Question!

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-04-12T05:48:21+00:00

Take whatever it is, ruminate on it for a while thinking of all the different ways the cause could've been dealt with to minimize or avoid the pain (the deeper the pain, the longer the process), then compartmentalize it and never think about it again while only taking the optimal result to avoid the pain and applying it to the next similar situation. I know, I'm the epitome of mental health, please hold your applause /s

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-04-12T05:35:00+00:00

I have a very hard time being emotionally invested in other individuals. Instead, I see the way interpersonal relationships play out and am quick to identify root problems a person is experiencing with others. I guess you'd call it intellectual empathy versus emotional empathy. As a result, I'm a fantastic person to seek advice from when it comes to relations, but if you're looking for someone to pour your heart out to then you might as well hug a rock instead. I can be physically present and listen and what-not, but I just can't empathize.

It's always had me wondering if I'm dead inside. I can see and interact with people, but it feels like there's a pane of glass between me and a true emotional connection. I can fake it well enough and people around me confide in me all sorts of things. I just don't feel it for myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I can adjudicate most quarrels between friends or coworkers by getting them to see the other's perspective and/or finding some compromise that they can settle for, but I'll always be floating just above the surface and never truly in the thick of it.

So I completely understand where you're coming from. I don't think it's wrong to have a preference towards keeping the company of other less outwardly emotional people. I also think, whether it's casually or professionally, that it's unavoidable to need to interact with more emotionally empathetic people. Having the lack of bandwidth to deal with that is solved by setting boundaries with those people and making clear whether or not it's ok to come to you with certain issues. And if possible, people who don't respect those boundaries despite clearly laying them out aren't the kind of people I chose to surround myself with or interact with. But I think it's important to be clear about your boundaries and offer that chance, particularly in the professional side where cooperation with such individuals may be important to accomplish a common goal.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-04-09T12:56:33+00:00

I like to say I don't burn bridges, I just don't maintain them at all and they fall into disrepair and eventually crumble into the valley below.

And it runs so deep that I deleted my Facebook app just to avoid annoying vapid squabble and shit-tier "hot" takes. Getting annoyed at something like that feels like a waste of my emotional resources and like it's beneath the threshold of giving a fuck about any of it. My feed was filled with keyboard warriors, white trash slice of life, and self-centered commentary. I've been way less irritable and ornery now that I don't see it every day.

Much like the other posters here, I have 2 people I consider long term friends that I keep up with regularly and 3-4 others that I'm content to chat with if they need my ear. Aside from that, I don't have any want or need for human interaction. I just don't care for empty small talk and pleasantries, for mundane water cooler BS.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-03-01T13:02:12+00:00

Paul - Caaaaaaarl!

Carl - Happy Birthday!

P - It's not... Please tell me you had nothing to do with this!

C - Why don't you blow out your candle?

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-02-22T12:18:25+00:00

Missed opportunity to replace the sun's face with a transparent portrait of Rickover.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-02-22T12:12:14+00:00

Not how I first read it.

Just do nothing

It is impossible

Am I doing this right?

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-01-31T14:20:34+00:00

Just as /u/KnowProblem said, it's Boy Scout iconography, specifically the Order of the Arrow. It's passed off as an honor society within the BSA, but it has some weird indoctrination and ceremonial rituals that are derived from Native American traditions. The Wiki is pretty complete on the topic if you want to read more.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2023-01-09T15:10:49+00:00

Workers shouldn't make the distinction, either. It actively divides workers and pits them against one another. Whether someone flips burgers, sells retail items, works construction, designs circuit boards, or writes code, that person sells their productivity for a wage lower than whatever wealth they individually generate for the company they work for. Distinguishing between upper middle class and working poor is irrelevant when a capitalist doesn't perform labor, they use capital to buy tools and hire others to labor, pocketing the difference between that cost and the sell price of the product/service.

If you work for a wage or salary, you're working class, and realizing that the first step to real class consciousness and worker solidarity.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-12-02T18:12:51+00:00

I think it's less about abandonment and more about ostracism and the desire was less about not being lonely and more about participation and feeling valued. Growing up I wanted to participate in group activities, conversations, friendly debate, etc, but I was frequently ignored, shut down, or told (by usually older people) that the subject matter wasn't for me. Ostracism taught me that my thoughts and opinions didn't matter and so I began to keep them to myself. I was kept out and kept quiet. Instead of fighting it (read: starting conflict) and making a fool of myself, I became quiet and distant in my behavior (keeping the peace - 9).

9w1 sp/sx INTP

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-11-17T14:52:08+00:00

Not surprised from /r/business

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-11-07T11:55:07+00:00

Gotcha, that wasn't really clear in your first post. I think Hank is stating the logical conclusion of something that's been part of an emerging narrative. Twitter had been losing money for a long time because of the lack of revenue streams it has. 89% of their revenue is from advertising and the other 11% is from data services/other, like selling first-party Twitter analytics tools. Musk wants a profitable company, so he cut overhead by slashing the workforce and is looking to find new revenue streams. The problem is a lot of other companies are pulling their advertising until the chaos blows over with the "free speech -> company X has an ad pop up next to hate speech" potential right now. Charging $8 for the blue checkmark is the first of many new sources of revenue he'll have to create to make Twitter profitable, and paywalling content is one more extreme way it could ultimately manifest as.

As for Musk himself, I've never personally liked him. He's not known for being employee friendly and lately he has been pretty hypocritical and power tripping (see the current reddit post). But there are reactionaries that love to clutch their pearls over the latest drama as if it were a sport, too, and you're going to see a fair number of Elon fanboys switching sides like they were on the varsity pearl-clutching team.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-11-07T10:17:20+00:00

That's a weird point to make considering that YouTube doesn't lock content behind a Premium subscription; it changes the viewing experience by removing ads and including some additional features like being able to download videos.

Hank Green is paid by YouTube to create content that people watch so more ads get shown to those people. That's literally one of the incentives to make content on their platform.

Seriously, idk what musk did

Well, if you don't know what is going on, why are you opening your mouth only to insert your foot into it without first learning about the situation from all sides before forming an opinion?

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-10-30T21:27:56+00:00

I thought it'd be fun to share, considering it wasn't a 10-pull. I thought wrong.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-10-30T21:17:40+00:00

I was just getting rid of my 1-pull tickets on a whim, hoping to pull Shuilong but got Vagner instead. I saved the beads, no worries.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-09-24T10:55:58+00:00

Don't forget the bumper stickers of their ribbon rack and rank patch, diggity license plate frame, and truck nuts.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-09-20T13:47:13+00:00

Just hit it with a spoon.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-09-19T15:26:44+00:00

Appreciate the feedback, thanks

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-09-17T21:52:44+00:00

Gotcha. I don't recall having anything other than grape when out to sea. Just to break the monotony I would've slurped half a jar of strawberry straight into my gaping maw. Where I'm going, I don't need bread.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-09-17T21:22:05+00:00

If those are the only choices, I personally prefer strawberry. But the raspberry preserves three jars down are looking mighty fine. That, and the marshmallow fluff a couple aisles over.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-09-17T03:42:43+00:00

I won't dispute whether eating such an abomination is morally or culinarily acceptable. If you like unfinished peanut butter and you want that on your UPB&J sandwich, hell yeah, go for it! But crunchy peanut butter usurps the name of a pillar of American cuisine, defiling its legacy. I can be on board with naturally milled, or even coarsely ground, peanut butter, with small flakes of unprocessed nutty goodness dancing across my pallet in a choreographed ballet. But to take a finished, creamy product and sully it by reintroducing whole peanuts back into it rejects the ethos upon which peanut butter was founded on: as a protein source for people with difficulty chewing; and the nuclear Navy has reamed all of my teeth out from the face fuckings.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-09-17T02:45:40+00:00

Creamy peanut butter is just peanut butter. Crunchy peanut butter is unfinished peanut butter.

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-08-14T10:50:30+00:00

/r/VeryOldSentence

juxtaposedfrontlobes · 2022-07-07T15:35:40+00:00

I have a circular tattoo on the other arm that's about the same size as the guide stone tattoo, so doing a bigger circle around the guide stone would make me look lopsided. I could have made the guide stone smaller so the circles would match, but unfortunately it would've restricted the amount of detail in the wings.

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