Avoiding situations that allow others to define me on their terms.
Avoiding situations that allow others to define me on their terms.
Tory voters say they prefer Tory government. There’s the real headline.
Yet that’s several times the rate in comparably sized areas in Europe.
Breaking News: Mexico unveils space laser technology
Holy shit. I had no idea it was that bad in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and New Mexico.
Mexican government data shows that at least 102,400 homicides have been reported in that period
Holy shit. I had no idea it was that bad.
Because their plan A of flooding the public discourse with stories about how we’ll all die if we don’t “return to office” has failed.
I like how no one ever suspects Gen X of anything—good or bad.
Phew, for a moment there I thought you were trying to take the gratuitous murder out of games
The lack of a visual imagination that you can control is called aphantasia.
Kudos to the new Finnish administration for strengthening their position. Hopefully this trend will continue.
And shame on the Putinite vassals in the US House of Representatives and their vassal leader Trump for depriving the Ukrainians of both materiel and moral support.
He’s just repeating what history, Ukrainians, and all free people who share a border with Russia are screaming at the top of their lungs.
Yet again a bellicose, authoritarian power in Europe unilaterally seizes the land of their neighbor and all the would-be allies are slow to act or even try to appease the aggressor. Where have I heard this before?
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Yes, and at least in my case, it’s because I feel like I can either be passionate about my work at the risk of some entitled asshole swooping in and destroying everything I’ve worked so hard to build, or I can just put in the absolute minimum and try to be indifferent. Neither option is attractive or motivating.
And then on top of that, entitled assholes aren’t just destroying my work, they seem to be determined to destroy anything and everything that matters. And for what??? So yeah, I’m maybe a little burnt out.
Maybe it’s the people who are judgmental and intolerant of how others communicate (or don’t) who are wrong?
Something I did wrong for many years, decades even, was to focus exclusively on trying to improve the areas where I struggle compared to normies. I always felt bad because I found it so hard to do simple things that were easy for most people.
Gradually, I realized there are things I can do that the normies can’t. So instead of constantly trying to redeem myself by improving the things I suck at, I focus on those things I’m really good at.
For example, if I do a job that is all delivery, where I’m just executing rote tasks that someone else has defined, I’ll struggle. If I do a job that is strategic and/or creative and involves very little rote delivery, I’ll excel.
The problem was that school is mostly rote delivery according to a fixed schedule, and early-career jobs tend to be the same. I really struggled during those times of my life. But once I got to the point where I could get more creative/strategic work, the way my brain works finally became an asset rather than a liability.