things normal people eat.
My wife and I physically cringe when they talk about it in the kitchen given that they put more energy into this than seeing their own grandchildren, keeping jobs, or helping around the house.
Reading this, it's exceptionally confusing as to how many family members you're talking about exactly; Your use of they, them, their is causing me to imagine some microbiome obsessed tribe has moved in and is holding conferences on it in your kitchen...
Singular they/them is mostly only a problem to non-native speakers. It's a pretty uniquely English thing to blur the singular and plural, at least among languages that use pronouns much.
No I found it readable though I can understand why they might be confused a little bit too but its nothing to worry about in my opinion.
Honestly regarding your anecdote and the gourmet syndrome the title itself, I don't really have nothing to add except I guess just note that human mind truly just works in remarkable ways.
But each day science uncovers more and more secrets about our brains. Maybe one day the gourmat syndrome or (your anecdote [if its a syndrome? or anything more observed or who knows, I am not sure as I don't have much medical knowledge being honest] might be explained in future too by future science advancements and scientists)
It's crazy how far we have come in medical science and (also not) [but I don't mean it in a bad way] at the same time.
Yes. They know that most humans typically have poor impulse control, and are easily pulled off task and will fall into an addicting and lucrative loop. Makes perfect sense to show random unrelated shit.
I think the poster you're responding to is correct. I've seen it many times myself. And just so you know, asking for a piece of data and not getting it is not going to be proof that you're right.
No, but it will show, as someone else already responded, that they don't understand SO systems and processes at all. The question they linked [0] was closed by the asker themselves. It's literally one of the comments [1] on the question. Most questions aren't even closed by moderators, not even by user voting, but by the askers themselves [2], which can be seen on the table as community user. The community user gets attributed of all automated actions and whenever the user agrees with closure of their own question [3]. (The same user also gets attributed of bunch of other stuff [4]
This shows that critics of Stack Overflow don't understand how Stack Overflow works and start assigning things that SO users see normal and expected to some kind of malice or cabal. Now, if you learned how it works, and how long it has been working this way, you will see that cases of abuses are not only rare, they usually get resolved once they are known.
Statements like those are meant for you to just bounce off of them and fuck off. They don't care about the truth and they know you don't care enough to do anything about their lying. It's an entire business model.
I used to do the same thing. I'd scan for problems on the test amenable to computational approaches and either pull up one of my custom made programs or write one on the spot and let it churn in the background for a bit while I worked on other stuff without the calculator.
If we count a permanently inflamed organic blob in roughly the shape of a mouse covered by surgical scars constantly pumped with anti-rejection drugs and hooked up to a blood filter we could probably make the mouse immortal now. It might not enjoy living though.
> or have social media and credit card companies convinced non-elites that they should spring for ad-hoc entry into a lounge with money they don’t have?
This is something I've detected too. If I can naturally and appropriately afford a bit of luxury that offers value I don't mind, but if I'm reaching for no reason other than to feel "better" than my current status allows because other people are doing it too I shy away from that. It's just a ploy to take money from me.
> It’s not much different than people paying for 20 minutes on fake jet to make videos for instagram or TikTok
Ehh, this is more of a business expense for them I think.
I have a family member that has struggled to hold jobs and keep relationships, and seems to have had a learning disability their entire life, and potentially had brain damage early in childhood (due to lack of oxygen at birth, and being tasked with burning the family's trash out back (self-reported)).
I recently moved them into my house because they had nowhere to go and they are now completely obsessed with preparing elaborate dishes, growing fermented foods and carefully curating their microbiome (by doing dubious stuff they find on YouTube). This syndrome feels very much like what this family member is doing but the rarity makes me think it's probably not this.
It's to the point where their room is full of jars of nuts, fermented items, and they go into detail describing the pleasure of the textures/tastes of food and how much of a treat it is for them to enjoy random everyday things normal people eat.
My wife and I physically cringe when they talk about it in the kitchen given that they put more energy into this than seeing their own grandchildren, keeping jobs, or helping around the house.
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