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If everyone else seems to be doing fine and only you have the problem maybe you should look a little closer to home to find a resolution.
by rndmio 7y ago
If everyone else seems to be doing fine and only you have the problem maybe you should look a little closer to home to find a resolution.
- artsyca 7y agoEveryone's struggling without knowing it, look at society as a whole and the planet earth, it was the best of times and the worst of times That line of reasoning doesn't work on a 10x programmer like myself, I'm above the mere mortals. Save it for the likes of Adam Neumann
- artsyca 7y agoThis is exactly the reason why our industry suffers from gross diversity problems -- everyone who 'fits in' telling everyone else it's their fault for not fitting in -- oh sweet irony of ironies bring on the downvotes
- CardenB 7y agoYou are literally taking a recent publication about attentional mechanisms in the brain and hijacking them to explain why you're annoyed with t-shirts, then turning it into a commentary on society. I think you could use some perspective. This research is not so concrete that the application even makes sense.
- artsyca 7y agoConfirmation Bias! Tell me you never make the evidence fit the facts and not the other way around?
- ozzmotik 7y agoi do that sometimes, but i do my best to acknowledge that im going to be doing so before doing it, rather than after :)
- artsyca 7y agoMy theory is that we've thrown out a large part of our humanity along with the bath water and technology of today is akin to the fire granted us by the mythical Prometheus. We're so busy dancing amongst the flames in our rags we don't notice that it's our humanity burning
- ozzmotik 7y agoi am not entirely disinclined to agree with that statement, at least as far as the uneducated masses go. but there are certainly those that know how to properly wield the fire and work towards the progression of humanity and i think it's somewhat silly to entirely discount them as they are the ones who have gotten us this far.
- artsyca 7y agoYea, they're the ones wearing the puffy vests -> https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/moncler-canada-goose-patagonia-puffer-vest https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/monc...
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- artsyca 7y agoAnd by the way, I'm not the only one suffering, check out this poor guy who permanently deleted his Facebook account by taking a dive off the fourth floor -- https://digg.com/video/qin-chen-facebook-employee-suicide https://digg.com/video/qin-chen-facebook-employee-suicide None of us an island -- it's called interdependence