Starknaked

You reminded me of this scene from The Simpsons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlyzkw1we_g .

I believe the worst part of this is society seems to be built around hiding anything other than positive emotions. People bottle up their feelings instead of expressing them because that is how we've been raised to behave. Like how many men express mostly anger because it seems to be the only consistently socially acceptable emotion even though it is the most destructive.

The more freedom and comfort everyone felt to express themselves honestly then the less build up of emotional pressure there is to release when they do. This means people feeling more emotionally content. It's like when someone is sad and crying people think the best way to help is to cheer them up and stop them feeling sad but all they're doing is stopping them from expressing that sadness which makes it worse.

I did a therapy course which was CBT with horses and it was a real eye opener to me as I've never been around horses before. The therapist shown me the body language and behaviours of her horses and their hierarchy. The way they would get into arguments and instantly express the emotions they felt from them by stamping their hooves or through the "out breath".

That letting go of emotional energy good or bad and understanding the transient nature of emotions is very liberating.

I've had serious back injuries in the past and sitting at a desk would soon lead to poor posture and discomfort.

The three best things I found for my back are.

1. Be mindful of how you're sitting and keep that natural curve in your spine with your shoulders back and chest out. You don't have to be aware of it all the time just make a habit of checking in with your posture when you sit down or when you're changing tasks.

2. If you go to a gym then hit the rowing machine. Good technique requires good posture and its great for strengthing those muscles.

3. Get a ball like a tennis ball and put it between the back of the chair and around the base of your spine/hips. This gives you space to relax your shoulders back and maintain a natural curve in your back. Just as long as you feel comfortable.

I found that after a while maintaining a good posture gets easy and more comfortable than slouching.

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Yes it also quotes the phrase “Police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry,”.

Who's judging what's reasonable here? What stops them making requests victims would rightfully consider unreasonable so the police can just claim that the victim was uncooperative so it doesn't negatively impact police statistics?

If the victim has reason to belive their data would lead to a conviction the police wouldn't need to ask for it

So they're just assuming that the victims data will be their best lead?

How about everyone just keeps a secondary dumb phone to hand over when they feel that the police request is unreasonable.

Surely in that case the man accused of the crime would have known they previously had messages from the accuser that were like to be critical to his defence?

Did he not make anyone aware of them or did they just ignore it?

I wonder how police behaviour would be influenced by refusing to hand over the data? Will they assign less resources to your case because they think you're unhelpful by not turning over your data?

I wonder if the same mechanism applies to other things that we develop expectations of like relationships, careers, success?

To me Paris syndrome seems much like the old adage of "never meet your heroes" neither will live up to your idealised expectations.

This "cult like" division of people and ideas is rife throughout reddit. Subreddits where reasonable objections get downvoted out of sight and preaching to the choir gets upvoted to the top reinforcing those beliefs.

It ruins the whole point of reddit. The mods are very biased on some subreddits that aren't even based on extreme ideas and they have so many unnecessary rules they can lock any thread they want for any reason just because they don't like it.

Reddit has become a cesspool for discourse. There are a couple of good subreddits but that's because they are based on discussion (e.g /r/casualconversation)not the subject of discussion.

Many subreddit don't want reasonable discourse. They want a safe space full of "yes men" that fall in line with and reinforce their beliefs.

I get the exact same results as you. As long as I exercise I feel much better also because I do it in the morning its easier to make it part of a good routine however it doesn't seem to help with the anxiety that underpins the depression.

Not feeling depressed is good for a while until it starts to feel like you're not fixing the real issue. Tackling all those routine tasks like exercise, sleep, diet is really easy compared to doing the things that are really important to you where there is much more uncertainty, risk, and discomfort that cause me to feel very anxious which is very discouraging.

Doing things like exercise to help with depression is like trying to repair a cracked stone wall by painting over it so you can't see the crack anymore.

For some reason I find it totally demotivating. I don't feel compelled to get better at all. That makes me lazy because I just feel so anxious I have to do something else to distract myself and feel better. It also naturally makes me feel very reluctant to go back to whatever made me feel that anxiety.

I really appreciate your reply.

I like objective feedback and praise and I feel it helps on the surface but it doesn't really help with the underlying issue. It's like having a default mode set to "Negative" that can only be overridden for a short period.

I agree with you that there is some deeper underlying issue that needs to be addressed.

I have seen a therapist for a assertiveness course I did which was great. I couldn't see her after that though. I would like to see another therapist but here they are very expensive and I can't afford it. I have thought about using one of those therapy apps as they're much more affordable.

The important distinction though is that a human can be held liable and punished for their erroneous (re)action but a machine cannot.

Do you hold the owner, manufacturer, or insurer responsible to right the wrongs where an autonomous vehicle is at fault?

I would expect the insurers and manufacturers to use contractual terms that absolves them of all liabilities where the car's occupant isn't paying attention to the road.

I see. That makes sense if you upgrade/buy through your carrier. That isn't something I've ever done so my carrier has never been a limitation on the phones I can get. I guess Apple made the carriers realise that everyone will get the phone they want with or without them in the purchasing cycle.

>Why would you expect a machine to be able to handle scenarios that humans cannot handle?

That's exactly my point. Isn't that what Tesla is trying to do with FSD? It's trying to train a machine that will have to make ethical decisions.

How do you factor legal liability for a machine in the same way you would with humans in the same scenario e.g fatal accidents?

This is somewhat like the civilian version of AI military drones one day making automatic target selection.

I'd like to know how this factors into intermittent fasting as most people that do it just skip breakfast.

I take it they aren't autonomous driving videos? My concern isn't really with what the car sees but how it reacts to unfamiliar scenarios. There are many edge case scenarios that us humans can't react to because there just isn't a logically correct maneuver. How do you tell a machine what to do when there is no correct answer? When none of the choices don't end up in catastrophe.

Their demonstrations of FSD like the short clip in the clip linked shows far too much easy roads like highways and "controlled" scenario to believe in their confidence of the tech.

If they put up autonomous driving videos going through a handful of major cities taking the most awkward routes through places where driving culture is typically more agressive and the narrowest of country lanes through the towns that were built for horse and cart and space is at a premium. Places like Rome, Barcelona, New Delhi. Towns that have built one way systems into their traffic management due to limited space and measures are taken to purposely bottleneck traffic like narrow road right of way signage. Show a car doing that and I'd understand their confidence.

E.g there is a town where roadside parking is allowed because it purposely bottlenecks and slows down main road traffic. You have to judge and wait by the parked cars for a space you can pass through even when their maybe cars coming towards you there is time to pass the parked cars and into space where two cars can pass eachother. How is an autonomous car going to handle that kind of senario where it has to make a judgement call that factors in a far greater amount of risk element?

Wait, are people applying for jobs after only doing an online nanodegree? I wouldn't employ those people either.

I think it's culturally and socially driven. As an outsider looking in I have discussed American capitalism with others and its more ruthless nature compared to the more moderate varieties of Europe. The US GDP (ppp) per capita is very high for the size of it's population (and not being a tax haven or major oil exporter). Even compared to a wealthy powerhouse like Germany the US has a gdp per capita $10k higher. I don't believe that is due to the Us being a more efficient economy. It's because US employees and citizens aren't afforded the same services, rights, and level of care that people in countries like Germany do get that alleviates the stresses of daily life.

So what would be a better alternative to make your resume stand out to get a job that doesn't include doing a full degree?

How do you compare it to someone completely self taught with similar experience? At least with someone that completed a course you know the minimum extent of their knowledge and understanding.

How did carriers incentivise customisation for manufacturers? Did Apple essentially turn down "easy money" to maintain product integrity?

Is it fraud to just test their hypothesis with no intention of following through with it?

The best way I've seen businesses get around this issue is to just have an upper limit on the incentive like interest applies only to the first $x. Its often a nice bonus for people that were going to use them anyway but not enough for people to justify exploiting the incentive alone.

It's not the user's responsibilty to ensure these incentives are sustainable. Look at what happened with the Hoover free flight program.