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Read some of Alexander Lowen's books, he talks about how posture can actually be an indication of something going on emotionally in the person. When people clench their jaw they're said to be grinding through life.

Ok but that can still be true (blonde hair, blue eyes) while there still being much more variations in the white population than in the black population.

I'm curious how many white people there are on earth vs how many black people there are, and other races. A couple google searches didn't give me any easy finds

It's a huge lie that once you've achieved the "american dream" (which I don't think is the real american dream anyways) then everything will be sorted out. yes your life will be more amazing, and it's 100% important to reach this place, but once you've hit that place you'll lose a lot of motivation and energy, cause now lack of money, lack of family, lack of anything, doesn't kick your ass during the day. so you have a huge new challenge on your hands, and that is to re-invent yourself and discover what can move you now. you're embarking on a set of veryyyy difficult questions around what's the purpose of all this, what's the point of this, what the heck should i do with my days now. just know that you've been put on this journey for a reason and there's a way out and listen to your heart more than anything else. trust yourself. and be patient. there are answers out there and they will make you more fulfilled than you can imagine. the worst thing you can do is turn a blind eye to what your heart is saying and dive back into work and whatnot. you're doing the right, difficult thing by sitting patiently and staring right into the eye of the storm, so despite it appearing you're doing nothing with your life now, you're going through a lot of inner changes that will ultimately lead to a lot of outer changes.

Ya very well put. It's very awkward to jump into big questions with a stranger. That's the point of small talk.

Hmmmm seems like a weird vertical for github to go into. kinda makes me feel they could be spreading themselves thin.

This is just inciting and encouraging violence against police, increasing a feud between the left and the police

Like what Minneapolis was experiencing before the National Guard came in?

The guy did not take a step or two back, like everyone else seen in the video was doing

edit: I just walked the video again. you have to be crazy if you don't think the guy was encroaching on the officer's space

Hmmm would have expected you to say source or link, rather than citation, which makes me think of something else, but fair enough, don't mind me then

There's one from NYC that says: "A police officer forcefully pulls off a protestors face mask and pepper sprays him. The protestor had his hands up in surrender when this happened."

From https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/repor...

If you look at the video though the guy was pushing towards the officer against the officer's hand. What do you expect to happen when you decide to aggress on an officer instead of back away?

Here's the video they link https://twitter.com/_doreenpt/status/1266994439039455232

How many other incidents are there in this repo that are unfairly listed/described?

He's looking at the clip, just ask him to send you a link to it

I did a coding bootcamp in Austin TX at the age of 18, instead of going to college, and got a job right after at a startup making $40k USD/year, which became $50k USD/year in a few months after getting a raise, and then after working there for a year I switched jobs to a top tech company many of you know, and by 21 I was making $75k USD/year

I got a lot of socializing at both companies, got to hang out with guys my own age and guys older than me, got to have some fun (maybe not as much as my peers in university), got to grow up, etc.

I think university back in the day used to mean a lot more, and I would have enjoyed it, but now it's so watered down cause everyone goes, and political / cultural movements have made the university programs require much more effort and much less thought

Just my 2 cents

Edit: also, to add to this, at the same time I also learned a lot of stuff completely outside of the domain of software through books on my own. philosophy books, history books, sociology books, etc. etc. I really liked that I was able to carefully select the authors and books and topics to the ones that grabbed my eye.

edit 2: oh ya! i also got a lot of fun socializing at the bootcamp too.

Exactly.

Hmmmm maybe I should retract my previous comment then

Sure, blame the internet, rather than yourself

they really should just start it up again. i'm sure there's many who would love to get off the chinese service

It's sad you think humans are just drones only influenced by ads

Trucks are more powerful than cars, more power equals more freedom and independence

If society came to an absolute abrupt stop and everything we take for granted today no longer was available (I'm talking worse than this quarantine) a truck would be useful in many ways a car couldn't be

just replied to a sibling comment about this same thing, check it out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23188557

if it's expressive evocative emotional physical activity, i agree. like a fun soccer game, a good dance, etc. anything that releases tension in the body and helps you to breath more fully and in a more relaxed happy way

if it's physical activity using will (like a droning gym routine) or meditation, i actually think it can lead to more stiffness and weirdness and awkwardness in a person's psychology

the body is not meant to be controlled by the mind

the objective is just to simply connect with the body more, not yell at it

After a lot of reflection I think I'm in a place now where I disagree with this cause just taking over the body with mind control can lead to schisms and narcissism and denial of self

I do agree bringing awareness is verrryyy helpful and healthy. the key is to keep being aware of what comes up for you and accept it and embrace it and get to know it and empathize with other postures/bodies to see how exactly your body _could_ feel differently and as you realize more and more what your body is really feeling, it'll naturally heal on its own. no need to step it and change things consciously, which never really does anything anyways cause your subconscious takes over as soon as your attention shifts away

the key thing to take away here is it's impossible to fully realize how your body actually feels without some psychological insights into yourself as well, to move some stuff from your subconscious to your conscious

like for example one can't fully realize how much anger their jaw is holding unless they also realize how much they feel angry about their life cause of something they haven't realized and have repressed

for anyone interested in reading more check out alexander lowen's books on amazon. fascinating, fascinating guy with lots of veryyyyy interesting things to say. any of his books will suffice really, i've read most of them

You can't improve your walking technique unless you improve your life. Your posture, your gait, your movements are a complete reflection of how you feel.

If you feel like you're carrying a load on your shoulders... your shoulders are gonna show that. If you feel like you have to clench and grind through your days, your jaw is going to show that. etc. etc.

A really interesting question to reflect on is when someone gains weight, what determines where the weight goes? Their stomach? Their thighs? Everywhere evenly distributed? etc.

Agreed, it's so fast and simple but quite powerful too if you care to dig deeper

> This has to run so deep though, if it is a cover-up.

This reminds of the film JFK, from 1991, that retells the story around the JFK assassination. It is a phenomenal, phenomenal film that really, really hit me hard. It's 3 hours and 9 minutes long but I watched it all the way through in one sitting.

It follows the true, real story of a district attorney who looks into details around the event shortly after it happened and gets the exact same feeling as you, where he looks around wonders whether he's taking crazy pills or if everyone else is taking crazy pills. So he goes deeper and tries to find out which is the case...

Highly recommend this film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/