silveroriole

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by silveroriole 6y ago
I tried it. The majority of videos for a new user account came up as either incredibly inappropriate videos of tweens or incredibly racist videos of tweens (seriously, I was surprised at how many racist/pedophile jokes came up). Maybe
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by silveroriole 6y ago
> We need to be building massive amounts of housing in city centers to let as many people live in them that would like to. How many people would ‘like’ to live in a city centre if they didn’t have to for work?
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by silveroriole 6y ago
> which could very negatively impact lives. Yeah, but the lives of people that the worker who actually produces the citation/form/record/whatever will never see, doesn’t care about, and just views as an annoyance who’s ma
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by silveroriole 6y ago
A try it yourself experiment: simply start giving accurate time estimates to project managers, and see how long it takes them to call you a pessimist :)
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by silveroriole 6y ago
That’s pretty harsh to your wife, isn’t it? Your life with her is “just a bunch of pain and boredom”? It would make a difference to her if you die today or 40 years from now.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
> it’s very difficult to maintain this lifestyle Serious question, why bother? Any normal job would have you working less (assuming it’s true that you never get a free weekend or holiday, which I kind of doubt). What do you get out of th
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by silveroriole 6y ago
“Particularly among women to men” is a bit disingenuous, unless you genuinely aren’t aware that “shit test” is PUA/redpill terminology.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
CBT gives me the tools to do all of this much quicker. I simply write down anxious or critical thoughts and examine/interrogate them on paper. There seems to be no point in sitting with my eyes closed for twenty minutes when I can effe
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I really like ‘mind tools’ like writing down thoughts/worries to get them out of my head. But sitting still never helped me develop them. Reading about and practicing using the tools did. I guess though if meditation is simply a differ
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Do you think there is an advantage in using meditation to achieve a state where you can manage your thoughts, vs other techniques like CBT? It seems to me that most people don’t need the abstract/spiritual concepts like there not being
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Yeah, I agree and I don’t understand the parent comment. As far as I know meditation is about NOT ruminating on thoughts, so a happy person surely shouldn’t become depressed by doing it. Sure, for most people, being told to sit in silence a
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by silveroriole 6y ago
> It has literally re-programmed my mind How so? What’s different? I’ve never been able to get a clear explanation of the benefit of meditation.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Thank goodness we can get aerobic exercise in while gardening. If ‘twere not so, gardening might be - horror - unproductive! “The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Yeah, if you get a 4-day week job or a remote job you can work a lot fewer hours and it’s much easier than FIRE. Other people are ‘hustling’ or scrimping and saving nonstop so they can have leisure time later. Why not skip the hustle and go
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Yeah, what on earth? I’m working fewer hours because once I get a reasonable amount of work done (i.e. about what I would have done in the office) I close my laptop and stop for the day. I’m shocked by the number of people saying they’re wo
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by silveroriole 6y ago
This comment is blowing my mind. Please name some other books you’ve read. It would be astonishing if you’d somehow avoided the most common tense in literature your whole life!
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I don’t really subscribe to stoicism (and a lot, but not all, of mindfulness and CBT) for precisely this reason: it seems to me to be telling people that it doesn’t matter if their needs aren’t being met, the real problem is that they have
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I think this is why lots of people are unhappy nowadays. Think about life in a small community. It’s easy to be the guy who is special because he’s the best at baking, or juggling, or playing an instrument, or telling stories. Whatever it i
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by silveroriole 6y ago
A company isn’t a community. You don’t belong to it and the togetherness only lasts as long as your boss says it will. Ultimately it’s in the company‘s best interest to try and get more value out of you than they pay you for, if they think
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by silveroriole 6y ago
> I have some friend who have been working at a company who went remote-first and after 5 years they do not feel identified with the company anymore. It's just a job. You could work for someone else and you wouldn't even notice
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by silveroriole 6y ago
We grasp it, but we went into this career so that we would have to do the bare minimum of it.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
And in the UK, where average houses are less than 1000sqft? :)
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Huge and well-equipped? Why? I work at my dining table. It’s still better than going to the office. Also your office had a 3D printer and gym... you must realise your office is absurdly better than most people’s offices. Most people just ha
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by silveroriole 6y ago
For a while when I was frustrated with coworkers I dreamed of joining a company that openly said they fired the bottom x%. I think Netflix had a presentation along those lines. I’m older and less into the idea now, but it might attract youn
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Waiting for the switch version! I have a strange feeling I won’t like it though. All the dialogue I’ve seen is too self-consciously ‘wacky’. Although I don’t know to what extent that’s influenced by the fact that I see it via youtubers play
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Hmm, I agree the writing in games can be on par with the writing in comic books and superhero movies, but I’m not sure that’s a compliment :)
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by silveroriole 6y ago
The older I get the more I find all games to have horrible writing. Even games I used to love like ME are painful on replay. Most conversations boil down to “I don’t want to do a thing.” “But I’m Commander Shepard and I’m picking the blue o
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Funnily enough, I’m the boring 9-5 suburb guy, it’s my parents who aren’t. I think my parents are more interesting and skilled than I might ever be. So I look at myself and I’m like, really, was I worth it? What else could they have done wi
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by silveroriole 6y ago
It sucks knowing that you’re the reason your parents gave up hobbies, dreams, money, travel etc that they could otherwise have had. I know, like you, parents usually think it’s worth it but it’s not nice to think that my mom would probably
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by silveroriole 6y ago
A funny side-effect of this that I ran into: customers who went to tortuous lengths to avoid requesting a new page or button, because they’d had that past experience of ‘just a button’ taking 2 weeks. They still wanted all the new functiona

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