Yeah, that's sort of a refutation of "perception creates reality" -- whether you perceive bees positively or negatively they can still sting you and those stings can still kill you under the right conditions.
Actually, the same goes for humans. Many people think it's strangers who are dangerous, but statistically speaking you're more likely to be hurt by a friend, family member, intimate partner, or acquaintance -- the people who you think are friendly and safe.
It's one of the difficult things you have to accept if you work in science, technology, or engineering, that objective reality is the final arbiter of objective truth. No matter how much or how persuasively you argue your point, if your code doesn't compile then your code doesn't compile, if your mechanism doesn't do what it needs to do then it doesn't do what it needs to do, if your chemical formula doesn't result in the chemicals you need then it doesn't result in the chemicals you need.
I knew a guy back in school who was deeply autistic, but his brain went around in circles. He'd get the wrong answer on a test requiring math, and he'd argue that he did the correct things to get the answer even though he obviously didn't. If he took those answers and tried to apply them to a real-world situation, he'd just have the wrong outcome.
Now that doesn't mean that perception is meaningless. How you personally choose to see the world is going to affect how you interact with the world and that's going to have a big effect on your outcomes. For example, if you apply for a job because you think you can get it but don't apply for a job because you think you can't, only one of those two choices can result in you getting the job. If you try to make a new friend because you think people are good to know, or if you lock yourself in, only one of the two is likely to result in meeting new friends. The same person in the same situation can feel bad about a situation or good about a situation based on how they see it, and that has a big effect on how their lives go. Therefore there's a subjective truth that can be somewhat pliable, and it can change the way you behave in ways that have an effect on the objective world.
In spite of my examples, the world is more complicated than just seeing everything positively and acting as if everything will always turn out ok. The stereotype of the naive young person heading to the big city only to be crushed by the reality is something that actually happens, and negative perceptions don't exist just to hurt you, but to help you identify threats and protect yourself from things that can actually hurt you. My autistic friend never graduated despite his perception being that he answered the questions correctly. Another friend came to the big city from a relatively safe relatively affluent small town and was shocked when his car was broken into and all his stuff was taken.
Part of life is navigating these paradoxes -- you have to accept that objective reality doesn't care what you think is true, but your subjective perception of reality changes how objective reality plays out at times. You have to accept that being cynical means you pass up things that could have been good, but being optimistic means you accept things that turn out to be bad, and there's no math equation you can run to determine exactly how to live because there is no one correct answer. Objective and subjective are both true in a sense, cynical and optimistic are both true in a sense, and in different sense all 4 are also false in a sense.
Actually, the same goes for humans. Many people think it's strangers who are dangerous, but statistically speaking you're more likely to be hurt by a friend, family member, intimate partner, or acquaintance -- the people who you think are friendly and safe.
It's one of the difficult things you have to accept if you work in science, technology, or engineering, that objective reality is the final arbiter of objective truth. No matter how much or how persuasively you argue your point, if your code doesn't compile then your code doesn't compile, if your mechanism doesn't do what it needs to do then it doesn't do what it needs to do, if your chemical formula doesn't result in the chemicals you need then it doesn't result in the chemicals you need.
I knew a guy back in school who was deeply autistic, but his brain went around in circles. He'd get the wrong answer on a test requiring math, and he'd argue that he did the correct things to get the answer even though he obviously didn't. If he took those answers and tried to apply them to a real-world situation, he'd just have the wrong outcome.
Now that doesn't mean that perception is meaningless. How you personally choose to see the world is going to affect how you interact with the world and that's going to have a big effect on your outcomes. For example, if you apply for a job because you think you can get it but don't apply for a job because you think you can't, only one of those two choices can result in you getting the job. If you try to make a new friend because you think people are good to know, or if you lock yourself in, only one of the two is likely to result in meeting new friends. The same person in the same situation can feel bad about a situation or good about a situation based on how they see it, and that has a big effect on how their lives go. Therefore there's a subjective truth that can be somewhat pliable, and it can change the way you behave in ways that have an effect on the objective world.
In spite of my examples, the world is more complicated than just seeing everything positively and acting as if everything will always turn out ok. The stereotype of the naive young person heading to the big city only to be crushed by the reality is something that actually happens, and negative perceptions don't exist just to hurt you, but to help you identify threats and protect yourself from things that can actually hurt you. My autistic friend never graduated despite his perception being that he answered the questions correctly. Another friend came to the big city from a relatively safe relatively affluent small town and was shocked when his car was broken into and all his stuff was taken.
Part of life is navigating these paradoxes -- you have to accept that objective reality doesn't care what you think is true, but your subjective perception of reality changes how objective reality plays out at times. You have to accept that being cynical means you pass up things that could have been good, but being optimistic means you accept things that turn out to be bad, and there's no math equation you can run to determine exactly how to live because there is no one correct answer. Objective and subjective are both true in a sense, cynical and optimistic are both true in a sense, and in different sense all 4 are also false in a sense.
"They have 3 billion people's social security number"
Uh... There aren't 3 billion people with social security numbers...
Uh... There aren't 3 billion people with social security numbers...
Disney is really bad in court these days. It's like they fired their competent lawyers and hired a bunch based on arbitrary measures instead.
All I do now is go to the park... some times twice a day, sometimes three times day...
Trump on his own won't change much since he's only got 4 years at best. But build the team that runs the Republicans for the next 40 years well and that actually will potentially change everything.
Don't assume pronouns...
But do assume every man you see might actually be pregnant...
But do assume every man you see might actually be pregnant...
We have the best tent cities, everyone agrees. And the GDP caused by all the crime in toronto is just incredible, they're telling me the best in the world. And the amazing lines we have in front of our food banks, the very best lines in the world, we have a lot to be proud of.
To be honest, after it's 80% decline, I thought Netflix wasn't a bad buy. I didn't at the time, because it just didn't drive with my strategy which avoids the US market for the most part, but at the time I think the PE ratio made it down to like 19 which was just about where Netflix should be.
I think it's safe to say that the phrase "this too shall pass" applies. No tyranny lasts forever.
Everything that you're seeing right now is happening in part because the powers that be aren't stupid, they know full well their days are numbered. I'm sure that they are well read on history and they have all read about what happened to the Jacobins at the end of the reign of terror, and the scale of what they've done this time is so much larger.
Everything that you're seeing right now is happening in part because the powers that be aren't stupid, they know full well their days are numbered. I'm sure that they are well read on history and they have all read about what happened to the Jacobins at the end of the reign of terror, and the scale of what they've done this time is so much larger.
At this point considering what they just did to him, I'm not entirely convinced any "slip" is freudian and not intentional.
If the UK ever banned twitter, it would be like all those celebrities who "Left Twitter" and "Joined Mastodon".
Which is to say it won't last a week.
Which is to say it won't last a week.
The fascists win, and make up the government of Spain until the 1970s when the fascist dictator died of old age and his successor decided he'd rather not be a fascist dictator, and instead helps to install a Democratic constitutional monarchy.
Ngl, I still need to play GTA 4 and 5. I've owned them forever but just haven't played them.