jbrains

Yes, but "GIF" is not etymologcally Germanic. 😉

The people already with the money have orders of magnitude more freedom on average to decide and pursue opportunities.

Free market inventions do not guarantee persistent and open access.

Espresso in the morning. Cappuccino after meal. It's been at least ten years.

It looks like I have a great place to land if fzf ever starts to make my life difficult. Thank you!

Not enough exclamation marks. I can't take it seriously.

Dark side of the How to Pick Up a Duck videos, I guess.

But I also feel like a loser, because even those ranting doctors earn more than twice what I do… and they get to sit for longer than I do.

Regretting my life choices.

What kind of "I also feel like a loser" is this feeling?

Maybe the sane choice here would be to study or to get a certification that means a higher salary?

What in particular would that get you? I mean beyond the obvious "More money would make my life easier" thought.

Peace.

This sounds to me like an example of locking into a solution, then mistaking it for the problem. I think societies are broken in which there is deep disagreement about how to decide what's true. Recognizing some kind of absolute truth is merely one way to agree on how to decide what's true.

Moreover, I expect that a person claiming that absolute truth exists means something more like there is only one reliable source of truth or way to decide truth. Some choose reason and some choose their preferred god.

It is natural for humans to want simplicity and absolute truth seems simple. Humans have evolved not to waste energy on deciding what's true. What an advantage it would be to live as though truth were absolute!

I think MIT Open Courseware would be worth exploring.

I've never done this and would never do it, for all the reasons people have already described.

I would, however, choose a 6-hour train over a 2-hour flight, as long as I traveled in (European) first/business class with a seat reservation.

There is almost no amount of money that could convince me to travel 36 hours by bus if I could instead spend 5-6 hours going through airports and only one flight. If I literally didn't have the money to fly, I would spend all my energy figuring out how not to go at all.

Some people learn about the limits of their control over events by meditating. Even when you stop trying to do anything, your body tries to do things and things change around you and you have the impulse to control things. Repeated exposure to this impulse eventually caused me to start laughing at how silly I was to assume that I was in control.

Maybe something like that could help you. Peace.

I'm annoyed when things don't work. I'm even more annoyed when something can't be made to work.

I find the first kind of annoyance much more ephemeral.