How do you guys ensure the character of a neighbourhood remains in tact? That's the only thing I see wrong when people do this. Banging up a cheap white/grey box that just looks so incongruous with all of the older surrounding homes.
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Anyway, don't let it get to you. I'd actually be a bit angry if this happened to me. Someone who is just out of college in their first job needs a leader to guide them and some basic mentorship - not this kind of shit.
I always assumed there was a slight degree of strength variance due to age, humidity of growth region, etc - but maybe having your own tester might come in handy for certain structural engineering cases where accuracy is crucial.
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L-theanine is fantastic too with my morning coffee. Alertness without the jitters.
Remote work is here to stay.
Rents go up as over-leveraged landlords will have to pay back rising interest rates (QE is tapering already now).
Climate issues, real and not so real, will be used to achieve the control agenda of established power in the same way the pandemic was.
The culture wars will continue humming away in the foreground, distracting us from our declining quality of life and the transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes taking place before our eyes.
Overall, it will get worse as our current predicament perhaps needs to.
The term "acid casualty" exists for a reason. I've known a few people that over-indulged and became detached weirdos and never came back.
It's not a 'wives tale' as someone here said. Take acid by all means. Just know that you could become a despondent ghoul if you go too hard and frequently.
I always read him as saying that the valuing of achievement itself comes from the depression/burnout society he observes in his native South Korea. Ie, we only obsess over achievement in the first place because society is so stratified and the stakes are so high if you fail.
I think he overall has a distaste for what he calls the 'achievement subject', and is more aligned with people like Baudrilliard in favouring individuation through developing a contemplative and very singular personal identity.
And before the strawmen start piling up - that doesn't mean all crypto is forever useless, but right now crypto it is absolutely over-invested in relative to liquidity.
Gun to head? I think it seems that 'inflation' is not really inflation - but a kind of profit tax that seems to be being priced in to charge more for things because everyone else is doing it. A lot of debt was paid down with the stimulus, rents/real estate are frickin skyrocketing, so it's difficult for me to believe that there is a huge surge of demand because everyone is suddenly flush.
As for the the supply chain issues / trade war / materials shortage - again, that doesn't seem to be inflationary or a demand shock, but a temporal supply-side issue not being able to keep up with regular demand as things reboot.
Anyway, Murch put a lot of his thoughts about both editing and sound into a book called 'In the Blink of an Eye', which is still read by film students today. One passage that always stuck with me is an informal rule that Murch gave himself after he discovered something odd about the interplay between sound and audience immersion. After a lot of experimentaiton, Murch found that in any 'moment' of a film (say 3 - 7 seconds), an audience can only process 2-3 layers of sound playing at once.
For example, Michael Corleone goes to meet Moe Greene and they're walking through the lobby. We hear footsteps, the elevator ding, and the atmos of the hotel. If Murch had added the sound of he luggage of the bell-boys or some guests arguing in the rooms, it would be too overwhelming for us and the verisimilitude of the film would become compromised.
I guess I'm mentioning Murch because this informal sound rule was always independent of speech from the actors, which he doesn't treat as a layer of sound. To me, this may be a very practical example of what these researchers seem to be finding: that there is indeed some parallel processing going on with speech and sound in our auditory cortex.
This reads as borderline creepy and sociopathic. If I discovered a friend of mine did this to me I'd find it really needy and a bit unnerving.
OP - you really just need to actually chill. Throw a party like others said is a good start - but don't be a weirdo about it and overthink all this shit.
I made lifelong friends at this age by going out to shows/parties - occasionally taking recreational drugs and baring souls to one another. 20 years later we don't do any of that stuff, but we're still close and just as no bullshit as back then.
Huge talent though and I hope the guy can do something cool again.
If one mentions it in a genuine way that is contextual to the discussion, then it is entirely appropriate. But if it is blithely and thoughtlessly tacked on to a preceding statement (which, let's face it, happens), then it gradually becomes a platitude and empties the acknowledgement of any charge or primacy when others are mentioning their privilige in a considered and good faith way.
I'm sure there will be more versions of the handbook over the years.
Does what is reported by the media equate to the sum total of US malfeasance? I sometimes wonder if there is an Overton's Window for the public's appetite for corruption and exposure of systemic exploitation.
> China doesn't share the same values as the West. The individual is deemphasized for the collective good, as defined by the current CCP elite of any decade.
Could the 2 power structures have different approaches to how the individual is de-emphasised for collective good? Perhaps the US has a more diffused and opaque strategy of achieving the same end? I say this because Americans signal opportunity and the virtues of social agency to one another at all levels of society - but each time I travel there it seems like a social nightmare where few are actually contented once you get past the small talk.
Ah yes .. the oblivion>reality optimisation the modern world has been gifted. Never ceases to create interesting use cases.
You're smarter than me with trading/finance. I cannot educe much sense from any of it these days - and don't have the kahunas to trade on vibe.
Weirdly, my only finance buddy (buys shares for super companies) actually cautiously observes a company's history and their management before investing in stocks. Maybe that'll become the move again once the asset bubble collpases.
I see what you mean about money floating around. But does it ever reach a point where there is a common sense counter-weight that maybe the latest pets.com is not worth the GDP of a small country.