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Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

#25
The unemployment numbers don't mean much. This economy is hanging on by by a few sectors that are barely successful. The 1% won. And when I watch Norma Rae--I realize that movie couldn't be made today. The cotton owners just moved the machines to another county--eliminating unions, and workers.

Oh yea, opiate addiction is not due to befuddled doctors, and corporations. It's due to a country wide depression. People are misserable on so many levels, while spirituality is kinda dead.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

#26

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This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one). In order to change peoples' minds, they have to want to see that they're wrong. I think certain personality types are innately more disposed to the sort of introspection necessary to evaluate one's beliefs and throw out what's wrong. Really it comes down to how much you care about truth. Coming from the hard sciences, it's surprising how far you can ge…

This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one). The second is too! I’m telling you, peanut butter is an amazing savory ingredient! You don’t have to go full Hemingway (peanut butter and onion sandwiches), but at least satay is the way. Peanut butter is especially good when it’s spicy. Plus yes, the other stuff, but I just can’t say enough about peanut butter.

There's a type of Haitian spicy peanut butter, sold under the brand Manba in Montreal. I loved that stuff.

https://manba.ca/T31jCjVS/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Box-of-...

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

#29

Love isn't as strong as mental illness, and that no amount of hope and heart can solve problems for someone who won't admit they have them.

I learned that too in the last 12 months.

I'm sorry to hear that brother or sister :)
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