MarsAscendant

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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> Why must everything be a "company" killer? I wonder if it's the fact that... 1. ...the current idea of superiority is absolute domination on the market (see: monopoly), 2. ...the age we live in promotes being only the BE
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I wasn't aiming to convince anyone. Sometimes, I find calling something out as bullshit important enough to speak up, even if I have nothing else. For what it's worth, I'm not buying that altruism is just another conduit for
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Are those "specific, long-considered reasons" revolve around your religious belief? If so, could you share them? I'm an atheist, and I'm looking to understand the mindset of people who are religious. It was never self-ev
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Thank you. I'm still having trouble visualizing it, though. I reckon it's the kind of an idea where, if you don't give me a clear-enough image, I'm stuck no matter how well you pick your words others. Not to put any kind
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> It sounds like you think already have all the answers. Not all, but the ones I have, I'm fairly confident in. > I didn't feel upset or frustrated > it makes me want to not engage a moment longer with you I guess it&#x27
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
...oh brother. That types overviews describes, like, half my disorder arsenal. Probably not a good idea, to self-diagnose online.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Oh, but bullshit. Comparing altruism to narcissism is so entirely self-centered, it fails to encompass the sheer idea of the fact that people do things for other people that bear no benefit to themselves. And don't even start the whole
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I believe the self-test works because the person treats narcissism as a source of their special status, thus conforming to their desired false image. In other words, it makes them special, so they happily admit to it, because being special
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
My mother, I suspect, is some level of narcissistic. She can be generally okay, and even nice to be around on occasion, but if there's a hint of her being in the wrong, she becomes exponentially more defensive. "Never happened&q
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I'm familiar with the structure of a general outlook on a country's performance and the political structure behind it. What I'm unfamiliar with is what you as the source of the issues the US – and, presumably, its foreign pol
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> You, as a nation I'm Russian. > sorry if it hurts You aren't.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
He did say "CIA", not "FSB".
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
It's taking things to an extreme – like automatically mistrusting the source because it seems to attempt playing the reader's heartstrings – that's a defining characteristic of the Internet era. Not everyone makes up their st
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Sounds like OP's pissed and he's ready to slice... ...some of the NPCs that are in his way. (Yeah, there's another song that has "He's making a list, and he's checking it twice".)
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
While I believe to understand the general idea behind the theory as applied to real life, I'm struggling with a few concepts. What are local minima, in relation to the real life? Are those the "places", mentally speaking, whe
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
We're born into presumptions. We grow up surrounded in presumptions. We live through a life full of presumptions. We die still surrounded by presumptions. I think it's safe to say that most people act as if those presumptions are
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Is that Americans as a nation? Americans as a state? Americans as people? Americans as the leaders that claim to represent those people?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I like that better. That said, imagine the office: — "It's PICNIC again, guys" — groans all around
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
For those curious: PEBKAC == "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair", means you, the user, are the cause of the issue, not the hardware or the software
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
In this case, you don't want to downgrade.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I've been thinking about that lately. A couple of months back, I went through an existential crisis. I couldn't find a universal, cosmological reason for being, and, therefore, for doing anything productive. I asked myself: to wha
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> And if the prior posters statement gets you into an existential crisis, I'd start reading up on the stoics, buddhists, etc... Not that it's not a good advice (I'm quite enjoying Meditations by Marcus Aurelius), but I&#
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
This kind of attitude, diminishing of the person's feelings, isn't helping said person overcome their trouble with keeping working. Not everyone's built with the kind of internal drive that makes you go for it without much he
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
What about the jittery performance?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
...Christ. DMCA against a plain-text list of domains? What is this, Shadowrun ?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> You mean this police force will do nothing wrong and treat suspects fairly ? I'm failing to see what provoked such a response, given the comment you're replying to.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I've been thinking about specified breaks. My idea was: a 5- or 10-minute break every hour, away from the laptop, doing anything at all. I've noticed that, once AFK, I have my mind back: it springs back, outputs ideas, regains its
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your view on this. I feel, with a certain definitiveness, that I need a schedule. Rather than working on a strict task-to-task basis, I feel like what I need is an obligation: "Do project X at 10, for at least an hou
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Glad to hear things worked out for you because you'd made a better choice. Shame that it came to that, of course, but once you're in a rut, the only good thing I reckon I can do is praise your efforts towards getting out. :) What
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
What do you use it for? I haven't noticed any information on shoe-wearing, but I did notice a whole section on knot-tying.

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