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Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

yard2010 wrote: post #152
shmde wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a connection on LinkedIn who works in a leadership position in Microsoft who had recently written a post about why she doesn't send "thank you" email because she wants to save the world by reducing their carbon footprint by reducing the number of emails sent. I am a liberal at heart but I really wanted to comment "Shut up, please shut up, I am begging you to shut up." I want to say the same to you.

I have a couple friends that merged their facebook accounts so they don't take space on facebook

(you know the one)

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Post by vharuck »

kruuuder wrote: post #100

> obviously: don’t take out loans from your friends Huh? Depends on your friends, I guess. I have taken and given loans to friends several times, and it never was a problem.

I've learned to never create a situation where friends or family need to press one another for owed money. I've always just paid for reasonable things if friends were short on cash. Not because I'm a pillar of charity, but asking for repayment is an unpleasant task.

And I'd strongly recommend against renting an apartment or house from family. At best, it adds unwanted dimensions to relationships. At worst, it turns times in life when you would've merely tripped into times when you trip and fall into a snarled briar of family problems.

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Post by SpaceLawnmower »

xkcd1963 wrote: post #164

"Surgery for appearance or comfort" For appearance this is a bad choice. Not only does it not solve the root cause, it also is shortterm thinking.

What do you mean? If my problem is that I have a big mole or skin tag on my body, or my nose looks weird, then surgery absolutely solves my problem.

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by SpaceLawnmower »

IshKebab wrote: post #139

This is one of those lists where it's ruined by the author's compulsion to make it impressively long. As a result it's filled with things that you're obviously allowed to do ("Ask questions online", "say I don't know", "give to charity", "quit your job") which make it more difficult to find the small number of good ones ("Hire a researcher"). It means that overall the list is quite pointless and low quality.

Quitting your job is not an obvious thing for many people. There are so many assumptions for how somebody should quit their job that are baked in to people's minds. I should stay an extra few months for the bonus, I should wait until I have another job. Or you could just... quit.

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by tonnydourado »

Some of those are obvious, but in a strange "and yet I haven't thought of it that way" way. Some are reasonable advice.

"You can dissect a cadaver" was genuinely unexpected.

Nothing against specific professional help, like personal trainer, but I think "Hire a coach" belongs more in the "Things to not waste your money on" list.

And last, but not least: "Follow up many times. You won’t make people mad if you’re polite" is just wrong, I'm usually mentally cursing persistent recruiters by the time they follow up for the third (and, thankfully, usually, last) time. I'll report as spam in every conceivable way anyone that goes further than that.

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Post by denton-scratch »

OldGuyInTheClub wrote: post #15

I've toyed with hiring a local to wear a GoPro and walk the halls of the Louvre and one or two major cities, streaming the video to me in real time. I'd direct him or her so I could see the sights without the hell of travel. It's not on the list that I can find so I guess that it must not be allowed. ;-)

Judging by the tourists around here, you can't claim to have been somewhere unless you have a selfie that shows you standing in front of [$FAMOUS_MONUMENT]. That selfie is much more important than actually inspecting the thing.

They'll take these selfies in front of any damn building - a brick-clad concrete lawyer's office built in the 90s, even a souvenir shop-window. If you're determined to be a tourist, at least look.

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Post by sgt101 »

Oh and it'll all be fine as you could get a grant and you don't need to worry about money or your kids or any of that stuff, and no one who failed at all this or ended up on the streets because of it will write a blog post and point out that it's absolutely unrealistic and flat out stupid.

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by melagonster »

buy a good dissecting microscope, take a spider or insects, then distinguish it. if you have good resource of taxonomy information and specimens, after two years, you can reach same skill level as Master degree students of life science .

p.s., Biologists have another skill, but distinguishing bugs still funny.

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by imp0cat »

SpaceLawnmower wrote: post #173
xkcd1963 wrote: post #164

"Surgery for appearance or comfort" For appearance this is a bad choice. Not only does it not solve the root cause, it also is shortterm thinking.

What do you mean? If my problem is that I have a big mole or skin tag on my body, or my nose looks weird, then surgery absolutely solves my problem.

And you might get a free bonus with your new nose - an antibiotics-resistant strain of bacteria. ;)

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by OldGuyInTheClub »

denton-scratch wrote: post #176
OldGuyInTheClub wrote: post #15

I've toyed with hiring a local to wear a GoPro and walk the halls of the Louvre and one or two major cities, streaming the video to me in real time. I'd direct him or her so I could see the sights without the hell of travel. It's not on the list that I can find so I guess that it must not be allowed. ;-)

Judging by the tourists around here, you can't claim to have been somewhere unless you have a selfie that shows you standing in front of [$FAMOUS_MONUMENT]. That selfie is much more important than actually inspecting the thing. They'll take these selfies in front of any damn building - a brick-clad concrete lawyer's office built in the 90s, even a souvenir shop-window. If you're determined to be a tourist, at least l…

I last traveled ~2004, well before selfies and social media. Wasn't great then and I can only guess how much worse it has gotten.
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