Recently I saw another post criticizing this viewpoint, saying that they quit avocado toast for a weekend they're not a millionaire. Reality is that virtue is a habit, and virtue compounds just as vice compounds.
So to get the real rewards of being responsible, you have to keep being responsible every day. Then one day you wake up and a few dollars at a time you realize you've built something surprising with your life.
So to get the real rewards of being responsible, you have to keep being responsible every day. Then one day you wake up and a few dollars at a time you realize you've built something surprising with your life.
I almost immediately had to shut down the postmodern deconstructionist critic in my head once I started raising my son, because clever people can turn anything into a double entendre or something sus or something that represents some fictional trope, and you can't be that way with a child. Put up a bunch of stupid barriers and all you do is communicate less effectively with this tiny life that needs you to be authentic and show them truth directly.
Holding a one week old baby in my arms letting his mom sleep, and I say "I love you, my beautiful son" and you have to shut down the one part of your brain that says "haha gay" and the other part that says "sus" and the third part that says "you know this is exactly how every dead parent in a movie acts before they get hit with a train" because in that moment the world isn't so complex, there's a baby relying on you for everything and you have a duty to perform, and from the core of your being you're ready, willing, and thankful to be able to perform it.
Holding a one week old baby in my arms letting his mom sleep, and I say "I love you, my beautiful son" and you have to shut down the one part of your brain that says "haha gay" and the other part that says "sus" and the third part that says "you know this is exactly how every dead parent in a movie acts before they get hit with a train" because in that moment the world isn't so complex, there's a baby relying on you for everything and you have a duty to perform, and from the core of your being you're ready, willing, and thankful to be able to perform it.
The desire for "legacy" can be a really dangerous thing. It leads people to try to do things that aren't good ideas because they think those things represent progress, and they want to be remembered for the progress they created.
Writing the above was sort of an "aha" moment for me, because that explains exactly why so much retarded shit is being pushed through right now, since a lot of leaders are on the verge of death (and someone like Trudeau is just a true believer in the retardation being enabled by the old-ass retards surrounding him)
A true legacy is sort of boring -- it's acting with discipline and principle for a very long time rather than trying to throw out a bunch of revolutions in the last few years of your life. It's like being the "fun dad" vs. the disciplinarian dad who makes you do your homework every night. The former might think he's doing something special that'll make you remember him for doing some flash in the pan fun stuff, but the latter is building your life in ways that'll ripple positively over generations.
Writing the above was sort of an "aha" moment for me, because that explains exactly why so much retarded shit is being pushed through right now, since a lot of leaders are on the verge of death (and someone like Trudeau is just a true believer in the retardation being enabled by the old-ass retards surrounding him)
A true legacy is sort of boring -- it's acting with discipline and principle for a very long time rather than trying to throw out a bunch of revolutions in the last few years of your life. It's like being the "fun dad" vs. the disciplinarian dad who makes you do your homework every night. The former might think he's doing something special that'll make you remember him for doing some flash in the pan fun stuff, but the latter is building your life in ways that'll ripple positively over generations.
My dad recently said "I used to hate Mulroney, I thought he was an arrogant asshole and he was hurting Canada. Now I finally understand he was doing what the country needs to survive and we're living through what would have happened if he didn't do those things"
We've been a red family for generations, we're now outspoken blue (and when blue isn't blue enough, purple)
We've been a red family for generations, we're now outspoken blue (and when blue isn't blue enough, purple)
"The teevee told me I'm a good person if I support her so I support her because I'm a good person"
[Admin Mode]Away from home for 8 days, and 8 days 2 hours 10 minutes afterwards the power goes out. Had to update DNS records.
Saw shawty from behind and I exclaimed "gotterdammerung"
And realized I should probably stop reading German philosophers while listening to rap.
And realized I should probably stop reading German philosophers while listening to rap.
Stupid mongorians, don't they rearize they supposed to capture reader of their nuclear powered northern neighbor and the arry of their nuclear powered southern neighbor?
Herro mongorian!
Herro mongorian!
If there's one thing England is known for, it's how dry it is. "Land where the sun is never hidden and clouds are unknown" they call it.
I hate it when people misinterpret the double slit experiment.
Look, Quantum Physics is totally unintuitive and doesn't behave like the macro world, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have rules or that it's a magic spell. It means that it has its own set of rules separate from the macro world.
If you measure things in the macro world you change the measurement by measuring it too. For example, in order to measure a temperature, you have an RTD you run current through that adds heat or a bimetallic element that takes it away. Even something non-touch like infrared requires the object's measurement to change because giving off the infrared light takes energy. This isn't because an all-knowing universe server operator steps in to fiddle with energy levels, it's because the nature of the stuff at the macro level is such that you need to add or remove energy from a system to measure that system. Sometimes like using light to detect distance of a quite large object it's a trivial amount of energy, but start bouncing photons off of something still in the relatively macro realm that is nonetheless not at the quantum level, and you'll make a real mess.
When you get down to the unintuitive quantum level, the same applies. It isn't because some mystical being is looking down going "oh, looks like a human is watching, better stop surfing twitter", it's because the nature of the stuff at that size is such that you can know how fast something is or where it is but not both, and that's that. As well, sometimes light acts like a particle and sometimes it acts like a wave, and again that's not because the server operator steps in and changes things, it follows rules we can learn even if they are unintuitive.
Some of the earliest work on quantum physics ended up applying to cat's whisker crystal radios. They had to learn a whole new discipline to understand why the crystals behaved in a certain way, and that ended up leading to semiconductors and later microchips. Quantum physics applies in every bit of a modern CPU or GPU, even if nobody's looking at the screen.
When people start saying "Quantum Physics says" and then the craziest shit in the macro world you ever heard in your life, it's the same as the rich guy in the 50s who drank radium infused water because "energy is good, radiation is energy, so load up my water with radiation, doc!" -- it's quackery of a real thing that's used every day for real things.
Look, Quantum Physics is totally unintuitive and doesn't behave like the macro world, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have rules or that it's a magic spell. It means that it has its own set of rules separate from the macro world.
If you measure things in the macro world you change the measurement by measuring it too. For example, in order to measure a temperature, you have an RTD you run current through that adds heat or a bimetallic element that takes it away. Even something non-touch like infrared requires the object's measurement to change because giving off the infrared light takes energy. This isn't because an all-knowing universe server operator steps in to fiddle with energy levels, it's because the nature of the stuff at the macro level is such that you need to add or remove energy from a system to measure that system. Sometimes like using light to detect distance of a quite large object it's a trivial amount of energy, but start bouncing photons off of something still in the relatively macro realm that is nonetheless not at the quantum level, and you'll make a real mess.
When you get down to the unintuitive quantum level, the same applies. It isn't because some mystical being is looking down going "oh, looks like a human is watching, better stop surfing twitter", it's because the nature of the stuff at that size is such that you can know how fast something is or where it is but not both, and that's that. As well, sometimes light acts like a particle and sometimes it acts like a wave, and again that's not because the server operator steps in and changes things, it follows rules we can learn even if they are unintuitive.
Some of the earliest work on quantum physics ended up applying to cat's whisker crystal radios. They had to learn a whole new discipline to understand why the crystals behaved in a certain way, and that ended up leading to semiconductors and later microchips. Quantum physics applies in every bit of a modern CPU or GPU, even if nobody's looking at the screen.
When people start saying "Quantum Physics says" and then the craziest shit in the macro world you ever heard in your life, it's the same as the rich guy in the 50s who drank radium infused water because "energy is good, radiation is energy, so load up my water with radiation, doc!" -- it's quackery of a real thing that's used every day for real things.
That's why I plan (as a Canadian) to illegally immigrate in November to cast my vote for Donald Trump. Since the Dems love illegal immigrants voting so much.
Tbf, I was in my mid-20s at the time, and the teachers and principal kept telling me to leave the third grade classroom or they were going to have me charged with trespassing so buying a house would have been a better choice.
What kind of overtime pay do you think there is when you're stuck in a tin can in space for 8 months?