What do you mean the vent is loud? Is the dryer so far from an exterior wall that there is some kind of fan apparatus to push the air there instead of a simple duct?

This and people tend to respond to cognitive dissonance by rationalizing / repressing awareness. I’ve voted for less bad candidate, now I’ll convince myself that was actually a good thing.

Maybe this one should be named altuwunative.

If you don’t because you think you have nothing worth stealing, consider that some joker can open your bag and set your combination to something else.

Just to give one data point, I bought a refurbished pixel 7 pro in 2023 and it is still going strong.

Is there any way for a community to disallow post deletion? If not, this seems like a needed feature.

Well honestly calling for using pensions and retirement savings to finance AI build out is pretty obscene.

https://youtu.be/Mjkt4UgcTmg?t=91

I’m not in any way religious, and it does irritate me when people say, of some senseless tragedy, “everything has a purpose.”

But I do see, in your specific example, that what they say has metaphorical value. You should be grateful that you had it in you to accomplish what you did, even if you don’t attribute it to some mythical being.

I often think the phase “there but for the grace of God, go I” because I don’t know a secular equivalent. Think of God as a metaphor for the universe.

This will sound facetious, but I recommend getting her a cake she likes.

I don’t know if is too late to ask questions or do sleuthing, but if there was some kind of cake from her past she really liked that she hasn’t had in a long time that might be ideal. Like for my wife that was ice cream cake which isn’t as much a thing anymore as it was in our childhood. For me that is certain recipes my mom made in my childhood.

Their AI policy looks very reasonable, and they certainly aren’t vibe coding. Everything is rigorously reviewed and tested by a handful of experienced, competent humans.

FWIW they all sound equally ok to me. I never learned any of these acronyms, tho I’ve come across them on occasion, and if someone had presented any of the 4 as THE acronym for this I’d have believed them.

And I think writing “3x” implies the precedence in a way that “3 * x” doesn’t.

Why? Why would this be important?

I would just make the general comment, in response to reading the various exchanges in this thread, that there is a lot of theory around this stuff, and yes there are studies that support some of it, but these theories are by no means something that should be taken as ‘fact.’ To the extent you find them useful in navigating the terrain they attempt to map, great, but I would avoid getting locked into these ideas in figuring out how to deal with emotions (your own or others) in real life.

A lot of different things can produce anger. Frustration can produce anger. Stress can produce anger.

Often things that may be no one’s fault (or no ones but your own) and yet it’s often a natural reaction to direct that anger at whoever or whatever it’s in front of you.

I think what can be meant by intelligence is a whole complex of different things. So I think the answer depends on what exactly you mean by intelligence. If we focus in some of the aspects that might be called wisdom, or aspects that fall more under what’s been called “EQ”, the answer might be yes. If we mean what’s typically measured by an IQ test, I’d say no.

“If it’s January, it’s cold” doesn’t imply it can’t be cold in other months.

I have a number of answers to give you and will write more as I have time, but a start with some of the shorter ones.

“The map is not the terrain” is a very important concept in general but especially so wrt the self. Your idea of your self is such a map, and as such is necessarily flawed and incomplete. A person is very complex, probably to complex to fully understand even if you had access to it. But you don’t fully have access to it, even about your self.

The complexities going into why you like a thing, why you react a certain way, sometimes why you do a thing, are not all inspectable to you. We have am enormous bias in modern culture to think of everything in terms of the conscious mind. This is usually incorrect. Most often we do things unconsciously and rationalize why we did it afterwards. Now these rationalizations may often be correct, and trivial. But the reality is that they are not observations about the workings of our mind but after the fact theories. In many non trivial cases they can be quite incorrect. (I can give examples, but this is getting long winded already.)

Sometimes, with phenomena we have limited ability to know, it is helpful to let go, accept that they are what they are, and just see what they do without getting too committed to expectations. Like with the weather.

Did your mother have any children that lived?