Nope. I don't have a panic reaction when I go outside (and now I go daily to the office, because it's near and more confortable than my house). I just don't have the Nature fetish some people do.
In my country I went to see the Iguazú falls and my reaction was "Huh. Nice."
You really don’t think electricians, contractors, plumbers etc aren’t problem solving on the daily?
General problem solving, probably. Deep thinking? Nah.
And besides, I doubt most electricians need to apply Kirchhoff's Law on a daily basis.
I don't specially dislike it, but everybody talks about the outdoor like the thing they cannot live without. I... actually thrived during COVID, I wasn't force to tolerate idiots and I didn't need to leave my house. I didn't really feel the need to see the external world.
Please enlighten me about the deep thinking challenges involved in fabricating a chair. I'll wait.
Sure, you can deploy and maintain an app, but you can't reach out and touch it, smell it, or move it.
I'd say that tactile fetish for objects is fitting coming from a society that frowns upon physical contact with people.
and challenge yourself to think in new ways.
I find that the wish is actually thinking as little as possible. That's a nightmare for me.
I have another impression about romanticizing trades: there's a deep anti-intellectualism and an exaltation of not having to think. For me that idea is pure hell.
I have an outdoors job
Not for me, I despise the Big Blue Room.
I will never understand why burned up people in IT is so intent of changing a work where you may have intellectual challenges but you don't need to make strenous physical effort for extreme physical labor. I wouldn't be caught dead doing one of those jobs, and the idea of wanting them is unfathomable to me.
self-interested American foreign policy
I detect some redundancy here.
I use names of known computers or androids in fiction. My main computer is always Ralf (the computer built by Richie Adler in Whiz Kids), and my main phone is Lal (Data's daughter). My girlfriend uses other franchises (GLaDOS, Wheatley, Marvin).
Who said anything about networks?