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It's common to advise young people that Working hard and grinding when you are young, then having relatively calm and relaxation life for the rest of the life.
I think the relaxation never comes, if you work to death right now then still there is a pretty good chance you would be doing same 10 years from now. I believe ther should be balance between work and life no matter what age.
Also working hard doesn't get you anywhere. You have to also be an asshole that claws your way out of the bottom of the bucket of crabs.
There's so many really good hard workers at dead end jobs that get treated like shit.
About relaxation. I've found that I can't relax untill I've chilled for 2 weeks. Until then I have a wheel in my head that just won't stop spinning. But after that 2 weeks I transform.
That "growth" is inherently a good thing to do and if you aren't trying to grow as a person everyday then you're not living 'correctly'
Can't even "grow" when your parents destroyed your self-confidence.
Have you considered growing past that? /s. Stupid joke aside, wholly relatable for lots -- including myself -- i imagine.
the industrial revolution and its consequences. also the enlightenment, fuck those guys
One of the best takeaways from the Wizard of Earthsea books. Ambition can be poison.
"Natural" means healthy
That attention span exists as a relevant concept and that people are ruining it with technology.
If our attentiveness is struggling it is undoubtedly because life is harder and crueler these days.
Our attention, if we are being treated humanely and sustainability by the societal conditions around us, is fine (we aren't though, this being the issue).
edit Same thing with all the "kids these days" things about kids not being able to focus, being a kid these days has got to feel hopeless in a million ways that are too crushing to focus on not the least of which are the adults around you condescending your fears of the future even as they destroy it.
life is harder and crueler these days.
I think you just found the popular belief that I disagree with.
Compared to most of human history, life now is pretty good. This article uses childhood mortality (globally 4.4% versus 50% for most of human history) to make the point. There's still lots of room to improve - the EU has a tenth the global average - but humanity has made incredible progress on that front over the past two centuries.
Looking at a smaller time scale, the human development index is trending upward everywhere since 1990.
I don't think it's that life is hard or less hard... I think it's that it's lost its meaning and reasoning.
Like farming and hunting gave reason. Being able to buy a home by working gave a reason... Etc.
But now for many people they just basically work for other people and eat shitty food and sleep. Nothing really comes back to them...
I can think of two relevant things that bear upon your attention here.
Stress, which makes your attention kind of jump around.
Temptation, which makes your attention go places without you choosing it. It's a kind of loss of control.
People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.
it's more about which one is better for more situations, no? it is much harder for different situations in the same area to dynamically decide which economic system is better.
Not really. It's entirely possible to pick and choose. We chose a socialist model for fire department because the capitalist model proved disastrous. Many countries successfully did the same for healthcare, retirement, and all sorts of things. At the same time, capitalism is great when you want a million choices on TV to watch or a grocery store with a whole aisle of different types of cookies.
To me, the difference is the impact of failures. If someone starts a company making a new type of cookie and it proves not to be profitable, it goes bankrupt. Unfortunate, but ultimately not a big deal. If someone has cancer and curing them isn't profitable, you can't just give up. That person's life is more important than profit.
welfare capitalism is still capitalism as even firefighters are still subjugated by class and capital
Cynicism isn't inherently more mature than believing that things can be made better. For a lot of people "everything is fucked, nothing matters" is a way of absolving themselves from the responsibility and personal risk involved in actively trying to make the world a better place.
I agree. And I think that cynicism is just easier. The claims of maturity part is mere justification.
They get mad at the very idea that people can work together and successfully create change, despite numerous historical examples. It's actively immature to be wholly cynical
I think lots of people believe that the ends can justify the means.
But to me, that expression means the same thing as, "Whatever causes a good outcome must not be bad." And I not only disagree with it, I don't even think it makes sense.
I heard a story about a guy who was stabbed in a mugging and during surgery for the stabbing, found out that he had cancer, which saved his life.
But nobody is going to go to the judge during the mugger's trial, and say that his decision to stab the guy was "justified," and so he should be released to stab again with his completely justified stabbing history.
No, the things that are justifiable are those which are good and informed actions. You can't justify bad or ignorant actions simply because of luck.
I agree with you, but I think your example is lacking as the stabber purely intended to mug and not uncover cancer.
That GUIs of FOSS applications are less easily usable than GUIs of proprietary software.
I some cases it's true that FOSS are less easily usable.
Always found libreoffice menus confusing almost never able to straightforward find how to get what I want. Also same with gimp.
After about a year of dabbling with selfhosting I have to disagree. Some do have decent UIs but UX for FOSS is often really bad, you can tell the person coding the apps is a really good programmer but has no concept of UX, I wish I could help them somehow but any suggestion is often met with "uh? Why explain that in the UI? It's already in the documentation!" or similar
Windows 11 royally ruined their context menus even when I was still using it, since I was a Windows user since I can remember.
“Less usable” often means “not used to it” since every application has a learning curve. There are some design standards, sure, but the only way to get used to anything is practice.
Also, a lot of FOSS lets you customize a good chunk of the GUI and shortcuts!
that sex is binary or immutable. for anyone that believes this, get on HRT for a year and tell me if you still feel like your sex is identical to what you started out with
Karma.
If it existed, then how come bad people get away with a lot of shit?
Being the bigger man.
I don't outright disagree with it to where I think it's not useful, but I don't agree with it either. There are some specific situations and circumstances at play where maybe being the bigger man wasn't worth it. It's hard to tell sometimes but I've been in situations where having been the bigger man just meant more bullshit for me in the end. Than, having done something right then and there that would've solved the issue and prestige not mattering.
Pick literally any religion.
Pick literally any belief.
That.
The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The pilot wave theory makes much more intuitive sense, needs les hypothesis, was supported by a lot of famous scientist in the early days of quantum and is mathematically equivalent.
Epstein killed himself. (same for Gary Webb)
Too many people think suicide is rare, or extreme act. But it's common as dirt especially for people who's life is ruined. It's a joke in movies that "new fish" looking at long sentences kill themselves, but somehow when it happens to someone notable, it's mysterious and suspicious.
Also, the idea that there was a conspiracy to murder Epstein in prison and cover it up by powerful people is an extraordinary claim with the flimsiest possible evidence.
When the concept of suicide was first introduced to me, I thought it was stupid. Like people going through breakups or like have slight stuggles in life and end their lives. I was like 8-12 or something like that, and I remember thinking like: what an idiot, especially if its like a famous person with money. My mom who told me about some famous celebrity jumping off a building in an apprant suicide and my mom suggested a conspiracy theory of someone actually pushing them off the building like a mob hitjob or some shit.
Then...
I got depression...
I understand it now...
People who never have depression will never truely understand, truely feel it...
I think it's kind of irrelevant if he committed suicide or got murdered. The important thing is that it was allowed. Powerful people (cough couch Bill Barr) made the decision to end his life, one way or the other, to protect their own pedophile asses.
Sometimes pressure is used to make someone kill themselves. I consider that murder.
The Fed do this to people. Mafia and gangs do this to people.
Killing yourself in a high security 24/7 surveillance prison and the footage is surprisingly missing a few minutes.
Are you kidding?
Yes, suicide in itself is not rare but in these circumstances it's fishy as hell and Epstein had dirt on a lot of people...
It's just soooo weird there's no footage of the time he died. But I do agree a cover up for this case would be a difficult thing. But let's not forget they spent millions of dollars redacting the epstein files so anything is possible.
Karma
Free Will
Materialism (as in, matter being the foundation of reality)
Words
