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by zwkrt 4y ago
A little late to the game here. You say “it is about the dishes“ but in the next sentence you yourself claim that it’s actually about your ADHD in your inability to handle other peoples levels of conscientious organization. And I guess that
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Because a bank's code is not the law. Banks handle actual money, for which there is a thousand year history of common law for settling disputes of ownership, debt, theft, collection practices, and insurance.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
My strong-man description of your (I think correct!) feeling is that we all have a very specific lens through with we look at the world. Because all of us have very very limited lenses, but the world is actually quite large and complicated,
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by zwkrt 5y ago
It’s never really about the dishes. The dishes are just a thing in physical space. That isn’t to say that you can’t be Disrespectful with dishes or that one or both people’s behavior and expectations regarding the minutia of the kitchen isn
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by zwkrt 5y ago
My 2c as someone who burned out during the pandemic is that wfh left only the work and no social interaction, as you mention. But I have always been solidly against social media/doom scrolling consumption. For me the burnout stemmed f
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by zwkrt 5y ago
It has its positives and negatives. It’s pretty misleading to couch a prediction about a one time event in percentage terms; remember 538’s confidence that Hillary would win the election in 2016?
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by zwkrt 5y ago
There is a breed of very narcissistic person in our culture that will always find a way to blame their inadequacies and their mistakes on those around them. In high school, if you are a teacher you have quite a lot of authority in the class
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by zwkrt 5y ago
By the author's logic, public transportation also enables binge drinking. I think they just dont like driving drunk rich people as their source of income so they wrote a diary entry about it.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Well ok they'll get sick. People get sick. They'll get way less sick, so that's good!
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by zwkrt 5y ago
On the other hand, if I had this technology and was sufficiently antisocial, I could use it to keep an 'interrogation subject' right on the edge of killing themselves for an extended period of time. I could use it to recruit soldi
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Well I do fully believe that for most people their sense of self worth hinges on having responsibilities and a regular schedule, but that can mean being a mother, volunteering on a regular basis, being a part of your retirement community&#x
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I can imagine the dystopian sci-fi work now, of someone who has been tagged in the governmental credit check system as being 'at risk of suicide'. They are systematically denied access, othered, and subtly offered help for mental
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by zwkrt 5y ago
The root of perfectionism is often a shame feeling that whatever you make will be judged harshly by others. The thought goes something like “well if I keep working on it forever then I will never release it and therefore I will never have t
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by zwkrt 5y ago
He gets a little into the weeds at the end of it, but you would probably enjoy the first couple chapters of Spinoza’s ethics. In the book he’s trying to create a solid quasimarhematical foundation for ethics based in his understanding of ho
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by zwkrt 5y ago
This is a nice tech bubble way of framing it but the oil, plastic, logging, chemical, and agricultural industries will be the ones that get us in the end, and heavy market competition would only make it happen faster.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
But it /is/ evil intent!
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I assume this meant only that their org chart didn’t eventually merge with the police’s. Kind of like SREs at google.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
News of international affairs has never caused me to solve a problem or reduce an anxiety in my own life or the life of thiose around me (quite the opposite), so I do not give it much weight in my mind. Throughout the pandemic there have be
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I’m sure I’m not the only one that was raised in such an environment. I spent most of my 20s really strongly convinced that I should stay in relationships that were not healthy and just “slog it out” because that’s what I had as a template.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
So to summarize, it is useful for variously exfiltrating money out of a country, laundering, and for people who are savvy enough to use crypto but not sensible enough to have a bank account. The point about currency collapse is interesting
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I disagree but I don’t have an incredibly concrete argument, only an intuition that in the case of complex numbers, our mathematical formalism for solving equations proceeded our mathematical intuition about cyclical processes.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
My vote as an amateur mathematician would be “rotational” numbers. Everything having to do with complex numbers secretly (or not so secretly) has to do with angles and rotations, and it would be easy to describe to a class of middle schoole
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Oh no of course we should all be discerning. But TFA talks about pinning self-esteem to the outcomes of projects in the world. I was describing a situation i saw where an individual’s “projects” were their close relationships. People are no
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by zwkrt 5y ago
> It can be a self-indulgence in which one engages at the expense family or friends. It’s even worse if the perfectionism is applied to those around you directly. The thought process is something like “well I hold myself to a high (but m
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Agreed, but the reason this happens is not in a bubble. "User interface design" is not a natural category of design. People in the field will point to "The Design of Everyday Things" as some sort of progenitor of the fie
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Don’t forget bitcoin!
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by zwkrt 5y ago
It makes sense to me. Natural health is enticing because it simplifies the problem of solving your health issues to adjust understanding how certain herbs, mushrooms, etc. affect the balance of your health. Real biology is incredibly compli
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by zwkrt 5y ago
The idea of buying something based on an advertisement and not a need is foreign to me. What is a kind of ad that you consider to be “relevant”? I just block all of them so I might just not be aware of the potential.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Agreeing with the sibling comment, it would be much better if Uber’s CEO was their boss. S could call him every time a restaurant was late on their order, negotiate for sick pay, and ask him to help shield from the shit higher-ups are givin
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I agree mostly but i think that saying “the algorithm is my boss” really does help the discussion along. I had a friend (“S”) who on hard times sighed up to deliver through uber eats. Their entire tenure included no human interaction. S wor

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