That Unemployed Friend

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[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

if you catch yourself going down rabbit holes about

‣ Robotics
‣ Physics
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‣ Dystopia
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‣ Psychology
‣ Control
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you’re at the right place.
this account is for you.

lets build a community of Polymaths.

It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale. — Uncle Iroh.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@sarcasaiman All I'm saying that the pursuit of any goal unlike how they show in movies is mostly boring. Large part of it is just showing up and doing the mundane work. daily

Maybe I just need to go to therapy.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

One thing I've discovered is that nothing is as exciting as it is perceived.

It might seem very exciting to be an athlete, an entrepreneur, or being that unemployed guy living in his homestead.

Behind all the fancy words, it's just doing the same things each and every day.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@_shershahhkhan_ Experience is a big form of learning. For me fiction is sort of a virtual experience. I read it to understand myself & the world around me.
Reading fiction can be a means to self discovery. You relate yourself with the characters' strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, & life choices.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@sarcasaiman I never claimed games prove that.
All I’m saying is that we take risks in video-games not because consequences disappear but because we’re detached from them. No desires crippling our ability to take action.

Lighter the weight we carry, higher the flight.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

I sometimes fantasize about how I'd live freely and would take wildest risks if I was in a fictitious world.

It occurred to me that I already can do almost everything I fantasize about in this life too.

What prevents me from doing so are the mimetic desires masked as needs.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@sarcasaiman Well said!

The fear of those consequences hold us back because we desire to not face them, to to have a nice, comfortable and a safe life.

We volunteer for suicide missions in games because we know we do not belong to that world nor do we have any plans of staying.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

I would freely enjoy myself in a fictitious world because I wouldn't be having any stakes there.
I wouldn't care about losing money, getting into trouble, building an empire etc. because I'd be detached from its entirety of existence.

Isn't it what Buddha talked about?

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

Value is an illusion. A piece of paper holding no intrinsic value is deemed an absolute necessity for survival.
Why?
Because other people think the same.
Value is generated from want, & 'want' is mimetic.
We want what others want.

This applies to our ideas of necessities too.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@mfa2811 @yabbanx Trouble is what builds a man just as a diamond is cut into shape.
Wasting your precious moments interacting with fictitious simulations is stupidity.
Achieving all those things in real life is what reflects the greatness of a person.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

Is it mildly infuriating for other people too when some niche art you like suddenly becomes popular and now you cannot feel superior than everyone else when you talk about it with other people because they think you're just jumping on the trend?

Yeah....

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

Skills that don't earn you money are not valued by the market.
People stop learning these skills.
This creates a void which is exploited by the capitalists & all of a sudden you have to pay for this skill.
We stopped growing our own food, now it is occupied & controlled by big corporations, & they feed you crap to maximize their profits.

IMO therapy is also a result of this, we embraced materialism, adopted unhealthy lifestyle, ate garbage food, disconnected with nature, dedicated our lives to screens, made money our entire measure of value & violah! we're all depressed.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

I solve one problem & two more appear.

Everything was done, all left to do was to attach a magnet for my Hall sensor.
I bought and attached the magnet just to find out that the hall sensor I was using was the wrong one. I replaced it but the LEDs still weren't working.
I was removing the arduino from the jumper soldered on the board & it came off with it as well.
I resoldered the jumper on the board as well as all the LED connections. Everything started working and now I find out that the motor I'm using is not powerful enough to spin this circuit fast enough.
So now I gotta speed up this motor somehow or replace the motor with a big one, which means that I resolder the motor connection, detach the current motor from the circuit which is attached with super glue, attach a bigger motor for which I need to find a new way because the its shaft is significantly thicker than the motor I'm using now.

It's demotivating & frustrating, but you have to be persistent.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@sarcasaiman I do as well, the overall meaning of the work is in question. Spending 8 hours for 40-50 years straight just so a corporate entity can keep making profits, is the money worth it?

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

Me out here with my gym equipment while the corporate slaves going to waste another day of their life.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@RamAbdu For a second I thought this was Ben Shapiro.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

What life feels like when you hand in your resignation letter.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@kairosx1_ @Rothmus My question is, why are there 'less safe' cars being produced in the first place?
Nobody should have a right to sell something that endangers peoples' lives.
we're trying to find solutions to self created problems.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

Here I am! I stand for the principle that an infinite value should be put on a human life.

'You cannot accept the situation that a million people should starve in order to provide one person with a car that is completely safe'

1. How exactly were a million people going to starve if one person got a completely safe car?

2. Even if we assume the claim to be true, the real question is, if it's either a million people starving if safe cars are produced or people dying in accidents, why then are you even producing cars if you cannot do it properly?

It's just incompetence combined with greed.

[That Unemployed Friend @unemployed302]

@Shayan_Khan7 This a sign from the universe.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

This means that a verified account with a paid partnership wants to kidnap me, torture me, and murder me. @elonmusk and his employees at @X refuse to remove this, so it’s clear that they support such a terror operation. This isn’t surprising - after all, they support genocide.