Dropping for good due to financial difficulties, housing insecurity and mental illness.
In the end of the day, socioeconomic status matters. Meritocracy only works if you are middle-class enough.
In the end, higher education still remains a previlege & is inaccessible.
In local uni with massive imposter syndrome after years of being told that I have no affinity with academics in EM3 & Normal Technical stream thank u MOE 💖💖
Today I learned a term called “Premature Competence”: When a child is forced to become self sufficient too early because no adult is reliably meeting their needs, they develop a false maturity. In adulthood, they appear highly capable but struggle to ask for help because they never learned it was safe to need anyone.
so cruel yet so fascinating how you'll have to literally rewire your brain after a certain event while the other person goes on to live their life completely unaffected
that clip of Anthony Bourdain talking to those people in Singapore is so chilling. the way she says there is no gender parity in SG because they have maids (bec of which women can work), as if these maids aren’t also women and members of their society
Honestly feel like this trend has to do more with lots of people in tech being fairly uncultured than anything else.
Successful people in finance often have these high cultural taste hobbies like art collecting or fine wines or literature.
Extremely rare in tech to see someone with that kind of interest. And I think that manifests itself physically in these low taste spaces that they curate. But it gets painted as a virtue to cope
i think long-term stress changes people quietly. you become less expressive, less excited, more tired, more detached, until one day you barely recognize the version of yourself that existed before survival mode.
For international oomfs, on the day of the Indonesian Military's anniversary last year, our flag that was propped up onto THE national monument of indonesia in Jakarta was torn in half, separating the red from the white.
If this isn't one of God's signs then idk what is 😭😭😭
The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It is produced by a currently deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; it could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development.
Because society often treats neurodivergent children as behavioral problems to manage instead of human beings whose support needs should be understood.
Meanwhile adults lose emotional control daily and call it “stress,” “leadership,” or “having a bad day.”
🚨 do you understand what just happened to Itamar Ben-Gvir..
The far-right National Security Minister just got banned from France after taunting detained Gaza flotilla activists on camera.
This is the same man who:
•Was a teenage Kahanist with a long rap sheet for racism and terrorism
•Was deemed “too extreme” to serve in the IDF…
•Keeps a portrait of a terrorist in his home and has celebrated terrorist acts for years
Yet he was handed control of the police...
This week he filmed himself waving the Israeli flag and taunting zip-tied activists (including Europeans) who were forced to kneel in front of him as he called himself “the landlord.”
France’s response was immediate: full entry ban, calling his behavior “reprehensible.”
The most radical voice in the cabinet just kept getting more power and now the whole world knows his name.
"I am drifting towards a path of self-destruction. The gap in my resume grows ever larger. I go on walks reminded of suburban isolation. I buy fewer groceries and eat less food because of anxiety about savings. Most of the standard dreams I had two years ago are gone."