That’s why Primer is my favorite depiction of time travel. Machine turns on at your destination time, you get in at your departure time, and it spits you out in the past. This sacrifices freedom of travel (you can’t go back to before you first turned the machine on) to solve the point-of-reference problem (the machine moves normally with the Earth).
Somebody That I Used to Know came out during my only breakup and it was everywhere, so I feel biased toward it.
However, I’m a huge They Might Be Giants fan and they have some good ones:
They’ll Need A Crane, Lucky Ball & Chain, and Let Me Tell You About My Operation stand out, but there are plenty of others.
But this seems like the exact opposite. Squeezing the young until they pop is the opposite of protecting them.
Correct.
Confusing, I hope.
I did when I drove an old VW Beetle, I’d wave to anyone in a classic VW. Generally, anyone driving one is probably cool. That did not extend to new VWs.
Who told you God is omnipotent and above humans? Who told you he or she has emotions, or smites or becomes upset or wrathful?
Any God worth naming as such is so beyond such concepts as to be entirely inscrutable. It’s people that ascribe such characteristics, usually to influence other people. In any case, it comes from an inclination to anthropomorphize the unknown, to rationalize non-human phenomena through a familiar human lens. The conflict isn’t in God, it’s in God’s self-appointed biographers.
I know people who feel this, but like, why? It makes no sense to me. Like is it a crossed wires thing?
In my eyes, the two biggest problems are teaching competence and socialization. It’s possible for a parent to adequately cover a wide range of subjects if they’re quite intelligent themselves and they have good materials, but school teachers specialize in a few subjects and have plenty of experience teaching. Sure, a parent might have specific issues with parts of a curriculum, or think it isn’t suitable for their child’s intelligence, but that can be covered with spot checks and home study.
The bigger problem seems to be socialization. Sure, there are meetups and extracurriculars, but I don’t think that can really replace being around dozens or hundreds of students your own age, navigating social situations shoulder-to-shoulder with your peers. These are critical skills, arguably more important than the bulk of the actual school curriculum, and it’s much more difficult to build them later. We are social creatures, and we learn best through immersion. Like you, most of the homeschooled kids I knew were socially awkward.
I think much better than homeschooling is supplementing schoolwork with individualized study.
Thanks, I haven’t touched DiffEqs properly for a while
You couldn’t wait 4 days?
Serious and boring answer: Calculus probably
Less serious, more interesting answer: Memes 101
A cross section of sociology and semiotics, chronicling and deconstructing the fascinating rise of modern memes as a living form of communication. I think there’s enough meat there to warrant serious scholarly analysis. Most of the students would sign up thinking it’s an easy joke class, and get tricked into learning about how ideas evolve.
It’s not a question of stress, it’s a question of soul-sucking. Pulling out what makes you, you. Wearing that persona in all your frequent streamed behavior, especially when it’s ostensibly “you” to begin with, definitely warps your mind over time.
If you wear the mask all the time, it starts to cling. You start to become the marketable character.
The unique thing is the way it directly and fundamentally interacts with the worker’s personality. Yes charisma is broadly useful in any industry, but this is the industry that is selling the charisma itself. The personality is the product.
Same. Systems dynamics, mathematics, physics and metaphysics, etc. If people have tried to devise a system to explain everything, I’m interested in looking it over. I gotta know at least the basics of basically everything.
LaVeyan satanists aren’t deistic, they don’t actually believe in Satan.
I think sales touches on it, but still the persona you adopt is a “sales representative”. You are selling a product, your insincerity is locked to the product, with a few curated pithy anecdotes to flesh out the role. It’s closer to acting. You’re using charisma to make the sale, but you still take your hat off at the end of the day. You interact with a few individuals over the course of the day, and likely never see them again. If you do have an ongoing relationship with clients, it’s one-on-one and segregated. And you can choose how much you want to rely on a persona, you can do sales from a position of relative sincerity if you actually believe in the product.
With streamers, their identity is the product. They aren’t using charisma to sell cars or vacuum cleaners or medical equipment, they are selling their personality. A sales representative doesn’t have to change their being when market research demands a change in product. If a streamer wants to change their product, they have to change themselves, or at least their persistent persona. Because it isn’t one-on-one and segregated, they have to be their persona all the time for thousands of anonymous commenters at once. It’s fundamentally existential. You can’t do it another way, it’s endemic to the industry
Steaming may be soul-sucking in unique ways
Yes, that was the entire claim. No one said other jobs don’t suck out your soul. The only claims were that there is a way which is unique to streaming, and that it’s basically universal in the industry. No one’s trying to negate the fact that other jobs suck.
They really aren’t. I’ve worked quite a few different kinds of “real jobs”, and my soul was not sucked out. Maybe I put on a bit of a mask in customer-facing roles, but that’s temporary. All my customer-facing roles involved making myself a sort of blank company representative. No one cared about me or my identity, just my ability to navigate the customer’s demands of the business.
No “real job” has ever made any demands of my actual personality or identity. I was never judged on my opinions. I never had to modify my personality to cater to critics to secure income. That is a unique struggle of streamers. You can compare and contrast the physical difficulty or monotony of other jobs, but that wasn’t the claim. The claim is that streaming sucks out your soul in its own particular way.
I did this, it’s a great place to start.