The examined life with all its critical thinking and guarding against bias is hard. The dark side is easier.

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.

Avoiding situations that allow others to define me on their terms.

I think “not necessarily a rider” is a fair description.

I move that we retain the old name. Who’s with me?

How can I know if I’m riding an adventure motorcycle vs. a plain old non-adventure motorcycle?

No one knows, but for sure the reason is something rotten. I’ve never ever heard a reasonable argument against it.

So I take it that you interpret “no stupid questions” to mean “don’t post stupid questions.” The way I interpret it is “there’s no such thing as a stupid question.”

The sidebar says “No such thing. Ask away!” So I think the idea is that people should feel free to ask any question assuming they really want an answer. However, joke or troll questions (and I don’t think this is either one), are allowed on Fridays.

Long wait times for the toilets

Traffic is gonna be a nightmare.

Preeeeeetty sure that’s actually a body transplant.

It’s a conspiracy by Big Dairy to keep us udderly focused.

Phew, for a moment there I thought you were trying to take the gratuitous murder out of games

Blowing on it helps. The humidity in your breath reinvigorates the silicon.

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.

🤮

Turns out there’s a bug in the client I’m using and it wasn’t showing the comment about anti-intellectualism. All the comments I could see were replies to that comment that I couldn’t see, so I assumed they were replies to OP.

I don’t understand why people think OP doesn’t know it’s satire.

Is it not gonna get hot? I feel like it’s gonna get hot.