No, in my experience most are actually quite condescending, but I can't imagine they would treat me better if I was the first ever patient they had to deal with.
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If you're a Mark (=trusting person) I don't think you can just decide to become a Skeptic.
I admit I skimmed the article and even if I would read more closely I don't think I would understand it better.
I'll use my intuition for how individuals transition between the roles.
Mark -> Skeptic: requires to be have been grifted and possibly having the grift explained by a Skeptic. Or possibly having someone close to you get grifted.
Mark -> Grifter: I'm not sure it's possible, but maybe the corruption pdf posted[0] is a clue.
Skeptic -> Grifter: desillusion about the point of not grifting since everyone else is doing it too. So maybe late stage corruption[0] or just nihilism based on seeing grifts succeed so much.
Skeptic -> Mark: honestly... Shrooms maybe? Or finding and being chosen into a trusting community.
Grifter -> Skeptic: I think realising that you've hurt someone in an unexpectedly harsh way could help this transition. Otherwise I don't really know besides being short of Marks.
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Interacting with real people, facing a person trying to get help for something that they don't want to experience is vastly different than reading about a symptom or group of symptoms in a book.
I'm just wondering since I'm currently using 3 different European banks without any biometric authentication to unlock my phone, password manager or provide a 2FA.
I'm asking so that I can adjust in time to any new regulations I'm not aware of.
And I don't really think that people mean using google hardware but rather being mined by google software.
May I ask, if you (a) just want to be technically correct, (b) don't see the difference or (c) are trying to make a point I don't understand and if so would be willing to explain?
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[0] https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/02/grapheneos-non-pixel-hardw...
That's like calling a person going for seconds a conservative (in the USA political sense).
It is also hopeful that publicly funded organisation asks for better governance rather than just bowing down.
Obviously it is in the Zeitgeist to do this now, could (should) have been written 20years ago, but who would have listened?
It's one of those things I think are worth putting some extra effort into, I'm glad to see at least one other person giving it some thought. Thx <3
Then my mother found out about me "stealing" all that cardboard and my days of pinball manufacturing where over...
Honestly one of the happiest weeks of my life!
It seems that once again striving for efficiency in society is bad in some way for the social part of humans...
The we here is not most people.
The quest for higher productivity is not something people really care about.
So much of the pressure comes from horrendous working conditions from top to bottom.
And as a secondary effect unions require meetings and hopefully cross organising with other unions having different people in them.
When we get better working conditions, we will have more time to meet other people rather than to sit exhausted with our phones having all the parasocial relationships that drain our social batteries without really connecting with a real person.
What do you mean by "solution" here?
The important thing is to relate to other humans and to be sure of what kind of human you're interacting with: the creators of the game or other players.
The staleness that actually "shipping once"[0] gives is precisely the space where human player creativity grows and thrives in.
---- [0] I understand you can get the similar results and better base games if you patch things occasionally, but constant patches[1] hides the jank and repetitiveness with novelty.
[1] And dynamically creating "content" with LLMs is like a constant stream of patches.
They started as: Books have to something interesting every 50 pages. And with interesting meaning something I want to know more about. Pretty low bar!
I read it as a depressed 15yr old, in a time when I read everything I could get my hands on. From cover to cover. Often doing nothing else but going to the bathroom, eating and sleeping from exhaustion once I started a book until it was finished.
This book was so bad that I gave myself rules so that I wouldn't waste another 900 pages of reading on something so utterly uninteresting.
It made me suspicious of text and stories in a way that nothing else has.
I'm still grateful for having read it, it did teach me something.
Thank you for reminding me <3
But I'm having a hard time parsing it.
Is it a quote? Who is Moxley?
Where do the different statements begin and end?
If you think that working for people is against corporate interests then I think we should just be dine with corporations.
I like people!
As in you, the currently employed person.
Thank you! I might look into this once I break my current streak of the localised wordle clone I'm playing now.
I always try to use as many different bits for the first few rounds...
But then again, maybe I'm not so good at these kinds of games as I think.
I was with you until the 9th word from the end.
I'd say this is a governments issue rather than companies issue.
I'll try it out for a bit and see how it feels.
US:er is kinda clunky.
I found this article and discussion valuable anyway.
I would also encourage you to stop using "Americans" as synonymous to "US:er", there are many countries, cultures and peoples in the American continents that are not from the USA and quite a few that geographically exist within it too.
By pointing out that they are US:ers we can help each other to remind ourselves and them that they are not in fact the only version of human that exist.
And I suspect that in general more people (and sub cultures) in the US will start using more non-committal language in the coming decades. When repression grows harder it might become more important to not be noticed.
It would be interesing to know if the regional differences in the US that people are talking about here could be traced back to those places having a more homogeneous population with regards to hierarchical religious practices, country of origin, single-ish way to make a living or similar so that it is very important to not be cast out of the group.
Another perspective is also how this phenomenon relates to what I think is called "code switching" that individual persons from oppressed groups often use in contact with an individual from the oppressing group in daily life. Like how BIPOC interact with white people, women with men or young people with adults - where a not insignificant part of the interaction is about keeping the oppressive party calm and content.
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English is not my language and I'd like to learn better. Please help me by correcting spelling, expressions and idioms.
Or maybe it's the time of year??
[Edit - added:] I wonder if you need to have watched both "Jaws" and "Beverly Hills 90210" to enjoy the series?
I was not expecting such an elegant way to deal with PvP in an analog action solitaire game, excellent!!