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> I managed to escape those toxic thought patterns by practising empathy as a deliberate activity, and forcing myself to give love and grace to others until it
by nozzlegear 5mo ago
> I managed to escape those toxic thought patterns by practising empathy as a deliberate activity, and forcing myself to give love and grace to others until it felt natural.
> but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed
The juxtaposition of these two statements is amusing.
- daymanstep 5mo agoI think people often make this mistake, where they think they've killed their ego, and then fail to notice when their ego returns. I think people generally underestimate how hard it is to permanently kill their ego. What ends up happening, then, is that a lot of people genuinely believe that they have humility when in actuality they don't.
- balamatom 5mo agoDon't kill your ego. It's innocent. Find who framed it.
- dreambuffer 5mo agoI never said I was better than them, but I can acknowledge that some people are. Even then, only in the domain of software, not in terms of human value.
- nozzlegear 5mo agoSorry, to be clear: I'm not calling you out or judging you. It just made me chuckle.
- balamatom 5mo agoDonkeys are noble animals!
- dreambuffer 5mo agoNo worries, I can see how it would lol