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by Podgajski 3y ago
Well I default to the views of Cate Hall, who wrote the article, and she agrees that it’s all about luck and little about agency. https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/things-you-learn-dating-c... Cate views her own life
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Dude, I’m on the edges. You know that uncomfortable place where no one likes to go. Just because you don’t like what I’m saying doesn’t mean I’m being a jerk about it. And if you can point out anything specific in a comment that was flagged
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by Podgajski 3y ago
My point is to help you not forget your compassion. All this talk about agency is nothing if you don’t have the luck to go along with it. So if you see someone who’s homeless, don’t talk to them about their agency. Just help them.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
I’m saying you don’t even understand what Cate is talking about because even Cate agrees with me: https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/things-you-learn-dating-c... “ Cate views her own life through a frame of responsibil
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by Podgajski 3y ago
> You can’t control the outcome of the coin flip, That’s my point. That’s my only point. The outcome is still always every time going to depend on luck. Because you can flip that coin 100 times and it could land on heads every time when
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Cate believe success is all about luck. She said it herself. https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/things-you-learn-dating-c...
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Luckily, I was born in the 21st-century.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Reading that it sounds like to me she’s unipolar manic. And this is coming from someone who knows about it because I have bipolar disorder. This would also possibly describe her drug addiction If the drugs weren’t drugs that would fuel mani
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by Podgajski 3y ago
This tells me a lot about you as a person. Let me tell you how I would see it. High achievers, knowing that they’re successful based on lock would be more helpful to people who didn’t have good luck. This would turn out to be a more stable
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by Podgajski 3y ago
> You can, just throw the coin again until it lands the way you want. Oh, I didn’t realize life is that simple. I can just keep doing things until they turn out the way I want.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
I don’t even know what’s going on here anymore. You’re artificially predicting a positive outcome. You said “repeat until I get the job“. But you could be very unlucky person and keep sitting there flipping and flipping the coin and never g
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by Podgajski 3y ago
He went from calling something success to “making the most of it”. You’re assuming I’m a nihilist and I’m not. I’m going to die, but I don’t kill myself. In my opinion, if we looked at peoples success and failure as all based on luck, we wo
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Are you sure you want to be quoting Louis Pasteur on this topic? For my recollection, he seem to have created a lot of his own luck out of thin air.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Yes, at any point in time, you can be lucky or unlucky. By changing the odds of an outcome, you’re not changing your luck, you’re changing the odds. Even having 99.999% certainty you can still be unlucky and land in that percent. Probabilit
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Why are you saying that luck is positively based question. And what’s your definition of success.? I mean I put my coffee cup down on a table, do I count that as success?
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Kind of but not really. But truly thank you for hearing what I’m saying. What I’m not saying is that people have good or bad luck in general. That you have a predetermined amount of luck. Maybe this can simplify it even more. You have no ag
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Your interpretation of my comments is negative. I’m not saying you can’t change your opportunity in life, I’m saying that if luck has anything to do with your success or failure, then it’s all based on luck, and nothing to do with what oppo
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by Podgajski 3y ago
No, you’re wrong, luck isn’t helped by anything. It’s just luck. You can change all the opportunities you want but if you have bad luck you have bad luck if you have good luck you have good luck. Other words, the odds don’t care about your
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by Podgajski 3y ago
No, I didn’t miss the point of the article, I’m expressing the fact that she totally negates luck in anyone’s life circumstances, that it is all about agency. After all, you have to have some amount of luck to have agency in the first place
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Who says I’m not taking charge of life? I just know the role that luck has to play in life as well. That way when I’m not lucky I don’t keep all that blame on myself or when other people are unlucky I don’t blame them for their failures. Be
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Playing the lottery versus not playing the lottery doesn’t change your luck, it changes your odds. If two people play the lottery the same amount of times and one person wins way more than the other, You would say one person was luckier th
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by Podgajski 3y ago
so what? That doesn’t change what I’m saying.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
The very definition of the word luck goes against what you’re saying. “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.” This is a saying that sounds good, but makes no sense. For example, how do y
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by Podgajski 3y ago
What’s with all the woo hoo here on HN? The very definition of the word luck goes against your “frame it on the wall” feely good saying. “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.” but I gue
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by Podgajski 3y ago
And genetics. Genetics matter. I don’t need drugs to create changes in perception or my visual hallucinations. I need drugs to stop them.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
It’s not 2020 anymore. And by the way, check out bitcoin today. And the ETFs. They’re all selling on the news.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Uhm, Check the ticker today. I hate say I told you so, but I told you so.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Soup isn’t housing. But if I didn’t have any soup and someone imported a Ukrainian and they bought the last can of soup on the shelf, I would be upset.
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by Podgajski 3y ago
This is also the country that the United States CIA initiated a coup against a sovereign government, by their own admission. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état#:... . It’s also the country where
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by Podgajski 3y ago
Yeah, that’s worse. They took hosting AND a job away from someone.

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