hedberg10 · HackerTrans

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> A good critical comment teaches us something.

I feel as if I did that. Maybe my writing comes across way differently, maybe my comments are not as direct as they could be - but if that is already too upsetting for this crowd, you will never get any actual critical comments. You will never arrive at any traction, at any truth. Too bad, I expected more here. My error.

Case in point:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says

Nobody replying to me did that. Amazing.

hedberg10

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It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term “carbon footprint" in the early aughts. The company unveiled its “carbon footprint calculator” in 2004 so one could assess how their normal daily life — going to work, buying food, and (gasp) traveling — is largely responsible for heating the globe. A decade and a half later, “carbon footprint” is everywhere.

“This is one of the most successful, deceptive PR campaigns maybe ever,” said Benjamin Franta, who researches law and history of science as a J.D.-Ph.D. student at Stanford Law School.

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https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...

The term was popularized by a $250 million advertising campaign by the oil and gas company BP in an attempt to move public attention away from restricting the activities of fossil fuel companies and onto individual responsibility for solving climate change.[3][4]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint

I have so many bridges to sell!

hedberg10

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"Hit the moving target" while spaceship shakes about violently.

"Swipe up and hold to eject!" chirps Alexa as we plunge 200 feet in 2 seconds...

hedberg10

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They don't do their part because they are not expected to. That is my problem with the "disease" label. That is my problem when talking about homelessness. That is my problem when talking about addiction.

And there are people who make a good living keeping it exactly this way, making bank in the wake of the moral outrage of the "helpers".

hedberg10

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Fair point. My own character traits certainly color my viewpoints.

hedberg10

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It removes the victim mindset.

My background is a recovering asshole, partially failing, aka the son in the article.

hedberg10

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I have seen the homeless as people to be pitied and helped. Just weak people, down on their luck. So you help them, right?

I let a homeless man sleep in the hallway of my building. He took a shit in front of my door.

Now if I had seen the homeless as what they actually are, maybe weak, maybe helpless, but still people with agency who can be absolute assholes, that wouldn't have happened.

And I hate that this is overlooked. Maybe if the parents in the article wouldn't have fallen into this trap, their son would still be alive.

The assumption everyone downvoting seems to make is that I don't have compassion or as you do, I see them as "weak", "lazy" or "attention seeking" (notice how you are seeing them as that, not me).

I can have compassion and ask them to do their part. That actually solves the problem.

hedberg10

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Never mentioned Crohn's. Why are you bringing that up? Same with the comment above above: Ask yourself, why are you deflecting, why are you removing agency?

Let's say depression is a purely biological problem, the chemical imbalance (it isn't), take a pill and be be healed! Right?

Now who sells that pill? Who lobbied to have depression seen as a disease?

Who invented the CO2 footprint? BP.

hedberg10

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> depression is imaginary

Nice strawman

> The kids killed in Syria and Afghanistan should've helped themselves

Never mentioned kids in warzones

> But yeah life is harsh and the world is shit. And death is inevitable.

Make an effort, coward.

hedberg10

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> my cousin had been taken so young?

He wasn't taken. He took himself. Exercise: Everytime you remove agency, reintroduce it.

"I am depressed". No, you are depressing yourself. "I am helpless". No, you are making yourself helpless. These are active processes. Let's get more controversial: "I am being bullied". No, you are letting people bully you.

I know this is harsh. I know the societal memes and phrases are the warm place. A sigh, the Soma of "Nothing can be done" or "Somebody needs to do something!!" is not a solution but paralysis.

You can read it in the article: The parents did everything for the addict, he did nothing himself. It didn't work out now, did it? Never does.

(Not absolving the Sacklers of their guilt, that is a separate issue)

hedberg10

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Novel? Ho, ho, how quaint. If you'd made a dent in the hard sciences by then, I'd be impressed.

hedberg10

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You're welcome, friend.

hedberg10

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Air travel is still great if you fly first class, which if I remember correctly, is exactly as expensive as air travel was in the good old days.

hedberg10

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https://www.harvard.com/book/dying_for_a_paycheck_how_modern...

"Management" is a public health crisis like cancer, diabetes or heart disease. Nothing else and nothing more.

Anecdotal: In the Interview I found this in, Pfeffer cites a colleague who asked managers what books they read about their job: None. They were not reading at all.

hedberg10

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You're right, it should have it's own name. It's much closer to drug use. Constantly context switching with high emotionality. "Dopamine streaming"?

It takes a lot longer to put out an inflammatory book and it's harder to actually write one, because it has to be a whole book, not just 3 paragraphs. There was a lot less data easily accessible, meaning you had to have instincts of a seasoned craftsman or luck. The medium itself really did help us out for a long time.

hedberg10

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They are getting the size of walls now, so I'm ready to live out Fahrenheit 451.

hedberg10

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Well, I'll have you know I graduated summa cum laude from Lemönade Ständ Universität, which is a very prestigious institution in Luxemburg, when I was 6.

hedberg10

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Every company has a shrine to vital things that can not break under any circumstances. We have a holy Win7 Thinkpad.

Often there are gurus too and monks live in the caves next to the relics, trying to guard the sacred grounds and spreading the gospel.

hedberg10

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Let's identify the problems here:

  Long work hours
  -which might or might not be bullshit

  Addicting novelty seeking
  -small dopamine hits 
  -and it's enablement
    -phones
    -never ending scrolling
    -being rich to have access

  Procrastination
  -mix of fear, uncertainty, belief it will be better at a 
  later time

I believe all of these should be tackled individually.

hedberg10

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Well now youre doing exactly what I described. You make my suggestions into a to do list and feel bad.

The point is to feel better. Thats the start of everything. Not "I have accomplished all tasks, now I can feel good".

Notice how I didnt even define what a "good" sleep pattern is and what you made of it, then proclaiming that to be unreachable, feeling worse. Maybe a good sleep schedule for you is to sleep during the day? Who cares. Its whatever makes you feel good. The second you judge yourself, you lose.