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"Never stop dating"
Oh how exhausting. I'd rather just die alone. I know this statement reflects poorly on me, but I'm barely hanging on to my sanity dealing with my life otherwise and I'm not even that young anymore.
Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
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#242As socio-political views and news sources get more extreme, both ring truer and truer every day.
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Holy shit you have not met many women.
I have been arguing with myself about replying to the comment you replied to. Good lord that person reveals a lot about themselves in it. And none of it is good. If they didn't seem to be angry, I'd pity them.
Most importantly, you're just attacking a human being, you haven't even engaged with them.
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#246When I was a child in school, we had to cut a piece of paper in the shape of a flower with a hole in the middle, to put around an utensil as a gift. When I cut my flower and tried to fit it in the utensil, the hole was a bit smaller than I needed. I was ready to cut a full circle around the hole when a teacher told me “sometimes all you need is just a little bit” and she cut the smallest piece of paper and suddenly t…
"A little dab'll do ya" (it's said kinda like a tongue twister, it's fun to say)
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#2471. “Sometimes, you just have to trust people.” Said to me by the owner of a shop at a farmer’s market after I explained I didn’t have cash on hand to pay for an item so I couldn’t accept it, but would go to an ATM to get it. She gave me the items anyway, and I promptly went to an ATM to bring her the money. I grew up in an environment where I was constantly told about all the bad intentions everyone around me had, an…
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#248Don't be a cynic. Society is messed up. Tech is messed up. But it doesn't matter. You just have to make a positive contribution somehow, anyway.
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#249I followed the advice of lifting weights. Before that I was feeling pretty tired of my life, barely played with my little son, was exhasuted in my work as data scientist and my personal relationships with my wife, family and friends were poor. Also I didn't had the energy to pursue my hobbies, was abusing cannabis and alcohol and had poor eating and sleeping habits. Since I started going to the gym and found this sim…
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#250I followed the advice of lifting weights. Before that I was feeling pretty tired of my life, barely played with my little son, was exhasuted in my work as data scientist and my personal relationships with my wife, family and friends were poor. Also I didn't had the energy to pursue my hobbies, was abusing cannabis and alcohol and had poor eating and sleeping habits. Since I started going to the gym and found this sim…
Would it be terrible to mostly use weight machines? That’s all my gym has?