EnsignWashout

joined 2 years ago
[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 15 hours ago

I've heard that war is good for business.

Lots of huge corporation owners are suffering from making a long series of head-up-their-own-ass stupid choices, right now.

Now they must choose between hiring experienced advisors to guide a slow chain of reasonable pro-social long term profitable choices - or starting a bloody war.

I know which choice I'm expecting.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 16 hours ago

"Blow up the damn ship, Picard!"

  • First Contact

But really, Viola Davis' entire performance carries the whole film and makes every important moment land.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. Starfinder has planets, and some planets have caves.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Infinity is effectively just bullshit.

I'm fond of pointing out to my students that there's a very practical reason to care about "infinity" in math:

While nothing ever reaches "infinity", things absolutely do reach a point where they violently fly to pieces and catch on fire.

So I teach my students to substitute the phrase "explodes and catches on fire" where they see an equation that "approaches infinity".

I find it helps them pay attention to a subject that is otherwise bullshit. Infinity itself is bullshit, but it has a place in math: telling us when to quickly duck behind a good solid oak table.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a great plan, but it is critical to not be the person to notify each guest. Infinite calls to inconvenience infinite people sounds like hell.

I feel like my odds of avoiding getting my ass kicked are better inconveniencing just one person.

Well said. Particularly

out of a distaste for a harsh and cruel world

I want to respond (with agreement) to:

treat others as you want to be treated,"

  • is, indeed silly. It's meant as an overly simple default to grow from.

Treat others as they ask to be treated is much better.

But I do believe that both benefit from an intentional practice of self-empathy.

I have to constantly remind myself to treat me like I treat others.

I do, as well.

I treat others. I despise myself and have great empathy for others

I said that to myself before, as well.

But I discovered my empathy for others became surprisingly more effective after I started an intentional practice of self-empathy.

but that's certainly not universal

Certainly. This is what worked for me, and my relationships.

The golden rule does not work. What if I like to be treated like shit?

Agreed. But it is a good default place to we start.

The real skill is empathy - to understand how the other person wants to be treated.

My empathy for others became much more effective after I started practicing empathy for myself.

It was a bit eye opening, to me, to realize how much impact a practice of self-empathy made in my relationships.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Lots of folks replying don't seem believe in self empathy.

That makes me sad.

Self empathy is the foundation of empathy toward others.

The golden rule - treat others as I want to be treated - only really became effective, for my friends, after I learned to treat myself well.

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