I’ve had the same supper for 10 years • Hacker News Board

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by nkozyra » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

greshario wrote: post #36

paxys wrote: post #24

Here's an interesting thought experiment – would you (and everyone else here) have the same reaction to this article if it was written by a North Korean farmer who was perfectly happy with life being in the exact same situation as this Welsh one? Would he still be "enlightened" and "content" or brainwashed, oppressed and a victim of propaganda?

Well, my reaction to this one is suspicion that it sounds a little too perfect and either the farmer is idealizing his life or the journalist has taken editorial liberties.. so, maybe?

I don't know that a journalist was involved in this. An editor may have been but this just appears to be a letter-to-the-editor or commentary submission

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by giantg2 » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote: post #39

marmot777 wrote: post #16

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Are there outside places to hike outside? That might be a healthy and safe. Frankly it doesn’t sound healthy to not leave home but you aren’t the only one who’s been shut in for a year. Millions of people.

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Dilution is generally the point when a specific threshold must be breached to succumb to infection. You can always where a mask, like a serious gas mask. People wi think you're weird, but fuck them.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by bwship » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

rubidium wrote: post #8

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote: post #4

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“ By not leaving my apartment for a year except for shopping” this is entirely foreign to me. Where do you live?!

I live in Charleston, South Carolina. Moved here in September because LA was so locked down. I go out pretty much anywhere I want here all the time, and nothing is locked down whatsoever. Could not have been happier to move to somewhere where they don't chain up the swings and let nobody into the parks except the homeless.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by rocketpastsix » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

scubbo wrote: post #26

rubidium wrote: post #8

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“ By not leaving my apartment for a year except for shopping” this is entirely foreign to me. Where do you live?!

Where do you live where you _have_ been leaving your home for non-essential reasons? I recognize that different countries have had differing levels of effect from COVID, but I'm not aware of any that hasn't had at least _some_ impact.

Im in the southeastern United States, we never really totally shut down. We had a few weeks but then yea it pretty much ramped back up to near normal-ish levels.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by FractalParadigm » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:19 AM UTC

montenegrohugo wrote: post #7

There is value in finding your place in life and being content with it. Yes, you might be able to change it, perhaps to conform to more traditional standards of 'success', but why bother if you're happy as you are? If we humans optimize by happiness, then we should have nothing but envy for a life like Wilf Davies leads.

I came to this realization in university - I love software, I love writing programs and solving problems, but I really don't love office work or the idea of sitting at a desk all day. I dropped out of a software engineering program to work on a factory floor, a decision I haven't regret once in five years (even if my parents would consider me a failure). The hours are good, the wage is good, benefits are good, I get to come in stress-free and leave 8 hours later in the same cheery mood. I tried stints in "more successful" fields like in-house software or sales teams, but there was just something about it I loathed. To the outside world I'm just some deadbeat small-town factory worker, but I don't think I could make my life any happier or more enjoyable if I tried.

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:19 AM UTC

mkmk wrote: post #27

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote: post #11

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Have you given any thought on how you plan on reintegrating into society, and the negative health effects of this type of isolation? I’m curious what the balance is between covid risk and isolation risk.

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Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by ipaddr » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

I wonder about the two strokes. Him and his sister. Probably genetic or is it a result of the same diet they both share? Is eating an egg a day really bad for you. Science has gone back and forth on this. He would get plenty of exercise what could have caused the strokes?

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by paxys » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

c3534l wrote: post #32

paxys wrote: post #24

Here's an interesting thought experiment – would you (and everyone else here) have the same reaction to this article if it was written by a North Korean farmer who was perfectly happy with life being in the exact same situation as this Welsh one? Would he still be "enlightened" and "content" or brainwashed, oppressed and a victim of propaganda?

You mean if there was a strong implication that there wasn't a genuine choice, but an adaptation to hardship brought on by human rights abuses and an authoritarian government? Call me hypocritical, but no. I don't think I'd have the same reaction.

- You are living a certain life and don't know a different world exists

- You are living a certain life and don't have the means nor the inclination to change it

- You are living a certain life, can probably strive for something more, but choose not to

Can people be equally happy/content in all these situations?

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by mrmincent » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

zabzonk wrote: post #51

mrmincent wrote: post #41

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My mum spent a couple of years in the UK and refers to peanut butter as peanut paste. Could be a term for ‘spread’.

Us UK people call peanut butter "peanut butter" - it's what's written on the jar.

Maybe it’s an old Australian thing then :)

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by oconnor663 » Sat, May 08, 2021, 2:21 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #24

Here's an interesting thought experiment – would you (and everyone else here) have the same reaction to this article if it was written by a North Korean farmer who was perfectly happy with life being in the exact same situation as this Welsh one? Would he still be "enlightened" and "content" or brainwashed, oppressed and a victim of propaganda?

I've seen people have the exact opposite reaction to this same article. ("If this was a foreigner from a poor country, would you still think he was boring and sad?") So much of our lives are just the stories we choose to tell about them.