Normal activities for a paper cut? I’d you don’t have a compromised immune system, Live your life once you’re done bleeding. Exceptions for sticking your hand in raw sewage.
Agreed. Phone numbers are now people’s de-facto UIDs. And somehow we collectively decided that Big Tech should have free access to this information to construct giant social graphs and analyze as it sees fit. Crazy sh**.
So the decline of SMS definitely has a silver lining. If each siloed messaging app uses its own UIDs, and this data stays out of people’s d** contact lists*, then in theory this is a privacy win.
What I worry about is that the OS gatekeepers, i.e. Google and Apple, will contrive to get apps like Signal and Telegram to populate the mobile contact lists with these new IDs. “So you never lose your data”, etc. Then they can keep triangulating the information and we’re back to square one.
The only failsafe solution is to ban individual users from sharing their friends’ IDs without their consent. Just as the GDPR bans websites from doing exactly the same thing. For that the EU is our only hope as usual.
Ha! So people do audit the edit history! I agree but I also think people swear too much, including me apparently. It’s cheap, it adds nothing, it devalues the language, IMO to drop a fuck or shit or damn is mainly about making the speaker feel better, it does nothing for the reader except undermine the seriousness of whatever they’re reading.
So asterisks felt like a good compromise, d*** it.
My favorite psychology professor likes to discuss the relationship between the level of fakeness in a society and the rise of totalitarianism in that same society. He says that when everybody lies more on a regular basis, even about small things, it lets bad things start to happen. And as the bad things start to happen, these people who lie about little things all the time can easily dupe themselves about the fact the bad things are happening, because they’ve gotten used to investing their mental energy into fake narratives.
Basically each problem gives a person the opportunity to tell the truth about the problem, which usually results in them having to do something about it to assuage their own conscience, or to lie about the problem, which makes space for them to act as if the problem isn’t there. It’s less scary and takes less work to lie, so we do it when we don’t feel like taking on the responsibility of the problem.
Then it becomes a cultural habit — something we do because we see others doing it and we’d rather not be the weird outlier — to lie about small things instead of facing them.
If this cultura of lying expands, it starts to encompass bigger and bigger things.
For example, instead of lying about whether your stepmother’s garlic bread tastes good, now you’re lying about whether you think it’s a good idea for your coworker to be having a third beer at lunch. “Go for it!” you say in a slightly sarcastic tone, telling yourself the sarcastic tone is sufficient feedback to fulfill your duty in this scenario. After all, he’s only a coworker, you tell yourself, actively ignoring the other night when you told him you were his friend.
Now you’re lying to your coworker and lying to yourself about whether you’re lying to your coworker. The lying has expanded.
In any given society, a certain amount of lying is expected. As an autistic, I’ve had a hard time dealing with the fact that the optimal amount of lying might not be zero. But even if it’s not zero, it is very small. And if a society’s culture gets too unbalanced, away from facing things as they come up and toward lying to ignore them instead, then the society starts to degrade.
Then everyone’s perception of the society, as in the sum total of all their experiences interacting with others including those potential interactions they haven’t had yet, starts to skew in terms of the expectation that others will lie to them. Interactions become less valuable, because any given interaction could change out from under you. You can’t trust your neighbor when they say they’ll keep an eye on your yard. You can’t trust your boss when she says you can come to her with anything. You can’t trust your friends to give you honest feedback when you ask for it.
And that state of trust just makes it more tempting to lie. Why be vulnerable with the truth when the people around you are liars? Why trust your own sense that something is wrong if you, yourself, lie all the time?
And this particular psych prof says that the extreme end of that process, of the lies getting bigger and more frequent, in a network effect across a whole society, is genocide and other atrocity.
The lies cause people to check out and when people check out to a sufficient degree they can ignore a genocide, and when people can ignore a genocide, tell themselves there’s nothing they can do to stop it, is when genocide happens.
Sort of like how the human body is always being invaded by pathogens, all day every day. It’s only when the immune system fails to kill those pathogens immediately that an infection occurs.
In the same way, the genocidal impulse is always there, coming out of the darkest and nastiest parts of the human soul. But people’s ability to pay attention, convey and receive accurate information, and fix problems as they see them (which is a result of seeing them clearly enough to be moved to action by them), acts to weed out that impulse continually.
A culture of lying is like a breakdown of the signals used in the immune system. If the T-cells can’t recognize invaders they can’t eat them. A culture of truth-telling puts people into contact with what’s going on, in a way they can’t ignore. And that same culture of truth-telling makes people respect humanity and their own society, making it feel more worth defending from intentional evil, and from unconscious mistake-making and general breakdown.
It’s in you too, Pepsi, like the bubbles that trail up out of your depths. It’s only by keeping a meaningful life going that you prevent yourself from turning rotten and manifesting the evil that is inside you.
My lungs collapsed 6 times near the end of highschool, i am fairly tall and was on the skinnier side, and tall skinny lungs are prone to do that apparently.
They performed surgeries to pop the blebs (blistery things on the lungs i guess) on my lungs and put some powder between my lungs and the rib cage to “glue” them up during the bleb healing. No idea if it was video assisted though.
Haven’t had any serious issue since then. I was training for a marathon before hurting my calf from not stretching, and then i joined a competitive rowing team, so id say no barriers from that standpoint.
For me at least, it seems after an especially violent puking session, my lungs can lightly collapse, or at least there’s a correlation there. This only happened after a night of fairly stiff drinking so i don’t do that anymore.
The surgeries were about 14 years ago, and i can’t imagine how many chest tubes i would have had if i didn’t get them. For me it was great, i hope they help you out similarly.
I have pretty much the exact same experience, but mine was 30 years ago. If I do something extreme I can still get a partial collapse, but they always heal and aren’t too bad. The surgery is, honestly, the worst thing ive ever experienced (this includes later cancer surgeries) but was worth it in the end.
Yeah, now is definitely going to suck, long term it should be better though. Not getting admitted multiple times in a year is nice.
Avoid abusing the morphine drip, eat the shitty food for a few days, and you’re in the clear more or less. Hopefully you have enough visitors coming by to keep you entertained. Either way I’m rooting for you!
The Danish Air raid sirenes allways gives me the creeps, I think it’s the clear sound that gets me. Unlike other sirenes that has a harsha tone, the Danish ones have a almost sterile tone, convaying the feeling of “this sound is vary important, stop now and go Inside. Like a scary Teacher”
Starts at 0:15 and later has a “all clear” tone later on on youtubes
Then again it might just be because I had to listen to it as a kid, and I was a weird ass kid
Like others I think it would make more sense to continue the path of software dev but as someone with more experience in IT and computer repair you usually want to work with a company.
(Prior to the below steps study THE HELL out of the books and the certification itself and be very confident that you could ace the test and fulfill any position that requires the certification, despite not formally having it)
I find it better to mention your knowledge directly in the resume itself instead of solely work experience and certifications (I got my first job like this, didn’t even have a high school diploma or ANY previous work experience, small business give better chances albeit slightly less pay). You can hopefully land at least a beginner job with crappy pay. Once you’re on the payroll you can display and demonstrate your knowledge and work ethic. Hopefully your managers may consider a raise, which often requires certification, which is often paid for by the company when considering that promotion. You may need to ask your employer directly for this route (after building trust and a professional relationship of course). If your employer does not appreciate your work, knowledge and ethics, and you continue to be underpaid for the value you provide, you want to begin looking for another place to work.
I was taught this by my teacher in a class named after and exclusively about the CompTIA certification. Oftentimes it’s companies that pay for an individuals testing+education which is why it is so damn expensive. These corporations have the kind of cash to throw around like that.
A certification I’m looking towards personally is the IPC soldering certification and there are 20 or so books and usually $200-300 a pop. No way in hell is “some guy” gonna pay all that himself because it almost always involves the company he works for.
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