i feel like it would be good for society if there was a default job you could go get if you don't know what else to do. idk what it should be, but some people just need direction they struggle to supply on their own
I think their actual rule is they need to be self-sufficient. So they avoid modern technology in order to avoid dependency, not because they hate new things per se.
Humans are relatively inexpensive machines. Specialized machinery might very well end up costing more than $15/hr when amortized appropriately+ maintenance costs.
my friend dropped his vape pen under the couch the other day and ten minutes later we were still trying to fish it out. my girlfriend asked us what the fuck we were doing and I told her we were doing stoner enrichment activities
Why is it insulting? She wasn't interested then, but is potentially interested now. Preferences evolve over time. If you're not into it then that's the end of it, but where's the insult?
boy horny is directed outwards because the solution for boy horny is simple but difficult. girl horny is directed inward because the solution is easy but comes with complicated baggage
bizarre crank theory: voters like politicians who look and act like the opposite of what you'd expect.
trump is this vaguely gay new yorker who somehow represents the conservative heartland
bernie is a really old guy who represents the youth
obama was a cool black guy who had
another crank theory: i think ADHD has to do with the fact that humans traditionally rely a lot on social motivation. my guess is that many cases of ADHD would be solved by an authority figure following you around and yelling at you whenever you slack off
to be specific, i think what's going on is that with a normal lens at this distance, the whole train would be in focus. when the front of the train is in focus and the back is out of focus, it makes it look like the camera is very close to the scene. which implies the scene must
I will bravely take the middle ground that preferences around conversational intensity exist and may vary from person-to-person. The kernel of truth though is that if you refuse to engage in small talk you are missing a lot of interesting conversational opportunities.