#Emotional Decisions

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[carolamandaus]

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett's wealth-building secrets revolve around patience, value investing, and disciplined strategy. These principles emphasize the importance of long-term thinking, fundamental analysis, and avoiding emotional decisions.

[adventuresinclientservice]

Rational thinking vs. emotional decisions.

As I pointed out in the previous post, Napa has long been known as a highly regarded fine-dining destination, but when it comes to so-called ethnic food, the one thing lacking is decent Chinese food. 

There’s Indian.  And Thai.  Even middle eastern.  Plus decent sushi.  There are Chinese restaurants, sure, but they are  establishments with overpriced, underpowered offerings, best described by the charitable as mediocre.

All of which is to explain why last Saturday, Roberta, another couple, and I piled into our EV-6 to make a pilgrimage to Albany, in the East Bay, to visit China Village, the one respectable Chinese restaurant within shouting distance of our home. 

You ask:  “Is it worth a 90-minute round-trip?”   

I answer:  “It is no Shun Lee, but if you want reasonably inviting cold sesame noodles and Beijing duck, it suffices, and is far superior to anything available here.”

As I’m parking our car on Solano Avenue across from the restaurant, another couple strolls by.  “Nice car,” they say.  As they walk on, I shout, “Best car ever!”  They laugh.

Remote and fleeting though this is, I later think it is one version of a word-of-mouth referral at work.  It could be years from now, but the next time that couple is in the market for a new automobile, I suspect at least one of them will remember what I said:  “Let’s take a test drive and see for ourselves.”

With the advent of social media, that in-the-street exchange strikes me as bordering on quaint.  What changed? 

We liked the car, leased it, then I wrote about it, sharing my comments on social-media platforms LinkedIn and Facebook, supplanting a call to your-friend-the- expert for advice.

I imagine others sharing my post; my commentary goes viral, sales of the EV-6 skyrocket, I am declared an automotive influencer of serious repute. 

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

When I proclaimed my opinion to that couple on the street, I wasn’t thinking about how much money we’d save on gas by converting to 100% electric, or how it’s good for the environment, or how much less we paid for our new car than the Lexus it replaced.  All of these are incredibly valid, rational reasons to choose a car. 

That’s not why we leased it.      

In that earlier post, I used the American Express Platinum Card as a (sort of snarky) example of rational thinking vs. emotional decision-making:

“I have a Platinum Card; when someone asks why, I have two answers.  For the skeptical, judgmental and cynical, I list all of the card’s many features.  That’s the rational response.  For my open-minded friends and colleagues, I say something along the lines of, ‘It’s a cheaper way to buy prestige than having a Mercedes.’  That’s the emotional one.”

Given the amount of money at stake, buying/leasing a car is the furthest thing from an impulse purchase.  You might think rational reasons would prevail.  That might be true for others; it’s not true for me.

My reasoning, surprising though it might be, was emotional:  I like the way it looks.

[hinamie]

...........slips gege ¥2000

[lilybug-02]

New Goal Acquired!

Bug Fact: The scarlet lily beetle (or better yet the lily bug ;P) is a leaf beetle that eats the leaves, stem, buds, and flowers of lilies.

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"feels like we could go on for forever this way.." (x)

[crescentfool]

reunion 🌸

[lysallana]

Enough is enough

[lucabyte]

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Wrong Move

[fridgrave2-0]

hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au

turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else

now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident

also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out

[buggachat]

(random s5 finale musings) tbh I don't think Marinette chose to keep The Secrets™ from Adrien because Gabriel asked her to. I feel like Marinette keeping secrets like that is so consistent with her character; she hates giving people bad news, she hates rocking the boat, she hates upsetting people, she always chooses to keep any 'controversial' information to herself for as long as she can get away with (examples: bubbler scarf, telling Queen Bee she was benched, confessing to Adrien, warning Chat Noir about Scarabella or Rena Furtive, never told Chat Noir about Chat Blanc, etc) that I just totally believe she would've done it either way. She was even already having nightmares about Adrien hating her for finding out she defeated his father, so I feel like Gabriel's request was moreso giving her a go-ahead than it was a primary deciding factor, yknow?

[newttxt]

i was talking extensively with a friend about reiju’s delicate balance of caring/emotionless and her relationship with sanji

[aalghul]

people always say Jason’s the black sheep or the edgy one or whatever but they don’t even give him smokey eyes or black lipstick so it’s hard to take people seriously

[sparrowlucero]

Even if a creator is a bad person it's still okay to like their work. People need to mind their own business.

Honestly it's not really that sort of situation. I'll actively defend Steven Moffat here.

There was a huge hate movement for him back in the early 2010s - which, in retrospect, formed largely because he was running 2 of the superwholock shows at once, one of which went through extremely long hiatuses* and the other of which was functionally an adaptation of an already well regarded show**, making him subject to a sort of double ire in the eyes of a lot of fandom people. Notably, his co-showrunner, Mark Gatiss, is rarely mentioned and much of his work is still attributed to Moffat (and yes, this includes that Hbomberguy video. Several of "Steven Moffat's bad writing choices" were not actually written by him, they were Gatiss.)

People caricatured the dude into a sort of malicious, arrogant figure who hated women and was deliberately mismanaging these shows to spite fans, to the point where people who never watched them believe this via cultural osmosis. It became very common to take quotes from him out of context to make them look bad***, to cite him as an example of a showrunner who hated his fans, someone who sabotaged his own work just to get at said fans, someone who was too arrogant to take criticism, despite all of this being basically a collective "headcanon" about the guy formed on tumblr. Some if it got especially terrible, like lying about sexual assault (I don't mean people accused him of sexual assault and I think they're making it up, I mean people would say things like "many of his actresses have accused him of sexual assault on set" when no such accusations exist in the first place. This gets passed around en masse and is, in my opinion, absolutely rancid.)

On top of that a ton of the criticism directed at the shows themselves is, personally, just terrible media criticism. So much of it came from assuming a very hostile intent from the writer and just refusing to engage with the text at all past that.

Like some really common threads you see with critique of this writer's work, especially in regards to Doctor Who since that's the one I'm most familiar with:

A general belief that his lead characters were meant to be ever perfect self inserts, and so therefore when they act shitty or arrogant or flawed in any way, that's both reflective of the author and something the show wants you to view as positive or aspirational.

An overarching thesis that his characters are "too important" in the narrative due to the writer's arrogance and self obsession (even though this is a very deliberate theme that's stated several times)

A lot of focus on the writer personally "attacking" the fans or making choices primarily out of spite.

A tendency to treat the show being different to what it's adapting as inherently bad and hostile towards the original.

Just generally very little consideration and engagement with the themes, intent, etc. of the shows

This one's a little more nebulous and doesn't apply to all critique but a lot of it, especially recently, is clearly by people who haven't seen the show in like 10 years and their opinion is largely formed secondhand through like, "discourse nostalgia". Which. you know. bad.

I think these are just weird and nonsensical ways to engage with a work of fiction. I also think it's really sad to see the show boiled down to this because that era of who is, in my opinion, very thematically rich and unique among similar shows, and I'm disappointed that it's often dismissed in such a paltry way.

This isn't to say people aren't allowed to critique Steven Moffat or anything, but the context in which he basically became The Devil™ to a large portion of fandom and is still remembered in a poor light is very tied to this perfect storm of fan culture and I just don't agree with a ton of it.

* I'm sure most people have seen the way long running shows and hiatuses will cause people to fall out with a show, with some former fans turning around and joining a sort of "anti fandom" for it while it's still airing. That happened with both these shows. ** Doctor Who will change it's entire writing staff, crew, and cast every few years, and with that comes a change in style, tone, theme - the old show basically ends and is replaced by a new show under the same title. As Steven Moffat's era was the first of these handovers for the majority of audiences, you can imagine this wasn't a well loved move for many fans. *** I know for a fact most people have not sought out the sources for a lot of these quotes to check that they read the same in context because 1) most of them were deleted years ago and are very difficult to find now and 2) many of them do actually make sense in the context of their respective interviews

[nyahsworld14]

So let me get this clear. When Jason a 19-year-old at the time attempts to kill his murderer in front of the man he considers his father he is wrong. He should have found more logical ways to kill the Joker that didn't involve Bruce and he's a big meanie for making his emotional problems Bruce's.

But when Bruce, a grown-ass man in his 30s, hits Jason in the neck with a batarang, it was a mistake he made because emotions were running high. I mean, of course, we should expect the 19-year-old back from the dead who has learned that he basically meant nothing to the people he thought were family to act logically, but not the grown adult man who everyone acts like is more intelligent than god.

I have another question how many times did your mom drop you on the head as a baby to make you this stupid?

[gengwasted]

In which: kaveh doesn’t tell any of his friends when his birthday is

But that doesn't stop Alhaitham from collecting gifts for every year he passed with the architect.