If you’re leaving what’s the issue exactly? There are countless people who are incompetent at being a proper boss or client. You can try to educate them. If they’re power tripping it’s best to find something new.

Regarding communication I think the most important skill is to actually say what you want to say. What your needs are. It sounds obvious and easy but once you consciously try it you’ll see that it takes a lot of practice.

The issue is that being indirect or expecting people to just get it just doesn’t work. There aren’t many people out there who are that sensitive and insightful, and they’ll just keep filling in the gaps with their own perspective again and again. Even when you are being direct they will, but at least it gives someone the opportunity to think about it and possibly adjust. Most people mean well.

I’m on matrix if you wanna chat

For me it didn’t get better, until it did. Patience is key.

The next generation has some poker scenes. There’s one episode where they are stuck in a simulation of a casino and can’t escape.

That I’m a gay n word. Like, I am neither so what’s up with that? He quickly biked off and I couldn’t get him to clarify.

Recognizing how my desires are never truly satisfied, and they cause me suffering. How they constantly shift and always want more. In other words I let go of my judgment and accept what I see. That doesn’t mean I don’t judge it at all or don’t change it. It just means I’m not attached to the desire to change things. It’s just a feeling, and I can act on it, but it’s a conscious decision rather than a habit.

Feels a bit like that one time a meat eater accused me of drinking soy milk, because apparently that’s causing deforestation. She seemed to forget that livestock eat a great amount of soy.

They always have their cherry picked excuses.

Can somebody explain CP violation in plain English?

Just like in the prophecy omg

I’ve been intensively studying A1 French in my current camp east of Antwerp, as I’ll be entering Wallonia next week and then France soon after that. I wonder what French people sound like when they have a stuffed nose.

It’s literally resting

Just because you think you have a good grip on reality, doesn’t mean you do. Perhaps you don’t fully understand the situation. Maybe the trolley will come to a halt on its own unless you pull the lever. See realpolitik and ww1.

I remember tencent being on stage at a game dev conference and talking like they’d offer anyone a boatload of cash, around 2009. The room went eerily silent, it was creepy!

Also, I’ve had guests from all over the world and I’ve always asked them for a positive and a negative thing about the place they’re from, so I can get an idea. It was only the Chinese and Russians who acted like their home countries were absolutely perfect, and they literally couldn’t name one thing. Talking politics was considered rude, and they felt it’s better if someone else is in control.

Scots pine

Yea I’m from a rural village in the Netherlands. Tell me about it 😭

Sounds like the way to go

Hmm, considering your religious upbringing you might want to try some absurdist literature to break the mold.

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The Cyberiad
• Discworld
• The Little Prince

These are accessible too, as you’re not used to reading yet.

I can also recommend subscribing to a monthly magazine and making a point to read it from cover to cover. That way your skills will improve. You can also buy a whole stack of old national geographics cheaply. This will expand your horizons.

I’m sorry to hear that. I’m just grabbing this out of thin air, but have you ever considered medical tourism?

That scares me greatly but I can’t just stop taking my medicine, so what can I do but accept the risk?

Informative, thanks.

And surprising. I always thought of China as being quite progressive with women’s and to an extent lgbtq rights as well. It seems to be regressing just like the US.