SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
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@freemo Eh, I think it be safe to say I mean beyond opinions. Like world views, ideas, concepts even. There are a lot of things that I don't like, and make me uncomfortable.
I was just always taught that you can't shy away from those things that make you uncomfortable. You've got to figure out why it makes you uncomfortable, be aware of it.
Eh, I guess I'm just a little disappointed in general at the nature of Social Media now that I've been in it a few months.
But, the forum here is still very young, as far as forums go. Maybe it'll change for the better. Can't abandon it just because it isn't what I thought it might be, right?
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“Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook
"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost." - Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
With many new advances in technology, something significant is lost. Things are forgotten in our rush to progress. We traded quality food with family and friends for quick, nukable dishes in front of the entrainment on screens. We traded our feeling of untethered adventure and independence to be tied to smart phones with cool apps. We traded signatures with personality for block lettered print so we could type instead of writing.
I think we ought to spend more time evaluating what is lost with our advances. Consider what value we risk forgetting in our glee for advancement in some aspect. Work to preserve things that matter. I suspect it's up to us in tech to lead in this, as we're often the ones delivering the new ways of doing things.
I'm always glad to see fellow fountain pen user @freemo here, and others who refuse some technology like always-on listening devices. We need more of this. I still have a few working rotary phones and mow my lawn when a non motorized push reel mower, haven't had home internet for a couple of years, just using mobile device hotspots. I'm not against technology, just against lack of discernment with its adoption...I also lead a software dev team and am a fan of my robot vacuum and motorized window shades.
@freemo agreed! That's how I work. I'm very efficient and deliver quality as a dev. Managing the system and now both a local and multiple small distant /discount remote teams is a challenging learning curve in growing through. I'm... Glad to grow my skill set. But it's a bumpy start.
@freemo sadly, business decisions are around offshore being cheaper. I think it's very expensive as it costs more of my time than someone local, especially when there's blocks due to working hours across 12 timezones or communication barriers that together cost lots of hours.
Striking Blow Against Toxic Masculinity, Man Graciously Allows Wife To Shovel Driveway
I have a difficult time getting work ready for offshore developers. Any suggestions?
A 12 hour time offset makes knowledge transfer difficult, and I feel like in the time I spend to prep the work for them, I could have just completed the work. As it is, they hit blocks at 3am my time and then lots of billed hours are unproductive.
@freemo Have you read or heard of the book The Body Keeps the Score? Great book about the effects of trauma in both adults in and kids - people know PTSD is a thing for those in the military, but don't appreciate that childhood trauma (which could be as... innocent as an early medical hospitalization) is more complex, because it's happening during key brain development.
This is close to home for us as adoptive parents with an ever increasing understanding of early childhood trauma, and trauma in general.
Anyway, his concern (if I recall correctly) with seeing a mental issue as a "disease" is that it can put a lot of people into a place of feeling like there's no point in trying non medication treatment because diseases just happen and are up to the prescribing physicians to medicate, whereas he's seen a lot of progress with non medical approaches as well that get ignored by most of the mental health community today who often see us as nothing more than chemistry sets that need to be balanced out. He's not anti-medicine, he still prescribes, but focuses first on other treatments I wasn't familiar with before reading his work.
I appreciated his perspective as someone who has been in the field for so long, and the balance there. You're not a terrible person for medication, you're not a terrible person for seeking out alternative things that may be even more beneficial in resolving root causes rather than masking or compensating for symptoms.
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@Surasanji No such thing as free healthcare. The only difference is if your forced to pay for it or if its your choice, as well as how much freedom you have in what you buy.
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The evening was hectic, and I almost forgot about the #LunarEclipse. I had literally just put my son to bed when I remembered, "The #eclipse!" We went out to see if the sky was clear.
Clouds were rushing across the sky, but for the most part, it was clear, and we had a perfect view of the #moon looking like a dark brown chunk of rock in the sky.
(Then I spent 10 minutes fighting with camera settings while he went back to bed.)
The minimum wage hike resulting in layoffs. This result helps those who were earning less.
Had a surprising and fun brief conversation about fountain pens at work today.
@peterdrake
"The United States is the only 'democracy' to elect a president in such a bizarre manner....I strongly support the National Popular Vote bill -- passed four times by the Oregon House of Representatives. However, I oppose referring it to voters."
Speaking of "democracy".
#factcheck: Trump said the food was piled a mile high.
Result : false. The food didn't literally tower one mile high. Impeach! Immediately! Liar!
Next up? : Trump once mentioned sunrise. Fact check false, the sun doesn't actually rise, the earth rotates. Trump must be a flat earther! Impeach! Now!
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
