3824 pts ยท January 16, 2017
Flies don't see like us, they have compound eyes. Compound eyes are good at seeing lateral motion but not good at seeing depth motion. If you imagine looking at the world through a very grainy computer monitor, you would only notice something when it moved from one pixel to the next. The spider moves directly towards the fly, slowly, so the fly doesn't see anything.
He abused his position of power to gratify himself sexually at the expense of other people's wellbeing. That is literally the definition of a sexual abuser. Imagine you've worked so *so* hard to build up your career and then someone higher up the chain gets naked and masturbates in front of you, blocks your way out of the room, and you know you can say *nothing* about it without damaging or losing your career. Why on earth you feel the need to downplay the seriousness of that I can't fathom.
Yes, the unfortunate fact is that becoming wealthy/powerful actually exacerbates narcissism. Narcissism is formed when our caregivers care more about our external image than our internal reality. Becoming wealthy/powerful makes it much more likely that those around us care about our external image (wealth/power) than our internal self. So narcissism both makes it more likely that we will seek out external "success", and is made worse by achieving that goal!
NPD, it really is that simple.
If you feel like your imperfect self isn't good enough, that's the problem right there. Who told you you have to grow, be better? That's a value, that's an opinion, that's society fucking you up. If it makes you feel bad, you don't have to accept that value. Fuck the growth mindset, fuck being better. We are deeply compromised, because we are products of a deeply compromised universe. Just try to enjoy being a fucked up bald monkey as best you can and grow at whatever pace you choose.
Cis and Trans are Latin prefixes meaning "on this side" / "on the other side" that have been in use in a wide variety of contexts for thousands of years. Taking offence to either is a good indicator that someone is not arguing in good faith.
Bowie flirted with Fascism in '76 while deep in addiction, by '77 he was clean and owned up and said that the accusations against him were rightly levelled but that he was embarrassed by and disavowed his actions. Without excusing the first, I personally believe in recovery.
Doing small kindnesses for your kids is different from letting them do whatever they want. Showing them that kindness is in the world and *also* teaching them to be respectful of others is the way.
Kids are allowed to have their own preferences. Forcing them to accept what you think they should accept is a good way to raise an adult who can't interpret and meet their own needs, and who is thus unhappy. Listen to your kids, they are real people.
If the software industry is unable to achieve a basic level of reliable functionality for all releases as a baseline, then the release process *should* be slowed down by regulation. Testing and QC are consistently under-resourced because the software industry is allowed to pass the cost of failure on to their customers (as used to be the case with bridges). As a software developer myself, bring on the regulation.
People aren't afraid to build bridges because of engineering regulations, they just make sure to build bridges that stay up.
Look up how they prepare cockerels for cock fights. You'll enjoy it.
Monkey neuron activation.
I hope Diogenes is looking down from somewhere appreciating that his burn was so good, people are still repeating it 2000 years later. And I hope that Plato is standing next to him facepalming.
... go hang out with the other special boys in Qanon or something. You fucking pleb.
... to the field. To reiterate, you're a spaz. A pleb. A walking Dunning Kruger graph. You can take your false superiority, and you can...
... there are other standards of proof and think that the medical model is the only valid model shows that you're broadly ignorant...
... your a-priori decision that psychotherapy doesn't work. You might as well call for five sigma. The fact that you're not aware that...
... effectiveness, and b) you're trying to apply a standard of evidence that is literally impossible to apply and using that to prop up...
... out of date with this comparing psychotherapy to homeopathy bullshit.
... study with a huge corpus behind it but you have a feeling it doesn't work. Well thank God for your expertise! You're about 40 years...
You don't *need* a double blind study to support a theory you spaz. Learn some statistics and then fucking grow up. An entire field of...
Dude you're so hilariously far from informed on this. I love your confidence though.
It's really not hard to find studies and meta-studies that disprove your point of view. You may be *reluctant* but you'd also be mistaken.
That's not to say it's universally effective, but to say there's no proof it's better than placebo is just plain untrue.
... know *why* it works, but it's demonstrably effective and in many cases the most effective and cost effective treatment.
With all due respect, this is incredibly wrong. The effectiveness of therapy is very well established in scientific literature. We don't...
... schemes, which do, bit which your political opponents will use against you. Take your pick.
... are getting help. So either you have politically expedient "tough on drugs" policies, which don't work, or unpopular treatment...
Flies don't see like us, they have compound eyes. Compound eyes are good at seeing lateral motion but not good at seeing depth motion. If you imagine looking at the world through a very grainy computer monitor, you would only notice something when it moved from one pixel to the next. The spider moves directly towards the fly, slowly, so the fly doesn't see anything.
He abused his position of power to gratify himself sexually at the expense of other people's wellbeing. That is literally the definition of a sexual abuser. Imagine you've worked so *so* hard to build up your career and then someone higher up the chain gets naked and masturbates in front of you, blocks your way out of the room, and you know you can say *nothing* about it without damaging or losing your career. Why on earth you feel the need to downplay the seriousness of that I can't fathom.
Yes, the unfortunate fact is that becoming wealthy/powerful actually exacerbates narcissism. Narcissism is formed when our caregivers care more about our external image than our internal reality. Becoming wealthy/powerful makes it much more likely that those around us care about our external image (wealth/power) than our internal self. So narcissism both makes it more likely that we will seek out external "success", and is made worse by achieving that goal!
NPD, it really is that simple.
If you feel like your imperfect self isn't good enough, that's the problem right there. Who told you you have to grow, be better? That's a value, that's an opinion, that's society fucking you up. If it makes you feel bad, you don't have to accept that value. Fuck the growth mindset, fuck being better. We are deeply compromised, because we are products of a deeply compromised universe. Just try to enjoy being a fucked up bald monkey as best you can and grow at whatever pace you choose.
Cis and Trans are Latin prefixes meaning "on this side" / "on the other side" that have been in use in a wide variety of contexts for thousands of years. Taking offence to either is a good indicator that someone is not arguing in good faith.
Bowie flirted with Fascism in '76 while deep in addiction, by '77 he was clean and owned up and said that the accusations against him were rightly levelled but that he was embarrassed by and disavowed his actions. Without excusing the first, I personally believe in recovery.
Doing small kindnesses for your kids is different from letting them do whatever they want. Showing them that kindness is in the world and *also* teaching them to be respectful of others is the way.
Kids are allowed to have their own preferences. Forcing them to accept what you think they should accept is a good way to raise an adult who can't interpret and meet their own needs, and who is thus unhappy. Listen to your kids, they are real people.
If the software industry is unable to achieve a basic level of reliable functionality for all releases as a baseline, then the release process *should* be slowed down by regulation. Testing and QC are consistently under-resourced because the software industry is allowed to pass the cost of failure on to their customers (as used to be the case with bridges). As a software developer myself, bring on the regulation.
People aren't afraid to build bridges because of engineering regulations, they just make sure to build bridges that stay up.
Look up how they prepare cockerels for cock fights. You'll enjoy it.
Monkey neuron activation.
I hope Diogenes is looking down from somewhere appreciating that his burn was so good, people are still repeating it 2000 years later. And I hope that Plato is standing next to him facepalming.
... go hang out with the other special boys in Qanon or something. You fucking pleb.
... to the field. To reiterate, you're a spaz. A pleb. A walking Dunning Kruger graph. You can take your false superiority, and you can...
... there are other standards of proof and think that the medical model is the only valid model shows that you're broadly ignorant...
... your a-priori decision that psychotherapy doesn't work. You might as well call for five sigma. The fact that you're not aware that...
... effectiveness, and b) you're trying to apply a standard of evidence that is literally impossible to apply and using that to prop up...
... out of date with this comparing psychotherapy to homeopathy bullshit.
... study with a huge corpus behind it but you have a feeling it doesn't work. Well thank God for your expertise! You're about 40 years...
You don't *need* a double blind study to support a theory you spaz. Learn some statistics and then fucking grow up. An entire field of...
Dude you're so hilariously far from informed on this. I love your confidence though.
It's really not hard to find studies and meta-studies that disprove your point of view. You may be *reluctant* but you'd also be mistaken.
That's not to say it's universally effective, but to say there's no proof it's better than placebo is just plain untrue.
... know *why* it works, but it's demonstrably effective and in many cases the most effective and cost effective treatment.
With all due respect, this is incredibly wrong. The effectiveness of therapy is very well established in scientific literature. We don't...
... schemes, which do, bit which your political opponents will use against you. Take your pick.
... are getting help. So either you have politically expedient "tough on drugs" policies, which don't work, or unpopular treatment...