Plastic bag usage by itself is neither positive nor negative. The parent comment was referring to the effects of plastic bag usage. What are the implications? What does it affect?
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Where the burnout comes in is when I get back the motivation to learn and program, and everything is going good, but then I start talking to recruiters and applying to jobs, and the farthest I get is the phone interview. I haven't been able to land a technical interview for the past 5 years about. Then it turns into a feedback loop, where my lack of motivation comes back, I let my skills wane, and then I just burnout for a few months.
Each time I try to get back at it, the wall to climb seems higher; like I seriously struggle to just sit down and read an article about this or that topic. It's also difficult to know where to jump back in to brush up on my skills. My ability to think programmatically is still solid, but I forget things like the specifics of setting up webpack or whatever.
shrug oh well. I think I've been getting that motivational tingle back, so maybe this time will be successful? In the mean time I just want to be hired for anything; not even getting calls back from minimum wage job applications.
The closest analogy would be digital speakeasies; not for inebriating beverages, but rather just the ability to communicate.
EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. This will kill any innovation by small businesses on the internet. Nobody will take the risks. New platforms akin to Snapchat or whatever will be looked at as riskier endeavors before they're even able to get off the ground.
An IDE isn't going to help you with an effective whiteboard interview question. If someone is asking you about specific APIs in a whiteboard interview, they're likely doing the interview wrong.
If I have one hand on the handles and the other off, do you know what happens when I brake? The handles, and hence the wheels turn, because that's how momentum works in that scenario.
How are you so mentally incompetent that you can't see that your nonsense word salad analogy is that broken?
Furthermore, nobody adopts Stoicism as a fashion. I don't know where you're getting this from. Waking up early, eating right, going to the gym, etc. are not things exclusive to Stoicism if that's what you're implying. That is ridiculous. Just because people talk about it does not mean they're virtue signalling (a concept that comes from various philosophies and religions [Stoicism, Taoism, etc.]) about how Stoic they are. Nobody is making laws that hurt the poor, which are based on Stoicism. I don't care about Seneca or his slaves. That's not relevant to Stoicism. I don't even know how you could even attempt to make the connection between these two things. It's like if someone who regularly went around kicking homeless people said "You should feed and take care of the homeless", would you then be opposed to feeding and taking care of the homeless? That's absurd. There's no rational connection between those two things, but that's what you're trying to do with respect to Stoicism and folks like Seneca.
Just so we're clear, I'm currently one of those poor people living on the brink of potential Homelessness. I'm not saying anything I'm saying as some out of touch elite. I'm saying what I'm saying as someone who understands what I need to do to get out of my current circumstances isn't dwell on or wallow in my failures and blame others. There's nothing good that comes from that. There's nothing actionable that comes from that. I would be actively harmed by doing such things.
When I often hear people making excuses for us poor, they seem to be the types that haven't touched poverty or are stricken by a form of toxic empathy; an unconscious desire to be seen as compassionate. It's well meaning, but it helps nobody.
Assuming you're in the US, in nearly every context, you have the opportunities available to you to succeed (exceptions include contexts that are no fault of your own such as homelessness as a child).
Many of us have those opportunities and we squander them. Stop telling people that if they're poor, then failure is inevitable or likely due to society. Yes, it's hard. Yes, there are factors about society that make it more difficult. That does not mean we're not ultimately responsible for our own decisions. You're teaching people helplessness by not acknowledging that. I know everything I need to do to succeed. I know that me failing to do those things is my fault and mine alone. I don't dwell on this, because otherwise I would descend into depression and self-destruction. Is that what you want of the poor? Do you want to encourage them to self-destruct? Because that is the ultimate implication of what your position against Stoicism seems to be. It's either that or a complete ignorance of what Stoicism implies.
The usefulness of Stoicism comes from accepting the difficulties of life and dealing with them without indulging in excess with the excuse that it's for "self-care".
When you fail and blame others, you fail again and again, because you can't learn what the root cause is in order to change your approach.
I'm not saying that being poor is easy; I know first hand that it's not. I'm saying that the fact that it's not easy is the point and reason to adopt Stoicism.
I further stated that I think Linear algebra might benefit students if taught earlier, in high school.
That was me. I was great at calculus type things, but Matrix Theory hit me like a ton of bricks. I still have that text book, sitting on my other desk, staring menacingly at me from across the room; Matrix Analysis, Horn and Johnson. Geometry in High School gave me a taste, but would have been nice had we had available another proof based class in the math curriculum; Formal Logic or Discrete Maths at a high school level. Maybe even Linear Algebra?
(1) It's an unnecessary limitation on personal freedom.
(2) It's a burden to people with lung issues.
(2a) It introduces the possibility or infectious disease spread, because people share cars and are less likely to clean the breathaliser frequently enough to prevent bacterial buildup.
(3) These things are garbage and often don't work the first time, especially in the cold.
What I mean by this is that in order to seem like someone that others would want to hang out with, we present our best selves, making us appear more social than we are, thus those are the only versions anyone ever sees. People simultaneously know that they're not as social as they present themselves, while forgetting to assume the same about the version others present, thus they assume everyone is having fun without them.
That or I'm just projecting ...
If you've lived at any point in a social circle that involved wholeness you will see this sentiment displayed and defended. The whole idea of racism in critical theory is a defense of racism against white people by saying that it's not actually racism, which is a dog whistle, as they put it, to those outside of academia, giving them the go ahead to express such racist sentiments in the colloquial sense.
I'm saying all of this as a liberal who is against hatred and bigotry of any form, and as someone who at one point used to echo such white woke SJW sentiments without realizing that I was trying to find acceptance among my woke friends. I know what these circles are like; you almost certainly are being dishonest if you travel in these circles and say you haven't heard these sentiments.