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You should definitely do it.

I sometimes daydream about working at area 51 or working for the army. Working for the army goes against my principles, but it'd be fantastic to learn about all that stuff.

Have you ever heard of the Fermi paradox? It's extremely puzzling, scientifically speaking, why we haven't met aliens yet.

You dream of doing like 200+ things though.

Lol don't we all? I admit I'm a bit guilty of this. In my defense, I try to do most of those things.

A lot of people are more repetitious in nature than that, more focused on less goals rather than spreading it thin over hundreds of ideas. 

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AppleGenius said: 

Lol don't we all? I admit I'm a bit guilty of this. In my defense, I try to do most of those things.

A lot of people are more repetitious in nature than that, more focused on less goals rather than spreading it thin over hundreds of ideas.

Spreading it thin? Not sure if I should take offense? I'd like to think that most of my goals are intertwined via "themes" that converge to a greater goal. I've been dedicated towards my greater goal, much more so than most of anyone here except perhaps Spatial and Alice.

My impression is that most people don't have dreams or goals past a certain age when they become discouraged as they face what they call reality, forget what was once important to them, or they realize they need to "work" towards their goals. It's never happened to me.

So what are your dreams? I was surprised you are planning on going back to study.

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AppleGenius said: 

Lol don't we all? I admit I'm a bit guilty of this. In my defense, I try to do most of those things.

A lot of people are more repetitious in nature than that, more focused on less goals rather than spreading it thin over hundreds of ideas.

Spreading it thin? Not sure if I should take offense? I'd like to think that most of my goals are intertwined via "themes" that converge to a greater goal. In my defense, I've worked very hard towards my goals, although I still feel like I've achieved nothing.

I tend to see more achieved by someone focusing on one or few things obsessively, rather than sprawling towards all things. 

Jack of All Tradesmen tend to find more luck in crosstraining their existing bodies of knowledge into a single work or broader goal, like Bruce Lee accomplished with Cha Cha Dancing: 



So what are your dreams? I was surprised you are planning on going back to study.

At this point I mostly want to help with coping strategies so that they won't need to resort to pills. 

The harm I've seen done from medication towards the mentally ill kinda fucks with my head, it's always made me really uncomfortable as not just a matter of results, but the mindset from more neurotypical people that lends to it happening time and time again. 

People need to be educated how to handle themselves and their peers rather than watching pill dependency make them worse overtime. In many cases the warning labels advise that the very things it's treating are otherwise long term side effects, like antidepressants making for a more desperate depression, or antipsychotics driving people insane.

Once harm's been done to their receptor sites, once the body produces even less of the chems naturally over expecting the meds to do it for it, and if this was done during formative years? I have watched this style of guinnea piggie guess work destroy lives, and the ones handing these pills over often do so with a mentality more casually harmful and negligent than even your local drug dealer, and do so with bribes from pharmaceutical companies as the drug pushers of the modern age. 

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Lenalee said: 

I still remember looking at the news like "wtf why is this allowed?" when it was simply allowed to exist here. 

Because of the area it was in if they would have shot it down then it would have possibly caused damages to people so they chose to shoot it down in a less populated area. 

That still seems like a weird story to me, like they could tell if it's otherwise radioactive or explosive from a distance and could have the people below clear away before shooting it down. 

They let it go for a while

The government wants people to be worked up about Chinese surveillance. We are in the process of reducing chip exports, as well as cracking down on the use of TikTok among government employees (and probably totally banning the app, eventually). We've been careful not to let Huawei build our 5G towers, or towers in our ally countries. Germany went with Huawei anyways, and is now trying to get off the technology. We knew in 2020 that Samsung was sending extra data to China. Anyone who understands the closed source nature of Chinese apps like TikTok coupled with the CCP's forced integration of business and government, knows that these apps are spyware and a weapon. Of course we spy on China too, with our backdoored firmware on everything.

Whether we like it or not, we're on a collision course with China that is only deepening as both sides employ more blatant shows of force. Our media will be reflecting this, though I haven't decided if that's necessarily a bad thing or not.

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At this point I mostly want to help with coping strategies so that they won't need to resort to pills. 

The harm I've seen done from medication towards the mentally ill kinda fucks with my head, it's always made me really uncomfortable as not just a matter of results, but the mindset from more neurotypical people that lends to it happening time and time again. 

People need to be educated how to handle themselves and their peers rather than watching pill dependency make them worse overtime. In many cases the warning labels advise that the very things it's treating are otherwise long term side effects, like antidepressants making for a more desperate depression, or antipsychotics driving people insane.

Once harm's been done to their receptor sites, once the body produces even less of the chems naturally over expecting the meds to do it for it, and if this was done during formative years? I have watched this style of guinnea piggie guess work destroy lives, and the ones handing these pills over often do so with a mentality more casually harmful and negligent than even your local drug dealer, and do so with bribes from pharmaceutical companies as the drug pushers of the modern age.

You want to help people? Really? That's quite admirable.

How will you go about your dreams?  If they're your dreams. I find that most people don't really consider their goals to be their dreams. They're not quite as obsessed as I am. It's like we're speaking a different language. It's very lonely, to hear someone say it's their dream to do X, knowing the expectation value. I think what people really need to achieve their dreams is to enjoy the process. IMO everything else is secondary, whether they have narrow or broad interests, none of it matters unless they enjoy the process. The more they enjoy, the easier it is to realize their dreams. Some people force themselves to have goals. For others, I think it comes naturally. Or they're somehow trained for it. It's good to set goals, but I doubt it's why they get up every day.

Hypothetically speaking, if I were you, I'd probably start my own research by setting up a booth on the street or something, asking patients to come in. I don't want to wait; I always felt that there were bits and pieces in the University education that were lacking. But that's my personal take.

Edit: Removed the first bit since I realized we mostly agreed.

last edit on 2/13/2023 3:32:28 PM
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AppleGenius said:
How will you go about your dreams?

A step at a time, the first one being getting back into school. 

Planning past that seems unrealistic beyond having general goals and a focus in mind to work as a general trajectory. 

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AppleGenius said:
How will you go about your dreams?

A step at a time, the first one being getting back into school. 

Planning past that seems unrealistic beyond having general goals and a focus in mind to work as a general trajectory.

What do you enjoy the most about studying?

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AppleGenius said:
How will you go about your dreams?

A step at a time, the first one being getting back into school. 

Planning past that seems unrealistic beyond having general goals and a focus in mind to work as a general trajectory.

What do you enjoy the most about studying?

In this case the material, studying other subjects can feel more tedious. 

The instructors also have struck me as more interesting when compared to other areas of study, so far. 

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A step at a time, the first one being getting back into school. 

Planning past that seems unrealistic beyond having general goals and a focus in mind to work as a general trajectory.

What do you enjoy the most about studying?

In this case the material, studying other subjects can feel more tedious. 

The instructors also have struck me as more interesting when compared to other areas of study, so far. 

What'd you learn so far?

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