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The point is though that I have some things a lot of people don't have: money in reserve and few personal responsibilities.I *could* quit my job and be alright for a while. I *could* travel to random...
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My values are constantly screaming at me to *do something* — that this is a fight that's worth sacrificing for — but whenever I try to come up with what I could do I can't think of anything...
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Like, I understand the value of being visibly trans, and of doing what I can to help others in my community, but it all feels so indirect and insufficient. It feels like coping, not like *doing...
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Maybe it's just that I've spent a lot of time in my life dealing with computers and other engineered systems — things that have a consistent, internal logic and have an explicit instrumental function....
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Look, University of Chicago, I get it. Cervical cancer screening is *very important*. I just feel like scheduling an appointment for *me* to get screened would be a recipe for disappointment for...
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Turns out doing nothing is a valid activity. I mean, it's as valid as anything is. I can think of a lot of worse things to be doing than nothing.
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Like, doing nothing has a lot of advantages:- Free- Can be done anywhere, with no special equipment- Can be done alone or with many people- Low stress- A skill anyone can easily master- Environmentally...
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And if anyone has an issue with you doing nothing, remind them that people have managed to accomplish great things while doing nothing, such as:- Spiritual enlightenment- Scientific discoveries-...
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I've been thinking a lot lately about my predilection to just sit and do nothing for long stretches of time (if that wasn't apparent already). I'm seeing what happens if I stop trying to fight the...
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I think maybe it's a case of my body mixing up correlation and causation.Often when I'm doing "nothing" I'm in a specific configuration: sitting on a certain couch, in a sort of meditative cross-legged...
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The problem happens because later in the day, or on days when I don't get enough sleep, that doesn't work because my mind and body are not in the same state. I get bored. I start fidgeting and...
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When I get the urge to "do nothing", it's probably just my brain being low on dopamine and trying to do what it has been trained to do to. That's where the dopamine often is, so go back there.But it's...
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This may be an interesting insight, but I'm not sure how correct it is. More importantly, I don't know what I'll be able to *do* with this information even if it is correct.
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uspolI once again repeat my opinion that a real country by now would have literally strung up Elon Musk and everyone else involved with this DOGE insanity by their balls on the lawn of the Capital...
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uspolYou know, at some point another country (or whole goddamn UN) might decide they have to step in and make sure these fuckwits don't destroy the entire world's economy by breaking the wrong US...
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uspolSometimes I get overwhelmed by how dumb everything has become. It's all just so mindwarpingly stupid.
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uspolWe've done the political equivalent of replacing all of the workers in a nuclear power plant with a bunch of 4 year olds with functional lightsabers
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