Thanks. I'm already back to 20 hours a week so it's going in the right direction
Vinny_93
joined 2 years ago
I dropped out in September due to burn-out issues. My health care insurance pays for 9 psychology sessions and supplies me a list of possible therapists.
However my company has a contract with a company health service which is an external party which is not allowed to share anything with my employer and it just signed for 12 intensive therapy sessions in my region combined with group acceptance therapy sessions.
The whole process was a breeze, too. Everything made super easy. I can only commend them for doing this. It has made me seriously consider not switching jobs.
This whole thing reads as though the writer feels Le Pen didn't really do anything wrong, but is being made an example of for having a different opinion.
I feel like we read a lot of things about far right populists claiming they are being actively prevented from practicing politics due to things they say, but then something comes out about what scumbags they really are.
Pretty much the only thing these populists have to defend themselves is whataboutism. I figured the trias politica would always make sure independent forces could keep these kinds of folks in check. This means
The law should always be applied.
Which begs the question: what happens when these guys do get to power, change the laws to their own liking, somehow get it pushed through...
You win a 2 week all expense paid trip to the country of your choice... where are you going and why?
I would go to the Azores and see what it would take to stay there. I've always found the vibe in coastal regions more agreeable and I've heard good things about the Azores. No need to worry about currency as it is part of Portugal so Euro zone. The weather is fine, not too hot, not too cold. Areas are beautiful.
Only thing is that it might cease to be above water if the seas keep rising.
Just an anecdote of something that happened mere minutes ago: I was at the supermarket and we have this plastic bottle recycling system where you pay for the package and you get it back once you hand in the bottle at the supermarket. You'll receive a kind of coupon with a bar code.
Some older dude before me handed in some bottles and got out of the way quickly because I was in line behind him. I noticed that he forgot his coupon but he walked off rather quickly. He stopped pretty close to the machine so I handed in my three bottles and took his coupon and my own. I then sought him out and gave him his coupon.
It was just a very simple thing for me, it was his ticket, I knew it was his and I could find him easily so giving him his coupon was a no-brainer. It was only for 75 cents but that doesn't really matter.
He was very surprised and happy with my action.
It got me thinking. What would the situation have called for in order for me to behave differently. Would I not have returned his wallet packed with cash if he'd dropped it? No. So the amount of money is not the issue. Would I not have sought him out if he had moved further away from the collection machine? Maybe. I would've taken the ticket and moved around a bit to see if I could find him. Would I not have gone through the trouble if it was anyone other than an older gentleman? Not really.
So in short: you can always do the right thing in these situations, no matter if the parameters are slightly different.
I was told that being cheeky wouldn't get you far, cutting in line was wrong, being nice to people would make life easier. Turns out being selfish is pretty much the best way to survive.
Oh I figured he was trying to assemble it but couldn't get it there. Yours makes more sense.
TL;DR: I think the design of the room, combined with the activity in it based on previous experience is exactly what you'd expect Cold Harbor to be. It is the ultimate test to see if the barriers are holding after taming the tempers.
I think you're right on the money - I just have a slight point to add. Remember how Mark bought this crib at some point. He had something to prove when he said that he was pretty handy. Back then, it was sort of funny to Gemma as she dismissed his statement by calling him 'handsy'.
When Gemma had her miscarriage and Mark started actually building the thing, failing miserably, it was very painful for Gemma.
So when Jame keeps asking if the barriers are holding, he wants to know if the tempers are tamed enough to not even have the most painful moments awaken something in this Cold Harbor Gemma. Considering the bad situations we've seen, where the barriers did hold (dentist, thank-you note writing), this one is much more emotional, much deeper rooted than the others.
They take the single most excruciating moment of her life, find some reference to it that is not too overt, and see if it generates any kind of reaction. When it doesn't, and she complies, even without questioning a why, Jame knows he's created a severance barrier so strong, it's pretty much perfect.
What I'm getting from the final episode is that they have a rudimentary severance process in place. Let's call it the Mark One (ha). Now Gemma is sort of like a test subject for a better severance, which will not only make the innie more compliant, but it will also make it possible to create new innies for any situation an outie does not want to experience.
The most important pro of this: Your innie will not have a complete life, i.e. their social interactions will be limited, therefore they will not develop any kind of social intelligence. This creates a situation wherein the innie will feel like they have no choice to accept their hellish life. Remember: for an innie, there is no time between activation and deactivation. They are continuously going to the dentist. But as there is no possibility to discuss this with others who have a shared experience, there is no option of questioning, no road to rebel.
The first iteration of Cold Harbor illustrates this perfectly. Gemma's tempers have been tamed enough for her to accept her situation and be compliant. The emptiness of that innie Gemma's life (the pristine white room with just a crib in it) is designed for nothing to alter her situation, and thus, her tempers, to make her less compliant over time.
It leads one to wonder if what the Eagans are doing is not, in basis, a good thing. They will create the perfect life for their constituents: no pain, no sadness, for any situation you don't want to experience, you will just create an innie and you'll have no memory of the ordeal. Like the senator's wife in childbirth. Of course the question is whether this is ethical, it negates any right the innies might have as pilots of the outies vessel. And of course, the balance between good things and bad things are what makes us human, that's a fact of life.
Google does not benefit from your user data in Vivaldi.
The Chromium project is also mostly community driven and yes, Google has had a big hand in it, but it is in no way fully Google's thing.
On paper.
Thrustmaster used to be French and they have one that's some kind of modular (Eswap) and only costs the same as three DualSenses. Since Sony is Japanese I'll give them a pass.
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Meh Nederland is al behoorlijk veramerikaniseerd. Ik denk dat er voldoende struisvogelpolitiek wordt toegepast hier.
Daarnaast is Nederland nooit echt een land geweest dat op haar principes gaat staan als het er zelf niet beter van wordt. Ik vermoed dat het een flinke geste van de VS gaat kosten om eens stil te staan bij onze afhankelijkheden.
Ik heb wel geïnventariseerd wat ik allemaal aan VS-spul en -dienst gebruik. Naast het onvermijdelijke (Windows, Android, Hollywood-series en -films) is er vrij veel Azië en Europa aanwezig op techgebied.
Nederland zal op het moment inzetten op een Trump-impeachment en verbetering vanaf 2028. In het geval dat dat niet gebeurt, gaan we vanzelf achter Frankrijk of Duitsland aan wandelen.